skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Based on all the reflexively negative comments I’ll assume that most the participants in this thread write SQL for a living. Notwithstanding certain ridiculous assertions on the part of the author attempting to correlate the value of a technology with the year in which it was created this seems like a pretty compelling idea. We use InfluxDB at my company to manage time series data and it’s specialization for that use case has been a big benefit. I don’t see any reason to be dismissive by default of a language designed for interacting with data having these specific characteristics in a manner explicitly suited to it.
How the fuck is Mueller and his team going to lie

The comment you are replying to specifically says that they didn't lie, and didn't have to. This and your other comments seem to imply that you have some sort of angry agenda here. I'm new to commenting here, but I've been lurking for a long time and your goals here seem to be in conflict with the spirit of HN. One person pointed out some facts that you seem to not like, and you basically screamed and didn't even read the comment you were replying to.

Personally, I don't like Trump. But you cannot deny that none of the people in this indictment face any risk of being arrested, which means the allegations in this specific indictment will never be challenged or proven.
You just need to buy a $1M house in Wallingford or Ballard, it's as easy as that.
> That shows that your understanding of this whole process may not be what it needs to be to make the arguments you are making.

You don't even know that judges preside over grand jury proceedings. That's, like, the most fundamental aspect of the entire legal system: there is a judge deciding things.

You have no business criticizing someone's understanding of the judicial system.
It's amazing how good it looks and yet is so cheap.
Apart from the display and Face ID, I wonder how much it would cost to source used iPhone parts, perhaps even older version (iPhone 6 etc) and build out the internals for this phone.

Also, I'm curious, but if anyone has any insight, is this even profitable at $100 for them or is there a some sort of loss leading play for data behind such counterfeits.
A related read that gets posted on HN every once in a while:

https://petertodd.org/2016/cypherpunk-desert-bus-zcash-trust...
Binance’s First Year in Review
You talk tough but I don't think your understanding of the problem space warrants that tone. Doing research & development is not something that involves lying to investors. Investors love new products. That is how they make money by investing.

Consider the project mentioned in the article. Sure, it will cost millions of dollars to develop. But OSes are in high demand, existing OSes have quite a few sore points, and plenty of people have made money selling operating systems or devices that need a custom operating system (MS/DOS, Windows, iOS, etc.) So it is not categorically insane from a business or engineering perspective to say "hey, we're going to invest in the development of a new operating system that will change the world."

On the other hand, maybe all the OS world needs are some patches on top of Linux to smooth over the rough spots.

People that see the project the first way will say they're working on a "moonshot". People that see the project the second way will say they're working on a "senior engineer retention project."

Any big company will likely want to hedge its bets, and indeed... apparently Google has people working on a new OS, and they obviously have people patching the Linux kernel (Android). No matter which approach ends up being correct, Google makes money. I don't think the investors are going to be filing many criminal charges against the board.

Back to the retention aspect, remember what the downside is in this scenario. The people that want to build their own OS to change the world or whatever just leave and go do it. They have money and can probably rope in some investors. If they end up being right about the approach... there is no more Android and that means no more Google ads on mobile phones, no more location history, no more searches... etc. That is quite a downside for Google. So even though the project is "this seems crazy, but we don't want these people to quit", it's 100% the right financial decision.

I think the shareholders can appreciate that.

That said, as an employee... this was all a little too much for me when I was at Google. No matter what you worked on, there was always a competing project with twice as much headcount and 1/10th the users. You would have a meeting with them along the lines of "hey, this thing you're assembling a 30 person team for... my team already made and it's in production and working." They would be like "nah, our use case is slightly different and rather than editing 1 line of code and getting no promotion, I'd like to build a HUGE team and put an EZ promotion packet together." Not for me.
>During former FBI director James Comey’s testimony to the House Intelligence Committee, Comey was asked whether the FBI had ever received the DNC’s hacked hardware.

>He said they did not, but obtained access from a review of the system performed by CrowdStrike, a third-party cybersecurity firm.

>"We got the forensics from the pros that they hired which -- again, best practice is always to get access to the machines themselves, but this, my folks tell me, was an appropriate substitute," Comey said.

>DNC spokeswoman Adrienne Watson told PolitiFact that the DNC cooperated with the FBI’s requests, which resulted in the DNC providing a copy of their server.

>"An image of a server is the best thing to use in an investigation so that your exploration of the server does not change the evidence (just like you don’t want investigators leaving their own DNA around a physical crime scene) and so that the bad actors cannot make changes to the evidence while you are looking at it," Watson said. "Any suggestion that they were denied access to what they wanted for their investigation is completely incorrect."

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2018/jul/...
I'm torn. I hate driving to work but, living in Colorado, I can't imagine not having a car to drive up to the mountains. Ideally, I could use public transit for getting around in town and just use my car when I need to either transport things or leave the city. Unfortunately, the closest light rail stations to my home and work are about 1 and 2 miles respectively--a long walk. I've recently considered the combination of riding a bike and taking the light rail though.
Because you are demeaning yourself as a professional. Rate should be tied to the value of the work.

To put it another way, would you want to work with someone who values your abilities to be equivalent to a guy making French fries?
Grand juries indict people, not judges.
Peel makes me happy, Python makes me want to go to sleep.
IMHO what makes or breaks a paradigm like REST or GraphQL in real-life is the state of tooling made by third-parties to enable its adoption in the workplace or personal projects.

Working in Python-land I'm pretty confident REST wouldn't have been as ubiquitous if it wasn't for tools like Flask, marshmallow, and the myriad of other tools.

Having taken up GraphQL in personal projects I can say that at least in Python the tooling just ain't there so until it gets there I don't see GraphQL killing anything.
The post doesn't mention datalog, but Dedalus/Bloom[1] makes a good case for why datalog is a good starting point for a data query language.

1. https://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2009/EECS-2009-...

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2Aa4PivG0g&t=2295s
https://aws.amazon.com/documentation/ is a good start, but as they have so many services, it's hard to get a proper overview about all features.
Being forced onto a schedule dictated by your kids is a choice parents make, not a necessity.

I never said I didn't have a car when needed, just that my day to day is much more enriched by not needing one (and being forced to get out of the house).

I will always choose to spend my time exploring the mountains with my kids, but if they choose soccer/baseball/etc then its just medium walk or short bus ride away.
hearing about these kinds of experiences makes me wonder if we have already reached peak Amazon
If you exceed your SLO, people think your service is more reliable than it is.

When you have your infrequent but expected failures, they are caught by surprise unless you normalize your SLO burn.
Wow,

Designed in Figma. Built in Code. Open sourced on GitHub.

Code and GitHub is now Microsoft's, I wonder Figma would be acquired too, Figma is a great software and really useful for me who doesn't have a Mac.
Sure, I agree with you on all counts. My point was more that the poster I was replying to either has 1) something not in the indictment 2) some non-yet-public information, or 3) has made something up. I thought it might be 3, but wanted to extend the benefit of the doubt.
Unfortunately, the conclusions that the article draws in "What does the new release train mean to my company?" are wrong.

Starting with Java 11, Oracle JDK is no longer free for commercial use, not even for a single day. However, as long as people are OK with GPL v2 + Classpath Exception (which is more permissive than it sounds) and don't need support from Oracle, they can just move to OpenJDK, which is built from the exact same codebase.

Shoutout to https://adoptopenjdk.net, which plans to provide LTS releases of OpenJDK. I believe this will be crucial for a healthy Java ecosystem.
IMHO, it is too soon for Python 4.
Doesn't Apple's map require a developer account which costs money? I haven't used them, but I seem to remember you have to pay to develop using Apple products.
I'm a former pentester. I used to do this kind of work for a living. Secondly, the Snowden leaks were one of the most important events in modern history, and you're on here using them as a cheap way to push your own agenda. Thirdly, RMS hasn't been an active emacs developer for quite awhile, but you're still trying to criticize him.

To bring this back to the topic at hand: npm as an ecosystem is far more vulnerable than the points you mention. It's worth considering why people do not routinely pwn those who use npm. The fact that you are vulnerable does not mean it's a good idea to try to throw an entire ecosystem under the bus.
How much does the developer account cost?
Recently ran into an issue with a provider's CSV export of their data not quoting some of their text fields. It was a minor annoyance in that the data in the text field was user input where the user used commas. Importing in Excel then had the columns mangled by the extra commas.

I then made the comment to sign in using Bobby Drop Tables for a user name. The silence in the room quickly reminded me I was not in the company of other developers. Such a waste
When I last looked at this, using Google Maps tiles with Leaflet was against the ToS.
I personally love driving - but I work from home. Nothing makes me happier than remote starting my F150 and hearing its V8 roar from inside the house through several walls/doors.

Have kids? When your kid spikes a fever at 1am and you have no car and you need to go buy some children’s ibuprofen, what are you going to do? I can run to my local 24/7 grocer or Walmart and be back in 10 minutes flat.

My son had a bad reaction to a doctor prescribed medicine and had a seizure early one morning. We were at the hospital in 15 minutes thanks to the modern automobile. We don’t live in a city because we consciously chose the suburbs. I grew up in a walkable city and getting my first car was still one of the highlights of my youth.

Now my kids play soccer and they practice and play 4 days/week all over the local area. Good luck doing that without a car.

The freedom/flexibility a car provides us as individuals is unprecedented in human history. You can drive from NY to LA in 41 hours and you are on your own schedule.

For the folks that don’t like driving, you have plenty of cities to choose from where that’s doable. That’s the beauty of modern society - the choice is yours and we don’t have to judge/demonize one another’s choices.
That does look really interesting. I'm watching a lot on filmstruck through which also has the criterion collection. Kanopy looks very similar to that but seems to have more new movies. When my annual filmstruck subscription expiries I might switch.
What I'm really missing is more cinema options though. On streaming I have more than I can watch. Especially with mubi that always seems to have something interesting that will expire soon.
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How often do you drive to the mountains though? Even if it’s once a week, there are cheaper options than owning a car - options which may also end up being more convenient if you take into account no longer needing a parking spot.
Yeah, this 30 years old code-base.. besides it is questionable only dev's below 30yr old are working on it (age discrimination, or accidental?), hardly anything changed. If I want to copy something I still have to do the ancient mark and copy sequence from the right click menu! What are they working on then? Still fixing bugs?
Seattle is a city of neighborhoods. Move a few block away and the experience would be completely different.

With that said, you visited what I would consider some of the worst places in the city to spend time with kids.
Grand juries follow the instructions of the judge presiding over the proceedings.
That doesn't make any sense because it's worst when sleeping on your back. Sleeping on your side helps keep your airway clear. (The problem is that people often don't stay on their side.)
This reminds me what I learned about secrets as a child: the only way to keep a secret is to not share it.
What's my agenda exactly and why do you think I'm criticizing RMS? Is that quote my words? And what does being a former pentester have to do with anything you said? Which ecosystem am I throwing under the bus?
Powershell. All of these shortcomings were fixed in it. Currently its also supported in Windows/*nix
You've just described most people's career plans.
I grew up in manhattan, and I really just think this is a situation of people wanting something different than what they previously had. The ability to drive instead of being jam packed on highly congested trains was something that I enjoyed when living in other cities, traffic does suck, but at least you're in a temperature controlled place where you can control the radio and what not. Additionally, point to point transportation is nice as well.

Over time, what I've come to appreciate the most is the middle ground, something that is incredibly rare but does exist within pockets of larger cities and that's the ability to easily choose between walking, taking public transit, biking or driving to really any destination. All of the big cities in the pacific northwest (portland, seattle, vancouver) do this well, in addition to areas outside of the city centers in the north east as well as some of the first ring suburbs.
Me right now. But for me I just moved from San Francisco to Southern California. The amount of time I have to spend just moving myself about is insane. People talk about how expensive SF is, but I didn’t have to spend 15 hours a week just moving myself around to work and back, grocery store, misc errands, etc. Between the cost of my time and the car I’m spending $3,000/mo just to be miserable. It sucks. Can’t wait to get rid of this thing.
Yeah, but if a driverless car does something stupid, people want an exact diagnosis ("sensor X failed", "the vision algorithm misidentified Ms. Whatsit as a paper bag due to a bug on line 714", etc.) whereas a human driver can say "I thought they were going to brake" and we just accept that that's why the person did it.
> 2. The former tech director of the NSA, William Binney etc

It's interesting, this is the second time I've seen this talking point in two days. The first one linked to a slightly less blog-ish source, and pointed out that this "fact" had been established in _The Nation_, a reasonably well-respected and left-sympathetic newspaper.

Here's the article in The Nation:

https://www.thenation.com/article/a-new-report-raises-big-qu...

It now has a gigantic disclosure in front of it which takes most of the weight of the "findings" away.
> It's precisely because I have kids that I prioritize a walkable place. Because kids can't drive!

This point is tragically under-appreciated. Kids who live in car-dependent suburbs are in a very real sense alienated from the larger society. A twelve-year-old should be able to visit the library, stop by the park, grab a sandwich at a lunch counter, mail a letter, and wander back home all by themselves in an afternoon.

It's no wonder so many kids feel isolated and alone. They are!
PowerShell is a shell, thus a console application, buy not the console. So it's just the settings of the console window if you observe any differences. The PowerShell shortcut on the start menu may have different settings from the command prompt shortcut.
I love Powershell, but it still uses the exact same ConHost as cmd and command.com before it. When scripting PS this is a non-issue, but using it interactively remains painful.
They’re not traced until someone wants to do something with them that then makes them traceable (along with many related accounts). Is owning an “asset” useful if you can’t do anything with it? At that point when someone:

1. Converts to Fiat
2. Buys/Ships something online
3. Transfers to an exchange

It’s now fairly visible to entities keeping a close eye (governments).
Modern Microsoft... God you guys are falling so much for PR it's not even funny.

It's the same company with another coat of paint, designed to get you to react exactly how you are reacting now. And you don't even realize.
No, the roads are subsidized by those who pay for them. There is a right to use them for business purposes, unlike private map services.
And then the grand jury, completely independent of any judge, makes a decision as to whether or not to indict. Your argument is like saying the referees decide who wins the Super Bowl.
> As someone who went from working a 5-day week to a 4-day week, I feel like a 4-day week is a 'sweet spot' - I'm just as productive as I was working a 5-day week, but when I work any less than 30 hours a week (e.g. when I take a day off), my productivity always goes down.

Perhaps - but I suspect it depends on the person and the details of both job and workplace.

I spent about 6 years working a 3-day, and it went really well. However, it was more vulnerable to constant-cost outside factors like "unneeded meetings".
http://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/346468-why-the-lates...

Your point two is is based on an embarrassingly incorrect assumption.
I'm not sure about Europe and America but where I live (Australia) living in the city is ridiculously expensive (Sydney routinely ranks as one of the highest cost of living cities in the world).

When I was growing up I lived in the suburbs, I hated it so far from everything, very infrequent public transport (lucky to get one bus an hour). Maybe worst of all as a young geek poor internet speed. I was stuck on dial up for years because it was all we had...

I vowed when I left my parent's home I'd live closer to the city. But it is just so expensive (especially rent) there is no way I can justify it. So I suffer through all the long commutes, traffic congestion hell etc.
> When your kid spikes a fever at 1am and you have no car and you need to go buy some children’s ibuprofen, what are you going to do?

I could hit 3 bodegas from my front steps with a rock. I don't need to start a truck to get Ibuprofen.
Egmde: a project that uses Mir
http://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/346468-why-the-lates...

"In the end, Fidelis, FireEye, SecureWorks, Threat Connect and other CrowdStrike competitors all confirmed Crowdstike’s results."
"Let the past die. Kill it if you have to."

Why can't people be excited by something from Microsoft?
Flow Meter
Why? What has Steam done that makes it so bad?
You're ignoring all the contacts with Russia by Trump campaign figures, their deceptions about those contacts, etc.
Could you point to this supposed behavior? Price and quality are, in themselves, not anticompetitive.
No it is not equal because the former autobinds `this` into the body of the arrow function, however the latter is "just" a function pointer hence will not be called with the correct `this` value. One way to get around this is using `this.smth.bind(this)`, which binds the correct `this` for the later execution.
Is Google infrastructure now? Should we fund Google with tax money? Nationalize it?
Yes, that was what I was asking about.
Funniest video I ever saw
Watch "Bella and the lion-THE ESCAPE!" on YouTube
https://youtu.be/LiFcBzumiX4
I’m happy for you but not everyone lives in such a place that has that many options within spitting distance.
> and its users think it untraceable

In my experience this is very rarely the case for any serious bitcoin user I have met. In fact, those seeking anonymity have moved on to monero etc. For many the traceability just doesn't matter that much.
Funny video
Watch "Bella and the lion-THE ESCAPE!" on YouTube
https://youtu.be/LiFcBzumiX4
I skimmed through the crap and was highly deceived by the example. So I think he would still have ranted. They chose a very specific example that made their product look good.

Beside the article start by stating that they rebranded their product influxQL —> Flux precisely because power user found major lacking features as to compare with SQL.

Very bad PR move.
It's not about being productive and efficient. It's about the company wanting to make sure they've got full value out of you. If you're not working at capacity then they're wasting money.
Flutter vs. React Native: Let’s See Who the Winner Is and What You Need to Know
This is part of the reason I moved with my wife and two kids to The Netherlands. My girls were 5 and 8 at the time. Almost everyone here rides bikes here in a city of 350k (Utrecht). We don’t own a car and either ride our bikes or walk everywhere. If we’re going to another city we take the trains.

My older daughter goes to school on here own bike 1 mike away and goes over to friends houses on her own. Decent used bikes here are 50-100eu and bike shops are in every little neighborhood. The city is amazingly quiet despite being notably more dense than San Francisco (where we’re from).

All of us love the freedom of not dealing with cars and everything that implies. We could never move back to a “car culture” city again.
The idea is that with microg as drop in replacement all the apps would still work without the play services and be as good as. Putting your app on this additional store would cost you just a click.
The vendors can preinstall that and ship google-less phones.

It will not happen, but if they really care about what they claim to care about, this is what they should spend the money on.
Not sure if just putting a few on Google will help to get a better, healthier market.
plugs --- male