skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is the very sector that has only achieved its current status by automating away the menial tasks that you claim will overwhelm them. If humans can figure out how to make two rockets land autonomously and concurrently, I don't really see us getting tripped up on this one.
Safety net is definitely there, but my Dane friends actually told me it’s really bad for small businesses to the point that small businesses won’t hire for desperately needed work because it is impossibly expensive to let anyone go.
I donate 1 to 5 dollars to groups that do free and open source projects on the Internet. When I can afford to do so.

I'm disabled and can't work a good paying job to afford the commercial alternatives.

I am also forever a student in learning new things.
For the U.S. And China, a Technology Cold War That’s Freezing Over
As an "at will" junior software engineer, if I one day get fired for my lunch selection, is there any legal actions I can take, assuming I'm an honest, skilled, competent worker?
They will want an alternative but there’s no compelling (to the average user) reason why it has to be a decentralized alternative.
Wasn't the whole point of docker containers that deploys and migrations are a breeze?
come on you're a tiny minority, most people's friends are on Facebook
Large, established companies with expensive legal advice and financial incentives to not dismantle parts of their business model seem to disagree.
That's awesome. I love Dropbox too. I had created a file in the Dropbox folder and deleted by mistake and my CrashPlan failed to backup it during that period. Kinda my fault as I didn't keep the laptop open long enough for CrashPlan to index and run backup between the file was added and before it was deleted. Dropbox had a copy of it, among deleted files, when I needed it at work after some time. That's when I started paying for it upgrading from free account.

Now if only they would offer client side encryption[0] - at least optional. Maybe with slower search or some missing features or an inferior experience to those customers who want this.

It would just become even more awesome :)

[0] https://www.dropbox.com/help/security/private-key
BOINC has quite a sophisticated system, but it's a long time since I looked at the details. I believe new participants are subject to greater scrutiny.
Elon Musk Has Removed Tesla and SpaceX’s Facebook Pages
Facebook admits it wasn’t the ‘wisest move’ threatening to sue journalists
Which it isn’t. At all. One is mandated by law and the other is self imposed community standards.
I wanna say Compiz, but I feel like I am the only one using it full time. It would probably be a wast of time.
Twitter hashtags has obvious similarities and differences to IRC channels.

However I have a strong feeling that I modified/used hashtags (as tagging, not as a channel) back in 2005/6.

I think I got the idea from another system (probably some early wiki) but I'm unable to recall now.
Docker cloud offered CI/CD integrations and management features similar to K8S that were proprietary to them. While Docker images themselves are portable, this is a whole different beast.
Given the law was in response to abuse of marginalized women sexually in these services (well written or not) that’s not a very good argument in this case.

Both are underground: this is about removing east of access to the service not legal vs illegal services
I understand that having to abandon ship sucks, but wasn't the whole point of containers that they can be migrated easily? heck, the whole concept got its name from that idea. So why the fuss?

edit: typos
The timing of this (shutdown on 21 May) made me wonder if it's related to the GDPR coming into effect starting on 25 May.
It's possibly delusion. I work for a small company that really does try to improve people's lives, but we have a large corporate client that I've spent 70 hours of the last week working on, and I'm trying to come up with reasons not to kill myself. Metaphorically speaking, of course. Anyway, project is due Monday so back to the grind.
Australian businesses tend to employ as casuals for cafes and restaurants. No need to fire the person, just reduce shifts till they get the hint (I am not an employer).

Aside from Unions, there is no way of protecting employees where they are interchangeable cogs. Unions have their own problems, but collective action is a pretty good deterrent against 'unjustified' termination.
Why nobody mentions the social connection functionality? To stay connected with my extended family, to be able to see their wedding pics and share my kids pics, there is no alternative to Facebook. I can not ask my elderly mom to start using something else on her precious ipad.
WhatsApp is free for the first year then a small amount each year to continue. Maybe that works.
MySql and Postgres
First, it empowers U.S. law enforcement to grab data stored anywhere in the world, without following foreign data privacy rules.

Spy agencies have already done this for decades with impunity and provided the data to law enforcement agencies, so this is probably just trying to provide them with legal cover.
I agree that constructive conversation is sometimes very very difficult depending on biases in participants. You make a good point that people sometimes simply dismiss differing ideas because "they're wrong" with little basis -- these kind of shortcuts are generally necessary in life (you'd never get anything done if you didn't sometimes use heuristics to assess the value of an argument) but also reinforce biases since your heuristics tend to favor arguments with which you agree.

However, I'd just like to say that your previous comment didn't give me much of an impression that you're happy to engage in a debate -- how on earth can I participate in a conversation with you when your comment is 18 words, and I have no clue what you're trying to express? That is why I responded: because I had no clue what you were trying to say, but I was curious.

My point about "not commenting at all" wasn't so much in regard to democracy (on a political platform, most discussion is good, because you need to consider the needs of many different people), but rather just a guide to good behaviour, a la "if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all." I think HN is made a better place by dissenting opinions (I dislike echo chambers in general) but one-off dismissive comments do not a constructive conversation make. You need to give reasoning and explain your arguments.

I also noticed that you seem a little preoccupied with downvotes. Personally, I don't think you should sweat them too much, as long as you feel like you're having constructive conversations and behaving civilly (in this comment thread, I'm happy to report that you made a lot of good points, and did a lot better than that first comment I responded to). If somebody downvotes you simply for having a different opinion, they're breaking HN rules. Downvotes, as far as I know, are supposed to be used for limiting the visibility of off-topic/poor quality comments. So if you get downvoted, your comments might be poor quality... or you might just be off topic. This thread is awfully off-topic, but I personally believe it's good quality discussion, so if it gets downvoted, I don't mind much: I still benefited, but it might get hidden from general readers. That's OK.

Anyway, thank you for responding to my (probably slightly-too-critical) comment in a reasonable way where you explained your thoughts. I apologize for misjudging you based on your previous comment.
I've actually had this exact problem with Instagram.

1. My teenage daughter shows me picture of a girl she knows but doesn't like.
2. I don't have my glasses so I double-tap to try to zoom in a bit.
3. My daughter screams that the girl now knows that she was looking at her picture.
4. I quickly double-tap again to un-like the photo.
5. My daughter glares at me because she knows that the damage is already done.

In fact, I can relate to the guy in the original story. Fortunately, I only earned my daughters short lived wrath and didn't lose my job.
No - because job availability depends on other considerations too.

Strangely, European countries with more humane employment laws don’t have correspondingly higher unemployment.
Seconded, It seemed really cool and had a great mission.

http://incubator.apache.org/projects/wave.html

People seemed to like it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16442378
In "The Innovator's Dilemma" Christensen makes a compelling argument why startups can eat an established company's lunch, but it doesn't go so far as say innovation cannot come from established corporations or only comes from startups. There are examples where established companies have innovated. Three off the top of my head: Bell Labs as part of Bell Telephone made many critical innovations; Apple has also continued to innovate over the years. IBM isn't always thought of as innovating nowadays, but they've had a long history of not only patenting new ideas but also bringing them to market.
They spoof Caller-ID to give an illusion of being local. They are generally out of area, calling from VOIP "boiler rooms".
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basel_Convention may be relevant.
I'd like to see Abiword come back to life. Even adding docx saving support would go a long way.

Abiword looks slick, works blazingly fast. IMHO it provides the best experience for end users.
When you compare California tax you should then add the cost of private health insurance and retirement plan.
I'd be be really surprised if the sum would come under 42%. It seems to me you're getting a very good deal! I would not have expected the 7% average income tax in particular, is it due to the sole proprietorship? Would you pay more if you directly invoiced as a person?
from last one week, I am working on topic2book, it generates a book for a given topic (or phrase). few books that generated are at https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Q0FBmn8cRaZRGkDnRgxZ...
I tried and eventually got tired of Jira, Trello, Team Foundation Server, and Pivotal Tracker.

The one tool that I've been loving for the past year is http://clubhouse.io. Such a well-designed product and extremely flexible (I think it could fit most teams' requirements around Agile/Kanban/etc.)
I think very few non-prepaid mobile plans have metered airtime for donestic calls anymore.
If you're going to quote someone you should really post what they said.

The short answer is: We want to build the first truly 21st-century city.

The longer answer is we launched Sidewalk with the broad belief that if we combined the best in urban planning and design with the latest in technology and open digital infrastructure, we could meaningfully improve quality of life for people in cities. But one of the big challenges we saw was that no single city in the world could really stand out as a model how to do that. That’s what we hope to achieve with Waterfront Toronto: neighborhoods that pilot ideas, new and old, to solve big urban problems that cities everywhere are facing.

Of course, we are not going to build the whole thing ourselves, because real neighborhoods can never be completely planned. We’re going to need to work with all kinds of partners and groups in Toronto and beyond. We see our role with Waterfront Toronto as trying to put in place some of the underlying infrastructure — things like people-first street designs, an energy system that could one day be climate positive, buildings that can adapt to new uses. On top of those systems, all kinds of local innovators, civic groups, academics, etc, will fill in the details will their ideas and creations.

Sidewalk Toronto is our main focus. But there are also areas where we think real innovation is possible today that no one is working on yet, and when we find those opportunities we incubate companies to take them on. For example, we incubated a spin-off company called Cityblock Health that now works to improve health care delivered to low-income urban populations.
Censorship of the internet is inevitable, and traffic that cannot be censored will be dropped.
It was an example of a job which can be automated (and as you pointed out, is already automated), but which is still dominated by human workers. You suggested that all the jobs done by humans can't be automated. My response is: most (or at least some) can, but aren't.

Sure, plumbing is a much more challenging example. But it is an economic problem. The cost to automate plumbing is much higher than the utility of it.
I always chuckle when people put so much trust in "startup" companies. It's the same like believing in IBM not trying to screw you over.

There's a reason why people and businesses hate vendor lock ins. There's a reason why we do not want AWS to reign supreme for long.
On my MacBook Dropbox sits in a corner on my top bar and goes largely unnoticed but when Google Drive or one of their many file sync apps (just like messaging they have a lot on this front too) runs and is indexing or backing up files it almost always renders my laptop unusable. Maybe that's just me but at least I don't use Google Drive for that reason.

Also, I use Google for some purposes but not for file sync. I don't want all my eggs in one basket.
If the software is well written, any of those types of failures should raise an alarm to alert the safety driver to take over, and then shut down the self-driving system.
Not exclusive to YC companies, but check out https://www.failory.com (lessons learned interviews with founders)
We at Gridmarkets have cracked this one(spare cycles) and are now further enhancing the model.
I was trying to find supporting evidence for this (I certainly feel it to be true), Unfortunately I found the opposite[1].

Though this was till 2016, so I wonder if it's changed.

[1]: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2017/11/these-are-the-countri...
> Tech people act as prescribers to the rest

Any good examples of this? I don't find this at all. Hackernews for example is always very against Facebook, ads and tracking user behaviour. As far as I can see, none of my less technical friends want to know more details about any of this or care in the slightest.

Most of the time if my non-technical friends are asking for technology advice, it's advice to help them follow the crowd e.g. my friends wouldn't ask me what social network to use, they'd ask me how to install Facebook on their phone. If I started ranting about privacy stuff for something all their friends used, they'd just dismiss it as me being overly concerned.
Here's a radical thought - maybe Extreme Programming (I still think this is a genius marketing name :) works for some people and doesn't work for others?

After trying so many of these methodologies I've come to realize that people just work differently. It's self-defeating to try to push Extreme Programming or whatever on someone who prefers and is efficient at working alone.

Maybe adopt some of Scrum/XP/whatever that can be adopted at a high-level, but trying to push it through a team composed of people with different personalities and different ways of working just defeats the entire purpose.
The speed limit on that road, in the area of the crash, is 45 mph in the northbound lanes, and 35 mph in the southbound lanes. The crash occurred in the northbound lanes.
This comment seems to ignore the large portion of people that operate as small businesses. They make money by selling products they create or services they provide, not raw labor to customers.

You certainly can choose not to work for any given company (or even industry). You just might take a pay cut or might have to take on some personal financial risks to start your own business, which isn't palatable to some people.
We bought about two years ago and live in Wallingford. It's starting to get crazy but there are still reasonable places to be had, especially as you get into summer. Seems to work out, and we're very happy with the area.
Please mention the reason as well why this comment is getting downvoted. Downvoting without reason will never help me to figure out why my logic is flawed.
but why?

The whole point of containers is that they are ephemeral and can be booted up quickly anywhere because you statically link the whole fucking OS?
They have hidden important info about the validity of the AWS credits. So it could be many years or it could be just 1 year, as long as you're subscribed to Product Hunt's Ship.
Boldness in Business Person of the Year: Sir James Dyson
I don't really know much about how YC funding works, but some of the startups listed on there are for simple things like browser extensions, which surprises me.
That's a good point about unions requiring minimum education levels for membership. I suppose this is where apprenticeships come in. There will still be non-union developers, just as there are non union plumbers.
in other words, for the micro-service world, you don't have the monolith, the whole stack is the monolith?
It's a type of puzzle game - easy to learn but impossible to master - you can play solo or against an opponent.
I will check it out. Thanks!
Well for that stuff you obviously just have a central planning committee issue portions optimal for society.
Nobody aside from Trump cares about Hillary any more. She lost. Nobody would act in a conspiracy to cover the "rigging" of the DNC primary when they could be supoened by the republican Mueller.
That's awesome; thank you for sharing that with me.
Hi,

1) The "no code changes" means that, no code change is required by you. Because Thundra makes it for you automatically. This is not the new approach for existing APM and instrumentation tools but new for AWS Lambda which makes Thundra unique (and first) here at the moment. Additionally, Thundra can make method level CPU profiling without instrumenting the user code. It is supported by Java at the moment but we will support it for other languages Node.js, Go, Python soon.

2) "No overhead" means that almost no overhead. As far as we measured it is just a few microseconds in average (note that it is not milliseconds) for executing our interceptors and printing trace data to console. In respect to publishing monitor data outside of container synchronously, publishing them over CloudWatch logs asynchronously can be considered as no overhead in practice
everyone's OPSEC is weak. It is incredibly hard, if not impossible to have good OPSEC with the level of surveillance and tracking performed by companies like facebook and google.
Depends on what you mean by "more humane" but U.S. has lower unemployment than OECD average, and European countries mostly have higher. In particular, France and Italy, known for how difficult it is to dismiss employees both individually and in masses, have high unemployment.

North European countries, where individual dismissal is difficult but mass dismissal (restructuring) is easy, fare better.

Germany, also with quite rigid employment laws, has low unemployment. As the dominant euro member it is basically running the monetary policy of the whole continent from its own needs.

Data: http://www.oecd.org/employment/ministerial/employment-in-fig...
Browser extensions can start out as very simple but quickly turn into very complex pieces of software. Have a look at postman(https://www.getpostman.com/) for example.
Hey! Ghost(Pro) is targeted mainly at business users who want a solid managed service, but there's absolutely no downside to self-hosting. We don't do any feature-gating, so you get the same software no matter where you want to run it. Easiest way to get up and running on your own env. is with Digital Ocean, who have a 1-click image: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-...

If you want to just test it out locally first, that's easy too
- https://docs.ghost.org/docs/install-local
TLDR: npm install ghost-cli -g && ghost install local
> You are a foreigner

This is a big pro than a con. You can really think and act on your own with out bothering too much thinking about society pressure. One can act independently in a manner which is not possible within the society he was brought up.
I could be wrong but I think mens rea can encompass acting recklessly or acting negligently, not just acting purposely. An example of something people have been convicted of that may fall there is involuntary manslaughter.

Edit: see also willful blindness.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willful_blindness#Precedent_...

A famous example of such a defense being denied occurred in In re Aimster Copyright Litigation, in which the defendants argued that the file-swapping technology was designed in such a way that they had no way of monitoring the content of swapped files. They suggested that their inability to monitor the activities of users meant that they could not be contributing to copyright infringement by the users. The court held that this was willful blindness on the defendant's part and would not constitute a defense to a claim of contributory infringement.

It would seem ridiculous for courts to start charging e-mail providers, for example, as facilitating sex trafficking though, even if they must suspect their services are used for such activity. I wonder how it will play out.
The more I read about those new-wave languages, the more I end up thinking that the simple languages like python and C are the clear winners.

I started to learn about rust, but honestly it feels like it has the same design and features of ADA, in term of code correctness. It's a great thing, but I still wonder if it's really useful for everyone. Usually ADA was used in aerospace.

And I still believe C++ has a good future, of course as long as you keep using the good parts.
The APIs of platforms are often totally different. If you went to docker cloud for its simplicity and now have to move to AWS/GCP/Azure/etc. and don't have a dedicated DevOps that knows one of those platforms already, you have no choice other than taking a developer working on features and putting them on learning the new API in a few weeks including testing. ~8 weeks is not enough for that if you are a cash-strapped startup.
sure, but i'd wager that most of the pain point is getting orchestration tools to work on other platforms. and also vetting of other platforms, etc.
Docker the file format/command line syntax/etc will long outlive Docker the company

Kubernetes “won” so now the competition has shifted from who can innovate to who can execute and operate.
The thing is that you only see this compiler writer culture among C and C++ devs.

Other language communities that put correctness before performance at any cost, don't share this mentality, including the compiler writers.
I believe this is no longer the case and WhatsApp is free to use now.

Regardless, the free trial -> paid version is a popular model, even if 1 year is a long "trial"
Protonmail.

Works great for my needs. While very secure, is still open source. And I'm always one to belive in open tech.
That's how you patch software :) An open, if somewhat artisanal, process.

I have toned down the intensity of the yellow background, and increased text contrast. I hope this improves!
Don Mattrick and Jeff Sember. Not sure how much they made but they did evetually parlay the start into millions (at least for Don)
http://www.cbc.ca/archives/entry/video-games-video-kids-stri...
I think edible insects are a better and possibly healthier direction.
> Patience is a quality people familiar with Sir James credit him with, exemplified by the five years and 5,127 prototypes it took to perfect his bagless vacuum cleaner. This is partly thanks to the nature of his company, family-owned with no external shareholders to satisfy. It also reflects a perfectionism he has inculcated in the organisation.

> “[Sir Frank Whittle] really taught me everything about what it was to be an engineer and entrepreneur. He never did any so-called market research. He just did what he thought was right from an engineering and product perspective.”