skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That feature is... problematic.

I am using TB as my mail client and there are so many things that work. Almost. So many things to configure, but not in the way that I feel would be natural.

TB is mostly worse than Outlook, but still much better than most other clients.
I don't think there are fewer "UFO" sightings than there were 20-30 years ago. I think there are way more. You don't have to dig very far on YouTube to find giant communities of people who are "seeing" UFOs. Video evidence of UFOs is easy to collect -- all you need to do is not identify the objects in the sky. And there are all sorts of weird things in the sky -- reflected lights and spotlights, weather balloons (and regular balloons), drones, sundogs, regular planes, satellites and the ISS, even the occasional actual meteor.

It's also much easier to ignore these things, since most of them are just ordinary things that the person who took the video doesn't know how to identify. If you made a great UFO hoax now, chances are nobody would ever see it who was the least interested in looking at it skeptically, because it would be lost in the noise of people seeing trash bags blowing in the wind.

So I think that https://xkcd.com/1235/ is premature about UFOs, though I think it's pretty conclusive about lake monsters and bigfoot (although if you look around, people see a lot of strange looking mangy bears that people think are bigfoot).
Thanks, I’ll be sure and consult with you on whether my opinions are “correct” in the future.
Detroit. And they haven't yet recovered. Real estate has negative worth in some places because the legal obligations to raze the site imply costs greater than what the lot and "improvements" are worth.
So cryptocurrencies are like Enron? Too big to fail? Too useful? Too what?

Can I interest you in a Venezuelan bolivar fuerte. There are 30,000,000+ people vested in it. There are billions of USD worth of them out in the world. What could possibly go wrong?
You're assuming a lot here. This might not even be an HTML page. It used to be fairly common in Windows UIs to have underlined blue clickable text in native applications.
I have to agree with your overall sentiment. After the Bitcoin boom in 2013 (and its subsequent bust in early 2014), I kind of stopped paying attention to the crypto space for a while. Little did I know that Buterin & Co. were busy building and launching Ethereum, which has profound implications of its own, some entirely orthogonal to Bitcoin's implications. We are definitely in Geocities days.

I sold cell phones to senior citizens in the early 00's, and that was a HARD SELL. Most of the ones that did buy, bought the minimal $20 / month, 60 minutes + nights & weekends plan because they thought "they would only use cell phones for emergencies". Don't even get me started on mobile web WEP browsers. It was unusable crap 15 years ago. And I would have to convince people that surely they would be checking their stocks, the news, etc. on their cell phones. The scoffs I got were unbelievable today.

Now, 15 years later, everyone and their grandmother has an iPhone / Android.

Where are all the hackers and dreamers on HN? I thought that's what this site was for. Irrational optimism is the fuel that feeds technological revolutions. So much negativity with crypto.
API v3 is still supported in the latest GitLab release (and will also be supported in this month's release, as well as probably the next few since we haven't decided the exact date of deprecation yet), have we communicated this incorrectly somewhere?
Digging out extensive underground road infrastructure is very expensive. Ask Boston residents if they'd like to do a second Big Dig on a much larger scale to bury the streets.

Elevated walkways would be vastly cheaper, but still infeasible on any current budget. You would end up having to rebuild the lobby of most buildings to be on the second floor, and probably turn the first floor into parking. It feels like one of those utopian ideals from the 50s or 60s that came out before people started thinking about the money.
There are many reasons gold has become a valuable currency: it has a distinctive density, a distinctive color, it doesn't oxidize easily, it's not radioactive or toxic, and it's relatively rare (compared to, for example, iron). Its scarcity and distinctiveness, together with its aesthetic appeal, have made it a natural choice as a currency. See, for example, http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-25255957.

Bitcoin has none of these properties ,which makes me call it a fiat currency (like the U.S. dollar). The only difference is that the U.S. dollar does have transactional value (and limited storage value).
Nope, because then the next day someone would start mining again in the hope that people would want BTC someday.
#1 was the most interesting part of this paper to me. I don't think I've seen a compiler variant of Spectre discussed elsewhere, and now I'm curious whether a similar issue might be present in more mainstream compilers too. The key bit seems to be that a compiler optimization that converts an explicit conditional to branchless code is doing the software-level moral equivalent of speculative execution (because it executes both sides of a conditional, and then throws one side out).
But this time it's different, because you can invest your entire net worth into KODAKCoin: https://www.kodak.com/kodakone/default.htm
Initial application, still worth reading: https://www.ycombinator.com/apply/dropbox/

Personally I'm disappointed Drew (still a CEO) would agree on these changes, but hey! with $1 billion dollars in pocket I assume he doesn't have to care about what anyone says anymore.
"If women feel isolated, we should try to find out why and correct that instead of just sticking them with other isolated women."
Certainly you realize they may feel isolated because you are not sticking them with other women?

What is wrong with doing something like this until they generally feel less isolated, then moving on to something else?

IE Why is it unreasonable for this to be a step along the path?
Ok so we disagree on whether Bitcoin has peaked or not. Do you feel like crypto has peaked? There's this half trilion just waiting to be multiplied. Like people just bought in, they wont be selling. In some sense, I wonder if the fact that beginner investors bought in means that it's more resistant to a price dump as they wont have stop losses. If they bought for 1000, they wont sell for 500 thereby keeping the price afloat. Not saying that's the case.
The services are incredibly useful, incredibly powerful, but from a code + dev hygiene perspective it's safer to be able to completely test your code in isolation prior to deployment.

Many people are saying: "Just mock the AWS parts..." or "Provision from amazon on demand...", but there should be "common" mocks, or ideally "toy mocks" which can be used locally in order to verify the production system works how you expect it to, prior to deployment to that production system.

Basically, I'm uncomfortable making AWS a hard-dependency if I can't get something like it running locally for a "100 record use case"
Interesting…the original MacBook Air I know was pretty slow and underpowered. How did it feel developing on it?
I've always wondered what Bitcoin would be worth if (1) Nuclear war destroys the internet or cloud servers (2) Mining costs more than its worth and no one mines any more (3) It becomes impossible due to legal or other reasons to convert bitcoin to a real currency without extra-legal efforts.
I find this kind of question quite interesting in a somewhat unfair way. When something highly unexpected is presented, it really makes the candidate think out of the box. I can for example immediately think of several weird cases (overloaded operators/implementation of == or &&, another thread trying to increment it at the same time, strange type coercion rules, running inside a debugger etc) and to me, as an interviewer if I heard of a novel answer, this shows the creativity of the candidate.

But again I concede that this is totally unfair. Not everyone can immediately think out of the box at a moment's notice, especially during an interview which can be quite stressful. I certainly wouldn't place a lot of weight on those kind of questions; if the candidate surprised me with a novel answer, that would be the icing on the cake.
This is one of the few cases where I was ahead of my time.

I turned 16 about 20 years ago and had 0 interest in a driver's license. I lived in an extremely rural area. My parents (rightly) said that I'd need to get a job to pay for a car. I figured why bother since I'd be paying for a car to drive to the job where I'd make money to pay for the car.

Seemed like a complete waste of time and effort.

20 years later, I still have no plans to get a license but have changed my tune on work a bit.
>When they lose money they won't come back.

Exactly! This is why casinos never make money.
I think it would be better to write a plugin for various PHP IDEs that contain fingerprints of bad code which is used to yell at the programmer if they are using these old, insecure code snippets. Heck, you could add a feature or note to the developer to down-vote the source of said code.

It would be a lot of work, but I think it's easier than trying to get authors of defunked blogs to take down 10 year old answers.

As a side-effect, this increases awareness among developers that you can't blindly accept what's on SO. If developers begin to lose trust in SO, then SO is going to be incentivized to do something about, or go the way of expertsexchange.
Of course. But it does translate into cheaper transportation options. Many people may opt out of car ownership once ride hailing reaches a certain level of affordability.
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Lazy reporters and cost cutting editors have been around since the start of the industry.

News and Advertising have always been closely linked.
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This redesign is just playing around with colors, background images and minor visual adjustments to the message view. Nobody needs this.

I was hoping for a redesign of the UI, the ways you interact with your mails.

This is one of those „look, I played around in Illustrator“ things, not „I thought about the problem“.
I cited BGP.

You've provided no technical details, only an ad hominem fallacy.

Feel free to explain actual technical details of how LN does anything interesting, other than further centralize Bitcoin into centralized payment processor hubs?

As per the LN white paper:

8.4 Payment Routing

It is theoretically possible to build a route map
implicitly from observing 2-of-2 multisigs on the
blockchain to build a routing table. Note, however, this
is not feasible with pay-to-script-hash transaction
outputs, which can be resolved out-of-band from the
bitcoin protocol via a third party routing service.
Building a routing table will become necessary for large
operators (e.g. BGP, Cjdns). Eventually, with
optimizations, the network will look a lot like the
correspondent banking network, or Tier-1 ISPs.
It can go to 0 if people stop mining. Then you couldn't even make the transaction.
It is beyond absurd. It is a lose-lose situation for end users - if we read each line of every EULA, thats all we would be doing all day. If we don't, then we accept very unfriendly terms.

Here is a funny example:

https://www.geek.com/games/gamestation-eula-collects-7500-so...
Gold plated is useful because gold doesn't rust, and still conducts decently.
UK's Just Eat faces probe after woman tweets chat-up texts from 'delivery guy'
> "The answer, I discovered, is turbulence. It’s something we’ve all experienced, whether flying through choppy air at 30,000 feet or watching a whirlpool gather in the bathtub drain. Yet familiarity hasn’t bred knowledge: Turbulence is one of the least understood parts of the physical world."

This immediately made me think of "roughness" and Benoit Mandelbrot.

> “When you zoom in on a point, from a mathematical point of view you lose information about the solution,” said Vicol. “But turbulence is meant to describe exactly this — the transfer of kinetic energy from large to smaller and smaller scales, so it’s exactly asking you to zoom in.”

You can explore the Mandelbrot set in similar fashions. There are many tools online to do so. The more you zoom in, the more you get completely lost from what the original image looks like.

If this kind of stuff interests you, his TED talk is among my favorites and can be found here:

https://www.ted.com/talks/benoit_mandelbrot_fractals_the_art...
I'm pretty sure that this mixup is intended. This website trying to look like an official Sketch product so that they can capitalize on Sketch's successes.
>And this has been their defense all along

I don't think it's any defense - it's plain fact. You're going to have to interopate with other networks. BGP is the protocol franca for doing so (until another rolls along). You can draft a spec, or add capabilities to BGP, but at some point your network needs to speak the same language as others or it's just an island.

>There are BGP alternatives on deck. What we don’t need is high profile network engineers speaking out against them and in favor of the status quo. The truth is, networking is the one part of the industry that isn’t improving at the same pace as the rest. And all the improvements that are happening seem to be related to single links and switching, whereas the defense of networking dogma is related to routing. According to the holy bible of networking, switching is easy, routing is hard. Routers must be memory restricted with small memory footprints to artificially create SKUs. Routers must operate on multi-minute timers rather than seconds. Building routing tables is an insanely intense and time consuming process. Blah blah blah.

I don't know where you're seeing this. The rage around Clos networks has sent everyone after small table SoC's. Any one operating at scale is running some form of commodity (aka, BRCM) chip as a router.

And when you get to routers, the Jericho (purchased by Broadcom, found in the Cisco NCS) or the Juniper Paradise (found in the PTX) are both capable of taking in internet routing tables using either HMC or off-chip memory in a pizza box form factor and in a fixed pipeline chip. Your statements aren't aligning with the reality of the platforms available today.

>Another smell that should make this obvious to everyone is that almost every major company has had high level engineers make some statement of how network companies are ripping you off, and explaining how they bought white box network solutions that route layer 3 at wire speed, converge rapidly, and have tons of memory.

This last part reads like the grass is always greener, and doesn't consider a lot of the hard work and time that goes into developing network hardware.

First, conflation: White box can entail NPUs or ASICs, which have different implications on FIB memory - the majority of these major company (read: FB, MSFT, GOOG, AMZN) use ASICs with some on-chip memory (in the dozens of MB at best). Convergence speed is primarily driven by the network operating system and it's protocol implementation (aka, something you need to write, or contract out to a vendor)

What those high level engineers don't tell you is how hard it is to create white box solutions. And they aren't vendor free paradises either - you have to sign a NDA with the chip manufacturer and use their SDK. All of those things like implementing counters, make before break, prioritization, control-plane and data-plane interfaces are up to you. And when that's all done, you need to perform countless hours of testing.
Such objections and advice carry no weight when you bring them up just to evade your own breakage of the rules. If you want your ideas about HN to be taken seriously, first take basic responsibility and then show that you can use this site as intended, by actually doing so.
It solves the same problem that are solved by having different bathrooms for men and women. Men want a place where they can piss and fart away from women, and vise versa. I see nothing unreasonable with a group wanting privacy when it comes to discourse.

As long as no double-standards are applied to any group of people wanting own private space, I see no problem.
This has been known for a while. Seismologists discovered it and tracked one at 5000 MPH. The ability to be anywhere in the world in a very short time is a compelling tool for the military.
Do you work for them? There are many women-only forums and groups, including groups specifically for women in tech, on Facebook, Meetup, etc. By all means, create as many as you'd like, but this post of yours reads like an ad.

Edit: Sorry, didn't mean this as an accusation of shilling. I was just somewhat taken aback by the idea that there aren't any other safe spaces on the internet.
I also disagree. If a bad-actor wants your genetic information they just need to go somewhere you've been. You're constantly shedding DNA.
Twitter hits back again at claims that its employees monitor direct messages
In the UK jaywalking doesn't exist; technically people still have right of way on roads, but try telling that to a car. In the 1930s, when the first footbridge over a road, Western Avenue in London was built, there were protests:

The Bridge of Fools, the first footbridge over a road in Britain

In 1938 the inhabitants started to protest about the rising death toll on Western Avenue, the "Avenue of Speed and Death". They petitioned the Ministry of Transport to impose a speed limit of twenty-five or thirty miles an hour. The ministry said that would be an "ingenious provision" to save lives, but it would be against "the whole object of constructing a road free from congested traffic".

On 21 July 1938 the protestors filed across Western Avenue from the Approach, and then back, causing a huge tailback. The next day the Ministry arranged to build two bridges, one here and one by Gipsy Corner, much to the disgust of the protestors, who thought it would encourage cars to drive faster and to force pedestrians off more roads onto bridges and subways. A week later a thousand people demonstrated again for "their right to cross on the level".

In September the hastily erected bridge was complete, and five hundred people demonstrated against it again. The bridge became a tourist attraction and it was "quite usual to see people from other districts coming to look at it".

In October torchlight processions were held on the road every evening for a week, with a dog with a red light attached to it and four bearers carrying a coffin, and placards saying "We want crossings not coffins".

The war brought and end to the protests, and for a few years the traffic.

(from Leadville: A Biography of the A40 by Edward Platt)
It's possible the test procedure does send an authentic-looking alert to the devices of staff at this facility? Even in that case I would think their phones would be ringing off the phone in seconds with incoming calls from loved ones wondering what the hell is going on...
Thanks for mentioning OpenFaaS - the Kubernetes-native frameworks provide a deep integration with existing deployments and ecosystem.
Hmm, I distinctly remember seeing a talk from the Chaos Computer Club Congress about how the PHP language is fundamentally broken in terms of security in comparison to other scripting languages. Edit: Apologies it was actually Perl (title "The Perl Jam"). In any event well worth watching if you have the time!
If the point is comparing service in different countries then you can't just pick a single high-end plan and say these things are equal.

I will concede that including discounts make things tricky, even if they are an integral part of the market, but by what measure should MVNOs be overlooked? Unlike in the US, MVNOs in other countries generally have the same access to the network as the MVO service arm.

The fact remains that in Finland you can get a real uncapped and unlimited 4G plan for about twenty bucks. Everything unlimited for under thirty. And capped 4G plans for under ten bucks.

By what measure does the US come even close?

EDIT: for clarification the above prices are all list prices from MVOs, with the exception of the everything unlimited which is from an MVNO. The equivalent MVO plans are a few euro more.
How do you know how much debt is tied to cryptocurrencies?
The biggest reason: location, location, location and relocation...

Living in a big, private house, on a small island with only one traffic light in a multi million city, in ground heated pool, etc... and working from home...

No money/stock options can compensate for this, if I have to move elsewhere in North America...

Last offer was to move to NYC :-)
New Bay Area housing trend: Living in the backyard
Unfortunately, the GOP Supreme Court has made these arbitration agreements nearly bulletproof. What you've written makes a lot of sense and is how it should be, but judges now have very little leeway in not enforcing arbitration agreements. See AT&T Mobility v. Concepcion (https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/10pdf/09-893.pdf) and Amex v. Italian Colors (https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/12pdf/12-133_19m1.pdf). (Concepcion in particular originated from a California Supreme Court ruling that these agreements were unconscionable and unenforceable in certain situations.)
Measurement is easy. Just look around you. The majority of people working in tech are men. An even larger majority of its leadership is men.

Why is this?

There are only two possible causes that I can see - genetic, or cultural. The genetic argument is basically that men are, by nature, better at being programmers and leaders than women - that women are inferior. The cultural argument is that there is a social advantage to being male (and a social disadvantage to being female) - that, all else being equal, things tend to default in favor of men.

Personally, I reject the genetic explanation. Most people do. If you also reject it, then you're stuck with the cultural explanation, or finding something I haven't come up with.
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Agree 100%. Cryptocurrency can't be money until it measures stable value.

And that stability is literally impossible without a central bank.

http://www.bzarg.com/p/what-bitcoin-shows-us-about-how-money...
BP's spill is not a great example of the evanescence of traditional industry. Despite the "catastrophe" you reference, their market cap is still $130 B and they pay out 5% in dividends...

(In fairness, there's a lot of faith involved in your broker doing the trade in BP, the ADRs if applicable, the DTCC holding your actual shares, etc., but not a lot of faith required to believe that thousands of people are actually drilling useful shit out of the Earth for BP's owners.)
Notch. Made a shit ton of money selling Mojang/Minecraft to Microsoft. Now basically spends his life partying, playing games and coding games for fun. Oh, and shitposting on Twitter. Ofcourse.
Being a rapist is illegal, while identifying as a man is not.

I would think a better analogy is that a rape support group would not allow male victims as most rapists are men.
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Yes, the reduction is over vehicles (fewer unique vehicles), not vehicle miles.
> The end user doesn't care what database you're using. They care about utility.

I agree, but this isn't just about the end user. Many businesses incur costs to third parties that could be reduced or eliminated by trustless systems whose validity of data can be verified mathematically without an auditing team. The blockchain of today can't do that yet, just like the internet of 1985 didn't allow you to buy books, but I think we're headed in the direction of progress.
Although I agree with you that this visibility might backfire, but I believe the transparency is of higher value in such debates compared to strategical opaqueness.