skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Great read, I loved the letter vs. spirit workaround she employed in the end.

Amazon is growing in a bunch of directions very quickly, so issues like this are bound to crop up.

I think the solution to this one lies in a business strategy (scale support staff at the same rate you are recruiting customers & sellers) or automation rule (i.e. flag and send to support staff if more than X replies have been sent && account remains locked).

It will be interesting to see if they can solve these issues in a timely and cost-effective manner or if certain arenas (i.e. eBook publishing) will be neglected in favor of more lucrative & automatable ones.
Microsoft made a slew of IoT announcements at Build
Surprising to see competition in a space that is so dominated by Google. I hoped it’d be some open source endeavor, but seeing the link was Forbes I shouldn’t have gotten my hopes up... that said competition and options is good!
The surrounding areas in China to the west are populated, but relative to other parts it's not much population. You gotta go awhile to hit big cities: mudanjiang is tiny, yanbian is a weird place only growing because of the military presence near NK, and jilin/changchun are only big because of the relatively warm river. It's really damn cold up there otherwise (source: s/o is from there, we go back a lot).

It's like wondering why MN/ND aren't more populated, but then you go there for a winter and get stuck in a -40F wind chill and literally die, and can't wonder about the population any more on account of being dead (source: my family is from MN and ND).
I have no evidence to support it, but this article feels like bought and paid for PR.
iOS 11.4 to Disable USB Port After 7 Days: What It Means for Mobile Forensics
And if you're in the US, there are no restrictions on corporations restricting your rights. Only the government. The more that is privatized, the less rights you have.
Sorry, but you are way out of your league in trying to explain the "gist" of Music Theory in terms of frequencies. That's so not what Music Theory is about.
Happy to take suggestions if any.
Self-driving Uber that killed pedestrian reportedly didn’t realize she was human
Javascript's concatenation and equality rules alone likely will lead to your first premise being incredibly false.
This is an opportunity for enterprising OSS contributors -- by virtue of being written in Go, converting their current Dockerfile to one that uses multi-stage builds should be simple and the resulting image would be as minimal as they come.
What does this have to do with anything even remotely related to this article, other than it being a webserver? Symlink takeover is not a new vulnerability, and if someone has a user account on your server, you're already owned anyway. Escalating to root is trivial almost always.
3 Conditions for Successful Chatbot Implementations
Up to a point Lord Copper - I live in a UK country who's highest point is 200 ft above sea-level - so well just drown all those valleys in Scotland and Wales for hydro them.
It's wonderful to use in emacs, and back before I started using emacs ISTR that pinfo was a great way to read info.

I used to hate how GNU manpages would point me at the info docs, but honestly nowadays I prefer info. It really is nice — like a pre-CSS, pre-JavaScript HTML, only it can be beautifully typeset too.
Phillips isn't properly designed for power or hand tools. If it strips with a screwdriver, it's definitely going to strip with a drill. I've rarely seen power-driven Phillips screws that didn't have some sign of stripping, even using torque limiters and even on things fresh from the factory.

At least flat head takes uneven torque from hand tools well. It also allows improvised tools to be used in the field. If I'm working on say an off-road vehicle like a dirt bike, I'm going to tend to use just one size of hex bolt (usually 10mm) and flat heads for the screws.
That is what environment variables are for.
That's so wrong. Way back in 2012 Amazon already threw a raw deal at Flipkart and they haven't really spoken to each other since.

Also, Amazon have tried to crush Flipkart by essentially dumping their money into long term growth in India and Flipkart survived through it.

The Flipkart board would rather side with Walmart than Amazon, even if Amazon matched Walmart's offer. Walmart has ties with manufacturing in India. On the other hand, Amazon and Flipkart run a marketplace (mostly) in India.

Pretty sure Flipkart would have seen this and has taken the right decision in siding with Walmart.

Amazon's loss unless they can really do something about raw materials and manufacturing in India. That is the real deal now.
You Won't Like the Consequences of Making Pluto a Planet Again
I love how math and science people say that.

"The codes aren't working"

"I need to fix the codes"

"Does anybody have a good code for ..."

"I'm Gilbert Strang, a real code wouldn't do it this way, but it's instructive."
If you have a big website with lots and lots of different kind of visitors you either have:

- Visitors with a bandwidth so low it takes a long time for the JS to download completely (so making it work in the mean time helps a lot).

- Visitors with outdated browsers where your JS will stop on some unsupported feature you forgot to polyfill (I usually add a polyfill after when I see it but in the mean time it works), that's what I meant by "crashing", it never works 100% of the time in 100% of the cases, it depends on the browser as well.
Introducing Google AI
> If the number of people who visit your site with JavaScript disabled is less than the number of people who visit using the Opera browser, does it really make sense to add [number of supported browsers] x [JS on | JS off] permutations to your testing workload?

If your site doesn't work for people with JS disabled, you're unlikely to see significant traffic from people with JS disabled.
Fair warning: This article is geared more towards a less-technical audience or true beginners.

This post outlines what cross platform development is, the drawbacks and the benefits, and more.
This is some of the most self-centered reasoning I've seen on HN. Everyone should learn English to reduce your workload.

It's almost a caricature of the stereotypical redneck who has never left the country and gets mad when they overhear someone speaking Spanish at Fiesta, muttering "but this is America" under their breath.
Agreed, I think this is more an effort to have a free flow of event and information. It's not that one organization has a monopoly on it, it's that all users suffer small painful taxes at every boundary. Collectively they become rather large and this is a way to address that.
I believe the standard retort to this is that religion is a choice, whereas sexual orientation is not.

Which is understandable as far as it goes, except it is the sole exception to the accepted blank slate belief of sociologists everywhere. We carve out a very visible exception in this domain.

Zeitgeist: Our behaviors are all socialized into us, with the sole exception of sexual orientation. Contrast with the perspective that one's religion is merely a choice, such that after being socialized into a belief system for one's most formative eighteen years, one can simply toss it away thereafter.
Google keeps blanket banning industries because bad actors exist. There are legitimate ICOs and legitimate bail bond companies, as the author said, and google decides to not differentiate between them. They are an AI company they should be able to detect outright scams. Or god forbid they need to hire someone.

Then Google and Facebook use this and anything else to ask for regulation. Because regulation for entrenched players is just collusion to prevent disruption which will bump stock price.
It's not surprising at all. Google have essentially built a moat that is very hard to cross: https://www.justinobeirne.com/google-maps-moat
I assume you're referring to ejabberd (erlang) and prosody (lua)?
It gives less return on investments, however it also incentivizes those who don't invest (mostly middle and lower class) to hold onto their money instead of spending it immediately, because it's worth more in the future. Which could decrease consumption in the world and possibly create a more sustainable future.

Deflation seems bad from our current mindset of growth at all costs, and especially bad if you're one of the upper class who's investments return more than inflation, ensuring you'll keep your status.

But this could possibly bring a brighter future for humanity, where we tame the viral nature of capitalism and the rich getting richer at a far faster rate than the rest of society.
It still seems like it would be difficult to know WHICH type of screw you're dealing with, even if you have the right tools.
This reminds me of the concept of censor-bait in movies. Filmmakers sometimes include over the top, obviously gratuitous scenes, images, or language in their films so that the MPAA ratings board feels like they've done something when it's cut to later make an R or PG-13 rating.

This feels like Google inviting in regulation here so that lawmakers can feel like they've done something good and just, and that Google can later rely on this saying, "Hey now, we're not fighting regulation! We invited you in to look at the bail bonds thing!"
Using a reverse drill (if you have one) might also be helpful

The drill will bite into the screw and start unscrewing it
The true reason Britain cannot call Europe’s bluff
Didn’t we all think that? ;)
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If you use a service such as Cloudflare, you can restrict the ip range, ensuring that all requests go through that service (which probably has more experience with malicious requests than the website owner).
My beef with claiming Bitcoin consumes "as much as a country" is that it is uninformative, highly misleading. Countries span multiple orders of magnitude so it is like saying a vehicle weights "as much as a rock" when a rock could be 1 kg or 10 tons.
Renewable Energy Jobs Top Record 10M Led by Solar: Chart
Assume you have a posidrive screwdriver, which you probably don't. That was the point of this thread.
It seems like 'ask' in the financial sense is subtly different from 'request', also.

A request is commonly something you make to someone, which doesn't apply to the case of offering a sale to an open market. An ask is the thing for which you set your 'asking price', so it's almost closer to a challenge than a request - "I'll reward whoever hits price X with a share of stock".

And that subtly different meaning seems to carry over to 'ask' as a common noun. You wouldn't say "the Lunar X Prize was a huge request" because it wasn't requested of any specific group, but you might say "the Lunar X Prize was a huge ask", meaning "whoever tried to meet this bar had a very hard task".
Also, if you use JavaScript trackers instead of server logs, guess which group won't show on those trackers at all...
Again, this is the trend I posted about https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17014500

What happens if Amazon decides to disable your account? Well, folks. This is no longer a "what if", but a "now what?!"

Sure, you can sue. But as many people here are pro-capitalist, they will assert a company's decision to fire users with absolutely no redress of the data that was decided upon. Personhood rights, and all that.

(No, I don't believe that companies should get personhood rights. And yes, I do believe that we people have the right to see what data they use to determine how they work with us, or not. The GDPR in Europe is a good start.)

Where does it leave everyone? Well, for these people, certainly not using Amazon AWS now. And I'm guessing that they can't even extract their data either.

Aren't automated system "Great" ?
Prometheus exporter for custom eBPF metrics
Not so surprising after Google's recent pricing changes. They reduced the free tier by an order of magnitude and 10xed prices.

Google maps is no longer good for hobby projects as the free tier is so low.

It's like they're trying to drive away everybody but but big enterprise shops.
@wbmstrmjb Just tried to sign up as nra a few days ago. It told me it was not available.
Also sadly I forgot the password and now can't even recover it because it complains that there's no verified phone number (???), it never asked for one as the procedure failed as soon I selected a different country than USA.
When "the politics" has become an ego show, there's sadly not much of a political project left...
I think your fears are a bit misguided. WebAssembly runs within the same sandbox as JavaScript code. I don't see how this would constitute a _higher_ security risk than browsers as they stand today.
"Do a sanity check". Probably one of the most important things that is often overlooked.
Ha I just finished banging out an impassioned comment about how much I appreciate Robertsons compared to terrible, stripped-out Phillips. And don't tell me they were Pozidriv. I've known about that difference for a long time. They're still trash.

I have half a mind that they invented Pozidriv just to have a defense for how terrible the Phillips fastener is.
What's the advantage of that compared to using a bare IP? You still need a server to host your illicit content, so you're still exposed that way. Also, DMCA requests are sent to service providers, not to whoever owns the domain. The whole arrangement is probably worse than a bare IP because your site can be "taken down" by someone else with no warning.
Do you sit down to a nice meal of sugar and vegetable oil often?
if they want to improve the bail situation, they could help fund the setup of more organizations like the bronx freedom fund. http://www.thebronxfreedomfund.org/

the stats on the freedom fund's site don't make it sound as though you're doing anyone any favors by leaving them in jail. owing money to the bail bondsman isn't great, but it sounds better than losing your job because you're stuck in jail for weeks awaiting trial.
NYSE Owner ICE Is Said to Be Working on Bitcoin Trading Platform
Google Tasks Mac application
"(Humans have about 20,000 protein-coding genes.)"

"The researchers found 6,331 genes that were present in the common ancestor of all living animals."

"But 1,189 of the genes in the ancestral animal can’t be found in our closest known single-celled relatives."

So, 5142 genes are common between eukaryotes and prokaryotes, okay. But where is this 55% number coming from? This article is confusing.
MIT's self-driving car can navigate unmapped country roads
I've long wondered about this : if it can be shown that there isn't enough delta(t) in earth history for all of evolution to have happened, then some of evolution must have occurred somewhere else. Life, in at least some form, moving from other star systems seems at least not completely impossible.
Why doesn't Amazon at least include a hint as to what's wrong.

Automating this doesn't seem problematic per se, but omitting a key piece of info like that borderline malicious. It's a bit like an error message that just says "Error" - short of an absolutely green programmer I'd expect better.
I think the argument that:
- A is claimed to be bad
- This statement is wrong
- Because some instances of A is not bad

Is a type of nonsensical logical reasoning.
AWS survey results from 979 respondents including correct pronunciation of AMI
We view education and information as a pathway to solving social issues now until firearms are involved, then ignorance and stigmatizing turns back into the solution of choice again, yet the issue continues and worsens in certain demographics with this approach.

Imagine if we continued to say that the only way to stop teen pregnancy or the spread of hiv is a ban on sexual activity for teenagers and homosexuals.

Gun owners want to solve the problem as well, they simply dont agree with the assertion that the only way there is to violate our rights, plunge gun ownership into a dark corner, and paint it as a sin.
Microsoft undercuts Apple and Google to offer Win 10 app developers more money
[Click here] to confirm you have stopped beating your wife.
Google Research division is now under Google AI
The baker has stated in front of the supreme court that he would have been more than happy to sell them an off the-shelf-cake if that was requested, as opposed to him creating a wedding cake specifically for their wedding. One of the big problems here is that the interaction went from 0 to extremely hostile instantly. The couple asked about a wedding cake. The baker stated he does not create cakes for same sex marriages, but offered to sell them anything else or create custom goodies for a shower, birthday, or any other event. This was immediately met with expletives and rude gestures, and that was the end of their person to person interaction. That was followed by the couple presumably taking to social media the shop was bombarded with hateful calls and messages including a death threat.

It might be that the baker is lying, but this isn't even a he-said, she-said. There was not even the slightest effort made at compromise.
Ask HN: How do non-experts run technical companies (Carnegie, Musk, Jobs)?
What do these leaders do that cannot be done better by someone else?
As the article I linked to explains, 100,000 transactions on Visa uses considerably less electricity than 1 Bitcoin transaction.

If we can’t find any benefit that Bitcoin brings, then there should be a cost threshold where we start applying the brakes. In other words, how much energy are we willing to spend without a beneficial use case? With Visa and banks, we already know they serve hundreds of millions of people on earth—if not billions.
Anything for Windows or Linux users?
At an old temp job I had, my manager, much older than me, habitually photocopied faxes as they were received precisely because the thermal paper fades over time. Even stored well, in the dark, in a dry box, they'll gradually fade over time. Leaving them exposed to the light will fade them really quickly.
For some software engineers, a management position is considered a promotion.
People freak out about gun review videos, done responsibly at shooting ranges, but then watch a childish gambino video where he executes a person graphically, and praise him as a genius. Do they not think a video like that will encourage actual people to commit actual violence? Advertising works, and the cg video is basically an advertisement for graphic violence.
I get the appeal of "DAE hate JS" on Reddit where everyone upvotes you, but it seems out of place on a forum of professionals because JS is not much different than other dynamically-typed languages. I'd say it's better than Python which doesn't have async-by-default nor idiomatic closures. But "puke" is a bit childish.
On that topic, here's another one my buddy made of an area in the U.S. equal to the population of NYC:

https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/57xzkd/also_an_are...

(This is a popular topic on /r/mapporn)
Sorry - did your manager want you to have disagreed more strongly, and not committed?
Furniture-making often uses them as well. We're slowly coming around to the light.
Warning: Is Your Personality Killing Your Chances of Success?
I spend 4 hours every morning and 10 hours every weekend and have done it for 4 years now. 3-5 hours is hard, and there are days I don't feel it or am just struggling.

What I find is that if I am irritated with my day job, I do better side work. If I am irritated with my side job, my day job work quality is better. There's like this pendulum of me wanting to escape and I found harmony in having 2 things I generally like that also piss me off enough to oscillate back and forth between them. Occasionally I get delusions that my side project is on the verge of a breakout, and reality might smack me around into appreciating my day job more.

You could say I'm in a stable state of general productivity throughput, but the project that benefits varies.
I believe that your reasoning, if adopted by self-driving car companies as a norm, will delay the progress exponentially.

Innovation is an uphill battle.
The author spends the beginning of the article talking about how he takes security very seriously, that his webserver is practically uncompromisable, and that the odds of it being compromised are so remote because he has "the reflexes of a highly trained ninja" and doesn't run nginx as root.

I'm pointing out that his server isn't as uncompromisable as he's trying to lead the reader to believe.
Agree. The choice isn't between spaghetti VBA and clean code, it is between spaghetti VBA and business users doing more copy-paste and manual work. It's not economical to have a professional development team looking at every single task that needs to be automated in a business.
Hey, my survey results made Hacker News!
Ikea sells a $8 tool set that includes three sizes of Pozidriv bits - and other bits that perfectly fit their various connectors. It's well worth the cost if you're planning to assemble anything you got from IKEA and not lose your mind.
How Python, JavaScript, Git, and others got their name
Right, it's this quote from the article:

>“Asian food no longer has a health halo merely by existing,” the manager explained as I cleared away plates of mangled spring rolls. “The once ‘healthy’ perceptions of brown rice and lettuce cups aren’t believable anymore. Today, guests are linking health to nutrient density. Ancient grains. Avocado. Micro-greens.”

The experts' domain here is not what is actually healthy. Actual health doesn't even enter consideration. It's what "guests" are "linking" with health, that is, only perception matters because the operational goal is personal profit above doing right. Our food industry at large is suffering from a total preoccupation with orthogonal concerns, of which our insane food culture is the natural consequence.
Interesting a guy in the UK planted a forest a ten years ago to start production of Perigord truffles - after ten years is first harvest was 25 Truffles.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/05/05/welsh-landowner-...
The word you're looking for is "converge", not "coalesce", as in convergent evolution, which is well known. Here's a quick find using the googles: https://www.nature.com/articles/nrg3483
Isn't it weird to have references to some AWS services, but not CloudWatch Events itself? To me that would be the service that makes the most sense as a comparison point.
Reimagining The New York Times Digital Story Experience
> Slavery for instance. Is it false information to assert that slavery would be good? Or is it "wrongthink"?

Here's a concrete example: https://qz.com/1271960/google-has-banned-ads-for-bail-bonds-....

That's "wrongthink"--a view that seems obviously true to a certain set, only because they're not willing to think too hard about the situation.
>It boggles my mind that two of the richest companies on the planet can't fix this stuff.

You're suggesting that they want to fix it at all, rather than build new, shiny things.