skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
it's maddening that I can't tell for sure, but I'll agree that I find it still somewhat hard to believe that a 20-character random root password was brute-forced.

EDIT: to be clear, I am pretty sure was the only person who used the root password to log in, and the single other user used a similarly long and random password with a different username. if I'd been compromised my problems would be quite a bit bigger. All I know is that right before the 'fatal' root login, there are 40.000+ lines of login attempts from ip's that originated from shady places (at least based on entering them in various GeoIP sites).
I want something different from an Abe Kobo novel than I do from an Agatha Christie one.
You are totally right, updating my comment! It was removed by the FCC but should be added back by Congress.
The biggest obstacle for my reading after I got older was to find books that I would find interesting.

As I had less time, I did not enjoyed filler action/sci-fi/etx books anymore. And to this day, I did not found consistent source of interesting books for adult me. Some manga came close, but the rest I rarely cared to finish.
So did you hire an appraiser to appraise the property and confirm that it was worth ore than it sold for?
I liked the Elm-related courses at Pragmatic Studio: https://pragmaticstudio.com/courses/elm
this is one of the main reasons why states rights is important. Here are the big ones:

1. each state can be tailored to its population
2. each state acts an an incubator for new ideas and other states can follow
3. usa citizens have more choice in who governs then and can easily move between them
Again, your claim that, "Jimmy Carter sent the military to go massacre students" is not supported by that article.

You appear to have a reading comprehension problem.
That wasn't my experience as a whole. Certainly, I experienced both bad and good. But the good Thai I had in Thailand was far superior to the good Thai I can find locally in the US. I'll keep looking :-)
In absolute length of the longest works I can't really tell you. But the style of diction is much wordier and can often be trying for modern readers. I feel bad about this, being a proud New Englander, but I find the transcendentalists practically unreadable.
Wow. The reaction to your completely reasonable comment shows just how susceptible the "smartest people in the world" are to joining an old fashioned pile-on, or at least justifying it.
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I've used Elm/Elixir(Phoenix) in production and it's currently the best stack for web development IMHO
We were accepted and frankly I didn't even notice there was a $10K grant. I mean it'd help of course but not much relative to the value I hope we'll get from advising and serious peers.
Be careful what you wish for. A significant portion of the general population see Twitter, Google, and Facebook as infrastructure companies. If a large enough portion of the population is convinced that net neutrality is important and legislation must be written to accomplish it, the three companies and likely CloudFlare will likely fall under its umbrella. If you ask people to recall an incident of Internet censorship, if they recall anything, it will most likely be something done by one of those 3 and not by an ISP.
Maybe the way you calculate representation is wrong when 30% of the population gets 50% of the vote.
I want a feature that delivers Iowahawk-level snark before telling me the news headline.
I feel slightly queasy :-)
Having $15k MRR means you actually are a company. What value am I going to get from people who haven't even gotten to that point yet?

It's a pretty good barometer for success - 99% of founders don't get to that point.
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Just because the brain isn't done developing, that doesn't mean you can't start using it when you're a teenager. However, getting an English literature degree is crazy and the only reason a kid would think that was a good idea is if everybody around him lied to him about it.
I think of the internet as a communication technology. It's not simply a product. I think we all agree that everyone should have reasonable access to water (cleaned and distributed), because it is very important, it satisfies very primitive needs. You could see electricity as another one of these technologies we think most people should have reasonable access to, but whose primitive importance situates itself between the importance of access to water technology and the importance of access to information communication technology (the internet). It's great how individuals' humane aspects can develop from access to information and communication technology. It's certainly not a need for a human being, but it's important for helping people grow. I can continue but I think this answers the difference between the importance of information communication technology and the importance of products or services found on the internet.
You know, your preferred goals for the article, and author's goals might be different. I for one am glad for some backstory about the accused from their own mouths.
> I find that it is hard to read something when I'm thinking about other things, which is to say my mind wanders into other areas while reading so I lose track of where I am.

I do this too, so I've started keeping a small notebook and pen in my bag. When my mind starts to wander, I write my thoughts into the notebook. I don't know why or how it works, but getting the thoughts onto a page gets them out of my head, which lets me focus.
Those services all have vibrant competition, your ISP definitely doesn't.

The whole point of common carrier regulation is to make sure that industries that are essential to the economy, inherently non-competitive, and impossible to implement effectively as a government service can exist and serve their purpose in society. Youtube/google/fb doesn't fit that definition. There is absolutely competition in that space, and there's little switching cost for individual actors.
That's not what their system is accused of doing.
Do they really call it SS? Not to summon Godwin here but historically that wasn't a great organization to be in…
>US Internet Speed Has Gone From 12th To 6th Fastest Since End Of Net Neutrality

I see this being tossed around as a counter to the main point of NN being slow down of speed.

Also, why do the state dem AG's always suing to enforce new laws instead of the legislation process, it seems like the new way to pass laws is to get a judge to give it to you. We have legal weed from legislation now.
30 seconds?!
This comes off as peering from an ivory tower - essentially "stop studying literature and fix my pipes." Considering we are probably collectively in the wealthiest period humanity has ever experienced we could try not leaving the arts completely out to dry.
He also created Turbo Pascal and Delphi, which both had pretty great tooling support in their respective heydeys.
Your world-view is wrong. Russia wants to be a stabilizing force in Syria. US, Israel, Saudi Arabia and UAE have thrown literal billions at arming and training jihadist militias to take towns and terrorize the Syrian population. Compare stability and the rule of law in areas retaken by government forces vs those still being held by militants.. Night and day.

Some articles about refugees returning to Syria and who is even interested in that or rebuilding Syria.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-mideast-crisis-russia-syr...

https://www.wsj.com/articles/russia-seeks-u-s-help-in-return...

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/middle-east/return-of-...
If you have to justify it, you're doing it wrong. Your free time is your playground. Take half an hour -- or ten minutes -- each day and enjoy those fantasy worlds. They might refresh you.
Probably related to the other thread on HN today about a guy having his site scraped by a competitor.
There’s a difference between filtering for spam content and the much more complicated job of determining “truth”, especially given that what is “true” in political matters is highly subjective.
The fallacy of DRY
This reminds me of the scene from the Matrix when they question whether the AI knows how to replicate the taste of human food “maybe they couldn’t figure out what chicken taste like, which is why chicken taste like everything.”

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2oEnJfZ9joY
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I updated the official guide (https://guide.elm-lang.org/) to try to do a better job at that. It covers "routing" and JS interop much more clearly I think. So I recommend starting there and then asking around in the community if you run into anything!
> why would they need to raise money?

The thinking is that the more a hot company can raise, the longer they can stay public.

In the current cycle, IPOs are more rare than in previous cycles (partly because FAANG are acquiring more companies and partly because companies are waiting longer to IPO) so having more cash on hand gives the company that much more runway.
>The indictment mentions it too, right before quoting an email by Backpage staff saying that referrals to NCMEC are to be capped at 500 per month or 16 per day.

This number is not helpful without context. For all we know that number is significantly over-reporting, was mostly false positives, and mostly resulted in the harassment of consenting adults.

>was to check ads for suspicious keywords. What Brown doesn't tell you is that their software then stripped the keywords out of the ads and ran them anyways.

I read the indictment too. They stripped out language like "young." What would you propose BP do in this scenario? Do you really want every attempted use of the word "young" reported to authorities? That's mostly going to waste resources and harass consenting adults.

Suffice to say the indictment and most media is going to be written in the most negative framing possible. I do know that it's politically expedient to harass/endanger prostitutes and I also know the NCMEC is against prostitution even when everyone is a consenting adult. For all I know BP execs were literally Hitler. But I also know I shouldn't take the framing from the state at face value.
It is still data that Facebook has about you.
<< systematic falsification of data on everything from GDP growth to hydropower use pervades Chinese government statistics.

So what's the use of all this fancy data if they can't have accurate statistics? That should have been the basis of scientific management?
Honestly we need filters on churches that molest children too.
I don't think it's entirely out of the realm of possibility that could be done, and a couple of months with five engineers was a conservative estimate. $375.000 for twice the devs or twice the number of months is still a shockingly low price to pay.

Hell, throw a few million at it and I can't see why Slack can't be implemented natively on at least iOS, MacOS and Android (especially if parts can still fallback on webviews).
This is on the heels of the Python 3.7 AppEngine release from 2 weeks ago[0]. gVisor[1] (user-space kernel) seems to be ready for prime time, which is allowing rolling out new AppEngine runtimes waaay faster.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17717045

[1] https://github.com/google/gvisor
Video games do this for me. I don't know how kids these days spend hours playing Fortnite. A few rounds of that and I need a break.
I've found that any questioning of the technical details of the government narrative on this matter is met with a flood of downvotes but never an actual valid counter argument. You raise some valid points
Oh, I thought he was calling into question the quality of his school or department in that statement.
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The ISP's are more important because of their physical locality. It's infinitely easier to create a competitor for Facebook than a competitor for Time Warner (Google, one of the world's most powerful companies, tried and failed).

That said, with the amount of ubiquity and sway on society that self-proclaimed platforms like Facebook and Google have started to have, I would not be opposed to regulating some of those as utilities too. But that's a more nuanced issue. The ISP issue is so black and white as to be hilarious, if it weren't so disheartening.
The state of App Engine environments seems super confusing, but I _think_ this uses the "second generation standard environment" like the Python 3.7 and Node 8 beta environments, which means that unlike App Engine of Yore, you have access to the full package ecosystem and full network access. I'm not actually 100% sure on this because it's not listed on the runtime page (https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/standard/appengine-g...), but the docs show that you can use composer, unlike the PHP 5.5 runtime.

The documentation for all these second generation runtimes is shockingly bad. I consider Google to be _generally_ pretty good at documentation, but this is one of those cases where their propensity for confusing naming and classification of their products makes it hard as hell to figure out what is going on. It doesn't help that the top-level "product overview" page is useless marketing junk (microservices! serverless!) instead of a practical description, which is buried several links deep.

Having never used App Engine but occasionally wandering into its docs when a new product gets announced like this, am I right in assuming that App Engine's "second generation standard environment" is more or less equivalent to the feature set you'd get from Heroku? The flexible environment also continues to confuse me - it talks about being a managed Docker container, but it doesn't seem like you actually get access to anything like a Dockerfile and that's more of an implementation detail on their end.
I read something similar on a German IT news site a while back. It claimed that Oracle's sales people pressured customers into buying cloud services, and if the customers did not "comply", they were threatened with a license audit that apparently included suspending the customers' licenses until the audit was completed. And if your ERP system is supplied by Oracle, or the database your ERP system runs on (or your financial accounting package), that means you can basically shut down your company until the audit is complete.
"Also: Let me be the first to say that I can’t believe there’s still no Postgres support, which is absolutely outrageous."

Postgres is open source.

Why do they owe you?

If it matters, write the code.
No, that was never how it worked, or Google would have sued and probably won.

What actually happened was that, if a user had Bing's search bar installed in IE, the fine print for the toolbar installation declared that the keywords and links that they click on from other search engines could be sent to Microsoft's servers.

From the article:

>We gave 20 of our engineers laptops with a fresh install of Microsoft Windows running Internet Explorer 8 with Bing Toolbar installed. As part of the install process, we opted in to the “Suggested Sites” feature of IE8, and we accepted the default options for the Bing Toolbar.

So, the toolbar would send keyword, url, ie. {"alsdkjfsd","example.com/alsdkjfsd.html"} to Bing's crawler. Bing's crawler would include that in their search index after crawling it. Perhaps the rank of the page in the search results was included as well. This was a way for Bing to discover unindexed pages.

One could argue that that it's scummy but legal, and that the user also technically owns the data of ("what I searched for", "what URL I visited"), rather than Google being the exclusive owner of that data, and could send that to third parties. That could be a reason Google did not take legal action over it.

Google's IE toolbar also sent a ton of data to Google.

https://searchengineland.com/turning-the-tables-on-the-googl...
Exactly. A completely rewritten from scratch product would probably take 1 year to finish. 90% complete can be ready in a few months, but the last 10% takes much more effort. Then there's the QA division you need to build out to test it on the platforms and OSes you need to support your enterprise customers. Then there's the management structure to track the project. Then there's keeping it up to date with the existing service's changes as it's both in development and production. Then there's the migration to switch users to the new client, and the phasing out of the old client over time.

It's doable, but it's non-trivial, and probably only buys you the accolades of a small percentage of users on slower hardware. (And incidentally, almost every video chat app I use today runs the fans and slows down my system, but I can deal with it)
To be fair, all of these are node-local, not distributed, which is what the parent was talking about. (Some of the ones you mention are also very old and unmaintained.)

For a distributed cron, you need a more sophisticated, transactional system that can deal with node failures.

There are many cron replacements, but they generally don't tackle the main problems with the original cron, such as the inability to retry, queue, prevent overlapping jobs, enforce timeouts, report errors and metrics in a machine-readable way (spewing out emails is not a good solution), etc.
Obviously their entire reason for existence is to make money and no one believes anything different. I think that they also provide a valuable service to the markets and that Paul Singer (at least at this stage in his life) sees himself as an activist beyond the investment world.

I don't agree with all of their methods but think that they're a necessary boogieman in order to prevent shareholders from getting ripped off. Definitely the most aggressive in their space and they attract a lot of attention for it but no one ever seems to ask about why these companies were run in such a poor fashion to begin with.
But the trolling is a serious problem and more effort needs to go into addressing it directly. This is the stuff that righteous idiots grab a hold of - it's basically an iron buoy thrown to people that can't swim.

To top poster: these two things are not the same. They are wholly different classes where at the very base level one cannot exist without the other, literally. One is a utility provisioning and the other an appliance, figuratively.
Seriously. This is about as newsworthy or controversial as when I ask the assistant to tell me something interesting or a joke.
Yeah, I suppose it's a fair point that if anyone's going to moderate this properly it's you guys.

Don't mind my negative commentary - I know this was a difficult day for you, and I appreciate the hard decisions that need to be made.

As a founder, though, I have a very hard time finding groups of other founders who have reached a certain level of success and was very excited to be a part of that. It's very difficult finding something like that and I really hope you guys can consider my ideas here.
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Well, you could sort of do this experiment yourself, with a bit of preparation and a decent bit of patience.

- Prepare a new small website on an extremely obscure topic; something a search engine will consider uninteresting and not worth ranking highly, but just legitimate enough to warrant maintaining in the search index. On top of obscurity, don't link to the site from anywhere. This is so the site doesn't wind up crawled by Bing.

- Manually add the site to Google's index (I forget where but there's a webmaster tool that can be used to manually add things; then you wait and see if the crawler paid any attention and added it to the index)

- Add a single webpage on the site that, in amongst all the other words, contains a single random word, or a series of random words. Now repeatedly search Google for the term, on a machine nowhere near a Windows system, and and wait see if your site shows up. It will take some time to get this working, because unlike Google's fully contrived test, actually getting garbage/nonsense words into the index does take effort, as (in my experience) the index seems to be primed to index/prefer valid words over garbage; on top of this, your nonsense word will be (if you're doing it right) the only result in the world for the word, so it may be the search result is in the index but has some attribute marking it below a "show in results" threshold, if such metrics exist.

- Now you have your magic term, do what Google did, and repeatedly search Bing for the term, from IE.

- ???

- Profit?
Who said anything about network effects?
> Lakes turn into swamps which turn into forests given enough time.

While this is literally true, it's not clear to me that it's a relevant metaphor for online communities.
For consumer-facing eyeball ISPs, in almost all US markets, consumers have an extremely limited set of ISPs to choose from, typically a traditional telephone provider like AT&T or Verizon and a traditional cable provider like Comcast or Cox (if they're lucky enough to have both). As such, those eyeball providers have an effective monopoly, and if I don't like the network policies of my ISP, I have almost no recourse to change them. Those monopoly providers have also consistently lobbied against any challenges to their position: attempts to start a municipal ISP offering services to residents will be strongly challenged by incumbent providers, often to the point of outlawing municipal ISPs entirely at the state level.

In contrast, I can very much choose alternate providers for everything else you've listed--I don't like GoDaddy and don't use them for domain registration or hosting, and I had thousands of options to choose from. Twitter is by no means the only social network in town, and has challengers within its specific microblogging niche.
I think more companies need to allow more flexibility when it comes to hours in the office. This is actually a pretty interesting topic to me.

From reading about programmers routines and how long one can code, I believe most people are fully engaged in their tasks 2-4 hours per day. Add some time for meetings and research. It is pretty silly to sit in the office 8 hours for a dev. That changes if your work in customer service or a similar job where you need to be there.

I actually interviewed at a company that had a strict 8-5 policy with 1 hour lunch. I told them that's too much time and I'm not willing to slave away in the office.(no remote option)

I think people should be open about productivity and not pretend it is some kind of a taboo subject that you can't bring up with your employer. There is no reason a dev should have strict hours, unless they are fresh and require supervision.
>> I'm not sure how the vetting process adds any value

What? The entire point of vetting is to increase the quality of the remaining pool. You can argue how successful they are at doing this, but the intent of the process is pretty clear.

>> The way I see it, the vetting is more or less random.

Don't let YC or anybody else define you, but if you'd got in initially I bet you'd take it as a positive signal data point.
> clearly not a better alternative.

To what, though? What's the choice here? Give a few people even more power without having to be voted in? Who decides which people get all the power? What if they're worse? How do we get rid of them? Is a bloody revolution or decades of dictatorship really the same as having elections where the votes don't always make the best choices?
Cheers to that. We recently had to support a customer stuck in a Linux distro from a few years ago... this was an older guy that like how things were made back in the day and who hasn't upgraded his system because nobody uses good'ol init scripts anymore in Linux...
We had to spend the best part of a week creating by hand a binary of our product that could run in his distro, including versions of system libraries with critical security patches.

Docker the company and docker the tooling may have issues, but those Docker images are a life-saver at times.