skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“California malls” is too forgiving a headline. It’s one company, Irvine Company, a group with locations in the Bay Area [1]. They have phone numbers on their websites [2]. Reaching out to their retailers, particularly those with locations in Mexico, couldn’t hurt either.

It might not be a bad idea to also compile a list of their retailers’ investor relations and Twitter accounts and tweet this article to them (here's their store directory [3]). I just started e-mailing the brands I know.

[1] https://www.shopirvinecompany.com/centers/

[2] https://www.shopirvinecompany.com/about/contact/

[3] https://www.shopirvinecompany.com/directory/store-directory/
Yay! Good steps (in the Java ecosystem at least) to bring containers closer to their potential.

Docker is the best example I know of how "worse is better" can lead to absurdly bad local maxima. Docker solves the most shallow and most obvious problems of software deployment: How to package all dependencies in one big ball of mud.

Instead of declaring dependencies explicitly (with acceptable version ranges like maven, bundler, even nvm can do for ages) we get the equivalent of a bash script (Dockerfile) that is impossible to parse automatically and encourages volatile external dependencies (`curl http://mirror.com/current_version.sh | bash`)

Instead of slim, reproducible build descriptions that could reference single files or packages via hash sums (ala `packages.lockfile`) we get fat filesystems with the caching granularity of snapshots. But why care, developers have multi terabyte SSDs and gigabit network connections by now, right?

Instead of being able to propagate security updates down to each package (/container), we have a filesystem snapshot caching, where cache invalidation is for all intends and purposes impossible. But cache invalidation is hard, so how could you blame docker?

And I get why Dockerfiles are so seductive: They are damn easy. You can build your first docker image in minutes. But also docker doesn't help you to solve any of the deeper problems for you. E.g. you better figure out how to invalidate your cached image layers yourself when packages get security updates. Or just rebuild everything all the time, but there goes your performance and maybe some of those pesky external dependencies are no longer available. Want to internalize those? Build that yourself, too, docker can't help you there, because it is too damn simple.

So, Horray to Jib! All the work that has already gone into Maven to solve the deeper problems (e.g. internalizing external dependencies with Nexus) can be repurposed to build container images. Let's hope we get more of that "more complex but better" sanity.
https://www.openinventionnetwork.com/
I clicked through the linked page, and it's not clear to me how to actually add analytics to my site? The instructions in the repo direct me to launch a golang daemon for what appears to be the dashboard.

It would be awesome to have a more cohesive example. Is this reading log files? Or using client-side JS? If the latter, do I have to have the Fathom server internet-facing so that the JS can report in?
Sublime stuff that!
Exact Match Domains (EMDs) are regarded as spammy, particularly the longer more hyphenated ones, so something snappier is better.

Snappier is more memorable, easier to type, easier to write (on media, signs etc), easier to say, discuss and has more brand value.

If you’re looking to optimise for long tail searches then just focus on making the site as genuinely valuable and as high quality as possible for the product or service.
It would also be The End for physical museums. If the appearance of the painting (the "frontal" lightfield under optimal illumination) has been recorded and securely stored... the physical substance of the painting becomes something that is only maintained for sentimental reasons. It's a basic premise of science and engineering that, if you have the recipe, you don't need the artifact. See Walter Benjamin etc on the idea that the original has an "aura" that can't be cloned. Of course it is nonsense, but it foresees the condition of mind-scanning and conversion into digital selves. There's no way any one of us currently alive will exist, consciously, in an electronic system. There's no way to transfer consciousness from the biological to the electronic substrate, though one can dream (as Greg Egan has) of shifting a conscious brain from one system to another.

In brief, human consciousness and artistic judgement isn't going away, for a couple of centuries at least.
> Docker recently has support for multi stage builds.

I view these as a future antipattern. They bring what is properly CI's work inside the Docker daemon, which makes it a larger attack surface (many folks run PRs sight-unseen) and obscures it from outside tooling.

They only exist because of the limits of the Dockerfile format. With something like Jib, that disappears.
The main thing I miss is the tactile feedback of seeking through tracks and DJ sets with a walkman. If I held the buttons down only halfway pressed, the output would remain patched in to the headphones and I could hear the pitched up scrubbing sound. Also - when the batteries were dying, it would still play for about an hour, but progressively slower until it finally stopped.

I'm bringing this back to the web for sure.
Supercharging the Git Commit Graph III: Generations and Graph Algorithms
"Serverless" is a recent industry buzzword which roughly means: "Server hosting environment where you upload code representing some sort of event handler and let the host decide where and when to run it. You are billed per event rather than per server instance."

This article is comparing the raw CPU power provided by two different serverless products. PBKDF2 is used only as an example of a computation requiring a lot of CPU.
aurman is the best replacement
5000 people are disclosed on the project: they’re allowed to know about it. 2300 are directly working on it enough to have access to the databases.
> A hallmark of Vigilant’s solution, the ability for agencies to share real-time data nationwide amongst over 1,000 agencies and tap into our exclusive commercial LPR database of over 5 billion vehicle detections, sets our platform apart.

5 Billion vehicle detections seems like an awfully high (and possibly made up) number. Even if you allow for the same vehicle to be detected 5 or 10 times, the total number of registered vehicles in US was barely around 300 million.[1]

Or did I mis-interpret that statement / claim ?

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/183505/number-of-vehicle...
More info: https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/10/17556778/facebook-cambrid...
In the bilge of a ship, since they lay eggs in water?
Also my https://trackingco.de/, hosted for a very low price but also open-source.

Matomo is very complex. Trackingcode is simple, comparable to Fathom.
You might not be able to license the name, but the patents have long since expired. Just call it "noise reduction B", "noise reduction C", etc.
If I hang out in your house and borrow your computer when you aren't home, I'm not depriving you of anything. Yet your property rights can be wielded against me. Why?
I am obliged to refer you to Concourse, which is really really good at containerised build and automation: https://concourse-ci.org/
Space-Saving Deployable Mechanisms with Saurabh Mhatre
> You’re free to start your own ISP.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/04/one-b...
Ya know we kill people in Afghanistan and other countries indiscriminately. Where’s their safety and freedom?
Well, humans.

https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=930498...
The Making of a Programming Language: Slate [Part 1] – DEV Community ‍‍
Isn't the Wi-Fi patent quite controversial?
Get her an Android phone since that is what you use. You'll be her first line of tech support. Also, if you don't live with your mom, look into software that you can use to remote access her phone in-case you need to do any troubleshooting.
At least Maven project proved they might not be able to do privately if tech workers stand against it.
You're right, it was kind of a weird and glaring thing to put there. We've removed it and replaced it with a screenshot of Gravwell in action.
iPhone.

It's much harder to screw up on there than on Android (where she can be tricked into enabling unknown sources and installing a malicious APK), and overall the experience feels simpler - an iOS device will always feel like an iOS device, where as Android changes between manufacturers (which could be a problem if you need to replace the phone and buy a different brand).
From the article: "in 1820, 94 percent of the world’s population lived in extreme poverty (...). In 1990 this figure was 34.8 percent, and in 2015, just 9.6 percent."
I still think saying that British left behind a better developed infrastructure is sort of like saying that a burglar left behind a well-stocked fridge. It might be technically true in some cases - but it's mostly just radically misleading.

The British practice of installing a minority as puppet ruler is the root problem of a large number of dysfunctional states, when it comes to sectarian and racial violence.

I also think what you call the 'rule of law' (although this isn't a problem specific to British colonies) was really the rule of decrees, over which the colonized people had no power. I've read that this led to a lot of state dysfunction in post-colonies - the state was set up to rule over a populace that it essentially considered subhuman, so even post-empire, there weren't established structures and traditions for relating and mediating between rulers and ruled (civil society, essentially).
Downvote all you want, it will still happen. Downvote this if it'll make you feel better! There ya go
There isn’t anything to do with the person once they die - obviously you don’t need to notify a dead person that they’re dead. The whole mess with simply becoming “in default” is likely outright wrong in the U.K., as there’s a pile of somewhat complex law surrounding what happens to people’s debts when they die.
5 billion is nothing. A busy mall parking lot with many cameras could have 100s of thousands daily, most all of them repeats as cars come and go. Over a year, across multiple malls, it adds up fast.
This is a joke right? The author is talking about evil spirits and demonic possession as being legit diagnosis as a board certified psychiatrist. He should lose his license.

>Is it possible to be a sophisticated psychiatrist and believe that evil spirits are, however seldom, assailing humans

No. No it is most certainly not.

>Fundamentalist misdiagnoses and absurd or even dangerous “treatments,” such as beating victims, have sometimes occurred, especially in developing countries. This is perhaps why exorcism has a negative connotation in some quarters.

It has negative connotations because it’s make believe and hog wash.

>One cannot force these creatures to undergo lab studies or submit to scientific manipulation; they will also hardly allow themselves to be easily recorded by video equipment, as skeptics sometimes demand.

If you can’t measure, study and quantify something, it isn’t real.
True but vacuously so. Any system that has output can be rephrased the way you just phrased it:

* Photoshop predicts the output of a given a set of buttons, filters, UI states, etc.

* Your car's steering system predicts the wheel outputs given steering wheel inputs.

* The abs( ) operator predicts the absolute value of a number.

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If we want to make a funny analogy with ML using my first example: this model -- i.e. the entire Photoshop software -- is trained in a slow and manual (not automated) iterative process against the cost function "whether Photoshop engineers and managers will ship it as the next version of Photoshop". It's repeatedly tested against it (or through whatever training algorithm its designers want, including waterfall. The training algorithm doesn't have to be good - but anything they use to design the software by definition is the training algorithm for the model - under this stretched analogy / way of thinking about it.)

I just mention this to show the absurdity of this way of thinking about it - like the entire Adobe campus is just one giant training algorithm for the "next version of Photoshop" model which predicts "what will the output of pressing these buttons be".

If you'd like a second example: any simple pocket calculator going back to 1970 is a system that "predicts the result of its operations and operands". The cost function is the happiness of the engineers who designed it, and a human is involved in the iterative method of training the model, whose cost function is the human's happiness with it. Kind of an absurd way of thinking about the system.

So while these (and anything else with an output) can be formulated as "predictions", my examples going back to 1970 aren't machine learning, since a human is involved in this training loop. So this sense of "prediction" is kind of specious.

Sure, you can call them all predictions but you don't gain any insight by doing so. And you lose OP's point, which I thought was insightful.
With money I suppose. Lots of.
Good luck finding a Nash Equilibrium in the stock market.
It seems the recipe is to take a broad service, niche it down and improve specifically for that niche and you've got yourself something new but based on a previous success - taking out any guesswork whether it's going to succeed.
So much bullshit. As a Chinese citizen that lived in America for a long time, I found US government being so much worse than China.
> You don't really need jQuery anymore, due to the browser APIs being far more mutually compatible and useful than a decade ago

You say that, but from time to time I still discover slight variations in browser behavior or bugs that were opened 8 years ago that would've been avoided if I had just used jQuery. Most modern frameworks will abstract away these differences, but sometimes you'll need to access the DOM directly.
Agreed re: both of these wins.

On the security front, would be ideal if these resulting containers ran as non-root. Hopefully that will come soon.
The purpose of this metric is to give authors a practical tool they can use to measure the degree of direct sensory language they use in their writing, and compare it with authors they admire. It's not a value judgement.

There are other admirable qualities of writing (emotional, conceptual, etc) that are orthogonal to "vividness", and in the long-run, I plan on developing metrics for those qualities as well.

For example, take a look at the works of Jane Austen. Here's the analysis of "Pride and Prejudice":

http://prosecraft.io/library/jane-austen/pride-and-prejudice...

She's a brilliant writer, and her prose is highly emotional, but it isn't especially vivid, according to my definition of "vividness", which is: prose that evokes a sensory experience (with colors, textures, flavors, aromas, sounds, and bodily sensations).

There are plenty of ways to write a brilliant novel, and some of them involve vivid sensory writing. But Jane Austen's brilliance comes from her handling of emotional relationships.

For a modern example of the same phenomenon, take a look at one of my favorite authors, Nick Hornby:

http://prosecraft.io/library/nick-hornby/about-a-boy/

http://prosecraft.io/library/nick-hornby/juliet-naked/

I've read every one of his novels, and they're all about human relationships, but the prose itself isn't very vivid. Nothing wrong with that, though. It's just a measurement.

As an author, it's helpful to be mindful of these kinds of measurements. The same thing is true of "passive voice". Using a lot of passive voice is still a legitimate way of writing, but it's helpful for an author to be aware of the literary voice they're crafting:

https://blog.shaxpir.com/thoughts-on-passive-voice-705fa4dbd...
It's probably instances of vehicle observations. If they observe the same, say, million cars a day for a year that's ~400 million observations right there. If it's multiple times a day you could quickly reach 5 billion.
For a company, it would be obtaining capital cheaply on a per share basis. Most of these companies have huge debt. Take for example, Amgen which is spending $10 billion to buy back shares. They have over 31 billion in debt or which is $10 billion is short term.
I would also settle for some California legislation that would kill Vigilant’s business model.
> The subject might also exhibit enormous strength or even the extraordinarily rare phenomenon of levitation. (I have not witnessed a levitation myself, but half a dozen people I work with vow that they’ve seen it in the course of their exorcisms.)

Pic or it didn't happen.

Anecdotal second hand evidence is extremely unreliable. Put a camera in each exorcism, get a good video of it and make Randi an CD vouch the veracity of the video.
Microservices benefits large teams. There’s just too much operational overhead for a small team to manage microservices. Large teams with monolith applications benefit from microservices as the communication issue of large teams is reduced by splitting the team into cross functional teams.
If Videogames and Apps Are Addictive, Should Designers Worry about Liability?
Historically we're living in the best times we've ever had.
As I read it, this article (or rather, its abstract) seems to work as:

1. The population is divided into leave voters and remain voters (and undecided)

2. Some statistics will be different between these sets

3. Looking at the election campaign and these characteristics can tell us about how to target an election campaign according to these statistics [of the people who will eventually/currently plan on voting for your side]

An alternative way to look at this is:

1. There are several qualities of people that change slowly with time; some people are inclined to vote leave and some remain and some in between

2. Some electoral material was produced trying to change how much leave/remain people are inclined to vote

3. Here is some statistics about the qualities of the people who were inclined a certain way.

I think the article seems to have confused these two offerings slightly.

For example suppose you see that leave voters are more RWA. Do you interpret this as:

(a) leave voters are RWA so to encourage leave voters one should produce material targeted at RWA people or encouraging RWA ideas

(b) the appeal of election materials for vote leave correlated to how RWA people were so RWA people voted leave so the style of material for vote leave is a lesson in appealing to vote leave personalities.
Browsh: A fully-modern text-based browser, rendering to TTY and browsers
Reach out and do what?
I think I came across as a bit of a "victim" in my comment, but the attitude you've described here is very much how I approach life.

You can definitely learn social skills, and almost anyone who wants a good career needs to have at least some ability to hold a conversation and be approachable. That said, if you're sufficiently on the spectrum you're probably never going to pass as "normal" but you can be good enough.

I guess what upsets me is that I feel like to be successful I have to be less myself. I think you might feel this too based on what you said:

> At this point I’m not even sure if the “real me” is the awkward one.

So yeah, I do try my best to improve. I have to if I want what's best for the people I love. But I often wish I didn't have to and society would work around my communication preferences instead for a change. There are certainly days I get tired of being someone else and think screw it for better or worse, but I think I'm getting a little better at it every day.
Illinois Supreme Court to Hear BIPA Standing Case
According to the CCP, there is no Taiwanese flag. Taiwan is just part of China.

Qantas just folded over CCP pressure to change their stance on calling Taiwan a nation rather than a territory. [1] China is really sensitive about this and pushes its influence heavily on this particular point.

[1]: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-06-04/qantas-to-refer-to-tai...
If that's the worst... I would have to really sanitize some of my code before it could see the light of day with my reputation in one piece.

A one liner joke in the name of an exception would be the least of my worries.
How Uber Got Their First Users
I have a similar viewpoint - in that personally I consider seeing original art locally, even though it isn't a Van Gogh or a Da Vinci or whatever, is worthwhile anyway. At the same time, digitisations or reproductions of "famous" works can still be rewarding.

Same with music, while recordings of Coltrane or Miles (or 50Cent or The Sex Pistols or Beyoncé, substitute whatever your musical tastes encompass) are great - it's still also great to go and see local live acs - who're potentially awful - but are often surprisingly enjoyable.
I really don't like this survey, and I'm not really sure that it measures anything other than a specific kind of cultural conservatism.

There are those who have very authoritative views over how one ought to act that wouldn't be defined as culturally conservative, for example, within the intersectional movement, there are those who believe that one cannot say 'America is a meritocracy and those who work hard can get ahead' because it doesn't fully respect someone's life experience given their race and gender. To the extent that this is an 'infraction' in certain public institutions. Agree or not - it's 'authoritative', just not in the traditional terms.

Even if the survey measured this kind of authoritarianism more broadly, I'm not sure it would be measuring something fully.
What this actually looks like is a case of very imperfect knowledge transfer within the technology industry. What's interesting about the entire craze of microservices and containers and the cloud is that they are not a new technology. This entire architecture -- the so-called lambda architecture -- has been the standard approach to developing high-performance trading systems on Wall St. since the early 90s. The architecture is literally 30 years old and certain technologies (event sourcing, event driven architecture) are even older.

The problem is that the all the best knowledge has clearly not made it out. For example, this design introduces a "Centrifuge" process that redirects requests to destination specific queues... congratulations you've just reinvented a message bus, a technology that goes back to the 80s. There is absolutely nothing new about virtual queues as described here but unfortunately the authors are likely not at all aware of the capabilities of real enterprise messaging systems (even free, open-source ones like Apache Artemis) and certainly not aware of the architecture and technologies and algorithms that underlie them and the (admittedly much more expensive) best-of-breed commercial systems.

(I won't even go into the craziness of 50+ repos. That's just pure cargo cult madness.)

Watching the web/javascript reinvent these 30 year old technologies is a little disheartening but who knows they may come up with something new. (Then again, recently the javascript guys have discovered the enormous value of repeatable builds. Unfortunately the implementations here all pretty much suck.) Still, we ought to perhaps ask ourselves why this situation has come about...
GoogleContainerTools/jib: Build container images for your Java applications
5 or 10 times seems low if they have sharing agreements with other third party collection companies or the agencies they serve. 30 or even 50 impressions doesn't seem that out of the question, how often do people go to the grocery store? A single collection point on your path to/from work could get ~40 a month.
At this point you're over-granularizing your services into nanoservices, which is an anti-pattern.