skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One, there was no public crucifixion here, no court, no treason, even as an analogy. Had Stallman not replied on the list to insist on his own personal veto over glibc changes, the project would have moved on, nobody would have asked about whether that veto makes sense, and if he showed up on some technical thing two months later people would have absolutely listened to him with extra weight. And even so, nobody is questioning him as a person, nor attempting to care about what he says or police his project participation based on his views - multiple people in favor of the removal have quite clearly said that he can say what he likes on stallman.org and nobody cares. They're just questioning his veto.

Two, what is the "one side" being favored here? It's not aligned on political axes - Stallman is a left-leaning person making fun of a right-wing policy, which is the opposite of many accusations I hear about codes of conduct. If it is aligned in favor of the consensus of the active maintainers of a project and against individuals, no matter how important, that seems like a very good thing that projects should be aligned on.

Three, I don't know what "thin-skinned" means here. I'd call the project maintainers who are holding to a consensus decision in the face of threats by their own project leader thick-skinned, and the man who can't admit that his irrelevant, unfunny joke from 25 years ago is irrelevant and unfunny thin-skinned.
You realize it's the current version of glibc which has the political joke? The patch that RMS is opposing here removed a political reference from the docs.
My mistake! Thanks for the correction!
Really glad to see K8 getting this level of investment. Even if it will take a month to explore all the links in the CNCF landscape ;)

Just want to remind anyone who hasn't tried K8. You can run MiniKube locally right on your laptop to get a taste of its power (and complexity):

https://kubernetes.io/docs/getting-started-guides/minikube/

For example, a 3-node Redis Enterprise cluster, all run locally:

https://redislabs.com/blog/local-kubernetes-development-usin...

Currently using GCloud and Stackdriver monitoring, but a few of the tools I am excited about include:

Prometheus / Granafa / KSonnet

KubeFlow ML

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6iMznIYwM8

Istio, for programmatic routing

https://istio.io/

And, Agones, for game hosting

https://agones.dev/
on a desktop walmart.com is a long series of annoyances:

- hamburger menu on desktop, why?

- not 100% recognizable icons in the upper right (requiring a hover)

- Large product images for categories with tiny text

On the plus side, search and search results are well done.

Why does nearly every ecommerce site put product reviews at bottom of the product page? I'll never understand it.
Part of this is also people jumping to microservices when they really have no need for them. When you have less than 5 developers and very little traffic...it's just absurd. But people are doing it anyways. Because "monoliths" are "bad". And honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of these microservice architectures end up totally botched and creating a ton of headaches without delivering much benefit.
I agree with RMS's pro-choice opinion, but I honestly see no reason a 20-something year old joke about abortion needed to remain in the documentation.

The consensus was that it be removed. It was removed. Just because HMS is a FOSS legend doesn't make him God.
Thank you. The FOSS world seems like a fraternity to which I clearly don’t belong. But to the folks that write FOSS — thank you. I admire the fortitude it must take to put up with this petty nonsense.
I drive that stretch of road almost every single day, at night.

Yeah, the video looked different than what my eyes see because my eyes have better low light sensitivity than most cameras.

However (if this makes sense): the video released was an accurate representation of what you see driving on that road. A few weeks ago, I had somebody almost walk into my car out of the shadows (this person was paying attention though, and stopped in the empty lane next to me). It turns out it's REALLY difficult to see people in the streetlight shadows.
Recruiters are hired by the companies trying to fill positions. The company's interest is to fill the position with as low of a salary as the market will tolerate, which is direct opposition to my interest, which is getting the highest salary that the market will tolerate. That mostly only applies if the recruiter is approaching me.

If I'm approaching a recruiter, it's extremely likely that I'd at least be willing to give them a minimum salary. I've never done this though - it's always been random recruiters spamming me on LinkedIn.
Is it still unacceptable to patent my algorithm?

It's entirely legal. It's entirely normal. In your economy (presuming you are in the USA) its not only normal and legal its acceptable. Its not free: you face some significant costs in achieving a defensible patent.

How I feel about it (the patent) is not altered by your really awful circumstances. I am really sorry you have to carry this burden, and I feel for you, wishing I had some magic bullet. a patent is not a magic bullet. Its not even a guaranteed income. Its a risk actually, a liability which needs to be both bought, and defended.
So, can I replace these or are they embedded-embedded?

The Google Assistant seems to have custom code, so it would be understandable, if I can't replace that, but then it's hopefully at least possible to turn it off.

If not, I'm not buying a Volvo in my lifetime.
Is it better if they are not your own citizens?
Brendan Burns and Joe Beda both work at other companies on kubernetes. Joe founded a startup to work on it. Why would they do that if they hated it?
As someone who is starting to watch what they eat, and try to watch calories as well as other nutrition things, I'm glad this is happening, but I wish it was possible for it to apply more broadly, too. For that, I guess, it would need to be easier/cheaper to get the nutrition of a recipe than it is now.
And it works with procedural programming also! I've been teaching programming in schools since I was in school myself - teaching the kids who know more than their teachers, as well as the kids that teachers don't think are ready to code.

Procedural thinking is something that anybody who knows socks come before shoes can do. Conditionals can be understood by anybody who wears different clothes on a weekend than on a schoolday. Loops can be understood by anybody who can eat a bowl of soup by drinking a single spoonful and then doing that again and again until the soup is gone.

Kids can definitely engage in computational thinking from a young age. We just need to offer them the opportunities to do so.
Thank god I haven’t had that happen yet. I’ve had Amazon give above-and-beyond customer service twice recently. They gave me discounts and credits I wasn’t even asking for. I hope it doesn’t go down the drain but I suppose at some point it’s bound to happen.
I'm one of the creators of Terratest. Happy to answer questions.

The main question I've seen so far seems to be how Terratest compares with various "spec" tools (e.g., inspec, serverspec). Most of the spec tools focus on checking the properties of a single server or resource. For example, is httpd installed and running? Terratest is largely for end-to-end, acceptance style testing, where you deploy your real infrastructure, in a real environment (e.g., AWS), and test the infrastructure actually works as expected.

For example, let's say you wanted to test a module for running Vault (https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform-aws-vault), which is a distributed secret store. With a spec tool, you might test a single Vault node to check that Vault is installed and the process is running. With Terratest, you'd check that the whole Vault cluster deployed correctly, bootstrapped itself (including auto-discovery of the other nodes), that you can initialize the cluster, unseal it store data, retrieve data, and so on.
Ha. No. It's pretty obvious that the subtext will be crapping on white guys--who wants to sign up for that sort of gaslighting and abuse?
I agree with this, Occam's Razor suggests your description of events is more likely.
Oh yes - I was unclear about disagreeing with the joke. I don't think anyone is openly disagreeing with the politics of the joke per se, they seem to be saying that it's not meaningful technical documentation and they empathize with those who might disagree with the politics (which might be themselves or might not). So yes, I don't think there's a left/right political divide either here, or elsewhere.
Yes I'm 100% with you on this. I mainly dislike how the LWN article is framed.
This[0] is relevant. He's possibly alienating only a group of vocal people. It isn't clear form the article that it's the consensus more than it is the consensus of people in an email thread.

After clicking around the mailing list, it looks more like what [0] suggests than it being a clear majority of contributors to glibc.

That said, alienating anyone could be problematic.

[0] https://lwn.net/Articles/753720/
> Again, if it is considered socially acceptable to censor pro-2A speech, we are a social regime-change away from justifying the censorship of pro-4A or 1A speech, or practically anything else.

Let's say you run a discussion group in your home for recovering alcoholics, but open it to anyone who's passing by. A person enters and starts to try to convince everyone to drink more alcohol.

Do you have the right to invite this person to leave? Are you censoring this person if you did so?
For clarification, landlords have an advantage when there is a boom, but a disadvantage when in a bust.
"We're failing and I hate my cofounder. Now's the perfect time to jump on board!"
I think you've misunderstood who is responding to who. A "dearth of somewhat counterproductive features" is being described as a bad thing in the OP, using an incorrect/nonexistent definition of "dearth" as "there are too many somewhat counterproductive features".
In new zealand we have http://www.foodstandards.govt.nz/consumer/labelling/panels/P...

and Mcdonalds for instance... https://mcdonalds.co.nz/sites/mcdonalds.co.nz/files/Nutritio...

which is great if you care about it. But generally if you care about such things you have a pretty good idea for most foods anyways. Though, there are a few foods that it's not entirely obvious there's lots of sugar in them.
A lot of people are only adopting Kubernetes because they think they will benefit from Dockerized microservices when they don't even have most of the problems that solves. There's a lot of extra development and operations effort going into things for no real reason other than mistaking this technology for a silver bullet.
Kops, kubeadm, rancher, kubespray all do what you want, but differently depending on your needs. What were you looking for?
> There is bit of a weird standard when it comes to censoring because of the nature of content, audience, culture and location. There is no perfect solution to this problem.

That's why the general internet ideal was no censorship until fairly recently. Pretty much the "hacker/tech/EFF" was the standard "you have the right to be offended".

> Example - If anyone shares gun videos on social network from a place where carrying guns is a normal practice it may not get censored that quickly or may not even get reported.

What we used to say on the internet was that if you don't like it, then don't consume it. If you don't like porn, guns, marijuana, etc, you don't have to visit the sites or click the video. But there is a small vocal contingent who wants to decide what everyone wants to consume.

> While on other end someone who maybe coming from an entirely different place or culture may find this offensive or a safety issue.

It's why one should take a principled stance. As a liberal, it's what we learned in civics/philosophy 101 class.

I'm genuinely surprised that the media, elites and their liberal allies have been pushing so hard for censorship. It feels like a betrayal of the core principles of the US in particular and the hopes we had for the internet in general.
This is the nth time answering this, but, well: Updates. Doing them efficiently. Vandalism detection. Geocoding and directions. Devops: this is not a trivial computing challenge. The list goes on.
Watch the final 40 minutes of GTC 2018 and you will know who is winning this race
In this case, I'm not supporting any particular ideology; merely stating a hypothesis that is currently under contention: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahmi_script#Semitic_model_hy...
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> Autonomous cars have an advantage here compared to even the best human drivers - a persistent 360 degree awareness of the surrounding.

Autonomous cars don't have an advantage because they don't exist. They may have an advantage one day when they are finally ready (but that may always be 5 years away)

> If an object appears on the road, the autonomous vehicle can easily calculate whether it's safe to steer left, or right, or hit the breaks. A human will make a roughly random choice.

Even with a 360 degree view, it still has to recognize the object, classify it correctly and make a decision. All tasks which are difficult for a computer to perform reliably enough to be allowed on a public road.

The Uber car had a 360 degree view but it still ran over Elaine Hertzberg, and as far as we know didn't even stop after it hit her. The Tesla Autopilot has 360 degree view but still tends to crash into barriers, tractor trailers, street sweeping trucks and fire trucks.
I’d actually say it’s a lot easier - there aren’t any crash barriers, planes are spaced far further apart, etc.

But at the same time, I’d never want to fly in a passenger plane without a pilot, because when emergency situations happen, autopilots usually can’t handle it and need intervention. When the engine on QF32 exploded, the pilots had to do checks and make judgements on something like 200 different error messages before they could land! Since so many of the plane’s systems were damaged by the explosion, a lot of this may not have been possible remotely.

And the stakes are much higher when an uncaught sensor error or something can mean flying into the ground from 30,000 feet - unlike a train (the only thing that actually has a good safety record running driverless so far) you can’t just stop in an emergency!
No, it's a LoTR reference
There should be a fourth category of disclosure: namely, what types of information are they censoring. Violent or obscene information would be an obvious category. But what about political speech? Are they censoring information favorable to a certain candidate? They need to be transparent about their methodology of identifying censored content.
In the us you have 12 month grace period to file a parent application after public disclosure. Outside the us you do not have that grace period.

Unfortunately this means you cannot apply for any non-us patent because you’ve already disclosed it. Sorry to bear bad news.
ModAL: A Modular Active Learning Framework for Python3
Future engine economics would have been interesting, as well as digital design models once there was a market for Concorde B+, C and so on. Current engines for commercial jets are bypass fan designs. If the same efficiency gains had been achieved for the type of engine in a concorde... (who knows? maybe military jets are now significantly more efficient)
> Eventually, more taps were installed on Soviet lines in other parts of the world, with more advanced instruments built by AT&T's Bell Laboratories that were nuclear-powered and could store a year's worth of data.

I assume they're referring to an RTG[1], where heat is generated by natural decay.

Earlier the article specifically mentions the storage medium being tape, and that they were replaced on a monthly basis. Perhaps the larger capacity versions were also tape? Was that the only realistic option at the time in such a situation, deep underwater with a requirement for large storage capacity?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioisotope_thermoelectric_ge...
Having nutritional information available is government overreach? And we wonder why people are so fat and sick in this country? Having stupid attitudes like that seems to be a much bigger contributor than sugary drinks.
I have the same problem. Too traumatized (when I was young) by a person teaching in a lecture format. I like self discovery and tinkering.
I too listened to my heart and after years of thinking about it, made the jump.

I too worked as a contractor for many of the top consulting firms. In my late 40's I returned to academia to a do a PhD in software engineering. Graduated last year and back on the consulting trail. The years doing the PhD were an emotional roller coaster ride, but that is par for that course. I have no regrets having had that "adventure". But for me continuing on as a Post-Doc or doing more adjunct teaching are unappealing. Becoming a F/T academic is rather difficult, lots of applicants for every position advertised and you need to have an impressive list of papers, etc to be considered.
Yeah precisely.

drb91's feigned confusion at how people are not ignoring an arrogant approach at argumentation may simply be an attempt at focusing on the "meat" of the argument rather than the wrapping. Noble, but ultimately incorrect. The argument isn't made to only one person, it's meant to be spread to the general population, and almost nothing from Stallman can really be shared with the general population because his ideas are wrapped really, really badly.

I just want to make it clear: acknowledging the reality of this doesn't mean you endorse it.

One of the most magical things on the internet is the meritocratic aspect of it. It just doesn't translate to real life. I know a lot of my guildmates from the very early WoW days would have been baffled to learn their raids were led by a 14 year old child. I also know I've seen similar experiences reflected on this forum (people recounting being treated as equal peers by others, despite their very young age, different genders, different religions etc). All this is possible because those differences don't come up in a limited context where you, for example, don't see each other face to face. I love that, and I wish it were like that everywhere. But it's not, and if you want your message to be heard, you can't eat your footstuff in public.
The discussion is a proxy for how executive decisions are made for glibc, and in particular by whom.

The merit of a stale joke from the 90s is meaningless, and posturing about its appropriateness is disingenuous. Open source principals have always been eccentric (Torvalds, Raymond(!), etc.), and the FOSS community tolerated it not only because of their technical contributions, but because the open source community itself is an expression of tolerance based on shared objectives.

Of course others would like to wield their influence in the generation of the DNA of the internet, and there is a tremendous amount to be gained by scandalizing, discrediting, and isolating its core maintainers.

Perhaps eventually RMS will come around and remove the joke himself, after finding it does not stand the test of time. But it would go a long way to resolving this if they could demonstrate they aren't just using the joke as a pretext for scandal to undermine the decision making structure of a project.

It's clearly not about the joke.
Did knowledge of the leaks in cables lead to advances in cryptography?
Koo-ber-net-tees
Can someone do something about China? 1.7 billion and rising people with no real effort to curb emmissions because it would stiffle investment. Hence why their cities are cesspits of filth
My experience is the same. For day to day, bluetooth phone<->car connection beats Carplay or Android Auto. Wireless autoconnect is key, should've been in the V1 of those standards.

I never bother with Carplay for less than a 1 hour trip.
I enjoyed reading this story :) Nice buildup to the gate of complex problems.

I remember that at elementary school we turned on a bunch of C16-s at the same time and we tested random number generators and some showed the same value, cool demo of determinism

instead of xλ6 I would have chosen xλ3.14159265359
it might lead to different questions, but who knows, just deeper rabbit holes :)
> The law doesn't see "all comers" as equal

AlexB138 was asking whether are laws are ethical, not whether the laws were legal. Describing the laws in more detail doesn't really resolve the tension.

In other words, why are some classes protected while others aren't? Is there a principle that we should be applying impartially (as in Rawlsian justice)?
The problem is that a city lacks the resources to manage a country-wide problem. A lack of social support, especially mental healthcare means that you have more than half a million schizophrenics aloe on the streets. The war on drugs creates yet another class of “untouchables” and the crossover between drug use and mental illness muddies the issue. This is something the federal government and states need to consider from the ground up, but instead they just shunt money to private sector cronies, prisons, and cops.
Nobody who removed the joke said they were offended by it, they just said that they didn't believe it was the sort of thing that belonged in technical documentation. If anyone is offended, it is RMS, in the sense that he seems personally affronted that he doesn't carry the line-item veto power he thinks he had over all of GNU and people did not ask him before removing something he added 25 years ago.

Not everyone who disagrees with something is offended by the thing they disagree with. Shall I say that someone who prefers writing documentation in man pages instead of Markdown is offended by Markdown? Is Project Zero offended by buffer overflows?
There's kind of an issue with discount rates though in that if you say a dollar today is worth say $1.05 next year it implies you should discount global warming damage a couple of centuries ahead by a factor of over 17000. But I'm not sure that's reasonable.
The probability of any positive, and the probability of a false positive are quite distinct things. It makes a big difference if, of that 10%, 99% are false positives, or 1% are.

If 99% are false positives, then there is another form of harm being done even if the police are not abusive. Time and energy are being spent to vet those positives. It's like medical tests that say you have cancer. If there are a lot of false alarms, people waste effort and don't catch the real issues.

The number of false negatives also matters, and is also not determined by your 10% figure. That is, out of the 90% that weren't flagged, how many should've been?
A friend of mine was trekking through a small village in the Amazon rainforest and got chatting to one of the locals. When he said he was from London he was asked "How many days up-stream is that?"