skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It has already gained adoption outside of that sub cult. All of the major financial institutions are researching applications of blockchains - many on top of private ethereum deployments. Ethereum is PROGRAMMABLE MONEY. It's a technology that's certainly here to stay, but that's not to say that ethereum itself will be the dominant platform.
Yes, the fact that the Linux kernel is written in C is nothing short of total disaster. It is bad for humanity. Just count all those "use after free" vulnerabilities.
Don’t Expect Big Changes from Europe’s Record Google Fine
But then Android wouldn't be open source anymore. That would be a big shame and it's bizarre to see HN commenters arguing after so many years of shitting on things like Play Services that, in effect, they want Android to become entirely proprietary.

It'd also send a powerful signal to lots of other companies - don't create open platforms monetized through additional services. As so much open source code is funded by companies, that'd be a huge blow.
Thank you very much. Company already did valuation, it's worth $60M. I'm wondering what is practice in the market considering these giving conditions for small business.
Ask HN: Is Startup School right for starting with a new idea?
I'm working on building Early Warning Systems that use ML and space data for Public Health problems and can see a commercial application for governments and communities. But I just started work, and this is a longer problem than most SAAS offerings, do you think Startup School is worth it in this case?
I believe it was a study done on workers in Japan, they found the sweet spot was 7 hours. People who slept 8-9 were at higher risk for health issues.than those who slept less.
1.Sell some products where price is mentioned in ToS.

2.Change price.

3.Sell some more products.

4.Send lawyers to collect diff on product sold in [1].

The question is, was he made aware, that his previous agreement will be changed when he was giving some more money?
A blog post I made putting this and the timeline of life on Earth on the same graph:

http://hopefullyintersting.blogspot.com/2018/03/the-drake-eq...
The biggest thing is that Jenkins isn't a CI tool, it's a job execution tool. Whether those jobs are scheduled, manually triggered, triggered by a webhook or otherwise..that's it. It runs the job, records the output and the exit status and makes it easy to read the log of any of those jobs, as well as alternating log rotation of them. It can also manage multiple nodes, distribute those jobs across them or isolate certain jobs to certain nodes.

All that a CI server does is run install dependencies, run the job and then do something with the output. There are tons of plugins for Jenkins to handle those specialized bits of output.

If you want to use Docker images for it, you can do that. If you want to use it to run cron jobs across multiple servers over SSH but centralize the logging and error notification...you can do that. If you want to schedule scaling jobs for expected traffic...you can do that. If you want to trigger Ansible execution...you can do that.

Trigger, Run, Track, Parse. Jenkins does it general purpose, for free, with flexibility to handle many different types of work and different auth tools in one place.

The UI could be better...but it's also hard to tune the UI unless you are specialized for a certain type of work.

The real question is...why bother with a special CI-only tool when you can use Jenkins for that and a whole lot more?
"The provided web_view shall support content complying with the [HTML5], [2dcontext], [WebGL], [CSS3-UI], [css-cascade-3], [css-grid-1], [css-scroll-snap-1], [css3-images], [css3-background], [css3-namespace], [css-writing-modes-3], [css-color-3], [css-fonts-3], [css3-mediaqueries], [css-text-3], [css-text-decor-3], [css-values-3], [css-writing-modes-3], [css-syntax-3], [css3-conditional], [css-flexbox-1], [selectors-3], [css-will-change-1], [css-variables-1], [compositing-1], [CSS2], [WOFF], [SVG11], [PNG], [ECMAScript], [ECMA-402], [hr-time-2], [DOM-Level-3-Core], [DOM-Level-3-Events], [user-timing], [navigation-timing], [resource-timing-1], [tracking-dnt], [geolocation-API], [WebCryptoAPI], [encrypted-media], [mediacapture-streams], [beacon], [IndexedDB], [page-visibility-2], [ElementTraversal], [DOM-Level-2-Style], [DOM-Level-2-Traversal-Range], [gamepad], [CSP2], [cors], [upgrade-insecure-requests], [referrer-policy], [rfc7034], [rfc7932], [rfc6797], [rfc6066], [rfc2397], and [rfc5246] standards."
Maybe GNU Hurd will be on version 1 by then.
Would you see any issues with Apple changing the orthography of the character f from "f" to "g"?
I will add it this evening or tomorrow, it's in line with the costs of a traditional mattress purchase rather than one of the new cheaper online companies.
If you're in the NYC area, I know a bunch of folks who have had a really positive experience with http://www.kenwoodpsych.com/ - it's a practice that helps match you to a therapist that matches your needs, communication style, and financial/location constraints.
"He brought a pistol to the birthday party."

"He brought a squirt gun to the birthday party."

Clear enough?
I'm working on building Early Warning Systems that use ML and space data for Public Health problems and can see a commercial application for governments and communities. But I just started work, and this is a longer problem than most SAAS offerings, do you think Startup School is worth it in this case?
Someone should write a short story about this.
You won't get that. Look at Windows. You pay for it, and it includes ads and data tracking too.

If the EU gets its way here, all that'll happen is that:

a) New releases of Android won't be open source anymore.

b) The cost of Android may well skyrocket, making smartphones suddenly an elite luxury rather than something everyone can have.

c) Android devices will still come with lots of Google services that will work in largely the same way, because most users actually want them.

d) Cyanogen and other variants of Android designed for people who care an unusual amount about data and privacy will cease to exist.

It'd be a classic case of regulatory own goals: nothing would get better, it'd get worse for everyone.
I'm referring to events reported in the English media. e.g if a Scottish tennis player looses it'll be reported as "Tragedy as Scottish Player Fails in Finals". Same player wins and the headline is "Joy as British Tennis Player Wins Championship".

You probably have to be Scottish to notice.
You have to agree to the retroactivity and the new changes.
The argument here is that he did when he made a ton of new pledges under the new agreement.
A calculator made out of roller coasters
Sure, but all of those are different than an admin at hacker news doing an

UPDATE posts SET text="I hate brown people" WHERE post_id=17560983

to make you look like a racist (or whatever they wanted to alter your comment to look as though you had written it). That type of editing doesn't naturally occur and is more like the type of changed meaning we're talking about here.
I think the point he was trying to make is that they had no obligation to make crowdfunding work like people expected it to. They were perfectly within their rights to just ship on time and bag the rest as profit.
Hello smarx007. Sorry for the late reply.
Gaia is not BPMN. You can actually compare it with Jenkins Pipelines but with the advantage that you can basically use any programming language. And no, "any" programming language does not mean Go. Gaia is alpha, that is the reason why we currently only support Go. We will support other languages soon. :-)
Anti-union is not always pro-corporation. The most powerful unions are in the public sector now. And anti-regulations is by no meams pro-corporation.

Many large corporations derive wealth from regulations and other forms of government intervention (e.g. a central bank designating large banks as primary dealers, and all of the other interventions that make that a valuable position).
> If you care so much then go build a free software alternative.

In theory, maybe. But wouldn't Google current policies and monopoly disallow the execution? For example, maybe it is not possible to replace only half of the services with open source alternatives, because Google policies with the phone manufacturers are "install all our apps and services with no alternative, or install none of our services". And Google engineered so many developer API on top of their services that they built a dependence to their services for everyone in the Android ecosystem.

I don't know if I'm right, but I can see how this could be more complicated than a simple technical argument "hey, just make your own alternatives".
Kudos for keeping JIRA up to date. As I PM I am fine with that. If devs just kept JIRA a little up to date then it saves me and them the hassle of checking in on the status of things, I can just look it up.
Would you please elaborate how someone took over your phone & sms? This is my nightmare..
Do Sacha Baron Cohen's Targets Have a Shot at Winning a Lawsuit?
I'll add another data point, from the consumer telecoms industry. 90% feels way too high from what we had to head with, even prior to implementing rate-limiting and other defences.

We ended up tracking actors as they switched up their techniques to evade us and our defences, and ended up learning a lot about credential stuffing, the tools involved and some of the motives behind them attacking lesser-known websites. We ended up blogging about our findings, should anyone else have to deal with this cat and mouse fun: https://breachinsider.com/blog/2017/credential-stuffing-how-...
Yeah, from what I can tell from chatter online, the anthropocene has been reported on and is assumed to be true, but has not been given an official designation yet.
> IIRC Unicode was intended to encode and represent text for writing systems.

Nonsensical garbage. The Arrows, Technical, Box Drawing, Block Elements, Geometric Shapes and Miscellaneous Symbols blocks were all part of Unicode 1.0.

> It seems a lot more sensible to actually send the picture you want to send, or a link to that picture, because that doesn't need to be interpreted differently by each client... just rendered.

1. Except now you need to design a way to design and render mixed content.

2. If that's your argument, why even have letters and fonts? Just send the right images.
Insurance companies have cleverly handed off administration of their crappy system to the facilities that do the work. Their systems often betray a lack of understanding of what is being done and it’s time consuming to work through. A quick search suggests that 15% of US healthcare costs are due to this - $350 billion. Pretty sure that this isn’t news to anyone.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4283267/
Agreed, strongly.

The Fermi problem is a speculative theory based on extrapolating human civilization's use of energy to stellar levels (various hypothetical civilization "types" etc). It's plausible life at the scale of earth could be common, based on the principle of our natural non-uniqueness. So the simplest explanation is the speculative extrapolation to stellar energy uses is wrong - human already are more destroying themselves with excess energy use than preparing for any next stage, just as one datum.
What most people think of “Android” has never been open source. Android has always been the unusable AOSP part + Google Play Services + proprietary binary drivers. Google has over the years abandoned much of the open source parts and created proprietary versions.

No one is saying that they want Android to become proprietary. There are plenty of open source projects supported by major corporations - Angular, React, NodeJS, WebKit, CUPS, Java, .Net Core, Swift, etc.

If a company only wants to license part of Google Play Services they should be able to pay for just that. If Android is so valuable, other companies should be willing to contribute to AOSP. How healthy is a piece of open source software if it completely dies once one corporate benefactor abandons it?

Would Java die the minute Oracle abandons it?
What exact threshold defines "dominance" in the EU, because I see iPhones everywhere I go in Europe. Monopoly has a clear definition - no competitors. "Dominance" seems like a much trickier proposition. Apple clearly has enough market share in Europe to offer clear alternatives to Android devices if consumers want them. It's not like it has 2% market share or something.
> But games change during development and, according to Lord, Star Citizen changed a lot. According to the game’s original pitch on Kickstarter, it would be a space sim with a co-op multiplayer game, an offline single-player experience, and a persistent universe. It’s since become a massively multiplayer online game and a separate single-player game with first-person shooter elements called Squadron 42, which RSI originally pitched as “A Wing Commander style single player mode, playable OFFLINE if you want.”

> Along with the game—which originally had a targeted release date of 2014—Lord was supposed to have received numerous bits of physical swag. “So aside from [the game], I'm supposed to get a spaceship USB drive, silver collector’s box, CDs, DVDs, spaceship blueprints, models of the spaceship, a hardback book,” he said. “That's the making of Star Citizen, which—if they end up making this game—might turn into an encyclopedia set.”

This is a clear breach of contract. He should work with a real lawyer and seek punitive damages. Changing what the product is shouldn't be allowed. Hopefully the lawyer includes Kickstarter in the suit, because they also should be able to step in when a product changes fundamentally from what its funders paid for.
That only works for declarative pipelines, not scripted ones, though.
Y Combinator to give $10K to 100 grads of its online Startup School
I second this! The reasoning behind the decision is spelled out in plain english. I encourage everyone to read the EU decision (takes ~3 min) and form your own opinion.

This passage is an example:

Market dominance is, as such, not illegal under EU antitrust rules. However,
dominant companies have a special responsibility not to abuse their powerful
market position by restricting competition, either in the market where they
are dominant or in separate markets.

Google has engaged in three separate types of practices, which all had the aim
of cementing Google's dominant position in general internet search.

1. Illegal tying of Google's search and browser apps.
2. Illegal payments conditional on exclusive pre-installation of Google Search.
3. Illegal obstruction of distribution of competing Android OS forks.
It didn't in this case either, it changed because a group of private platform vendors decided they agreed with the rationale one of the other vendors had for changing something.
Hey rahimnathwani. Sorry for the late reply. You are absolutely right, this is my fault. I should have explained the term "pipeline" a bit more. I will work on this!
Thousands of US voters' data exposed by robocall firm
Play Store makes the Android gears grind. Go with Ubuntu then. I do really want an OSS mobile OS. Android is close enough though.
I always save that TOTP Token or QR code in my seperate keepass database, so that if my Google Auth app breaks for any reason, I can install it fresh & re-scan those QRs from keepass.
Rooting isn't exactly using the system as designed. In a normal Android system /system is read only unless mounted otherwise (which only really happens during updates).

They even (ab)use this to make seamless updates by creating a second /system partition, writing the update to that, then swapping over on next restart. If something goes wrong, they swap back to the first system partition.

In this manner, the /system partition is NEVER written to outside of creation.

Rooting is literally sidestepping this entire process to take full control over the system and mount /system as writable. Sure, you could probably make a /recovery, /system, and /data all different partitions, but now you are roughly doubling the amount of system data on the disk for not much of a reason.
> annoyed by the people pointing out some change as inevitable.

I think that it's more white-collar people declaring axiomatically that all losses of blue-collar jobs are inevitable due to rising productivity (while productivity is falling), and simultaneously declaring that massive inefficiencies should be preserved to protect white-collar jobs.

If we're willing to forgo efficiency, of course all blue collar jobs could be preserved. The inevitability come from the fact that white-collar people get to choose in which areas of industry we should be efficient, and in which areas reducing inefficiencies is pointless.
Why wouldn't it keep on shaking? Energy doesn't go away. Things don't necessarily stop moving.

Again - the universe doesn't cool down to absolute zero. It's called "heat death" for a different reason.

You don't need anything quantum for this. Simple Newtonian mechanics seem enough.
NNs don't need much resources to run once trained. It's just a bunch of matrix multiplications.
I think the problem I have with perfectionism, is that in a fairly connected world of 7+ billion people, the people that get "acclaim" are truly some of the most talented/lucky/good people in the world.

You never see mediocrity anymore, everyone has curated Instagram and Facebook feeds of their best moments. If you do see it, it's the process of something like America's Got Talent where it's laughed at.

Dave Grohl of the Foo Fighters said it really well [0]. Everyone that we see doing almost anything online is really really good at it, so people get intimidated that they can't do what 8 year old prodigies are doing. There is such a gap between good and great that people are afraid of taking the time to make the jump since the other side feels so far away. It's ok to be bad at things, it's ok if your art or passion doesn't change the world. It's ok if you enjoy the journey and the destination isn't the top of the charts or a world championship in whatever.

[0] https://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/the-hot-button/dave-gro...
> let's talk about failures, unrecoverable ones.

Then why is spaceX at 93%? 2 unrecoverable failures in 59 campaigns equals 96.6% success.

All the competitors you listed have roots in government space programs going back many decades. Rockets tend to have a lot of "infant mortality" that those programs are way past.

Also, some of your claims are value/wrong: the Delta and Long March families are very large and very old and if you count the earliest attempts of governments to build ICBMs you get reliability figures worse than SpaceX.

Conversely the H-IIA, Delta 4, Atlas 5, Ariane 5 have fewer than 100 launches each.

Good data can be found here: http://www.spacelaunchreport.com/logsum.html
I never put my Jenkinsfile in the root. And it works just fine.

If I left it in the root, I wouldnt have to configure it... but I can live with that.
I read yaml for ansible like an ordered array.

It’s a namespace with the values you want inline, in my head

They’re INI files or .cfg to me

Not code

The code is the Python in Ansible, or Go in TF, that applies those values

Using config mgmt tools like they’re vanilla programming languages is weird.
Adding new stuff to Unicode should have a delay, 20-25 years from proposal to the standard (roughly a generation).

In the meantime it's possible to insert emoji into text as smiley, -smiley-, :) , smiley.jpg, ::smiley:: or whatever you want and the system you use is free to change it into a picture.

We end up with standard that is full of ancient symbols from 2000-2025 and new generations of people will abandon them for something else when the culture changes.

Emoji from 80s:

________
/ "Ship Arriving Too Late to
/ Save a Drowning Witch"
/ /\ F. Zappa
Are you sure its not Millennials but instead your expectations? Perhaps they are at their desks wondering why you are so commited to low value details.
in simple words: Google got fined for the same reason Microsoft got fined many years ago when then enforced Internet Explorer on Windows.
I did test this out with my hands with the the gel is fairly thick and I couldn't feel ties in the middle, even without the encasement. Haven't had any issues thusfar, and the ties are on the bottom.
Hey empath75. Sorry for the late reply. We also discussed this (https://github.com/gaia-pipeline/gaia/issues/19) and you are right. We will switch soon to a dependency system instead of a priority system. :-)
Exactly that's why I have disabled my Google email recovery via phone number. Only possibilities are Auth via an existing signed-in device, Google Auth, or backup codes.
Fair point - it can be really hard to get in with a psych. I'd talk to your PCP and see if they can get you a referral at least.
> Your average citizen gains nothing from adopting a currency that is highly volatile, concentrated in the hands of a few, and awful at completing everyday transactions.

Maybe, but those problems are not necessarily permanent, and it can be valuable without targeting the "average citizen." As a counterpoint to your "gains nothing" view, many "average citizens" used bitcoin for transactions in the early days, only to find out that holding some of their currency in bitcoin made them rich, so they did gain something. Even if that is only a small possibility, the possibility is still there.
Thanks for the replies. Despite the incessant whining that can happen on HN, I assure you that there's many here who appreciate the response. I'm sure it was a big deal for your team.

While you're right people will want an actual plan on how things are going to change, they also want a genuine expression of contrition. As hguhghuff noted, deleting someone's business is a serious, serious issue.

The _only_ admissions of guilt or wrongdoing was were these lines:

"Here’s what we are doing to be as good as our word, and provide a more careful, accurate, thoughtful and empathetic account management experience for our GCP customers."

"We sincerely apologize to all our customers who’ve been concerned or had to go through a service reinstatement. Please keep the feedback coming, we’ll work to continue to earn your trust every day."

Which, if you yourself were scared that your livelihood could be wiped away, would you think that was a sufficient apology?

It doesn't help that Google tends to lack a human touch when it comes to its image. But here, now, you all have an opportunity to change that. I know it sounds "politics" or "public relations" or whatever, but all we need to know is that you fully understand the fear GCP customers felt and what that means for us.
Administrative = bureaucratic.

Government-run healthcare has the same problems associated with heavily regulated sectors like our current healthcare system, but to a much larger degree because of lack of incentives to improve performance.

The way to decrease cost is decrease regulation and get rid of all the unnecessary paper pushers we have right now.
Ooh, yes, that one must have been embarrassing indeed :-)

"Préservatif" is such a weird euphemism.
I have no idea why, as I write this, the parent is greying out. It's the only reasonable comment on the article as I write this.

I know you're really not supposed to tell people they need to read the article on HN, but the paper underlying the article may be the least understood primary source I've ever seen posted to Hacker News. (This beats out the previous record holder, monad tutorials based around an actively incorrect metaphor.) This is not just a standard reiteration of the Fermi Paradox with somebody's new numbers pulled out of the air. It is a legitimately interesting analysis of the problem as a whole.

Read the article and/or the underlying paper, carefully, before just reciting the Standard Cant Against the Fermi Paradox, OK? (And downvoting the only person giving a decent explanation of it.) The Standard Cant is encompassed and superseded by the paper in question, with mathematics.
That table doesn't show success/failures...