skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting... I was watching a bunch of Cloud Foundry talks on YouTube around the 2010-2012 era (my memory is hazy).

What happened to it? Why did VMWare abandon it? As far as I remember it was written in Ruby / Event Machine. As I understand it, Heroku also has large parts in Ruby, so that isn't a problem by itself.

How did Pivotal get involved? Were they hired by VMWare, and then they took it over?

Why / how did they rewrite it?

I had some ex co-workers who consulted for Pivotal around 2005-2006, and I have seen their name pop up from time to time. Pivotal tracker seems somewhat popular, and then I remember their name popping up again around Cloud Foundry.

It's nice to see that they turned it into something. It does seem like a nice success story for "open source cloud". This was around the same time that OpenStack was getting going too, but it seems like the success of OpenStack has been more mixed.
Iron supplements are probably a better way to fight that, I'd think. Those are also readily available in affluent societies.
200k makes you an investor? LOL
So... Mastodon?
Closures are logical abstractions and cost nothing, since they are logical. Naive runtime implementations of closures can of course be a bit slower than native functions, but so can be everything.
I did the same as you and i'm not regretting it.

If I want to see what someone is doing i can always go to their page.
If you're making a post on Hacker News
I'm annoyed that origin spoofing (i.e., falsified caller ID) is not blocked by the telecoms. It seems like it would be easy enough to do if mandated by Congress. And for incoming calls from foreign networks, at the least they could identify it as a non-US number.
The approach is usually a federated system using an open-source platform. Less people using these services, however, in general the content quality is way higher and less political.

Current For-Users-By-Users platforms I use are:

GNU Social, D*, peertube ( in alpha stages ... )
> So that means that if you declare the function as returning `struct { int x0; char x1; }` directly, it's actually mostly unusable because it's impossible to actually declare a variable with the same type as the return type.

Are you sure about that? I remember playing with this last year and structural equality seemed to work when returning structures from functions. I was using clang, so it could conceivably have been an extension... (edit: some online C compilers do indeed return an error in this case)

If that's the case, then just make anonymous structs employ structural type equality and you have better tuples.
I hadn't thought about tripods, since they are (largely?) absent in nature. Do you have examples of what a tripod walking or running stride would look like?
This sort of letter is now and then sent to swedish public offices asking for information. One recent one was asking for all information recorded the last year, sent in to the whole countrys public offices or whatever to call them. And here you don't get a full month to respond to those questions. The law says basicly "Drop everything and answer it now while the person stands outside your office waiting".

You can also do this to any company about your own information since many years. In school the teachers often did it as homework for the pupils to select some private company and write to them asking for all information they have. This has been tuned down because of the load it put on private companies now though.

Feels good that we have most stuff down already so not much changes.
As If: On Kwame Anthony Appiah
Isis also had a lot of non-sympathetic (of them) people filming them; do you want those in jail as well? According to you those journalist are "helping" the criminals; so in your world view journalist should just not cover anything at all to avoid any possible liabilities, yeah no; the rational thing is to err on the other side.
Can you name an example of a child video game prodigy who made millions making a game by themselves?

I knew that it was much easier to make a fully formed game as an individual developer back then obviously, but I've never heard of anyone who profited from it like that. I thought independent developers were much better off today with the ability to make a game like "Flappy Bird" and have it distributed and advertised for you by companies like Apple.
Little Bobbie Brown observes a 'rat' try out his brand new cement shoes. One of the boss' hired help sees Bobbie in the bushes, and, in accordance with the boss' desire for no witnesses, moves to kill Bobbie
Err that's not how it works in M&P (managerial and professional ) unions.

SAG members don't all get paid the same ie Matt Damon doesn't get the same as say some lucky actor whos landed a lead role in pilot season.

And don't take this wrong you may think you are special but your employer doesn't
A few years ago my account got disabled. When I tried to sign in it'd show a message pointing me to their Help Center if I wanted more info about why my account was banned.

After a few months passed, I tried to sign in again and it just didn't recognize my email address.

I'd assume they "remove" disabled accounts after a few months based on my experience.
If anyone out there either is able to self-host their blog, or can afford a few bucks a month for it, I recommend Ghost (https://ghost.org). Example blog:

https://blog.ghost.org

Open source customizable markdown blog engine, with great themes by default. I feel like it doesn't get enough attention.
Eh, I get the spectrum argument, but if there are real journalists gathered at the gate then its enough for me to say that this was a real public interest story.
LA Considers Ambitious Proposal to Provide Housing for Every Homeless Person
Yup, to quote:

"Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction."
Openstack isn't the competitor to CloudFoundary- OpenShift is. Both are sponsored by Red Hat.
Its nice that people like you are willing to make sacrifices; otherwise we'd have no fourteenth-century monarchs!
"We are a currently-forming anonymous and horizontal organization" - what does that mean in English?
Yeah but the United Mine Workers Association (a coal union) got us the eight hour workday - before that, they just exploited the shit out of you.

"Back when the government first tracked workers' hours in 1890, full-time manufacturing employees worked a backbreaking 100 hours each week. Years of pressure from laborer organizers, along with changes from companies like Ford Motor, reformed working conditions in the U.S. and protected workers from schedules that endangered their health and safety."

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/05/03/how-the-8-hour-workday-chang...
50 new levels.

Price is $10, which I'll say is fair... but not exactly amazing.
I wish this was brought up in all of the many news articles that have covered this story so far, if not from the police themselves. Even an argument from common sense seems clear: the visual range of the video is barely much better than what you see when driving down a rural highway. But the AZ road cuts through a public park where concerts are held, including the Marquee Theatre at the nearby intersection. The median from which the victim crossed even has a well-paved pedestrian path to get from a parking lot to ostensibly the park [0]. If the scene was as dark as the Uber dashcam portrayed, there would be many, many more victims than just the one from Uber's AV.

But speaking as a sometime camera enthusiast and photographer, I don't believe there any digital camera yet that comes close to capturing the dynamic range of the human eye.

Look at a still from the video. The exposure is such that the street lights are basically pinpoints that seem to illuminate little more than the patch of ground immediately beneath them. Anyone who has seen municipal street lights (or even the shitty ones on a country road) should be able to tell that that can't possibly be the actual amount of light at the scene [1]

[0] https://goo.gl/maps/xr5U1yHML6B2

[1] https://i.imgur.com/mP2jH6E.png
The claims of safety and versatility are not in opposition. There are cases where the compiler can't prove what you're doing is safe, so take the guards off and do it yourself. In the 99% case (I've literally never written unsafe Rust), you leverage its tooling to better communicate intent and safety.

Clinging to an exceptional case and pretending it's the rule doesn't hold in practice.
I absolutely disagree. Pivotal understands the "needs" of the enterprise world and they prove them wrong at every level. Its that "enterprise world" that needs to change in order to survive or at least to be able to hire new people and to manage the ever growing complexity of enterprise architecture. That's whats referred to as "Digital Transformation".

Its just extremely hard for the old "enterprise world" to adopt to change that is inevitable.
Per cubic meter, sure, but there is a lot more of it than that to work with

We build our space equipment the same way... arrange for/synthesize/simulate a close analogue of an environment for initial development and then move on to the real thing once the initial quirks are solved. I certainly don't know the science behind water extraction but I imagine an extremely dry locale would not be the best place to be performing all your validation tests. Maybe start with a kind-of-dry desert, or some other biome. Like Joshua Tree instead of Death Valley...
Well, they do harvest organs from "political prisoners". I'd say that's pretty dark. I don't know if the official denial that this is occuring counts as "censorship" though.
A better word might be “glamorous”.
I have never/ever installed Messenger on phone, yet all calls/texts are in FB. Either they are copying it from WhatsApp servers, or stealing using FB app, not sure.
There were several opportunities for liquidity for people with options prior to this point (not to mention extremely early employees should have had an extremely low strike price and should have been able to afford exercising prior to this point with relatively little risk)

I was at Dropbox from 2012 to 2016 and (while I'll lose out, relatively speaking, on taxes due to having a lot in RSUs, and I've mentioned on HN before being frustrated with the illiquidity of RSUs) people in my employee "cohort" should be fine as well.
After nearly getting hit by a car while on a crosswalk in broad daylight today, I don't think "polar opposite" is correct.

I actually made eye contact with the driver, and expected her to slow down (I was right in the middle of the street). Instead she sped up to get through the crosswalk ahead of me.
Predicting the outcome of multiplayer games with TrueSkill2 [pdf]
We have gone a bit down a tangent here. My original complaint was about the friction of different error types compared to other languages (like, say, Go).

Having to implement a bunch of From traits (unless you need io::Error, because everything seemed to have conversions from/to that), or having to implement inline error conversion through map_err, is such friction. I might go as far as consider it the most cumbersome error system I have used. Clean idea, cumbersome implementation.

My comment about '?' not working with mismatched types was mostly just to say that it doesn't fix anything, it just adds a bit of convenient syntactic sugar.
Right... now I can whip the prisoners in VR with a haptic feedback whip controller.

Or if I'm feeling especially dangerous pay them to whip me.
Herb Sutter doesn't like C. That may be the reason that the compiler group at Microsoft don't put any effort into updating the C compiler to support newer features.

They do put a great deal of work into the C++ compiler, and seem to be doing a way, way, better job than they were in the late 90s.

That may be the other reason they don't update the C compiler with new features.
Does anyone think these services actually delete all of your data, or just use a "deleted" flag on the database, keeping all of your info making it look like you're "deleted" but not allowing you to use it any longer? My vote is the 2nd one.
I wish there was one good messenger. Signal can't be it, because not federated, uses phone number. Riot can't be it because network effects. Google and facebook are abominable. WhatsApp and telegram are worse versions of signal. Who will save us from this efficient market competition?

(a previous version of this comment incorrectly claimed signal was closed-source)
‘Oh my God…It’s fake’: Far right falls for hoax about Broward County sheriff
Stock is up beyond the last valuation in 2014. Assuming the stock holds its value for he 6 month lockup, they'll get at least what they signed up for.
Ask HN: How do you find top private companies with liquidity events in horizon?
Call your representative and demand legislation.
I wonder idly if it would be useful to have 'cargo doc deps' that would generate docs for all your dependencies (or top level dependencies) in a project.

The rust docs are super useful, but not everyone bothers to publish them, and people tend to forget to pit full working examples in them.
Let's go back a bit further - MIT Lincoln Labs, 1963: https://youtu.be/t3ZsiBMnGSg?t=190
We can't create a class of people above the law. Private property rights are just as important to a functioning (western) society as freedom of the press.
"Orders of magnitude" is implausible, and certainly not supported by published STREAM results for POWER8, even excluding HBM in Knights Landing, for instance. I'd love to see some actual performance figures for POWER9, though, or even facts about its SIMD, in particular.
Whoever is first to market will compete directly against Uber. There is no point in selling autonomous cars to Uber.
Just curious, what words would you use to describe "American-style liberal" and "American-style left-wing"?
What's the plugin's name?
-s-Yeah it's everyone else who doesn't see the big picture.-s- What are your credentials demonstrating you know the big picture?

The concern with DJT all along has been he's such a liar and a con man that when the time comes that we need to trust what he says and does, there will be none left for him.

https://twitter.com/mccaffreyr3/status/974748724176941056
I'd like to see this project revived and expanded:

https://github.com/omni360/assemblino.js

There used to be a site to try it out, but now you'll have to clone it and start it up locally yourself.

It's basically a javascript/node webgl robotics simulation kit; you can even interface your simulation to an Arduino to have the simulator control a real robot.

There's various "parts" models (wheels, servos, etc) included, which are just javascript object definitions; plus a variety of basic components that can be "glued" into larger assemblies.

I'd like to see it enhanced and expanded; from that perspective, I'd like to see:

1. Additional "real world" platforms supported (raspi, beagleboard, etc)

2. This could arguably be done via integration with something like http://johnny-five.io/

3. Add the ability to use models built via https://openjscad.org/ (?)

4. Perhaps integrate things with https://github.com/octoblu ?

Basically build it out into a really neat toolkit for robotics, iot, and ai/ml research and fun (to that later end, perhaps add on something like http://propelml.org/ and other libraries?)...
No that's not gaslighting.
I know you grew up and had kids since then but I'm holding you to it :)
Google's 'secret' smart city on Toronto's waterfront sparks row
A union will solve nothing other than leeching off some money from the workers (yay!). If you want to solve the problem you have to educate the credible little children who think working in gamedev is a privilege and are willing to work for free because "games!". Currently and for decades there has been an infinite supply of these, hence all the junior and mid roles pay less than half than any other industry.
Ask an assembly programmer about this...
Euclider: Non-Euclidean raytracing prototype
But why does it need to be? I would still take a Lyft/Uber because the service is better, even at the same price.
I'm still looking for such a solution that works well on mobile. Spideroak's iOS app is very rudimentary compared to Dropbox.

Cryptomator is headed in the right direction (and open source!), but they have not yet implemented iOS 11 Files integration. Boxcryptor has, and it actually works OK, but desktop performance is poor.
You are being downvoted, but I think you have a point. Unfortunately, you are in violation of the rules of the echo chamber here, which state that you MUST AGREE WITH THE ECHO CHAMBER.
The OP i was arguing against said

if something is hard to do in Rust it's
probably an anti-pattern with respect
to memory performance or safety.

To counter a statement of the form "nothing of type X is good", only a single example is needed. I provided it.
Advertisers can now pay to sneak by your ad blocker (2015)
> Actually, it's not enough. If you can mutate the class variables (attributes), then you can always create a class that doesn't have these invariants enforced. The only way that could completely prevent invariants in the class being disrespected would be to have a strong, possibly dependent, type system.

You can completely avoid it if the invariants are expressed as validation methods, and mutation of state isn't direct but through a mechanism initially updates shadow state and guarantees that validators are run and failed validations result in both the original state being preserved and an error being signalled, and only successful validation results in state updates.

A sufficiently robust type system is superior than this kind of runtime check in all kinds of ways, but is not the only way to avoid invalid state with mutable objects.
I see no problem with game workers unionizing, but when I want to release my indie game on itch or steam and I am stopped because I have to pay dues to the union, we'll have a very real and unfriendly discussion.
> Why would I want my salary to be the same as everyone else? If I am better than the next person and I am a better negotiator, why should my salary be identical to the lazy fuck that has the same number of years of experience?

Why do you have disdain for other workers, who largely share your economic and political interests?
Well, except for the other drivers on the road.

Horribly horrible drivers here.
IMHO: What happened since John Perry Barlow's statement is that the Internet shifted from a technological and social experiment[0] to an extremely high value asset that attracts powerful actors.

In the former state, ethics and good faith suffice. John Postel could hand out IP addresses, and people followed his lead to 'be conservative in what you send, liberal in what you accept'. Forums like Usenet were a small group of geeks - read the Etiquette FAQ, and just don't be an ahole. 'Assume good faith' is a guideline somewhere (I forget where). But when there is a high value asset to be had, the economics of money and power take over. There are bad people who will ignore all ethics and public good and take every advantage they can, driving their competition to do the same in order to survive.

When Facebook was a bunch of college friends sharing stories and pictures, those people didn't care. When it's a way to exert unprecedented influence on the public, that gets intense attention from government propaganda operations and their corporate counterparts. It was predictable that it would happen.

In the latter environment, 'don't be an ahole' doesn't work any more; I don't think Putin read the Usenet Etiquette FAQ (and his people read the HN guidelines only to find a way to use them to their advantage). Regulations become necessary to protect the weak and all of society from bad actors.

[0] There's probably a better way to conceptualize it, but I can't think of it right this moment.
I remember sitting with Charlie on a boat in SF Harbor during the first Apple WWDC (called something else) in 1986 listening to how they did the audio. He was definitely an inspiration to us younger Mac developers.
Ok. We have automated the build process. We don’t need you anymore. Thanks for your service, here’s two weeks’ severance.

A union would go nuts in that scenario. Which then supports the theory that unions would oppose technology that improved efficiency since they would care more about the protecting the production input than they care about optimizing the production output.
> yes, that was the entire point of Section 230 of the communications act, to prevent platform from being liable for users content, even if the users were doing things that were illegal

There was the assumption in this is that illegal content was removed.

There's also a difference in CL actively putting a section in that says "Illegal Services advertised here".

For clarity, there's no concern with legalizing these services, as far as I am concerned.

You think it's a violation of your First Amendment rights to be unable to openly advertise criminal activities? Where does that line end?
Mozilla Persona was a promising idea. It was ahead of its time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Persona
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_private_non-go...

See reference at the bottom:

"Samsung is not to be confused with its publicly traded subsidiary Samsung Electronics"
The article mentions that the car was going "40 miles an hour in a 45-mile-an-hour zone." Is there a more reliable source stating that the car was speeding?
Does anyone have good way to come to an ethical understanding of whether unbreakable encryption is good or bad, and for whom?

Every time this comes up, I am unable to simultaneously reconcile the the fact that backdoor are inevitably bad for almost everyone, while at the same time we, as people created a society to govern us, and the law enforcement of this society needs to do its job.

To me this boils down to a fundamental, and for me unanswered question about the relationship between society i.e. social structures/government/etc and individuals, and how the society behaves like a living organism of its own, with its own motivations that are often in stark opposition to the motivations of its constituent pieces, and how to find a good path forward.
https://blog.mozilla.org/thunderbird/2017/12/new-thunderbird...
3rd point (viral): The dropbox solution was great, of users getting more dropbox when they brought in another user. By rewarding with more dropbox (instead of money), only people who genuinely value dropbox would spread it. These aligned interests can't be gamed.

I thought dropbox was a great idea from the very beginning... but I've been repeatedly amazed at the scale of the opportunity. People working cross-mobile/desktop must be a big part of it.
It works pretty well, as demonstrated here in an event within the last couple of weeks in Peru:
https://twitter.com/lilitjejauregui/status/97585519352188518...
I've seen a lot of hobbyist/indie game developers use the tool, although not exclusively. It plays nice with Unity and Unreal, you can always count on it being there since it's free and supported on Mac/Windows/Linux.

I believe larger game studios and vocational schools entirely use 3ds Max or Maya. I don't think the traditional game industry has much of a culture in Blender.
There should be a video of this with Jessica, Drew, Arash, and preferably BrandonM. :)
I've only mentioned Ghostery to show there are dozens other social networks known spying on you. Do you happen to know one that doesn't?
> To counter a statement of the form "nothing of type X is good", only a single example is needed.

“If something is hard in Rust, it is probably an anti-pattern” (emphasis added) is not equivalent to a statement of the form “nothing of type X is good”. It is equivalent to the form “most things of type X are not good”, which cannot be rebutted by a single example.
"Package Deal or no Deal!"

- My frat house during chapter

- Also US government

That is frightening