skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hear you, though I've largely stopped with direct feedback and commentary as it 1. seems to haveno positive effect, and 2. may be having the opposite of my intended outcome. I refer to this as my Denial of Feedback Attack.

The alternatives exist and I recommend using them. This is coming to you via Chrome and Android, but elsewhere I rely on Linux ans MacOS, as well as Firefox and increasingly text-based browsers. (I'm special, I know.)

Protonmail and DuckDuckGo are each quite good. I am divesting mysself of other digital services generally.

As for networks, technology, monopoly, and power, I'm seeing them as increasingly tightly interrelated. Look up Jules Dupuit and his work on rail fares (and classes) and bridge tolls, among others.
Idiocracy was inspired by the real world.
In a first, NASA’s Predator drone flew solo in commercial airspace
It's pretty useful when making phishing pages. Rather than having to host all the tiny files and images yourself or going through what is likely an enormous HTML file and editing all the srces and hrefs, you can just throw a <base> tag on there and be done with it.

Admittedly this is probably not the use case you're looking for.
Great point. As a fellow introvert, I think I would also be better off.
If you have other reasons for not wanting a life to exist, that’s another matter. But if your only reason is that, in your estimation, that person would have a life not worth living, that seems awfully presumptuous. Life is optional. Let them decide if they want to be alive.
Yeah I meant besides the obvious time and money.
> When I first saw it, I didn't even recognize it as ice! It looked more like a fungus at first, and only after touching it and seeing that it was dissolving did I realize what it was.

You weren't too far off:

> In 2015, the fungus Exidiopsis effusa was identified as key to the formation of hair ice.
OK, I think you are you are perilously close to tinfoil hat territory if you think the findings of the UK's largest cancer charity is being warped by big dairy.

Especially since the NHS has nothing to say on the matter either, other than the reduction in bowel cancer from drinking milk is unproven.
> which is when locking becomes essential, most languages and platforms have easy to use constructs to help you do this without much in the way of drama.

This is actually a problem. It is very easy to just slap locks around which, depending on your workload, can cause the threads to be blocked waiting for work.

I have seen many designs that used threads "for performance", but had so many locks in place that a single threads would actually perform similarly, with much less code complexity.

Once you get past a couple of locks in your code, it starts to smell.

Just because you can do Thread.New in your favorite language, doesn't mean you are using them correctly or efficiently.
I think the judge is saying they bungled the case so bad that an appeal will be a waste of the courts time. Sounds like the warning is more of an admonishment to the DOJ for wasting the courts time with confusing and unconvincing case.
I nearly emailed you with just about the same feedback about how the app opens and one's surprised by being in the gallery. I get your point about wanting users to start right away. And now that I am used to your app, I am glad how quickly I get to the photos. Perhaps even a quick toast at least could say : pick a photo to start?
*software engineer, not computer engineer. Computer engineering focuses more on hardware and is a specialized field within electrical engineering.
James Joyce’s Letters to Nora Barnacle
How long can you run a car without an alternator?
That's the reason I never bought any more. I needed it about once a year and it went off after a few months. I really must empty my fridge.
Threads were overprescribed in the 90s. I’m pretty sure the original example code for drawing an image in Java involved typing “new Thread” so that the image could be loaded over the network in the background. Truly the way to write apps in the Internet age!

At the same time, Java’s threads are so easy to use — without of the portability or debuggability issues of native threads — that threads don’t seem that bad to Java programmers. Yeah, shared state can be a foot gun, but so can global variables. You just keep things as pure and easy to reason about as possible. And Java has had concurrency primitives that keep you from having to deal directly with threads and locks for over a decade.

I don’t think “events” and threads solve the same problem. If your program would work just as well doing all its work in a single thread then yeah, you don’t really need threads. If we’re comparing “events and callbacks” async style to async/await style where you write your code as if it were running in a thread (even if it isn’t), I think the latter wins.
Yes, but it may open up more soon. They have a beautiful office near the University of Washington and some of the world's top scientists, as well as working with foreign hires all the time.
> Yes, PostgreSQL is a mature project. But that has little or no bearing by itself on what degree it can scale; Linux is just about as old, yet it still drives most of the infrastructure we're talking about.

I knew someone here would misinterpret why I mentioned its age. As I said, it's not what it was designed for. Perhaps it has bolted on things in the 20+ years since it was first conceived, but it wasn't purpose-built for scale.

> To conflate project age with current robustness is to indulge in fallacious thinking

It only makes sense to talk about "robustness" in the context something was designed to work in. I can't abuse a system and call it unrobust. Of course Postgres is robust. You're twisting what I was saying.

> There are good examples of PostgreSQL running at scale, including at companies operating at scale such as Instagram

I'd actually be keen to learn more about how Postgres works at Instagram scale without their own customisations to make it work in that setting.

If Postgres works well in that setting why do things like this exist? https://github.com/citusdata/citus
Question: What is the meaning of life, the universe, and everything?

Aristo's Answer: 42

Confidence: 36.98%
Right, I was just curious if it would catch it.
Not if you re not using your real identity, and even then its more complicated than if the companies were local. They would simply be shut down.
I doubt that given it took me weeks to find review, and put up half those links. It would take some time, though. If nothing else, check out projectoberon.com and/or the amber slides:

https://speakerdeck.com/nineties/creating-a-language-using-o...
The weeds will perish

But the virtuous bean plants

Live on forever
Why does this not get attention? People have no idea how dangerous Article 11 and 13 are. Services have to PREVENT the availability of copyrighted works by implementing (unimplementable) upload filters.
Any beginner resources you'd recommend for someone looking to get started with D3 and beginner coding experience?
I'm sad that this article was upvoted. It's terribly thought out.

(It's also from Sept 2017 anyway...)
Jeff Sessions, servant of some of the people?
Yeah, you and I might not want impoverished people from having kids that they can't afford (since guilt will compel us to step in and assist). But I would bet that 99 out of 100 people who grew up in the worst kind of poverty would happily do so again rather than never have existed. So, from the child's point of view it's a good tradeoff.
My quick thoughts. In my case, I agree, roommates were a benefit. They're not necessary though.

I could've gotten my own apartment and met people who lived in my apartment building on my own. I decided to get roommates as a way of meeting people and because the city I moved to was expensive.

I agree that roommates can be a huge gamble. I met these people and thought they were nice from a first impression. It turned out to be right. I could've easily been wrong also. It's a gamble that might be necessary for some people to take if you're young, single, don't know anyone, and moving to a new area.

Meetups sound good on the surface. You can meet new people. That I agree. My question is how easily can you see them again. People you meet there can live quite a distance from your home. This makes it hard to see them again.

If you happen to run into someone who lives within walking distance from you and you happen to get along, then I think it's great. Later you can meet up with them without much planning. But if the person lives further away, then it doesn't make it easy to become good friends.

If there was a meetup based on proximity, then I think it would be great. For example, a meetup for all the new people who moved to X neighborhood of Y city. Then you could be assured that the people you meet are nearby and you can easily see them again.

Meetups where you do activities (card games, video games, etc.) can be good because people will repeatedly come back for those activities. Again, how easy will it be for you to hang out with them outside of the meetup?
It’s a snide comment, meant to imply that there isn’t much to SPIFFE outside of MTLS (it’s not a fair dig, but not meant to be one).
I can only assume that the people downvoting this comment didn't see the comment I replied to before it was edited. The "5 minutes" thing was a direct reference.
Quotes taken out of context are really powerful, aren't they?
Because that data isn't limited to just Autosteer but also includes Autobreaking and the other safety features which are more likely to have played a role in the accident reduction.
There's no evidence that Autosteer has saved any lives, but there is evidence that it's taken at least 4.
Imagine you have a cross-platform app with multiple teams. You have a lot of data-driven components like different feed types. You want to avoid situations that change in backed API needs to be synced with every team/app. You want to give power to app developers to define efficient queries.

Unless you develop multiple apps or data-driven application there is very little reason to use GraphQL. Personally, I am in favor of building two APIs: public/third party REST and JSON-RPC for the frontend. Getting REST right is difficult and after you create your resources your frontend needs to workaround incomplete/superfluous data.
> What would they have to lose?

Their professional reputations.
If you generate a fingerprint of the audio on the phone, you would not leak too much information about the environment. Shazam, for example, computes the spectrum, picks the strongest peaks, and uses the relative positions of small groups of peaks in time and frequency as features to search for in known recordings. Those features are quite sparse and you can not reconstruct the audio from them. You could however identify more or less every audio signal in the environment you have a copy of to compare against.

You could do better by sending out the fingerprint you are looking for and compare it against the past couple of seconds or minutes on the phone so that you could only report a match if one occurred. This would avoid leaking what music you are listening to or what you are watching on TV unless it is what they are looking for. If you report a match with GPS coordinates, the server could throw away everything but the position so that the position is not easily linked to a user.

This still reveals all the living rooms in which someone watched the match and used the app, so it's not perfect. If you have a map of all relevant businesses, you could just count matches in the proximity for each or you could only keep matches from locations from which a certain minimum number of matches were reported which should also get rid of most living rooms. This is still not perfect, it, for example, potentially leaks how popular different places are but from a privacy perspective of app users it seems acceptable to me, at least given you trust them to do it right.

The real issue, at least in my opinion, is that they turn the app users against the business owners of the places they like to watch matches at. I am not against them trying to track the ones down that are not paying, they have a legitimate interest in that. But the way they are trying to do it seems wrong to me. There are probably some app users that would welcome if everyone had to pay but I guess most don't really care whether their favorite sports bar pays or not and even more would not want to cause trouble for the business owner even if they think they should pay. In consequence this is a feature that many if not most app users would not want to use even if there were no privacy issues. They still put it in hoping that nobody would take notice and that they could get away with it, at least for some time.
Question: If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?

Aristo's Answer: Yes (there is a medium-Air)

Confidence: 52.89%

Glad that one is solved :)
In many cases that’s known as “commoditizing your complement.”

https://www.gwern.net/Complement
This was useful in the area of a frameset.
Ember used to use <base> tags but moved away from the due to user confusion and problems with svg: https://www.emberjs.com/blog/2016/04/28/baseURL.html

My personal use case: my company built a system where developers could build html/css/js "apps" that semi-technical end users could deploy into their accounts. Those end users could tweak the html/css/js in limited ways and just the modified part would be deployed to a different location, but would have an injected <base> tag to point back to the developer's app so that end users could reference the original app's images and other static assets. If I were to build it again I might choose an actual templating system instead, but it would be one extra thing our users would have to learn.
Why the quotes? EU itself refers to this as copyright reform[0]. I assume they know what's in their own directive.

There are a lot of reasons why this is a bad idea, but just looking at precedent alone should be enough to give people pause.

Germany already introduced a link tax 4 years ago. Google just stopped showing link snippets for publishers, publishers realized their click-through rates from search results were a lot worse without snippets, and most of them gave Google free licenses to include the snippets. It was a complete failure. Ironically, a law that was intended to stop Google from gobbling up more ad revenue created a situation where Google's position was even more entrenched, because they were free to continue operating as normal and small sites weren't.

The upload filter is problematic because it's an automated upload filter that would be required by law to preserve safe havens, would have zero consideration for fair use, would have no real penalties for misuse by bad actors, and would serve as precedent for whatever the next thing is that lawmakers decide to block.

But again, skipping all of that we also have data on upload filters, ie Youtube's content ID, which is regularly abused by bad actors to remove fair-use content, troll and attack activists, and censor criticism. Creatives and small publishers hate content ID.

I have a fair amount of respect for EU lawmakers for often taking experimental approaches to laws where they'll do limited trials or gather data to get a more educated understanding of what a policy will do. Ignoring any of the common sense problems with the proposal, it's kind of crazy to me that any of this is still on the table when there are zero practical examples of link taxes or upload filters actually working in the real world.

[0]: https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/modernisation-...
Peer5 uses webrtc datachannels and runs on top of existing dash/hls streams
People have no idea how dangerous Article 11 and 13 are.
Services will have to PREVENT the availability of copyrighted works by implementing (unimplementable) upload filters. And you will no longer be able to quote / have snippets of news articles, or whatever is copyrighted (everything?).

No mention of fair use.
Trust me, I was never stayed by groupthink. Infact the groupthink has almost always been Tesla fanboyism.

I personally was set off by Elon musk's claims about autonomy, every since he started claiming them in 2015. I still don't think a line following robot should be allowed control of a car, and good forbid not have a human driver behind it.
I'm well aware. My point was that people were talking about the issue like it was Time Warner the ISP. It isn't.
So...you're comparing reducing the costs of getting into space with the achievement of developing the technology that actually made it possible to get into space?

The latter is a revolution. The former is just an incremental evolution. Laudable, but nowhere close to the same level of accomplishment.
Maybe some roads might have led there...
Webpack 4: Universal Code Splitting in React… the inventors are back baby
Question: What do humans eat?

Aristo is not sure about this one...

Aristo's best guess: Human beings will need food to eat.

Confidence: 18.43%
Yeah, nobody wants to burden other people with dependence. But shit happens. The history of our species is basically one conflagration after another. If I were to die with dependent children–which, up until about 80 years ago was a common occurrence—I know that my siblings would help care for my children. Or even if I just fell ill and needed assistance, my siblings would be there as a safety net.

And it goes both ways: I would do the same for them.
> Rome kind of became Greece v2.

Can't agree more on that. Also digging more into history you can see the Byzantine Empire which was sort of a merge of those 2 civilizations.
At the start, industrial installations of Power Pack were expected to be 80% of the battery business, but an alarming number of people outside of Tesla appeared convinced that retail Power Wall would be the thing. Guess what?
Yeah no thanks. I'm not going to read something so fair-minded as to call those with whom it disagrees "anti-vaxxers". Winer has a point that resonates with many people. You're not going to convince them by calling them idiots.
I want to give an unconventional view that supports this decision.

The two companies merging are walking into a trap.

Their size makes them an attractive target for nationalization. ATT started off as a private company. It’s size however lead to it being effectively taken over by the government. The resulting monopoly came to employ 1 million people at its height. Adjusted for population growth, that’s be like the entirety of all the military branches today.

Before anyone mentions anything about automation though, let me say, there are plenty of jobs. If any of you have had the pleasure of a company giving you a secretary, you know that many jobs that have supposedly been automated, we are just doing without.

Also as cyber security becomes more of a concern, none of these jobs can be outsourced. Can you imagine whatever company builds our 5G network having their NOC in say Costa Rica (assuming world relations continue to deteriorate), or customer support outsourcing to the Philippines?

I know my views are wrong in some areas, but
I hope they open a few new ways of viewing things.
E2E Testing for DApps Using Puppeteer and MetaMask
Growing up in Sweden, we definitely had school lunches. Bringing food from home was unheard of, school lunch was provided and everyone ate it (and complained about it.)

It wasn't until grade 11-12 or something that we sometimes started going out and getting burgers for lunch....
So as a coding n00b I tend to put my stuff on Heroku if only because at the moment that's what I know... and it is free. Any advantage to jumping into Google's App Engine?
Very alpha code, YMMV, buyer beware. I don't want anyone to try this and be turned off FreeBSD if it doesn't work well.

The author only has 100 Mbit networking, so performance bottlenecks may not be well-explored.
Note how Zuckerberg's, Brin's, Page's signatures are conspicuously not there, but Jimmy Wales' is.
It answered my question 99.7% correctly!

> Question: How many hours in a day?

> Aristo's Answer: 23 and 56 minutes ( or maybe its 58 minutes)

> Confidence: 57.70%
Presumably the many Greek colonies there.
I live in rural Arkansas, and have 300Mbps.

I’m promised gigabit this summer, but we’ll see.
Question: What is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?

Aristo is not sure about this one...

Aristo's best guess: ...the same thing as speed, but similar

Confidence: 26.21%
Not to negate this anecdote, but just to point out your mileage may vary. The research on this subject is still in its infancy.

I know a lot of people are looking for that "magic-bullet" panacea for all their small woes (social anxiety, minor depression, etc) and have tried everything under the sun (exercise, all kinds of diets, all kinds of books). It's been my experience with the people I knew personally who did acid/psylocibin didn't always improve as much by my measure as they did by self-report.
Is Kerberos even an option in an environment with Mac OS & mobile phone clients, as well as Windows?
I m not personally afraid of the data that commercial companies have collected on me , as i was consciously using their websites when i did . But it's more uneasy to think of the data collected by various security services. I am glad that GDPR is making people believe all their private data belongs to them (this is not true in modern states - government owns much of your data). At some point people are going to start asking questions about private data usage by governements. E.g. it is only a few years since governments started buying and using stolen private bank files to search for tax frauds etc.
It only bans them from eating children.
Ask HN: Alternatives to app.domain.com
Hosting a marketing site on a different platform to an app forces the use of sub-domains to direct the user to the right place.
(domain.com/dashboard is replace by app.domain.com/dashboard, for example)

We're not limited to using `app` for the sub-domain

A single function app could use things like:
email.domain.com /Email provider
trade.domain.com /Stock trading
wallet.domain.com /Coin wallet

Have you seen any creative or fun names given to the sub-domain?
Isilon hasn't used the FreeBSD nfsd since 2014 (OneFS 7.2). (And prior to that, it was a heavily modified version.)
ISTM the best way to "create competition" would be to start using competing services... which is what DW and others are suggesting in this very thread.
Do you happen to have any photos documenting this? I'd love to see some of your use cases.
ModernMech says>"...in America "Make X Great Again" has very political overtones..."

Sometimes, but only rarely. Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.

Your labeling of every possible phrase of the form "Make X Great Again" does violence to the English language by disallowing certain forms of speech. As one other poster states herein, by banning phrases of those you politically oppose, you could eventually circumscribe the entire language and prevent most all free speech.

When I was 4 years old I learned that "Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never harm me." and I absorbed the concept <b>fully</b> at that age. Were you to not have absorbed that lesson yet or to have rejected that concept, having reached adulthood, would be unfortunate. Indeed, because you do not appear to be stunted intellectually, I do not believe you have not heard and absorbed that lesson. I _do_ however, believe that you, in a Machiavellian manner, are attempting to gain advantage by restricting argumentation arbitrarily.
(Pm on the team) App Engine Standard does not support websockets at the moment.
Oh look, an ad for Visual Basic from 1995! Event driven code sucks and is not better. I learned this writing VB code. Others learned the hazards of event driven code in the Therac 25.
I dunno about humiliation, but I agree that it's boring and uncomfortable. I can be regaled all day with how wonderful it's going to be for me, but if it's boring and uncomfortable I'm probably not ever going to do it, and I will almost certainly not stick to a routine of it.