skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1.) Get publicity

2.) Sell coins for USD

3.) Hope the SEC doesn't mind

4.) Sell stock (via a secondary offering) for USD

5.) Give USD to executives

6.) Build a cheap MVP to pay photographers or whatever

7.) Give more USD to executives

8.) "We're shutting down photopay because we couldn't get
traction. Your coins still exist. Let's pretend they aren't worthless."

9.) Give still more USD to executives to pursue machine
learning for squirrels
It's one thing to track me on facebook.com where I signed up, another to track me on blogs, newspapers and everywhere else.
Also these updates drain the battery all the time and there is no way to tell them to please stop.

At least on Android you can install "greenify app" but for that to work properly, you need to have root and for that you have to unlock the bootloader (for which you have to wait 14 days and also void your warranty). I mean wtf, it's my phone but the design is such that a shit ton of crap always needs to run in the background (looking at you google play services) and dozens of useless apps that are always connecting just to show me more push notifications.
You‘re right, just watched the factory scenes! Very big screens.
I don't think he did. It doesn't matter whether you believe Hitler was right or that Dipsy is the best teletubby, I believe everyone is entitled to their behaviour and beliefs during their time off work without any professional consequences to it. If there are legal consequences from something like harassement, then report to the correct authorities.

No offence but it's it's people like you that make me glad I live in a country where employers are harshly punished for taking any actions against you based on your non-work related activities.
One of my favorite personal projects was to do this with an ADS-B receiver, Raspberry Pi, Android App, and a laser projector to show overhead flights on my ceiling:

https://twitter.com/gmurphy/status/891863458005655553

It made practicing forgiveness for loud airplane noises much easier :)
I hear you - I've often wanted a feature to reject apartments/hotels without an outdoor pool (don't like indoor pools).

The trouble is building a database is going to be a huge project and "view" is a little subjective. Wouldn't you have to basically replicate AirBnB's database but with a better interface? You would probably end up doing something like web crawling TripAdvisor or something like that (which is against their policies by the way).

Or is the plan to allow people to build their own personal lists from Booking.com, TripAdvisor, AirBnB etc.? - if the latter I think that is a good idea, but ultimately you've still got to find those apartments so you run into the original problem again.

p.s. writing this from 32 floor apartment with a spectacular view out over Manila. Not top floor but I've heard nothing at all from above me! (Booked via AirBnB)
Is it not in the name of carrying capacity?
You shouldn't be storing anything without first obtaining consent. Why are you using analytics indiscriminately?

The GDPR does actually have exceptions for cases where local law requires you to store data.

Any jurisdiction can already enforce their laws upon you if you affect their citizens. There's nothing new here.
IPFS does sound like it might be close to what you are looking for, just based off my little experience playing with it. I want to try to leverage a private deployment for dataset sharing for analytics, etc.
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The problem is that, basically, no one agrees on what should be tolerable in polite society and what shouldn't be. And, in GPs case, it isn't 'society' taking action on someone, it is an individual.

Is drawing a cartoon of Muhommad deserving of being fired on the spot?
I've uninstalled around 10 free to play games and apps that Windows 10 installed without asking in the past 6 months, so I'm not sure those slashdot people should be using windows as a good example of having control either despite that 30 years of backward compatibility. :)
Basically you want S3, which has BitTorrent BTW. S3 has multiple widely used command line tools that support syncing (cloning, pushing). There are multiple heavily used S3-like systems, open and closed source, some are S3 API compatible. Examples include Ceph and OpenStack Swift.

The reason people use cloud services instead of running these themselves is because the cloud storage fee is usually less than paying someone to run a distributed system.
A few random thoughts:

IPFS sounds a lot like what you want. Tahoe LAFS plays in this space a bit

The newer distributed file systems I've seen don't like permissions. They like cryptographically-backed capabilities. You have the permission to read the file because you have the ability to decrypt, through the key. (Of course, key management is easy </sarc>).

Some user-facing distributed filesystem talks drift into FUSE (or similar) territory. A TahoeLAFS dev talks about how users probably don't actually know what they want: https://plus.google.com/108313527900507320366/posts/ZrgdgLhV... (QUIBBLES: REAL FILESYSTEM VS. STORAGE APP section). This is probably less relevant for a package manager.

The first time I read about BitTorrent based deployment was from Facebook.
“Power laws” are the golden ratio of network science.
Can you elaborate what you would expect from such a system ?

As someone not having much familiarity with CLIM or common lisp, I seem to be lacking the perspective to appreciate the relevance of this technology in 2018.

Things like support for truetype rendering, bezier curves, tab layout etc. are not exactly cutting edge advancements.
> not sure how mature it is

I've been following the project for a while and the answer, unfortunately, is "not very". It does actually work as a sink (WiFi P2P discovery included) and there's a WIP branch with source support (eg for sending your screen to another device).

IIRC it still requires exclusive control over your WiFi card so it doesn't play nice with NetworkManager or similar, and it's just all around just not really ready for casual use. The main dev has been great though and the core functionality is shaping up nicely.
Giving things away at <cost is good for growth and not much else.
> MobX strives to implement transparent reactive programming, where the way you access, update and transform values works exactly like it would with regular objects. S.js has a worse learning curve.

Hardly: reactive values are get/set functions, and you create new ones with S(() => ...). That's it.

MobX's attempt at transparency yields inescapable and surprising corner cases.

> Redundant computations are computed; [...] even though the completed() computed isn't used anywhere, the reduction is still being recomputed every time todo state changes

Incorrect. The todos binding is an SArray not a regular array [1]. See my modified version where I log the events to the console [2].

[1] https://github.com/adamhaile/S-array

[2] https://codepen.io/anon/pen/KQyOyZ
Thanks to SU. People now know what a hype factory looks like.
Just being honest - no.

There exists too many free forums on the internet, and moreso even subreddits, to make such a thing worth paying for.
I don't remember the details, but it probably didn't become misconfigured, it would always have been misconfigured, just one particular combination of factors that hadn't been seen before suddenly got caught. I remember at one point that an org I did email for couldn't receive email from a particular other organisation. Turned out that I had configured our MTA to accept TLS, and theirs presented an invalid cert, so the connection was rejected. This wasn't the situation I referred to, because this caused email to bounce hard, so people just routed around (yay for having people have professional contacts send to their hotmail instead).

Or whatever. I remember the feeling, not the mistake that caused it.
This article stumbles right out of the gate. "Atari SA -- perhaps best known for 1980s video-games 'Pac-Man' and 'Space Invaders' -- is now jumping on the cryptocurrency bandwagon." Those games were created Namco and Taito, respectively. They were household titles well before Atari ported them to the 2600.
Not sure why you're being down voted. You're absolutely right. The current state of affairs in China should have everyone in a panic. I fully believe that they are leading the way into the future tech-wise, and that before long, all major metropolises will be fully automated with real-time systems that track faces, vehicles, purchases, movements, vacations, etc and then cross-reference all of that data with online activity.

In China right now it's being touted as making everything in life seamless.

To me it's the most terrifying form of the future.
I would argue content management systems for static website generators like cloudcannon.com could be better.

We already have jekyll and hugo
For me, "code as data" means that the code I write provides a particular structure (whether to create a report, or go through an editing task or find particular information in the computer). I then use a table-driven "data" approach to finding the particulars that are significant for this particular class of information. That might mean that I have the unique code stored in a table which I lookup using a relevant key, hence "table-driven code", or I have "setup code", "one iteration", and "teardown code" accessible through an indirect call because the structure of the code to do the task can stay the same. It is also common to have a general "event" fire at the end of the code to inform any other programs that need to know this data structure or real-world event has been accounted for. I think this approach is amentable to better testing, and can be viewed as a higher-level abstraction similar to LISP macros. (Even though my language of choice - MUMPS) doesn't have LISP-style syntactic macros.
If you understood what MyHDL is doing, you'd know that doesn't matter.

Furthermore, most Python implementations are built using C, including the canonical one (CPython). It is possible to have performant Python implementations without using C, if that's what you're getting at.
I can certainly imagine the dashboard becoming real estate for ads.
So we have only unacceptable lisps. That doesn't really have any bearing on the fact that Emacs Lisp is a bad unacceptable lisp to use as an example if you want to talk about the potential of the Lisp family of languages.
The female identity has been harassed while the male identity was treated with respect. I don't see how anonymity has anything to do with it, the visitors were equally anonymous in both cases.
The dodo, the mammoth, and many more large mammals were sacrificed in the name of hunting. Better to be a horse!
...we don't?

Ah, you must live in one of those... whaddyacallem... cities.~

Roadkill is very often eaten by something, though if a human wants to do it, they have to pick it up before the county gets to it. After that, it's literally off the table. The exact method of disposal depends on jurisdiction, but some places have a sanctuary or research facility for carnivorous species nearby.

A random dead deer in NW Indiana, for instance, might get picked up by Wolf Park research facility, stored in their freezer, and fed to the main pack (still frozen).

Dead horses were picked up by knackers and turned into dodgy sausages all the time. This was just one of the unsafe food practices that led to the establishment of the FDA and public health inspectors.
For anyone else who's wondering: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preimplantation_genetic_diagno...
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Yeah, that seems rather unlikely. Do you have some references for that claim?
By "inventory nightmare" you mean "theft", right? Because that's the real problem. There are already self-serve lines in many stores, but they still have to watch people to try to prevent theft. And it turns out people are really, really slow if they aren't trained as a cashier.

Sure, the cellphone eliminates the slowdown, but it also eliminates the primary way they currently prevent theft.

Amazon is working on a store that works a lot like you said, with your cellphone, but doesn't rely on the customer doing anything other than logging in. After that, tons of cameras take care of the rest.
Hopefully the need for c/c++ will fade, and one will be able to use python and rust.

https://blog.sentry.io/2016/10/19/fixing-python-performance-...

https://github.com/getsentry/milksnake/blob/master/README.md

https://gist.github.com/seanjensengrey/f5d73bbdf22cfa1ad463
I haven't found a good authorization service (fine grain roles, acls, etc). I always find myself having build it for every new project/company.
So are machine instructions. It wouldn't be any harder to build a dynamic language runtime on web assembly than for regular assembly.
> Google analytics should not be allowed without me getting a prompt to allow it or not

One way to go about it could be to force all these data collectors to show what they know about us, how much they shared and with whom, and allow us to delete that data on request. I'd really like to know everything FB tracks on those like buttons, it's probably an obscene amount of personal data.

Once people see how much data they retain, there would be a righteous outrage. These datasets have been provably used to manipulate elections, subvert democracy and target us with fake news. I'd like a report of what fake news and politically motivated ads I've been served by their recommenders. Maybe if they are forced to come out in the clear about what they do with our personal info, they would change their tactics. We need reverse surveillance on FB and the other tech giants and ad companies.
How are Lyft's financials? Are they losing money just as fast or what? If they aren't, seems like the answer is that yes, Uber can deliver.
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That looks like exactly what I'm talking about: https://github.com/apache/incubator-openwhisk/blob/master/do...

The space is still early enough that there is a lot of value in competing options
A classic from Lior Pachter (not mentioned in the article) from 2014: https://liorpachter.wordpress.com/2014/02/10/the-network-non...
Plus it uses your data, which for some people costs money.
While that should be taught, it should also be taught to companies that they should respect people's right to privacy.
My android phone was configured out-of-the-box to only run autoupdates when plugged in and on wifi. It's easy to see because if I haven't plugged my phone in for a few days, as soon as I do it starts updating like crazy.
It’s an absolute game changer!!!
I don't think anyone has solved the issues raised in Out of the Tar Pit in the data storage space. We still spend a ton of effort, perhaps more than ever before, wrangling incidental complexity. In 2018, I should be able to define a simple relational schema in 30 seconds and start using it with effectively zero constraints around data access patterns, transaction volume, and data scale, and with no design decisions needing to be made around these bits of incidental complexity. There should be one gigantic knob I can turn to spend more money to increase more resource consumption of the system, and it should be damned cheap.

We are so far from that reality that it seems obvious there is still a ton of work to do. You can see bits and pieces of solutions but if your product asks me to define indexes, tune queries, determine sharding keys, write against computer-centric (vs human-centric) APIs, cannot deal with change easily, requires babysitting, or falls over after hitting some incidental tipping point relative to the resources available to a single machine, you've not hit it.

I have not used Google Spanner but at 30k/ft it seems like the closest thing out there to the idealized case -- but being closed source and centralized it is not really a "solved problem" imho.
> Only for as long as nobody really cares.

In case of angry trolls, that's usually quite a long time.
I think it is mindnumbing that your (very reasonable) questioning of the validity of such a strong and all-encompassing statement is being dismissed, downvoted.

To some extent, I would take it with a grain of salt. Anonymous internet accounts can be fabricated and controlled by groups or individuals. This is also something that should be taught, actively.

Do not let apparent social pressure have you concede rationality, truth.
Probably not great, but what if the model of both businesses just isn't actually viable without massive injections of funds?
(4) can already be done with MKV... technically. You actually end up with 4 alternate video streams in the same MKV, which you remux for clients that can't handle it.
Asimov also wrote the satire "The Holmes-Ginsbook Device" [1] about reading on screens in the future. I give that short story to all my friends that buy a kindle.

[1]. http://sfwritersworkshop.org/node/1232
I've owned Starbound for at least a year now, and only just started playing last week. Hell of a learning curve, but definitely worth checking out if you liked Terraria.
I would definitely not pay for this. But there are a lot of interesting cool people out in the world that would be nice to meet for intellectual discussion. Finding them is the challenge.

Maybe an idea that will suggest meetup groups based on some personal scoring method.

I know the meetup site now spams the hell out of me with new meetups that I have absolutely no interest in.
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Given the current state of computers and surveillance, It would seem that we dont know anything about the simplicity required to pull off mass heists in the age prior to computers-in-their-current-form....

It would seem that it was REALLY easy to rob banks in the past.

I wonder what Dillenger's actual networth would have been...
>Static Website generators for non-blogs

We use Jekyll for more than one site which is not a blog, works great for us so far. What features do you think are missing that you wish it had?
It took me a while to find, examples of user interfaces made with CLIM can be found by scrolling down on this page: https://common-lisp.net/project/mcclim/excite.html
Legally, there is a difference between layoff and fire. Depends on the state, but employers of a certain size have to give warning that a layoff is coming. The article says they were given notice their positions were going away; that is probably legally enough. Even firing requires documented poor behavior.
If your company is not succeeding doing what it is currently doing, why not try something trendy? That is basically what is going on for most of these.
So that a root compromise in one service does not escalate to the entire server.

As a concrete example: my personal mail server (on a modern operating system) has its SMTP handling in a separate process from mailbox serving. If the SMTP process is compromised, and the attacker reaches uid=0, it doesn't matter -- no data from the mailboxes can be exfiltrated.

Only SMTP is broken, because mandatory access control prevents the SMTP "root" from doing anything the SMTP daemon would not ordinarily be permitted to do. The SMTP daemon is not empowered to read mailboxes, even if its uid is 0.
Well, the idea is that they kill off every competing service and then can raise prices. Also that they can beat everyone else to self-driving cars and eliminate the cost of labor. Other articles on NC have called the feasibility of both of those into question.
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Besides being lazy, it's also a fallacy of it's own to dismiss an argument just because it contains a fallacy.
the answer to privacy violations cannot just be technological solutions on the consumer end. It's like having people break into your house every week and someone tells you to buy a good pair of boxing gloves.

This warrants a political solution and I'm glad that the EU is moving into the right direction.
Yep that was FR24, I applied there and got accepted but then moved away and had to cancel that. I'm not sure if they are still doing it.
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Isn't "conscious capitalism" what's being sold to us since the 70's, through the "new spirit of capitalism" ?

Anyways props to ur comment hah
I'm a big believer in logging, and I find it hard to believe that collecting and monitoring logs needs to have a server with 32GB of RAM and massive Java and ElasticSearch back-ends like ELK, Splunk, Graylog, or similar monitoring software.

I've been searching for something self-hosted that can run in my server's spare capacity and monitor the OS and application logs with a simple searching interface (just a web interface to grep would be handy) and come up short. If I can't host it on the cheapest DO plan, it's out of my budget. I really don't want to have to build it myself but I'm just about at that point.
Just like you use software by license and don't "own" it, hardware makers have realized they can bilk with the same business model. It's no coincidence that slime software companies are the ones making the current hardwares that have such "features" -- Apple and Google chiefly among them, along with the ecosystem they created in their own image.
hypnotism?
Fine, so instead of Craigslist Guy, let's use Home Depot, where I shop often. Just shopping there does not imply my consent to them tracking where else I go and shop throughout my day. Merely having an account somewhere or regularly doing business somewhere should not imply consent to tracking and data collection, to which I must opt out.

ADD: I probably have 100+ accounts at various sites online. Do these guys all get free passes to collect data and track me because I happen to have created an account there?
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Except the baseband is still a binary blob, rendering your phone just as closed and unsafe as it was before.
I wish journalists would publish headlines like this and Kodak's recent adventure as "The company that currently has the rights to the name [Whatever Past Beloved Consumer Brand] is [Doing Whatever]"

It would be a lot clearer.
Given the sheer number of services on AWS, I would like an expert system that would query me for requirements and then suggest a set of possible services to use together to solve my problem.
There have been sites that check an IP against the vast majority of blacklists for well over a decade, and they've been free as well.

https://encrypted.google.com/search?hl=en&q=how%20to%20check...
> But why should in 2018 be so hard for one to be able to simply pay once for hardware or software, that puts the user first? Is it impossible for such a company to succeed at scale?

Apple seems to follow that plan. For your "email/chat/spreadsheets/storage", they have iCloud mail, iMessage, Numbers and iCloud Drive. You pay once, and get software support quite a lot of years later. They don't seem to be selling or gathering much data. They won't show you ads.

Now, it won't be RMS approved, but that's another debate.
Well, it would be pretty astounding if genes (edit: genes by themselves) were a strong predictor of height.

We've seen average height go up tremendously in places like Japan based on improved nutrition.
The bit that wasn't initially obvious to me is that these are all literally just investment rounds. They're just raising money and the "coin" is in many ways similar to a share.

Except what they plan to do with that money is often very unclear, there's often very little in the way of any kind of guarantee or accountability and you'd be correct if you assumed they probably don't even have a business plan!

If you're lucky you might be able to do some kind of blockchain related stuff to enforce voting, if they allow you to do such. Or you might be able to trade those tokens to someone else. Maybe.