skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'm struggling to recall a time when they've backed legislation which ran meaningfully counter to surveillance capitalism as a business model.

These are from just the past couple of weeks:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/07/new-rules-protect-data...

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/06/competition-civil-libe...

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/07/eff-illinois-supreme-c...

> I'm aware of (and extremely thankful for) Privacy Badger, Panopticlick etc., but these are really toys for nerds, not a credible threat to widespread corporate surveillance.

I feel like you're underselling this as a strategy. Let's Encrypt is almost singlehandedly responsible for the massive increase in TLS usage across the internet, and prior to that ISPs and others had been snooping on the plaintext for surveillance capitalism. And despite all the rhetoric (primarily from ISPs and Hollywood) about tech companies, the ISPs are really the bigger surveillance problem here. It's a lot more realistic for a normal person to use Signal instead of Facebook than to use whatever kind of artesian wireless mesh network is necessary to avoid using one of the major ISPs.

And Tor is (sadly) not used by the majority of people, but it's still there for the people who most need it, and it is actually effective.

> I'm bothered to find no mention of the California Consumer Privacy Act anywhere on their site (an extremely significant piece of legislation I'd at least expect them to comment on, which was strongly opposed by Google).

Here it is though:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/10/how-silicon-valleys-di...

You couldn't find it by the name because the name changed since last year, not because they weren't involved.

> You make a familiar argument about the perils of regulation -- I understand this view, but don't personally share it. I'm not trying to convince you (or get you to convince me) on this issue, but my view is that regulating government activities has unintended consequences too, and waiting for the market to implement ethical choices is an call-to-inaction that could have been made (and I'm sure was) against ending slavery, banning child labor, introducing seat-belts, etc. etc. ad nauseam.

The argument is familiar because it's effective, because it's rooted in truth. There are times when the regulations outweigh their costs, but the costs are always there. Which means they should be reserved for situations where there really is no better alternative, like slavery and child labor.

By contrast, there appears to be an obvious market solution to Facebook -- stop using it.
Most things in America that you can buy are taxed on the sale, and any money (or the monetary value of assets) you receive is taxed as income. If you produce anything, you're usually hit with licensing fees of some sort. I laughed out loud that you called out my description of this system a "dystopian nightmare".
Honest question: Is there an etherscan.io for bitcoin to figure out what the largest token holding addresses are?

If possible to figure out who the addresses belonged to, then the biggest coin holders could be known.
Look at it with the eyes of a whiny american who doesn't understand what a treaty is.
Since you seem like you might know, I am curious... those who believe that inefficiencies in the market are what creates profit, and that markets will naturally act to reduce inefficiencies... how do they explain skyrocketing increases of profit and decades-long persistence and growth of profit which is supposed to be quickly reduced to zero by the optimizing market? It seems like a really obvious disproof of the concept on its face, but the concept doesn't seem to be losing any traction. Are companies simply better at generating inefficiency than the market is at eliminating it?
Amazing book. It has an ambitious title, but it really lives up to it. I just wish I had read it years ago.
> ... not-in-k8s VM

One of the cooler innovations we've seen, and I think we're going to see more of, is the ability to take a non-k8s VM and expose it to the cluster as-if it were just another pod. This would let you schedule and expose RDBMs and other specialized servers through kubernetes while keeping them on a standard VM.

I think that's the win/win approach to bridge the gap.
Wikipedia has a page on the history of blogging, and indeed Slashdot is there: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_blogging That doesn't mean that it inspired people to convert their personal websites to blogs, though. While people did see chronological posts, that doesn't mean the idea of converting their websites to that format was put into their heads. There's a big difference between Slashdot and a personal website.
In my opinion, he did outline a few reasons for why he felt that way, albeit concise.

The HN guidelines do not expect everyone to be positive. Negative feedback that's justified is important in any community.
It's a joke. Sappers are combat engineers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sapper
Instead of worrying about the practicality of this, I'll answer your question directly.

I would aim to create as many blueprints as possible for tools that can help more people live and work remotely and sustainably.

There is no greater threat to human health, human happiness, and human productivity, than there is in meaningless desk work and commuting.
The idea of that movie empowering kids is not something I would have thought of, but it's true. Being a kid in the 90s was so amazing.
San Francisco restaurants can’t afford waiters: They’re putting diners to work
One of the biggest draws of Linkerd over Envoy (prior to Consul Connect at least) was that it seemed more feasible to use outside of Kubernetes.

Conduit however is tightly coupled to Kubernetes as I understand, which isn’t really addressed in this blog post.
This kind of thing is kind of common in Korea.
Τον πρώτο λόγο η Αγγλία με την Σουηδία
My issue is that people make absolutist arguments. They get high and mighty about something they think is True. They then attempt by force of law or culture to make others act within their world view.
I think it's a fair assumption to say one of those hundred would have the experience to manage the other 99, and allow you to play stakeholder, not project director. That said, hard to imagine getting a lot done in 3 months with a 100 person program.
Given that I, as a n00b, find JS – hell, even React – way simpler to master than CSS, that wouldn’t surprise me at all.

I don’t mean the syntax, of course. The syntax is trivially simple. Translating that to something that looks good and is laid out just as you want, oh boy.

CSS is by far the element of front-end development that I’m enjoying the least.
Am I the only one who read that thing and thought, "both the ant and the grasshopper need to learn a bit about life balance and moderation" 'cause they were both miserable, just at different times in their life.
What do you mean, doesn't really work? In my experience, it works perfectly. Could you share more info?
Sure. That would be an efficient solution. No one wants to take that hit though. So we’re going to do the other thing.
He's doing no such thing. The question was what YOU would do with 100 people, and he answered straightforwardly.
Er, read the article. It links this, where the AWS speaker explicitly mentions it's use for law enforcement.

https://youtu.be/sUzuJc-xBEE
I don't know if "difficult" is the word I would use. Is a mail merge in Microsoft Word "difficult"? I think probably not. But it would still take me longer to get a mail merge working in Office than it would for me to implement and test a topological sort or a breadth-first graph traversal. That's approximately how I feel about the level of difficulty involved in DIY-ing CSS and layout. I could get really good at it, I'm sure --- but why would I? Other people got these details right already, and did a better job of it than I would (it was, at the time, the most important thing they worked on, and a perfectly laid-out button or sidebar is always going to be very far down the list of most important thing I work on).

Honestly --- and this isn't fair but I am just being candid about my impressions --- the pushback I see to relying on frameworks reads to me as a combination of specialist front-end people feeling threatened and of dilettante developers being irritated that something might be invented somewhere other than here. But if you're using React at all, hasn't that ship sailed? Oh, wait, there are like 10 bespoke vdom JS frameworks now, so I guess it hasn't.

Buttons, sidebar, grid systems, and vdom libraries are commodities to me. I think they are and should be commodities to 80-90+% of all applications that get built anywhere. Build an online pharmacy or trading position and inventory tracker or continuous integration system or CDN console and I guarantee you that nobody who pays money for it will give a shit whether your buttons came from Foundation or you lovingly handcrafted them yourself.
The UK vs US salaries are not even in the same ball park.

Sure they can't afford $1M but in general you are lucky to get $110k+ in the UK even if you have 10 years behind you, even more so outside of London, in London the money doesn't go that far.

It's a no brainer, if you can get a visa and happy to move even if for a few years it can make a big financial life difference.
This is sweet. Thanks so much for sharing!
I felt the same with Bootstrap as well as most users don't change the default styling.

I think it is the CSS frameworks that make websites look like clones and not necessarily the design systems on which the frameworks are based on.
In my experience, those who grew up with Papoulis, 2nd edition loved it. I grew up with Papoulis, 3rd edition, and find the layout and typesetting to be among the worst of any book I've ever read, bad enough to significantly affect usability and ability to quickly find things.
Many argue the leftist policies of San Francisco's government have been a train wreck too.
I don't think it would be possible to prove to you that race relations have deteriorated. I could very well be wrong that's true, I can only state my opinion after all. I don't think I am wrong though (obviously) and I think that race relations are going to get very much worse within our lifetimes. It's no more stupid to believe they got worse without evidence as to believe they have improved without evidence. I think if you were to poll black americans today I don't think that many of them would have a super high opinion of white people right now (not that they ever did to begin with) but especially now.
I'd probably have them work on finding as many zero-day vulnerabilities as possible - after the 100 days I'd probably keep the top 5-10 performers on salary if I was able to make enough money from the research.
to me, recruiters === job boards.

The interesting openings are through direct connections and referrals.
>Are picky eaters more likely to be xenophobes?

Some picky eaters have to do with different levels of taste, or some people tasting different things.

Tomatoes, for me, get almost a nauseous reaction from me. There is a specific very loud flavor in raw tomatoes that I just can't stand. It's gone in cooked tomatoes. There are a few of us, and the idea is there is some chemical that some people taste but most don't.
Pardon my ignorance, but how is it possible to track Bitcoin holders? I thought that it was really easy to create multiple Bitcoin addresses, so if a rich miner wanted to hide his holdings he could create a separate address for each transaction and he would in effect be untraceable right?
Well, if you look at the number of abandoned alt coins and torrents out there, it seems far from permanent. Coinopsy has a list of abandoned coins if you're curious.

And even if you had history in a blockchain, it's possible for someone to prevent you from seeing the blocks that come in the future (breaking/filtering your internet connection), which is also in a sense changing history (by means of denying the future).
It is pretty clear that the Internet (including sites like this one) have made for a huge 'public square' including pretty much everyone. Neither Facebook nor Google produce any original content on their own, they just make platforms. Google's reviews (tied in with Maps) is a great example...how much freer do you want?
Bitcoin wallets generally generate multiple addresses so most users have many. The wallet software does the work of displaying all addresses combined as a single balance. This is different than Ethereum where generally most users have 3 or less accounts. The effect of this is that Bitcoin appears less concentrated than it actually is in comparison.
Oh, apologies! You are totally correct.

In that case, the select few owners of these coins could dump their holdings to buyers who are otherwise unaware of these large numbers of "hidden" coins. The owners make good money, the buyers overpay.

After that, it would be up to the core developers and the new holders of the coins to make the Bitcoin ecosystem a valuable place to exchange money. If they do that, then the coin will survive all that inflationary volume.

If the oligarchy never dumps, then they've just aided Bitcoin price support.

A coin does not equal a vote in Bitcoin version support, only hashing power does.

But de facto, I suspect wallet size is correlated with hashing power.
> Rendering is... buggy

Unfortunately, http://fermatslibrary.com/ is down at the moment so I can't comment with an informed opinion.

But there are two killer features that most annotation software fail to supply:

1. print-ability. Physical copies are important.

2. Accurate rendering (related to 1). There's a pretty high barrier to overcome before someone else's inline notes are more valuable than knowing that I'm looking at exactly what the authors intended for me to look at.

That said, the scientific PDF annotation space is ripe for disruption. IDK how meaningful that market is (directly or indirectly), but someone could definitely step in and own it with something that's even an iota better than current options.
See the other post in this thread for explanation.
What if you're a bit cheeky, mount eg your Drive storage on a VM via one of the various 3rd-party filesystem-mounting systems out there, then run $backup_client on the VM pointed at the Drive local mountpoint?

Plenty of uncomfortable chances for failure, but a few heaped handfuls of error reporting would probably be mitigation enough.

Getting the initial clone done might be a little fun, you might need to actually download the Drive folder structure to somewhere spacious so you don't run into transfer ratelimiting for the initial upload.
Assuming everyone knows each other and is ready to work, I would introduce myself and my idea: A dating social network that uses genetics data as one of the criteria for matching people.

I will select the top managers in the group, assign each a responsibility, and then have them go into the crowd and build out their team to help accomplish that. I would have the best pitchmen go out and try to raise money from investors.

Everyone goes to work while I sit back in my chair and tent my fingers.
Making the assumption in the sense that this opinion would be viewed universally favorably on HN and not a flamepost provocation.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17397555

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17394551
There is lots of other metadata to collect:
You can monitor which nodes received the transaction first. Edge nodes can get IP address of sender. Who are the transactions with? Amounts, quantity, and time of day/week/month could all provide correlation.
I wasn’t aware that my suggestion had to agree with the hive mind to be posted.

I don’t post to provoke, ever; life is too short, and moderator time is a scarce resource.
I shouldn't overstate what I'm doing - this is largely an exercise in reversing what they're doing. And when I figure it out I might have a little fun by way of verifying I figured something out.

Tools - I use Charles Proxy and perl with WWW::Mechanize (substitute your recreational language of choice). Sometimes JMeter is helpful, but that's kind of a rathole if you haven't had reason to subject yourself to it before.
A portable personal Internet server that runs as a turnkey no-user-maintenance image on AWS, Digital Ocean, and OpenStack. It hosts your email, federated social networking and chat, file sharing and ad-blocking web proxy. The user experience is pure Internet with no ads, surveillance or vendor lock-in, all for $6/mo (hosting + DNS).
This article really hits home.

A K8s cluster can survive just about anything. Worker nodes destroyed, meh, scheduler will take care of bringing stuff up. Master nodes destroyed. Meh. It doesn't care.

ETCD issues though? Prepare for a whole lot of pain. They are very uncommon though. Upgrading is the most frequent operation.
Oh, that's easy.

Develop a non profit program to bring tech skills to disadvantaged communities so they can get basic remote work jobs and put food on the table. Key word: 'bring'.

It wouldn't make any money at all, but it might change some lives.
Build educational tools. Bring the cost of learning as low as possible.
Scott Pruitt’s Strained Ties with Aides Set the Stage for His Fall
I don't know if they are or not but I do know that the autoplay, with user activation required, does not apply to sites you frequently visit and play videos on (they track behavior and potentially allow auto play). If you're a YouTube user then that policy likely allows all YouTube videos to play immediately. I recently ram into this and dig through the flags and some code to figure out why I couldn't get autoplay to work on a site I was building.
Meet 35 YC companies hiring engineers at a special event at YC's campus
I am well aware that most people on Hacker News hate Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies so a lot of these types of studies and articles that are negative end up making their way to the top.

It is strange that this study was from 2017-2018 and yet they only considered data from 2009-2013. Would be nice if there was an explanation as to why.

One thing I wanted to point out is this seems to be presented to shine a negative light on Bitcoin, but I have a feeling that if you were to plot the owners of any equity you would find the exact same patterns. People who get in early will own a majority of the supply.

For example take a look at Morgan Stanley stock. 86% of the shares are owned by institutional investors and of that chunk, five institutions own 58% of them:

https://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/ms/ownership-summary

I also think these types of patterns with regards to transactions probably exist with other currencies as well, but it is just that the data is not available for the public to analyze.
per https://www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/8wnlp8/valve_leaks..., it seems like the numbers can be quite severely inflated.
Are you actually working on that? Sounds cool.
I meant that the tax rate should not be transferrable to another person, say, a hier.
Freegeek is a franchise.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Geek
There is another in Chicago that is pretty awesome.
https://bitinfocharts.com/top-100-richest-bitcoin-addresses....
I would have them prototype a new computer language + ide for it

This language would have usability in mind as well as throwing out established assumptions. For example, that source code should be ascii text. Or that anyone should decide between tabs/spaces.
I just wish this would come out in paper book. It’s excellent but I have difficulty reading math books online.
The assembly people were cranks even in the 90s whereas this complaint, even when put inartfully or outright inaccurately is not completely nuts. In 20 years, people will hopefully wonder how it was that every runtime (or even framework) came with its own set (or multiple sets) of dependency management, build, test and god-knows-what-else toolchains that that do almost but not entirely the same thing as every other one.
There are several ways of bootstraping ETCD. The one I use is the one you mention: since they are brought up with Terraform, always on a brand new VPC, we can calculate what the IP addresses will be on Terraform itself and fill the initial node list that way. We can destroy an ETCD node if need be, and recreate. Granted, it is nowhere near close to being as convenient as an ASG.

The alternate method, and the method we used before, is to use an existing cluster, as you mention. If cattle self-healing is that important, perhaps you could afford a small cluster only for bootstrapping? Load will be very low unless you are bootstrapping a node somewhere. There are costs involved in keeping those instances 24/7, but they may be acceptable in your environment(and the instances can be small). Then the only thing you need is to store the discovery token and inject it with cloud init or some other mechanism.

That said, I just finish a task to automate our ELK clusters. For Elasticsearch I can just point to a load balancer which contains the masters and be done with it. I wish I could do the same for ETCD.
if you are on the bios level you can do anything. But the bare bones nature of old BIOS plus the space limitation of them would make this very difficult.

Now that EFI on the cheapest Staples' laptop is 10x more capable then the most expensive personal computer of 1999, this is not only possible but easy and helped by ton of EFI libraries.
"We assume that this signal [i.e. u] is normally distributed with mean g(v) and variance Σ_v."

That means that there's no deterministic function that fixes u for a given v, but only a distribution of possible values. (It's closer to u = v^2 than the opposite, though.) The precise relationship is expressed symbolically in the likelihood function given in the next part.
You would be incentivizing them to not look very hard as finding a bug would ground the fleet and be extremely expensive. The same way a lawyer will tell you never to see if your violating a patent lest you pay treble damages for "knowing".
What's wrong with $100,000,000? Why does everything have to be about money all the time anyways?

And if it does have to be about money, then they should give the content creators and moderators their share, should they not?

This is what's called a "slippery slope" ...
west LA is also a mix of college city and tourist destination.
Got that -- sorry for the terminology error. I was thinking the same shard but in different data centers, so replicas of the same shard. Transactions within single shard replica set are possible in v4.0. Transactions across multiple shards will be possible in v4.2. Reading the doc to try to see performance impact on transactions if multiple replicas of single shard.
Road trip: This app will read you about the places you drive by
It was the same for me recently in Morocco, only WhatsApp, nobody wants to use SMS.
Awesome. I've been intending to look for writings and talks by Raph Koster lately.

For unaware readers: he was the lead designer for Ultima Online.
Not enough people. Languages are hard as well as bad for making money. 100 days is too few.
Facial recognition software isn't particularly new and isn't specific to Amazon. Cato is just trying to sling manufactured mud at Bezos to further a political agenda because that's what they do.
To be fair, stock in Morgan Stanley is not marketed as "decentralized."
Uh, the clear winners of this "trade war" are American consumers of lobster and pork
> What you wrote a few years ago and is still visible on your blog (and may or may not be a view you still hold) can still hurt you.

This is why the web was better when everyone was operating under a pseudonym.
tw2002 mmo
Surely that can't be true either or we'd be spending all our time saving people.

No the truth is more grim, we will save people until it costs more than we are willing to spend. Over time that threshold has increased with our wealth - but it remains in place as it must. Most people don't consciously think about it and it's upsetting to many.