skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I see where you’re coming from with the “screw loose” comment, but think you skip past a very real desire for self governance:

A “startup” that drone-feeds pigeons in the park could make the case that I enjoy the benefits of well-fed pigeons, and that I should be prepared to pay.

As great as pigeons are, I might feel diminished by the startup’s posture, which betrays low esteem for my ability to allocate my resources.
But they do that too everywhere. I'm Norwegian. I've been a co-founder of companies both in Norway and the UK. I see little evidence that it makes all that much difference. On one hand you do take a somewhat greater risk in terms of hiring in Norway, but conversely the ability to fire much more easily does not get exercised much. Of course that's no help for those who end up being affected.

On the opposite end of the spectrum, in Norway not only is it harder to fire someone, but terminating an employment contract is normally with 3 months mutual notice. So you risk bad hires, but you also don't risk essential staff members disappearing overnight very often, as serving out the 3 months notice is normal and expected. That makes companies with small teams less vulnerable in that respect.

Overall I don't really know if it makes much difference to employers. I hasn't seemed like that for me. But it makes a big difference for employees.
This is not investment advice.

It would be a bad idea, but that has nothing to do with Facebook specifically or recent news. Read a dozen of Matt Levine’s columns, starting with https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-10-09/retail-vo....

The gist: in 2018, an individual isn’t going to have any insight about a security that isn’t already priced in. Sorry. If this is a hobby, like buying a few lotto tickets, great, do whatever. Your question sounds like you’re seeking an investment thesis, though. If so, go with “I don’t know anything about any company that isn’t priced in, so I should own a diversified basket (which generally means mutual funds or ETFs, not specific equities other than maybe for tax-loss harvesting) that is essentially the entire market.”
Solidarity!
The entire issue is solved by probation periods - in UK my probation period was 6 months(during which I could be let go almost instantly for any reason) and after that it's a 3-month notice period - if the company wanted to let me go they would need to tell me at least 3 months in advance.
> come on you're a tiny minority, most people's friends are on Facebook

My impression is that this strongly depends on the social circle the respective person is.

You first have to keep in mind that in Germany many people indeed use Facebook, but it is not not that deeply integrated into the life as it is my impression that it is the case in the US. Also in Germany it is often the case (at least in my impression) that people that come to some gathering explicitly say that don't desire that anybody puts some photors that were made of them on Facebebook.

In this case: if I were living in the USA, I probably were in a tiny minority. I am also probably a minority in Germany, too, but it is not my impression that this minority is tiny.
Planetary systems are more rare around binary systems and planets are smaller too (making them harder to detect). Proxima Centauri is the smallest star in a triple system.
I will look into those crates next time!
Maybe some choices in the design can be explained with "Worse is Better" https://www.dreamsongs.com/RiseOfWorseIsBetter.html
Intent for example is an important part of the law. Holding a camera is not enough to qualify as a journalist.

The letter of the law is critical because the word choice matteres. The difference between consent and informed consent is huge.
HN, YouTube and Reddit all have it.
www.famipix.com
Online since 2005. 700k users.
No ads.
Free for schools and for private use up to 1000 photos.
Right on. Lets not let the problem-reaction-solution cycle fix it.
Whoa. The car couldn't even pass a stopped vehicle on its own? That's terrifying. It's glorified cruise control.

I think uber is basically pretending to develop a self driving car.
1) I'm missing photo sharing. www.famipix.com (2005)

2) What made Facebook interesting and addictive is the "variable reward" of small information snacks. The smaller the information snack is, the easier it is to produce (and consume). And the dumber society gets as a whole (Twitter)
If you want to stop having casual sex but feel you can't control yourself, maybe you can have yourself committed to some sort of clinic, instead of trying to take away the possibility from everyone else too? (Which probably wouldn't even help, since if you're not hideously ugly you will probably find more then enough men willing to have sex with you without craigslist.)
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The hovering hand thing weirded me the hell out. You'd get terrible RSI if you actually did that all day. Try it.
That's crazy talk, every story is about one thing, everything has one clear reason, and there's only one flavour of ice cream, and it's raspberry.
independence referendum? such as the recent Catalan independence referendum in Spain? Why EU/US both rejected its outcome when the people of Catalan clearly made the case with a successful & peaceful independence referendum?
ECS and EKS.
At higher cost, less is demanded, and we tend to be loss averse. Driving up the perceived risk and thus the cost of firing bad employees unavoidably reduces the supply of jobs.

No good or service is perfectly inelastic — certainly not employees.
I don't remember the details, but I just recall that I ended up with a converting nightmare.

Your suggestions make sense, but I can't help but think that there is something fundamentally weird about basically having to use generic programming just to take a string arg. The most sensible thing would be "everything uses &str".
The same would be asked of someone about their skin color, by those who think skin colored collectives are units of economics and policy.
To your point I think attitudes have recently shifted a lot. As little as 10 years ago my experience was that many Taiwanese regarded themselves as Chinese even though they regarded the PRC as wholly illegitimate. It's still the case, I believe, that no major political party has declared independence as part of their platform. Whether this is because such a position would be wholly unconstitutional or because China would invade is debatable. As you point out, the Taiwanese government from the very beginning, and as recorded in the constitution, has regarded themselves as the true rulers of China and not viewed themselves as a separate nation state. Given this the PRC position that Taiwan is a breakaway province and is part of China is understandable.
Is there a tool that strips out buzzwords? I vaguely recall hearing about one
This supports my thesis waymo is building a self driving car but uber is only building a pretend self driving car (to fleece investors, who realize uber will go bankrupt if snd when anyoneother than uber achieves total success with self driving)

Google is playing chess, uber is playing checkers. Dont be fooled just because the board looks the same.
They are never used like that - people always say “I have a Masters in whatever from Oxford”. It’s a deliberate misdirection.
I think part of his point is that memorization & post-it notes are improper ways to manage passwords. In general, a password one can memorise is too low-entropy to be used — and I think we all agree that writing passwords down is just terrible.

And email resets have their own failure modes. For one things, it gives your email provider access to all your email-resettable accounts.
It really is the best. No need to create and maintain another account, no need to reskim over read/intentionally skipped entries, filters for things you know you want to always skip.
I thought game workers were going to be gamers that work in the game to mine or product products or similar.
I'd love to follow along - my beautiful wife and I are planning to hit the road as remote workers, so always keen to learn from others who have done it as couples / families.
You can have HN, YouTube and Reddit syndicate to your own, self-hosted feed?
Italians use "water" (spelled váter") or WC (spelled "vee-chee"), rarely "tazza" or the less elegant "cesso".
So what's your thesis for how Google will fail? They get a cut out of a plurality of the ad clicks on the web.

Do you think people will stop using the web or stop clicking on ads or what?
Marriot holds all bilderberg meetings also. This tells me a lot of they care towards workers. Staff is these bosses like animals. They have to live, eat and have "right" opinions.

They can be easy replaced with androids later.
I'll hop on the bandwagon as well. They are a great bunch of techs who give a shit about privacy, technology and service. In other words they work hard at things I give a shit about.
The funny thing about it, is that at the time the name "United States of America" came to be, "America" was the full continent and the name of the new nation simply reflected the fact that it was a union of states in that continent. I think the name "America" for the country got stronger because people from there were calling them selves "Americans" for a lack of better demonym.
Except that some of the economically best taxes are land-value & wealth taxes — and what are savings & investments other than wealth, often in the form of land?
This makes me think: How fragile must this power be if a "like" on social media is enough to elicit such a response?
Writing passwords down is fine, just don't leave the paper sitting in front of the computer.
how would i prefer ? Couch surfing...
how do i usually spend ? Working by morning and running errands with mrs.
I'd also mention P. F. Hamilton's "Fallen Dragon", where FTL travel is possible, colonization of a few nearby Earth-like planets has happened... but it's not economically viable after all, which leads to some twisted consequences.
> because my blog is for my content. If anybody's interested enough in responding me, they can write an email or another blog post.

This doesn't make any sense. No one is going to email you or write a blog posts for some minor remark. Not only will you not get any discussion on your site but you also would not get corrections if you'r wrong on the subject, which hurts your blog. Now there are easy ways to implement comments even for static sites, specially with the so called 'serverless cloud' servers.
There's a massive, massive, huge difference between voluntarily taking an extended trip in your 'camper van' (which is probably a $50k+ Mercedes or similar if the owners "own a house in a ski town") and having to live in a shitty, broken down RV as a home.
People are trying this for mining:
https://techcrunch.com/2018/03/08/qarnot-unveils-a-cryptocur...
EU officials are appointed either by the democratically elected governments of the member states of by the democratically elected European Parliament. Unless you reject all kinds of representative democracy, the EU seems pretty democratic to me. And most EU states are only democratic in the representative sense anyway.
i would encourage you to try Swarm. Its brilliant in its simplicity.
I think Docker product marketing and customer success basically sucks. But Swarm as a product has been really, really nice. And yes I continuously evaluate kubernetes and swarm side by side.

You can get a swarm cluster running in less than 10 minutes on your local laptop after "apt-get install docker-ce". To run k8s, you will need to first muck about ingress and overlays and everything else.

I know its because of "flexibility" - its like Sinatra vs Rails. They are both great in their spaces.
Another super important part of Cloud Foundry is the underlying VM automation layer called Bosh [1]. It used to be extremely high learning curve, but its also very powerful. Cloud Foundry could not exist without it, but it can be used for automation of other packages of software as well (the CI/CD tool Concourse for example)

Cloud Foundry is VERY mature nowadays, is completely opensource and is part of the Linux Foundation. You can view it as Linux, which is the vanilla opensource version and which has different distros (CentOS, Ubuntu, ...)

Cloud Foundry is the vanilla opensource version, and there are many (commercial) distros available, like Pivotal Cloud Foundry, IBM Bluemix, SAP Cloud Platform, etc...

[1] https://bosh.io/
Brand destruction. People already make jokes about "google it; but don't actually". I cant remember the last time I clicked an ad. How about you? Google is not "the web". In "conservative" circles it's more than dead. Only it's bubble prevents you from knowing that. It's doodles are like the bad joke of the day. People love to see what the next one is, but not for reasons goog would like.

I got annoyed enough that I made https://github.com/jakeogh/dnsgate and as you know, there are plenty of similar things. It's only a matter of time.

I hope you take don't this the wrong way. I'm being as honest as I can. Google has done amazing things. Android won the mobile market for linux. Google video lit an entire subculture, and youtube for all it's recent problems is an amazing platform. Their software contributions and open source scientific progress are wonderful things. But, I fear it's too late. They took the social engineering too far, and the owners are too invested in it to fix it.
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You do realize earning $90K a year in Seattle is a take home paycheck of $67,500. Plus your assumptions are whack.
Following the opposite principle to its extreme would also get weird.

Should someone who snapchats their friend’s burglary be off the hook?
> At GitLab we're all in on making a PaaS based on k8s

This is very interesting. Could you talk more on this ? There is definitely space for an "opinionated k8s distro with batteries included". I have wished for Swarm to become this....
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Your last paragraph "blocking tech will prompt China to intensify their efforts to develop their own technologies" is exactly my point. It's much easier and less time consuming to have someone give it to you than to develop it from scratch :)

I can tell you are Chinese and extremely proud of her achievements. Saying as a whole, the education system in China produces less on creativity should not be viewed as an insult to national honor. There's nothing wrong with admitting that things are not the best. Otherwise, how can you improve?
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You're right, I've should have made it more clear: The password is only in addition to the phone number + login code, it can't replace it.
Cinnamon supports them out of the box as well, it's System Settings -> Preferences -> Hot Corners. I had to run the Brightside daemon to get it working on MATE, but I don't know if that's true anymore.
Log operators seem to have largely settled on the idea of sharding logs annually by expiry date (?). This will allow a log to be "closed" to new entries and the maintenance wound down in an orderly fashion so that logs don't grow endlessly.

There's a fun interaction between this and changing expiration rules. Ballot 193 changed the maximum expiration to 825 days from 1 March 2018 (ie a few weeks ago). So in February 2018 it was possible to renew a cert with, say, DigiCert and have the new cert expire in May 2021, 39 months later (the CAs didn't tend to sell 39 months directly to end users, they used the extra 3 months to "carry over" time when you renewed a certificate for three years, likewise they don't now sell 825 days, they sell 2 years and just "carry over" the extra days). Today the latest a new cert (including a renewal) could expire is June 2020. So the 2021 logs are no longer really filling up for another six months.
Strange headline. Last time I looked at a map, Brazil was part of America. Where else would they look for Sperm? Asia, Europe?
(Of course I read along and even before knew they meant the United Stated, but America is not the United States.)
Even better, ship it with operating system like so:
https://www.engadget.com/2017/12/16/windows-10-bundled-passw...

/s
Researcher/author of a tool [0,1] also attempting to tackle this problem here.

Unfortunately zero-downtime schema changes are even more complex than suggested here. Although the expand-contract method as described in the post is a good approach to tackling this problem, the mere act of altering a database table that is in active use is a dangerous one. I've already found that some trivial operations such as adding a new column to an existing table can block database clients from reading from that table through full table locks for the duration of the schema operation [2].

In many cases it's safer to create a new table, copy data over from the old table to the new table, and switch clients over. However this introduces a whole new set of problems: keeping data in sync between tables, "fixing" foreign key constraints, etc.

If there are others researching/building tooling for this problem, I'd love to hear from you.

[0] http://github.com/quantumdb/quantumdb

[1] https://speakerdeck.com/michaeldejong/icse-17-zero-downtime-...

[2] http://blog.minicom.nl/blog/2015/04/03/revisiting-profiling-...
Why does Twitter make likes public? There isn't even a way to hide them, afaik. I don't use Twitter but if I did, I certainly wouldn't want everyone knowing everything I like.
I don't know if that's better than what happened to me: she just screamed and threw her hands up while I jumped out of the way.
And that's why unions are so important.
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FWIW I find the book very easy to follow and understand, but the auto-generated docs to be kind of confusing.

I think because:

a) the general layout feels a bit weird to me. I can't work out which bits are important and which bits aren't. There is no table of contents or similar structure
b) as I'm still learning Rust the function signatures are often black magic to me, which adds to the confusion

https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/boxed/struct.Box.html is a good example.

This is a huge page, and it's overwhelming with no table of contents, or without things I probably don't care about collapsed. It is not clear to me how to use Box from this page.

Specifically for Box there is a code example on how to create a Box (great) but no indication of how to use one. Turns out you just use it and it works transparently like T would. Unlike a monad like Option or whatever. I don't know if this is obvious is you're an expert looking at the Struct signature at the top, but it's not obvious to me. It's also not obvious from the module documentation: https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/boxed/.

Then sections are broken down into different implementations against Box. Is that helpful? As a noob I don't know why that matters, I primary want a list of functions that I can interact with.

I see a lot of the function signature contains links, specifically to any other struct / trait / whatever. This is really helpful. It would also be great if there was some way of getting up to speed with parts of the structure I don't understand as well, as Rust has that Scala / Haskell trait of crazy complicated function signatures. I realise putting links on all bits is infeasible, so perhaps that is a documentation page itself, similar to how SQL structures are documented: https://www.sqlite.org/lang_select.html
I would claim the opposite. If you're starting a business you'll research how to click your backend together in a way that doesn't leak all of your user's data in all directions. Than you'll build a backend that never had these problems to begin with.

It's much more of a pain for companies that already have a tried and true stack but didn't use the two full years of warning to replace the parts of the backend that isn't compliant. No rest for the wicked.
Employees are sellers of labor, so proponents of less regulation could ask the same question of you regarding an employee whose business model is doing as little as possible or even damaging the employer but expecting compensation to continue.
OT.

WRT Opium Wars I always found the casualty figures astonishing:

UK: 69

China: 18,000-20,0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Opium_War
From that quote, I got that Sidewalk Labs is intended to create an environment to foster development of innovative ideas, particularly in the space of modern living with tech. Is that not a sufficient description? Xerox PARC for modern living.
Having moved from Mesos to Kubernetes, Kubernetes just felt more mature. Working solutions for stateful sets, service discovery with DNS, flexible scheduling with affinity and tolerance, saner resource limits, a good CLI tool.

It's not a completely fair comparison since we also were able to offload persistent storage to Google Cloud, which is one of the harder problems IMO.

I think Mesos has improved since then, but it always felt like they were a bit behind.

In general Kubernetes feels like it is designed by people with relevant experience. Especially compared to our earlier experiments with Docker Compose files. People are praising their simplicity, but they left us solving a lot of hard problems that Kubernetes solves for us better than we could have done.
> Can I put inline SVG animations on Twitter and Fasebook ?

Can you on HN ?
> If google wants to survive, they better shape up and put their awesome software contributions front and center, remove the broken pillars, and stop trying to weaponize their 3 letter control grid.

Would it be possible to restate this in explicit humanese, please?
This was interesting to me, so I researched a little. Apparently, the real volume of transactions has moved to https://eccie.net (NSFW) in the US. As usual, the internet routes around censorship.
checkout the code, run it though a coverage tool and a static analysis tool.
And start writing tests for the less covered parts of the code base ( unit, functional and/or UI, go bold, go crazy ).
You will learn a lot, won't break anything important and people might even think you are useful later on. Just don't sit on your ass wasting time, quality is everyone's job ( you can quote me on that, when your boss asks what you have been doing ).
If you see something and the software does not. It probably doesn't provide that sort of information to the driver though. Even then the driver probably isn't paying attention.
The slow driver isn’t creating the danger though. It’s all the drivers going over that actually create the danger you describe. If everyone just followed the laws, the danger you describe would no longer exist. Normalization if traffic violations is compounding the problem of the danger we face on the roads. So many problems could be solved and so many lives saved if people just followed the laws. The fact that everyone isn’t following the laws doesn’t need to be accepted as status quo.
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