skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good point.

I think its yet another symptom of the collapse of societal/communal values in the west in favor of individualism. Criticism/gossip within a society are a good way of punishing these minor transgressions, and its usually how its done around the world. With no society left and all decisions up to the individual, the only way left is to leave everything up to the law.
Hah. You clearly haven't worked with any government agencies or their contractors. There will be mistakes, and it won't be just a few. The public will have very little action towards even validating whether they're configured properly. It's gonna be a shit show.
This isn't what makes investing in other gTLDs a danger. It's that some are offering registration for pennies, causing them to be almost entirely populated by "bad" domains. For example, .fun is 80% spammy domains, creating a strong incentive for all manner of services to blacklist the entire TLD.

https://www.spamhaus.org/statistics/tlds/
Society has to avoid McCarthyism (a 'reds under the bed' panic). This is what China wants and it plays directly into the propaganda. They want false accusations and race based panic.

Authoritarian states stealing advanced technology will be multigenerational challenge, but it's a solvable problem. But we must stick our values while we solve it.

The first thing to change the cost/benefit analysis of theft. This means evidence based prosecutions conducted transparently with real jail sentences.

Technical solutions can help. All business producing innovation need long term high quality logs for all activity (you need to know who downloaded what software source code and when)

Perhaps the most difficult to overcome problem comes from Patriotic Education, which is state sponsored brainwashing starting from kindergarten (since 1990) leaving a potentially indelible effect on the psyche of graduates of the Chinese education system. A well rounded study of history and understanding of national strategies is needed to see through any government's propaganda (but the propaganda from the government of China in particular). This study is something we all can benefit from.

Every culture agrees stealing is wrong. Threats and coercion are wrong. On this issue the moral high ground clearly belongs to the US. But we need to be careful to always keep the moral high ground and never alienate people who have done no wrong.

The centuries old idea of letting people into our country to work and by adopting a few values become accepted as as American as any other is a powerful global piece of soft power. But powerful nations will always try to exploit to cheat America out of the technology it develops.

We must understand China's long term strategy and fight back using our moral high ground, which includes a transparent legal system. We must see through China's propaganda (it says it is not a perpetrator but instead a victim of hacking. The truth is, it is both.)
In fact, besides lobbying by wannabe monopolies, was the reason for medallions - there were so many cabs in Manhattan that driving was becoming untenable. I think Midtown has room for only 9,000 cars driving at any one time.
On January 12, 2017, the founders announced that the platform App.net would be shut down on March 15, 2017.[13] However, due to a significant number of user data export failures that deadline was extended until March 16, 2017. App.net finally ceased to operate as a social network at 2017-03-17-06:45UTC. The source code for App.net was made available on their Github Page.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/App.net
The loudness of American and status is an interesting question.

I suspect that the observation by Taleb that high status people talk more softly needs a caveat. I think people who know they have status talk more softly to convey that they don't have to fight for attention. And such signaling naturally requires the situation allow people to notice.

Which is to say in that in a more primal situation, where no one knows anyone's status, being loud and aggressive is the way to gain status when status is not yet established. And this seems like source of American loudness, America being a nation where many seek status and the hierarchy of status is often not established.
"Showstopper" is a word with a specific meaning in software development. If your customer tells you about a showstopper and you ignore it, that is bad.
> Most of the community, myself included is pretty psyched about go modules.

Citation needed. In my corner of the community this is a very contentious issue.

The golang dependency management story has been a disaster for years. Nothing about the modules or vgo story have seemed to solve that.

In fact, its Russ who seems to be going against the norms of the community. Choosing cutting edge and untried technologies, over well understood and tested ones. If he was going to get edgy with his leadership decisions couldn't he have done it somewhere more valuable like cleaning up the type system?
It sounds like you’re a good team lead.

My current manager, one of the best I’ve ever had, is much the same. Technically not superb. But at least pretty good. Also a great listener, and really keyed in to what the team is up to, struggling with, contributing, etc.

The TL I had the issue with very much behaved like an IC, almost never met with me, seemed to be dialing it in most of the time, and just generally was very hard to explain things to. An absent parent, more than a bad parent.
Supplant = replace :)
Wow, what a "fuck you, users".
https://pythonawesome.com/implementation-of-hierarchical-att...
I think I should clarify some of the stuff you're saying:

1. Zulip has been in development since August 2012 (1 year before Slack was released), so is not trying to be a better Slack.

2. Anyone can host their own Zulip server, and have control for all their data.

3. For anyone wanting to migrate from the hosted instance to on premises (self-install) can easily get an export of all their data that they can directly import into their other instance.

4. This is anecdotal but so far, Zulip's full text search has worked well in finding messages from over an year ago easily.
Does Thunderbird keep a local, accessible copy of whole accounts when using IMAP? Since the traditional way of using IMAP is by keeping the mails on the server and interacting with them via the server, I would think it doesn't.

Personally, I'm using nodejs-notify[1] to watch all mailboxes of all accounts via IMAP IDLE, and have it execute mbsync[2] when it receives an event to sync the account with a local Maildir. I got my MUA (mu4e[3]) configured to use those Maildirs without doing any IMAP itself.

[1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/nodejs-imapnotify/

[2] https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/isync/

[3] https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/mu/
Yes, it is. But as with many things on the internet, it might be spec compliant but nobody can use it because most programmers didn't actually read the spec and thus implemented what they think is the spec.

Most websites will probably validate email addresses with regexes that expect a dot in the host part.
And Softdisk had John Carmack and basically the entire original Id software team on their payroll. And Fairchild Semiconductors had the entire executive founding team of Intel, and Xeroc PARC had not only several key people but essentially the entire IP portfolio of modern computers, including some working prototypes...

"Success" is the result of a very large equation with many variables, and having (some of) the right people is only a few of them.
Bullshit.

It was a complete and working feature.

The timing of this removal is suspect as fuck.
Oddly, when I go hiking in the forest what often happens is I can hear two people, miles away, yapping at each other at the tops of their lungs.
Sorry to sound critical of you. As I said, I almost posted it.

There is a lesson here about how essentially innocent people get caught up by draconian and unappealable corporate policies. In this case, about video licensing. And, seriously, there's a whole VPN industry focused on evading geo-restrictive content availability. But being naive, she didn't think enough like a criminal. And used a valuable Microsoft account.

And seriously, If she had thought it through, she could have used a different VPN, and a different persona with a throwaway Microsoft account. And her primary account would be fine now.

I do try to reach naive people like her. To explain the concept of compartmentalization, and the basics of using virtual machines (VMs) with VPNs and/or Tor. To create unassociated personas. Show them how to play safe.

But it's hard. I don't speak Turkish. And I can not move freely in meatspece as Mirimir.
No, I do not think it a euphemism. The user you responded to (u/pandlet) gave no indication that his concern that “an underclass of people shut out from the rest of society” was related to fear that the poor committing crimes. You don’t think there’s reasons other than fear to be unhappy about the existence of a “shut out” underclass?
I met Michael at free software conference in Havana, Cuba in November. Didn't know who he was at first, after one of the talks he approached me and asked me if I wanted to get a beer. Unfortunately, I wasn't feeling well and turned him down. Later I saw him give a talk and realized he was the EpiPencil guy. He gave a great talk and I had the opportunity to have a few more conversations with him. He's obviously very intelligent. But he's also a deeply empathetic and passionate person who's giving his best effort to make the world a better place. Super inspiring!
No, because corruption in society increases the probability that you will be among them at some point.
First, Facebook users as a group comprise too large and diverse a set to make such general inferences about, such as whether or not they are better or worse judges of the validity or quality of content than Hacker News users.

Second, there is no quantifiable measure of validity or quality with which one could make a meaningful comparison.

Third, the sets of Facebook and Hacker News (and Twitter, Reddit, 4chan, etc) users likely overlap significantly, calling the premise of distinct userbases with distinct social and intellectual qualities into question.
I doubt China would let thousands of Chinese organise a protest in China either...
Meeting aesthetic criteria may be non-negotiable, particularly in a hospitality context. So it is probably on top of those that acoustics needs to be addressed.

Acoustic ceiling tile is pretty horrible from an interior design perspective...
Here's an example: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-12-16/google-re...
Youtube live will keep vods for life and has had a DVR feature since release. Twitch doesn't do either.

They tend to release great products, their problem is that they just don't always do it first.
I still see plenty of other video listings from other sites in my Google search results, and even if they're ranked above equivalent YouTube results I always pick the YouTube listing.

I have no doubts why I do this; YouTube provides a far better experience. It's incredibly bandwidth efficient even when my connection is slow, it's very responsive when seeking, and their time-to-first-video-frame is really good. And perhaps most importantly, it's consistently good. I don't get UI or playback issues every 10th video.

I cannot say the same for any other video host I've come across in my life. It's ridiculous how far ahead YouTube is on technology alone, and I still haven't found any site that can match it.
In 1996 the internet was in every imp University campus worldwide and every CS dept had multiple labs working on a lot of the what most people take for granted today that allowed the internet to scale.

No such thing is happening with bitcoin. You can't scale something to internet levels if its banned in half the worlds research labs.
Those materials generally last longer and are easier to clean/maintain. As margins are driven down by competition, so will the amount expended on the decor.

Industrial design looks intentional (ie. Not necessarily good, but it looks like it's supposed to be that way) and is inexpensive.
What's corrupt about asking for children to be treated as well as prisoners, or to sarcastically argue by contradiction?

Anyway, you could reread the article to remind yourself that the question in the headline is answered in the article. The tablets are subsidized by software and services offered through the device, like an Amazon Fire. (But the services are terrible.)

This is simply a case of a private company shifting costs from the government budget to oppressed and exploited citizens. No "personal" corruption is necessary to explain the situation.
Aren't most gTLDs hosted by only a few ISPs that also host some of the smaller ccTLDs? I'd imagine that the actual hosting costs are quite small if you don't have millions of domains with billions of DNS requests per second.
What Drives American Disenchantment with the NSA
Unenforceable laws are effectively useless.
And you can continue blocking them on Twitter, whereas in reality, assault and harassment is already a crime, so I'm not sure what your point is.
I've heard HackerNews call it Never Invented Here.
I just did a search, and only found my earlier HN account of reading the USENET post from someone working at JPL. Yes, you can discount such towers as fanciful nonsense. Physically possible, but politically and economically infeasible as of now. Another rec.arts.sf.science post described how our civilization could sterilize the biosphere, but it would involve global civilization spending decades doing nothing but seeding the surface with nukes, just to set them all off simultaneously. A number of prominent scientists used to post there with wild back of the envelope calcs. Someone working at JPL did write up a proposal to build an exponential truss tower using hyper pressurized balloon tanks made from boron. I'm sure of this. In any case, it's interesting only as an intellectual exercise.
The operators of the .ai TLD for Anguilla have done this for a while and hit interesting bugs in mail clients.

(Also notable, they have an A record on the hostname "ai." - you can see their website at http://ai./)
s/better/easier, to be safe
No. If I don't fear them, then they're of no consequence and I don't care about them.
Where do these appear? I've honestly never seen them
Here’s the actual memo, which is frankly more reasoned and nuanced than this hit piece.

http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/20180621ACL...
I am not aware of any specifications which would prevent using mail hosts on toplevel domains. However, dotless domain names are currently prohibited by the ICANN Board New gTLD Program Committee,[1] so actually creating one may be a challenge.

1. https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2013-08-30-en

2. https://serverfault.com/a/721929/61174
Median any position is probably not terribly great at it. Agnostic of engineering imo. I do think you need structured practice to get good at anything but I don't necessarily believe that needs to come from a mandated class, i.e. structured self study, nor do I think mandating the class would actually get people to absorb the material. I'd imagine you probably attended some liberal arts classes that had a subset, if not majority, of people who were there simply because it was mandated. Those persons aren't necessarily interested and because of that won't put forth the effort so why waste the teachers time or the students through coercion? Does one really need to master any given skill to "succeed" in life? I think simply being good enough at any given thing you live a good life is a fine bar to set.
Neat. Thanks! I haven't kept up on other-users outside of the uber post, good to hear there are more fish in the ocean :)
I saw one of Michael's talks. They do share the data about their hardware and processes openly (though I don't know where/how, since it's not the kind of info I understand). But one of the things he mentioned needing more open information about is the chemistry. There are databases of chemical reactions that can be used to train AIs to find new, easier and cheaper ways to synthesize medications, but those databases are controlled by large for-profit corporations who refuse to release the data. Presumably for "safety" reasons, but it's not hard to imagine that "safety" isn't the whole story.
Landmarks in Oregon, the design team is based in Oregon and gets to choose the names.
It blows my mind that people act like Verizon is running fiber past households then refusing to service them for funsies. Passing a household costs more than building the final bit of fiber to the house. It makes no sense for Verizon to pass a bunch of households then not try to recoup that money by hooking up service. The reason for the delay is because New York (particularly New York landlords) are a total nightmare to deal with.
It’s a good question and one I didn’t address because I wasn’t able to find super reliable numbers. That’s a good link, though. Thanks!
"Orange pekoe" turns out to have a fairly delightfully obscure etymology as well.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tea_leaf_grading#Orange_pekoe
I'm pretty sure that's how you get a sci-fi ant apocalypse. I think if you were to actually try it, only "The Rock" and his band of feisty comedic side-kicks would be able to save us.
The 'good lesson' is to play safe and try a virtual tour instead. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_in_Egypt

"Most sources agree that Egypt is a gross violator of human rights."
As a marketing consultant, my biggest advice to clients is to never, ever build anything custom. Use Zapier to connect things, Segment to manage data flow, Shopify/Weebly to build the site, use Sumo to test site changes, etc. Building things custom just delays projects so much, especially in marketing where you don't even know if a project will achieve the goals you want.
Folks, it is high time & rather long enough time that we actually bought domains & setup our own email addresses since now everything is linked with one & random termination of a free-email account & linked data loss is simply unacceptable. But that's what you get when you go with a free service provider.
I wouldn't trust my ears on this.

Aging ears will tell you the world sounds worse each year.
Tsmc "7nm" and Intel "10nm" are roughly identical. Intel random logic is a bit denser thanks to COAG, SDG and BEOL and TSMC SRAM is a decent bit denser, that's mostly it.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17628906
Providing access to otherwise-inaccessible drugs is a real problem. The fact that normal people can accomplish this through an anarchist collective is incredible and should be lauded.
>As a consumer, this transition will be annoying to deal with, but as a resident, I'm proud of my state for pushing expansion of rural broadband where federal efforts have failed. Not sure how the transition will work though, as Spectrum/TWC own the cable infrastructure.

There isn't going to be a transition, at least not in the short term, as this will likely be tied up in the courts for some time, and probably settled.
Twitter will suspend repeat offenders posting abusive comments on Periscope
New investigation accuses CBS chief Les Moonves of sexual misconduct
There's an interesting discussion about this with russ and peter participating over on reddit here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/golang/comments/92f3q1/peter_bourgo...
Note that the effective gate length on an Intel "10nm" finfet is 18nm.
Thank you for the thorough response, I appreciate it very much.
One of the things that drove me nuts at university is how much some STEM students mocked a particular set of "...for humanities" math classes without knowing their content. There were some great applications of mathematical thinking that people were shamed about taking.
They sure aren't helping everyone.
I've never seen Cargo errors be incomprehensible. Solving versions just isn't a problem in practice. Minimal version selection optimizes for convenience of the package manager implementer at the expense of the users. To me, that's the wrong trade.
This is likely all too common.

After all, who's in a better position to know when someone's trying to sucker an investor?
You and the OP article (The wonderful Erica Bryant) both make smart reference to

> family in prison

Too many people have no compassion for prisoner, so it's important emphasizing that exploitation of prisoners rolls over into exploitation of innocent family members.
It's exactly what it sounds like... using explosives to bond two metals together. I don't know much about it other than in passing though, so I can't speculate what the parent's application was. I think it's most commonly done to clad a thin layer of one metal onto a thicker substrate, so probably something related to that.
I wonder if the key evolutionary development for intelligence was a way to reliably harness it for survival purposes.

Chomsky thinks that there's a sharp divide between language and non-linguistic communication, in that a language is infinite. Turning to formal languages, even regular languages are infinite, so I think he's more talking about Turing equivalent languages - and given just a little complexity, just about everything is Turing equivalent.

Some people equate language with intelligence. But it's possible intelligence is a cause of language (or both are caused by something else).
Show HN: Generate random colors and gradients with ReactJS and Bulma CSS
I still have trouble using .co instead of .com even. No dot would definitely throw a bunch of sites off.
But as a bicyclist it's deadly. I'm in SF, it happens all the time on second St and on market. I thought they weren't even allowed to drop off on market but it happens all the time. It happens to me like once every 3 months but I see it every week happening to others. I keep an eye out for those Uber badges and expect to get cut off.
Can a TLD have ToS to revoke a domain being used for spam?

Otherwise, after sufficiently ruining .fun, I'm sure the spam crowd will just move on to the next cheap TLD until that one gets saturated and so on.