skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Second this. I have a junk address I use to sign up first, and if there's no flow to self-terminate I won't signup.

I've had some services where I've wound up in a standoff in an intercom session, with the requirement that I justify the deletion or go through troubleshooting and customer support before being blessed with the right to remove my own account.

ExpressVPN stands out particularly, the rep resorted to insulting me over my knowledge of data security when I justified the deletion based on the fact they could one day leak or be sold, so I'd prefer to terminate unused credentials.

Particularly strong pattern with VPN providers, Crypto exchanges, etc.
Right because it's just a laptop and you have to buy a bunch of other stuff from third parties to go with it. I explained this in a sibling comment.

In 2014 Apple would sell you a monitor that doubled as a dock which worked great with the RMBP and Apple's own wireless KB and Mouse and even Time Machine.

Today you're stuck with USB-C docks which are pretty awful. Pretty much on par with a Dell or HP laptop dock. The new Macbook Pros are the worst device I have used from Apple.

The thread you are replying to is about hackintoshes. The point of a Mac for me is that it Just Works (tm). If I want to fight with something I'll buy a Thinkpad and install Ubuntu. I have no interest in fighting with macOS, it's only useful to me if it is easy.
> ... if we were to have a repeat of that time

It's a question of when. Not if.
> Is the lack of adoption mainly due to the fact that it's Solaris, and not Linux?

I am guessing it is to avoid to learn a whole new ecosystem, tools, environments, rules, package system etc. It's just simpler to stick to Linux. But it all depends, let's say if my application on Illumos shows a 60% performance improvement, well I can see spending time learning it and using it as a base. But it would really have to be large benefit to justify switching OSes. Of course how would I even bother benchmarking to start with? I'd probably have to hear other stories or mentions on HN and such...
HTML element ids and your JavaScript
> There's also no good reason to believe that anarchists wouldn't follow standard engineering and construction practices.

There's also then no accountability for when it fails. Not that we have that now, necessarily, in software "engineering", but in other engineering disciplines, we do.

A licensed engineer can lose their license (a huge professional blow) and be potentially civilly and/or criminally held liable for designs they signed off on that fail or violate appropriate ethical standards of their governing body, e.g. IEEE for electrical engineers.
Love this comment:

// yeah yeah, goddamn, gotta fix this.....someday....soon....i promise....really
Opinion – Sometimes a Broken Glass Is Just a Broken Glass
Tags are fun when you have a few thousand items to test your MVP with. It gets much less fun when you have millions of items with thousands of tags, all on a flat hierarchy.

On the other hand, when you're stuck with a flat hierarchy anyway (e.g. thousands of pictures, all named DCIMxxxx.jpg), tags can be more useful. But only if they're automatic.

I want the best of both worlds. I want to organize my stuff into folders and use tags to search for individual items. There's no need to be a purist on either side. "Designing better file organization around tags" is a good thing. "Designing better file organization around tags, not hierarchies" is not.
I 100% agree that a tag based file system is better than a hierarchical or folder based system. The problem is that people seem to fall into one of two camps - too confused by how to make tags work, or too enamored with organizing things into folders.
Ugh, you're mostly right, I skimmed too quickly.

> The reward your agent receives is proportional to its progress to the predefined horizontal offset within each level, positive for getting closer, negative for getting further away. If you reach the offset, the sum of your rewards will be 9000. In addition there is a time bonus that starts at 1000 and decreases learning to 0 at the end of the time limit, so beating the level as quickly as possible is rewarded.

So mostly time - but past a certain threshold just completion. And if you don't finish "portion completed".
this - the real headline here is that this is the top idea in their mind, over all the other things they could be doing with their time - what are they terrified of?
People do appreciate when you fire the right people, but if you do the firing under the cover of a downturn or crisis or something, then ostensibly you’re not firing them for underperforming, you’re firing them due to the crisis. Which makes good people fear for their jobs and consider moving on. After all, as they see it, they may be needing to move on soon regardless.
> You may also see us invest in companies that ostensibly look competitive with Coinbase. There may be nuance to the way these startups are building out their products. Or, in some cases, we may be comfortable investing in companies that are potentially competitive, because it’s in everyone’s interest to see the ecosystem innovate. We’re taking a long term view of the space, and we believe that multiple approaches are healthy and good.

In other words, everyone else in SV has conflicts of interest when it comes to funding startups from corporate entities (GV, SalesForce Ventures, angels who work at big corps, etc) and we're just gonna come out and be somewhat explicit about it...and well hey it's crypto, so there's no rules anyway!
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Ok, got it, definitely not for the kids.
I don't think that's a valid assumption :-)
Microsoft modifies open-source code, blows hole in Windows Defender
I use X every time and only once was I stopped (Home Despot).
What would you do with the names?
Just wanted to say, I really like the design of your blog and your writing style. Also, there is a minor typo in the last paragraph of the IOC/DI article.
Just quit today! For numerous reasons. Not just this.
Do you need another reason?
The chief investment officer of the California State Teachers' Retirement System (CalSTRS) deleted his Facebook account yesterday because of FB's management re: privacy.

CalSTRS owned $650.4 million in FB shares at end of year 2017. I wonder if he experienced any of these technical problems when deleting his account.

Source:
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/05/calstrs-cio-deletes-facebook...
I don't see how it can fairly be changed for existing owners without screwing them over. It's different with property tax defaults and eminent domain because there's existing law that people know about and can plan around. Not just "tell us who you are and get imprisoned in your own country for corruption or we'll take your house".
"Due to a kernel bug..." made me question the whole article right there
Yeah, that was my first thought too. Maybe it's just because they're both voxels.

The problem with voxels is always the memory requirements. Even with only one byte per voxel at 1cm resolution, you're talking 1GB of per 10m cube for a naive implementation. You can limit your model to just the visible surfaces of your world, but then you're basically just using fat triangles.
Thanks for the detailed reply. These should be posted big and up front in the project Readme. One of my, and my teams', biggest concerns and unknowns getting into Kubernetes, as we were coming from a traditional environment and deciding on a strategy or platform, was security.
There's also the event global:

https://jsbin.com/lirupasunu/edit?html,js,output
You literally just stated the opposite of what I was arguing as if it was a fact, with no argument given.

And to be clear, we are well beyond "asshole boss" or anything legal in the western world. We are considering a situation where you are treated identically to a slave except that instead of being forced to work via beatings and supplied food, you are supplied just enough money to eat - buying everything at the company store - and forced to work by "well otherwise you starve to death".

(By food I also include things like shelter and so on...)
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Ahh, you're correct. I wasn't sure if CRLF was actually codified in rfc158, I just did a search for "CRLF" on it, I didn't realise they were using the hex values of CR and LF (X'0D' X'0A').

The internet is now 8 or 9 million devices big, and CRLF is still the standard newline for internet protocols.
I wouldn't say he's anti Bitcoin but I would say he's anti core. He's been paying attention to core's intentional failure to scale since the early days of the block size debate. Here's an article where he's trying to get support for non-core clients.

https://blog.coinbase.com/what-happened-at-the-satoshi-round...
W3 hasn't really cared about user rights for the past year or two, so I imagine it's a lot closer to what MBCook thought it was for.
I don't see why one couldn't have a tag system whose scope is defined by its location in a hierarchical structure.
I know because of the user names. They are either male or gender neutral.
The question is also, "How is this going to be used, and is it necessary?" Designing weapons to defeat Hitler could easily be justified, cause Hitler. But designing weapons to, say, better fight the Iraq War? Furthering drone strike technology? Given that there was no need for that at all, I can't say that's ethical.
X is a legal signature, they can't choose to not accept it.
Generally structured light (ie. Kinect or laser scanner) is still gonna be your only option, I think. Stereo 3D reconstruction is getting quite good and might be usable though.
There's already a gazillion React templates out there, all of varying quality. Nonetheless, in case anyone is interested, here's a modern (Babel 7, Webpack 4) React SSR template we developed for internal use, but have subsequently open sourced:

https://github.com/glassechidna/practical-react-ssr

I don't think there's anything particularly revolutionary in there, it's just a reasonable starting point to hit the ground running.
I agree! Although I have my real first name in my user name, no one will know if I am a women as this is an Indian name and most of the world doesn't know if it's a male or a female name.
Four big shifts in automotive design and usage are beginning to converge
Well if you get to the time limit then it ends wherever you are, so this is literally just how long it took to complete, or how far you got if you did not complete. Completing gives you 9000 points and the max time bonus is 1000 so it heavily incentivises winning consistently versus higher variance strategies that may be quicker.
"Estate" is British-ism for station wagon, too. (A model S wagon would be pretty nice...)
> pseudonymous data may represent a lower risk of privacy impact in the event of an unintended disclosure, so according to GDPR

Worried about the "may" part. So does it represent a lower risk or not. In other words you can still go through the motions and in the case of a breach it turns out the "may" part you were hoping for was actually a "no".
That's just wrong. Why do the keys have to be held by an untouchable entity? They just have to be unable to be changed outside of having physical access to the device. Stop spreading misinformation based on a shallow understanding of the technology.
well, I've started forgetting all the building numbers so I think I count :-)
They didn't become wealthy and powerful by spending money. They did so by constructing an elaborate fear-based belief system by which the apparatus of the State could be steered to pay them money, much more money than was ever admitted, directly out of the pockets of those subject to the State. Like a religion, except more violent and less consensual. Note that I'm talking about steering the State, not the electorate. If a truly democratic vote on the topic were held today, the military would be a tenth its current size tomorrow. They don't have to worry about democratic votes; they just need to leave Congress enough plausible deniability about what's really going on.

They love this myth you perpetuate, of stealing foreign oil for fame and profit. As a nation, we have yet to see dollar one for all of our Middle Eastern atrocities dating back to the 1950s. All of this evil and violence has only ever profited the war pigs and their cronies. The rest of us have been stuck with the bill.

This line of thinking reminds me of the drug prohibitionists. "If we stop killing drug dealers, they'll be even wealthier and they'll kill everyone!" No, silly, if drugs could be sold without fear of violence then drug sales would not require violence. Our fifty-year prohibition has created a cohort of thugs who would have to age out of the business, but if we stopped giving them vast sums of money then they could be dealt with like any other violent people.
Cool idea, but who benefits from the alignment? Why not just place to dots as usual and then paint the text over everything in whatever font you want? Seems like it would be less distracting to the sighted with no downside at all to the blind.
>The idea that a tier one investment bank and a small trader should be held to the same "rules" is so wondrously silly... it's hard to describe but there ought to be a word for it.

Just like the idea that the aristocracy should be accountable to the same laws as commoners, right?
I wish I'd heard the bad about PHP before I worked in it; would have saved me the first year of my life in development.

Also, most PHP developers are complete morons. And I won't apologize for generalizing.
This! This is why I asked this question. Most of the people have this assumption. It's important to feel the presence of female developers and techies on HN.
Amazon's Lord of the Rings will be the 'most expensive TV series ever'
There is a series of blog posts that gives a retrospective on WinFS:

* https://hal2020.com/2013/02/14/winfs-integratedunified-stora...

* https://hal2020.com/2013/02/14/winfs-integratedunified-stora...

* https://hal2020.com/2013/02/25/winfs-integratedunified-stora...

* https://hal2020.com/2013/03/10/winfs-integratedunified-stora...
I don't usually do this, but I'm very curious why this might warrant downvotes?
I thought it tasted like beef, but like a cheap, lean beef. Like the cheap, premade, frozen patties you can get at the grocery store. Not a bad flavor at all. Just mediocre for a burger.
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thats what he said. AMZN is better
Did that include accepting credit card payments?
I imagine it is a non-linear graph. A really small company can probably assign someone to through the backups, unpack them, delete the user, re-backup everything mostly by hand. I assume a small company also means less data here. A medium size company that has more customers, and a more data collected might be at a bigger disadvantage. Not big enough to have a dedicated team on this task, and not big enough for a large legal department, but big enough to be swamped by requests and not process them in time and so on.
You realize that the comments in a thread may head off in a related but distinct direction, right?

We're discussing car-to-car mesh networks being used to provide self-driving cars with more decision-making input.
well if you let them fuck up they would learn how to scale their processes real fast but then we start taking about too big to fail
Lenovo has 3 years next business day on site service included with many models - you can choose to add the accidental damage option and it still costs less than AppleCare, not to mention options to upgrade to 4 or 5 years cover.
One thing to keep in mind is that not-all people who are blind are completely without vision. There's a lot of variations of blindness, and the need for accessibility. There's a good chance that some people needing to read braille can see that there's a sign there, but just can't read the letters with their eyes, especially in certain lighting conditions.
> Right because it's just a laptop and you have to buy a bunch of other stuff from third parties to go with it.

No. Their complaints are about the laptop itself. The keys are constantly breaking. The software constantly crashes. We're all a bunch of consulting devs and the 2017 macbook pros have cost every single one of them at least a week's worth of billable hours in the past 6 months. Most of them have gone back to their 2015 models.
Ah, right. so a VPS or even a dedicated server would be considered IaaS?
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As I understand it, videogames on kickstarter rarely raise enough money to complete a game. If anything they can use a successful kickstarter to sell the game to publishers or other investors.
Agreed. When I discovered this in the app I immediately deleted the app from my phone. I’ll never use the again. Coupled with the lousy service, instacart is a no go for me. amazon prime now is a vastly superior product.
I think that's a needlessly uncharitable interpretation.

Having cars communicate information to each other has the potential to be an additional safety measure. It's like adding reflectors to bikes - adding them wasn't victim blaming, it was just an additional thing that could be added to reduce accidents.
Pretty sure the primary use case is kids, not loaning your device to a friend.
You are signing a contract to pay. It's clearer than just vaguely signifying intent.
From your "learning experience report"(Dec 2017) linked further down I see that two of your main gripes relate to Bloc and Iceberg(Git).

* Bloc is not a "Released" subsystem. While its development group report Bloc is stabilizing and encourage more people to start exercising it, Bloc is not on the Pharo 7 Release roadmap. Pharo 6 is current stable release.

* For a long long time, Monticello was Pharo's main source code control system. Responding to general criticism that Smalltalk sometimes lives in its own shoebox and doesn't interface well to "standard" systems, Pharo is spending significant effort on Iceberg to adopt Git as its main version control system (I don't know of any other Smalltalk that has a GUI Git tool). But Iceberg is quite a new subsystem with a Technical Preview release in Pharo 6.0. It was initially slow to draw new users from Monticello as many users were not familiar with git, so bugs remained that were only exposed with broader use. Last December I was trying Iceberg and also experienced crashes with it.

One thing to keep in mind is that Pharo's usually great stability is due to everything being implemented in itself on a garbage collected virtual machine, i.e. memory-violation errors eliminated. Iceberg makes use of the "libgit" external C library via FFI. While this aligns with Pharo's policy of not reinventing the wheel (another oft criticism of Smalltalk) but does allow memory errors that normally could never occur. So the Iceberg subsystem is not a good benchmark to judge the stability of the rest of Pharo.

btw, Lately I've found Iceberg stability quite improved and I started using it daily. Also, based on constructive feedback an improved GUI is planned.

* Around December there was also bug in the new Garbage Compactor related to the conversion of the VM from 32-bit to 64-bit. This is a complex system that took a while to identify, diagnose and correct.

Unfortunately I think you landed in a perfect storm. If the presenter was trying to show off the latest features I guess you got caught up on the bleeding edge of development. Part of the problem here is Pharo bleeding edge is usually quite stable (I use it daily), but we of the Pharo choir better placed to work around any hiccups in order to push Pharo forward. But these should not be exposed to newcomers and you don't have time to deal with them in a classroom setting. I'm sorry this damaged your impression of Pharo, but please understand how your broad statements damage Pharo in turn.
That was my very first caveat to my wife, be careful b/c it isn't always obvious where the surcharges for delivery are slipped in.
>we do a lot of business together and I make you a lot of money
>Other banks are watching and there are plenty of other exchanges to do business with

And the answer to that should be "sorry, if we will roll back your trade, SEC will put us out of business on the fraud charges".
Great observations, and better stated than what I said.

Often the answer is "it depends". Which is usually unsatisfactory for the HN crowd.

I just hate uninformed and unnuanced PHP hating.

There are use cases where it's actually the best answer by a large degree.
As a fellow European living in the US I feel divided about this: while the opportunity cost is high and the business environment is definitely stifled by regulation, the quality of life and health consequences of the lack of regulation in the USA are massive and there's very little recourse for the little people against the criminal misbehavior of corporations.

There must be a happy medium between the two positions, I don't know that a country has gotten it right yet but the US is no paradise.
GPS Location,
Location Sharing,
Microphone Access,
Contacts,
Photos,
Camera,
Authenticated Accounts,
Product Purchase Authorization with Attached Credit Cards,
Bluetooth Access,

Pretty much everything important that your phone can do. Especially from an opsec perspective, if you ever needed to personally identify the individual the device belongs to, while they’re using it.
> Cox, a major cable operator, allows you to sign up and add any services you want online

Yap I am with them and noticed that as well. Pretty annoying. But same as many gyms (some even require you to send a letter, a call is not even enough).

I am lucky there is Verizon Fios so every few years I call whichever service I have and scare them that I am switching to the competitor. So then they either give me a discount or I switch and get a discount.
My reaction whenever I read things like the OP: https://blog.codinghorror.com/assets/images/codinghorror-app...
I'm a UC Berkeley alum. When I was there this was a course taken by humanity majors to learn some programming so that their Resume looks cooler. majority of STEM majors take CS 61A (SICP) or E7 (Programming in MATLAB). Just noting this as a context, this is not the class intended for CS majors; this : https://cs61a.org/ one is.
But, to the parent's point, right-clicking is never (and should never) be assigned any essential functionality. Everyone agrees that the hockey-puck mice were terrible but their initial goal was admirable, IMO - new users should always be able to find commands with a single click of a button or in a menu. More advanced users could do a secondary click for quicker access to commonly used features. That seems like a great design paradigm to follow for any alternate clicking.
Right now I wouldn't say prime now's inventory integration is any better, but I'm sure it eventually will be. Both instacart and prime now seem to have trouble determining if an item is actually in stock.
or you can just go with dinghy and be done with :p
The people who want the bridge built will hold the bridge building group to account.
There is an interesting alternative behind this story. Perhaps let them play, with some content and time checks in place, but also require them to be active in other things, like swimming, gymnastics, outdoor pursuits, things that require community engagement.
Voting machine vendor firewall config, passwords posted on public support forum
How well does it work to version control Mathematica notebooks in git? For example, is it possible to get meaningful textual diffs when comparing two versions of a mathematica notebook, and can git compress them enough to keep repo size down?

With iPython this is also an issue -- tracking code in JSON is much less clean than tracking code in text files.

It's interesting that Mathematica and iPython both left code-as-plain-text behind as a storage format. I wonder if it would have been possible to come up with a hybrid solution, i.e. retain plain-text code files but with a serialized data structure (JSON-like, or binary) as the glue.
Reading a bunch of small files from a volume is insanely slow from me in windows, so yeah...