skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You make a strong point, but I would argue there's more subtlety than you acknowledge. At least there are other metaphors that might shed light on the idea of agency.

For one, there's the coach of a team sport. We don't say that the coach played the game, but we do credit them with being a vital part of the team's success or failure. These artists seem more like coaches than CEOs to me.

One big difference between artists and both CEOs and coaches is that the products of an artists are standalone, enduring (except for some new media works) pieces. And I think that difference makes artists and the analysis of a technician in the production of any piece a somewhat unique situation.
What I really dislike is Netflix's decision to play, with sound, movie clips as I browse. At the very least, they should provide an option to disable this bad feature.
> I tend to write publicly facing APIs so this conversation is colored a little by that

Out of curiosity, how do you secure your public-facing APIs and how do you authenticate/rate-limit users?
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Okay that's interesting. Wouldn't expect most of those homes to be primary residences, but rather vacation homes. I wonder if those count too.
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Is anyone else struggling to feel sorry for these high achieving graduate students because they, what, feel bad sometimes?

> ‘Even exercise doesn’t sound like a total escape for Tom Nicol: he is training to beat his dad’s personal best mile time.’

Oh wow, training to beat another runner's time. What pathos, what suffering! Give me a break.
Some people think, because python is not fully embracing functional programming, it must fear it. Because anything less than 100% functional is not good enough. Namly the limited lambdas are always brought as a reason.
If it's that easy, why take anyone to trial? Why not let the government say whether someone is a murderer, or a thief, or a drug dealer, skip out the court, and execute them straight away?

If you haven't given him a fair trial, you haven't proved he is a terrorist.
Complete nonsense.
Yeah... he should've hashed it out in a complete blog post since its very hard to appreciate the thought process
> The most important point, though, is that you don't know whether the hypothesis that Go wouldn't benefit from generational GC is true until you test it. Nobody has tested it.

I agree. But you would probably agree it would be a fairly difficult endeavour to test your hypothesis? To make a fair comparison, we'd need to implement an alternative version of the Go compiler and runtime, replacing the current GC with a copying generational GC, with a similar multi-year effort in optimizing and refining it.
Kubernetes DNS and TLS automation
The conferences I pay attention to are the conferences that are in areas I'm pretty weak in because all of the concepts are ill-defined in my mind so I need to work to understand the overall point of the talk.

For topics I'm familiar with, however, I find most talks too simple so I might as well get work done while vaguely listening. Ideally the talk would get more complex, but it usually doesn't.
the "car part" is the human error part. also less accountability for the manufacturer.
You're only one character away from FLAG1 || FLAG2.
These lot seem sweet and charming:

http://twincitiesgeek.com/2017/07/24-romance-novels-for-geek...
In counterpoint: please look at Last-Modified headers.
> today it can often be done with no civilian casualties.

Having read TFA, this claim is laughable.
While it's certainly true of quite a few academic texts, I've read quite a lot for which it's not the case. I don't think it's mandatory, particularly for jury approval, rather just a quirk of many academic individuals.

Moreover, this is blog post and comments on a blog post: academic juries aren't the intended audience.
Actual movies of phage infection will soon be visualized using Cryo-EM resolution techniques ;)
I think it's worth stepping back and asking the question of why the US is involved in the conflict there in the first place? And to what extent the US is really threatened by people on the other side of the planet?
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Not really. Each of those PDFs has a different intent and thus a different amount of metadata embedded it in.
Hollywood played a part in the pre-silicon valley days, although I don't know how much that contributed relative to agriculture/trade.
The name is a little misleading in that regard. GraphQL has mutations that tell the server to change data rather than just return a query.
> Why create your own custom error protocol when you can use HTTP error codes?

Because HTTP error codes are fixed and have well-defined meanings for HTTP that may not map well to your application. Repurposing HTTP error codes conflates your application-specific errors unless it maps to an exact subset of one of the predefined errors.

> Why create your own authentication mechanism when you can use HTTP authentication over TLS (or client certificates, or etc.)?

Do you have a client cert? I've never encountered any server that supports client certs in my entire 15-year career. Also, TLS is not a part of HTTP and HTTP only supported Basic Auth until fairly recently.
Obviously sat-nav guided systems should not rely on unprotected satellite navigation alone. You need complementary systems.

EU's GNSS has PRS (Public Regulated Service) is authenticated and can be used in sensitive applications for civilian uses. US has GPS modes that are protected but they seem to be only for military.

There is also Wide Area Augmentation System (WAAS) and European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service (EGNOS). They augment GPS/Golnass and Galileo and provide integrity and more accuracy.

Typically new sat-nav systems have multi-constellation capability and they can receive from from GPS/GNSS/Golnass. Even new smartphones have that capability. Of course, if all of them are unprotected, you can spoof them all parallel.
There has been some pushback on the inclusion of common functional idioms in Python, though. For example, GvR has expressed regret about allowing map, filter, etc. into Python, on the grounds that comprehensions are a more Pythonic way to accomplish most of the same stuff.
Two years ago my wife (25 weeks pregnant with twins) was admitted to the hospital because of some concerning ultrasound findings for one of the twins they wanted to monitor closely. Two months later they were delivered by c-section, both healthy but very small (3 lb 14oz, and 1 lb 13oz). The bigger one spent ~3 weeks in the NICU and the smaller one ~7 weeks.

All told it was ~18 weeks of hospitalization (the only major procedure was the c-section, and obviously the NICU care is a little more intensive than average, but neither of the twins needed super high acuity care). Total bill was a bit over a million dollars. We were out of pocket ~$5k (our annual out of pocket max at the time).
> the simultaneous presentation of information and controls such that the information becomes the affordance through which the user (or automaton) obtains choices and selects actions

What's unclear or abstract about that? To choose an action, the agent must know what actions are available and how to call them. Whatever presents that information to the agent is the affordance. Fielding says that in hyptertext, you get that as part of the actual content as opposed to via documentation or some other channel.

> I challenge anyone to transform something as simple as "hypertext is text with links to other text in it" into a more convoluted and unnecessarily abstracted definition as the above.

Because that's not what it is, in general. See Xanadu for an example of vastly more general kinds of linkages than references.
It’s a QL in the sense that it accepts a client specified schema, that looks how the client wants the data to be returned.

How does it mutate then? SQL can mutate, I’m not sure why this would be any different. Basically, like SQL’s UPDATE, and INSERT, GQL can have “methods” associated with parts of the schema.
Images of the hook and the package attachment have been released at other points.

Its an egg-shaped attachment; so there is natural force to push off a matching egg shaped hook (but the overall hook is too large to pass through the hole again)

Clear to see in these youtube videos; the CAD shot of the interface in the body of the craft gives you a clear idea of the shape so it only fits one way.

https://youtu.be/BYMLZ2_6d4o?t=1m59s
https://youtu.be/XqLkMdwEWRc?t=1m25s
This video literally made my morning. If anyone deserves a successful recovery it's Simone. I admire her authenticity and humor, even in the face of something as terrifying as brain surgery. Hopefully when she's feeling up to it we'll be entertained again by shitty robots again :)
In my experience as a lay minister, I've generally seen an inverse relationship between contributions (time/effort/involvement, not just financial) and support needs, though there are definitely exceptions.

It may be that the involvement strengthens resilience or strengthens the support network, or an inverted cause and effect, etc.
Mostly, NOTE: I'm using python/django/graphene server side and apollo client side.

I love how flexible it is for client developers and because the great client side libraries it helps to eliminate a ton of boiler plate code on the client side.

My biggest complaint has been "lost" exceptions and caching.

Because it's possible for an exception to be thrown server side on one field while the other ones succeed I've been plagued with hard to monitor/find errors. I ended up writing a shim to parse the response in an attempt to get more insight into #errors / fields (this has also been really helpful for monitoring slow queries in new relic since all requests go to the same endpoint which breaks a ton of APM monitoring).

My other issue has been around caching, in apollo there are ways to say "don't use the cache for this request", but it's not to give an object a cache ttl. My app allows users to search for events that are happening near them right now, and I've run into several issues where apollo decided that an event from yesterday should be added to a result. It happened frequently enough even with queries that included times as an argument that I ended up basically implementing a "middleware" between what apollo gives back and the component, which felt really ugly.
The value of art today (and since the rise of avant-gardism) is highly contingent on context, the positioning of an object/gesture/operation within x context.

This article is essentially addressing the classic 'art vs. craft' question. From the perspective of art history, the technician, here, is not understood as the artist. She is understood as a skilled laborer who will be properly remunerated upon completion of her work (regardless if the work sells).

The other individual is understood to be the artist because it is she who 1) had the initial will/reason to make the work, 2) conceived of the idea and the object-form that this idea would take, 3) will assume risk for the work even if it 'fails,' and it is through _her_ history of production (and not that of the technician's) that the work will be valued and possibly historicized.

The canonical reference for the 'art vs. craft' question is Duchamp, who in 1914 presented his "Bottle Rack" as his art (an industrially produced rack for drying bottles) and later his famed "Fountain" (an upside down porcelain urinal) deeming them "ready-mades."

A more recent example can be found in the work of Jeff Koons. See this conference from 2008 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mbnWJNUtEc "The Koons Effect: Fabrication: Between Technology and Craft"
I agree with you completely. But it's not like criminal justice resources aren't being utilized in addition to drone operations. And I think the question of how to fight armed combatants in remote areas of the world is a real moral gray area (really: how many people should die to apprehend someone committing crimes of this type in a remote area of the world? The law enforcement/military people that would do this are 3-dimensional and their lives count).
You could say this about any legacy network. Like the mobile phone network. The designers just didn't think about it/it was expensive/it's expensive to fix/there's legacy hardware.
Manuals and texts on humanities may perfectly have paragraphs with more than 500 words. So, at 250.000 (n^2) it may take quite a while.
Gangrene isn't an infection [0] tuberculosis (consumption) is caused by a virus and isn't cured by antibiotics.[1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gangrene

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuberculosis#Prevention
> he sort of was a terrorist though?

So what? Even terrorists have a right to a fair trial, and protection from arbitrary detention.
I think the exponenciality of the growth there shouldn't underestimated. Kill one innocent person; disillusion dozens of people.
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so you're saying because the current legal framework doesn't allow you to randomly start military actions in other countries' territory without their consent, that the legal framework is wrong?

Maybe as a thought experiment, try applying similar logic the other way around: should any other country have gotten involved in e.g. the Ferguson situation? If so, would that be considered an act of war by the US?
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I’ve never worried so much about someone I never actually met. The time after her surgery without updates on her twitter account was hard and it’s funny to see that a lot of people felt that way (if you read the tweets from that time you’ll see what I am talking about).

It is great to see her doing so well. Medicine has come a long way... the bills not so much.
Totally agree, I can't even see why they would want to play that clip upfront anyway. If I stop at a series and I'm reading the description, this will only make me want to jump right next to another title.
(Thread) Heuristics for deciding on meetings. Please feel free to add yours / challenge mine.

1. If you wouldn’t do it right now, say no.

2. Say no to everything outside of work hours you wouldn’t call your partner and bail on dinner for.

3. Say no to all recurring meetings with the exception of ones from your boss if you have one. Tell people you’ll opt-in on a per-agenda basis.

4. Cut all meetings in 1/2

5. If you’re in a meeting and it’s clearly pointless, politely excuse yourself.

6. Keep an internal calculation of what your time is worth. Raise this every year.

7. If you're going for the drink, don't go.

8. If you're the smartest person in the room, you're in the wrong meeting.

9. Even if you can't get out of a meeting, rather than sit there an be bored or make a grocery list, become a detective and see what you can learn from/about everyone else in the meeting.

10. If everyone is on their phone or laptop at the meeting, leave. The decision has already been made.

11. If you're talking to signal how smart you are just shut up.

12. If you're going to "add value" to someone else's idea, just skip the meeting. That type of stuff is best-done one-on-one and not in a group setting where you reduce the motivation of the other person. (See signally how smart you are (11) and shut up.)
Even as the gap between the rich and everyone else widens, the quality of life for the bottom 99 percent has vastly changed since 1928.

This makes me wonder how much people care. In a global economy where the 1% are investing in markets that can reach billions of people, extreme poverty on a global scale was sliced in half in a 30 year period, and supply chains allow us to have super computers and unlimited entertainment for tiny fractions of the median wage, you can expect a lot of inequality, but life is way better for everyone in the world since 1928.

Inequality is only a problem in so much that it leads to higher crime rates and (eventually) civil instability in places where its most apparent. We haven't seen much of that (yet), but don't stop looking for it.
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Jackson Hole had an awesome cameo on HBO's Silicon Valley, to give you an idea:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmOd27UwTsg
For me it’s more that I’ve accepted it’s hopeless.

Like gun control the issue has reached a stable equilibrium of political stupidity and I don’t see how it could change in the current climate.
so that no device under any circumstances can be spoofed. what kind of risk is there in crafted signatures if right now you're 100% vulnerable to spoofing without any effort required to produce said signatures?
Interpol – who controls the world police?
Who is and is not a terrorist is very fluid.

I try very hard to not use hyperbolic, overly-passionate political rhetoric, and maybe I'm making a mistake this time, but I can't help but say:

Your mentality is what enables fascism, despotism, genocide, and gross in-humanity.
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People with perfectly healthy immune systems often require medical intervention to help them fight off disease too, sorry to say.
I assume it's because of this...

Zen of Python: There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it.
Sure. But but those other topics get flagged immediately, and I could make a case they are equally connected. Migrant family separation could be solved by quick genetic testing/facial recognition. The Russian 2016 election story is a tech story. And the current research on the nature of extremism is an addiction story, and the nature of the coordination of those groups (cryptocurrency, tor) and some work against them (NLP, AI driven social campaigns) is just as related.

edit: I'm 100% opposed to migrant family separation and think it's vile. I'm talking about how to reunite those families.
Oh that's only one guy, there are many many more that have been held in Guantanamo without trial or chance at recourse. Quite a few innocent ones too.
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Thanks. That helps!
We had to bomb the preschool to save it [0] [1].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%E1%BA%BFn_Tre

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Arnett
Exactly, the word "terrorist" is just another example of linguistic gamesmanship. The Gubment doesn't get to recast accusations of murder as accusations of "terrorism" just so they can circumvent the Constitution and Bill of Rights.
Google hit with €4.3bn Android fine from EU
tech is just tech, used as a tool by both the forces of good and of evil
It's worse than that: "63% Of Americans Don't Have Enough Savings To Cover A $500 Emergency"

https://www.forbes.com/sites/maggiemcgrath/2016/01/06/63-of-...
I was going to say "GPS predates signing", but it turns out that the first GPS launch and the invention of RSA signing were in the same year: 1978. Of course the signing technology was also considered to be subject to US export control for decades ...

Besides, signing doesn't necessarily help - the easiest way to GPS spoof is simply to re-broadcast the signals received at a nearby point at higher power, so the victim receiver thinks it's at that point.

There is recent work on doing this: https://web.stanford.edu/group/scpnt/gpslab/pubs/papers/Lo_I...
I am pretty sure we do have Stockholm syndrome to some extent. Depending on your situation you can try to min/max the health insurance available to you to fit your needs.

Those who are fortunate to have good benefits are also usually able to set aside money for medical expenses. On the opposite side of things you end up having people with poor to no insurance with medical bills of more then they can afford to ever pay.
Not broken. Working as intended.
This is an interesting perspective. Thank you.

> The cost of not cutting the line is proportional to the number of participants.

But if people en masse don't cut in line, there's no cost at any scale, right? Imagine a culture where no one cuts in line. Then you don't lose by not cutting in line.
well if the hardware is advanced enough to do encryption, it is certainly is capable of producing signatures. are GPS satellites not upgradeable? maybe they didn't think about it 40 years ago, but in the last decade - it's about time..
Microsoft used to threaten PC manufacturers that bundled any other OS other than Windows or no OS at all. They claimed that not bundling an OS was the express purpose of installing a pirated copy of Windows.
OK. What specifically don't you understand? Leonardo being the most famous and still using craftspeople was my point.
Until AJAX happened around 2005, GET and POST were the only verbs you could actually use in a browser. Before then, REST was not a really a thing. It used to be that semantics of HTTP verbs had meaning in the context of e.g. caching and other middleware. But now that everybody uses TLS, having caching proxies acting as middlemen and interpreting http messages is not that common any more.

REST was a nice idea when it got (re)invented about ten years after Fielding's thesis but it left too much open for debate, ambiguity, and nitpicking and quickly degenerated in different opinionated camps trying to retrofit new ideas to the existing practices around http, which mainly boiled down to interesting ways to do RPC.

Before HTTP, people were already long doing RPC using e.g. DCOM, CORBA,RMI, etc. Reinveinting RPC over X has been the fate of pretty much every way we've come up with to make two computers talk to each other.
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What is this "operating asymetrically"? And how exactly does that justify anything?

Seems like I can say US is opperating asymmetrically, so it's ok to kill all US citizens (or at least people who voluntarilly became US citizens). And it will have just as much validity. Like none...
> Sorry, we can't show Star Wars: The Last Jedi

And the vast majority of people have stopped reading.

As a matter of fact, they didn't even begin reading. Because they looked up showtimes for what they wanted to see elsewhere and went to a theater that is showing what they want to see.

Here's the deep, dark secret you are ignoring: No one cares. And that's why the studios can pull these tactics. They have the product that people want. If a theater doesn't show it, the customer will just go to a theater that does. They don't want to see "a movie", they want to see "The Last Jedi".
Very cool idea. I'm looking forward to more live streams.
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If the "Ferguson situation" involved collaborators seeking to secede a section of the US/overthrow of US gov't and had a proven history of using mass casualty tactics to achieve it and the US government had asked for that countries help and had approved those tactics? ... Then no, that would not be considered an act of war.
People who don't think the way you do are online trolls.
That was the city of Philadelphia, not the US military. Also, it was generally recognized as a completely unacceptable action. Don't try to pretend like that's evidence of some sort of ongoing US-military-bombing-US-citizens-on-US-soil, it's not.
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Nonsense. There are four bug reports at the bottom of the article; all seem to have been accepted as bugs and one has already been fixed.
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Honestly I think he would do a good job, but I am certain that the Python community would never accept him as BDFL.

First, he's a straight white male, which is problematic for a significant subset. Second, he has been very opinionated on certain sore spots, such as the GIL.