skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "It's not the public's concern to promote alternative revenue models on behalf of businesses in return for blocking their ads - it's those business' concern to convince people to peay for their content."

I completely agree. What I'm was pushing back at is the blanket "ad revenue model is bad and ruining the net" espoused by my parent, as opposed to the more nuanced view presented by the article and their parent. And this is an arms race: the only reason adblocking works now is that it's relatively easy to recognize what payloads are ads and which are content. Once it's more feasible for sites to load ads "natively" mixed with their own content, that will become more widespread and harder to block.

It is the public's/individual's concern to support businesses that are providing a service they provide balanced with them doing so in a way that they agree with, and also to recognize where they're receiving value whether or not they're paying for it. If people aren't willing to support subscriptions or other revenue models, they're going to get ads or nothing, either because the content is going to be paywalled or the content providers are going to be out of business. There are those that complain about paywalls, and others that complain about ads.
I want to believe these companies don't know it's illegal to discriminate based on age. Because the alternative is that they're intentionally discriminating -- and thinking they won't get caught, because the ads are only appearing on Facebook.

But any government agency that's investigating this can obviously just to ask Facebook for the company's ad buys, and there's an irrefutable paper trail. (It can't be that hard, since even Propublica was able to put all the pieces together without any special government powers.)

Or is this a case where they're hoping Facebook's commitment to privacy for ad purchasers will end up shielding their illegal hiring practices?
The magazine might have a target market but anyone (within reason) can buy/read it.
I hate when sites split 'top #' lists across # pages (for more ad impressions), so here's the list:

1. Raspberry Pi Zero W -- $10

2. Asus Tinker Board -- $54.99

3. Marvell Espressobin -- $79.99

4. 96Boards HiKey 960 -- $239.99

5. PINE64 Rock64 -- $24.95

6. Orange Pi R1 -- $13.90

7. MYIR MYS-6ULX -- $24.80

8. LeMaker Banana Pi Pro -- $47.99

9. LattePanda -- $209

10. Sparkfun BBC micro:bit -- $17.50
I'm not sure why you're getting downvoted when Apple advertises performance as a selling point of their devices.
I love ESXi. Simply rock solid.
I have a few open source projects that I consider "complete" ie not something I'm actively working on, eg. http://svgnest.com

does liberapay/patreon makes sense? I've never bothered with a donate button because people have said they don't work, but do people specifically donate because of the patreon brand?
But I mean if they're really completely compromised then it doesn't much matter. I share the OP's concerns but I think he goes too far in his claims.
Ok, but the problem is nobody seems to have the interest in recompiling it for the community (think CentOS).

A few months ago they started charging for patches and someone asked in the XenServer forums here:

https://discussions.citrix.com/topic/390349-open-source-fork...
Thing is, some of the stuff I used to laugh at as bullshit can be done now.

Use the enhance feature to magically unblur images to clarity? I've seen ML demos of stuff like that.

Giant realtime database of all phone calls meta data and recordings? Realtime facial/license plate recognition search of millions of people/cars? Not so funny anymore.

Tracking peoples movements in realtime. Sure just cary this phone wherever you go.

Realtime overhead imagery of an entire city? There's a company that flies drones around that lets them rewind the movements of all cars in the city throughout the day...

Magic black box that can decrypt all encryption? Sure, funny only if you overlook underhanded C planted by the NSA.

Hacking into industrial machinery and power systems?

Having millions of computers all under your control to launch attacks?

This was all funny Hollywood BS and conspiracy theories two decades ago. Elaborate animated "hacking" scenes are still funny but what they accomplish is possible.
Good question! I think it would be useful to try something like Double Crux: (http://lesswrong.com/lw/o6p/double_crux_a_strategy_for_resol...)

Say Person B is proposing a change from Solution A -> Solution B.

Person A thinks Solution A is still the correct approach.

I think it's important to understand in detail what aspects of Solution B are appealing to Person B. It may be subtle, psychological, and/or political, but there's a reason why this change is important to person B. Person A & Solution A must address those issues, or risk eventual obsolescence.

It's also entirely possible that the more correct approach is Solution C, and this process can help establish what exactly that is.
maybe they discriminate because you call the designs of other people shoddy.

I'm only being half snarky. Large chunks of these threads end up as people bashing young people for being idiots for various reasons.

I do believe that discrimination is an issue, but you also just don't need that many seniors. If you have a couple to make sure designs are reasonable, catch mistakes, and mentor the junior people then that seems pretty sufficient.

If you have 5 seniors and a junior you get stuff done, but the junior person quits because they don't see any point in sticking around on a team where they aren't being challenged because someone more senior always gets to do it. Someone else will give them the challenge they want. I'm moving on right now exactly because of this.
Ah, the legendary and beloved malloc lab. I am really glad they are working to keep this one visible and modernized.

I know a lot of schools do this, but if you've never had to write your own allocator, I cannot recommend it enough as an exercise!

Implementing a general-purpose malloc from scratch and attempting to beat cstdlib's malloc goes down as one of the top 3 most invaluable programming projects in the CS curriculum at my school. (The others being an OS kernel and a register allocator.) I do not do low-level programming in real life--at all--but I think every computer scientist and software engineer should have an understanding of all that has to go on to support shinier layers.
You guys need to tamper with the jukebox one unexpected evening and see if the RICK will do a live cameo for the man. That would be awesome, score a ton of YouTube views.
As an overworking tryhard chronic cover-upper, this hits dishearteningly close to home.
This sounds like another instance of Silicon Valley trying to fix something that doesn't need fixing, certainly not the way Silicon Valley considers "fixed".
Public transit does not need to be awful. In many places it's great!
The regulatory agencies responsible for ensuring compliance with safety and health standards in the USA have a rich history of being cozy with industry (see the fallout after the gulf oil spill, for example). These agencies are overseen by political appointees who are not reliable, and may even oppose the mission of the agency (see the current EPA). Creating an approval channel creates a path to false- positive legality that I don't think should exist. There's a substantive distinction between keeping the whole enterprise strictly verboten and creating an exploitable legal grey area.

I'd prefer if drilling for oil in the gulf were illegal, not legal with regulatory oversite, for example. I don't think a pessimistic outlook on the reliability of federal oversight is unwarranted, given my (admittedly dim) view of how the process has worked in the past.

To be more constructive: I'm up for substantive suggestions for ensuring more transparent and reliable oversite than exists today.
Is there a name for this dark pattern?
Yes, please. They will hold more truth than Soviet sources.
Appeal to game journalists – about Retro-Bit and the ‘retro emulation industry’
Why not just let prisoners have free access to the phone? This has never made sense to me.
EDIT: i made a copy: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1s3ymjWo7lQJxsrf0uDEurJZ3FB...

original post:

The summary as stated (and as i understood it) is as follows.
I take no sides here, just trying to summarize the post since i managed to see it before it went bye-bye

> campaign did not succeed as promised, owners allegedly propped it up with own money from fraudulent credit cards that never cleared

> kickstarter paid woodshed $16K (the amount that did clear)

> depending on fee counting, woodshed owed 10% of that, plus 4K they spent on promoting the game

> their accountant told them that they are on hook if game isnt delivered since they have the money so they waited till game delivered

> their accountant told them they are on hook for taxes since they are in USA and got the money and they don’t know what to do now

> "words we said. allegations made. reputations ruined. it is in the hands of lawyers now"
Call it 5 times if you wish. That's a fairly normal range.

Costs is more than just salary. 5 weeks vs 2 weeks of hollidays, 401k, health insurance, etc...
Not to stir up controversy, governments have to figure out a different way to make money than taxing people. It is about time somebody figured this out. In a world run by fiat currencies, what does deficit even mean? Just print more money using leverage. Who’s gonna check?
Microsoft MakeCode
$20m Startup Was on the Road to Riches. Then Its Leader Started Talking to God
Both Bitcoin and AAPL stock carry a risk of losing money due to unknowable future events.

Therefore aren't they both gambling? It seems to me that it's just the degree of risk that varies.
About a hundred years ago, evolution came up with something that killed 50-100 million people. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1918_flu_pandemic
Smallpox and plague did far worse.
Yep, all my rack servers run ESXi and except for the once in a blue moon patch I don't remember having to mess with them. And with the HTML5 UI starting to mature enough it's a sweet deal. My other choice is client HyperV from W10 on my workstations - too many updates but other than that pretty good to run supported VMs - suspend/resume to kill noise and domain joined machines mean headless management!
Oh, ok. So, if your health insurance expires, you're still going to go ask for coverage, because your insurance only expired two weeks back and you were on it for the last 5 years?
This is a Firefox issue, although uMatrix works fine on Windows for me.

Firefox limits the size of popups to 800x600 CSS pixels, which in theory should account for high DPI (are you using a high DPI display?).

Not sure what is going on here. What is your display resolution, zoom, and font size?
I imagine this part evoked some good chuckles
https://youtu.be/1CJ4SD-kWek?t=69
Neither Microsoft nor Google looks good in this Chrome-installer squabble
I suspect because it's not a completely fair comparison from an account created apparently to post this criticism. Apple is apparently trying to mitigate the phone from shutting down under load the battery can no longer support. I'm not sure how to mangle the metaphor to make it more appropriate (my imagination is flagging), but one could argue Apple is trying to make sure the car still runs, even if it's limping along, rather than leaving you stranded on the side of the road at an inopportune time.
Brainwash?

Enforcing reasonable limits on a service seems.... reasonable.
"Trivia bots and clever hackers will be no issue for the platform’s rapid growth, as long as HQ makes a few critical adjustments."

Really, pretty much every CAPTCHA has been solved with deep learning now. The mitigations this guy gives can be trivially overcome.

What a game like Trivia HQ does is give a monetary incentive to build better trivia AI. Hi Watson!
Capital gains is an issue for Canadians (and Americans) regardless of what exchange they use. Not reporting sources of income is tax evasion.

It’s amazing to me how frequently discussions of bitcoin profits are mixed with a casual attitude towards committing a major felony. A lot of people made a lot of money this year doing very little work. Be happy you live in a society where this is possible. Pay your taxes.

EDIT: And for everyone worried about a crash in 2018 resulting in a big 2017 tax bill that can’t be paid, a reminder that you can carry losses backwards in Canada for up to 3 years and get those taxes refunded.
I cannot think of a single reason to choose Mesos over Kubernetes unless you are literally Twitter.
How Obama let Hezbollah off the hook
Thanks for actually noticing that. I think we lack some measure of empathy and observation these days.
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Send in-app feedback about it.

It's probably caused by some third party app or rarely-tested phone model. They take in app feedback into account when deciding what to work on next.
No safer way to do my research than using my robots to spray homeless people at my mall with meningococcal.
Kudos to you all, I could not keep a straight face being in on a joke like that. Talk about being totally gaslighted!
> it is that consumer who the DoS-hit hospital down the road should look to, when that hospital is hit by massive botnet-drive ransomeware attack.

Erm, no - the exact opposite. The consumer should look at the camera's manufacturer for their own connection being swamped, incurring overage charges, etc. In your scenario, if the hospital's only problem is that their Internet uplink is swamped, then they should be looking at their link provider for robust upstream shaping, etc. In the case of a simple traffic overload, nothing critical at the hospital should be affected because critical traffic should be segmented, or at least prioritized, over traffic from arbitrary endpoints. If there is more of an affect, then that is due to a further vulnerability that belongs to the hospital!

I referenced the hospital's developers/suppliers for these further vulnerabilities - in those cases they should be looking at their network admins, or at the creators of the failing (defective) equipment. The crux of the End to End principle (ie the Internet) is that edge nodes have the intelligence, and thus requirement/responsibility, for discerning "good" traffic from "bad". And (as I said) coming at it from the other direction, general robust engineering principle dictates that physical devices "fail safe" no matter what noise is presented at their network ports.
I wonder if they thought of it in this light.. or if they just imagined who they wanted and targeted specifically TO them, as opposed to AGAINST older folks. In the law's eyes, it's the same thing, however. Something to remember if you're ever buying ads for hiring.
It’s to stop them from being able to continue to commit crimes from the inside.
I don't live in the windows world, so I'm curious - why is win on KVM an issue?
> If we could successfully operate Kubernetes, we could build on top of Kubernetes in the future (for example, we’re currently working on a Kubernetes-based system to train machine learning models.)
Here's a thought: maybe it should become standard practice for companies to issue a hidden body camera to any employee who requests one.

I'm sure there would be lots of issues around this that I haven't thought through yet, but it would certainly solve the evidence problem. Indeed, I would expect the mere existence of the policy to put a major damper on misbehavior.
Couldn’t you use a gsm jammer inside the prison instead?
The FCC Needs to Abolish a Lot More Than Net Neutrality
But people know what papers specialised in in the UK engineers take the Telegraph as that was where engineering jobs where (Thursday) likewise the Guardian on Wednesday for social work or actors taking the Stage or Variety
which means you're competing for principal and architect level jobs, which are much more restricted.
As someone in their 50's, that argument makes no sense to me. If I were unable to find a job, you somehow think I'd hold out for premium wages?
If they write it in Swift, all the problems will magically go away. Just like how stable rest of macOS has become in the last few years.
Here in DC, there actually is a demographic difference between people who take the subway and the overall population: the subway riders have a median household income of about 50% more than the overall population of the metro area.
I wouldn't say the most successful company. IIRC the east india company, inflation-adjusted, was worth significantly more.
Wikipedia claims 3.5% spending increase. What do you see as the effect on the recession?
Still waiting for the UK to ban knives.
When and how (frequently) do the security patches get folded into the source tree?
We've our own dot net based InMemory Columnstore at InMemory.Net
Until the changes announced in this blog post there were features in the free version of Xen that did not exist in the free version of ESXi (like live migration of hosts - without shared storage!)
They only hire senior engineers.

I don't know what that really means though. People who are smart, hard working, and get the right jobs can get a senior title in 5-6 years at the big companies.
You cannot use a jammer of any kind in the United States, for almost all values of you, including state and federal penal agencies. https://www.fcc.gov/general/jammer-enforcement
That sounds great, but one expects FCC will be deployed to quash that as well. After all SpaceX would still use some portion of the over-regulated spectrum, and at those distances probably not wifi band.

If we had reasonable spectrum regulation, various terrestrial WISPs would have replaced all of these horrible companies a long time ago.
I'm curious about what people think about HashiCorp's Nad bs Kubernetes.

I chose Nomad because I'm already using Consul and I wanted to run raw .Net executables. Would it have been worth it to use Docker with .Net Core?

Not trying to change my infrastructure now, but just curious about whether it is worth the time to play with it on the side.
Absolutely nothing. Not sure what I said to imply that.
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This is an ongoing problem in mexican prisons, see:

http://www.newsweek.com/el-chapo-puente-grande-mexico-582319
What do you mean, "expect no new lines to launch"? The article says that the safety systems in question are being installed and will be ready relatively soon, but they chose to start service without them. Delaying a new service for a little while to wait for such things to be installed seems pretty reasonable!
I'd assume `ffmpeg` is doing most of the heavy lifting and possibly some imagemagick/graficsmagick.
$50,000 Signature Bounty to Decentralize Communication
Nothing created after Mickey Mouse will ever enter the public domain in the United States.
That's right: Apple had the product ready for sale, and they still didn't have the product as the first thing you saw. You just get a glimpse at the end.
Yeah, it's definitely more complex than I'm making it out to be, there will always be "boutique" offerings on the fringes of public markets, but if 90% of people need a service to be productive in the community, the answer should be to take it off the market.
The same thing is happening in Firefox.
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> about 70% of my knowledge today will be outdated in 5 years

I really hope this isn't the case for you, and in general I don't really believe it to be true either. Most of what makes me successful as a developer today I knew 20 years ago, in a prior career.

You have to differentiate between tacit knowledge and explicit knowledge. The former changes very little and the latter changes a lot. You're also best off retaining almost _none_ of the latter. Those "Teach Yourself <language/framework> in <number> <days/weeks>" books you used to see were written for serious professionals, not newbies.

I can often get more done with less using tried, tested tools that change little than my peers can do with 'the new hotness'. It seems every language/stack has its own implementation of cron. Stop that. Use cron.

Networking protocol, binutils and SQL don't really change and that's literally 99% of the "make stuff happen" part of my job. A lot of "Full Stack" developers don't know any of this shit. They don't know what tools will tell them if a client's traffic is coming into their network at all or being rejected at their server.

Con artists, honestly.
Roger Ver (of Bitcoin Cash) thinks insider trading should be legal
> very much better than many (most, possibly all) of the 20-something hipsters they're using to fart out garbage.

how is this type of attitude not sufficient reason to not bother hiring someone? I immediately don't want to work with or for you.
I'm not sure that total deregulation of the prison phone market is a good idea, but at least in the United States, the current solution is pretty outrageous [0]. There is a a reasonable censoring role to be played by the prison (same as it is for mail), but like much else about prison system, seems served by rent-seekers [1].

[0] https://theintercept.com/2017/06/16/fcc-prison-phone-call-ra...

[1] https://www.indystar.com/story/news/crime/2017/11/20/indiana...
> it is a pain to manage Jenkins itself with code. Plugins, authentication, all the non-job configuration, that is usually done via the GUI.

This is not true, all the configuration is scriptable via groovy scripts. We run bunch of groovy startup scripts that configure everything post launch. There is an effort to support this better[1] by jenkins team.

> How to you isolate job executions in Jenkins? In Kubernetes each job inherently isolated in containers.

We run one docker container/build on docker swarm. Each build gets its own isolated/clean environment. There is no EC2 provisioning ect. We already own and maintain docker swarm setup we just run jenkins/jenkins agents on it. I assume if you are using kubernetes it would be similar setup.

> Jenkins is a single point of failure, is isn't a highly available distributed scheduler.

I agree with this to an extent. If you are running jenkins on scheduler it can be rescheduled but you inflight jobs are dead.

1. https://github.com/jenkinsci/configuration-as-code-plugin
>To a business they see software/engineers as a expense.

Anecdotally, this is one of the first things I try to gauge at a prospective employer. "Are their development teams seen as cost centers, or profit centers?" If the company works with technology a lot and doesn't see technology as being particularly important to its bottom line, that's usually a bad sign.

Also, discussions with C-levels tend to be pretty one-dimensional. It doesn't matter how much their infrastructure is falling apart, they'll still stonewall with something along the lines of, "our goal this quarter is new user acquisition - how does this improve those numbers?"

And they won't accept, "users cannot sign up if everything is broken" as an answer.
The cost of a WebObjects deployment license was about $50,000 then.
Can any of them be used without binary blobs?
That's an interesting US fact, but the story is about the UK. Is it likewise restricted there?
As an alternative it'd be nice to see some higher-tech GSM detection technology that allowed them to pinpoint the phones (or at least be aware of their presence).
Not much of a monetary incentive, considering you only win $2-100 a day, and they'll ban you if you start winning every time.
So instead of making you turn your car to the service; they make you buy a new car by omitting the fact that your car’s performance is degraded due to another reason?