skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And the country is big enough. Maybe they’d stand their ground against Liechtenstein but China is WAY too important.

They also said they’d do what the US government required. They didn’t like the idea of the gov being able to unlock any phone and lobbied against it but said they’d follow the law if it exists.
Down from sign and to the left a bit in the windy roads, address not with me now
There’s information in the complaint that claims Apple has 5000 people working on its autonomous car project:

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/07/10/ex-apple-employee-charged-wi...
I was in college a while ago :) Appreciate the correction
The routed edges of a PCB are generally +/-0.1mm. Most laser cutters will match or exceed that tolerance, even on acrylic. In the worst case this jig will be 0.2mm out, but it's a lot easier to nudge a package from almost aligned to perfectly aligned than to place it purely by eye.
Website bug report: when visiting the trial request page[1] the header nav bar ("Home", "FAQ", etc) disappears.

[1]: https://www.gravwell.io/local-trial-request
"Chinese car" will end up becoming synonymous with bad AI and fundamentally unsafe.
> The shared libraries made building new destinations quick. The familiarity brought by a uniform set of shared functionality made maintenance less of a headache.

> However, a new problem began to arise. Testing and deploying changes to these shared libraries impacted all of our destinations. It began to require considerable time and effort to maintain. Making changes to improve our libraries, knowing we’d have to test and deploy dozens of services, was a risky proposition. When pressed for time, engineers would only include the updated versions of these libraries on a single destination’s codebase.

When pressed for time, engineers would only include the updated versions of these libraries on a single destination’s codebase.

I think I see the problem and it wasn't with microservices.
Serverless smart contract dapp-as-a-service.
I would still do software engineering if I could do it all over. I came into SWE from the EE side. I studied both mathematics and computer (hardware) engineering, with a hefty CS minor in undergrad. I think EE/CE is a tremendously intellectually profitable (if somewhat unconventional) preparation for a career as a developer. You get an intimate understanding of how computer hardware and low-level stuff works that is hard to get in a CS program. I still find it gave me a toolkit for thinking about software problems that most of my colleagues don't have.

I echo the sentiment that programming doesn't really exist on its own. Most great software engineers really have two skillsets: the programming skills and domain knowledge. Rich Hickey remarks on this in one of his ClojureCon talks. One thing I think I would do differently is to find one or more domains to apply programming to sooner in my life. I'm about eight years out of school and only starting to figure out the answer to this question myself.
Silly question: how difficult would it be to extract your DNA code into digital format and then create cells based on that digital formatted DNA and put them into your body?

Note: not at all a biologist as you can probably see from the way I phrase things :)
how the startup mentality failed Kids in San Francisco
My problem with microservices is the word 'micro'. It should just be services.

Problem domains (along with organizational structures) inherently create natural architectural boundaries... certain bits of data, computation, transactional logic, and programming skill just naturally "clump" together. Microservices ignore this natural order. The main driving architectural principle seems to be "I'm having trouble with my event-driven dynamically-typed metaprogrammed ball-of-mud, so we need more services!".
More fair points. And, yes at the individual level, I agree, a higher wage, trickle up approach seems better/fairer than a trickle down approach.

However, at the macro level, the environmentalist in me worries, at the extreme end if wealth really was fully distributed and everyone was living like Richard Branson, Imelda Marcos, etc. with multiple houses in every city (each with a 4 bedroom layout, TVs and wet bar in every room and an SUV in every garage), a yacht, a private jet guzzles premium fuel and a private island, the environmental ramifications would be disastrous.
My understanding of rationality, in the sense commonly used by economists, for example, is that the rational entity has a collection of knowledge, in the sense of "justified true beliefs", and the entity believes all logical consequences of those beliefs.

There are many problems with that definition of rationality, hence "behavioral economics". The surprise is that behavioral economics took so long to develop.
I feel like your statement just moves the goal posts, though. Yes, buybacks are a substitute for dividends, but that doesn't address the broader issue that I'm seeing: companies don't have anything productive to do with their profits. Whether it's buybacks or dividends is irrelevant - giving large amounts of money back to shareholders directly isn't what companies with strong growth plans do. We're reaching a point where profits are just getting continuously recycled back into the top 10% of the population instead of being used to expand the economy in more traditional ways.
> That's because every one of those "observations" applies to most everyone. It's the same reason why astrological horoscopes apply to everyone.

Example from psycholoy:

> https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Barnum_effect&old...

By the way, the statements in the

> https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Barnum_effect&old...

paragraph actually describe me rather badly (I am badly described using "wishy-washy statements"), so I believe this effect hardly works on me.
Problem with nature, it does "unlikely" at a frequency we chronically underestimate.
> web services do crappy things with that data. (Hey Zuck, how was Congress?)

Is this kind of snark really necessary in top marketing copy? I get what you are saying in terms of freemiums ins and outs, but I don't know if it should be my first impression to your company's message.

To each their own, just feels a bit cheap IMHO.
Thanks! I'm enjoying comparing novels I've read and finding surprises at misremembering the prose of some of them. Was it a deliberate decision to not include the ability to search for specific titles? I've been clicking through the percentiles and realized could save some time finding the titles if they were all on one page (Ctrl-F) or via a search box.

edit: manually editing the URL helps with this :)

edit2: and apparently the home page
There's no reason to think there's any difference between the wild mosquitos who bred with fertile wild specimens and the wild mosquitos that bred with sterile lab specimens. If there's no difference, then there's no "selection" going on.

If you want to argue that there is a difference, then you'll have to provide some evidence of that. Currently you're asserting it as a premise.
Serverless is my most hated buzz word, even if I like what it actually means. I mean come on, there are always servers.
I always thought that adastral branding was rubbish - have they demolished the H blocks yet
You know... What if we just forgot about CSS and just had a big paint() function for the entire page? :p
That would be a cool use case for VR headsets.
Judging by the name it'll be safe to wipe them out everywhere except Egypt then?
Even yaourt defaults to prompting you to read all the packages scripts and displays a red WARNING UNSAFE when the package is unmaintained as this one was.

It has options to configure it to do everything automatically, but you have to actively go in and set it so.
That mosquito species probably spent more time in Cali than humans have spent on this planet... Let's be a bit more open/honest about the bigger (4 billion year) picture here.
I think the money of Facebook mostly comes from ads. I understand that their knowledge about citizen could be valuable for governments and therefore could be part of how they make money. Now, can you prove what you are saying, or is it just a credible but proof-less conspiracy theory?
>simple-mtpfs

Not maintained (last commit in 2016). So that will be something low on the priority list.

>btrfs

The dedupe tool looks interesting. Noted on my todo.

>closure-compiler

Was dropped from the repository. Probably because of the lack of an maintainer.
You can click on the logo in the upper-left corner, or you can go directly to the homepage, http://prosecraft.io, to search for specific titles :)
Possibly also related - the phones are made there too.
> Buys more SpaceX bonds.

Write me when the Martian ecosystem will have reached equilibrium between mega-worms and killer super-bacteria imported from Earth :)
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In general, but also containing malware found in code belonging to the different distributions, like PKGBUILDs. I'm just thinking that part of the problem with the lack of review of AUR packages by the users is that it's not really obvious what one should be on the lookout for. What does linux malware found in the wild generally look like?, is what I'm wondering. I would think that it would benefit us all to make the cases where malware is found more easy to study.

The case shown here is pretty obvious looking, but I don't think it would be too difficult to make it better hidden. Seeing what kind of tricks are statistically more common would make PKGBUILDs easier to review.
Please, please, please stop using pie charts to try to visualize ratios! See here[0] from 2007 for better alternatives. I'm sure there are newer visualizations as well.

[0]: https://www.perceptualedge.com/articles/visual_business_inte...
Unofficial user repositories contain unofficial user software. Shockers!

Sarcasm aside, I think a lot of the pearl-clutching over this incident is down to people not understanding the difference between the official repositories and the AUR.
You can't see the imagery when just listening to the music.

There's no message in the music, just the YT video. If you like the music, so what? No need to be ashamed.

A lot of the fashwave stuff sounds great, and no one is going to know why it's considered "bad" by listening.
The PKBUILD runs in the fakeroot, but AFAIK the .install files (postinstall hooks etc) run on the host system directly, with root permission. Definitely something you will always want to review.

(Also, I don't really get the critique of tools like yaourt, since they make it easy to inspect the PKGBUILD and - if present - install files. The tool simplifies downloading, you still need to review yourself!)
just discovered this! Thank you.
Nah it works with surface connector
A little OT, but:

> I spent part of my childhood dreaming of being Captain James T. Kirk… I seriously believe that I became a better teacher and colleague by watching Kirk run the Enterprise. Kirk was not the smartest guy on the ship.

And that's the main reason I never liked Voyager. Kate Mulgrew's character was the smartest person on that ship, and she made sure everybody knew it. Which is a shame because I always thought she deserved more screen time.
The usual "poor-man's Splunk" is the ELK stack.
Sure, I don't think anyone would disagree with you on that.

But still, how is the initial comment an example of the Hegelian Dialectic?
Well met. You're in rare company to have gone and looked, I appreciate that. Cheers!

Check my submissions in a month or two, I'll put in a "Show HN" when I have something to show.
It varied. Often times the British established a parallel administrative regime. Because the parallel regime was more functional in terms of the modern world (i.e. more conducive to the demands of commerce) it usually became the predominate facet of a post independence syncretic governance regime. Other times it was setup this way from the start.

How is saying it was better overselling it? I never said it was extraordinary. I never said the countries were better off having been colonized. I simply made that point that 1) the British-style regimes were better relative to those of other colonial powers, and thus 2) what distinguished Britain's approach is instructive (independent of colonialism or imperialism) in terms of which policies are more conducive to political and economic development.

What distinguished British colonialism wasn't that they were simply hands off. In many ways they were much more involved.[1] My original point was that being completely hands off can potentially result in the worst of all possible outcomes in terms of economic development if you're just handing a blank check to whoever holds power at the moment in a country suffering from endemic corruption. You may get what you want, but not all approaches result in the same outcomes for the local population.

The British were at least as racist as the Dutch, French, or Germans; and they all believed the locals to be incapable of achieving and maintaining modern economic and political systems on their own. But for whatever reason the British nonetheless still developed the rule of law in their colonies, and built strong technocracies to a much greater extent than other powers, who were more prone to believe it was a useless and futile endeavor.

[1] The British were more devious. They operated by a more complex playbook, which included installing a local minority group into power on the theory that minority groups would be beholden to Britain while also being more culturally competent and more capable of dealing with prosaic issues. They made a science of it. Other powers were more haphazard or simplistic in their approach.
Yaourt shows a big fat red warning every time you install a package. It also offers to open PKGBUILD and .install files for inspection.
How does it compare to ELK stack (elastic logstash and kibana). Do you do zero copy in golang like kafka does?
someone would no doubt start a company called Beyond Bread to make artificial bread from beef
Perl 6 Intro now comes in 13 languages after recently including Russian
Davies V British Transport Police [2018] UKIPTrib
It's very easy to criticise US from the high moral ground of your home, where your safety and freedom are guaranteed by the same US of A. But let me ask you: would you rather be a dissident in China or an anti-establishment protester in US?
-Sent from my iPhone. Made in China.
According to whom? That now-famous intern from 8 years ago?
Introducing Auto Breakfast from GitLab (sort Of) – GitLab
> The guaranteed human and economic benefits of wiping out mosquitoes, far outweigh any theoretical downside.

I don’t see how you can be so certain. We know that time and time again, the human race has thought this to be the case and ended up with serious resulting issues.

That’s not to say that the potential issues would be worse than 500k people per year, but I don’t see how we can say that with any real certainty.
Tax reduced savings accounts effectively flatten the tax curve because whilst they are available to everyone only those being paid more can effectively make use of them.

On the other hand it does incentivice the higher paid to save more for the future rather than spending it now. This can save governments huge amounts when personal savings are used to pay for elderly care and medical treatment as opposed to the government.
I'll offer up first the caveat that Gravwell is a pretty new product, but we've definitely been building with an eye to extensibility. It helps that we haven't been around long enough to build up too much cruft!

The core of Gravwell is the search. You can run searches in the web GUI, or in the CLI client. You can schedule searches to run at certain times (specified with a cron spec, currently) so you could have search results ready first-thing every morning.

More powerfully, you can write scripts to run searches. These scripts can be run on a schedule, or you can run them by hand using the CLI client. Check out our other blog post https://www.gravwell.io/blog/gravwell-and-collectd for an example script that runs a search on disk stats entries from collectd, checks if any machine is running out of disk space, and emails someone if there's a problem. Of course, scripts can be complex to write, so we're exploring options for simpler flowchart-like scripting within the GUI too.

You can also run scripts within the pipeline, which we frequently do when existing search modules don't quite meet our needs.

We've open-sourced the library that lets you ingest data, so you could pretty quickly ingest anything you want. Unlike Splunk, you don't have to massage every data source into a key-value sort of text format; we'll just take binary if you like, we don't care.

Gravwell has a REST API, so you could also interface with it that way. We'll probably open-source our Go client library at some point, but we want to clean it up a little first and make things more idiomatic in places.

I hope that answers your question a little? All the functionality I mentioned here is included in the Community Edition, of course!
I have been wanting a way to launch a web browser with url from a remote server without a major security problem for a while. This could be even better!
Don't forget about bed bugs.
What is the probability of these sterile mosquitoes somehow evolving and reproducing on their own ?!

(So most of the batch is sterile and cant reproduce so cant evolve. But maybe just a single mosquito of the batch is "faulty" and can reproduce and is released anyway etc etc ?)
>Because your entire series of posts in this thread thus far have been nothing but questioning the motives of Elon Musk

It's not a question. I quite literally detailed what factually has happened. It isn't up for debate. He again, quite literally, decided to discredit and defame the lead of the rescue efforts in attempt to white wash several people calling him out on a very, very obvious PR stunt. They were halfway through the rescue operation while he was tweeting about hauling a 300lb pound tube through a tight cave system.

>Even if you're correct you're a hypocrite to complain about someone doing the same to you.

Pointing out and supporting a common criticism of a largely public figure is quite different than personally attacking someone reiterating that critique. If the difference is not appreciable to you then there's like 50 different things that need explaining and I am definitely not going to waste my time doing that.

>The only reason I knew that Musk was even involved in this whole mess was because of his detractors.

Really? Not the mainstream media outlets reporting about it? Or the 600k+ shares on various tweets? You found out because of random internet comments complaining about it, in threads that had nothing to do with those reports?

That seems very, very far fetched and beggars belief.

>I don't personally see any reason to doubt Musk's stated motives

You don't think a clear, consistent pattern of doing the same thing over and over again for unoriginal benefits is not a valid reason to doubt someone's motives? That seems pretty naive.

Allow me to reiterate what just went down:

Elon Musk came out and publicly attempted to put down and dismiss the chief of the rescue operation, the other people who chose not to use the submarine, while also bolstering up the guy he had a personal email correspondence with just as an attempt to counter people's criticism that he is, yet again, just engaging in empty PR (ask yourself why he is constantly engaged in this).

Your suggested and proposed response to this, by your own words, is not attempt to educate people on what's actually going on here, but to simply ignore it. How do you think that's actually going to pan out? Why is doing nothing against misinformation that aids corporate propaganda okay, but somehow personally attacking people with vague fallacies not only somehow rationally acceptable (it's not, but I'll let you attempt to answer it), but suddenly worth your time?

Seems a bit odd.
It isn’t random though. A better statistic to compare to would be suicide rate. They do it to themselves.
You sound like a fairly self aware person. I’m curious - have you considered practicing social skills like making occasional eye contact, etc? Speaking as someone with enough “issues” (ability to concentrate deeply, socialization issues, awkwardness around eye contact) that I could apply the autism label to myself if I chose to.

The reason I choose not to label myself this way is that I’ve learned to overcome many of my old hangups like avoiding eye contact. It’s true what you say about it holding back your career. When I decided to set out as an entrepreneur I was pretty much forced to up my game in this area. So I did. I can still relate to anyone who struggles with these skills, but I also know it’s possible to overcome them.

Somewhere way deep down I’m still a shy awkward dev, but I’ve gotten good at enough at being charming that I can close angel and VC deals. At this point I’m not even sure if the “real me” is the awkward one. Maybe my true nature is gregarious and unafraid, and I only learned how to retreat into my shell as a defense mechanism against chronic childhood abuse, which I’m finally coming to terms with after a solid 20 years of confusion.

Anyway, I wish you’d best of luck and I encourage you to challenge yourself (safely) - I really wish more knowledgeable devs would feel empowered to learn these skills and take on higher level business roles. If you don’t do it, all the leadership positions end up being taken by people who are good at being charming but not much else.
People on HN have spoken about the English RIPA law, but they often miss that RIPA is used to prevent unlawful surveillance.

This case is a nice example of the law being used to protect rights against a police force.

To compare the rates of compensation: If you're the victim of crime and you lose one non-dominant arm you'll get £33,000.
Surprised that he is not being charged under the espionage act and also in a way why apple hired him - or is the USA less strict about hiring into sensitive industries.
Wow. Nigeria has less than 15% of the population of India, so its percentage of poor people must be about 7 times greater.
Do mosquitos control other, more harmful pests that might see a resurgence if mosquitos disappear?
Buybacks, in practice, are not good for investors. They are basically always abused by management to defraud investors. I'm not sure why people focus on the theory of buy backs and not the actual application. Study the history of how corporations like Cisco actually use buybacks, it is best described as "shareholder rape."[1]

[1] http://www.businessinsider.com/congratulations-to-cisco-insi...