skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>we really ought to repeal the 17th Amendment and return to state appointment of senators.

This sounds good in theory, but the reason they passed the 17A in the first place was because of widespread corruption in the Senate.

>But then, I'd also like to see legislatures appointing electors to the Electoral College …

That's not going to fix anything either. What they need to do is replace the Constitution and adopt a Westminster parliament like every other decent democratic republic out there. How many countries have a presidential system like ours? Only a few, and they're ones like El Salvador, not exactly countries you want to emulate.
I made this change back in 2011 when the Windows 8 developer preview with WinRT single-handedly annihilated all the WPF & Silverlight consulting work. The writing was on the wall for months, but for me the last straw was the JavaScript WinRT apps.
CenturyLink issues?
In Chrome, you can also use uBlock Origin, which is potentially a little easier to use if you're not an advanced user.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ublock-origin/cjpa...
I got a completely different idea from reading the description. He's saying the whole point why this thing is small is that you don't need to keep stacking changes to the same properties, i.e. why do this:

/*reset*/
h1 {margin: 0;}
/*your pretty styles*/
h1 {margin: 0 0 10px;}

He argues that you can just drop the first rule because you're going to be setting it to something else later anyways; you should only reset properties that are likely to be final and only tags you actually use.
Framer X: React, meet design
Yep, but YouTube doesn't require full DRM support.
TL;DR -

This is a list of important publications in computer science, organized by field.

Some reasons why a particular publication might be regarded as important:

1) Topic creator – A publication that created a new topic

2) Breakthrough – A publication that changed scientific knowledge significantly

3) Influence – A publication which has significantly influenced the world or has had a massive impact on the teaching of computer science.
They just demoed running a winforms app in the browser using .NET CORE so maybe it would be less work/more successful to explore this path instead of trying to somehow re-implement the oxygen-sucking monster that is Excel using only the "new hotness (tm)".

I bet this is only the new stuff like Delve and the less functional, more social apps/components. I can't imagine how they could pull this off for a full version of Excel or even Word or PP..
People are always trying out new protocol features and enhancements. Clients ship with the ones that have turned out to be the most useful.

In other words, BitTorrent will be the next BitTorrent.

Compare modern clients that can easily handle seeding tens of thousands of files across hundreds of different trackers with minimal resource utilization with the reference client people used back in the early 2000s. You only had one way to connect to trackers and other clients, the traffic was trivial to detect and filter, and the client only support one file at a time along with using 100% of a cpu.
What a good new, finally! Is it possible to run a socket.io server?
But centralisation makes it safer, all quirks aside
That's not an audit. It's a memo.

It explicitly states on the first page that it cannot be relied upon.

When Tether posted it (https://tether.to/announcement-transparency-update/) they stated " These consulting services do not constitute an audit or attestation engagement, which would include a significantly expanded scope of procedures and take substantially more time to complete."
So why didn't Tesla stop?
Doesn't JSON-LD (especially AcitivityPub+co) mostly deal with this already?
I'm all for a stable platform and backwards compatibility guarantees. Who wouldn't be? Who wants their code base flipped on it's head every couple months?

But, why do they have to hit 1.0 by the end of the year? Who's the arbiter of this deadline?
Spotter: Find out how spots are based on timed crowdsourced anonymous updates
Good point. Used to be mandatory, now it’s not. I know it’s quite common among those going for higher education to avoid it
quick patent it!
What's the difference between a fake promise and a real promise?

The government guarantees that dollars are acceptable for paying taxes. For a promise, that's about as real as you're going to get.
Wonder if you will be able to pay them money to accept your fake news as real news like they do with advertisements.
One is backed by taxation of the citizens of the government who print it.
Exactly, go outside the frostline and you are swimming in it. If you want to get away from it (or move it around) you can use some of it to make fuel or use it directly as reaction mass.

Beyond the frost line the scale is so much bigger. A population of 1 trillion beings in the Oort cloud is not going to be in a position of taking over the Earth and moving population there because it doesn't move the needle. They could create more "living space" by cutting up a Kuiper Belt Object and turning it into small ringworlds. I am not joking when I talk about Pluto as a better space colonization target than dry Mars.

Space technology from outside the frost line would have to be reconfigured to work inside the front line, why bother?
I tried to google harder, but it doesn't provide any other results. Keto is bad for you, this is what I got. Well, any extreme dieting is bad for you.
I would suggest that depends on how they present the community artifacts. If they provide a good deal of obvious disclaimers that the artifacts are built by Joe Random and "Use at your own peril", etc, then they are probably covered. If not, then they are guilty of conditioning people with bad behavior.

For an example of how this existed long before Linux containers:

There are third party RPM and APT package repositories that have existed for a very long time. The packages are not vetted by a company and there is no legal culpability for anything nefarious being contained within. People use these packages at their own peril and it is assumed they have mitigating controls to reduce risk.

Github is community contributed code and there is no enforceable legal contract between the developer and the consumer. The same thing applies. Use at your own peril and have mitigating controls (code diff reviews, static analysis, legal review, etc) This is especially true for all those projects under the MIT license.
You also gain portability; no worrying about which Python version is installed on a target machine for example.
Bandwidth is extremely cheap, so 15 million by a few kB is just 15+ GB, which costs pennies in terms of bandwidth. That doesn't buy you that much encoding compute time.
Question: This is one of the pieces of neural nets that has always seemed completely opaque voodoo to me. What estimating are you doing to suggest a 512-cell LSTM could stand to be swapped out with a 256-cell bidirectional? What constraints are you optimizing for?
You may want to consider Pony: https://www.ponylang.org/

Pony has compile time guarantees on not having data races, dead locks, runtime exceptions. It accomplishes this in a different way than Rust. For concurrency/async, Pony is Actor based, which I find to be a joy for modeling concurrent applications.

Here's a high level: https://www.ponylang.org/discover/#what-is-pony
The money quote is this: (OpenBSD):

"3) post-Spectre rumors suggest that the %cr0 TS flag might not block
speculation, permitting leaking of information about FPU state
(AES keys?) across protection boundaries."

AES-NI is part of the vector/FP units and uses those registers as well.
Enthusiasm may well have shortened the doubling period, true. But all tech has a Moore's law curve, and always has had - always logarithmic growth, but the doubling time varies.
Thanks for pointing this out, it changes my perception of this article entirely.
More specifically React https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/fabric
It could also be a lot worse than 720p. At least for me, most bigger (not netflix-original) titles are limited to 480p with maximum bitrates even below 1000 kbps when using a "partially" supported browser like Chrome.

But even using Edge is not a silver bullet for all content, as some seems to be limited to that low bitrate 480p on all browsers, even if higher quality is available on a TV app.
As good a story as tulip-mania is, it seems it may not quite have been what we think.

https://theconversation.com/tulip-mania-the-classic-story-of...
> 2) Google will need to lobby for changes in local regulations that prohibit local ISPs... which helps the local ISP startup market.

Google won't do that because of its political ties. To open up local ISP competition, you need to get rid of things like build-out requirements, loosen permitting requirements, reduce the ways people can stall installation of Fiber huts for NIMBY reasons, etc. Google will happily push for waivers of those requirements (as it did in every Fiber city), but cannot politically justify lobbying to eliminate those requirements for everyone else.
I don't think anyone believes its a legal issue, more one of intellectual honesty.
And when you split something into 2 components, 'healthy' and 'unhealthy' and both are circular by nature, what happens, besides the obvious affect on you and everyone you identify with?
So Intel tried to shut *BSD out of the process again (like they did for the original Spectre/Meltdown) so they didn't feel they had to respect any embargo?
One approach that doesn't rely on cookies is HTTP Basic Authentication.

The first request to a protected page will produce an authentication prompt[0]. Subsequent requests to the same site will automatically send the same set of credentials (in every browser I'm familiar with. This part of the spec seems to be optional [1]).

Using HTTP Basic Authentication, the server can track the user across different pages. All other state can be maintained on the server side, keyed to the user.

[0] https://i.stack.imgur.com/QnUZW.png

[1] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7617#section-2.2
Don't count yourself so sure - A lot of shadow IT gets done by that excel expert in finance or the engineer who took a programming elective. If anyone ever gave them a database login password, odds are they're pulling into excel or access and writing VBA!
How can it "become backed"? Anyone who buys Tether expects to get Tether tokens. If the issuers created Tether tokens from nothing, there's no way they can become backed. Where would the money come from?

Tether isn't redeemable, anyway. You can't go to the Tether issuers and demand a dollar for your Tether token.

Financial Times:
Meanwhile, the supply of Tethers rapidly ballooned, from $50 million to $2.2 billion. That led to an increasing number of questions over whether the dollars that were meant to back the cryptocurrency really existed. It was reported in January that both companies had been subpoenaed in December last year by US regulators, who wanted to look into this.[1]

[1] https://ftalphaville.ft.com/2018/06/13/1528904202000/Has-bit...
I just fail to see how Comcast or Verizon are going to be selling you their internet connection if you won't be able to connect to the things you want to connect to (like Netflix, iTunes, YouTube) through them. Especially on higher plans, people buy a lot of bandwidth so that they can stream videos, that's how ISPs up-sell to them. If they start throttling, they'll be selling an empty bucket, and it's not going to be very easy.

To me it seems like this might just revive competition between ISPs, by separating those who do the shady things and those who don't.

I'm curious how this is going to play out, it may not be all bad.
QA Environments on Demand with Kubernetes
holy cow, I created an email for that - chengmauchengmau@gmail.com
> What's the best way to circumvent this? Is it even possible?

I set my browser (firefox) to clear all cookies on exit but I let my browser save passwords whenever possible. That way you have to log in every time you use a service but at least you don't need to type in the login info every time. It's quick. Of course, this does not work nicely for two factor stuff but you can use another browser for those.
File sharing existed with the dawn of personal computing, it will exist until it dies.
At USD$6.5B for a 51% attack (scraped off a website)...

... that's a smidge over 1% of the US military budget.
Speeding Up Your Engineering Org: Beyond the Cost Center Mentality
From both my own experience and the experience of teaching people, those "gory details" are the nouns and verbs that compose higher-level abstractions. I haven't written C++ in anger in a decade, but it informs what I'm looking at when I'm reasoning through how V8 or the JVM is going to handle my code.

I've been required to teach people in the top-down manner that has left knowing gaps and rendered them without the tools necessary to solve their problems. That's not to say somebody who eagerly learns on one's own may be fine. Of course they might, so long as they have a way to determine what they need to learn. But most people don't eagerly learn on their own, and so a prescriptive "start at the bottom and build up" provides the necessary knowledge and grounding despite themselves.
Assuming this were true, then they wouldn't have known about the embargo, since we are assuming they were not part of the process.
Nim competes very well with Python, Go and Rust in the sysadmin / system library / daemons space.
Title is missing the word "in." Come on.
Why am I going to sell and pay premiums when I can just make the money wasted on premiums. If you are hedging options then you are unsure of direction is all and limiting max profits.

www.plainsitemanagement.com --> I hit winners. Better than anyone out there.

Also, I don't hold until expiration but I want maximum profits, not basic money.
The LocalStorage API is a more efficient way to store data client side with a a cleaner API
I think it is about legal culpability. If I am running CentOS in my datacenter, there is some degree of confidence that the packages were rebuilt by the CentOS team, a few members of which are Redhat employees. Redhat have an obligation to make reasonable effort to keep malicious code out of their supported software.

If there is a commercially supported version of Debian, then the same would apply.

If I pull in RPM's, Containers, VM Images built by Joe Random, I am legally on my own. My customers will be furious when they find out I have done this and the court will say that I did not make reasonable effort to protect my customers.
Red Hat worked pretty closely with NetApp and their implementation of pNFS. I've used it and it is very nice for mitigating any downtime while you perform maintenance on a controller.
I hate to see comments like yours go out without a couple concrete points that led you to your decision.

Feedback like yours can be so valuable, especially with the maintainer of Victory here. There's just no way to replace the knowledge/lessons learned from real life developer user experience.
UK rail pricing is insane, 3 to 7 times more than in the Netherlands, to make a comparison I know well. Totally unaffordable for spur-of-the-moment trips unless a company is paying. Here are two comparable length journeys.

- London to Manchester (2h26): travel tomorrow: GBP148; travel in August: GBP64

- Amsterdam to Maastricht (2h25): travel tomorrow: EUR25 = GBP22; travel in August: EUR25

Dutch rail prices are simple and predictable. Essentially a fixed rate per km, with an optional 40% off for offpeak travel after 9:30am. The UK apparently has 55 million different fare combinations. Totally bewildering. Not to mention the condition of the trains and the reliability of the service are much worse.

UK rail prices are so bad it is almost always cheaper to fly than go by train. Consequently, my partner and I take 10 European holidays by air for every UK holiday by train. That's a massive loss for the UK tourist industry.
I, for one, am perfectly fine with people not carrying weapons here. I’ve been living in the UK for 13 years and as long as i’m here i’d like the weapon situation to stay as-is.
They recently improved this to make it easier. I think they realize that it can get pretty complicated.
But finding high quality remote talent is had as if they where any good they would have left in most cases.

I suspect you want to have your cake and eat it.
For the search approach, one element that does not address is browsing your bookmarks. I will often bookmark something not necessarily because I need it but because it looks interesting. I use Bookmark OS which facilitates browsing and helps me "re-discover" interesting content https://bookmarkos.com
It's a weird premise indeed, and I've seen it only in two places - as an in-movie speculation I mentioned, and as something the director alluded to[0]. Personally, I've discarded it in my headcanon - as it makes little sense, and one can imagine alternative explanations.

--

[0] - https://screenrant.com/battle-los-angeles-comiccon-2010/, C-f water.
Spirit animals.
The technique behind standard and flex is large enough that we simply cannot provide consistent experience between these two. In fact these two products are supported by different teams. While the inconsistency is unfortunate, we are fully aware of this issue and are working towards a solution. Please expect some announcements from us.

Service deprecation is not taken lightly, and we guarantee 12 months per GCP deprecation policy (https://cloud.google.com/terms/deprecation). Of the services you mentioned, I don't think mail API is officially deprecated (per https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/deprecations/), and Datastore Backups is superseded by Managed Export (https://cloud.google.com/datastore/docs/export-import-entiti...).

Not sure about the memory problems you mentioned though.

Disclaimer: I'm on App Engine SRE team.
Introducing the Internet Intelligence Map
Rumors circulate, people talk, leaks happen.
One aspect that I don't see mentioned is that APIs for search have basically disappeared from the major players, likely due to them being expensive (programs can hammer an API faster than a human with a text box) and lacking a revenue model (no human may be involved, making advertising useless).

This has caused "search" to devolve into "human using Web browser types natural language in box, human is presented with results (some semantic, most just links to things other people wrote, some advertisments around the side), human reads through results to see if any are useful to them".

This is certainly useful, and I rely it all the time, but it's not the pinnacle of what search could be. It's like if `grep` didn't pipe to stdout, but instead popped up an alert box for each line like "Your query '.*' matched the line 'foo'. Try the new McDonalds saver menu today! [Next/Cancel]", it would still be useful, but nowhere near as useful as piping to stdout.

Many years ago Google provided an API to their search engines, which applications could build on to be more "smart". This could have paved the way to much better software: for example, imagine a prolog system where all of Google's knowledge could be used by the calculations.

That path was mostly abandoned since there's no scalable incentive to make it operate, much like the semantic Web. Rather than opening up databases to empower others, it's much more profitable to keep them walled off behind a few limited, pay-per-use interfaces (e.g. "paying" by showing a human some adverts). Attempts to bypass or abstract over these interfaces are hit with rate limiters, Recaptcha checks, etc.
I love your reference. I love it so much that I changed my github profile to: "Just another Full Stack Developer seeking the stars." :):)
I know who you are (at least as an HN commenter), which is why I'm giving you the benefit of the doubt here. But when someone says "X is well known, just search", they're usually peddling some complete nonsense that happens to have a web page that Google knows about. The way you phrased that (and didn't actually supply any evidence) trips the BS detector, at least for me.

As I said, I give you the benefit of the doubt, because you don't post that way, and I don't think you meant to here. It's just an unfortunate phrasing, but I thought I'd mention it.

As to the substance of your statement: Yes, this fits the pattern. But I don't think they care whether they split California or not. Splitting it doesn't change things very much. (Unlike, say, presidential elections. And on that topic, it occurs to me that we got handed an absolutely horrible choice in 2016. Maybe we ought to be looking more closely for interference in the primaries, not just in the general election.)

I think the real goal is to create conflict. This is a nice topic to get everybody all wound up about. I think they'll try to amplify that. Whether or not they're behind the proposal, they'll try to rile up both sides.

One of the things to watch for is the reasons that are presented for people to become agitated. Since agitprop is not "organic" (for want of a better word), the reasons given for becoming outraged seem a bit... off. Foreign, even. You think, "everyone's freaking out about this, but it doesn't quite resonate with me". That's a hint that it may be manufactured outrage, rather than real.
Why is this better than a session cookie? Basic auth is a pretty wonky user experience. Hard to customize the prompt and "logout" is awkward.
ChatOps – Managing MySQL, MongoDB and PostgreSQL from Slack
A comment like this makes me think you really don't know much about Bell Labs.

http://blog.tmcnet.com/next-generation-communications/2011/0...

A lot of modern computing traces back to them and Xerox.
Eric Schmidt: The Artificial Intelligence Revolution
I don't actually understand how Tesla autopilot detects cars ahead of it--but does this experiment properly simulate the stationary car, e.g. is it made of metal (and is that the material that Tesla autopilot is designed to detect)?
We already have too many states as it is (50). If any states split up, we need to have some others merge so the total never exceeds 50.

DC and northern Virginia should merge into a single state, but also include all of central Maryland (including Baltimore). Western MD should go to WV and eastern shore MD should combine with eastern shore VA and merge with Delaware.

New Jersey should be completely eliminated. Northern NJ should merge with NYC and other parts of its metro area and form a new state. Southern NJ should merge with Philly and form a new state.

CT (the part not taken by NYC), RI, and MA should merge. VT, NH, and Maine should merge. Wyoming should be broken apart and merged with the surrounding states.

CA should break apart, but should merge with the surrounding states: the southern part should merge with Las Vegas, for instance. The far northern part should merge with Oregon.

Here's an idea from the 70s about how to redraw the state boundaries:
http://mentalfloss.com/article/57444/map-only-38-states
”If a team had, say, a sixty-five per cent chance of winning at home in the playoffs, its odds fell to fifty-five per cent if the game was a must-win for them but not for the visitors.”

I wonder how they corrected for the fact that, in those must-win games, the opponent must on average have been stronger than in the other games (if you’re up in a series, you’re likely the stronger team; if you’re down, you’re likely the weaker one)
"Try, instead, to delete a two week old transaction from the bitcoin blockchain."

So that is literally true, but is it really true from a pragmatic sense? If the US government used their military might to destroy a significant portion of large mining installations, would bitcoin really be in any way resistant to that? If the NSA and DOE used their combined supercomputing power to outhash everyone else, couldn't they take over the bitcoin network and do whatever the heck they want with it?