skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If I'm allowed a shameless plug (I'm the developer), there is ElastiCluster [1] which can deploy (among others) JupyterHub on various IaaS cloud infrastructures. We have used it at UZH to provide teaching environments for various courses. By default it only comes with the local "passwd" authenticator, but anything that works with Jupyter or Linux/PAM can be used relatively easily (= write an Ansible playbook).

Feel free to reach out to me if you would like more info.

[1]: https://gc3-uzh-ch.github.com/elasticluster
A major difference being that a book reader doesn't say they're doing anything in particular with the book. People hiring creatives, though, very rarely say, "Well, we'll give you your money, but there's a 70% chance we'll fuck you over." Important other differences include exclusivity (readers aren't), amount of time wasted (after the book is published, each additional reader consumes approximately zero author time), type of relationship (readers are consumers; creative employers are collaborators), and expectations of control (which are common for creative workers).

A closer analogy is a film director being upset that the studio didn't live up to the expectations created during the deal negotiation process. That happens all the time with films, and approximately nobody tells directors, "You got paid; STFU."
Sure, but if we judge everyone by their worst actions I'm sure we can implicate a large swath of people who have ever achieved anything. I find Taibbi's work interesting and I would prefer not to deplatform people for actions unrelated to their work. We have a court system for punishing people. While I think it's entirely reasonable not to support someone or their work on moral grounds I would prefer others not to make that decision for me.
They're not paying you to move, they're offering a discount... Semantics aside, this is a pretty common thing for a competitor to do when something negative comes out about their competition (Either giving out blanket discounts regardless of social media or having you verify a tweet some how)
I bet they have plenty of money for the "Women/Gender Studies", Sports, and Diversity Officers.

People wonder why society is declining.
Zuckerberg is almost single-handedly responsible for the downward spiral that the internet has been on ever since Facebook. He has never respected anybody's privacy or rights. The internet would have been a better place without him. He's to the internet what Trump is to the White House... Just ignores all norms and unwritten rules for his own profit, and causes permanent damage in the process.
There certainly will be some increased demand, but it can be easily controlled by just simply taking top X% of performers, where X% makes as many students as particular university is capable of handling.

Even now, when public colleges are not tuition free, any decent university still has limited capacity. You need to have certain level of performance to be accepted, not just money.
Susan Eggers First Woman to Receive Eckert-Mauchly Award
The benefits of FOSS are specifically tied to the freedom to run and fork code for any reason. If you get rid of that model, you lose a huge number of attractive features of these licenses: freedom is the benefit of FOSS.

There are already tons of source available models that tons of companies use. Nothing is stopping you from putting your code on Github right now with a proprietary license. Of course, even in that scenario most users prefer single-time purchases to subscription models.

If you want to go off and develop a new proprietary subscription license, then fine. But don't market it as a solution to OSS problems, that's deceptive.

> All of your suggestions ultimately boil down to altruism by commercial entities

Quite literally none of my suggestions boil down to that, I deliberately left donations off the list. In every single model a commercial entity pays for something they would not be able to get for free: advertising, permission to bypass GPL infection of their own code, support and access to developers, new features, or an enhanced proprietary version.
This is an interesting idea and it certainly seems to make sense to me to see it described this way. I am curious, though, can leader be a manager, and vice versa? Or, are these roles so distinct from each other that they should be separate? Maybe these roles can't co-exist at that level because it's exactly the problem that leads to so many of the problems we discuss on this site?
I agree with what you are saying, but plenty of issues with Github really needed to be solved in order for large projects to scale. Issue templates and the native “likes” rather than all those +1 comments were desperately needed and Github had no excuse not solving those issues for years.
I do not understand how that would require a change of their business model because they currently provide free hosting and maintenance for a version that I think has more features than the community edition.
Much harder to step the shuttle through a debugger though.
I don't know, can you really tell the 3x difference between a $35k BMW and a $80k BMW? Sure the leather's probably nicer, the engine's more powerful, but do you feel like "holy crap I just tasted the future" vs. "I'm totally looking like a dork in this car"
I never claimed that we figured out all the laws of nature but we certainly know a lot about them. And among the things we know are limits on things we may not have discovered. If there was, for example, a yet undiscovered fifth force, then it would have to have tiny effects because otherwise we would have noticed it in past experiments. There is no chance we would have missed anything that could enable remote viewing or something along that line.
I wonder which state will be Silicon Commode ...
If you're interested in this kind of thing I also recommend "Science, Strategy, and War" principally about John Boyd's EM theory of flight combat.

https://www.amazon.com/Science-Strategy-War-Strategic-Histor...
I think micropayments don't work.

Even if you make payment as completely frictionless as possible, there is still the mental overhead of deciding to pay. As the dollar amount gets smaller and smaller, the "pain of deciding to pay" becomes a higher fraction of the total pain, and the economics don't make sense. Plus, if you just charge for each click or whatever, you get the bad incentives of clickbait back.

Subscriptions are great because you only have to make one (big) decision. Subscribing to individual writers is great, because the thing you are deciding is do you like/trust/want to keep reading this writer, which is something that people actually do have strong feelings about.

As distribution has become free, the value of content has been driven to zero. But now the value of curation -- of reading somebody you trust -- gets higher. That's what people are willing to pay for.
Sure, but the default is going to be for shorter doors.

Someone needs to ask for long doors in order to have them built in the US.
This is objectively false. Ad conversions are indeed way more efficient than they have been in the past. Your scorn doesn't change the facts
It feels like you didn't even read the comment you replied to. FWIW, I've worked in a company where the whole point of core hours was to have a working set of people in the building at the same time, and wasn't related to time zones or even meetings.
Your link is correct -- Apple recently added the ability to programmatically modify the contents of push notifications which would allow one to build E2E on top of APNS. Android has always processed notifications through intents, so it's always had this capability. Google is just providing a pre built solution that works for some use cases but this method was technically possible before.

Not sure what Signal does here particularly, but their FAQ claims it's not a problem. https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/217524107-Can-G...
Is it? They just wish to lure folks from Github to Gitlab and hopefully one day have their own multi billion dollar exit.
I'd have some sign language for anybody who tried enforcing "sign language ground rules."

> * I have a teammate who likes to write the core rules on the whiteboard before each meeting, and point to them when he starts the meeting, and each time a participant needs reminding.

Are you working with school children or professionals?
A "hackronym", if you will.
Quotations from Chairman Powell – A Leadership Primer
https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2017/12/the-destructi...
I think because then you don't give developers the extra motivation to use your platform APIs.
From the article:

Arc was originally a virus and is now encoded as a gene within the human genome. (part of the point of the article)

The neurons don't die, the synapses wither, and not for lack of the gene, but for lack of the encoded messages ordered up by the gene within neighboring synapses.

The article suggests that synapses are using some sort of chemical notification system, out of band of the synapse-to-synapse firing that permits reorganization. When there is a defect in the notification system, you get autism or worse.

All of that was in the article. Maybe slow down a bit?
Exactly.

> If there's anything I want Gitlab to copy from GitHub, it's the opinionated decision making of what to show and when to show it.

Thing is, that will never happen. The project has already sprawled out of control and if they tried to remove things or drastically change the product users would just start forking the project. Or someone would copy GitLab and make a totally open source clone (that'd be ironic).

On a side note, does the issue tracker for GitLab CE worry anyone else? https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues Nearly 11k issues some from 3 years ago.
If that were a priority of universities I would likely be working at one instead of working in tech. There just wasn't room for someone who wasn't interested in pursuing tenure-track positions when I finished school, and that was not something I was willing to pursue for a number of reasons, chief among them being my desire to stay in one place.
At least? Excel has excellent, top-level visualizations. They might not look sexy, but for everyone who works in the area of data visualization it's obvious how much effort and thought have been put into designing Excel charts. Getting data visualization right is far far less trivial than it might seem.
More government research grants was likely a large part of it. The article mentions the heyday after WWII, referencing a flood of capital into the sciences.
Oh, there's plenty of politics in American companies as well. It's just culturally you have to pretend that you haven't even heard this word and are honestly acting in the best interests of the company/team/customers, while using the dirtiest tricks in the book when nobody's watching before your competitors do the same to you.
“ASKfm, one of the world's top 10 social media networks”

This line in the article feels really weird and sketchy. Especially given that I’d never heard of the site. I don’t see any indication this is true whatever it means. But the fact that they are pivoting to crypto doesn’t make me think they’ve been all that successful in the social media world.
Neither of these, been in both situations.

I just am kind of ashamed for us as developers that we can not manage to band together and solve the task. That is what is really troubling.
I believe this is happening, or will be shortly. I've had these weird experiences as well.

But one casual experiment is not proof. I assume the implications for battery life alone would make this impractical.
This is an pretty great article.

Wish I would've read it years ago... thanks for the share
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Wow you've done some great stuff. I work in the same industry in a company that has been around since 2007 and we don't have anything remotely similar to provisioning systems for client or backbone equipment, everything is done manually.

What kind of equipment do you use mainly ? Cisco, Juniper... ?
Being "a Manager" is the wrong first step to leading a team. Management is an activity we should all be undertaking, not a role.
I guess that's exactly what I'm saying. I don't WANT to sign up for multiple services. I consider all that to be chores that take away from actually building the product I care about.

Apart from that, it costs more (I didn't bring this up because these costs are negligible compared to the cost of engineer time), you have multiple places charging your credit card, have to manage multiple accounts, etc.

It's sort of like the reasons I used to state on why I like Ember. ember-cli comes fully integrated, I can start to build something in 5 minutes. Whereas, before create-react-app, developers would spend a lot of time just cobbling together tools and reading tutorials just to get to a certain level of infrastructure.

I don't want to do that. I just want to press a couple of buttons and resume building my product.
Because you have observed that emojis do not help you communicate, and then concluded that emojis cannot possibly help anyone communicate. There are lots of people in this thread who have mentioned concrete examples of emojis "providing something text cannot," and yet you refuse to accept it.

"This helps me communicate" is not a falsifiable claim. You're telling lots of people that they have somehow made a mistake in interpreting their own life experiences. You are not even considering the possibility that something is there, and you just can't see it.
I'm very much for accountability, although I fail to see exactly how it is relevant to this issue. Nevertheless, one could retort, without much of a stretch, or none at all, that if you need to store enough PII about your readers for GDPR to become a really hard issue to solve even with a ~2-year headstart, you either:

1) Weren't doing a very good job with your political reporting, and didn't know about it.

2) You are storing way too much information about your users for a newspaper to store.

3) You use deprivation of news to a particular group of people to try to influence them, or others to aid in your goals, whatever they might be.

4) You don't have that much money, and can't afford the changes necessary.

In my opinion, of these, only 4 is really acceptable for a newspaper, as news at its core is about trust, integrity and dialogue. Each of which none of the other answers leaves untainted.

... but I believe I don't even need to make the argument, because time and the growing distrust of how companies handle their sometimes very private and sensitive information don't care about arguments, it will simply make the things it cares about happen, given time, and the opportunity to be heard.
Yeah. I don't know - it doesn't seem that hard to get into problems you enjoy. Learn technology that's in interesting spaces, write a book on it or something. Then find work that fits your interests. Maybe I'm over-simplifying it?
That may sound cheeky, but I have seen incredibly skilled glasswork coming from today's pipe makers. I am sure there is a lot of overlap in technique at a certain level.
I've watched people die with cancer. I expect you have as well, or soon enough will. GDPR really isn't the same.
There's a reason we aren't discussing a shortage of plastic molders, but glass blowers. The article specifically mentions the important qualities of glass to research that plastics do not solve.
> like these when an inexperienced group of folks

They were professional alpinists.
As someone who's done quite a bit of e-commerce solutions architecture for ecommerce businesses leveling up, I can say without a doubt the worst solution you could choose for a newly created store in 2018, would be roll out a home grown build.

You need to choose the solution that is best for your friend's business over the long term, not what is most interesting as a dev.

Use Shopify, as it's the most scalable over the long run, without a dev needed to keep the lights on. But even something like Etsy will do.

Do not go with Django / Python, and I say this as a Django dev myself. The second you get a higher priority project, your friend will be in a real jam. Maintenance with Django / Python is prohibitively expensive with freelancers, and needs a high level of engineering skill to keep up with business requirements over time.

Particularly things like packages & dependency upgrades, can lead to tech debt with cascading maintenance costs and increase likelihood of outages. Enough is changing in ecommerce around 3rd party vendor dependencies, security standards and regulations, that an un-patched Django site can get burned pretty quickly.

The cost of migrating to another ecommerce platform from something proprietary can become extremely expensive as well, so do your friend a favor and choose a scalable saas platform that will last. Good luck.
Comparing an errant tweet to Taibbi’s ouvre of misogynist dreck is pretty shameless apologism.

> fell from grace this October after controversial passages from an old book he’d co-authored, The eXile: Sex, Drugs, and Libel in the New Russia, resurfaced and were spread online.

God forbid we judge someone based on a book they published (oh, and the magazine it was based on).
It will remain hard to do that whilst they still haven’t thought of the idea that perhaps killing people for money isn’t the best use of one’s productive energies.
i'm glad google blocked advertising for sbitcoins and their ilk.

It seems like the very worst aspects of human nature have congealed on the coin industry. Every huckster and madmen wannabe is pushing their flavor of snake oil.
I wish the NY Times would get back to journalism and not try to boost their webviews with fluff pieces like this.
Etsy, Shopify, something like that.

As someone else here said, when running your own store, you want to get as close to spending 100% of your time and energy on marketing and closer to 0% of your time on tinkering with technology.

Etsy is nice, because you have some eyeballs built in.
I can't comment on advanced math, but there are a number of things that I do not associate with real scientific papers:

1. Not prepared with LaTeX.
2. Photo of the author.
3. Obsession with rounded rectangles and ovals.
4. It uses the word "colossal" 83 times and "rupture" 110 times.
5. Didn't see any references to other scientific works.
Model-Driven Pipelines
See Wikipedia, Linux Foundation, etc. We all are in some way, and we all should.

Or we start treating parts of the internet which everyone uses like water, streets.
Ask HN: What are some examples of SaaS built around YouTube?
I'm looking for examples of SaaS businesses (ideally subscription) selling to content creators on Youtube
Why would they? So uneducated people with a chip on their shoulder can pore over the data and write misinformed articles citing the data as their facts? Why would any company do that?

The truth of the matter is, hardly anyone is even equipped to make use of that data. The only attempts by most amateurs would result in factually inaccurate or misrepresented scenarios. Add to the fact that the people who want this data likely are looking to pin some kind of blame on Tesla for one thing or another and you have a no-go.

Unless you know both computers at an expert level, and cars, and a high degree of comprehension of physics... this data will be useless other than to try to prove a "point".
Congratulations, you just came up with a proprietary license concept. That's great, but don't misuse the phrase "open source" or "free software". Perhaps a better alternative to the absurdely complex system you've proposed is to simply exchange software licenses/units/subscriptions for cash, the way it's normally done. Other people can contribute to your software through "contracting" and "being hired". This is the easiest and most straightforward way to handle proprietary software.

If you truly believe your concept deserves the name "open", you should research the concept at https://opensource.org/ and reevaluate.

Open-source software is for everyone to use, not just those advantaged enough to have free time to contribute to projects in a secret club.
Bilinguals experience time differently from monolinguals
We still don’t know much about the jobs the AI economy will make–or take
I've read from the Signal team before (no reference links on hand, sorry) that Signal servers send an empty push notification to your device to wake it up, at which point the Signal app fetches your notifications/messages from Signal's servers.

At least, that's what I read for Android/GCM, I'm not sure if that applies to Apple.
Facebook announces Oculus Connect dates Sept. 26-27
GitHub XP – GitHub Windows XP Theme
Isn't it what they said in the article?

If there are any problems with Arc gene -- if it is not transferred properly to a child -- then child might develop various conditions (autism etc.)
Nice, really nice, introduction to statistical hypothesis testing, nicer, sorry 'bout that, than is common in teaching of statistics. Nice work by physics.
Better than "Operation Iraqi Liberation". That acronym didn't last long.
Having seen a number of professional authors recently not quite fall into this, but something similar, in which they get a few books into a series and either lose interest or don't know how to continue, I'm very interested in specialized incentives that could be offered to provide assurance to consumers and keep authors aligned.

For example, an opt-in program where authors allow Substack to keep keep a portion of the monthly revenue until some criteria are hit or some time period passes, whichever is first. For example, if each month 50% of the author's cut is paid out to the author, and the other 50% is kept and paid out in installments based on the number of content posts delivered compared to the author's target. For example, it an author plans to release 4 content posts a month, and their cut is $100 each month, they would be paid $50 for the month, and $50/8 per post after that for that month, so within two months they should get the full amount. After two months there would be an equilibrium and the full amount would be coming in ($50 for current month, $25 for each of the two prior months).

Now, I'm not seriously proposing that exact system, but an opt-in system such as that (with some variation on time frames, etc) which could be have a specific tag would go a long way towards making me feel like I'm investing in something that has a future when I pay, because let's be honest, some authors have been able to coast on a good reputation and some beloved prior works for a long time without needing to put out anything in the same vein. That's their prerogative, but at the same time I'm at the point in my life where time is at a premium, and money is less so than when I was younger, and if I'm going to invest the time and effort into a serialized work, I want to do as much as I can to make sure I'm doing so in something that will see an appropriate end.
Going beyond an article, 'Peopleware' is a fantastic book for engineering folks transitioning to management - it's not new but the fundamentals stand the test of time.

It's the book I started out with 15 years ago and I have suggested to many others.

Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams (3rd Edition) https://www.amazon.com/dp/0321934113/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_j-...
Over time, you could compile a book of technical drawings that could be reused and modified for future products. I'm having a hard time believing that every person who needs glass blown needs something totally unique that has never been done before; it's probably slight modifications of existing products and the occasional odd pipe/manifold.
It could be what they intended. It's a good way to be sure they only provide free services to projects that would never be paying customers. If an organization can pay someone to work on an open-source project, they could also pay Gitlab to provide services to that project.
Are there any references to other scientific papers in that document? I didn't see any.
This is great, I wish he were giving it to high schoolers and GED recipients too.