skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm glad they allow reuse. I signed up very early on github, but my username was already taken... By someone who didn't contribute anything at all to anything, ever; and probably never used the account again.

One day, after many years, I emailed the github guys to know if I possibly get it, and they immediately, and very kindly agreed and renamed me.
Because you hit a certain age where a HUGE chunk of people within the ( your_age / 2 + 7 ) algorithm are already spoken for. Online dating helps because both people are looking for "something" and that can avoid a lot of difficult social situations.

I've met single people through meatspace activities and often it comes with the exact same difficulties of online dating.

I'm editing that line to read "have you dated in a major metro..." - thanks for the heads up.
Feminist Fight Club
Java is at least a close second. Very generally speaking, I've found that Java has a slightly better ecosystem when it comes to more 'enterprise' solution, while python is slightly better on the science and engineering front. Also, python is the standard scripting language in just about every application I run into so, if for no other reason, I wouldn't want to give on a python just because of that.
We don't know what alexa is listening to, but we do know that the data it transmits to the cloud is roughly proportional to the amount of time that you are talking to it.

https://www.iot-tests.org/2017/06/careless-whisper-does-amaz...
> What signature verification would one have when accessing a public repo?

You can gpg sign your git commits. This is not a new feature...
In my experience that's often due to major modes that try to format and syntax-highlight on the fly. Keep in mind that some forms of pasting are really equivalent (from Emacs' PoV) to a crapton of keystrokes being entered.

Anyway, the workaround I have for the occasional time I have huge things to paste is to switch the buffer to fundamental-mode before pasting, and then switching back.

As a curiosity, what kind of things are you pasting that are that big?
Nice! Glad to help
They use an Uber like model with gigsters to do deliveries which is why you encounter different people https://www.geekwire.com/2017/amazon-delivery-driver-like-wo...
You're reading it correctly and it's working as intended. The people who should have reasonably expected that their job involves overtime are the ones who shouldn't be able to demand punitive extra pay when it turns out that their job involves overtime.

Maybe it sounds more palatable said the other way round: the people whose job can't reasonably be expected to involve overtime are the ones who most need statutory protection when they're suddenly asked to work overtime (because they didn't plan for it when negotiating their contract, for example).
It's not that you're exploiting the web server once you're in, it's that a 30 year old web server is the security hole you use to get in.
Bay Area mass exodus of residents leading to a shortage of U-Haul trucks
Generally those are the updates that are the best. It means they focused on performance and stability rather than gimmicky features
Anyone who thinks this is a loss for Uber doesn't know what was at stake in this case. At one point an injunction against Uber's self-driving division was on the table. If that were still any sort of possibility Uber would have ended up paying far more than a couple hundred million in equity to settle the case.

I think it's safe to say this wasn't really about theft of trade secrets by Uber. We can infer this because Google's lawyers would have known exactly how weak their case against Uber was when nothing of substance turned up as part of discovery. Google decided to go to trial anyway. They knew that Uber's ailing brand would make them _seem_ guilty in the public eye even though they clearly weren't.

I can't prove this, but I think this was a chillingly opportunistic move by Google that was designed mainly to stop the loss of top engineering talent to Uber ATG. After all, who would want to go to join a company which appeared to be in serious legal jeopardy?

I'd speculate that Uber's current leadership saw an opportunity to immediately stop the damage to their brand and took it. Part of me wishes TK were still running the show because he probably would not have settled.
> It's not exactly obvious how this situation is significantly different from the web side of things.

SSL protects against people who can casually monitor or intercept network connections. The attacker threat model is generally "coffee-shop wifi." In order to demonstrate control for Let's Encrypt, you need to ensure that some URL on your server delivers a specified byte content (the content given over a different channel). In essence, this kind of certificate says "I'm satisfied that the person who requested this certificate can arbitrarily modify the content on the website."
Which is a different role. And if it were treated and paid as a different role, and there was an acknowledgement that a coding boot camp graduate without deep CS knowledge could develop into a real software engineer some day but they weren’t one yet, then I would agree with you. But if the role and salary is that of a full-fledged software engineer, understanding CS is a basic qualification.
I don't make a lot of comments on HN, so I could use some constructive criticism on how to improve. My intent was to highlight content relevant to my point. Any suggestions on how I could do this better (maybe better formatting)?
For anyone else that doesn't know Ceph: http://docs.ceph.com/docs/master/
I'm going to chime in and say I want Thunderbird on Android. Preferably with the ability to sync settings and data from and to my desktop and laptop.

Also, frankly, there are so many email clients out there for Android, that it's a pain trying to finding something trustworthy. Thunderbird would be something I can trust.
> If Amazon advertised it as a physical switch, and it was not, that is fraud and actionable.

A physical switch is still a technically a physical switch, even if it's not connected to anything. It would come down to how they are describing what it does, and what guarantees they make (or not.) Do they have any, or is this discussion entirely hypothetical?
Have you tried creating a game in a modern engine such as Unity3d? If you try going through a few tutorials, and browse through the asset store, you might be surprised.

While the gameplay in your first game may still be simple, it can look great because the engine does most of the work. It absolutely won't look like something from a C64 (unless you want it to).
Thanks for the feedback. We genuinely aren't sure of the pricing in the future, so your feedback is pretty fair.

Most likely what you see here will be free for the foreseeable future. If there is a paid version, it would be geared more toward commercial usage (high traffic visualizations with company branding, more advanced visualizations, etc).

You can also download your charts or export your data easily anytime.
The more I read about some issues with Go, the more I realise that it's beautiful and elegant because of the ties with Plan9 and the uncomplicated thinking that comes with it, but it suffers greatly because it won't consider how the world has changed since. So you get a very particular way of doing things (`GOPATH`, `gofmt`) and you're kind of out of luck when the abstraction leaks (`interface {}`).

Point in case: treat GitHub as part of the filesystem, so you don't need to host a package manager. I suspect that the end game is the opposite of Java (com.example/package/whatever) and in the long run you're expected to publish your source to a domain you control. Starting with GitHub and services like gopkg.in just gets people acquainted with the idea but in the enterprise you'll be importing `enterprise.com/factory/builder` or some such.
Do NOT eat random mushrooms you find in the wild. A trip to Amsterdam is cheaper than a hospital bill (and certainly better than dying).
What do you think journalists should do, not try and report on China?
It would have been even clearer as

Any activity necessary to prevent the spoilage
of comestible goods prior to their arrival at a
market where they may be offered for sale to
consumers, including, but not limited to, the
activities specified in subsection (1) and the
goods specified in subsection (2).
(1) Activities:
(a) Canning,
(b) Processing,
(c) Preserving,
(d) Freezing,
(e) Drying,
(f) Marketing,
(g) Storing,
(h) Packing for shipment, or
(i) Distribution.
(2) Goods:
(a) Agricultural produce,
(b) Meat products,
(c) Fish products, or
(d) Perishable foods.

A lawyer would then be able to specifically address the relevant portion of the law, by labeling the plaintiffs as satisfying both (1)(i) and (2)(d), along with satisfying the overall criterion of getting a perishable comestible to market prior to its spoilage.

Writing the intent of the law into the actual law is a great way to keep lawyers from arguing over commas.

What we want is for them to argue about whether pasteurized dairy goods would have spoiled if the drivers had worked a normal shift. Presumably, they would have been kept in refrigerators overnight?

But it would have been even clearer to not have the law at all. The businesses that benefited from it would just have to pay more for the labor capacity that they clearly anticipated, since they got a legislator to pass this law for them. Need more driver labor to get your milk to market? Hire another driver or pay your existing drivers overtime!
Like I said, not only is this inaccurate (e.g. the rules
never change in mining)

You are incorrect.

https://blockchain.info/charts/difficulty?timespan=all

https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/40411/can-a-smar...

The topic of the story covers the history of money.

The comment merely informs the history of crypto currencies like Bitcoin which is marketed as an alternative money ( "Bitcoin, an Electronic Cash System" ). The minting, economics, and game theory of said crypto currencies is the highlight of the comment in regards to money/value/exchange systems.

The author of the paper, Nick Szabo, is a direct contributor to the concepts behind the current trend of crypto exchange systems.

See:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medium_of_exchange

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_currency
> "You can override the location of a package with dep."

As far as I know, this is true [1], and can be done with the 'source' rule in Gopkg.toml. However, the guidance for dep says [1]:

"A source rule can specify an alternate location from which the name'd project should be retrieved. It is primarily useful for temporarily specifying a fork for a repository. source rules are generally brittle and should only be used when there is no other recourse. Using them to try to circumvent network reachability issues is typically an antipattern."

This doesn't sound like a glowing endorsement of this feature.

> "Indirection doesn't solve the problem it just moves it to the centralized repository."

Precisely; we're in agreement. A repository can then choose to institute sensible rules, if they so desire: Maven Central has what I would consider to be sensible rules, while NPM prior to 'left-pad' did not. Without a repository, the community has no place to make this decision point, so everyone's left to fend for themselves.

> "Go designers recommend vendoring packages which solves the problem."

Can you point me to guidance from Go designers which substantiates your point? I have been searching for this and have been unable to find it.

[1] https://github.com/golang/dep/blob/master/docs/Gopkg.toml.md
Sounds pretty similar to my two experiences with Amazon Fresh. First guy shows up and goes into a long story about how his leg is broken and how terrible his day is going. Not to be unsympathetic, but clearly this guy was just trying to solicit a tip, which I was planning on giving anyway, but decided against after the experience. Second time around I just pick the "leave it at the door" option, and they dropped it off at the wrong building, and when I found it, it was also the wrong order.
Wow, was it really that late? perhaps it was. Maybe my memory is shot. I definitely remember using VLC on BeOS at one point, but it must have been a couple years later than I thought. Thanks for keeping me honest :-)
I’m pretty sure capitalism isn’t only interested in overall benefit to everyone in society, nor is it interested only in overall detriment to everyone in society. More simply, there are winners and losers. This is a side effect of a capitalistic system. I’m also pretty sure society isn’t ideal, and that corporate law dictates that corporations act in the best interests of their shareholders and the corporate entity itself. This may or may not include consideration for the overall “net goodness” of side effects to profit seeking.
> I never would have considered someone cares about a delivery person walking over their lawn to drop a package off.

If they're wearing boots, or you have xeriscape, they can damage the irrigation system just an inch or two under the surface.
Hacker Keyboard will allow you to achieve a lot. All, with all CLI programs? That I do not know. There is a learning curve either way. You can also SSH out of your machine with a terminal app (recommend to look into Mosh) if you got a good internet connection such as 4G/LTE or WiFi. Then you can run e.g. Mutt remotely. Use with tmux and never close it.

As for hook up, there's BT and USB OTG.
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/declining-global-poverty-...

Like it or not, the greedy evil capitalists are making the world a better place for all of us.
Babies need love!! You’re going to need to put some people on that ship.
Many people appear to be accusing the author of being hyperbolic, saying "well, you shouldn't be relying on github urls being real." This is true, but it misses the point: whether they should have or not, people ARE using the technology in this way. GitHub can either take an ideological stand and continue allowing people to be unknowingly exposed to an attack surface, or they can make a reasonable effort to defend against malicious usage of their service. Perhaps there are material reasons why it would be wrong or prohibitively difficult for them to change their username policy, but if it isn't, I don't think it's unreasonable to request this of them while simultaneously admonishing people who assuming data from github will always be accurate.

Put another way, I would _also_ upvote an article that said "The Go package manager is insecure because it assumes github URLs never change owners."
Nice Alien:Resurrection reference.
It still (by default) uses cloud STT, and there's no good local STT that's anywhere near simple to set up. It's hardly any better.
Yes, my town was a hellhole and very, very small. I'm the only person who has achieved professional success. Most are dead, in jail or hooked on drugs. My relatives included.

> You were the valedictorian of your high school

No, I was a very poor student as I knew back then that school had little to do with success.

> worked jobs on the side to make money

There were no jobs in my town.

I admit I'm making some assumptions about you since I've literally never heard a poor person say the things you're saying but many, many middle-upper middle class people say them. I could be very wrong though.

> you appear to have had reliable access to computers 20+ years ago

My school had some very dated Apple IIes. The rest I got from magazines and library books. If there was a privilege there it was that I was alive at a time that booting up a machine dumped you into BASIC.

I'm 100% sure I'm biased. Everyone is, including yourself. Our conversation has drifted far from the original topic but I do appreciate you taking the time to have it. I don't think we could ever agree on many of these issues but its interesting to see them juxtaposed.
I don’t think your perspective is very useful, because you seem to be assuming that all commercial transactions are zero-sum, since you describe both parties believing they are the only ones benefitting from the transaction.

If I buy a $5 sandwich at a deli, it’s not the case that I think they’re suckers for valuing $5 more than the sandwich, and I doubt they think I’m a sucker for the inverse. Clearly, what’s really going on is that I am hungry and cannot eat a five dollar bill, whereas the deli has way more sandwich ingredients than they need to eat themselves, and they need money for other expenses. We both benefit.
That amount of money is a rounding error to Google, especially since it's in the form of private equity issued by a company they already have a stake in worth billions. Google probably negotiated for the equity to be included in the settlement just so they had something to show for this case.
Are you based in Dublin? I have twenty years experience as a highly technical tester. I can help you find a meaningful path. Contact details in my profile!
When your body isn’t your own: The politics of Altered Carbon
Thanks for checking it out. The use case is blogging and content marketing. That's what we use it for at least.
Won't somebody please think of the children?!
> 2. This will lead to a massive rise in availability of human eggs for scientific research, accelerating many fields. Lack of availability of eggs (as they get prioritized for other uses) restricts things like embryo research and other genetic analysis of human germline

Don't forget embryo selection: if you can create on demand several dozen or hundred eggs, the estimates of gains from embryo selection go from ~0.5 IQ points to 5-10 IQ points (and similarly for any other trait you might want to select for). 0.5 points is pretty trivial and no one will be beating down doors for that; 10 points, however, is a different proposition.

Perhaps more importantly, it's a step towards iterated embryo selection - fertilizing, selecting, then regressing to stem cells, and progressing to sperm/eggs - and doing so for multiple generations, getting +10 points each time, for largely unbounded gains.
> having nothing to hide

Everyone has things to hide when malicious people control the machine. Even with companies who you might view as benevolent, you don't know who will control those companies in the future.

> ...understanding the technology that goes behind keeping your identity obfuscated from advertisers even with intense personalization.

I understand it. The idea that personal data can be easily anonymized is a myth. Also, I've worked for people who turned out to have malicious intentions, so I'm sure that many of the companies/people collecting that kind of data don't have good intentions.

One quick example of how even companies that talk "security" don't really practice it sufficiently: Equifax. Another quick example: look at all the Android apps that are completely abusing users' data.
How about some very convincing androids?
I don't understand why you're "bowing out" instead of debating, if you have a strong case to make. What about the GP's post is factually incorrect?
> It's simply solvable by refering to a commit hash

It really ought to refer to a signed tag that the package manager verifies before installing the package.
Tinymail/Modest? Not sure if its still developed or has a spiritual successor. Modest used GTK back in the days. What does Sailfish use for this purpose? KDE Mobile?
Perhaps we could also develop robots to simulate the parental senses of touch needed to grow healthy children?
I don't know much about it, but Mozilla is working on this:

https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2017/11/29/announcing-the-init...
> I can easily imagine supercomputers running Gentoo

Yeah, nice one! Very customized flags required.

I was more talking about typical backend services, like Ceph or, say, a Riak or Postgres cluster.
Reminds me of this John Oliver segment:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvZSpET11ZY
I know this is old, but there's one thing that is a big advantage for tinc, and it's that it supports TCP P2P

If you're behind a restrictive firewall ZeroTier won't be able to punch through it, and will fall back to forwarding packets (encrypted) through ZeroTier servers, Even if a connection could've been made over TCP to the other client (because his firewall supports UPnP or is port forwarded) which creates a tunnel directly between them.

Note that UDP connections are always better for encapsulating TCP, but P2P TCP is better then TCP through an external server with limited bandwidth.

I'm a ZeroTier user though, and i've only encountered this to be a problem once. It's nice to know it'll always work well though.

Configuration & ease of use: ZT > Tinc
Connectivity: Tinc > ZT

I know ZeroTier people are looking into solving this, so this might soon be obsolete information :)

Also tinfoilhats might prefer Tinc considering there's no central service anywhere.
Yeah, it sucks having a powerful computer in my pocket all the time that can handle nearly all of my regular tasks. Wait, what?
Or a big friendly dog!
It's a Messaging Menu indicator front-end, not something Unity-specific, so it works on Ubuntu MATE and Xubuntu, for example (and Elementary OS AIUI). There's also a third-party Cinnamon frontend.
The entrance to Trinity College Dublin is an 18th century gatehouse where the floor is made of hexagonal wooden blocks that have weathered quite well.
Oh, you mean you trust the US government because of the Church Committee? Good point; after all, they haven't done anything shady, nefarious, underhanded, or illegal since then. And the other world governments, I'm sure their hands are clean as well...
Relevant: The Harlow Monkey Love Experiments: http://pages.uoregon.edu/adoption/studies/HarlowMLE.htm
Fujitsu SVE Update, Building the Arm HPC Ecosystem
Was suppose to be 9/10 whoops. People are not able to really compromise these days because we live in a very individualistic society. Any sort of dependency on another person is seen as weakness, especially if you're a man.

Within the relationship context this causes many couples to not be able to hit the required escape velocity to exit the honeymoon period (3-6 months on average). If you're in a major metro, there is a multitude of additional options that are fresh and new so why compromise?

This is destructive to an individual's ideals within the relationship context because either you dig your heels in just like your opponent and move on to the next partner (easy/common), or you both decide to calibrate and compromise (hard/rare).
Except in this case it was Honest Goldman's Sound Financial Advice Inc advising you to buy, and Goldman's Shady Shell Fund Ltd selling. I don't think most clients of financial advisors check who's the counterparty in their trades.

Legally, there's very little preventing your advisor from telling you to perform trades that make you poor and the advisor's buddies rich. A lot of the aftermath of the 2008 crisis boiled down to "It might not have been moral, but it sure as heck wasn't illegal".
Where are you getting the IQ boost from?
you just explained that the most important thing is knowledge not money
The last severance package I got was one weeks' worth of compensation. They are an early stage startup, with about 15 employees and have existed for 3 years.