skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can see two counter arguments. One, you don't want to go with Twitter, or any large corporation for that matter, to court. They have a legion of lawyers and you don't. They have budgets for these kind of cases, you don't. Even if any dispute you have with them won't make it to a court you'll lose precious time and resources consulting with lawyers in order to answer their C&D demands, which I guess at some point will escalate if you keep ignoring them.

Then you have the practical part. Would you really base your project on reverse engineering and hacking a third party service? It will end up being an arms race. Everytime they change something you'll race to hack it again. In the meantime your service will be inoperable. If your user base is in the tens of thousands that will kill you. I can't think of any reliable service that every couple of months or so would go offline even for a few hours until the developer finds a way to circumvent whatever countermeasure Twitter came up with.

So you play nice and follow their rules. Even if they suck, which by the way is the main reason why Twitter lost all the love of developers and has stagnated for the last years.
And if reusability is well over 10x, they are on their way to have enough rockets to cover all launches until BFR comes online.
Yah the last thing I want is for anyone to treat Facebook as necessary.
Even chess isn't tractable in terms of pure brute force search. And yet a computer won against arguably the best human player in 1996. It was mostly a PR stunt by IBM.

We had 20 years of doubling of computing power before Lee Sedol match. In those 20 years there were many other AI programs that have beaten various world champions at other board games (and no one cared). There were other good Go engines before Alpha Go. They would beat most human players in the world.

Why AlphaGo of all other programs is seen not as increment, but as some giant leap forward? It doesn't solve a new class of problems and it doesn't use any fundamentally new algorithms.
If the site is using Cloudflare (free), AWS CloudFront (cheap), or another CDN, it won't have a unique IP address. For now, the domain name will still leak in plaintext through DNS and over the TLS connection in the SNI field, but browsers are planning to implement DNS over HTTPS [1], and encrypted SNI is on the way [2].

[1] https://blog.nightly.mozilla.org/2018/06/01/improving-dns-pr...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17401509
On the small scale, no, it's not pay-for-what-you-use. Imagine though you're an enterprise, running a large K8S cluster with lots of workloads inside. By using Knative and scale-to-zero, now you can pack more lightweight workloads into the same cluster resources, because the pods scale down when they're not actively being used. It gives you (as the cluster operator in your company) the ability to run your cluster the same way serverless works in the cloud.
Yes! That looks like an excellent tool, thank you.
That's an important consideration, but taken to extremes it's basically appeasement. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeasement Don't try to resist bad people, don't try to protect their victims, because they might turn around and push back.

Where does it end? When are we finally allowed to take action?
Your methodology is wrong.

You need to find both (R- / (D- AND (R) / (D). This results in 94 Republican convictions and 73 Democrat convictions. [0]

Also when you look at this century, 19 Republicans have been convicted and only 8 democrats. That's twice as many Republicans convicted of crimes than Democrats.

Using your methodology (correctly):

- Political Scandals: 247 Republicans were involved in political scandals, compared to only 126 Democrats. This century: 105 Republicans and 20 Democrats - that's 5x more Republicans. [1]

- Sex Scandals: 47 Republicans have been involved in sex scandals, while only 44 Democrats have. This century: 28 Republicans, 9 Democrats - that's 3x more for the GOP. [2]

By your own logic, Republicans are both more criminal and more scandalous than Democrats, historically and even moreso now.

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

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_federal_political_scan...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_federal_political_sex_...
That’s all nice and dandy until you realize that many companies don’t look outside of their bubble for recruitment. Either internal referrals or only recruiting from a few colleges.
To back this up from a non-founder perspective, I know lots of women engineers who feel pressure not to dress in feminine ways in the workplace. They're taken less seriously when they wear dresses (even the casual kind that match the usual tech level of formality), have to pitch their voices lower to be paid attention to, etc.

There does seem to be a pushback, though - women dressing femme-er as an intentional attempt to change the workplace culture.
Delta and American Airlines say they won’t make their coach seats tighter
They've only recently begun actual sales of production vehicles. Up until a few months ago, all vehicles sold were test vehicles sold to transit agencies as proof of concept and for benchmarking cost efficiencies.

Anecdotally, many of their customers are requesting additional buses, but I've been asked by my source not to say how I know that.
I played with the large size version of Looking Glass at AR in Action conf this January at MIT. It's really cool, and the coolest part is the interaction is intuitive. You really can just touch a point on the hologram and have it react at that point.

As others have mentioned, it requires pushing quite a number of simultaneous views of the hologram through a hidpi display, the experienced resolution is not very high as a result and the holograms look a bit fuzzy.

It is right now probably the best out-of-the box way to interact with Holograms, especially in a shared environment. Hololens can't share holograms by default, and even if the app has implemented sharing, the holograms can't be touched. Meta glasses have some touchability thanks to their depth sensor, but again there's no easy shared way to interact with a hologram.

I think AR like Looking Glass is underrated, they were very smart to use natural interaction instead of gestures or a mouse/wand. That being said, I don't see it competing with AR glasses longterm.
You tell them that that’s a grandfathered price for loyal past clients, and no longer available. Then you quote them 25% higher and let them negotiate you down to 10% higher. Wash, rinse, repeat, and a year later your new clients are paying 50% more than last year’s.

Then (once you have more work than you have time for) you tell your old clients that due to excessive demand, you’re raising your rates by 50%, but because they’ve been so loyal, you’ll give them a valued customer rate of only 25% higher.
Morality in capitalism? How would that work?
Anecdotally, the 2018 key travel feels better than the 2017. But I can't stand the touch bar even after a year with it.
I didn’t follow my own advice and I bought a new top spec i9 MacBook Pro. I’ve an iMac pro with a persistent issue that causes kernel panics. Apple is gathering information about the issue and I’ve had a few calls with an engineer. So far it isn’t fixed.

When I got my i9 mbp I noticed the fan was quite active and it was fast, but not significantly better than my 2014 mbp quad core. I just updated with the fix this morning and so far I notice way less fan usage and it did seem to be a bit snappier. I will run some benchmarks later and see where it lands. If it isn’t working I’m about ready to abandon platform. Sucks because my entire music studio is Mac based.
maybe during certain time of the year.

I'd prefer working 4 days per week (10 hours per day).
Apologies, I should have been more clear. I don’t know if elm /claims/ to adhere or not. I only know that in practice it doesn’t.

But thank you, that is an important point; elm’s own version numbers suggest it isn’t ready for production. Use at your own peril.
I bet the pressure is even greater for men not to wear dresses.
Your doc is marked invite only, BTW.
So your approach to the semantic web is to use a proprietary service to bundle proprietary api's that is queried in a language controlled by a single corporate entity and where the resulting data is pretty much never able to be semantically understood by anyone except the api client that constructed the query? A lot of that sounds like the opposite of what the semantic web was supposed to be.
We don't know who first said, "We don’t know who discovered water, but we’re pretty sure it wasn’t a fish", but we're pretty sure it wasn't David Foster Wallace. [1]

[1] https://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/12/23/water-fish/
Bash is no more a simple tool than c or perl or lua or whatever-programming-language
I'm not sure I understand how you're using the word "tort". A tort is an action that causes damage. Obviously, Twitter can suspend service for a user violating their agreements, or, if the user is causing damage and circumventing Twitter's controls, they can go further and sue.

Fines and jail sentences are things only the government can impose. I'm not talking about what the government might do to someone violating Twitter's user agreements (I doubt they'd do much).

The overall gist of your argument is really hard to understand. Twitter makes a service available conditioned on an agreement they have with their users. That agreement is binding. The legal issues here seem pretty straightforward.

It's possible that we're talking about different actors in this story. You might be thinking I'm saying Twitter is likely to sue individual users who use third-party clients. I don't think that will ever happen. On the other hand, if you're the kind of organization Twitter is describing in this bulletin, making potentially millions of dollars by abusing the Twitter APIs to spam or deceive users, I have no problem at all seeing how Twitter might seek recourse in civil court. It's their site, and access is conditioned on their rules.
Fair point, but the medium changes the message sometimes. :-)

The tweet resonated with a sizeable part of the developer community hence linked here.
hmm, thanks for mentioning the select options .. should be an easy fix.

As for the page reloading I agree, but this exercise was specifically to make an application with the absolute minimum amount of client side code.

HTMl5 Forms do the job pretty well! :)
Yes, I'm sorry I didn't reply to you -- I was caught by the problem that I knew this was imminent but not being able to say so (or even hint so).

> It looks like not a lot of people are interested in Ruby on serverless platforms. Can you shed any light on why?

I imagine there's some mix of market demand and path dependency. A lot of folks who like experimenting moved onwards to the Node ecosystem and a lot of FaaS work has happened there. Meanwhile enterprises are heavily invested in Java and .NET.

The riff team at the moment is pretty small. One thing coming up is to fold buildpacks into the code->running pathway for riff. This should make it easier for the riff team to get out of the business of supporting particular ecosystems and for some of the engineering work for buildpacks to be shared amongst multiple setups.

In terms of starting with Rails today, it should be possible to use the buildpacks BuildTemplate to run the existing Ruby buildpack. I don't know if it's working, it's early days for heavy automation of development on Knative itself.
+1 on syncthing.

I have one on my computer, one one our Raspberry Mediabox (with a dedicated drive) and one on a dedicated VS.

New version using inotify really helped the Pi !
It's not an uncommon conclusion. So common, it's been attributed to many famous thinkers over the years: You cannot reason a person out of a position they did not reason themselves into.

Also, I would say you're not too far off with how we've developed. A lot of things that are useful for a more "primitive" species work against us now. Pareidolia just really messes with us now. Whereas before when the risk of being mauled by a predator was much more real, the fact that what you thought was a bear was really a funny shaped rock 9 times out of 10 will save you that 1 time it is a bear.
He probably just validates the output. You can do "whatever" as long as it generates the output.
Lucidworks Fusion 4.1
This seems smart!
This is not wholly surprising, this site is full of hot takes of devil's advocates.

This arguments ignore a ton of details most importantly the relationship between oppressed and oppressors.
When Nazis are calling for extermination of people, they aren't going after white men.

In every example you have, there's oppressed group that have their rights that you completely ignore.

Abortion -- women right to control their body (the right that's being constantly challenged)

Homosexuality -- do I even need to make an argument here.

Religion -- it's not about any particular religion, it's oppressing religions minority by majority i.e Christians in predominantly Islamic country and vise versa.

Promoting democracy/socialism -- basically vilifying alternative form of government by people in power by cherry-picking examples (because no one would dare to criticize that argument).

My point is, Nazis are toxic and are always vilify and making scapegoats from people who are not in power, because those people can't answer.

I don't want to live in a land where it's okay to say we should kill this particular group of people, that speech be acceptable and eventually carried out.
since it is basically subsidized by nearby tech companies

Well, those tech companies are subsidized by their own customers and investors. Although this is the first time I've heard the act of people paying for goods and services described as a subsidy. I guess I subsidise the supermarket every time I buy some milk.
>New York entrepreneur

I'm thinking that this should have had ironic quotes around it. As in 'El Chapo Guzman, a "New York entrepreneur" on a grand scale...' or 'Elizabeth Holmes, a "New York entrepreneur" of the old school...'
I'm using the search API, so unlikely anything different than Github's trending stuff that is already there.

The UI is a little better though ;)
Slackware creator in strife, claims store has not paid him
while market mechanisms like a carbon tax can definitely spur parallel innovation and direct economies toward desirable solutions, it's less clear that it's an obvious efficiency win (it's not even clear that optimal efficiency is the most desirable feature of a solution, since it trades away resiliency).

what is often missing in the market efficiency argument is that the efficiency-killing waste is concentrated for government projects and distributed for markets. that makes it eaiser to "see" the government waste (especially if the government has transparency rules that don't apply to corporations), and makes the waste of market-based solutions less obvious (because it needs someone to aggregate it properly).

in market-based economies, many companies will try and fail for a given opportunity (e.g., the thousands of instagram & facebooks that didn't make it), and that's "wasted" economic activity. and sometimes, it takes a market economy a few tries and many years to get something right (internet search as another example), which also lowers overall efficiency.

markets work well in many cases, but they aren't a cut-and-dried answer to every economic challenge. when the risks are low, central planning can potentially "beat" a market-based approach. in any case, it's not an either-or choice--countries are continually experimenting to find the best blend of the two.

(for the record, i'm all for pricing in externalities with mechanisms like a carbon tax)
Maybe i'm misreading it, but it looks like you're essentially just filling out a form with your contact info and agreeing to the T&C for the initial "application".
My friend and I have a hobby of linking each other to headlines of "The Internet is Outraged about <X>" where the article body embeds 10 random tweets.
Inventorying the California Consumer Privacy Act’s Problems
Most useful databases persist their data somewhere, what does "persistent" mean in this context? Given the reference to Datomic I assume it means "persistent over time" aka you can time-travel through the DB history. Or is it just the classic meaning of persistent aka "not ephemeral"?
Live tracking of Amtrak trains
Bullshit has the distinct advantage of not needing to be correct. If you and I were arguing about giraffes and I could just make up random facts about giraffes. Like their long necks give them exceptional hearing because they're so much further away from everything.

You'd actually have to provide research and facts to counter my bullshit. Whereas in the meantime, I could make up 10 more bullshit facts that you'd then also have to refute.
It's pretty cool to see this article mention Polanyi, who is very pertinent I think. Yes, he wrote about tacit knowledge as something not formalizable. But it's not just that. His goal was to protect scientists' freedom from Soviet goals of centrally planned discoveries. Science doesn't work that way, he argued. And it seems similar ideas can be applied to these employment contracts: the company gets benefits while the scientist is employed, but once they leave, the new directions of their research are unpredictable, and shouldn't be owned or controlled by non-competes etc. That's a pretty vague connection, but I feel like someone could develop it further.
Twitter gets strict, introduces new requirements for developers
As an economics major, it's very clear to me who in this thread has received an education in economics going beyond the freshman level, and who has not. The giveaway tell is that, much like climate change deniers or anti-vaxxers, the latter focus on questioning the fundamental methodologies and paradigms of this field without the contextual knowledge to understand why they came to be established through overwhelming consensus in the first place. Such idle complaints do not constitute valid criticism or discourse, but only ignorance.
Excited for the Tesla episode of Dirty Money on Netflix when this story comes to an end.
You've been mostly trolling after we've asked you several times not to, so we've banned the account.
I don't answer that because low-level biology wasn't my realm of expertise even when I still worked in neuroscience. For that I'd defer to the people who wrote this: http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Short-term_synaptic_plas...
The English proofing tools for MS Word, and likely competing platforms, should be able to catch most of those. Those are the green squiggly lines. Stylistic choices I am fine with, as long as they're readable. Grammar and spelling errors should not be so prevalent if you respect your writing and your audience.
I think the complexity of AWS's pricing is what led me to use the simplicity of AWS' lightsail offering.

No free tier, but the free tier is frought with potential for overrun. Lightsail is not.

https://aws.amazon.com/lightsail/
Generally through regulation
There is something critical about usability, location of controls and feel, that's why buttons, switches and dials have been our friends for so long. An LCD as many mentioned have none of these though they compensate in terms of how much functionality can be crammed into them, but, at the cost of UI/UX.
On the other hand buttons or physical controls fail more often than LCDs.

Also muscle memory. When using an LCD one has to look at it whereas with buttons it takes a bit of learning at the beginning and after a short time then fingers go right on the spot without even looking or sometimes touching..

LCDs have multiple states so the location is not fixed. Muscle memory is not working very well in this case

Hope we can learn something from the past and innovate more.

As an anecdote, about 10 years a go I was interested into digital instruments (VSTs and such). After a few years I switched to real gear out of curiosity and was amazed at how much easier the UI/UX was and how well some things were thought out. I wanted to do something and my fingers would jump on the right buttons without even thinking. I surprised myself with this. This is very critical in some situations. Creativity can be hampered by something that steals your attention, even a few glimpses start adding up.. Same thing goes with safety.
Looks interesting, wish i could read it on mobile without registering.
We've asked you many times not to post unsubstantive or trollish comments so we've banned the account.
> Can I run functions written on any platform on Knative? Java? .net core? Js?

Anything that meets the Container Runtime Contract[0] should work.

> What about startup times? How do they compare to other solutions?

Startup times need a lot more work. Knative has a number of moving pieces which are contributing delay to startup time and they're being discussed or attacked by various groups. Some of this work will probably require changes to be contributed upstream to Kubernetes and Istio.

[0] https://github.com/knative/serving/blob/5b8542fb58044834d50f...
Thanks Yamlion shared the dream that has become a reality
I bet y'all would enjoy reading the article after installing this Chrome Extension [Cloud To Butt Plus](https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/cloud-to-butt-plus...).
Bash is "simpler" in the sense that it doesn't have proper data structures. Recent versions have something like an array, but it's still not quite an array afaik. Bash is ultimately still just a string concatenation language.
The GDPR and Blockchain
Hmm, well, in this case its as easy as running a script and clicking a button from this particular host. So I guess there's no major reason why not to do it (and it seems like my provider is defaulting to TLS from Lets Encrypt on any new sites made anyway). So its the new default way of doing things.

I'm not entirely convinced that it solves the MITM attack still. But I'm still not convinced that the arguments a lot of people are making around here necessarily make sense either. A lot of these attacks are fundamentally theoretical and don't seem broadly applicable.

The main argument that convinced me is: its easy to do, so why not? But the scare tactics that a lot of people in this discussion are unsavory to me and are unintelligent IMO.
Looks like the wikipedia page got taken down (?!?!)
Exploring the Continuous Deployment Process
I wonder if there's some organized downvoting happening in this thread. "History forum blocks mass Holocaust denial" should not be controversial, even on HN.
> It wasn't worth the cost of doing what you suggest when the issue could easily be fixed with a free bumper or by getting people to hold the phone in a non-ergonomic manner.

Exactly. It wasn't that big of a deal.

I mean, we haven't even gotten into how a bunch of other phones which were on sale at the time exhibited the exact same behavior.
Intel had to scramble to effectively increase processor density in laptops by 2x and 3x almost overnight when Ryzen came out. They have been resting on their laurels for a better part of a decade. They are also working on the same TDP constraints as before. A considerable feat in such a short time, 2x more cores and 700MHz more turbo.

Looking at the Macbook Pro design, it is suppose to be able to cool the Radeon 560X which has a TDP of 75W with a similar set of fin sizes and fans on the opposing side. This should mean in theory be able to handle even a grossly overpowered CPU. I think they can fix it.