skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are they effective? Take into consideration his travel bans.

Even if you support the goals, you would be hard pressed to argue that his decision and enactment process was ham-fisted and half-cocked, leading to many of the legal challenges being able to hold water. Knee-jerk responses, supporting statements that belied the goal ("this is not a travel ban" - "today we are putting a travel ban into place"), and so on.

Effective decisions are reasoned and well planned, not shot from the hip, which you could argue many of his decisions are, even removing the -substance- of the decision or the topic from the equation.
Yup, works well for me too
It was for singles for radio, pre-streaming, but not every song on an album would be a radio-featured single, only a couple; these acted, for the album, the way that trailers for a movie work. (And, often, those radio singles were edited down from the album version of the song.)

Now (more, I think, because of pre-streaming iTunes and the like than streaming) the unit being sold and listened to by purchasers is more often the single, rather than the single being a tool to sell an album.

Personally, with unlimited streaming services, I listen to albums more than I have anytime since everything was purchased on physical media (and more than even then, because for me streaming has almost entirely displaced radio, so less of my music time is constrained by a medium which doesn't really allow listening to albums), but I don't know how common that is.
> Is it because it has the Microsoft name attached to it or just because AWS has so much traction?

Yes on both counts.

Also, the perception is common that Microsoft = Windows Server, to a very high degree of bias. Thus, if you don't operate on that platform, you'd immediately disregard Azure. A lot more work is needed to convince non-Windows operations & developers to buy into Microsoft's offerings around Linux. Emphasis that that says nothing about the quality of existing offerings, rather, the issue is of perception. The perception is that Linux is and will always be a secondary concern with Microsoft; and potentially worse, skepticism over whether Microsoft will invest into and support Linux over the very long term. If one buy into that skepticism or doubts Microsoft's commitment to Linux, AWS is immediately a superior choice as a long-term platform bet.
Yes, but then you have to deal with the SV company. No amount of money is worth dealing with most of those companies.
But if the 2nd attempt does something different, there must be some sort of logic happening, and whoever built this magic (maybe it's an if-block like: (if loginAttempts++ > 0) ... ) should've tested it.

We cam see that the function f(a, b) { return a+b; } should return the same value for the same a and b, so testing that once is enough. But if there's something in there that reads a global variable, maybe check who changes that global variable, and what happens with different values of that global variable?
Bitcoin has recovered from dips really well in the past weeks due to major buy pressure. Unfortunately GDAX (and Coinbase), Gemini, and other exchanges all went down at the same time this time around, making it impossible to buy the dip.
How soon before someone attaches a gun and legs to this thing? (see: Portal)
Is the equivalent you mentioned Cloud Deployment Manager? Could you provide a bit more detail about what is missing there?

I work on data processing & analytics at Google Cloud. Really glad to know you love BQ. :)
A lot of companies seem to have a culture of "It's okay to do this as long as there is no written evidence of it".

Thats everything from a boss walking away from a conversation about things which shouldn't be said in the workplace, to things being spread by word of mouth, but not email.

Quite a few big tech companies have a policy of deliberately not keeping certain information. Instant Messages are frequently only kept until read, then auto-deleted. Emails might only be kept for 18 months, then deleted.

Waymo is being hauled over the coals here, but I don't think Google or any other tech company is saintly either. They all have policies in place whose goal is to prevent information being retrieved later in court to use against them.
True, SF is not "the valley". 4K a month is ridiculous for rent; for reference I work in MTV, live in Sunnyvale.
Note that the acid in seltzer will mess up your teeth.
Maybe Amazon <serviceName> aren't in the AWS org? I'm curious too though. Any amazonians to comment?
> you could say that without the BBC ARM would not have existed at all

Huh, I'd not thought about it like that before. Yeah I guess ARM/Acorn does owe the BBC quite a bit!
Ah biometrics, the password you can't change
The main thing I've found about playing games not in real time is you are always able to min-max every move. Since I don't necessarily play every game to win (I try to win, but if I don't it's not a big deal) I enjoy the arbitrary time constraint of playing in real time. Makes things move along and gives games more of a lighthearted feel.

Also it's only three games, but I play Food Chain Magnate a lot and you can only play it online here: http://play.boardgamecore.net/
You are excused. Facebook has lots of photos of my face already, will one more make a difference?
Depends how much you weight the battery life and form factor bang. And UNIXness. I value these a LOT.

Also: trackpad. Apple's is the best by a mile.
The GDPR penalties can reach 4% global (i.e. sum all related companies) annual turnover per infraction. If anyone ever found out Facebook had a widespread violation, Facebook would be likely be dissolved.
Spotify is not a popularity-based radio. It includes that feature, but in my opinion the product is more suited for selective listening. Maybe you meant to say Pandora?
try ello
The difference is there is no counterparty risk. Not with the gas station, not with Visa.

Admittedly that’s not a big problem with gas pumps (at least where I live, though card skimming is definitely a thing) but you can easily imagine other use-cases. For example your computer could automatically pay an untrusted WiFi hotspot per MB (and automatically pay the VPN you use to secure said untrusted WiFi hotspot)

Zero counterparty risk digital microtransactions have never been possible until now. I’m pretty sure it will eventually be cryptocurrency’s killer application.
According to the article, Uber lost $1.5 billion in Q2 2017, compared to $1.1 billion in Q1 and $2.8 billion for all of 2016, and at the current burn rate they probably have about a year of cash left if they don't raise more.

If their cheerleaders are right and they really do have a switch to become profitable, uh, now would be the time.
One person’s useless is another’s breakthrough, critical mass solution to one of humanity’s oldest and most fundamental problems: tracking who has/owes what.
And then there are publishers that experiment with DRM. I distincrly remember one older case where the add-on to a game that contained copy protection sold more copies than the base game without protection. How do you explain that?
> This is beyond the scope of what is needed to provide the service, namely, copies of the data dumps available for download.

you're telling us that you'd rather that HIBP act as a clearing house for credentials and user information as a result of a data breach rather than exposing a single bit of information per user ("have i been pwned?")

I, at least, completely disagree with you, regardless of Troy's motives or any "monetary gain" he receives through HIBP. Troy has been incredibly transparent, and in fact talks about this very issue on his blog https://www.troyhunt.com/here-are-all-the-reasons-i-dont-mak...
I think your last sentence sums it up perfectly. It does seem that we have different views on software. Rebutting your points would just rehash my above comment.

The only new point I'd like to add is one that requires imagination. Imagine if we had adopted performance oriented mindset 20 years ago, instead of today and we solved the developer productivity conundrum that we both care about so much. What a wonderful state software would be in, where IDE's can be installed in seconds, each action is instant and the engineer is completely intimate with every aspect of their baby. This depth of knowledge offers a certain creativity that results in amazing things. It lets engineers rise above what is good for the business and gives them the freedom to push software to it's utter limit. That's evolution. That's progress. That's engineering.

PS: The reason I quoted John Carmack specifically in my first comment is because he is such an engineer.
Is it just me or does this look a lot like Medium?
Does anyone besides partisan Democrats really care about Trump possibly having ties to Russians?

The real news has already been broken by WikiLeaks (they are all spying on us) and TheIntercept.

That last site, produces more in-depth investigative reporting than any of the government mouthpieces you have cited.

The only news that is important is news that is hostile to the government on which it is reporting.

The rest is just propaganda.
When the New York Times publishes biased pseudo-science
If your only experience with CloudFormation is hand-written JSON, it's worth another look.

We used to use troposphere, a Python library for generating CloudFormation templates, but have since switched back to vanilla CloudFormation templates now that they added support for YAML. We're finding it's much nicer to read and write in plain YAML. We're also now using Sceptre for some advanced use cases (templatizing the templates, and fancier deployment automation).
Cool idea!

There were a couple points in the explanation which were kind of unclear to me, though:

What makes it okay to identify the naming of a large number with producing that large number of things (e.g. 1's)? This felt like a disconnect to me since in the introduction we are asked the largest number we can write down in 15 seconds, but my understanding is that the Busy Beaver functions aren't 'naming a number', but instead we're counting the number of 1's output by them (or maybe the function returns the number of ones rather than the string itself?). Actually, I think I'm starting to see the connection now: if we're considering the mathematical function rather than an executing program, then it just 'instantaneously' gives back a single number, and that single number is whatever sequence of ones the Turing machine would produce, which we could interpret as a reference to a numeric value rather than counting the digits? Maybe still a bit lost. Another way of stating my confusion: a person could easily write down a number larger than the number of 1's output by the 7-state solution (102*10^10^10^1870532) within 15 seconds (I could write that number down in maybe 5 seconds or so)—so in what sense is the Busy Beaver function naming a larger number?

There was another thing that tripped me up for a while, though I think I get it now, which was: what characterizes the Busy Beaver function? Is it that it "returns the maximum of the running times of all programs of length n that do eventually halt"—or is it that it "counts the number of 1's possible to be written by an n-state Turing machine before it halts"? It's pretty clear to me now that it's the latter, and that the former (the BBS function) is just one implementation of the general concept, but it gave me some trouble to figure that out.
Definitely interesting. It's an especially strong proposition these days, when cybersecurity and privacy are so heavily emphasized. My main concern is that I am not convinced that this route can be monetized. Wish the author fleshed this out further.
Bitcoin's price is collapsing
I'm confused, because this answer seems to contradict what "a little grunt work will ascertain" in the article you linked as inspiration
It applies to Europeans, even if they're not in Europe, and even if they don't identify themselves as being in Europe.
Looks like a mash-up between C and Rust, though with somewhat funky syntax. Still, C(++) with no preprocessor and non-nullable pointers is a huge improvement on it's own, but is that full-blown CTFE with first-class types I see? Hot damn. I could definitely see myself using that if it evolves further.
Why? Square footage isn't a hard problem. It's just that the markets in a handful of high-profile locations are utterly broken.

There is really no reason why everyone can't have 1000+ sq ft. 2000+ sq ft. This is a crap response to a fake scarcity.
I think you should reconsider your post.

First it starts by claiming that I don't understand, use, or appreciate messaging in general. This is of course without any background or support, and is simply an ad hominem. I have a more extensive background in messaging than most people in tech. There is no condescension in making a value judgement of yet another messaging application vs a fundamental energy source technology.

Next you make some statements in support of value for WA. Regardless of the value of messaging in general, WA is is simply yet another app in a very crowded market. Its purchase was clearly anti-competitive, rather than innovative, and as such can not be justified based on function.

Last you hurl some weird non-sequitur that implies my judgement is incorrect because I'm not a fusion researcher/implementor working on disrupting the world energy market, combined with some kind of conspiracy theory about Saudi Aramco? That's just plain specious. One can clearly judge the value of working fusion energy without being a physicist.

So please, re-read the posting guidelines and reconsider how you address others and their arguments. Thank you.
That's a common thing I have to repeatedly explain to people, that a large tax return is essentially a free short term loan to the government. I had a friend post a photo of $9k in cash with some comment in the direction of friendly prideful boasting of some sort. I replied to him informing about what happened and that he needs to update his withholding so he doesn't have a large return and emailed him some articles about the drawbacks of large returns. It's a pretty crazy world. I've also had a friend who donated a ton of his money through the year and itemized deductions and had returns in the tens of thousands of dollars. His HR department was using the family size withholding table which maxes out at like 6 dependents or something. I imagine they did so for simplicity and probably didn't have many individuals for which that table was suboptimal. I pointed out that there's a formula withholding section to the W4 that he needs to look into so he doesn't have these ridiculous sums of money come tax season.
Oddly reminds me of the scene in Ex Machina where the scientists says he just turned on all phone's camera to mine face expression data.
I've sold about 12 albums (though most are closer to traditional EP length). Never sold a single. I remember seeing some data that said that was the norm on Bandcamp. I think albums are doing fine, but maybe the amalgam of loosely connected musical product that most albums are is not working anymore.

All the albums I've sold have had a clear narrative thread going through it, while all the random assortments I did early on never sold.
Hash your copy of the nude image client side, and upload the hash only? Seems like a way better idea to me.
I'm 32 and recently married. I also have two large dogs. SF is completely out of the question for me. If I was younger and unmarried or had a working spouse I'd be more interested in trying it out purely for the experience of being out there (I'm told it's fun).

Having said that. Aside from the financial decision I have so little interest in being inside the giant tech bubble that most of my peers out there seem to live in. The vast majority of my friends in Austin are not in tech and I like it that way.

I totally understand your situation though. It's tough if you plan to stay at the same company and want to move up. Do you think you could negotiate a bigger bump for the move? It's one thing to be able to technically afford to survive out there. It's another entirely to be out there for 5+ years and then leave and realize you have basically nothing saved.

Oh, last point. I obviously have no idea what your relationships are like at your company but could you possibly make it clear to some people above you what your concerns are about the move and sort of get an idea for how likely it is you could move up and how long that would take? For instance if your manager thinks it's possible you could be in some new position in 2 years that pays a much better salary maybe it makes sense. Of course they cant guarantee that to you but you could judge the situation yourself.
It is unfortunate that he uses "date of birth" and "home address" as exemplars of information that is "of no use to the service." That is because these two pieces of information are most frequently used to establish that the user is of the age of majority (an adult) and under which set of licensing regimes is the product operating. Both of which may be critical to the function of the service.

Much better examples would be "Gender" and "telephone number".

I completely agree with the notion that data maximization (or aggregation of meta data associated with a unique ID) are the roots of many evils and risks.
It'd be nice to have at least a decent frame buffer. I'm a retrogeek, but VT100 terminals are getting hard to get ;-)
There's speech and original musical content, like bootlegs, mixes, that cannot be detected with fingerprinting.

For a free Spotify without ads, have a look at http://www.stationripper.com/ (it's old software)

Edit: Station Ripper had caused a law/politics debate in 2005 in France about the right to do private copies of legal media http://www.assemblee-nationale.fr/12/amendements/1206/120600...
Fun idea. By the way, the webpage weighs in at 19 MB
Would it be used for an internal system, or for contacting credit score companies, banks, etc?
We run AWS, GCP and Azure.

Devs in my team can pretty much chose their favourite cloud to deploy things to. Everyone always picks AWS, it's just the easiest to navigate and feels like everything links together well.

I think the only things we use Azure for is the Directory, and Functions to run some PowerShell.

As AWS is the industry standard, I feel that a lot of people like to stick with what they know too.
For Twitter you can flip a switch to go back to chronological order (at least on Android). The settings is called `Show me the best tweets first`.
There are way better and safer and less invasive ways to provide this service than uploading a personal photo to a 3rd party website.
I imagine herding the sheep or hunting deer with my son would qualify, or any of the other common tasks of agrarian and hunter gather societies.
make something automatable with browser plugin on github .. that does sounds interesting.
This unfortunately seems true, and is my biggest worry about Tesla. As a Model S owner, member of local tesla forums etc. its very easy to see that the fit and finish of the cars, are no way near german luxury cars.
What a strange world this is where living in a shanty for over half your annual income is considered cool.
The information has already been collected and breached, or will be breached eventually. Data minimalism isn't going to put the horse back in the barn, so to speak. (It may help anyone too young to have a credit card, and younger generations.) So we need to do something about identification not relying on knowledge factors for everyone currently over 16.
For us, SAM is just a shorthand DSL for Lambda-ecosystem CloudFormation templates. It's much more concise and expressive than vanilla CloudFormation for typical Lambda use cases.
Yes yes, the plebs better respect their robot masters.
According to the website, it's for a type of nomad.
I see your point, but it still seems kind of wacky to me. They should validate that the password is correct, then promote the account. Taking the password provided in the authentication dialog just seems like a bad idea.

Perhaps the root issue here is forgetting that the asterisk indicates that the account is disabled and shouldn't be a candidate for promotion.
This solves a huge gap. Blue/green and canary rollout is critical for highly-available services.

We'd been half-solving it by doing a "sandbox" deploy, running a health check, then "promoting" to prod by then deploying to our prod environment. Automatically, without manual steps or verification, of course. But it's not true blue/green like this, doesn't account for accidental environment parity issues or drift, and doesn't accommodate canary rollout.
Hackster.io has over 10,000 published HW projects, DragonInnovation.com has a great library of “how to” courses, Kickstarter has a new resource called HardwareStudio https://www.kickstarter.com/hardwarestudio. And yes, YouTube for everything else.
California is a great place to start your career, if you're already established then there's less incentive to move.
The rudeness can't have helped, but I'd imagine the "I desperately need my 'vitamins' that can only be bought with Bitcoin" bit is what got the account flagged.
Vector vs. Raster
> maybe "stolen" and "property" aren't the correct terms to use for digital assets?

Indeed. See, for example, https://www.stallman.org/articles/ft-response.html
In the "Libertarian" scenario it isn't the free market that lets corporations gain political power. Its the democratic institutions that the corporations are able to subvert.

The question is: is there anyway to organize society that doesn't led to some entities gaining power at the expense of everybody else?
alternative is don't use FB. you can use some more privacy focussed social nets like ello instead.
Credit fraud. The banks were defrauded, not you.
Not everyone uploads their face to facebook over and over and over again.
So what should be the expected total annual compensation from GAMF with 8 years experience? 260k ~ 300K? or more than that?
My first thought was of Jim Butcher's "Undertown".

This is interesting too, though it seems like Minneapolis' Skyway is a bit more usable.
I can imagine drone delivery's an effective solution to the last mile problem for automated delivery? Have a self-driving truck navigate through a neighborhood, the drone takes off with the package and delivers it to the doorstep and returns to the truck. The truck can continue driving around as drones rejoin it down the road.

Now we have both pieces of the equation: how to get to the house without paying a driver, and how to get to the porch without paying someone to walk and carry.
Encryption doesn't really help when 1/3 of Americans' SSNs have been publicized already. It's shutting the barn doors after the horses are long gone. SSN needs to be at most a username, rather than a credential.
It's also something directly related to a face. "Want to unlock your phone by looking at it? It needs to know your face". But "Want to post a meme to Facebook? It needs your face" feels quite detached.
On one hand I totally agree with you in that it's your fault if you're tailgating and can't safely stop, regardless of what the vehicle in front of you is doing.

However, I totally sympathize with him, living in Pittsburgh and driving in proximity to Uber's and a few other company's cars. There have been times when I've been following an autonomous car and it makes a turn onto a completely clear road, then suddenly slams on the brakes for no observable reason. Yes, I should be ready to handle this situation, but it's certainly not expected.

Knowing that Uber safety drivers intervene an average of about once a mile certainly makes me wary of these cars and not enjoy driving around them.
Alleged DDOS attack wipes almost $2,000 off Bitcoin price