skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Which is why I say “explicitly”. Github has social as what feels like a bolt-on afterthought because everyone else was doing it and it’s a buzzword.

If that's the logic we're going by, then Facebook isn't "explicitly" social either, as it originally started out as a photo site and just had comments "bolted on" as an afterthought. And yet it still has moderation. So again, I don't even know what your point is.

>Nope. Never needed to look for one. However, rather more importantly, I have just made a deliberate look for a “report repository” link…

So because you personally have never reported anything, means that the community doesn't report things? I don't think you know how things work...

>…and found nothing.

You must have not looked very hard. Repositories are linked to users, and thus to report a repo, you report a user. And in case you have trouble finding it, the link to report a user is one of the first things you see when you open their profile, just underneath the profile picture and name.

>Key word being “random”. Twitter has trends, Reddit has its front page, public Facebook posts can and do go viral. GitHub has such a list, but you need to go looking for it — you don’t have random stuff thrown in you face whenever you use it like the other platforms

What are you even talking about? GitHub's discover repo feature is one of the very first things you see on the GitHub front page. There is literally a giant banner dedicated to discovering new projects right there in front of you when you first open up GitHub. If you do a Google search for "GitHub", the "Explore" link is the first link that is shown to you under GitHub.com. You don't have to go looking for it at all.

>so there is _much_ less opportunity to train a learning algorithm to automatically filter anything.

Who said anything about training any kind of algorithm to do anything? We're talking about reporting and moderating content. Nobody even mentioned a learning algorithm.

But hell, if we're going to bring it up: GitHub does have this. Again, on the front page of GitHub, if you click on the link in the giant banner that suggests you explore more repositories, one of the places it takes you is a list of suggested repositories that it suggests to you based on other repos that you have starred.

>The appropriate people only found out about this repo because the person who made it did so with the internation to be noticed.

The appropriate people found out about this repo because the person who made it shared the repo, because GitHub is a social site meant for sharing code, just like thousands of other people use it all the time. Just go view Show HN and see how many link to GitHub: https://news.ycombinator.com/show

I really have no idea what your point even is, other than for some reason you seem to be trying to draw some distinction in GitHub's social features against other social site's features. There is no need for such distinction, because at the end of the day the same type of moderation is still happening.
I've seen companies use Confluence and Google Docs as internal documentation platforms, both worked fine.

Having said that, it's not the tools which are interesting in any discussion of documentation. The tools will cheerfully help you produce a royal mess of out of date, badly organized docs. You need to have processes in place to make the information accessible and useful.

Get disciplined about requiring a canonical document for every current business process and project. That should be part of your project planning. Then have a requirement that the docs be kept up to date as things change. Basically think of it as the equivalent of devops run books/checklists, but more broadly applied.

The specific tools to get there are less interesting - it can be done with a set of version controlled text files well organized on disk and searchable with grep if it comes to that.
I am preaching this for months now. It's getting so bad that I again started thinking about writing my own search (crawling my top 20 sites and a search depth of 2 for linked sites + wikipedia + IMDb + Wiktionary).

Google "correcting" or flatout ignoring search parameter is infuriating to say the least and I'm finding myself more and more relying on my bookmarks and synched history for visiting sites I knew I visited.
Not really. It's pointless meta, imagine if every change, real or imagined, clogged up the site. And there's a good chance mods who can answer it won't even see it, they can't see everything but they read all their email.

This got sensibly flagged off. If you want to know, ask the mods. If something super-interesting has changed, you can always write a thing about it and post it and see how it fares.
Oh yes, crypto currencies for sure!

I would go the ETF route per Warren Buffett's advice
The Plex approach to this kind of problem is pretty interesting: https://blog.filippo.io/how-plex-is-doing-https-for-all-its-...

Unfortunately I haven't seen it being done elsewhere. It'd be nice if LetsEncrypt or similar could provide this for more generic everyday use.
Analytics without the numbers – Explaining our early product design decisions
I assume he wants his money kept safe for when he retires or wants to make a purchase. Not "creative and new advice."
I'm just pointing out it was originally proprietary and that's where it built a reputation that made it worth opening and supporting. Software doesn't know if it's proprietarily licensed or not. Great ideas are only GPL. OSS is great, but it doesn't mean proprietary software is bad or evil.
At some point the rocket is out of water.
> heard it second hand from someone who works for AMC

And no red flags went off?
Serverless should mean P2P, but it actually means "outsourced servers"
I dont want to be men and women, I want to be persons. I want us to transcend all the categories.

We dont work to be happy. We work to earn money. Also, women are not baby factories. Just like we are not sperm dispensers.
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Cool story. It reminded me of the automated businesses created by Manfred MacX in Accelerando by Charles Stross. Great book with some thought provoking ideas like the ethical conundrums once we can swap bodies and consciousness, the issues with fully automated businesses (book was pre-DAO), and exploring the stars by sending digital copies of ourselves in small starwhisp ships that aren't much more that memory and a digital VR system.
You can't buy memory on your user's devices.
Fwiw, as a non-security at risk casual user; I really enjoy ephemeral chat. I don't like snapchat as a main chat application (ie, Telegram-esque replacement), and aside from that I don't have many options. I think we're going to try Keybase out, assuming it has native desktop clients.
I'm curious, how many years did it take before you realized it was the best advice you've ever been given?

I've been "getting rich slowly" for 8 years, and boy let me tell you, it sure is slow. Definitely doesn't feel like my wealth is growing in index funds fast enough to retire within this life time.
What RPA tools would you say are the best ? Anything you'd recommend?
TLBleed: When Protecting Your CPU Caches is Not Enough
Do you have any idea about a crazy fast way to transfer files between two machines on the internal network?

No encryption necessary
No integrity checks
No resume support
Just plain and as fast it could get..

I need to try the netcat version but I'm hoping someone could show me a concurrent version of it that is mad fast.
Troll a platform
> While the hc QI community was getting over checklists because of the number of studies showing it to be a largely ineffective intervention, he ignored the pile and kicked off a second wave

I just thumbed through meta-analyses on Google scholar and this definitely doesn't look like the results of recent research into checklists (e.g. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/bjs.9381)

It seems like there are problems getting people to agree to do checklists or keep with them, but if you come up with the right checklist and get the right buy-in, you do see fewer complications.

(If anyone wants to look at the recent research for themselves, here's the Google Scholar search I used: https://scholar.google.ca/scholar?as_ylo=2014&q=checklist+su...)
> I guess that is accounted for in the relevant models indeed.

Yes it is, take a look here how complex it is:

https://www.earth-syst-sci-data.net/10/405/2018/essd-10-405-...

And it's not just "models" for the predictions, the data about what happens from day to day and from year to year are measured constantly, and all give the numbers that are very clear. CO2 in the atmosphere increases. And it won't be nice.

To quote one scientist that first didn't believe, but checked the data and now himself corrects the false claims by those who have some special agendas:

"Of the 7 GtC, which we blow into the atmosphere every year, only 3 remain there. 2 are absorbed by the ocean and 2 by the forests. This means that in the atmosphere and in the land biosphere and in the ocean the amount of stored carbon is increasing. And the source of all this additional carbon is the fact that we extract loads of fossil carbon from the earth's crust and add it to the system."

"The system was almost exactly in equilibrium before humans intervened. That is why the CO2 concentration in the air was almost constant for several thousand years."

Now it's not, even if the biosphere takes some of CO2 the we extract from the Earth's crust, still more remains up there and makes the Earth surface warmer.

We measure that year after year already.

Here you can find the graph of the measurements of CO2:

https://e360.yale.edu/features/how-the-world-passed-a-carbon...

Yes, there is more CO2 every year, yes, some CO2 remains in biosphere, but no, there's no balance.
Newline and comma are both 1 byte. You could specify that either is acceptable.

Actually, I think you could leave out the delimiter altogether and still be syntactically unambiguous, since quotes are required around keys:

"key1":"value1""key2":2.75"key3":true"key4":"whatever"

though this looks terrible and there's probably some edge case I've forgotten. (Also it misses the point of JSON in that it's no longer valid JS. I don't know whether that's important anymore since you should be calling JSON.parse() not eval() anyway.)
Ah... The key is to make money not do something creative. That's why ETFs make sense.
Source? I'm guessing you're referring to Mobike and Yiguo... any others?

https://www.pingcap.com/cases/
The gaming industry has waged war against reselling games for years. They've been partially successful: most PC games these days come as a Steam code. Any kind of Steam content is DRM protected and cannot be resold. You're also not allowed to play two of the games you own on two computers at once (Steam will immediately log you out). There's family sharing but again your family isn't allowed to play any of your games while you're playing.

On consoles the more expensive physical media is still transferable (BR discs and Switch cardridges). Any kind of digital downloads or DLC addons aren't shareable and you're not allowed to sell them or transfer them.
It narrows the attack window. It's not hard to imagine a scenario where something happens to the receiver and as the sender you didn't realize this until you sent a few messages but the third party who got the receiver won't be able to access the device for some time. Hopefully by the time they get in they have self destroyed.
I think their idea is to punish the current owner; but if that is allowed, there also must be some kind of protection for the secondhand market.

If there was some form of serial #check system (like a car's VIN) for the consoles, then it would be harder to re-sell disabled consoles; still wouldn't prevent people from trying to re-sell them, but it would make it more firmly a case of fraud on the sellers' part if they lied about the serial#.
If you're using ASP.NET Core, this is built into the most recent 2.1 release - local dev cert as well as HTTPS redirection middleware and HSTS in development.

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/webdev/2018/02/27/asp-net-c...
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/security/enforc...

As the letsencrypt article points out, you want to start building and testing with HTTPS as early as possible, so this is all wired up as part of creating a new project with ASP.NET Core 2.1.

[disclaimer: on .NET team, Nazgûl]
I used to be against this style of 'DRM' -- either analog hole (screenshot or physical camera) or client subversion (client logs all messages out of band forever); but I think I misunderstood the use case. This is about changing behaviours to be more ephemeral; An expectation that your messages are not there forever. In a world of "unlock your phone or arrest" these features are very important. Thanks for rolling this out KB
Around 2007 I used to make fun of a colleague who was an Apple fan for investing his entire savings in Apple stock. As the years have gone by I have felt on many occasions that the joke is on me.
This is a defeatist and ahistorical attitude. We've brought species back from near extinction, we've brought entire biomes back from near destruction, we've made the air and water cleaner, we've saved the ozone layer, etc, etc, etc. We know how to do these things, it doesn't require magic or impossibly futuristic technology or excessive personal sacrifice. It's just work. All we have to do is do the work.
"Rails is still the most taught web framework in prominent coding boot camps."

This is not true. Rails is the most common back-end framework at coding bootcamps. But if you're trying to understand is happening to Rails, the biggest update is "Rails' model of serving HTML is dead/dying, and React took over a lot of Rails' old job". Bootcamps mostly teach JS now, for that same reason.
Going to echo this one. Plus the following two books:
1/ Richest man in Babylon
2/ Rich Dad, Poor Dad.

Both written for the simplest of readers but great advice clearly told.

(Summaries are probably good enough)
You can append !gvb to a DDG search to directly perform a Google verbatim search. It's the fastest way to do a Google verbatim search - faster than Google's own UI.

Not only does appending !gvb to a DDG search perform a Google verbatim search, it also directly reveals the Google UI for searching a date range.

The combination of normal DDG plus easy access to Google verbatim and date range seaches gives a pretty nice search experience.
Besides being AWS only, Aurora is very expensive when you factor the IO costs for a large deployment.

That's not to say that I'm not a fan of it, but it's for a smaller sized deployment than GitHub. You can see this for yourself on the customer list here:

https://aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora/customers/
Thanks for the links, though I've run across Dr. Greger before (given the amount of quackery that you find with any health related stuff online I always do research on the person who is stating an opinion even if they have Dr. in front of their name).
This is very interesting and exactly what I was looking to find. Thanks!
Adopting seems ecologically friendly for people of parenting age.
Having studied biology and genetics this is common sense to me. Genetic systems are probabilistic chemical systems where everything influences everything to varying degrees in parallel. They are nothing like the linear assemblies of modules that humans prefer to engineer.
libertarianism is whatever it needs to be to win the argument at hand.

it means about as much as "scripting language" or "strongly typed"
That's not really what the term "conspiracy theory" means. It means "a belief that some covert but influential organization is responsible for a circumstance or event". In this case, an unknown company or government agency is the influential organization behind planting this guy as an employee at Tesla to steal data.

Anyways, the actual wording, I think, is "he also wrote computer code to periodically export Tesla’s data off its network and into the hands of third parties" which is vague.

It could mean that he exported the data off of the network and then gave it to third parties (news outlets). It could also just mean that he uploaded the data to an AWS server, or to his Google Drive account.

It certainly doesn't imply that he was hired by an outside agency specifically for this purpose, which is what the original comment was wondering about.
Well yes, there a fairly simple bit of selective pressure:fish nearer to the surface are more likely to be caught. As industrial fishing is aggressive to mass collection that increases pressure to move deeper.
It seems reasonable then that fish that are generally remaining (in average) deeper than there counterparts will (again on average) live longer, and so get bigger.

This is basic evolution. It’s no different than commercial fishing farms having to deal with their fish growing more slowly or simply staying small (the selection criteria being “stay less than X cm”)
> unfortunate and doubtlessly due to gnupg's lack of a real API

Doesn't GPGME (also developed by the GPG people) offer said API?
It seems pretty dubious to project this out 32 years. I find it more enlightening to look at some of the data this is based on. For example, official US government figures for historical energy consumption:

https://www.eia.gov/totalenergy/data/monthly/pdf/sec1_6.pdf

You can see that even in the past 15 years, there were several inflection points that were probably unpredictable beforehand. Coal went from flat to declining, natural gas went from flat to increasing, petroleum rose then fell again, renewables were flat before rising up to a current rate of 11% of US energy consumption.

I'm rooting for renewable energy here and the future does seem bright. But any sort of high-level prediction that claims to project out for 32 years just isn't the right way to analyze.
The CEO cannot be a figurehead.

I really agree with the top commenter and am totally flumoxed as to how Buffet et. al. can back this.

Not only is this going to require 'CEO abilities' - it's also kind of a 'mega corporate startup' - which is another thing very difficult to achieve.

Amazon is ruthlessly operational, by the numbers etc. - this will collide with medical bureaucracy pretty hard ... it's almost as though you want an outsider ...

Or, to buy a small company or two and combine them, a small team with the 'right chops' and then back them with scale, financing etc..
You can be right, but say it in a way that still makes you come out wrong.
We need to standardize cson (https://github.com/bevry/cson) and build a compliant C parser. The format is simpler with fewer surprises as YAML, yet able to handle more types of syntaxes in a straightforward form.
The linked paper was a precursor to the work on The Update Framework https://theupdateframework.github.io/ which is a signing framework to alleviate these issues. It was originally developed for Tor, and has a well designed threat model.
Most accurate observation and comment on this topic! With 10+ years of healthcare experience including Brigham and Women's hospital many years ago, he's a good writer, storyteller, but truly is just a famous name that Amazon-Chase-Berkshire venture wants. Without the Harvard brand, his work, while good, wouldn't be that highly praised and worshipped. There are better visionary physicians out there.

My main takeaway is: being a good storyteller or facilitator on innovation does not make you any more innovative without the experience to support it. However, it can significantly elevate your personal brand beyond your qualificiations and apparently lure wealthy people to invest in you.
slightly unrelated note but you both are also talking about the way the official Snapchat app chooses to handle snaps (opt in and notifying the user) when theres a multitude of workarounds and non-official snap apps only a google away that make it extremely simple to save a picture someone sent to you without the sender knowing.

Preventing phone-screen capture isn't really something you can't get around but Snapchat could certainly afford to put their money where the mouth is and try to provide their users with a safer experience by cracking down on 3rd party apps.
Web client: our own mini-framework developed on top of dart:html (we needed maximum flexibility there, for simpler UI we could have used an existing framework)

Server: shelf
If you're interested in investing in the stock market (specifically picking individual stocks), I recommend the following books:

1. https://www.amazon.com/Little-Book-Still-Beats-Market/dp/047...

2. https://www.amazon.com/Acquirers-Multiple-Billionaire-Contra...
I have a dumbass problem where after I've driven away from home I can't remember if I locked the front door or closed the garage door so I turn around and go back home to check. I've managed to fix this by saying out loud, "door locked - check" and "garage door down - check" when I've done it. Now I just need a checklist to remind me to do a checklist.
On the other hand, you might be underestimating the depths of human myopia.
We recently published our 3 courses on Udemy covering this very topic. ( https://www.udemy.com/courses/search/?q=vestu )

The courses walk you through investment principles, investment assets, and portfolio implementation. Simple overview... Get the market return, get it for lowest cost possible, enhance returns by investing where the market historically outperforms, rebalance annually.
It’s cool, I really like the “Surprise Me” feature. I feel like that’s better than the search, which as you said is sort of half-baked (understandable!)

I didn’t know what to search for so I used that feature. It would be cool if you implemented a stumbleupon interface and framed the content with another “surprise me again” link at the top.
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This should be at the very top.

Jack Bogle also has great books (including audiobooks) to learn from, albeit dense.

`Common Sense on Mutual Funds` is an excellent treatise to the mantra of `time in the market is always superior to timing the market.` Vanguard continues to rocket to the top in every fund market it enters because people are sick and tired of slick salesmen masquerading as financial advisors.
Nintendo. The same company shipping scene rom dump inside Wii Super Mario Bros.
Serverless == task based
I agree with this. A little knowledge can be very dangerous. If you don't know anything about finance or the market and you had money to invest, you would likely invest in market ETFs. If you knew a little more, you'd be trying to pick stocks or industries. Eventually if you were very knowledgable and experienced, you would go back to picking low cost ETFs and realize you can't beat the market without an edge, and being very smart is not an edge.

And I'll add that the "best" index fund is pretty much the broadest fund with the lowest fees. For example, Dow Jones only has 30 constituents while S&P 500 has 500, so S&P is broader
The styles-as-widgets idea sounds nice.

I saw that with JSX somewhere <Row> <Column> <Grid> etc. Made the whole thing look much cleaner.
If you want to have a little bit more fun, buy normal total-market funds with the majority of your portfolio, but put a little bit of money in specific areas- small cap value tilt, IT industry fund, etc.
Those two are just case studis. There is a fuller list here: https://pingcap.com/docs/adopters/
He must have known it would be leaked instantly.
That's still worse than <ApplicationName>WhizBang</ApplicationName>. Or

ApplicationName=WhizBang
To be clear, I don't think sustainability efforts are a waste of time.

I'm more curious about what our path as a species will lead to - will we continuously innovate to survive on the planet we were given, or will we move past it? Both?

I don't think we're doomed.