skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If insurance companies and employers use that information (as well as creditors) it become subject to the FCRA; as well as subject to state, local, and federal laws about lending, insurance underwriting, and employment. This information merely existing (for advertising purposes) doesn't suddenly make it legal to use it in specifically illegal ways.

For example, it's a standard practice to use a person's credit history and credit score during insurance underwriting - data shows people who are responsible with credit have less claims, so they have lower premiums. However, say you live in Massachusetts. In Massachusetts it's illegal for insurance companies to take your credit history and credit score into account when determining policy premiums. So insurance companies are not allowed to access your credit if you live in Massachusetts even though that information is widely available and used in other states.
That's kind of hilarious, given that it's not a secondary source but a primary source because it was written by Roth.

It really is absurd.
Let me guess, pizzagate right? If so just come out and say it, own the fact you believe such nonsense.
I am introverted as well but I have not been able to get much motivated into getting into group activities with a lot of friends at once, or especially strangers. And never having a SO or a serious relationship in my life, now being age 36 probably is affected by that. I don't live alone right now- I live with my mom for financial hardship reasons- but I usually keep to myself.
So, instead of keeping cross-cutting concerns separate and permitting them to evolve separately, the author wants K8S to become more complex, because they'd rather learn one more complex thing than multiple simpler things? Seems legit.

I mean, why should I install multiple libraries? Why can't glibc wash my car? Will glibc collapse under the weight of it's own complexity -- even though it can't wash my car like I want it to?
Exploring rust fat pointers
A large fraction of accepted knowledge about history and events is simply false. Just read a newspaper account about an event you have personal knowledge about. Sloppiness, inaccuracy, omission of crucial facts, bias, fabrications, etc., are commonplace.

It's why historians continuously churn out new books on the same topics. How many biographies of Abe Lincoln are there? I get 10,000+ hits on "Lincoln Biography" on Amazon :-)
How is elasticache so slow? what instances does it run on?

edit: r4.4xlarge as per the link. 16vcpu? You should be able to beat on latency but beating on throughput means elasticache is misconfigured, likely. Or you're putting on way too much set traffic (think I saw you set the bench to 1:1 ratio of gets to sets?)
Math-free explanation of Neural Networks
You'd better research how many truckers would be able to afford it first.
We’re going to end up with some HIPAA like regulations on collecting data and it’s going to be a massive pain in the ass.

The scary part is the big companies will have the money to lobby for regulations to be written in a way that is easy for them to comply with while shutting out smaller companies and startups.
I am not as extroverted, so working remote has actually made me less proactive about going out. I'm not much into athletic activities, or meeting up with strangers, and I find solo activities/hobbies more interesting most of the time.

To be honest I think it's done a number on my social skills. Ever since I worked remotely I have not been able to do well on interviews as I used to. When I started out my career, it took me 3 months to get my first job as a programmer. Now, I've been interviewing for 3 years and counting. Seems like I sound kinda "off" with all the people I've interviewed with since in the few times I have gotten feedback, they say I sound nervous. 3 years of interviewing practice (I consider every real interview to also count as "practice") has not made much progress it seems.

I haven't put much effort in meeting new people. The only people I talk to today are my close relatives and two of my closest friends. And no partner to lean on socially. In fact I have never had a serious relationship in my 36 years of living. Would you consider this par on course for an introvert working remotely, or am I taking social reclusion too far?
There are a lot of movies I went to after I saw an ad for it which I never would have searched for on my own (and I can say the same about restaurants and a couple other peoducts). Consumers aren't going to search for something they don't know exists in the first place
Show HN: React MPA
This is exactly one of the reason we picked kontena.io in our startup, and never regretted it. Also super excited about their approach to run on top of k8 with pharos.sh.
If anyone is curious, the new URL is colorskeme.fun
That reminds me of a (satirical) personal data exchange website [1] which criticized a lot of personal data exposure incidents in Korea. Most amusingly, the website, which had absolutely no actual personal data or functions (and clearly indicated it's a joke in the first click), was blocked by the South Korean government.

[1] http://trademyinfo.libsora.so/ (in Korean)

[2] https://libsora.so/posts/trade-my-info-warning-or-kr/ (in Korean)
This is why Everipedia has "Verified Accounts" - so that Roth can have his say on the wiki page, and people know it's coming from him...

One of, like, 100 Wikipedia problems that Everipedia solves, simply by mimicking other, more modern websites like instagram/twitter.
>And for completeness, the third one I saw: are you seriously suggesting that you can judge someone's swimming ability from her response after this flip?

Yes. A thousand times, yes. That is not a strong swimmer.
Ask HN: Pay for first few clients or hire a salesperson? Need freelance advice
I am working for a large corp as an analytics manager. I would like to do freelance work on the side and hopefully turn it into a full time gig.

I would like to know whether it's worthwhile to hire a salesperson to find my first few clients, or to instead do jobs for free (or at a discount) and build a portfolio to attract attention. Finding access to subcontractors to fill the demand won't be a problem.

My business will be focused on analytics and data visualization, ETL, etc.
It seems very implausible. Anyone with that level of sophistication may as well look for exploits in bitcoin exchanges and steal the bitcoins directly.
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I would argue that borg has much less initial complexity than kubernetes. Because of Google's integrated systems you can take any local binary and run it in borg with a five-line config file and one command. You can't get started that quickly with kubernetes.

If you understand the implications of running N replicas of a command on <= N machines in the cloud, borg does exactly what you want. Most of the people I met at Google complaining about borg just didn't understand how a program gets executed at all ... borg was the least of their problems.

Also borg is easier to pronounce.
>But the most shocking thing about that book is that it was written in 1952.

Corporate greed and advertisement is quite old, though.
The first is just a self-limiting belief. The same way you'll never talk to women if you're scared of looking stupid. But you don't look stupid -- you look like someone trying to get what they want. People respect that.

The second is mitigated by the fact that you're just doing smaller sets. We're not talking about a full work out. If you're sweating after 10, 20, 30 pushups or 30, 50, 75 squats, you were probably sweating anyways. Get a fan.

Soon you run out of excuses and you're back to "if you had the discipline, you would do it." Just like eating healthy.
Hi all, author here. Very much work in progress, and credits to github/wilsonpage who created the original project and I found it and forked/built on top of it.

I've been working with React for the past year+ and can see the pros of organizing and reusing code in React components sort of way. However I also see the arguments of HN commenters here saying SPAs are overkill for many web apps and also add dev time overhead.

The idea of this boilerplate is to build web apps in traditional MPA style but being able to build frontend code in React style instead of old school Handlebars/Mustache type of templating system.
Do you have a name or link?

For some reason I can see this company operating like an uber with tractors waiting at way points to swap trailers. Problem is the swaps will be conducted at the drivers discretion which opens the flood gates to all sorts of abusive shenanigans and race to the bottom economics. I can picture all the complaints of drivers meeting in private parking lots causing damage and trespass. Or meeting in residential neighborhoods off highways causing all sorts of noise and possible damage. Excessive idling causing noise and air pollution, drivers taking up parking or partly blocking roads while waiting for other truck which is trapped in two hours of back up.

These are heavy vehicles that make a lot of noise and beat on the pavement. Best keep them rolling along the highways where they belong. That or keep the heavy duty noise to terminals located in industrial or commercial centers where people wont be bothered by the racket.
> Those with gas-powered cars (mostly taxis) could still get fuel (it goes to the gas station through pipes

That's interesting. So the gas stations have compressors?
Do DIY Medical Tests Promise More Than They Can Deliver?
Can you describe more what you are asking?

It sounds like you have supply (subcontractors) but not enough demand (clients). Is that what you are asking?
If you have a need for more than 5000 nodes in a cluster, it should take a trivial amount of your resources to solve that problem IMO.

The vast majority of Kuberentes users probably won’t even need a 500 node cluster, let alone a 5000 node cluster. It makes sense for them to prioritize optimizing for other things like developer experience to help address some of the concerns mentioned in this article over supporting even larger clusters right now.
Aren't the owners doing exactly that? Whatever is the most profitable coin is determined by the buyers of the rent-a-miner market and the sellers get paid that, less the cost to the market-maker for that discovery. How else could it be?
Everything should be as simple as possible. It's the mark of good design
I think more charitable interpretation is that kuberbetes should be designed in such a way that these tools are a natural part of it. Think of active record being part of rails. Sure you can use rails without ar but that doesn't make sense.
Would be interesting. If it is anything similar to this memorandum [0] DOL might determine if something rises to the level where it needs to be prosecuted criminally, but prosecution would be handled by DOJ...

[0] https://www.justice.gov/enrd/file/800526/download
Why Developers Should Not Use MacBook Pro
They didn't shelve it, they're just trialing it now:
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/may/07/senat...
Twitter's not fixing these issues because they're not issues.

Their stock up 100% from the 52 week low. Nothing's broken.

How could disinformation running rampant on your platform be bad, if your stock is up 100%?

Shareholders are happy, the market's happy, who cares if your pipe is carrying a cultural toxin, as long as that pipe is also delivering revenue and shareholder value?

(Of course, I disagree with what I wrote above. But it lays bare why this hasn't been addressed. Also applies to other social networks, owners of digital, print, and broadcast media outlets.)
People with knowledge or expertise are able to change them too. It's a collaborative effort. It's not perfect. Rehashing this fact of imperfection again and again is mostly useless activity. But considering how much information there is in Wikipedia, and how good it is in general - and excepting publicized outliers and targeted sabotage efforts, it's pretty good - I think you could do much worse than asking these particular strangers.

Of course, I understand that each time you need to find out some piece of information, you conduct your own thorough and independent research. If you need to know about the life of Richard III of England, or when Joseph Tito was born, or how many noun cases there are in Finnish, or what was the Cranbrook Colony - you go to the nearest University library, find and read all the books on the subject that are there, then proceed to update with more up-to-date research papers on the subject and conclude it with personally verifying the facts with leading living authorities on the subject (which stand by being called on by you and supply with the data you need). Other people don't have time for this, so they use Wikipedia for the same, and are OK with a tiny risk of getting one of the facts wrong in tiny number of cases. I don't think it's so terrible.
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Long story short...

I was a Unix admin for 10 years, with experience in web hosting and security. Due to severe family needs, I moved from the East Coast to a small town area in flyover country. I took the only job I could find, a mere IT tech. Been in roughly the same area, but have changed jobs a couple of times. I'm almost 50, married (thank God she has a great-paying job), have kids, and want to do something besides low-level IT. I cannot seem to get out of this rut. I cannot seem to convince people I can more. I've interviewed, but since being here in the middle of nowhere (large city over an hour away; commute with family situation impossible), I'd like to get back into something more substantial. I have been learning PowerShell quite a bit lately, but I really do loathe the Windows world, but no one seems to be using even Linux. What happened to all the *nix jobs?

Should I retool and become a programmer/developer? If so, front end/back end? I'm not terribly interested in Web development. I prefer being in the "data center" (yes, I know, this dates me), shell scripting and working on servers, but with the advent of the "cloud", even this is rapidly dying. I'd rather not get out of IT, but I hate my job more and more as time drags on.

I'd appreciate any insight from those who know about these things. Please remember, I'm almost 50, cannot afford to return to college for another degree, and cannot really afford a boot camp (I'm dubious of these). Ideas, opinions, and thoughts deeply appreciated.
Anything to avoid that "art" collection.
Reverse emulating the NES to give it SUPER POWERS
You really need to make a lot of dough before the 5-7% that Fastspring charge on top of credit card fees becomes a problem. I guess at that point you could also negotiate better rates.

I've been using Fastspring for years, and I'm not 100% happy with them, but they just work, they support lots of payment methods, and their invoices are compliant with EU regulations (which is a very rare thing).

If you just want to get on with your business, use Fastspring.
Wow! That seemed so unbelievable I had to google it:

"Tangerine, much like BMO, also has a six character limit – numbers only, no letters and no special symbols allowed."

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/technology/digital-culture/w...
> I'd hate to miss out on videos I subscribed to

But that's the problem. I'm currently subscribed to a channel that posts daily videos, that I watch almost every day (Linus Tech Tips, don't judge me) but I haven't seen his recent videos in my feed. I see his videos from 2 days ago but I have to manually go to his page to see the two most recent videos.

If any of this was configurable I wouldn't be upset, but it's not. I never opted-in for this feature and I just want my subscription page to work normally. I understand some people are subscribed to channels they don't want to watch content for, but that's not my problem!
MPX Top Secret Code exposed causing permanent damage to U.S Government
Why startups are struggling to pay developers
As simple as possible, but no simpler.
Wikipedia is not the sum of all knowledge. It's an encyclopedia. Many people seem confused about what that means.

Primary source: I say $foo! (blog, YouTube, opinion piece)

Secondary source: neilk said $foo. (The New Yorker)

Tertiary source: Reliable, fact-checked publications, such as The New Yorker, have said that neilk said $foo. (Wikipedia)

Wikipedia is a tertiary source. At best WP represents the range of viewpoints that learned people have. If many published articles in reputable outlets give credence to something false, and there's no good refutation in print, there's not much that Wikipedians can do.

Roth always had an option, one that he seems unaware of. There is an exception for primary sources for exactly this sort of thing.[1]. All he had to do was publish a blog post or a tweet or have his publishers do so for him.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Identifying_and_usin...
My comment was actually sarcasm...because you can't measure middle managers and executives output by lines of code since they don't actually code. Not sure why so many people are offended on the idea when it's not even possible to implement.
> available 99.5% of the time with decent alerting for operators to kick it

An operator should never have to "kick" a service. It should repair itself, except for the occasional hardware replacement if one is working with bare metal. And for anything that's being sold as a product, as opposed to an internal tool, I think 99.9% availability should be the minimum.

But I don't know enough about Kubernetes to say whether it's overkill at the scale of just a few servers.
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ˎa/bˎ is easier to read than $\frac{a}{b}$.
Wild Animals Jungle Hunting: FPS Shooting Game
I disagree. Kubernetes came out of Google, but has exploded in popularity due to its capability (which comes with extreme complexity): it can scale to extreme levels, but wrapping your head around it requires far more time and trouble for your most basic apps. Thus, you see the software consultants race to become the next Kubernetes experts, since choosing to deploy it essentially requires that you have dedicated professionals managing it (as Google does).

Docker Swarm might be incomplete and missing quite a few features, and it won't scale to thousands of nodes with dozens of independent apps, but the use-cases I've seen are far from that. A single engineer can basically get a "good-enough" moderately scaled system going.

If you have Google-scale problems with Google-caliber engineers and SREs backing you, use Kubernetes. Otherwise, using something else (Docker Swarm "just worked" for the cases I've seen) is easier.
So it's all on the end user to go to extra steps to avoid browser hijackers, and the company allowing the garbage ads is completely absolved of blame?

>Complaining about it here won't help anyone.

Unnecessarily douchey thing to post. A nonzero amount of people will read the comments and decide against opening the article/open it in an archival service instead and bypass the malicious ads.
My comment was actually sarcasm...because you can't measure middle managers and executives output by lines of code since they don't actually code but more often than not they are the ones pushing for LOC measurment - or some other objective measurement, when they themselves have no quantitative way to measure output.
Scientists Say Elon Musk's 'Nano' Claims Don't Make Any Sense
It may be both easier (as in less effort) and less expensive, if you're a data broker, to just cease trafficking in the data of anyone tangentially associated [3] with the state of Vermont.

Why would that be? AFAICT, this law merely sets standards for data brokers operating within the state of Vermont. It doesn’t try to dictate what anyone outside the state can do with data from people in Vermont, like GDPR does. Given Vermont’s size, my guess is that there are very few companies in Vermont that this law actually applies to.
> No one teaches these languages. How popular could they get if companies and universities spent millions of hours collectively drilling even the most marginal programmer on how to use them like they do for C++ and Java?

Schools and universities have been teaching Pascal/Lisp/Caml/Scheme for decades, yet (almost) nobody used those languages to produce actual software, neither as a job nor for free software side projects; and a majority of jobs implied the use of a member of the large C family (or VB at the time).
I was thinking of this, if the backend handler would say "take me out of rotation for Xms as I'm about to do a garbage collection" and the load balancer would see this and act on it.

for http I'd imagine it can be a header. For https, I can imagine it might be harder.
Thank you.

Got to love folks who think a "startup" can save the world when they have no clue how the real world works. They totally missed the fact that truckers earn peanuts. So add more cost on top of a meal they can't really afford to begin with? Maybe an iPhone app can help truckers? Totally save the poor with iPhone apps. That's an idea...lol.
You mean like they did with Google and Facebook, on the FIRST day the law went into effect?

http://money.cnn.com/2018/05/25/technology/gdpr-compliance-f...
This smells plain text password storage..
Basically. I haven't started the business yet. I am trying to figure out how to get my first few clients.
The problem is that it seems that most people prefer narrative over neutral reporting. So even if a neutral, AI-based site delivered great reporting, or if Musk's truthfulness rating existed, it might not even matter — most readers will just continue to click on narrative-driven garbage
The fundamental problem to all of this is those who believe they are righteous (on any side of politics) will use whatever methods they can to promote their "truth". This includes infiltrating "credible" sources. So it's impossible to have an entire organisation that can be universally considered to be an arbiter of truth, because you can be fairly certain at least some of its members are bad actors. That's not to say some organisations aren't more accurate than others – of course some are. But if you can't entirely remove the need for critical analysis on the part of the reader, you would be better off teaching the reader to be critical than attempt to "fix" a system which fundamentally can't be fixed.

Deciding who we should and shouldn't silence is not the solution. Whatever one chooses, some propagandists are going to win. Giving people the tools to determine the veracity of a statement themselves is (usually this is simple common sense, the ability to reason, some knowledge of rhetoric and an understanding that personal bias in prevalent in themselves and others - that it's human nature). Throw in a bit of knowledge about politics (both domestic and international) and armed with these tools I'm confident the majority would be able to come to accurate conclusions on their own.
This article is awful. Yes, Mexicans do something that every single other country does as well. I feel like this guy is trying to justify his expenses paid trip to Mexico.
> I don't know that it's safe to assume unconditional basic income is inevitable.

Oh, I don't. I was reading Lovelock's "The Revenge of Gaia" this morning and now the only thing I think is inevitable is climate shift to a hot house mode. We'll be lucky if 0.1% of humanity threads that needle. It's not inevitable, but I don't think we'll change course rapidly enough to make it.
First off, I've never heard of one that claims if I interact with their citizen that I am liable under their law.

And more importantly, this is a total fiasco. I have dozens of emails from all kinds of providers telling me about updates to their privacy policies or otherwise. And there's been talk and warning for month from Wordpress plugin devs and blogs.

Can you name a single other foreign law in the past 20 years that has had this effect on US businesses?
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