skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"But wait, I rather use S3. No, S3 could neither be an alternative to an NFS nor a replacement for EFS. S3 is not a file system.
This smells like a cloud lockin’ to me - not really, Pipeline/Kubernetes can use minio to unlock you. Another post …"

But minio is basically S3, so this doesn't make sense at all
It's not like I enjoy advertisement. But this description seems extremely hyperbolic.

It's a few images. Some of them move, which is annoying.

Rarely, they have sound, which is unacceptable.

There's apparently a lot of tracking going on in the background, yet I haven't seen any creepy personal ads, nor do I know of any effects outside of the ads themselves this tracking could have on my life.

People often mention security problems, and those may sometimes have occurred. Yet I haven't had any malware infection in 15 years+, and have never installed any antivirus software that didn't come with the OS.

If advertisement is nefariously "manipulating our emotions" I guess we're lucky in that they suck at it.

Personally, I'm far more annoyed by TV advertisement.

It's also nothing like "rent seeking", as I pointed out in a reply to that comment. "Rent seeking" doesn't just mean "economic activity I don't like".

I'm not denying that I would enjoy the world slightly more without ads, all other things being equal. But denying that there's something of a trade-off to be considered is simply intellectually dishonest.

And once you take stock of these competing interests, I believe there's a "bad case scenario" that is more likely than not to become reality, in which the loss far outweighs any gains.
Thank you FBI, CIA and NSA to tell us Europeans not to use closed US software.
I thought it was interesting so I looked it up.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transformer_oil
I see. In Australia, they tie guest wifi login to one's student email address via the 'eduroam' SSID. This allows students from visiting universities to connect but not the general public.
The wrong frequencies on the frequency axis really aren't necessary. It doesn't make it more complex if you put the real frequency values the and it is less confusing to people who know that sound below 20hz roughly is never audible.

Otherwise, great site! I think it is great that Fourier was basically explained without mentioning his name.
Very cool, thanks for the detailed information!
> It would still serve to slow the projectile faster than it would be without

That's not even clear.

One of the common problems for bullet manufacturers with the "FBI protocol" suite of tests used to be the "heavy clothing" test. Shooting through several layers of denim would clog the cavity of the hollow point bullets and cause them to over penetrate.

Simply put, it's extremely difficult to predict how bullets will react to barriers of any kind in lieu of testing.
Great advice. Thank you.
I always enjoy a wee chuckle to myself every time I get down voted on HN for expressing humour; I feel like a modern common man G.B.S.

'My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity.'
This is a bigger problem than the article indicates because it disables the rear-view camera.

The feds consider rear-view cameras essential safety equipment now, which is why they're required on every car made since 2015.

(Which is what makes the Honda ads so funny when they tout rear-view cameras as some great novelty they're giving you for free, when they're required to have them by law.)
You can text anyone on any network.
Not just utility related reporting uses the pole numbers.

My father was the volunteer emergency service coordinator (and power station operator) in the tiny town where we grew up. his use of road names + power poles ids + direction & distance was frequently complimented by the accident investigators when they came to look at shit (and later the court cases for some)

Remote areas with 10s of KMs of power line and 0 other features :|
I am just sad for all the victims of rape in the UK that haven't probably seen, even remotely, the same police efforts made for this accusation. It happened in a different country, and parts of the accusation wouldn't even be a crime in the UK, and obviously there are political goals behind, given the strange sequence of police work.

I'm thinking about what would happen if instead of Assange we were dealing with a person from a country where religion and government are intertwined, and that person was asking for asylum to the UK for accusations that are not crimes in the UK.
This is true for me too, but I still find that using AMP pages on Android is basically nonfunctional. They load fast, but scrolling is shoddy and every single linking function (back button, hyperlink, and new tab alike) is a mess.

If I want to load a single page with dense content, view it without scrolling much, and close the tab, AMP makes my mobile experience better. If I want to do anything else, AMP on Android starts to interfere with basic functionality.

Which is a pretty sad story for a Google CDN on a Google browser on a Google OS.
Yes.

The same principles would be at play if you were letting a friend store their bike in your garage on weekdays. One tuesday in April you call them to say "I need to paint the garage in June, come and get your bike". But they're out of the country for the week, so the next day you throw away the bike.

You would have the legal right to clear out your garage, you had no signed contract to rent out a space for your friend's bike, but the way in which you did it caused your friend to lose their bike after you had given them a reasonable expectation that they wouldn't, and you had no good reason not to wait until the end of the week.
Can you please make a pair of socks from your textile/tech and report back on how good they work?

(then sell socks to the military's of the planet) (and glove liners, and Bivys)
You can file a TCPA complaint [0] against Facebook for spamming your mobile number after you've instructed them to stop ("revoked consent"). There are a number of stories about TCPA around the web [1].

[0] https://consumercomplaints.fcc.gov/hc/en-us/requests/new?tic...

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/legalnewsline/2017/09/05/tcpa-d...

(IANAL, this is not legal advice.)
Users can point out factual errors, quotations taken out of context, and misleading statements. They can highlight claims that do not cite a source (think of Wikipedia’s [citation needed] tag), or add additional context that either support or provide a counterpoint to the article.

So... Genius for news and political discourse? How would it be protected from Sybil attacks, trolls, bots, and raging ideologues? If every word is annotated a dozen ways, that sounds worthless, but if it’s being curated then what does it offer other than a new set of biases?
Something that completely fascinates me are cell towers/equipment. They are everywhere, yet I know almost nothing about them and rarely get to see them up close. Even less often (pretty much never) meet anyone who work on the equipment. I imagine each base station is basically a mini datacenter. I was at Mammoth Mountain recently for the first time and got to see the cell towers at the top of one of the lifts up close and got some good pictures.
Explanation seems to be simple: person who written this article just have no experience. And there are deficit of truthful information about Google intentions in ad blocking sphere.
“Guys, we’re doing pagination wrong…”
WOW! OMG. Thanks for mentioning your experience. Can you share more about this? My e-mail is in my profile if you want to do it privately.

Thanks for mentioning Alpha Vantage. I will check them out.
I do the same.only use it to message some people. I try to pull them into hangouts or signal because at least they are more or less jist a chat app so dont provide me useless notifications.
You can write the plugins themselves in Java, and so i assume in any JVM language. Having written a few, i prefer Java to Groovy, as the Gradle API (SPI?) is pretty complicated, and it's reassuring to have my use of it typechecked.

It's Gradle build scripts themselves that can now be written in Kotlin instead of Groovy. I haven't tried that yet, but it sounds pretty fresh.
Oddly enough I did consent to receiving notifications and they kept turning them off on me.
Deleting Facebook is hard but it’s the moral thing to do.
Thanks yes I totally meant scale. Main cost of new ASIC chips is design and fabrication. Only serve a very narrow specific purpose and all that cost is sunk. But after that, unit production chip cost is negligible.
Hawaii Proposes Bill to Ban Video Game Loot Boxes
by "know tax law", I'd assume they mean the same thing as know react - that is, they have experience doing it previously.
Florida has this solved.

Wood rots and breaks. Burial has flood issues. The solution is to install better poles.

Most commonly, the poles are concrete with a square cross-section. Some are round concrete, spun while hardening to allow a hollow interior. Some are galvanized steel, with perhaps a decagonal cross section.

One near my house is about 2 feet thick, with a label that says 50,000 pounds.

These are not fragile. :-)
Hopefully we'll still have that option. With the right-to-repair lawsuits ongoing a loss might mean disabling the modem is against the EULA.
https://leaksource.files.wordpress.com/2013/12/nsa-ant-dropo...

Also:

https://www.engadget.com/2017/08/02/apple-vpn-restrictions-c...

http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2017/08/02/apple_and...

http://fortune.com/2017/08/01/apple-ceo-cook-china-vpn-apps/

> “We would obviously rather not remove the apps, but like we do in other countries, we follow the law wherever we do business,” Cook said on a call with analysts to discuss quarterly financial results.

If Apple wants to remain competitive globally from a market share perspective, they need to compete in China (http://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/all/china). If the only way to do that is remove apps from the app store, they'll do it.

In fact, the app store is probably the most noticeable change. There could be others that haven't been widely publicized.
I always forget about VOA because the government doesn't promote it inside the United States.

Openness and fairness are also political weapons. You know your side has lost, if it reaches a state of "evaporative cooling" such that it's incapable of using such weapons.

http://lesswrong.com/lw/lr/evaporative_cooling_of_group_beli...
Though from what i recall the NT poles are mostly steel.
Of course there is Meetup which is certainly large enough for everything except the most niche event.
Peek into the Future: 5 New Game Changing Technologies
They also publicly list their chosen most effective charities, so you can always donate to those directly instead of through GiveWell. I'd imagine this is common, and a lot of additional external donations result from their research. They try to estimate their overall impact here: https://www.givewell.org/about/impact.

Also, feel free to disagree, but you might find their argument that expense ratios should not be the most important charity metric interesting: https://blog.givewell.org/2009/12/01/the-worst-way-to-pick-a...
Google Calendar/Hangouts/Maybe even plus?

Everyone has the gmail they probably created just to sign up for Facebook, since it seems this younger generation doesn't believe in email.
> Toyota use more outsourcing producing a lower % of their cars than Tesla.

You can't just wave your hands and outsource parts manufacturing. Developing, and maintaining your supply chain is incredibly challenging.

Tesla's attempts at doing so resulted in delays, shortages, and them blaming everything on their suppliers - rather then on their failure in being a good partner with them.
> So many people claim that Google "owns" the coalition. Why does it even matter if you can't find any issue in the standard they've come up with?

The answer to this question is self evident. It matters that the people who write the rules are part of the competition. Further, the people who write the rules also enforce them and in an opaque way (both technically and procedurally).

It doesn't matter to me, I use uBlock for adverts.
Diablo 2 doesn't use OpenGL. It does use Glide, the native hardware API for Voodoo cards. And it looks amazing and silky smooth with Glide compared to the game's Direct3D mode.
Dry season is very much a northern part of australia concern (for now. the dry\wet cycle is moving south quite rapidly). The summer (which is the wet in the north) is when the bush fires happen.
Printing Company South Africa
Yeah, basically. If your federal employment ends your medical benefits do as well. It's not like a professor's tenure or anything. But unlike the private sector, if you served for at least 5 years you can re-enroll after you reach retirement age and the government will pick up the "employer's costs" of your insurance once again. You'd still be paying the premiums out of pocket though (which is better than other jobs or Medicare if you can afford it).

There is still a small guaranteed basic pension that federal employees pay into, but it's not really enough to retire on by itself. It's one part of their 3 part retirement plan. Couple it with Social Security (the second part) and you could probably scrape by and remain reasonably well fed and housed if you relocated somewhere rural and cheap, but if you plan on retiring and staying put you're going to have to save using the TSP (the third part) like anyone else saves with a 401k.

I can't provide a blanket statement for why people are federal employees though, it's probably different in each industry. My wife is part of the scientific and regulatory side of the oil and gas industry and [benefits included] she doesn't earn substantially less than her private industry peers in similar scientific roles. And that industry is notorious for frequent and cut throat boom-bust cycles which brings it even closer to parity over the long haul. As a software developer though, not a chance. The desirability of the roles they have and the compensation even with benefits is not usually very attractive and the federal hiring process is bonkers compared to most companies.
It lets you know how they say they’re doing, and nothing else. If they have a bot updating their status, maybe not even that much.
Well, it's never too late!

I mean, when reading articles like this one:

http://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2015-07-08/choosing-a-linux...

Linux tracing looks like a mess, where there're dozens of incompatible alternatives, each one with its gotchas. But instead, dtrace is a mature standard framework which also works under BSD or macOS. You got one programming language, D, and tons of resources out there.

So... my best wishes for this.
These are the companies that we trust to build us "safer than human drivers" self-driving cars, yes?
They are also at risk of a TCPA violation for sending unwanted communications without consent.
Obama had a republican Congress since 2010, which is when the IRS cuts started.
I guess I'd rather be spied on by the NSA than foreign states, if that was a choice and I couldn't choose "none of the above."
Sardex – local Sardinian complementary currency
This doesn't break out US sales vs foreign, but if we assume 2/3 of the vehicles are sold in the US, that means they just hit their 200,000 car limit for the tax credit, or are just about to.

If they are clever they'll try to make car 200,000 roll out just after April 1, to push it into Q2, giving them six months more of the credit.

But it definitely means that a lot of Model 3 buyers are gonna get screwed as they push the delivery of the cheap model 3 out to 2019, as those are the people who were most likely counting on the $7,500 when they pre-ordered.
What I wish I knew before contributing to Open Source
May 2018 is the actual requirement date.

https://www.autotrader.com/car-news/new-backup-camera-rule-c...

But yeah, I'm with you on decoupling the camera system from the IVI. It's going to have to be treated more like a transmission or engine control computer.
What do you think PRISM actually accomplished, on a budget of ~$200,000 USD/year?

Hint: It wasn't a firehose of compromised user data gathered by 'mass suriveliance tools'. It's budget is missing a few zeroes for that.

It was, however, a firehose for serving legal documents.
Fantastic comment: useful, succinct, instructive.

>"I love it because not only is the above a list of the subcomponents that make up this component, but it's also a visual indicator of how they'll be laid out."

Yes! Love it.

Tangent: This reminds me of some native iOS layout thing from maybe 6 or 7 years ago but I can't recall much about it-- scratch that, googled and, yeah, "VFL":
> "The Auto Layout Visual Format Language (VFL) allows you to define constraints by using an ASCII-art formatted string."

IOW, ASCII art for layout implementation.
As this stream of negative facebook articles continue, I can't help but feel duped about my experiences with it.

I've quit fb since new years, but I can't help but wonder if I was played the whole time. I feel like they advertised fb as an altruistic platform, when in reality, I was just a means to marketing dollars and they fed whatever altruistic lines they wanted to keep me coming back.

Serious question: does fb purely exist as a company in order to sell our information? Do developers at fb believe they're making the world a better place? I'm not saying developers _need_ to make their career about making the world a better place. I do, however, feel like that's the line fb was feeding about their company culture.
Are you saying this is how contracts are awarded on FedBiz Ops?

I do grant writing for nonprofit and public agencies, along with some research-based businesses, and people interested in getting into this sort of thing will contact us, or people like us.

We're a little like lawyers: it is possible to do everything right, but it's very hard and unlikely if it's your first rodeo.

To take one small example: when you submit a budget, is it a program budget or a total project budget? Err and your application may be disqualified. Or consider indirect cost rates: http://seliger.com/2016/05/16/federally-approved-indirect-co... .

Again, either of these things are small, but multiply them x1000 and suddenly you'll understand why organizations hire us!
Servers? We don't need no stinkin' servers
Which of those other 27 are big enough in the US to be worthy of mention?
Huawei is not that good with phone updates. I don't think they need special access to hack or record Huawei phones, especially if they find the Chinese backdoor in there.
I share the opinion of many that it's not a worthy contender in the market at this point. However, Apple released the iPhone without basic functions like copy and paste but focused hard on a user experience no one else had worked on to create the most valuable mobile phone product in history.

There is potential here for a high quality speaker like this to mature into a quality product.

Unfortunately for Apple though I'm not interested in helping fund that market for them. I will keep my Amazon Echo's in the home until I feel compelled to switch because they have leapfrogged the competition.
I guess I read this as "as long as you're not disrupting other people/going against the cafe's policies then who gives a shit if other people care about you" more than "other people will never care about you"
I launched a web app in 2017 as a solo entrepreneur. I have been focusing the last 6 months on marketing. Here are a few things I did to get started:

1. Commit to spending at least 50% of your time on marketing. For every hour of coding, do an hour of marketing.

2. I used the book Traction: How Any Startup Can Achieve Explosive Customer Growth to build a marketing plan.

3. The first exercise of the book was to focus on the outcome you want (for example, I want 1000 paid subscribers by end of 2018) and then figure out how big of a funnel you need to build. That helps you be realistic about what types of marketing to do.

4. I took a Udemy class on digital marketing -- It was about 20 hours of material that was on sale for $12. I found about 1/3 of it useful.

5. I am focused on marketing ideas that are repeatable and scalable. I do a lot of work up front to setup a marketing idea, but then I can keep it going with minimal new work. For example, to do blogger outreach, I first built and tested a drip campaign in Mailchimp. Then I harvested the first 50 blogger emails myself and determined my campaign would work. After that, I outsourced the blogger email collection. Now, the free lancer collects the contact info and loads it into my drip campaign.
I use https://www.keycdn.com which has free letsencrypt
The biggest problem was that the waveforms are animated in some parts, and they actually move in-speed (so 1Hz does 1 cycle a second). If it was, say, 50Hz, the inaccuracy would shift so that it was moving at 1/50th speed, and that seems harder to explain (even here, I'm not sure if my explanation makes sense!)

And yeah, hah. My goal was to not mention his name anywhere, since "fourier transforms" just sounds scary and jargony.
«I see your point about ASICs raising the bar but wouldn't that put contributions out of reach of all but high-wealth or dedicated miners?»

Not at all. ASICs don't increase the gap between the low-hashrate and high-hashrate miners any more so than GPUs. It's all proportional. If you have x% of the global hashrate, you get x% of the revenues. This is one of the biggest misconception in the mining world. You see journalists claiming that ASICS make mining tough for smaller miners. But this has absolutely nothing to do with ASICs. It all comes down to electrical costs: the large miners can afford to set up shop in area with cheap electricity while small miners have to make do with whatever rates they pay where they live/work. The difference between $0.03/kWh in Douglas County, WA (where many industrial miners are located) and $0.20-0.30/kWh in SoCal is huge. That's why large miners profit more. This would be exactly the same if the coin was GPU-mineable.
It does sound right-wing, but I think it's definitely possible to be left-wing and to want to avoid being a "baizuo". The biggest thing that caught my eye was about "pitying the rest of the world" and thinking that you are a "savior" -- definitely a valid criticism, I think.
Rust: four domains where we feel Rust can present a strong story
For those interested, it appears the current generation of "running system to live image" is:

https://github.com/Tomas-M/linux-live

While the current generation of "make me a magic shiny debian image" is:

https://github.com/larswirzenius/vmdb2/

(I went looking for some tool I've used in the past, which may, or may not, have been "live-build").

In general though, just pulling down a dkms zfs module into any working recovery image via apt should work.

But not if you don't have net access [ed: or a lan apt mirror..].
Data Pipelining with Spring Cloud and Cloud Foundry
Recently took Jeff's Alg 2 class before graduating last May. Class was a doozy but his notes are the best I've ever seen.

Great prof!
It's a great chemical, but an awful snack.
How to hire more women engineers
sharding is in the same boat as proof-of-stake, nobody knows if a system can be built that preserves the level of security of current monolithic and proof-of-work systems, it is being studied on an academic an implementation level by several teams including Cardano, ethereum and ethereum classic.

On the scalability issue if you sacrifice the decentralization is theoretically possible for Bitcoin to process on-chain, Visa level of transactions and with current energy consumption levels or even less.

You would probably get 3 to 6 physical data center locations probably on the same continent connected with high-speed links with 1 Terabyte 10min blocks.