skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ok so the grid (that knows everything already) commands every house what to do, using a pinned certificate to authenticate. What part of this needs to be zero knowledge?
Abuse of this sort of functionality is definitely something I've thought about, but discussions around these sorts of ecosystem issues weren't my focus in this work. Ultimately, there are solutions. For starters, you almost certainly don't want every link or comment from any user to show up automatically for everyone the instant it is made. There's a fantastic comment by user 'enkiv2' over on lobste.rs about this (relating to design decisions around Xanadu) that also roughly reflects the kinds of assumptions that I've been making in my prototyping about how this might work in practice: https://lobste.rs/s/p0sgoj/freeing_web_from_browser#c_vivphl
> The table was created by Richard Watson and Anna Cupani after reading a dry list of emerging technologies on Wikipedia. They spoke to experts to shape the table and produced a number of drafts using Post-it notes for each element before agreeing on a final version...

This methodology has put Smart Nappies, Wireless Energy Transfer and Autonomous Vehicles into the same 'happening now' category. Compared with them, Peer-to-peer energy trading & transmission and Automated knowledge discovery are considered 'experimental'. I'm not convinced the results are robust and they certainly don't indicate the degree of disruption that we should be expecting.

> Maria Jeansson, who worked on the project, said it was designed as a visual conversation starter.

I don't think it will be a very long conversation.
In the case of these SoCs the drivers and kernel modifications are kept hidden and under NDA. Ironically these same details are "leaked" in Chinese engineering circles because nobody there will put up with it.

If release of this code was forced smaller companies would be able to make use of these SoCs. It would greatly expand access to cheap computing.

The GPL and derivatives also anticipated people playing tricks wrt to compiling and forces you to release everything needed to build it.
There's a weird balance where just saying "hey we don't want to censor things" doesn't seem to make you seem very neutral when you're hosting something that is hateful towards others or just straight false information.
More generally, not all bad behavior is or should be illegal.

Not all bad behaviors are illegal but calling for active, illegal harassment of an individual, which other people carry out, is, in fact, illegal and given this is often Jones' modus operandi, his activities are illegal and his overall strategy has involved staying one step ahead of lawsuits.
I just had a Google technical phone interview. I won't divulge the question but it was related to a design pattern that JavaScript developers use every day in frameworks like Vue/React, yet probably never had to program from scratch. I identified the pattern, described the API correctly, but then I had to implement the API and that's when I knew I was finished. Evidently my intuition of how it should be implemented was also correct, but I started stumbling on relatively minor things (structure of a JSON object) because I didn't have the time I needed to develop an extremely clear mental image of what the details of the solution looked like and I had to keep coding anyway. I'm certain that 20-30 minutes alone would have been sufficient to develop a working proof of concept.

After the interview I ran the problem by a couple very senior front end devs at fang companies and they wouldn't have gotten it either. Before the rejection I thought I might be ok - it's not about getting it correct, they say, it's about the process - but slow thinking is a very real problem in the context of interviews like this.
Icons are the least of AWS's UX problems. The AWS console is godawful. It should be a case study in terrible design. I hate every second I spend on it.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17686310
It's the only thing close to a justifiable reason, honestly. But even then, if you're paid for a full-time job as a developer, and asked to develop a piece of software, you can't very well say "I'm paid enough to develop all the other stuff you want, but not this one thing" with a straight face. You could certainly use your development of it as a good reason for a raise, though!

While there are some truly bad things in the top-level comments, it seems a non-trivial percentage of the responses here are some form of "my employer attempted to make money, sometimes even a profit, in legal ways."
I didnt drink for the majority of my life and after a few years of overdoing it I'm back in the mindset of alcohol is poison. Poison you likely wont die from but you are ingesting something into your body that is bad for you. It's helped my mindset shift from a casual drink or three is fine to avoiding it whenever possible.
:( Why so much hate on hacker news?
Leave amazon alone!
duplicate, please check before submitting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17686310
There is not really all that much difference. Weapons are used to terrorise and murder people. What this person wrote will give some humans stress but it will never cause physical harm.

That you think one is justified and the other is not has very little to do with their relative harm, which is by no means a solved problem or a given. It has to do with your view of it, and those views will differ between different people.
Very entertaining and bludgeons you over the head with the point of the survey. I got 6/20 and several correct answers were lucky guesses. I only really recognized EC2, Lambda, and VPC. That doesn't mean the icons actually convey what those are to me though - it's just memory since I use them often.
Master chef Joel Robuchon, who shook up the French cooking world, dead at 73
The AMD Threadripper 2 Teaser: Pre-Orders Start Today, Up to 32 Cores
I personally prefer Yakuake with the animation turned off; it makes it feel really fast.
https://outline.com/Kc2y7F
No knowing julia, I'm not sure what I'm looking at.

Is that the julia equivalent of 'yield' (as seen in c#, python, js, etc.) being newly implemented and showed off ?
Got a better option? I'm all ears. I know I can drink one vodka soda and it's generally 65ish calories. That's not too bad.
It did not help here. In fact, it amplified the problem. We knew RC4 to be broken when BEAST was announced. Nevertheless, people enabled it, as a "stopgap", to deal with BEAST. RC4 is arguably less secure than BEAST-affected TLS (BEAST was in practice quite difficult to trigger), and, either way, all those RC4 deployments ended up also needing to be scoured off the Internet!
Ask HN: Problem validated – how to raise angel investment?
Hi all,

I'm working on building a platform for data scientists. Having validated the problem with several people, I'd like to raise some funds to work on customer and product development full-time.

Does anyone have any experience raising funds at this early stage?

Thanks in advance.
Oh, and a quick update on this -- I just got mail back from Chip at Wahoo. (Looks like my previous mail got caught in a spam filter.) They're looking to get a bunch of the attribution and source issues cleaned up shortly. I'll update the blog post later today, but I wanted to give HN first knowledge of this!
Check this out:

https://github.com/open-source-ideas/open-source-ideas/issue...
These sites are mostly maintained by webmasters who have a little grasp at programming. This does appeal to dating sites.
The Magna Carta is literally an agreement among the ruling class.

By "legitimacy" I don't mean that people agree with the conclusion being expressed, but that people agree it's at least an attempt at a structured argument based on actual facts. The 95 Theses were complaints against real injustices, not a set of fabricated smears.

Colonial independences generally were discussable - and discussed - at the time and in advance of their happening.
> Guess what: not giving assholes a platform actually works.

In other words, these platforms are powerful enough to silence people. Today, it's people you agree with silencing. Tomorrow, it may be people you disagree with silencing. It's not a good thing that massively powerful private companies are deciding what speech should be allowed and what should not. The law doesn't require it, but as users, we should demand that these major platforms are open to everyone, not just the ones that the majority currently approves of.
Same here. I'd be happy to get 20% right on that.
Hostgator was started in a dorm room in FL and their HQ is now in Houston, TX. Interesting story would be curious which hosting company. Daft move.
Looks like development has been pretty dry. https://github.com/typpo/ancient-earth The repo does not contain the texture maps but you can run an instance locally
That's weird considering you submit the podcast as an RSS feed. I didn't know they uploaded the audio to their own servers.
That's because you don't really join "Mastodon" like you don't really join "XMPP". You pick an instance that has people that you want to talk to and that lets you federate usefully with other servers. You can join multiple instances for different uses if you want, although they do mostly federate with others.
A warrant canary states "We have not complied with any subpoenas that disclosed user data". All that has to happen upon complying with a warrant that requires user data is to remove / not republish the canary.

The idea being that a gag order cannot force you to speak, only prohibit you from speaking. Thus, a gag-order cannot force you to continue publishing a canary. Often, canaries have an 'expiry date' after which they will be republished. This is to avoid 'removing a document' as being interpreted as speech, and thus prohibited by gag order.

Now spideroak had a canary with an expiration of 1 aug. They did not republish; and 3 days later, gave an explanation why. In this explanation they state they will switch to a slightly different, non-cryptographically signed document that is much like a warrant canary. The 3 day gap is most notable here. Spideroak states that the cryptographic signing wasn't useful because you need to trust the signers, who are the same people that publish on the website.
> a large contingent of those users moved to another site (can't remember which though)

https://voat.co/
Ok. So you don’t support laws against hate speech?
But you might not have taken it, then.

Also, presenting options such as "dried arterial blood red" and "slightly but not too radioactive green" might also make you less likely to put in effort to select the real one, rather than just picking randomly.
Truth!

Names and Icons on AWS were made by people who don’t realize who helpful names and icons can be.

If it’s a database, use the cylinder icon that everyone knows is a database and then add some identifier to show which database it is.

If it’s DNS, don’t be too clever and name it Route 53. Name it Amazon Cloud DNS. Then anyone knows how to look for it in the console, web search for it, etc.

If you want something that the marketing folks can feel proud about wasting time on, add the silly name to the descriptive name: Amazon DNS Potato
See also this talk hosted by Google: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hic18Xyk9is
"Balloon powered internet"

I know this one is referring to Google's Project Loon, which uses balloons as relays to bring internet to remote areas, but I'd really like to see an Internet actually running on balloon power.
That's a weird way to say "ok, I was wrong about it being possible to recapitulate DROWN using WireGuard v1 and any hypothetical WireGuard v2".
What is the major moment in this Infowars topic?
Apple doesn't host any podcasts in iTunes - it's just a directory. And you can still use iTunes or the iOS Podcasts app to subscribe to the podcast via it's RSS feed.
But why were these teachers not hired in other schools? Given segregation would give rise to exactly these kind of scenarios it reflects a severe lack of planning on desegregation and a system unwilling to desegregate, and betrays yet another instance of continued discrimination with black teachers paying the price.
>Hardrives are roughly 1Tb/in^2 in areal density right now. SSD's are a little better.

I am pretty sure 1Tb is 1 Terabit/in^2. Here it is 138 Terabytes / in^2, or 1104 Terabit/in^2, hence the 1000 times difference. Not 100

Western Digital MAMR allows up to 4 Terabit/in^2, so the difference is now slightly closer to ~250x. Then there is Bit pattern media, which should get us to 10 Terabit/in^2.

But it doesn't look like HDD manufacture are in any hurry, they will try to milk the market for as long as possible. The Total HDD market will fall to 50% of its peak volume sometimes next year or in 2020.
> Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.

> Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Facebook, Apple and Spotify Ban Infowars' Alex Jones
I think the intended audience is optimization people, but the title didn't make that clear. Side note: a lot of folks really love that conjugate gradient reference, but it's not my favorite.
Well. We're governed by laws. At least... theoretically. So if we make it illegal to scan peoples' faces then, theoretically, an oppressive government can't use it against its populace.

On the flip side, you have the "good guy problem" that we normal "good" people will happily give up our rights in order to help catch bad guys.

But really... it's not a MAC address or an IP address. It's your face. What "defense" is there to facial recognition software? Even if you stay off of facebook, your friends and family will still post photos of you there and reference you and talk about you. "No man is an island" has never been more apparent.
I may not sure how this comment helps with the current situation where people think that tools like facial recognition will lead into oppression.

Are you saying we shouldn't worry because that oppression will fail in another 50-100 years? Let's just make sure the end of that oppression is well managed ?
This reminds me of those children's puzzles on diner mats to "spot the difference". You either see it immediately or stare at it for 5-minutes with no results.
I remember there used to be a Firefox extension that added comments/wiki per url. The problem is lack of popularity.

Something that integrates the HN/Reddit thread about a url to the side might work and might not need the mass of users since it's using the other platforms for the comments.
I guess I was thinking of "hosting" more generically. Feel free to substitute a better term, I'm operating on limited sleep ;)
I think AWS icons are great and I vastly prefer them over Google Cloud’s icons.

Every icon in Google Cloud is a nearly-identical blue hexagon. They might as well not even have icons.
Amethyst 0.8 has been released
what about calling the database app "database"
Technically, this is why the canary had an expiration. This means they did not need to remove the canary, just let it expire and refuse to publish a new canary.
If you're yelled at, boycotted, have your show canceled, or get banned from an internet community, your free speech rights aren't being violated. It's just that the people listening think you're an asshole and they're showing you the door.
No, it's corporate income tax, a direct tax imposed by the federal government on corporations. The rate can be 15% to 35% but there are so many deductions available that large companies like Amazon are often able to dodge it completely. For instance, the article mentions a $917 million deduction on stock options exercised by employees, which was probably the bulk of the deductions.
For those that want to see
https://imgur.com/a/OuNiT2O
I havnt measured but it doesnt feel unsustainable. I weigh about 172 right now and ultimately I'd like to walk around at 160 pounds. I could be ignorant here but eventually if I continue this diet my body will get to a weight where my caloric intake is enough to maintain my weight. I havnt seen any decrease in performance mentally or physically so I wouldn't call it unsustainable. I went on a 15 mile walk this weekend and felt fine.
I just pipe lines to xsel. Not elegant, but works.
You got further than me. I dismissed it immediately for being in the form of the periodic table.
Irrelevant, that's what it is.
The era of security tokens has begun
I have directories by language in ~/home/. At the scale of code I write, if there's code in another language, then I just put alongside the other code...just like I would with HTML and CSS and YML within the ~/home/javascript/ tree.

The advantage is that when I want to find a piece of code I know what language I need the code for. So I know where to start looking without first having to figure out "What did I call it?" and the list of candidates is narrow.
I do not think it is plausible that, for most complex abstract things, there must be an icon that intuitively represents it. The most you can hope for is that the icons are sufficiently distinctive and memorable that a frequent user would come to recognize them without confusing one for another.

I am more bothered by names that do not give you any clue as to what they are about, though there is also a limit to the amount of information you can put in a name.
Gpodder.net – A libre, censorship-free service for podcast discovery
Hopefully that means you could keep some data like an email address that is key to creating an account to prevent abuses or duplication or other things.
I like this idea. It's the next option I'm going to try with them. No eating until lunch at noon and then stop eating at 8pm. That should be do able for most of my family as I don't think they are big breakfast people anyways. It will just cut out that late night snacking.
I'm sure someone from Google will tell you it is to control the quality/experience. I remember back when I used iTunes that sometimes one podcast or another wouldn't download for a while, because their server was down or whatever, whereas most Google things it is reliably never the server's fault. Google would not be wrong to say it can ensure a better user experience if its providing the podcast over referring to another server which could very well be someone's Raspberry Pi.

But to be listed on Google Podcasts, they consume your RSS feed and upload it. The terms include the standard granting Google irrevocable worldwide royalty-free rights to your intellectual property and includes highlights like their ability to use your podcast content even if you remove it from your feed later.

Since most other podcast apps don't do anything but help others find your RSS feed, I've never had to agree to terms and prove my ownership to be listed anywhere else, Google's demand of IP rights seems unique in this space. I've actually found my podcast listed on all sorts of sites I've never heard of with no such terms required.
These are tough days bro but hold on to any thread that keeps some spark going. A few things that helped me

* do only things that truly made you feel good even if you don’t find joy in it now.

* take up work that is relatively easy for you so you keep seeing some progress.

* don’t carry others burden

* lower expectations from others and yourself for sometime

* let your yes be yes and no be no

* if you are finding it hard to focus see a doc and convince him to give you some modafinil. Please promise yourself that you wont become an addict. (I pretended to have adhd and the doc prescribed me retalin, i am alergic to modafinil). This may not be good advice but it helped me not to loose my job back then. Now I have found my way to the otherside and I am grateful to that doc and that drug.

* find joy in simple things. Make sure to notice the trees around you.

* believe that you will find your inspiration again and you will.

Hope you find help.
I had this exact problem this weekend, and I'm kinda salty. For one, I threw an engineering event, at 8pm to casually design a solution to a problem.

By 11PM, there was a leading idea, and I took time to think about everything. I questioned everything. Everyone was pestering me, the leader of this event, to acknowledge this was a fantastic solution.

I asked stupid questions, I asked great questions, I took time to think, I measured things, and I got crap for it. Someone even said I drank too much, which had nothing to do with my skepticism.

My conclusion-

>Group think took over badly

>others werent thinking, they gave answers like- 'You Just....' without thinking about how difficult each of the tasks. Or 'Thats not a big deal'.

>Non engineers will not be invited in the future, the gf of an engineer (who is a psychologist) was very persuasive on her idea.

I couldnt believe how strong group think was, it was unanimous. The next morning we woke up and realized the idea wasnt great.

I'll take being a slow thinker.
I made a similar tool https://github.com/zricethezav/gitleaks
Reasons why you might want to use gitleaks over this:

* performance (powered by go-git)

* scan github orgs/users

* ref targeting
If you have good marketing/sales but terrible tech, you can still be incredibly successful. It's much harder to go the other way around.
It's good to hear that there are plenty of technology focused opportunities in the legal profession. The only one I had thought about prior to your comment was specialising in IP and technology, so I will definitely look into those other avenues.
ADA applies to companies with 15 or more employees. Nobody is under any obligation to make their blog ADA compliant.
This is my regular daily diet.
> we expect universities to act as neutral debate platforms for all sorts of views that are not endorsed by the university administration

Public universities. I wouldn't dream of asking the same thing of Liberty University. The difference being, the one is a branch of government, and the other is not.

Free speech is narrowly intended to be something that limits the government's ability to impose restrictions on non-government entities for good reason. Asking private organizations (e.g., Liberty University) to follow the same limitations would undercut free speech by preventing ones with a particular point of view (e.g., a conservative Christian one) from actually being able to express that point of view.

Now, if we all wanted to agree that Facebook needs to be granted common carrier status for publicly arguing with your family about politics, that would be different.
You do what is best for you, I think that is what I mean. I just don't like it when people cajole others into drinking when they normally wouldn't. No one should be made to feel that they aren't normal because they don't want to drink.
Breaker announces first open marketplace for podcasts
https://www.cnn.com/2017/09/11/health/sitting-increases-risk...

http://annals.org/aim/article/doi/10.7326/M17-0212

> Take a movement break every 30 minutes, say experts. No matter how much you exercise, sitting for excessively long periods of time is a risk factor for early death, a new study published Monday in Annals of Internal Medicine found.

> There's a direct relationship between time spent sitting and your risk of early mortality of any cause, researchers said, based on a study of nearly 8,000 adults. As your total sitting time increases, so does your risk of an early death.
The positive news: People who sat for less than 30 minutes at a time had the lowest risk of early death.

In short, sitting time accrues in a health debt you can't pay back with breaks.
This technique is highly susceptible to noise. I had implemented this in a prototype game controller years back to get latency down and it was plagued by phantom keys when people physically bent the PCB.
Anyone here with any legal background? What responsibility does Google have for spreading what are now known to be lies? Isn't this essentially libel? IANAL so this is an honest question.