skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a Monday morning quarterback of Tesla, I'm really curious to see how this turns out. On the one hand, I see whistle blowers as heroes and if they have information about dangerously using unsafe batteries, then that's great.

On the other hand, if the early allegations are true that the employee was altering code and logging in under usernames other than their own to do so, that sure doesn't feel like whistleblowing.
From what I've read, (I haven't followed it too closely as I'm not from the US) the issue is that repealing NN enables an ISP to throttle Netflix for users who don't pay more for (for example) a 'Media' plan WITHOUT even needing to make a deal with Netflix.

I think that's become the poster child for the most accessible way of delivering a pro-NN argument to the masses; even if I think-personally-it's an incredible oversimplification of otherwise GOOD pro-NN arguments. Popcorn and circuses, etc. If you can explain it to people as "it's gonna hurt your ability to Binge Orange is the New Black Season 22" their ears perk up. If you start talking about "last mile" and startup competitiveness in an increasingly commoditized internet landscape, eyes glaze over.

Perhaps even to the point of possibly being the petard hoisted by the pro-NN crowd when the powers at be decide to focus their attention on that topic, artfully skirt the issue to seem conciliatory to average-joe users while implementing the very types of platforms and policies that have more or less demonstrable affects on the Internet as a platform for Enterprise.

Just my theory.
>> >> If two parties want to communicate with each other, why does it matters which side gets what percentage of the bill? It makes sense for the health of the network for big companies like Netflix to have business relationships with the ISPs to push the servers closer to the edges.

>> ...the issue is that repealing NN enables an ISP to throttle Netflix for users who don't pay more for (for example) a 'Media' plan WITHOUT even needing to make a deal with Netflix. Monopolies then become a problem because certain areas of the US can only get connection with one ISP, so there is no room for them to choose a better option if their only available ISP starts charging through the roof for access to specific websites.

These are essentially equivalent statements, no? On the one hand ISPs want Netflix to pay them, and on the other hand ISPs want Netflix to pay them.

Again I want to reiterate, for me this is all about the 1st amendment to the Constitution. I would love for the telecom monopolies to get broken up.
For the curious, this trial was eventually resolved in favour of Israel's national library, on the grounds that this was Max Brod's instructions in his will:

"But Judge Kopelman Pardo rejected Ms. Hoffe’s claim that the papers were a gift from Mr. Brod to her mother, instead viewing them as a trust she was to administer. The judge noted that Mr. Brod’s 1948 will instructed that his archive go to a “public Jewish library or archive in Palestine,” and that he later specified Hebrew University, where Israel’s national library is housed."

https://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/15/world/middleeast/woman-mu...
Synaptics hints at 'next-generation' security OS from Microsoft
People ignored the paper. Some people only watched cartoons and MTV, or the shopping channel, or daytime soaps. I was alive before the Web, and I don't feel the average person was more informed than they are today. I think it was easier to live in a bubble before the Web.

Reading inane clickbait on Facebook and being informed aren't mutually exclusive.
Checkout works, you just have to search for the item and once you're off the homepage everything is normal.
you're assuming the point of R&D is soly to launch new products.

There's other benefits. Such-as institutional knowledge that can be used to determine where to invest VC money / acquisitions.

Or the strategic part where you leverage R&D spend to sign quid pro quo contracts...who's earnings might boost some quarterly earning metric.
The media reports on this story are quite conflicting... Not sure who to believe. Is this guy an innocent whistleblower who's being targeted by Tesla or someone with an agenda against Tesla trying to sabotage the company?
Thanks for confirming. I was curious too, but all the small purchases I have are "Add on items" ;-)
I'm really curious how much this actually causes Amazon's revenue to drop. You can still buy things and search, but consumers are probably going to be put off by the home page message.

EDIT: And now it's back up.
amazon.com desktop homepage is back up for me!

EDIT: Though it looks quite minimal, there's very little content showing on the front page. Three rows of content.
OK, you care about humanity as a species.

But apparently not about thousands or millions of individual humans dying.
You sir or madam, have a devious mind :). I shall hold on to my trust in humanity for a little while longer!
He stole the docs by compromising a router that was running the FTP protocol.

That shouldn’t even be a thing happening in this decade! The default password barely enters into it. Vendor leaves giant foot gun. Customer blows foot off.
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Fascist corporatism is a thing in the Wikipedia article on corporatism (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporatism#Fascist_corporatis...) but I don't think that applies here, given the strong role of employers and trade unions in the description (Italy's style of fascism seems to be the backdrop for the term).

The term I found in Wikipedia, that to me seems to describe the fear being expressed, is inverted totalitarianism. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted_totalitarianism)
They can't control the narrative if they show every tweet.
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> MapR has made a business selling more efficient Hadoop-ishness, but also depressing how infrequently I see them deployed, even for pretty massive clusters.

I'm only very slightly familiar with their features/value-add and not at all with their pricing. Could the pricing model be particularly unpalatable for some reason?

Not that I expect there has to be a deeper reason beyond simply not caring about cost/efficiency. I've certainly both seen and heard described plenty of Hadoop installations that seemed to have missed the "cheap" point in Google's M-R paper and subsequent Hadoop hardware selection advice from, for example, Hortonworks, or misunderstood what it meant. There may also be some misunderstanding of "commodity" or "industry standard" to mean server hardware of a certain "class" (such as brand name or with redundancy features), even if it conflicts with cheapness.

Some of it may be that the hardware selection advice articles (e.g. Hortonworks, Cloudera) are very old, with excellent general advice, but potentially misleading specific numbers. Even extrapolating from those numbers in a naive way can easily lead to needless expense and/or sub-optimal performance (that time some Xeons had 3, not 2, not 4, memory channels).

The latest article I found in an (admittedly quick) search was https://hadoopoopadoop.com/2015/09/22/hadoop-hardware/ from late 2015, which is still remarkably long ago and is rather verbose.
A dollar is not a meaningful contribution. It would be better to make a 20-100 list and give 500-2k. Else is it really a Fund?
Marvell Completes Acquisition of Cavium
> There is no one area that is the cause. It's death by 1,000 papercuts.

Yup. A few minutes (of unnecessary) oxygen in an ambulance cost my insurance company about $500. A single oral dose of generic Keppra while in the hospital cost more than the cash price an entire month’s supply from CVS. The room I stayed in was billed at about $7300/day, but hey, it did include unlimited room service.

In fact, the only clearly reasonably priced item from my hospital stay was the generic Tylenol, I assume because it’s common enough to generate complaints.
A gba emulator is my dream project. Gosh I've wanted to sit down and do it forever!

There are some really nice ones out there too. There are a few js-based ones that can run in the browser!
Ocaml, in comparison to other functional statically typed languages has had many successful Unix applications.

For a great tour of going to Ocaml (from Python), see Thomas Leonard's blog.

A retrospective is here but read the whole lot.

http://roscidus.com/blog/blog/2014/06/06/python-to-ocaml-ret...
For webapps you would use a reverse proxy such as nginx or haproxy and replace your application page by page. Then configure the reverse proxy to send all requests to /home to go to the new stack and all other requests go to the old stack. Then flip the switch for every page you finish converting. For backend work, it's similar. You can have an api built in a new stack and it can just have a different endpoint or use a reverse proxy. Backend workers can pick up work from a different queue or you can switch the old job worker off and turn on the new one, and then monitor that everything is working as planned. The really important thing about the strangler pattern is that you need some easy way to turn on bits of functionality while turning off the corresponding old parts. It can be feature flags, it can be routing middleware. You can rip out the guts of the angular routing mechanism and use that to flip the switch.
touche :-)

The social networks are what may be drawing most teens, but if they are bored and just wasnt to waste time, I guess anything will do (even old videogames)
I often wonder why it's not treated as a first class citizen when teaching programming. I think there should be a full CS course dedicated to it.

I put together http://www.debug.coach/ because a guy I used to work with had better debugging skills than anybody and I noticed it was because he always knew the right questions to ask.
This is such a great book. OCaml’s type system feels like a superpower specially in the context of Unix development which is traditionally done in C.
A weekly chart like that isn’t really granular enough to show that.

This chart is a few years old, but it shows that the peak demand was in the early evening:

https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=830

The peak demand will also vary at different locations and times of year. As the wikipedia article states:

>...It depends on the demography, the economy, the weather, the climate, the season, the day of the week and other factors. For example, in industrialised regions of China or Germany, the peak demands mostly occur in day time, while solar photovoltaic system can help reduce it. However, in more service based economy such as Australia, the daily peak demands often occur in the late afternoon to early evening time (e.g. 4pm to 8pm).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peak_demand
> More importantly it should mention that he was caught red handed stealing company secrets and sending them to others

That is a roundabout way of describing a whistleblower. He didn't give information to competitors, he gave it to journalists and the SEC.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1vfXoUNDYA
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Sure, we just need someone to design and mass-manufacture an open source multi-gigabyte RAM chip, then the same for a non-volatile memory.
Or better yet, fund a sweeping amount to their minimum goal level, either by votes or without notice.
A few years ago I had to get some paperwork stamped returning to the US (equipment travelling on a carnet). I had to go through passport control in an area far from most travelers. While talking to the CBP agent, a motley group of 8 gregarious people can down the hall and skipped the passport control. The CBP agent I was working with said “there goes the Air Marshals”. The group was mixed gender, mixed ages, mixed build, mixed style. I would not have pegged any of them as Air Marshals. One girl had dyed punk hair and a biker jacket. One guy looked like a middle aged dad. One girl looked like a European fashion model.
Small e-commerce companies should really use cloudfront for their homepage!
For the curious, here's the full text: http://www.math.snu.ac.kr/~hichoi/infomath/Articles/Lighthil...
I think the approach we should take is to pour more effort into minimizing the risk of debugging being necessary. Good practices, better type checkers and logic models (e.g. there was an article posted in the front page here about using linear logic to push the boundaries of file systems). Debugging can be a time sink and can become a painful task for fast distributed systems.

We should learn and hone that skill of course, as it does not only offer a solution when lightning strikes, but a way for the developer to gain comprehension of the "internals".
Various museums of science and industry. A library.

There are numerous areas ofmanufacturing. Pick one to begin study.

https://www.worldcat.org/search?q=kw+industrial+engineering&...
I almost had a few similar situations, but after pointing out that being agile doesn't just means changing requirements but also changing time paths or simply different deliveries after each change it got a whole lot clear what agile (and scrum) is good for, and what it's not good for (i.e. agile process but expecting waterfall results doesn't work).
> scala, I'm starting to wonder what the end-game is

The end game back in the early days of Scala was probably to provide a gradual on-ramp to FP for people and projects transitioning from Java, but it probably changed to a commercial purpose once more people got involved in its development. It's long since become a self-preserving product, and probably even tries to hinder people moving from FP-only Scala on to Haskell and the like.

I only spent a few months on Scala way back so don't know for sure, but I did see Apache Groovy go through a similar business re-purposing. It began as a JVM-based scripting language complementing Java, useful for glue code and testing, but later became a competitor to Java and other statically-compiled JVM languages, and even tried unsuccessfully to target Android.
"a cult of Tesla"

Nope, not possible. I mean it would be ridiculous if a large number of people displayed unthinking loyalty to a money-making venture just because it projected an image that catered to their prejudices, wouldn't it?
> I think it is the nature of most politicians to "spin" to the point of "spectacular falsehoods".

In recent times it appears to be more a case of "produce spectacular falsehoods, then attempt to spin it"
Don't most countries have a separate ambulance/paramedic service for medical emergencies? Certainly in the UK we have fire, police and ambulance as the three emergency services, one (or more) of which will be sent by the dispatcher following a 999 emergency call. I think most commonwealth countries are the same.
I dumped jvm languages for Rust.

Scala _really_ needs to die.
Per hour? Do you mean per second?
Have you tried https://www.mirrorisland.com ?

It was made for a similar purpose when sharing files and photos from a mobile phone to multiple computers.

It doesn't need any installation and it's just a basic webpage with fast sign up and sign in.
Well, it’s certainly more true than having any control over a corporation.
Ask HN: Best ereader for tech books (programming)
Any ereaders out there but than others for technical books, in particular programming books?
That is a literal insult to the millions who have suffered under real fascism.
If we are to leave the planet eventually, some level of skill at keeping people in space is essential.

(N.B. I'm a scientist who would love more dedicated robotic missions. Human spaceflight is important, too.)
>Its really a very simple argument, for me at least: this shouldn't be regulated at the federal level. State and city regulations (or even outright ownership) are fine though. Heck the cities literally own the streets.

Why do you think it's alright to regulate this at the state or city level but not the federal level?

How do you feel about the federal government regulating telecommunications carriers?
Gathering evidence for whistleblowing will almost certainly require violating security policies.
OpenBSD: Introduce 'auto-join' to the wifi 802.11 stack
This is for certification, not demonstration missions. That capsule is scheduled for the unmanned DM-1 flight, after which will be the manned DM-2 flight, at which point SpaceX will submit its data for final certification in advance of operations flights.

As an aside, the author (Eric Berger) is in no way biased against SpaceX - he's one of the most overtly pro-SpaceX journalists around.
This is exactly why professors in universities has tenures and were govt funded. The equation has changed considerably with private employment/funding out growing the older system. Not sure when bew system will reach its equilibrium.

Most research scientist jobs need publications and phd, so there is huge incentive to get something published.
I use Snakemake [1], a parallel make system for data, designed around pattern-matching rules. The rules are either shell commands or Python 3 code.

I settled on it after originally using make, getting frustrated with the crazy work-arounds I needed to implement because it doesn't understand build steps with multiple outputs, switching to Ninja where you have to construct the dependency tree yourself, and finally ending up on Snakemake which does everything I need.

[1] https://snakemake.readthedocs.io/en/stable/
Nice work, will review.
I like the idea of having essentially a grid “wave”: in the morning your power comes from the East, in the evening it comes from the West.
Seems you've gone a bit personal here.
Deep in the fly brain
> You are one of those blessed people who can architect a system and the architecture holds up for decades.

This is exactly why maintenance is needed. Proper maintenance that includes things like updating the architecture and gradually migrating the whole system to that architecture, rebuilding small unwieldy components, updating and migrating database schemas as the product evolves, removing unused features.

If a product is just getting bugs patched and nothing else then it isn't really being maintained, it's being deprecated. Unfortunately as an industry we still think that there are distinct build and maintenance phases and that the latter can be done with less resources.
Broadcom to Buy CA Technologies for $18.9B in Cash
IIRC, Tesla's civil complaint accuses Tripp of writing "hacking software" but doesn't mention any other effects of the software besides exfiltration of data to unspecified third parties:

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/06/tesla-sues-emplo...

> Beyond the misconduct to which Tripp admitted, he also wrote computer code to periodically export Tesla’s data off its network and into the hands of third parties. His hacking software was operating on three separate computer systems of other individuals at Tesla so that the data would be exported even after he left the company and so that those individuals would be falsely implicated as guilty parties.
A real 100 year VC firm would be a DAO. Maybe they aren’t as forward looking as they’d like to believe. Much respect to Alexis and Garry, though. It’s not easy to go it alone.
Especially if it let you change the sort order of files. Apple's goofy nonstandard ordering drives me nuts.
>I think it's pretty safe to assume that NASA will not be going anywhere outside LEO in 2030.

This is certainly not safe to say and in fact is quite unlikely. Multiple separate programs promise to get us beyond LEO by 2030. Whether we'll be on any planetary bodies is questionable, but at the least humans will have made it to lunar DRHO by then.
There are a lot of big organizations that seem to understand something that few of us in the software industry ever did:

When you have one vendor they have no reason to give you any special attention. They are min-maxing you against all of their other customers and if you aren’t about to either Give them more money or take it away you fade into the background.

If you have two vendors, they have to pay attention. They have to and get to stay engaged.

If SpaceX is ahead or Boeing is ahead doesn’t matter. What matters if SpaceX is still at the table. If they drop to third or fourth place then they have a real problem.

NASA doesn’t want to give all their contracts to one vendor, and neither should we. That makes things easy this year but fattens then for the slaughter.

As long as Boeing is getting some noteworthy fraction of the contracts they stick around as a goad for SpaceX to try harder. And SpaceX does the same for Boeing.
That's the thing: what's the agenda? Where's the win?

No whistleblower will be completely innocent. Most likely, they will be disgruntled in some way.
"Configure often detects features by compiling a binary and executing it" — I am not sure, where this impression comes from. Autotools as whole have excellent cross-compilation support. Autoconf has feature-detection routines, checking for presence of headers, exported symbols and pkg-config files. None of those trigger "execute the binary" part when cross-compiling. In addition, custom-written host-side checks can easily be skipped when cross-compiling (either by code of check itself or by user via environent-variable overrides). Do you you know of any build system, that handles this better?

Cmake and several other buildsystems either don't support cross-compilation at all (because their primary audience is Windows) or use pkg-config only. Few others are nightmarish parody of autotools with much worse support. Most don't have ounce of autotools features.

I know many projects, that offer horrible autotools "support": for example, glib2 autotools scripts can't be cross-compiled to Android without ample application of hacks. But those issues are caused by incompetence and lack of testing, not some innate fault of Autotools. When such projects migrate to something else, their cross-compilation process becomes WORSE.
Not disagreeing with you, just genuinely curious: how is this headline biased?

Do you mean that the margins are thinner than one might expect by reading it?
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The civil complaint doesn't say anything about logging under other usernames, just that his data-scraper-exporter was running on other people's machines:

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/06/tesla-sues-emplo...

> His hacking software was operating on three separate computer systems of other individuals at Tesla so that the data would be exported even after he left the company and so that those individuals would be falsely implicated as guilty parties.

I guess it's possible that Tripp did indeed add some code that explicitly tried to frame actual employees. But the fact that his code ran on other people's computers, without any other specific evidence (which may be forthcoming, of course) does not necessarily entail that he intended to frame people.
Yes.

And honestly it makes a lot of sense. The main point of those "we can charge you whatever forms" is because they often don't know off hand what their deal is with your specific insurance company and furthermore they don't necessarily know which people involved are in which network, etc. yet they just want to make sure that you are left holding the bag when the final bill comes due. But if there is no insurance company involved, they only need to decide what they will charge you and it's done. In that case, the open-ended contract is entirely unnecessary.
It's hard to tell whether one should hoard cash in preparation for a recession or buy property in preparation for inflation.
If only there was some kind of formal protocol that could incentivise the substantiation of such claims. Alas.
> The Amazon Kindle came out of Lab 126, Amazon's innovation program.

I know this from all the com.lab126 Java packages in the firmware :)
I read the GP as saying “you don’t even need to create the scaffold methods” described in your post.