skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's all nice. The issue though is that BOSH has been completely leapfrogged by Kubernetes with its extensible API. Nowhere will BOSH ever get to the community reach and acceptance of the level of Kubernetes. That Boat has sailed. And with implementations of the machine specs [0,1,2,3] you get rid of the "media break" that you deem BOSH is filling (it is not). Maybe you could implement BOSH as implementation of the machine spec and integrate into K8s, the other way round than KuBo?

As for the bunch of data services, I guess it's only a matter of time until you see a cambrian explosion of productive operators. I mean this non-comprehensive list [4] is already impressive.

SAP works in many projects where obligations with long term commitments have to be kept. And that is ok. BOSH CPI is one experiment to get CF on K8s. Have a look at the one which seems more attainable [6]. But these activities are an indicator of the elephant in the room, namely CF & K8s: Will it blend? [5]

I work for SAP in the inter-junction of SaaS, PaaS & IaaS and K8s.

[0] https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api

[1] https://github.com/kube-node/nodeset

[2] https://github.com/gardener/machine-controller-manager

[3] https://github.com/kubeup/archon

[4] https://github.com/operator-framework/awesome-operators

[5] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ow7IumxkOM

[6] https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qs6UQQDWMkfOpY19XqS3CfvI...
Uh, this is why I tried to study pure maths (it's less physics and more weird differential geometry)
I can recommend this paper [0] that talks about simulations that show a black hole just implodes in a weird way and kind of does not stop imploding, due to space-time getting stretched with a speed above that of light, as measured within a frozen moment in time, and summed over some line from inside to outside. A working analogy could be a 2d-spacetime, represented in 3d-space as a soap bubble film. Imagine the traditional visual funnel shape the space time around a black hole is often depicted as, compared to the downwards bump normal stars/planets are depicted.
So, now, the thing is that the effect of gravity, e.g. gravitational waves, are bound by the speed of light. They can not escape a black hole.
In the soap example the gravity waves would be film thickness waves, e.g. longitudinal waves in the thin soap sheet.
Those are bound by the speed of sound in their medium.
Imagine a stream of air with significantly higher speed than the sound in the soap, getting blown downwards this funnel. Also imagine the funnnel still having a closed tip made from soap at the start.
Thing is, this air will hit the tip, propell it downards, and suck the part close to the center down just by itself, without the center indirectly pulling on it.
Due to the supersonic nature, the ripple created from the initial impact of air onto the center will _never_ get out of there, just because the medium the waves travel through, when measured over the distance from where the wave is right now, to where the outside world with neglegible space-time (or soap-film) curvature is, expands faster than the wave travels. This does not mean the wave does not travel at all, just that once the distance you want it to travel increases enough, the propagation medium's expansion results in weird effects.

If someone is willing/able to point me to some research or possibly even wants to use existing skills with the related differential geometry maths, I'd really like that.

Edit: I might add that anything that falls into the black hole will, even in it's own reference frame, _never_ reach the center, and the only reference frame that possibly sees a steady state field curvature in finite local time could be the center of the collapse.

[0]: https://arxiv.org/abs/1402.1524 (Which was published about half a year after I initially and timestamped communicated the idea to a physics teacher who was willing to explain me the differential maths used in Einstein's field equations.)
That information wouldn't be directly included, but some account has to post the hit. That account is either associated with some company or some person who works for some company.
The SCADA stuff was novel and interesting though and goes above and beyond your average malware both in what it did and the idea to do it in the first place.

A really creative hack, so to speak. (or destructive? anti-destructive? shrug)
More sophisticated than self driving car software?
IIRC, the cookie law applies only to third party cookies. So you can freely set a first party cookie to store their opt-in/out.
Does the Uber one count in the same statistical category since it was a pedestrian? I thought those were there own category?
And somewhat ironically Rails deprecated the particularly magical features like `find_by_name("Bob")` aliases in favour of saner variants like `find_by(name: "Bob")`.
Even if it's just an ID, if you know the company you work for is a specialised online shop and you see your neighbor's address on there (assume rural area), you know they ordered with them. Depending on the kind of store that can already be critical.
> EXACTLY! There seems to be an almost cultish devotion to the benevolent institution that it can do no wrong, neither now nor henceforth.

You have to trust someone. Either the vast expanse of companies clearly mishandling your data, or the "benevolent" body which so far at least has a fairly good track record. It's not perfect. It's dangerous to give them too much power because you don't know how they will change in the future. But at the end of the day, I'd rather trust a governmental body which is at least supposed to look out for my interests, rather than a company whose main motivation is to exploit me for every penny I have.
Considering that we have known about Stuxnet for nearly a decade, why are we still using OS technology that makes such changes/intrusions/phoning-home so easy to conceal?
writer has no idea how worms, exploits & antivirus programs work.
Another Carmack-Jobs story
Pupils find spellchecker 'cheat' in literacy test
If you read this book purely for its informational value, I agree with your assessment.

That being said, I read it mostly for entertainment and I think the author did a good job of packaging a lot of factual information into a captivating story.

That being said, not all parts are created equal. There are quite a few pages dedicated to looking at the number of centrifuges Iran was installing and amount of gas they enriched, as this were the metrics Stuxnet was affecting. To me, that was as exciting as reading a company's monthly inventory report.

But I guess that's to be expected in a book that tells a true story instead of just being based on true story.
The author claims that local law compliance has always been the case. That is in fact incorrect and is a glaring mistake in the article. For the first 20 years of the Web's popular usage globally, you in fact mostly did not have to comply with local laws when it came to commerce online - there were few laws, and most jurisdictions had yet to flesh out how they were going to regulate and apply their laws or not. You simply opened up shop and sold to anyone from anywhere that wanted to buy from you, and you did not need to give a second thought to anything else.

Coming next is a global compliance nightmare. If you want to sell globally, you'll have to comply with dozens of unique local approaches. Small businesses won't stand a chance of being able to deal with that. An army of fee charging middle-men will spring up offering solutions, extracting fees accordingly.
How many hours? Was it 30-50 hours as some reports suggest or a decent hourly wage?
That's similar to Rail's dynamic `find_by` ORM methods where you can put the column name in the call:

User.find_by_username "alice"
Android is so open to begin with. Let's face it anything that has a stock market symbol or plans to be a stock market symbol or be bought by a stock market symbol is a cannibalistic partner.
The problem here is the concentration of jobs.

For my specialty, there's lots of places where I could go to get a job. But it might be the only job there. I had some silly company try to recruit me to La Crosse, Wisconsin not long ago. The work sounded really interesting and was a good fit for me, but it's most likely the only company in that town that would have such a job for me. That town isn't near anything. So if I were to relocate there, and the job didn't work out, I'd be screwed: I'd be forced to relocate again (at my own expense most likely) to someplace else. I've seen quite a few jobs like this: these jobs try hard to recruit people like me, thinking that because I'm older and experienced that surely I have a family (nope) and want to "settle down" in some nice small town (nope) and will be happy to take a low salary because the cost of living is supposedly so low (it really isn't, only housing prices are low in places like that, and they're not that much lower).
In many places you really can't work on a subway if you needed a network connection since you are far underground and can't get a signal. Some have WIFI now though.
Show HN: Whiteboardfree – Developer Jobs at Companies That Don't Whiteboard
The sentiment of a law doesn't always translate to the enforcement of it in practice
Can it actually be proved that such a store exists?

Or it can be proven to exist now, can its growth and revenue be plotted?
I've mentioned this in a few places but it seems to be ignored:

The account that posts the addresses is assosciated with some company. If that company isn't just 'Generic Consulting Company' then there is some context derived from the account name.

ie: This account is owned by 'XXX Toys', and they're asking me to clean up this address information. I guess someone at this address ordered some adult toys.
Then they can just do that. I'm sure other companies will be happy to scoop up that business.
Three steps to tackle short-sightedness [video]
Tesla's latest competition in making efficient truck to crisscross country
Jim Black's Steve Jobs Story
I guess the difference is that the school was previously limiting you based on their resources, which is understandable. It would be a totally different thing if they said "You can't go nursing school because there are currently too many nurses and it might be hard for you to find a job, even though our classes are half full."
Trade Chokepoints Are Making It Harder to Feed the World
I don't mean to hijack the thread, sincere concern.

I've been trying to build a minimal kubernetes cluster in our lab to see what it would take to host this kind of infrastructure. It's not clear if we are allowed to use the public cloud yet. (We are a bank, yeah, I know)

I've tried, at least:

- kubeadm

- rancher

- canonical kubernetes

- canonical kubernetes core

- some random internet recipes

And for some IaaS:
- cloudfoundry

- openstack

- cloudstack

- opennebula

- ganeti

Not one has worked out of the box in our environment. Every single one expects to have a direct connection to the internet. Any proxy in the middle creates havoc.

I've been able to hammer some of this solutions until the cluster started and had some pods or VMs running, but it feels like this are not ready for production or not for 'secure' on-premise deployment.
I bought something on Ebay and the Ebay seller has been spamming me with offers ever since. I didn't sign up to any newsletter. I was not aware that such thing would even be possible with Ebay.

Now they sent me a message telling me that I should sign up again on their website to continue getting their messages. No thanks.
And just to reiterate. They built a rootkit that stealthily sabotaged an effort to build nuclear weapons in a way that just made it look like the people who were trying to do it were just incompetent...

If that's not cool, I don't know what is...
The South is a legitimate place to live, just like Saudi Arabia is.

If you want to talk about quality of life, that's another issue.

If you're not a gun-loving church-going conservative, you're not going to be very happy relocating to the South. It's already horribly hard to make friends over the age of 30 (this comes up here on HN often), and moving someplace where the locals are diametrically opposed to your worldview is not going to help with that.
> It certainly seems that almost all of the rabidly pro-GDPR crowd is from the EU.

Hey, from my viewpoint the rabidly anti-GDPR crowd is from the US :p
Don't forget Handle.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7xvqQeoA8c&t=34s
I looked a bit at this while it was still in beta, and it seemed to be one of the more comprehensive UI libraries for React, and also one of the more active projects. It also isn't restricted to desktop use like some of the other UI libraries.

I'm curious about the choice for styling components, there seems to be a lot of different approaches and no clear winner.
If you can shut down enough utilities (electricity, mobile telecommunications, television & radio station, water treatment plants, access to water...) at the same time on a wide enough area, it would be devastating.
These are the kinds of things that make tinfoil hats wonder if any agencies interested in subverting encryption "plant" employees. It's difficult to differentiate stupidity from malice. We know they use shell companies and subvert device manufacturers and standards, so it's not unfathomable.
Thank you for your effort and for supporting TypeScript.
Hmmm, isn't there some way to reverse GDPR back on Elsevier ?
"What I find weird is that the derivative, if it exists, cannot have a jump discontinuity."

You mean the derivative of a specific function you have in mind, like perhaps the field equations? Or do you mean something other than what I understand by a jump discontinuity in a derivative, such as one gets for f(x) = {-x for x<0, x for x>=0}?

Tone: Clarification request for my own understanding, not a "gotcha" post; I strongly believe you are saying something true but there's just too many details elided because they are trivial to you for me to quite follow, and I'm intrigued enough to want to be able to follow up, if you'd be so kind as to indulge me.
Intel starts testing self-driving cars in Jerusalem
My sites are all dual-language so I don't see that as a problem.
PayPal agrees $2.2B deal for iZettle
Similarweb's guess of my site's traffic has been absurdly wrong for years. It thinks the traffic has been wildly fluctuating but it's only ever gone up.
More precisely, it seems to be to improve the strength of social safety nets (that correlates with standard of living, but also explains places in the developed world where the average standard of living is high by developed world standards but the birthrate is also high for the developed world.)

The reason for this may be that, in the absence of public social safety net, family (and particularly close family) serve as a safety net, and particularly children, once they are able to be productive, can be a kind of safety net against infirmity for their parents.
One Shared House 2030 - interactive research project on co-living
This article is relevant:

https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2018-food-trade-chokepoin...

It highlights the shipping "chokepoints" where disruption causes potential food crisis for where the ship had intended to deliver its payload. If the infrastructure which manages these pathways is attacked, the security of these regions is in jeopardy.
In GSM there is some periodic communication even in the idle non-moving case, but the period is on the order of hours.
I highly recommend "Avogadro Corp: The Singularity Is Closer Than It Appears" by William Hertling to anyone interested in some good AI scifi around computer worms/virus.
Yeah what a surprise?

Imagine a global paparazzi law banning photos of celebrities from being published without explicit consent.

Celebrities would be happy. Paparazzis and magazine readers not so much.
> I'm having a hard time imagining a virtual WMD that is worse than the instant obliteration of millions of people.

Incidentally, my impression has always been that, at least with the comparatively low-yield atomic weapons that have actually been used, it's not the instant obliteration that's the biggest problem, but rather the lingering effects of fallout and radiation sickness.
*FATCA ;)
I kind of disagree. I think the pace of "smarter" is progressing faster and cheaper then "simple tasks"
I need to read this more carefully, but a discontinuity in the derivatives of a system of equations at an interface is fairly common. If there are two regions obeying Maxwell's equations with a difference in the derivatives of the E/B fields at the boundary, this means the boundary has some delta function of charge or currents on the interface.

Likewise in GR. There is a whole sub-field of joining solutions to Einstein equations together and determining the material at the interface. Wormhole solutions can be made with this cut-and-paste approach. (The best book on this is Eric Poisson's "A Relativist's Toolkit").

The paper referenced here is 200+ pages. The abstract states in part "We prove that for all such data, the
maximal Cauchy evolution can be extended across a non-trivial piece of Cauchy horizon as a Lorentzian
manifold with continuous metric.", which is what disproves strong cosmic censorship.

I have no grasp of the details (my PhD in GR junction conditions is from the 90's and I left the field).
You're confusing uranium enrichment with attempts to build nuclear weapons. Irans's research into nuclear weapons has ended in 2003, 15 years ago. Iran has nuclear power plants though, and uranium enrichment is needed to fuel them.

I think the reason Trump and Netanyahu are so enraged by the JCPOA agreement is that it makes concessions to Iran in exchange of.. nothing, since Iran already didn't have any active nuclear weapons research. The purpose of the continued insistence on Iran's nuclear threat is to weaken it, and the JCPOA effectively kills this strategy.
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The worst part, they basically put your body into a state resembling a stroke or heart attack (forget which). Taking them is rolling the dice on one of those life threatening conditions with a nonlinear combination factor. Scary stuff.
Are cat memes popular in Iran too?
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This makes sense to me - it feels like an interface somewhere in the space of Python's properties (using the @property decorator), its descriptor protocol[0] with which properties are implemented, and its system of magic methods like __getattr__ and __getattribute__.

I am a bit intrigued about the way it's separated from the "nature" of the underlying Object though - in Python, we'd have a single canonical interface to the data, bound to the class in which the data was instantiated. Here, in ES6, it seems like the data might be attached to a base Object, and you could use that Object with any number of different proxies to provide polymorphic behavior.

Overall, these seem like very different philosophies of object-oriented programming. Which I guess makes sense given how the languages have evolved over time.

[0] https://docs.python.org/3/howto/descriptor.html
this is a major difference indeed.

In Civil law systems, the judge his interpretation matters much less then in common law systems. Mainly because everything is already codified into law.
Can you point me to a more detailed source on this issue? I have heard Germans concerned about getting sued by third parties for minor website legalese issues.

I'm not fluent in German so I wasn't able to fully understand the situation.
Where did I advertise misuse of our customers data? Compliance and privacy are not the same thing, just like compliance and security are not the same thing. We have a great privacy policy and we don’t misuse our customers data in any way.

For us, it didn’t make sense to invest the amount of money we’d have to to establish compliance with the GDPR, or to invest in maintaining that compliance, and the liability that GDPR would introduce for us most certainly didn’t make sense.

Europe is worth almost nothing to us, we don’t market ourselves there because it’s a waste of money. The EU customers we have all sought us out, not the other way around. For us, the cost and liability is simply not worth it. I think you’ll start to see more businesses make this decision, based on facts and numbers. You can’t just cry that they’re all being hysterical or want to abuse they’re customers data and privacy. When you introduce expensive new regulations, that have very strong punitive elements, this is exactly what you’d expect to happen. Small to medium sized businesses will wear the most of the cost (while posing the least of the risk). Luckily for us, EU is worth close to nothing for us.
I take issue with your claim that Irish were "not considered white." Such an argument only makes sense given a prior assumption that "white" only means a vague definition of acceptability in society. Under that stand-in definition (and frankly a modern revisionist definition), the Irish immigrants who were considered outsiders would be tautologically "not white," but that's not how people at the time thought of it.

As evidence I present the Naturalization Act of 1790 [0], which restricted US citizenship thusly:

>That any alien, being a free white person,Alien whites may become citizens, and how. who shall have resided within the limits and under the jurisdiction of the United States for the term of two years, may be admitted to become a citizen thereof

Note that this was far before the period of "mass immigration to the US." The "free white" requirement remained in US law until the mid-19th century. I've never known of any case in which an Irishman was denied US citizenship during that time period on account on "not being white" (I would be happy to be proven wrong here). There were several signers of the Declaration of Independence that had Irish ancestry! [1] An outsider group, yes, and one that took time to be integrated as a full part of the in-group, but the idea of people of the time looking at an Irishman and saying "he's not white," would not have made sense.

You're right that the concept of "white" as an identity group is relatively recent (on the order of several centuries) and was largely born in the American colonies as a way to distinguish an in-group from an out-group (mainly, colonists from various areas of Europe wanted something to distinguish themselves from the Indian tribes and black African slaves). But that's the way of all these categories ("black" can be similarly deconstructed as a recent American ethnogenesis).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naturalization_Act_of_1790

[1] http://thewildgeese.irish/profiles/blogs/the-irish-american-...
Ask HN: How do you design form for admission process of a college?
Hi,

I need to design admission form for a college website. They have given me a sample physical hard copy form, and asked me to upload on the website. Prospective students will download the form from the website and fill it, and then submit them in the college. What are the ways in which I can achieve this?

Also, what if I create an online form in which students have to fill all the fields online, and after submission, they get a PDF copy which they can submit to college? For this, I would like to apply validations at field level for ex email, phone number, pin code etc.

I am hosting the website using WordPress.

Would someone please advise?

Any feedback would be much appreciated.

Thanks :)
> It turns out that the vast majority of contractors and freelancers were operating in that fashion legitimately and continue to do so

Which we know is definitely NOT the case for companies storing your data correctly.
Blackouts. Do what Stuxnet did to the control rooms of a large number of power plants, spinning up the machines to hard, coordinate this attack so it triggers in a large number of places.

If you can pull this off for a continental scale, you're looking at potentially months to restore power to everywhere.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_2015_Ukraine_power_gr...