skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My assertion is still that this is a great nerd snipe.

There are two aspects here. First, metaphorical tools are stretching the usefulness of the term tool to an extent. We already have a term for that, knowledge. It serves a different purpose than tooling. Specifically, tools act as great methods to let someone without the knowledge benefit from it.

So, the standard library of most languages helps give tools to developers such that they don't have to know the details of the data structures. Just as paints let a painter not have to know the details of the pigments or other components of their supplies.

Then there is the aspect that the knowledge doesn't necessarily translate to results. It is easy to see how many critics are far more knowledgeable of their fields than many of the practitioners. Yet, your average practitioner is probably accomplishing more than your average critic.

I want to stress again, though, that it is not that tooling is unimportant. It is just an easy nerd snipe and is an easy way to divert from your actual task at hand and get very little accomplished.
Comparing US to UK raw salaries introduces a lot of other variables. State employees in the US have traditionally accepted lower salaries than other similarly skilled workers in the US in exchange for benefits.
Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Reddit, and Google.
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however the idea that government workers accepted lower pay is wrong in most cases and a simple tactic where if repeated enough people start to believe it.

let alone far too many of the pension systems allow workers to game the system and end up with more in retirement than in service. there are many systems where the last three years pay can be used as the basis for the pension and stacking overtime and hoarding vacation are common place means of spiking the returns.

that is the abuse that bankrupts systems. the lower end government worker gets the shaft while the higher up politicians and police and fire rake in 100k retirements.
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Suppose I develop a website that uses basic authentication. Because this is 2018, I store my user's passwords using bcrypt/scrypt/PBKDF2/et al.

Every single request supplies the claimed password in the clear (wrapped in HTTPS) so I would need to run the long hashing process for every single request.

I could maybe cache those clear-passwords that I know are good in memory, but that's getting dangerously close to storing user's passwords in the clear.

Is there a good practice for using basic authentication without over burdening the server's CPU?
The issue is the false positive/false negative rate and a lack of data in general. Without any measure of how 'good' the info gained via social media is, the data is essentially useless. For large companies like Walmart, they can garner this data and see if it correlates at all. Google used to use GPA in their hiring decisions, but dropped it as it did not correlate to how good an employee is.

For example: drug use. Many people use drugs, but what is the difference between them? Is one type of drug a 'good' drug, like caffeine or nicotine? Burning Man attendees may be good employees and may micro-dose with LSD while at work. Does this make them a good hire? Again, the issue is that there just isn't enough data to properly correlate.
This is running on an Ocean type cartridge as a storage, which is considered stock Hardware in the demo community, as stated in the article.
If no additional device can be "accepted", then all of the demos mentioned in this thread should be disqualified too, because they use a disk drive.:-)
In general, the technology showcased in this demo of course would work also playing the song from RAM, it would just be a bit too short :-)
Agreed. Most activities in big companies are not even remotely related to the core technology or idea that brought the company into existence. As company grows, training departments grow to train new clients, technical writing teams grow to write documentation in different languages, technical teams grow to support the many different operating systems and markets, HR department grow to support the many people now working at the company and soon the effort required to coordinate all these people is more than the effort put into the original product. Some founders adapt to the changing needs of the company some don't like all the admin.
> But doing this after May 25 would mean I definitely want it gone for good and if they don't fully delete what I manually remove, I expect them to get themselves into trouble.

You're technically right here, but it seems at present that most companies won't be complying with this for quite some time (perhaps an opportunity for some litigations?)

Backups appear to be the "black hole" in GDPR, as nobody spent the 2 years actually planning and preparing. Therefore, most people I've spoken to are planning to simply add a "gdpr_deleted" flag to each row in the database, and set it to true when it happens. They don't return those rows in queries. The inter-dependent nature of many databases (you shared a post with 10 users, you delete your account now, FB wants to retain the view records), coupled with nobody taking GDPR seriously until the last minute, means we'll likely see "soft deletes" for quite some time.

It would be interesting though to make a GDPR request to companies for data held specifically on backups, and held in databases records that would normally not be shown (i.e. these hidden records), as that could get them in trouble if you could prove they lied!
I think the old prius used lead-acid batteries, IE conventional automotive batteries. This significantly reduced the risk of fire, though I don't think that was the main reason for choosing them
> So what's the furor about?

Probably about the absurdity of being hit with potentially astronomical penalties for "copying" 9 lines of trivial code that's barely worth hitting ctrl-c for.

Obviously, common sense is - as always - distant from the pedantic nature of law and laywers, but just about anyone sane is gonna look at this and go "well that's just stupid".
Judging a codec by any one single frame isn't really good enough.

The samples _and_ performance metrics used have to be quite varied.
MeWe, Reddit, G+
Previous HN thread - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16661323
Except the whole point of the article is that even if the State had put in the money it was supposed to, that wouldn't have kept up with the promises.

And also, you're whitewashing the role of public employees. Those "corrupt politicians" are Democrats who keep getting elected with the support of teachers', police, etc., unions. Chicago's pension holidays, for example, resulted in that money going to CPS directly, to support higher salaries and the "pension pickup" (where the school district covered most of teachers' required pension contributions).
Oh, the irony of the docker blog timing out...
>Yes, but a scam is knowingly screwing someone over.

Oh, most of those people do know -- or should know better.

>Is it a scam when you invest in promising technology that, yes, could not work out?

In "technology that might not work out" alone, no.

In "BS application of technology just because it's in fashion, with no business content" yes.
The author Solomon Hykes, user shykes, announced DotCloud's Docker was going opensource here on HN almost exactly 5 years ago on March 26th, 2013.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5445387

Aside for the near coincidence, I find reading historical first release posts very enlightening!

I'd be happy if any of you would share first-reaction posts and chatter and more on Solomon's marketing-first approach on making Docker a tremendously successful opensource project.
I don't know how your work environment is, but maybe you can organize something like a monthly Hackathon with your team to work freely on projects (related or not to the company based on how management takes it) during work hours.
Or it's completely unrelated.
I hold every manufacturer who promises that their vehicles have all of the hardware to make a fully autonomous cross-country trip to the same standard.

http://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-autonomous-tesla-dr...
Which one is more? Homeless people or empty houses? I do not want to turn this into a sociological debate, but the color names include political jokes.
The optimal route will often change during my commute. Your commute may be significantly shorter than mine.
Trulia's First Open-Source Serverless Project
Hi there,

Today, Trulia's platform team announced its first open-source serverless project - cidr-house-rules (https://github.com/trulia/cidr-house-rules) - to help teams dynamically update infrastructure code even with cross-account communication.

Cidr-house-rules is a DevOps tool that centralizes info across multiple AWS accounts, allowing faster development and release processes through the use of Terraform modules.

Take a read of the blog post (https://www.trulia.com/blog/tech/trulia-open-source/) and let me know if you'd like to share with your audience on Serverless Status, or hear more from Trulia about why they built this project.

Best,
Kari
+1 for open source then. Thanks for the explanation.
Tumblr - still the most reliable place to find portfolio art blogs that update every now and then without the opinion fluff. While I do have an art-only blog, I use it mostly for my (separate) personal blog for genuine essays & scrapbooking of interesting links across the internet. May eventually migrate to dreamwidth, though I'm going to miss being able to reblog other folks artwork.

Twitter - self promotion via posting art and chatting with industry folks, but no real feed-reading.

Mastodon - a clone of twitter, see above.

Inoreader - RSS feed reader for all the actual consuming once every ~2 weeks.

Overall - almost non-existent consuming other than the personal blog ... what can I say, I like it nice and quiet. :)
Nothing is deleted, it's only a boolean in a table.
Oh I'm not pointing at container technology. I'm talking web backend technology in general. I mean this is 2018. No well known company's blog on AWS should ever go down at all, unless the AWS service in the region is down. The fact that it's down is not a Docker failure or a Wordpress failure or a Database failure, as there are widely known methods to scale all these things. The problem is that putting the puzzle together is just complicated enough that it's easy to get wrong. If even Docker's blog can't scale, we have bigger issues as an industry.
The problem with Social Media (and a few other platforms aswell) is that they were explicitly designed with addiction in mind. There's even literally a book about this subject called "Hooked" with subtitle "How to create habit forming products", but you can and should translate the "habit forming" in the subtitle into "addictive".

Everybody has neurotransmitters in their body, and these neurotransmitters have the ability to change brain chemistry. One of those neurotransmitters is dopamine, which makes you feel good when you have accomplished something. Basically it's natural crack. So what do these platforms do? They abuse the knowledge of this kind of biology within the experience design of their platforms to create something I call "dopamine loops", which basically means you crave more, and more, and more dopamine (and thus keep interacting with the service). And before you know it the last few hours you should have spent on work or other important things like keeping an eye on the traffic around you or having actual real life social interactions with the people around you, are rather spent on Reddit, Facebook, Twitter and whatnot.

So it would rephrase the headline a bit. Not only your career may depend on it, but your entire life may actually depend on it.
Bricks are expensive these days, and laying them is an artisan art and skill.

Where I live in California houses are currently erected in days out of cheap wood and cladding. As soon as it is feasible this process will be automated and ways found to construct them more quickly using the cheapest materials.

We recently had some terrible fires where entire subdivisions burnt. Dozens of houses burnt simultaneously yet the trees and cars didn't catch fire. This was due to embers landing on roofs and getting into attics - the houses went up like paper bags.

Making sure the next generation of cheap building materials are fire retardant and robust is a worry given the rush for maximum profit for minimum investment and wealth sharing automation brings.
@sykh: But a child of Panamanian citizens born in Gorgas Hospital was not be entitled to U.S. citizenship.And let's not forget that a child of a U.S. citizen father is treated differently from a child of a U.S. citizen mother. The Canal Zone was always half-in, half-out.
This idea of forbidding middlebox from messing up things sounds great. I have an honest question here though.

What stops a middle box from terminating all QUIC connections (and therefore get access to decrypted content)?
Website is 502'ing, here is a the WaybackMachine-Version: https://web.archive.org/web/20180328164640/https://blog.dock...
That's still 2D space. A car simply can't move along the z axis, so the fact that the road itself moves in 3 dimensions is irrelevant.

Even navigational paths that consider all of the junctions, ramps, etc. are simply reduced to a weighted graph with no notion of any dimensions beyond forward and backwards.
if the article had done minimal research, they would have included taboola, which is the affiliate scam of news publishers. the fact that they didn't hint that this thread assumptions are correct, and you are being slightly naive
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> Probably about the absurdity of being hit with potentially astronomical penalties for "copying" 9 lines of trivial code that's barely worth hitting ctrl-c for.

IIRC, the literal copying of code was something for which the parties stipulated to $0 in damages; the potential liability is about copying the API, not the one trivial 9-line function.
Hi I created this small project because I thought it would be useful for myself and others. Posting to HN has always been helpful to me, so please let me know if you have any feedback. Thank you
That's a very good point!
And also one to keep in mind for a possible additional demo. Use only hardware from the 80s also for the encoding!
Use an ad blocker and they will rarely show up. When I stop, Waze shows me what people reported on the road ahead. "Car stopped in 3 miles."
Hypervelocity ballistic weapons have been researched in the real world, and found wanting. It turns out that mass and volume matter more than speed in terms of the damage inflicted. A projectile that is too fast and small may simply pass all the way through the target, retaining most of its energy, while a wider but slower projectile will impact the target and pass more/all of its energy into the target, causing significantly more damage (i.e., like hollow-point bullets).

So really, it's not that nobody had the idea to build hyperdrive torpedoes. It's that they knew they would be fairly useless, and nobody would expect your enemy to kamikaze their sole remaining flagship into yours at hyperdrive speeds when they could accomplish far more damage to the target by simply crashing into it at normal speeds, as has happened nearly a dozen times in the SW movies. Holdo's act wasn't an act of strategy; it was an act of desperation, and worked far better than she expected it to.
The ABC article seems a bit more informative: http://abcnews.go.com/US/teen-builds-baseball-throwing-prost...

This kid designed CAD models and printed two entirely different prosthetic arms: one to use a Switch controller one-handed (with the remaining good arm, obviously) and one for throwing a baseball. They clearly both serve their purpose pretty well. He's enabled at least two use cases that his dad was unable to do with his existing commercial prosthetic arm, so I'd say it's more than a 'cute story'.

Looks like they used an i3 Duplicator Plus which is a $350 machine. I have a near-identical model myself (non-plus version) and the prints are fine, though it can take a lot of fiddling/calibration to get there.
Doesn't matter if there is a "legal obligation" or not, if the state does not have money to pay then the money will not be paid.
Is that a reference to Beckhoff?
What will our society look like when AI is everywhere? Five scenarios
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Conveyor belt doesn't help, as you would still need an arm to take bricks from the pallet and place them on conveyor.
Fair enough. I took "this technology" to be a reference to Docker given the context.
At this point all I want to know is the companies who won't lie to you when given a national security letter.
I did the opposite -- I chose a sacrificial nail, and that one took the brunt. Once my other nails had recovered and I saw the difference, the habit basically disappeared on its own.

That nail has never completely recovered; it still looks stubby compared to the others even though I no longer bite it.
I'm not even sure about that. This is all anecdotal, but, the going rate for public jobs in my city is still quite low, and this does seem to have an impact on the quality of candidates they receive.

Since they can't attract candidates as effectively (frankly, that nice pension plan isn't nearly enough to make up for the crummy salary relative to what I can earn elsewhere), they aren't getting as many opportunities to hire really ambitious people. This has repercussions that play out in all sorts of ways, but, being a tech guy, the one I am most aware of is that acquaintances complain that the city often relies overmuch on low-tech and highly manual procedures for accomplishing basic tasks, because nobody is really motivated to streamline them. That results in lower per-employee productivity, which, in turn, increases the headcount requirements. Which, I'm guessing, increases overall labor costs relative to what they could be otherwise.

So it's not that the state's salary and pension costs are high because employees are well-compensated, it's actually something of the opposite.
Everything a VR studio had to do to port to the Mac
Instagram, Twitter, Medium, YouTube.
Public sector retirees are not the only people who voted for these politicians.
What's the best way to master a programming language?
For example, I have interest on C#. I noticed when I use framework like ASP.NET, it automates a lot of task for me. I don't want that. So I wanna completely focused on mastering the language and moved on to a framework. Is it the right thing to do? And if yes, how can master a language?
The Chinese word shi3 has a different tone than し, which in Mandarin would be shi1 or shi4. Chinese speakers are not going to confuse every use of し with shi3.
Maybe he originally set up the blog using his work login and HR auto-deleted his credentials or account. Sounds like something that would happen around here...
Not true. Public sector salaries in places like Illinois are vastly higher than in other countries. Compare Illinois teacher and police salaries to the U.K. for an eye-opening surprise.
GDPR would make that mandatory, so they're in big trouble if they dont have a way to delete your account or data.
In my ignorance I thought birth in any us territories conferred citizenship.
TRAPPIST-1's planets are likely 15-50% water by mass – Earth is only 0.02%
With almost everyone in a SUV potholes become a feature...
Share the load
As a founder, of course, I have mixed emotions. When you create a company, your job is to make sure it can one day succeed without you. Then eventually that one day comes and the celebration can be bittersweet.

I've seen this before firsthand and it always looks painful. It's easy to look at something from afar and think, "why not just let it go?" But seeing the pain of letting go time and time again makes it seem far more difficult....
+1. I personally think this near-constant bashing of social media is getting ridiculous. These past two weeks have been all-in, article after article, non-stop.

Is social media bad? You can definitely have a non-healthy relationship with it. But it didn't "break politics" [1] or "elect Trump" [2]. It was mostly just another vector for advertising.

We've known of the privacy issues with Facebook for a while and the whole Cambridge Analytica thing had been in the news before this spree of bad press. We've known Twitter, Instagram and Snapchat are distracting for years.

I'm starting to wonder if what's going on here is some sort of war/defence by established media against big tech/social media. We know Murdoch was straight about going to war against Facebook [3] (apparently they lobbied heavily against Google in Europe before too). It wouldn't surprise me if other big-media magnates are in on this too. After all, didn't Facebook cut a bunch of newsfeed traffic to news sites in January?

Big media has always been an incredibly lucrative, power-wielding business, because it largely controls the public's opinion. I almost feel like it was bound to happen; big media was bound to claim it's the bastion of truth and scare people out of social media.

Now, of course, things aren't black and white. I'm not saying one is good and the other is bad, but that's precisely my point. I see traditional media focusing very heavily this past two weeks on painting social media as bad. Trumps election and the whole "fake news" accusations apparently was amazing for their business [4]. The NYT crossed $1billion in revenue in 2017, with strong growth [5]. Asking people nicely won't get you subscribers, when people are scared because "democracy is at stake" then they pour in.

I don't know. Uber literally just killed a woman with a self-driving car: I would've assumed the repercussions of that would be huge and everyone would be talking about the legal aspects of self-driving tech, the future of testing, security, safety, and investigation, etc. But I have seen more articles about Facebook and social media in general in a day than I saw about Uber all of last week.

[1]: https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/4/12/15259438/s...

[2]: https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/20/17138854/cambridge-analyt...

[3]: https://www.cnbc.com/2018/02/12/facebook-rupert-murdoch-thre...

[4]: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/02/06/is...

[5]: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/08/business/new-york-times-c...
In social media you're unknowingly disclosing/sharing intimate details of your life;
https://hubski.com thoughtful conversations
This makes sense from container to container communication. Does this help with database instances or is it typical to leave database calls as an external source to the orchestration?
Likewise, I can try to sue you for the trillion dollars you promised me but again, it doesn't exist and I'll never get it. You can declare bankruptcy and I can try to ask the court for some restitution in an amount the court believes you can support. The court will not, however, force you to be my slave and give me all your earnings from labor. Life ain't fair. Those promised the pensions got screwed. It sucks, I'm sorry... life isn't fair.