skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This seems like a bit of an over reaction. Google has to talk up Pixel Buds, they are a couple months behind apple's ear pods.

Frankly I like the form factor better than the ear pods, because they actually look like headphones. I'm not sure the gestures are all that big of a deal, give it a couple more months and the software will become finer tuned and people will adjust.
The stupidity of the concept of IP never fails to make itself obvious. Free information that users enter into linkedin should remain free.
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> I don't use this but you could argue that it's useful to have a standard encapsulation of failure/missing that isn't null?

I don't see what encapsulation you're talking about. Maybe and Either are very much concrete, not abstract, data types.

> Where some situation means that null already has a meaning, the alternative is to create a wrapper class for your situation (not general), or a general wrapper class which is basically what this is.

Unless you want to take advantage of existing plumbing infrastructure such as a monad transformer library, custom wrapper classes for your particular situation are precisely the right tool for the job.
For the most part, yes. This is basically asking: are increased expected future profits always a sign a company health?
So all newspapers have the same message?

Edit: I'm not saying the medium has zero influence on the message. I'm just pointing out that a) the medium does not dictate the message, and b) effectively "beauty is in the eye of the beholder".
Interesting! A steampunk Dracula with precisely those themes would be fantastic.
I think most "hacks" have been the results of social engineering and misconfigurations rather than software/hardware vulnerabilities.
State controlled is little better than privately held.

In a public company only people who own a stake get a vote, and their vote is proportional to how much of a stake they own (the rich get most of the votes). In a State owned company every taxpayer is a stakeholder, the main difference being that you get exactly 1 vote no matter how much you pay in taxes.

But voting is a very inefficient way to steer a company, private or public. Markets are orders of magnitude more efficient. That's why we try to avoid monopolies as much as possible. Sometimes it doesn't make sense and that's why we have heavily regulated industries like water/power delivery, fire, police, etc... In most cases though you want to keep a competitive marketplace going to force companies to serve their customers properly.

Although capitalism is the best system by far for managing resources it has flaws. It naturally concentrates power (money) at the top over time and chokes itself to death. That's why there needs to be an independent entity (the government) that steps in and breaks up the ossified wealth to keep the system from dying.
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I did nearly that: I moved to a relatively small city away from technology centers, where my wages from a remote developer job were enough for quite comfortable life. No, nothing like a primitive wasteland, of course.

But that the next position offered to me, paying, say, 3x my then-current wage, was in NYC, full-time and on-premises only, so I moved, despite the cost of living.

Probably once communications improve in these remote areas, working from there will become a more widespread option for IT people. Most of my current team works remotely, from offices in other cities across the globe.

The other problem was getting education for children. Finding and affording it is an important cause for moving.
True.

Did you guys get to test Epyc at CloudFlare?

The 7401P seems pretty special. Like really great $ per perf. I think SuperMicro are coming out with 1 socket Epyc boards/servers.
Journal article is at http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1708483#t=article

They used AAV (actually, take a look at the article, they give a nice and clear explanation of what modifications they had to make).
Dr. Karp, who is quoted at the beginning of the article, wrote an excellent book and released an excellent DVD. If you are a new parent, I highly, highly recommend you at least watch the DVD about the "5 S's" - it will make an incredibly positive difference in how well your first few months with a new baby will go.
The way I like to do it is to keep multiple backlogs, broken down roughly by feature group (ie. groups of things that might eventually become a milestone or story of their own). Then when I decide to prioritize a given story, I can go to the relevant backlog and re-triage only the bugs in there, which should hopefully be a relatively manageable number.

Another benefit of sub-categorizing this way is that it makes it easier to resolve bugs as duplicates. When a new bug is filed, it's hard to see that it's a duplicate when you're comparing it against 10000 other bugs, but it's easier when you're comparing it against only 100 other bugs in the same category.

I doubt you'll ever be able to get it down to "at most twice." But it needs to be much easier than ever resotring to "looking through the whole list."
>Man you're all over this thread handwaving away real concerns because of your parents.

He's not handwaving anything. He's not promising anything, either. If someone wants guarantees, they've got the wrong mindset. It's all about managing probabilities.

>It's totally reasonable to think that a family with kids who moves to Nebraska is still going to be food insecure.

And it's totally reasonable to think that low income people who stay in SV will remain food insecure.

>If I'm an unskilled worker and I can live in the bay area near my family, where I'm comfortable, where I have friends and I'm food insecure or I can go move out to the Midwest where I have none of that and I'm still food insecure because now I have the added costs of childcare, less public transportation options, etc. AND I have none of the support network I had around SV then there's no way I'm moving.

Thank you for phrasing it as a choice. Just please own the outcomes of your choices!

Don't treat staying as a "default". Think of it as two choices (many, in reality, of course), and you are actively choosing one. So own the difficulties you will have while food insecure.

Advice often given to me in life, that I'm sure you've heard: If you're in a bad state, things are not going to change unless you do something about it. Granted, that something may make your life worse, but not doing much about it is usually a guarantee that things won't improve.

I'm not understanding some of this thread. Are people seriously looking for some kind of guaranteed solution? Most serious decisions - the major you pick, the school you go to, the city you live in, the job you decide to take - have attached to them a risk that your life may be worse if you follow through. When I was quitting my first job because of poor management and the work conditions, almost everyone tried to discourage me with your type of question: "Well what if you take that other job and it turns out even worse?" I just couldn't understand the question: So if your job sucks you will just sit and hope for better management?
I don't who these billions are that you're talking about, but historically giving birth has been a very deadly affair for women.
For some reason, Google maps tends to be horrible at getting subway transit right:

They frequently list delays when there are none and don't list them when the subway is running very behind. I wonder if it's just hard to get this kind of real-time data from MTA.
So..their financials are great, and people are staying with the platform despite their propaganda issues. I'm not following this article.
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The difference is Linkedin knows they're scraping the site, asked them to stop and is now trying to force them to stop through the courts (in a really bad way).
There is a pretty strong argument that Haemophilia is the disease that has had the biggest impact on the last 100 years. Russian heir to the throne Alexis Romanov inherited the disease and his suffering and lack of treatment options destabilized his family and contributed to leadership issues culminating in Russian defeat in WW1 and the Russian revolution and the rise of the Soviet Union.

Agree? If not, what disease led to a greater string of consequences? Malaria, Spanish Influenza, polio, AIDS?
> I have this theory that they've noticed that the platform is being used less and less

I have no data to substantiate but I doubt if it is true. May be in first world but coming from India, I believe there is still a huge market for Facebook. Internet literally means WhatsApp and Facebook to masses who are now getting affordable mobile phone and data connectivity.
I think the point is does it really make the US "incredibly uncompetitive" -- the original claim -- or is it closer to what you said, "a negative factor"? I think the person you responded to would agree it's a negative factor, but by pointing out 8/10 of the top companies by market cap are US-based is evidence that the US is not "incredibly uncompetitive".
Russia yearns for the good old days.

Russia isn’t the Soviet Union, it was a part of the Soviet Union, and a member of the “Commonwealth of Independent States” that nominally succeeded it. My understanding is that treaties were reaffirmed with the individual states.

Does every non-binding commitment to be Soviet Union apply to Uzbekistan? Estonia? Georgia?

What about when the desires of Estonia conflict with the Soviets?

What about when the interests of the United States and other big NATO states conflict with the commitments to the various Post-Soviet states?
Learned something today: these are written in Ge'ez, a dead Ethiopic language, the pronunciation of which is therefore not completely known.

Fun fact: this Ge'ez script is included in the Unicode standard.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ge%27ez_script
> It's easy to understand, I just don't get why do I need it for anything but Git development.

I dunno man.. I don't particularly want to implement a macro language compiler these days, but it sure helps to understand how one works when working with the C preprocessor. (Just a dumb example..)

I mean, are you actually arguing that it should be unnecessary to understand the underlying models that your tools use to do what they do?
Having used both side by side, the desktop butterfly keyboards are markedly different from the mobile ones. They don't even seem to use the same switches or tech. I have the newest version of both
Seem like a pretty good idea for when you want to listen to a translation. They're just not appropriate for conversations.

Presumably the approach that the author has discovered is good for a conversation is still available?
The trouble with applying formal logic to natural language, is in the translation.

You are interpreting "when" as indicating an implication, it could also be an 'if and only if'.
Good point about intent. That's something that seems lost on much of the general public. The entire notion of "mens rea" is overlooked by many, yet it is critical. It's what differentiates between different crimes or levels of crimes (i.e. degrees of murder) and it's what keeps hotel employees and landlords out of jail on aiding and abetting charges when they are unknowingly giving a fugitive a place to sleep.
But that's exactly what happened here:

> LinkedIn sent hiQ cease and desist letters warning that any future access of its website, even the public portions, were “without permission and without authorization” and thus violations of the CFAA.

The EFF's point about terms of service is a good one, but also irrelevant. Terms of service don't provide adequate notice that someone's implied license to access a website has been terminated. But here, hiQ had actual notice through "human" channels.
Agreed wholeheartedly. This is (allegedly) a workstation. I'm a big AMD and OpenCL fanboy, but at the moment CUDA the only game in town.
In my opinion (and you should take it as an opinion :)), the "good parts" of Agile are the same for both software and non-software projects. Estimation, strict prioritization, and (automated) progress tracking are the keys to any successful project management.
They have many options. They can rate limit access by IP address, they can keep information they'd like not to be scraped behind login screens. And so on.
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After the merger, Disney will be the majority owner of Hulu.

https://www.recode.net/2017/12/14/16771712/hulu-disney-acqui...
But they assumed that a President Trump would put the country in a huge debt hole, and the Republicans have assured us that their enormous giveway to billionaires would cause the economy to grow by 3% annually for the next 10 years, just like every other time that policy has completely failed to do that.
For me it sunk in upon seeing the the Department of Homeland Security now puts their seal anti-piracy warnings. So the copyright industry now has a direct line to "the terrorists hate our freedom."
Conversely Google Maps trying to reduce their marker density produces terrible results in the Scottish Highlands - I know there are markers there, but at reasonable zoom levels the map is just blank.
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Must be the 96% of Economists who have no idea what cryptography is.
Yes, it would seem especially relevant to things like shadow profiles which are collections of data gathered and processed without consent. Further, it specifies ‘right to data portability’ and a ‘right to access’.
Have you noticed anyone using these currencies for commerce? People use dollars for commerce, and no one invests in dollars unless they live in a country with hyperinflation.

So if it's commerce, how is buying the currency a form of investing?
Why does everything that Google designs look like it's made for pre-schoolers?

Just type into Google images: "Google design" and "Apple design" and let yourself be shocked by the difference.
The industry is held to no standards at all. You can keep plain-text passwords in your databases, do no tests at all, and be incompetent in a million other ways. I usually get downvotes when I say this, but by now there needs to exist certain regulation on commercial software and software-based services. It should be ensured that certain practices are followed in security and ethics (do you take the basic, well known precautions against the well-known attacks?, do you respect your users' privacy at least as much as the law requires you to, do you follow the terms and conditions you declare?). What we need is CE for software, and it's sad that I can ensure my cheese comes from a certain town and is produced from the milk from cows eating according to a certain diet, but not if Twitter (or any other commercial website) hashes and salts my password, and actually uses basic precautions against CSRF or what not. These companies should be obliged to get their stuff audited by third parties, and there should be a way to tell if they are really approved to maintain a certain standard in producing their software. I do understand and share the hacker culture, and appreciate how it's possible to spin off a start-up website business on the internet, but business is business. You don't become exempt from regulations when all you do is to run a tiny B&B with 2 rooms. Similarly, as soon as you're a company selling online services, regulations and standards should kick in. Because by now those online services are no less important than food business. You say it's impossible to stop all cyber attacks. Then, as it is impossible to stop all burglary attempts, should banks just deposit their money in some apartments, or in some random rooms where all the security is a wooden door? Fire all the security guards because it's impossible they survive all the guns out there? These companies like LinkedIn are no different in banks insomuch as they deposit not our money, but our personas. They should actually be more cautious because while money can be replaced, nobody can have a new self.
> How does a website put reasonable limits on access?

1) Blocking TCP connections

2) Returning a 4XX error, perhaps even "401 Authorization Required", "402 Payment Required", "403 Forbidden", or "429 Too Many Requests"

> A regular B&M store can refuse service to disruptive people and trespass people who don't comply, why not servers?

A Brick and Mortar store has to _tell_ you you're being banned. The mechanisms I listed above both tell you and lock the door whenever you attempt to access.

Edit: In this case, it's more like someone was looking in the store window from the public sidewalk and asked to stop. Can you really ask someone to stop looking at you from a public place?
The plague in Europe. And in North America, smallpox, which decimated (and more) indigenous peoples.
robots.txt.

If all requests sent by robots would clearly identify themselves, the server would easily block all of them. But if they fake their user agent to look like a browser and ignore robots.txt, that's not a good faith request and they shouldn't be able to plead ignorance.
Only my opinion but, Facebook will find a way around this. An easy strategy will be to annoy the users enough that they opt-in. For example, want to post a pic? It's seamless if you are opted-in, but your not, so click through these 10 screens while we explain why you should opt-in. Every time you post a pic, you have to view 10 screens. Most people will just opt-in. They won't quit the service or deal with the annoyances, they'll just opt-in.
I find it surprising they do all this math since the model they seem to use is "Send everybody tent-like shirts that would fit a horse." After repeated requests for more fitted styles, I kept getting tents (although eventually smaller size tents).

I understand why they do this, because this style is likely to fit more people. But if the technique they describe in this post actually works, perhaps they could be more adventurous?
A full Linux kernel and cron daemon for that? You could run it on an ESP32!
Fine. I hereby forbid access by any entity owned, operated, or otherwise controlled by Microsoft Corporation to any internet server or service operated by me. Disregard of this interdiction shall be considered a crime, the digital equivalent of trespassing.
In the end Bitcoin is so similar to Gold. It is a means of storing wealth and is valued on a shared belief of finite quantities and that it is an effective/secure means of storing wealth.

It is hard for me to call a shared belief a bubble, because there is a clear understanding I think now that there is no underlying fundamental asset value.
>" An iMessage applet ecosystem that assumes that every iPhone user lives his life like a 20-year-old San Francisco metrosexual. (Launch day was Uber, OpenTable, and bill splitting. Yay.)"

Can you elaborate on this? What do you mean by "An iMessage applet ecosystem"? What Launch day are you referring to?
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in a state of constant amazement .

Or, from Terry Pratchett:

People have reality-dampers. It is a popular fact that nine-tenths of the brain is not used and, like most popular facts, it is wrong. Not even the most stupid Creator would go to the trouble of making the human head carry around several pounds of unnecessary gray goo if its only real purpose was, for example, to serve as a delicacy for certain remote tribesmen in unexplored valleys. It is used. And one of its functions is to make the miraculous seem ordinary and turn the unusual into the usual. Because if this was not the case, then human beings, faced with the daily wondrousness of everything, would go around wearing big stupid grins, similar to those worn by certain remote tribesmen who occasionally get raided by the authorities and have the contents of their plastic greenhouses very seriously inspected. They'd say "Wow!" a lot. And no one would do much work.
Neither of which occurred in the last 100 years.
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I've watched many major social media sites come & go. Most go because the signal-to-noise ratio drops to unacceptable, overrun with people whom people didn't come to hear from. Increase of "censorship" also drives people away, as ham-fisted or biased means of reducing noise frustrate good users.
I’m more interested if they will be profitable. If they arent maybe I can hack together something with this and failed Snapchat glasses.
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Might a recent extrasolar visitor be an alien spacecraft?
I don't think Google has any plans to acquire Facebook, have you heard differently?
Does this count as another "Bitcoin is dead" proclamation? We're already well over 200 obituaries: https://99bitcoins.com/bitcoinobituaries/
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Good morning. The world has continued to turn, and now it's my turn to say hello and to offer a chance to answer questions from HN.

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It's not cheaper. $2000 is the price difference to go from the 2TB upgrade to the 4TB from Apple. $1100 is the price difference to go from 2TB to 4TB if you paid retail.

Apple is getting all of the profit that a retailer would, plus an additional $900 profit on top of that.

With the money you save you can self insure because the SSD isn't guaranteed to fail.
Hahaha, you mean the vision where one wealthy elite gets even MORE power than everyone else?

I suppose it could be even worse though, it could be the upcoming UB fork.
Actually, the Danish translation of The Davinci Code is a great example of a translation that just flips the words into the new language, resulting in some very strange sentences that sound unmistakenly American. A lot of translated business literature (and most Netflix subtitles) are the same way.
Harry Potter, on the other hand, is beautifully recreated in Danish and thus mimics the effortless reading experience of the original.
Google, Bing, etc are also scraping their site, and I see no cease and desist order there. Make Googlebot authenticate itself, or admit the data is publicly accessible.
This is incredibly important. If you dig deep into why LinkedIn is behaving the way it is, it is definitely not an attempt into protecting users' privacy. It's all about maintaining and expanding the ways it can monetize the data that users provide.

This is the type of thing that we risk loosing as the internet matures and internet companies with vested interests gain more power. Setting this type of precedents will absolutely curtail innovation and freedom in the future. Think about it, would Google have been created in an environment that is overwhelmingly siloed and filled with red tape?

I see parallels to the net neutrality discussion in this.
Or a simple bit of malware that automates the process so the thief doesn't even need to be physically present!
This is a monkey paw thing where you get it, but it's the bland by-the-numbers Disney version carefully built by committee to avoid offending the largest number of people and just revisits all of the same ideas from the first season.
I bet not all of the participants have a clear understanding...