skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do remember that article -- this article is certainly better, but the actor section explanation reeks of the one you buzzword collider soup you mentioned:

> Why did the actor model matter when building a large payments system? We were building a system with many engineers, a lot of them haivng distributed experience. We decided to follow a standard distributed model over coming up with distributed concepts ourselves, potentially reinventing the wheel.

Literally, the word "distributed" is just used repeatedly to get the point across. While I might have a bit of an axe to grind with people that just throw the actor model (or any pardigm for that matter, functional programming doesn't solve every problem, sometimes you should maybe just mutate some state and call it a day) around as a way to fix things, I am well aware that it is indeed a useful paradigm, this was a bad way to explain your choice of using it. If he built the kind of system I think he did, I'm not sure that the actor model even conveys much of a benefit, and was looking to that explanation to drop some wisdom on me. It did not.

My problem is that this article is indeed too basic. The problem is that he goes to great lengths to desribe why the architecture he built has the methodologies/approaches he's laid out, but then forgets to lay out the actual architecture -- this post is all ivory tower and none of the rubber-hits-the-road that you'd expect from a good technical piece. Things fall apart when the rubber hits the road, and sharing how they fell apart enriches people who read the article.

Most intermediate engineers working with distributed systems (in good engineering orgs) have already realized/run into these concepts, for those who may not have heard of these concepts, the article is very helpful, but for those who already know them, it's basically a rehashing of level 1.

For example, take any single chapter of the Google SRE handbook (e.g. https://landing.google.com/sre/book/chapters/service-level-o...), his post reads like the first half of a chapter, not the complete thing. Of course, the SRE handbook is a high bar to set for quality, but at least a whiff of this production-grade payments system he built would have been nice.
Namecheap is free for first year but you have to pay for any additional years.
Don't you need your phone in your pocket to use it?
Believe me - that's great!
When did we signal back in to the TPP!?
I found the most disturbing aspect of it that the defendant is barred from using the internet. This was perhaps a valid sanction to use 20 years ago but today this is tantamount to removing a citizen from society. I understand that you might want to bar vandals from computer access. This seems to be the wrong case to employ such a heavy handed measure.
"I appreciate you trying to discredit me instead of the argument I was making"

I'll just go ahead and roll my eyes at this trash.
Detailed Report Comparing NEO to Ethereum
Do the right thing right away, and you can't grow to a size where you can't provide customer support anymore.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16854997
It's interesting to me that you would see the economic arguments and assume they were a genuinely held first principle and not an inauthentic PR line meant to resonate with the more base fear and hatred.

In the United States at least there is a long history of this. Go look up what Lee Atwater said about the southern strategy. Summary: they embraced lines about low taxes and small government because it was getting impolite to campaign with the n word.
I think you'll just find enjoyment in other non-descriptive genres, that I would likely not enjoy. Personally I can practically see the things I read, and it's colored my reading so much that I almost get bored reading stuff that's not as descriptive. I also theorise that this is the reason I usually dislike movie adaptions - it doesn't fit with the "movie" my brain created.
And this news is HN worthy?
I really dislike this use of the term "disruptive / innovative" - it's almost a circular definition in this context, since it's effectively being used to mean "anything new that has a high chance of running afoul of the law". English has better words for this sort of thing: criminal, negligent, etc.

Launching a new product / service does not give a company carte blanche to do whatever they like, no matter what Uber et al. may prefer to believe. Suppose I want to create a "gun-share" app, because, you know, sharing economy and stuff. I should fully expect that, where laws exist that make this infeasible (e.g. background checks, transfer of ownership laws, etc.), those laws will be enforced. I should also fully expect that those laws might change.

If I've been paying attention to the broader world - something that Silicon Valley isn't historically that great at - I should probably have seen this coming for years, since that's how long it takes to build support for legislation. GDPR didn't come out of nowhere; data privacy, security, and ownership concerns have been building for a while now.

In the case of the GDPR: my personal position is that it gives EU citizens rights we should all have had from the start with respect to our data. Good on them for passing it, and for giving it teeth. If that tramples on some service that can't be bothered to respect those rights, I couldn't care less - and I say this as a small business owner who's fully aware that, yes, someday I too may face a GDPR compliance request. Maybe I'll be prepared, maybe I won't, maybe it'll never happen; that's part of doing business.
I thought it might've just been me at first since I normally use Twitter to confirm if X is down for everyone else. It doesn't help that their status page shows:

> All Systems Operational
I think China might already be an example of how that can go, where they've had a pretty strict regime for a long long time but we've seen that evolve over time.

I think North Korea is fascinating because it's been so isolated, and progress is bound to be huge. And the 21st century makes everything so much more visible. And seeing history happen is pretty exciting.

Although yes, the current state of North Korea's government does make meaningful progress difficult to imagine. But it's also not permanent. Either the government will evolve, or Kim Jong Un will die someday...
An email address is no Vorladungsfähige Adresse. You can't sue that, you can't send a Gerichtsvollzieher to it, and you can't seize the owners assets with it.

If I want to send an Abmahnung to a website owner, because they publicly defame me — as has happened before — then I need something stronger than an email address. Or I need to invoke the right to be forgotten, but I don't want to do so, I prefer having a way to eliminate the source.
Once I worked for a company where part of the website had been compromised by an attacker, and was being used to host some malware. We only found out when a random visitor found it, then looked through the site and found a random support address (which was supposed to be internal-only), and sent us an e-mail to tell us about it, which luckily generated a ticket which we eventually reviewed.

We would have preferred someone called us immediately, in case we didn't see the ticket immediately. But we didn't have a security hotline publicly listed.

Putting a phone number in a big public directory of phone numbers for when e-mail doesn't work isn't a bad idea, regardless of what anyone (including the EU) says. We've had phone books forever. This is just a phone book for domains.
Are you color vision impaired? Because I had no trouble distinguishing the words even as they moved?

This might be an accessibility issue?
"resurgence of a more creative side to the web"

So glad to see some hope here. Would you have any good examples of this trend you describe? I'd like to be more familiar with the space, like Mastodon, numerous libraries of decentralized, distributed, privacy-conscious, user-centered, self-hosted approaches..
It says "Twitter is taking too long to load" on mobile right now. But actually it always says that, 100% of the time, when I arrive at twitter.com on my Android phone. Yes it is down but it is always down. On mobile at least.
A) is not comparable to the current situation because you are the one initiating the action. I can't stop you from sending me an email so it can't be a crime on my part if you do so.
Either go deep enough to hit bedrock or design your building to float. They both work fine, it's just a question of cost.
Because “for years” that was the restriction. That doesn’t sound like much of a restriction. The implication is that it’s restricted less now. The story talked about how San Francisco resisted high rises for a long time, so that restriction doesn’t follow the story — that’s why I think it’s a typo.
If the poppy seeds are unwashed, even this version would break the law.
YouTube and Google are brutalistically antihuman companies. It would be trivially easy for them to solve these problems, but they don’t care.
People are unreasonable scared of doing things in signal handlers. It's very much not the case that the only sane thing to do is writing to a pipe --- for starters, there's an AF_UNIX socket. Or longjmp.

There's a lot of bad advice floating around about what is and is not "portable" based on half-remembered bugs in old systems nobody uses anymore. Examine the situation from first principles based on the world today, not dubious advice from an irrelevant era.
Dreamhost

https://help.dreamhost.com/hc/en-us/articles/216458407-Enabl...
It's still black liquorice of course, but yes, it's salted with ammonium chloride.
Language at the End of the World (2017)
Down for me. Haven't seen the failwhale in a while, it's like being transported back in time!
FB is building rich device profiles in order to crack down on fake profiles, which they call euphemistically 'security'.
It could become one, depending on why twitter is down or how long it stays down.

But yeah, nothing much to say or show for now.
In the grand scheme of things, whether they are "as capable" doesn't really matter.

If a nuke goes into Hawaii, does that matter psychologically if it doesn't reach US Mainland?

All they need is a credible threat of force. That's why nukes are a separate category from conventional explosive tipped ballistic missiles or cruise missiles.

A dirty nuclear strike can render a place uninhabitable for the next 100 years. Imagine wiping Hawaii off the US vacation list for a century.
I thought Twitter was still up as my feed was loading. Looks like it's restricted to viewing user profiles. Maybe there will be a brief uptick in productivity during the outage :).
Gridcoin is the biggest I'm aware of. Most people who mine it (that I've spoken to) think of it as a way of subsidizing their hardware and electricity, not as a get-rich-quick scheme. Since it lets you choose what project to work on, you can choose one that you approve of and that is well-suited to your hardware.

I was considering buying some old servers to mine it. I'd have pretty much broken even back when it was $0.10/grc, but it would have taken me ages to make back my investment.
>These down votes reflect a perception of the present without a context for the past

I think rather the comments in support of an open Whois are looking at the past with overwhelming nostalgia instead of objective reality.

To your own point, the Web is a very different place now. But Whois is still the same, reflecting a reality that no longer exists. It's time for a change.
>immigration is good for the economy as a whole

Or migrants will prefer countries which currently have robust economies, so more opportunities for them? Correlation does not imply causation.
statement like that is an easy way to get yourself in sights of the CBP PФ i guess
Well, option #1 is to build somewhere else. Is every square foot of SF subject to liquifaction? Or is it just the cheapest piece of ground? Is it that the local government has zoning rules that simply prevent development and density in the places that would be safer? To be clear, I don't blame developers for finding the cheapest option- that's how capitalism works. It's up to governments to make the rules such that the cheapest options are also the best ones.

Second, is there anything that can be done such that the soil won't suffer from liquifaction or will to a lesser degree? Probably expensive to do, yes, but surely there are means.

And there's probably a million other ideas that might work that I don't even know of. It's silicon valley, that's where ideas come from, right? "Impossible" usual gets San Francisco types all excited.

There's a downvoted reply to my original comment saying that I haven't actually tried to build these- and they are correct. I'm not a civil engineer. But I am a firm believer that if you make strong regulations and enforce them, clever engineers always find a way, at a cost. But the hard part of that isn't the engineering, it's having the political willpower to enforce strong rules.
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Signals are process wide. There is no confusion on this subject; people who claim there is are probably thinking of the delivery of process-directed signals, which is an entirely different subject. There is no current system for which sigaction acts per thread.
These groups have ethical standards that are directly related to their work. So as tech people we should have standards for our line of work. Again, let's look at Stallmann.
that would be nice.
This could be as easy as:

1. Open control center.

2. Control music from there.

3. There is no step 3.
All fine according to https://status.twitterstat.us
I think the biggest problem is they make you look like a douchebag but feel like a hipster.

That’s a wreckless combination the world isn’t ready for.
GDPR and Third-party websites
Just turn the border into a nature preserve like it is already. Add some bridges and done.
Is Headspace the new Juicero?
But what about all the small retailers that do business under the Amazon umbrella?

Somehow, a lot of those little businesses still do not charge sales tax. A significant fraction of Amazon's sales are those little retailers.
Twitter being down (widespread) for even a minute seems pretty huge imo.
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It was down for 5 minutes, came back for 5 minutes, is now down again for me (website and iOS app, Munich, Germany)
Know your math (and floating point hacks, and ...)
If only because twitter is usually where one turns once an outage is reported on HN.
Vista being painfully slow was not limited to low-end machines. I had a fairly powerful (8GB+ RAM, new i5, etc.) gaming rig when it came out, and everything was slow on it: I'd click something in the interface and have to wait 5+ seconds for it to respond, Windows Explorer would crash randomly, etc. Even booting up seemed to take forever. Upgrading to Windows 7 fixed all such issues, and I still have the machine to this day, which I've kept with Windows 7 (although I upgraded the GPU).
Seems like this "meme" comes from twitter HQ after all
https://media.giphy.com/media/z9AUvhAEiXOqA/giphy.gif
Andrew Chen Joins Mapbox as Head of Product for Maps and Search
also, why would a company that holds a billion dollars in capital sell for 100 mln ?
Do you remember the name of this documentary? A quick search didn't turn up anything. I live in the area and would love to learn more about this.
Sorry, that was a bad example, and that I didn't explain - making even less comprehensible. It was an attempt to counter your assertion that I "have a problem with other people having large pieces of pie" - which is as ridiculous, as if I stole $100 from you [which gives me more money than your $0], and asking if you're okay that I stole $100 from you. Your accusation was completely baseless/shallow, I should have just said that.

Re:"People that hold USD have their pie diluted"

Ah ha! I think we can get somewhere now. Early adopters, their pie piece gets bigger, and late adopters -- their pie gets diluted (because they're covering the cost of bigger pieces of pie of the earlier adopters).

If USD is bad because the pie gets diluted (because of monetary policy/governance etc), then why isn't it equally bad for the late adopters that their pie is diluted too? Or you only are thinking/care about the early adopters?

Does this make sense to you now? You understand how late adopters are covering the early adopters "profits"?
The 'Coffee Shop Effect': Why Changing Your Location Boosts Your Productivity
It seems that you have two options,
First option, can you provide what the client is asking without risking the product?
If so go in the meeting prepared with a project proposial and negotiate your price.

But if this is something too much to do and will eventually harm the product since you said it its a two person team, then its probably best to let them know that you cannot offer that service but be ready to offer them some advice/recommendation, for example if you have a company in mind that could do the job.
MIT AGI: Autonomous Weapons Systems Policy (Richard Moyes)[video]
Less than a week ago.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/nafta-auto-negotiations-1.46...
He could make that argument, but he'd be laughed at all the way to De Hague.

He always had the option of just laying down the weapons, opening the border to the South and letting others make the decision from now on. It's not like South Korea are actually their enemy in want-to-kill-them terms.
You assume waaayyyy too much stability for a body of air. The air around you is moving constantly. Every bit of movement and every tiny heat source causes movement.

The problem is people don't see "air", but there are ways to visualize it (e.g. Schlieren photography). Or just watch smoke.
At least as of Monday.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trade-china-tpp-expla...
interesting outage map: http://downdetector.com/status/twitter/map/
No, it's not. Telegram clients are; telegram, as a service - the server component - is not.
Can you explain why do you think the following is not happening in US:

A new party is created, as an example, a green party, that is all for green energy, ecology, privacy (just an example)
This party could grab 10% then if the other 2 parties are balanced, they would have around 45% each, then the major parties would need support from the small party to pass some laws, for this support the green party would get back some of their ideas implemented.

Are there laws or money that block such thing to happen?
How Does Alzheimer's Change the Brain?
You dont just cure disease by doing protein folding simulations. thats just a very tiny part of drug development.
Wow, I haven't seen this repost since like 2009
You can disable Cortana in every version of Windows 10 from regular settings, and it even asks you upon install.

Telemetry can be set to basic in settings too, which is harmless, and it also asks you upon install.
React Native Shimmer Effect
Getting this page on login:

"Something is technically wrong.
Thanks for noticing—we're going to fix it up and have things back to normal soon."
Of course, that's an obvious conclusion - OPs point though was about CO2, which is unlikely to be what guides those vicious beasts to ones feet.
The pizza was done in a reflector oven.

There's a horizontal panel to support the food, a 45-degree lower panel to reflect heat upward into the food, and a 45-degree panel to reflect heat downward into the food. And then there's some wirework to keep it upright next to your fire.

It all folds flat and slides into the pocket of your pack normally reserved for the ballistic armor plate. Maybe it isn't designed for that, but few other things would fit in there. Maps, perhaps?

There may be another way to rig the reflectors to reconfigure as a solar oven.
so basically what china's doing
Seems they might need you assistance in finding out what they actually need. Just because they say we want X deosnt mean that's what they actually need.

So, requirements specification, user stories etc.

The next thing is to tell them you will sort it, charge them lots and just subcontract to some freelancers or another company if your own cannot handle the extra work load.
XMPP could utilize your existing email address as XMPP address - that's a solution as well.
That's not how tolerances work.

You don't get exactly 10% failure rate, you have to demonstrate better than 10% failure rate which means going past that point. Further, failure is not 'collapse' failure is anyone in the building being unable to exit safely.

And again, they are aiming for a 9.0 that's a ridiculously large earthquake. An 7.8 similar to the last SF earthquake would still be a major earthquake, but vastly less dangerous by comparison.
Thanks for the info.

Ah, yes, its documented:

https://www.namecheap.com/security/whoisguard.aspx

>When you register an eligible new domain name or transfer an existing eligible domain into Namecheap, you'll receive the first year of WhoisGuard privacy protection absolutely FREE.
right, and if earn.com is sitting on a billion worth of bitcoin, why would they sell for 100mln and why would the founder take a CTO job? Doesn't sound plausible
My cycle is usually reading books. Then watching tutorials and finally trying to implement a simple application using what I learned is what usually works for me. As far as hobbies, doing some sort of physical exercise helps get my creativity/cognitive process going. Also getting enough sleep and recovery.
I wonder if there's any money to be made in an electric heating company that installs bitcoin miners in your home instead of heating coils.
> Developer velocity has no practical impact on the user experience.

This may be true in a megacorp. I doubt it's true in a project like Signal where resources are limited and a few developers are the single bottleneck for everything, UX or otherwise.
Unfortunately, the main counter argument in this thread, from what I gathered, is "ordinary people wouldn't do that". Including someone claiming that if your mom wouldn't do it (in this case), it's not legal: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16854087
Not yet. Come join the chat room for YC S18 applicants : https://www.hackerschat.net/
Relevant: https://golem.network/
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Is that a bad thing? What does the Slack "native" app do that the website doesn't? The website supports push notifications on the desktop.
You sound like me. I'm not really very social (but I like people), so just unscribe works for me. I use LinkedIn as a rolodex.

What did (if a anything) work for you?
How do you figure Toronto is more culturally diverse than LA? LA has large communities of people from essentially every part of the world. Maybe they're roughly on par?
In the map I see areas marked with red on Japan, London, Barcelona, New York, and 2 pink-ish locations in the USA.
I peed in bottles (while driving) for fear that I would miss the date I was driving to (and already late).

Maybe I should write an article on brutal conditions of city living and online dating to get people to feel sorry for me.

If you don't want a job at Amazon's shit hole warehouse, then why the fuck do you go in everyday? At least their putting your dumbass to meaningful production sinve obviously you are too stupid to work anywhere else.
This is a silly argument. Some people don't want to do the thing you do. They are willing to pay for it. You do want to do the thing you do. You're willing to pay for it.
> at least 30 feet [of lean]

I'm pretty sure the building would have lost structural integrity from the force applied by gravity before the lean can reach 30 feet.
If a company can't support the number of customers/clients it eagerly takes in, it's time to either scale up support or scale down customers/clients.
Basically, you store everything as integers.You can specify whatever precision you want, just by saying x digits are before the decimal. E.g. 1.234566 is 1234566. Rounding when needed(just be consistent), but you never round until the last step which is when you're going to be displaying/storing the final value.