skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How are you blocking multiple director processes from writing to the JobDB instances? I.e. node A gets partitioned away, a new node B picks up in its place, but then node A comes back and still thinks it owns the lock for the JobDB instance.

I would imagine you're taking the database version from Consul and using that as a fencing key for writes within a transaction in the database, but I didn't see that mentioned in the Go code snippet.
Voce will bring interactive show notes to your podcast experience
Defrauding? That’s ridiculous.
If it helps, Horselover Fat is just a multi-lingual translation of Philip Dick
The US blocked Antiguan gambling companies from doing business with American citizens, despite permitting domestic companies to offer the same services. The US lost a WTO dispute and refused to pay the settlement, which now amounts to nearly $300m. Bizarrely, the WTO granted Antigua the right to breach American copyright law by way of restitution.

https://calvinayre.com/2016/11/28/business/antigua-warn-amer...
The biomass distribution on Earth
I don't buy this argument. Those smaller orgs had the choice to not hoover up their user data, in which case GDPR would be a snap.
There seem to be two stages in the life cycle of social media sites that every one of them follows:

1) The site starts with transparent rules. The users are in power. Data access is open and easy. The user interface is friendly.

...the site becomes popular...

2) Rules become a secret. Power is taken away from the users. Data access becomes limited and more complicated. The user interface becomes bloated and hostile.

I really hope we will manage to get decentralized social media off the ground. It sucks that even after years of work, the content creators and community builders have nothing to show for it. They are just slaves to the platform owners.
Wait till you need to load a hundred binary dependencies and see if will load faster
I pay for laracasts.com and apollohq.com
Honestly, I don't think any of us had heard of this other project when we coined the name internally. If someone had raised it up the flagpole, we certainly would have considered it.

Still, do keep in mind that it's not the name of a product offering - it's solely an internal name for the technology.
Cities can choose not to participate. Don’t like it, elect new officials.
If your cabinet isn't provisioned for FTTC, make some noise with the council. If possible, get some residents together and write polite but firm letters to your local councillors, MPs, and BT executives. Follow up with further letters.

From personal experience, it does work. You want things to get to the point where some senior executive at BT says "can you sort this cabinet out" because that's easier than dealing with all the noise from residents, councillors and MPs. The squeaky wheel gets the grease.
Clearly you’ve never had to do tech support for people that inadvertently chose POP3 because in many systems it’s still the default selection, along with the default behavior of deleting mails from the server as you fetch them.

What do you mean the only copy of all my mail is in some bizarro mail client specific proprietary database? Why can’t I also read my mail on my phone? I dropped my laptop in the toilet and now my mail is gone. Isn’t it on the server? Why can’t I use folders? Don’t you have backups?

No, your mail is gone, because you used a protocol designed for the 90s. It’s a great idea if you have a mail account with 10mb quota and you download your mail to a fixed, reliable workstation and you don’t mind if you lose it all if the disk crashes, it doesn’t happen that often. Not hardly as often as laptops getting stolen, Windows breaking itself and phones going bust.

I’m not sure why I need to have personal problems with your pet protocol to have an opinion on it, especially on one that stinks as much as POP3. It’s obsolete.
We, Americans, or the British?
I think he should troll the court by blocking everyone except the people who have White House press passes. That way only they can participate in the conversation, as it has always been.
Shoot, well if this is the way the world works, I better get some flash cards to talk as a doctor/mechanic/craftsmen/anything-else before I even think of talking to them. The horror of asking what something means is too much!
Why isn't this a solution:
Everyone has some gpg-like setup.

The self-answering question.
Google and Coursera launch a new machine learning specialization
From what I read this is predatory but in a different way - auto lenders want buyers to default, then they repossess the car while keeping the previous payments - basically like leasing out the car but higher profits.
The reason the golden age is now is specifically because you have all those options. Just because AAA games exist doesn't invalidate the fact that if you are looking for a specific type of more traditional game experience, you can find it much easier then ever before.
Michael Jackson's Gravity-Defying Lean Continues to Fascinate
Is there an official docker image?
I wonder how easy it is to get an organization like Yelp or Flickr who already felt successful ... to understand that it is time to take their product and change it to a more, mobile facing type application.

Just trying to get small changes in small tools and processes at companies I've worked at has taken a huge amount of effort and and a great deal of "that's not how we do it ... for no reason" resistance.
I would think the thing that would make the NES unsuitable would actually be the very large number of mapper chips for the platform. The NES seems less like one platform and more like tens of them at that point. AFAIK the Gameboy didn't really have this proliferation of chips that manipulated the system so directly.

At the very least, you might be able to badly emulate most gameboy games, but a mapperless NES emulator is only going to even be able to try to run the first generation of games from the console.
It does not, because the First Amendment is a limit on government, and “public forum” in First Amendment case law refers to a space (including a virtual one) over which the government has ownership or control which is used by government for particular purposes. This is a case about (existing) limits on what government officials can do in venues government officials have set up for certain used.
A Classical Math Problem Gets Pulled into the Modern World
If the only reason you're making money is by disrespecting your user's privacy, then one has to question whether you should be in business in the first place.
Haven't read the full decision, but here's how I see it. Governmental agencies do not instruct users to get in touch via Twitter. There are dedicated phone lines, email addresses, offices, and websites that serve that purpose in an official capacity. Agencies who do conduct business in response to inquiries on Twitter do so as an added convenience on top of the other readily available public channels.

When Trump uses Twitter as his primary method of addressing citizens and announcing administration policies, then selectively prevents citizens from viewing those communications, he's doing something much different (in my mind) than a private company restricting the access of a person to a service whose terms of use they have violated.

The equivalence you drew doesn't seem valid — US citizens have no expectation or right to send communications to the Office of the President and have them read or acted upon. They do have that expectation/right to have equal access to public communications by the President.
You could technically call Trump a shithead to his face and that is not unlawful. Where the Secret Service would (rightly) draw the line is at threats to his safety (like if you threatened the president).

So it's not true that you could say things on social media that you couldn't say in person. You can say a lot of things to the president in person ("you didn't get legitimately elected" "you're an idiot"). Now is that the best use of a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity? No. But it's definitely legal.
I once had to implement excel-equivalent UI functionality (resizable columns, etc) - using javascript - which needed to be compatible on both Netscape and Internet Explorer. Early 2000s, before jQuery or even prototype.js.

Which is another way of saying, don't talk to me about being tired of javascript...
Because Twitter is not a government owned entity, the government should have no right to force the use or means of use of a private tool. Now if the tool was a government utility, it would be a different story.
Anecdotally, I've only seen a few people using apple pay in the UK. Everyone now has contactless card (which you just tap on the machine to pay almost instantly), which as very popular.

A lot of places seem to support apple pay, but it's much less convenient than contactless (obviously some people disagree).
GDPR Compliance – Practical Guide
I cant find any aspect of PHP being better than JavaScript
Here's a TC piece on "Yelp Deals": https://techcrunch.com/2011/06/29/yelp-deals-mobile-groupon/

I also learned the current Yelp is the pivot, as per Wikipedia, via Fortune [1].

> One day Stoppelman was looking for a doctor but had no clue how to find a good one. That gave him and Simmons an idea for a convoluted automated system in which people could e-mail friends asking for recommendations on, say, local doctors, and the answers would be logged at a communal site for everyone to see. Levchin floated the duo $1 million to build out the plan. It went nowhere. But the co-founders noticed an interesting tendency among the early users. People were writing unsolicited reviews of their favorite businesses just for fun. So Yelp switched tack. "I remember the moment that Russ said, 'There should be a way for you to write your own reviews without asking questions,'" Stoppelman recalls.

1 - http://archive.fortune.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive...
We the West, I guess.
> You really don't think it's possible

For signing a guestbook or something similarly trivial? No.

If you truly believe that (if it really escalated) the European Commission, and then the European parliament, and then ultimately the European Court of Justice is going to put up with 20-million-fine-for-a-guestbook shenanigans, I don't know what to tell you, except that I think your definition of "reasonable" is not reasonable.

Maybe I'm not jaded enough, and I can believe in a single bad actor, but all of them? Including an entire institution that has direct public accountability?

As an aside, I think it would be helpful if participants in GDPR discussions would indicate if they approach it from a USA or EU angle (or even a non-EU and non-USA perspective. I've haven't really noticed any specific opinions from outside the USA/EU).
> It was his family name some time ago, so is this just the other sides' "Barack Hussein Obama" or is there more to it?

No, it's not the same thing. The Hussein thing is that the Alt-Right uses it to imply Obama being a Muslim (which he is not) and thus, by extension, a terrorist supporter/enabler.

The Drumpf thing, however, is nothing more than highlighting the family origin (which Trump actually even stated himself, per https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/donald-drumpf/).
Assuming you can arrest N people per year, does it reduce crime more to arrest them all on the same day, or spread out over the year?

The argument for all on the same day would be that it shuts down a network which would have to be recreated from scratch, while if you arrest people gradually new people can take their place.

Maybe all arrests should be batched.
You can still communicate with the government using official channels and you can still view his tweets. His account is basically write-only so you’re only losing your ability to send messages which won’t be read.
Many aspects of GDPR seem as direct attempt to learn from the failures of the Cookie warning law and fix them - namely, the big flaw was that the law was written so that flashing a banner with no real choice was considered sufficient to consider that the user "agreed", and that's why everyone did the intrusive banners.

GDPR is designed so that these intrusive banners with no real choice are absolutely worthless to the site, they can't construe freely given informed opt-in consent, so the expectation is that websites won't bother with such measures anymore. Of course, time will show what workarounds people will imagine, but both intent and actual wording is wide enough to ensure that this time the adtech tracking business will have no reasonable legal way to get permission to continue what they did and will actually have to stop tracking most users.
Flagged article because it is beyond stupid
And can you imagine the impact of false positives? Prosecutor has the perp on video committing a heinous offense but it's still insufficient evidence because of a software bug.
Data science is hard and requires lots of data. It's still useful to have that data.
LWN, Wikipedia, FastMail, Digital Ocean, Google Play Music, Plex, Netflix and Amazon Prime Video.

I buy music at Bandcamp, bleep and direct at artist pages. I buy movies at rifftraxx.

I donate to various FOSS projects with money and time.
a big problem w/ recommender systems is called the cold-start problem. One way this is manifest is when new items enter the system. In one class of recess, collaborative filtering, since the new item doesn't have any interaction history, it will never be recommended. Then in your case where news articles are the items, then you have an extreme case where every single item is cold.

Look at a talk from a Dutch group called Blendle at RecSys conf where they talk about these problems.
Perhaps, but in the UK I can do instant bank transfers for free. Very useful for settling small debts between friends and such things.
A mouthpiece yes, but an official way to "make policy" no. Policy is still created through official means like signing executive orders, etc.
> If your account gets banned.... Wouldn't it thus be a violation of the first amendment?

Not unless the government is the entity doing the banning (or collaborating with Twitter to ban accounts at its request).

If the government ran its own Mastodon instance, then there would be an argument to be made that it couldn't ban users on that Mastodon instance, depending on the nature of that Mastodon instance and what it's used for. But that's not what's happening. The government does not run Twitter in any way; they're simply users of the platform, and the government's ability to use features of the platform (such as the "block" feature) may be limited by existing laws, the same way the government's ability to do other things in life is limited by existing laws.
More than one way to induce a neuron
> API

Yeah, I'd say an API is the interface that you expose so that other developers or systems can interact with your project. That can be over HTTP if it's a web service, but it can also be the interface that you expose from a library that's intended to be used by other developers. Python's Requests is based around the idea of exposing a better API than the stdlib's to manage HTTP requests. Win32 is an API, and so is Cocoa.

> Django

Uh... generally speaking, Django is a Python web framework. It has its own templating language, but I don't recall any facility specific to CSS. That one is just weird.
It is now with Apple Pay Cash, as the sibling comment pointed out.

HOWEVER, that’s backed by a real bank account at a real bank Apple chose for the purpose (in the US). Transfers involving credit (paying as credit card or using a credit card to move money in) still hit the standard fee. Other transfers are just normal US debit transfers.

So Apple Pay Cash isn’t bypassing anything, at least in the US. It’s further entrenching them. Don’t know how it works in other countries.
Ryan, do you also organize remote team retreats? I've heard some fully distributed teams love it once in a while going together to the sunny beach or climbing another mountain. If you do so, where do you go?
There are some services that wouldn't exist if it wasn't for targeted advertising. Instagram may have millions of users in the EU but how many would pay for the service? The number that would probably would not be enough to sustain the network effect.

And if Instagram users switched to mainly non-targeted advertising, Instagram may find itself not making enough money to sustain its company. While a 'competitor' willing to make less money could show up, their ability to collect / store photos or videos / update the ui / filter out inappropriate content would be decreased if they were barely profitable, making it a less useful service than Instagram was.
What did you do to address the mysql connection problem?
If it wasn't because of Java the browsers language would be Scheme
>This reads like it was written by someone who doesnt play or appreciate games, or even know much about the artform.

So, like a proper adult?
> I agree that it's kind of a questionable decision

I don't see what is questionable about it. Seems pretty straightforward, actually. He is an elected official who is held accountable by the public. He is widely known to make official policy statements using twitter. He can't just block citizens from reading his policy statements. That isn't how US democracy works.

> I think the more interesting part of this is the ruling that the president's "personal" twitter account is an official government instrument.

Well, considering how his "personal" twitter account is being used to make official policy statements... seems that it is no longer "personal" anymore, eh? He kinda brought that on himself, eh?

If all he was using Twitter for was posting pictures of his house-cats or something and not using it to conducting official government business, then you might have something to question.
True, but one-sentence explanations can be helpful for managers and PMs that aren't familiar with the specific tech stack to get up to speed quickly.

I don't think this is a bad idea per se, but I do think that it's got a long way to go before it's really useful (or even correct).
I think that the danger is: you make a law to protect idiots from their own stupidity and end up breaking normal business activity somehow, or creating a regulatory environment that's a pain in the ass for entrepreneurs and whatnot.
Before it was edited, the title was "DigitalMars DMC Compiler"
People are not blocked. Only accounts are blocked. It's not the same thing at all. It's trivial (and free) to create another account; in other words, the ban is not tied to you as a person, only to certain account.

Besides, you can still read all tweets of whoever blocked you; all it takes is logging out of your blocked account, or not logging in in the first place.

They can't comment anymore, true. But by this line of reasoning, is Trump (or any president / public official, for that matter) obliged to take phone calls from everyone?
Agreed mute is kind of like blocking. Except that muting does not prevent other people reading comments on your tweets from reading them.

I don't know who he blocks on a regular basis, so I am really speculating here. The cases I have seen I would classify as 'truthers'. Those are people who post things that link to or refute statements made by Trump in the tweet that he cannot effectively argue with.

My guess here is that the dischordant notes in the comments, even when he doesn't see them will have his followers who are arguing with these people retweeting and/or replying and keep the data visible.

That limits Trump's ability to control the narrative and with enough of these people it could reach a situation where there are more 'counter' replies than actual supporting replies.

Few people enjoy using a platform where your every statement is countered by people pointing out opposing and counter factual information.
Nobody is forcing Trump to use Twitter. They are saying that if he uses Twitter, he must leave his tweets open to all the public and not a subset. President Trump could always choose to close his account if he finds this requirement to be too onerous.
you are worried too much. Hacker News has not that big impact which get the attention of 50 cents
Not if the user affirmatively chose to receive the news letter.
I recently got a new fibre connection (not from Virgin or BT) in my newish flat and I was taking to the chap who installed it about exactly this. He told me that it's actually the builders who pay BT and Virgin to come and connect up their buildings. This is so they can then market them as being almost "plug-and-play" with these services as some buyers look for this. The other smaller providers can then come along and install/connect their stuff but at their expense, and as you say, often afterwards. He said that this is made harder since installing afterwards means dealing with managing agents (in the case of of a block of flats) and this can be painful, which I can 100% believe. Perhaps the situation varies depending on where you are in the country, this was London (where there are no £350k houses!).
Hmm, looks like you're using the latest dmd. I've been using 2.074. I suggest switching to 2.074, or wait until I get it working properly with the latest dmd.
IMO, being wrong makes for the most amusing condescension. This website is excellent in that regard, but otherwise remarkably wrong!
I was talking about the instruments, but yes vibrato would be one way that would be mirrored in the human voice.
Hey there, I'm one of the founders. AMA about hotels legacy technology preventing them from being able to compete against Airbnb.
That's not the same thing. Celebrities are not elected officials representing constituents. Perhaps if someone is actually running for office it makes a difference, but I'm not sure when these sorts of laws kick in.
> The judge said the comment section of Trump’s personal account, @realDonaldTrump, is a public forum and that blocking users on the basis of political speech is a violation of their free-speech rights under the First Amendment.

If this applied to @potus I might agree with it but applying it to his personal account is rubbish. You could easily extend that same logic to say that any elected official, at any level of government, can't block communications from anyone on their personal accounts.

Trump using his personal account to comment on "work" (i.e. being President) doesn't de facto make it a work account no more than me complaining about my job on my personal email turns it into a work email.
I agree, if we are allowed to make the UUID arbitrarily large (and not be limited to the 128 bits from the "official" UUID algorithm), it should always be possible to set B to a large enough value so that our scheme assigns a unique and finite-sized UUID to every possible state of the system, since all the system's parameters (number of servers, time, etc) should be discrete and finite. I.e. basically make B large enough that 2^B becomes greater than the number of discrete timesteps in our experiment. That's an interesting observation.
I'll be working on it until they carry me out in a box.
This makes me think there's more depth to the current Microsoft mission statement than appears at first blush. I've seen many people shrug away that mission statement as a toothless platitude or else they are merely blasé about it. [disclosure: #MsftAdvocate]
Shrinks profits or destroys their business model (ie apps/games that people wouldn't buy but survive well on targeted advertising)
Just seeing the word 'Encarta' which I probably haven't thought about or encountered in the past decade is just bringing back a flood of nostalgia.