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Heyo, John from Ghost here. Thanks for the kind words so far about 2.0 — it’s been a hectic few months! Earlier this year I talked about how we were shifting focus from simplicity to power - https://blog.ghost.org/5/ - and this is the first big release since that move. Whereas early versions were extremely opinionated and rigid, we’re now starting to bake in more flexibility and configurability to allow for a more diverse set of use-cases.

Some fun technical details from this release:

- New features require building a routing map for all possible URLs on boot, which is a dramatically heavy operation. We were eventually forced to forgo our traditional ORM layer entirely to get any degree of performance (insert: shock/awe)

- Related: It turns out SQLite3 has a query limit of 999 SQL variables, so we had to implement a recursive query strategy for SQLite only. Wild. Default is MySQL though, which was fine.

- Conquered a pretty spectacular memory leak when running in development as a result of trace-logging promises in Bluebird, which is “a full featured promise library with unmatched performance” — …unless you implicitly enable debug traces

Also: Let me be the first to say that I can’t believe there’s still no Postgres support, which is absolutely outrageous.

On a serious note, thanks for all the support and there are several of us hanging out in the comments if anyone has technical questions which they’re curious about.
Half the English world might say Shakespeare or Beethoven.

Yet nobody wants to join the British empire and the country Beethoven lived in no longer exists ...
http://getpoole.com/ ?

If you're a HN regular, you can probably build a site using GitHub Pages. I'm just not sure about the Facebook-using public...
They're shopping this out to a journalistic outlet.
Can you give me an examples of that on both sides, though? Because if it's a bipartisan problem, then it should be not terribly difficult to find equivalent examples on both sides. If you can't, then may it's not a partisanship issue and it's something else.

edit: this thread doesn't need to go on, so I will say my final word in this edit. In the context of the topic at hand (Russian hacking, criminal conspiracy/obstruction) I think it's without precedent in US history, reaction to it transcends party lines (evidenced by numerous and bipartisan condemnations) and it's not helpful to pull it into the "both sides do it" narrative because it's almost 100% along a party line in terms of who is involved in it.
Perhaps there is a reciprocal element. If Facebook appears not trustworthy to me, then I don't trust Facebook, and then probably I will appear not trustworthy to Facebook.
I really appreciate when industry leaders talk frankly about things like this. In current culture, this can be easily treated as an admission of weakness and penalized accordingly. The more high-status people that speak up, the more the stigma will dissolve.
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IntelliJ is "the" IDE market, but not the entire ecosystem.
This is more or less my thinking on the matter as well.

I'm also very skeptical (uninformed?) of the evidence that ties Russia to all of this.

In this case:

"Microsoft said its digital crimes unit (DCU) had acted on a court order to take control of six internet domains created by a group known variously as Strontium, Fancy Bear and APT28, which it said was associated with the Russian government.

As well as the two think-tanks, other home pages had been set up to mimic the websites of the U.S. Senate and Microsoft’s own Office software suite, it added. "

So, these sophisticated Hackers registered web pages under their own organization names? Is that not a bit like robbing a bank and leaving your business card behind?

And in the case of the former Russian hackers in the news, I may be wrong but is it not ip addresses that were used as evidence? If so, I've always been under the impression that ip addresses can be spoofed, and so the rumor goes the CIA (at least) possesses a wide variety of cloaking techniques.

https://www.eff.org/files/2016/09/22/2016.09.20_final_format...

https://wikileaks.org/ciav7p1/

To be clear, I'm not claiming this proves (or disproves) anything one way or the other, what I am saying is that the "evidence", at least what I've seen, leaves me feeling rather skeptical. In it worries me that there aren't very many people in the skeptical centre here with me, most everyone seems to be out on the polar opposite ends of the spectrum on whether Russia did this or not.

EDIT: Downvoter(s) - feel free, but if you are downvoting based on disagreement, would you mind posting a link to an article that explains the method(s) by which we can conclude definitively that all of the alleged Russian attacks were indeed committed by Russia, rather than a 3rd party posing as Russia? If my skepticism is "simply wrong", then it should be easy to simply demonstrate that. It's a pretty sad state of affairs if people can't address sincere, worthy questions, but "know" they are wrong.
Your link provides the following to support your claim: "That’s just till 2000! The US has gone nuts since then."

Do you really accept that as proof?
They fight bitterly so that we won't notice they're so similar. If we did notice that we might wonder about alternatives to Coke-and-Pepsi.
That's not a perspective I expected someone to argue, and I'd argue directly the opposite.

I find the older the book, the slower and more waffly (if you want to be uncharitable) its prose. I haven't looked into this at all, but it always feels to me like editors are a new edition to the writing process.

Ironically I usually really enjoy the actual prose they wrote, because it's often beautiful, but after dozens and dozens of pages of hearing about how pious some bishop is you have no context for you really start to wish Victor Hugo would just move the fuck on.
Their video offering is laughably bad but I'd bet that isn't because of electron. Otherwise I'm surprised people hate the electron app so much, on my 2014 mbp it works just fine.
ITT: People who only read headlines.

"To activate the feature, Assistant users in the U.S. can say, “Hey Google, tell me something good” to kick off the daily briefing of happy stories."

This is NOT a filter Google puts on your news intake. It IS a gimmick that people can activate like asking it to tell you a joke.
Don't know either. But if you google for something like - memristor oxygen transfer problem - lots of stuff comes up.
He’s talking about the millet system, overlaid with a veneer of constitutionalism and parliamentary activity.
EFF did a similar thing with the Best Buy / pedo doctor case. This doctor has child porn on 5 devices, but the search was questionable so it got thrown out. EFF never mentions this fact and instead make a big stink about the Best Buy employees being listed as confidential informants. Basically all the comments on Twitter were talking about how the FBI probably planted the evidence.

I'm cool with reporting on the case. Talk about the bad search (the image was unlinked on the file system, so it was deleted). Talk about how when you give your devices to a third party they can report illegal shit they find. Don't just push a narrative while exonerating fucked up people.

There is so much misleading reporting right now. Everyone has their agenda and they ignore facts to push it. It makes me read way fewer articles online cause it's all such a mess.
I've had them all my life, the first at 21, in my mid 40s now, spent a good 10 years of my life with crippling episodes, were I couldn't go out, drive, and have panic attacks lasting for hours. At the worst, it was so bad, I lost 30 pounds in 1 week, couldn't eat, couldn't sleep with a mind racing 24 hours/day. It's so exhausting for the mind that you start having visual hallucinations, you start thinking about ending your life etc, and then finally, you collapse, what you could call a complete breakdown.

And here's the interesting part, things that you don't necessarily experience till it goes full blown, it's when you reach that point, the end of fear basically, your mind becomes calm. You don't necessarily realize it in the instant but that's it, you've stared into the abyss and it's not as awful as you imagined. At that point, you still have anxiety but that's it, it doesn't control you anymore, you're out of the 2 states loop, panic or fear it may happens. It's still painful, but it's not hell anymore, you know how it's gonna end, there's no more question.

Now, it's an incredible experience, can even become an spiritual one, it did for me, experiencing first hand how reality is subjective and how the mind works.

All in all, I wouldn't trade all those experiences for anything, it gives you an understanding of the human condition that not a lot of things can give you.
You are wrong in so many ways it's not even worth going into. Please do some research before commenting on topics in which you clearly have no experience.
But that has political consequences, so in a way it’s a political agenda. Like, if you drive 120mph on city streets, you have a collision agenda, whether that was your intent or not.
Different economics for adding this as an action to Assistant. I'm sure Google will be able to tell from adoption numbers whether this isn't worth maintaining.
Melatonin. It's wonderful stuff - non-habit forming, available over the counter, and when combined with a good sleeping routine (environment, consistency of timing) can really help you smooth out a sleep pattern in to something more consistent or aide you in a change like this - though the idea is once you got consistent in the routine that you'd no longer need the melatonin.

It's not a cure all wonder drug however, and will really only assist in inducing the drowsiness that parleys in to sleep, just to manage expectations a bit - but it really is highly effective when combined with solid routine / environment.
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Don't get defensive. During the Bush years democrats believed stuff like Bush declaring martial law after a lost election. Or look at 9/11 conspiracies. Right now Trump is the embodiment of this trend with all the nonsense he is saying.
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Initial investment was about $175k, plus some ongoing for various purchases equipment/larger purchases. This is all bootstrapped with no outside investment. Background for myself is in product management for analytics & ML applications in the enterprise space. Other 2 co-founders: 1 has a PhD in Biology and the other has background in QA and robotics/automation.
It's like no person from the first world may make any comment on Africa's problems without first attributing most of the blame to themselves. For intervening, for not intervening, it's mostly all whitey's fault.
This looks like a sales pitch
So how could you tell an AI-generated Rothko from the real thing? If you can't tell the difference, is there a difference?...a kind of Turing test applied to art.

Personally, I think that a helluva lot of modern art has a high BS level, and welcome the uproar that a computer could bring to it.
It

- wraps almost only syscalls and uses only Go standard types;

- exposes standard interfaces; plays well with standard packages like io, bufio, etc.

- does not handle memory management (allocating/destructing slice). It's up to user to decide whether/how to reuse buffers.
In other words, fake vues ;)
And it's be perfectly understandable that many of the countries where such acts happen are not exactly friends of the US.
Switched whole organization from slack to https://zulipchat.com - so much happier!
"Lyons said she soon realized that many people were reporting posts as false simply because they did not agree with the content."

Well, yes. Have they not learned from any of the preceding work on moderating?
> Although they may not barrage you now, there is no telling what the future holds with stunts like this.

I think the future is pretty predictable.

In the off chance they just wake up and start slamming you with unsolicited marketing then you can click unsubscribe in the footer of their email and you'll never see another email from Docker again.

But really, I don't think Docker is foolish enough to do that. They've spent a lot of years building up their brand and business, and aren't reckless enough to put all of that at risk by relentlessly emailing their users with marketing agendas (if that's what they wanted to do they could have been doing that for years).

Docker already knows that almost everyone uses the free community edition anyways, so they really have nothing to sell to us anyways, except for maybe Docker Hub private repo access. Anyone who already downloads Docker already knows the benefits of using Docker, so they don't need to sell us on Docker as a technology. What are they going to market to us?

Lastly, let's not forget that the Docker for Windows / Mac clients have allowed you to login to the Docker Hub for a long time now and nothing bad has came from that (unexpected marketing attempts).
It may not be political agenda but it has consequences. If left only sees left opinions and right only sees right opinions, how people are to agree on anything if they are never exposed to arguments from other side?

As bad as people are at being unbiased, this is only making things worse, on gigantic scale.
Maybe some people like the idea of being able to go out in a more natural way.

There's nothing intrinsically wrong with dying.
Yeah, I'm really lost.

I feel like someone described useful properties of A Thing if it existed.

Then we figured out how to make A Thing that had those useful properties.

Is it A Thing, or Two Things?

That's pedantic. Pragmatically, don't we have the useful properties?
There is a lot of blockchain over-hype, but this actually does seem like a pretty good use case.
What makes you think the microcode patch is decrypted to cache at all? (Hint: it's not)
> By that argument, children shouldn't be writing their documents in Word, nor their presentations in powerpoint, nor using computers that contain proprietary intel micro-code in any classes.

Actually, I don't think that's an absurd consequence of the argument: maybe children shouldn't be writing their documents using proprietary software; maybe their computers shouldn't contain proprietary microcode.

In the case of Word, one might make the counter-argument that it is very powerful; another might then make the counter-counter-argument that alternatives to Word in 2018 are more powerful than Word was years ago, and yet somehow we all managed to write well all those years ago. I'm a bit weird, so I think children should be taught to write longhand, and then typeset their papers with LaTeX.

In the case of proprietary microcode, I think it's pretty obvious that the world would be better if we could all trust our CPUs.
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You are advocating for the marginalization of minorities if popular opinion is that minorities should be marginalized.

This is the very definition of "tyranny of the majority", and is also self-defeating in terms of democracy: marginalized groups are no longer fully represented in democracies once they have been marginalized.
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It's not clear to me how this new option is putting people in an "information bubble" any more than a person deciding to buy a copy of "Chicken Soup For the Soul" instead of "Mindhunter." Can you clarify?
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Yes, there are differences. For example, another difference is that the people in museums don't wear jerseys, but athletes do. The question isn't whether there are differences; it's whether those differences matter. I don't think they matter. More specifically, I don't think they're relevant to the objections here, which are largely cultural in nature.

In fact, what the high salaries in sports reveal to me is that the public wants sports a lot more than they want museums.
I expect we'll start to see a wide variety of integration disappear as they begin locking their customers into the product.
What does the future look like for chatbots?
When Twitter purged Russian bot followers in June, CNN tweeted this: "President Trump and Katy Perry among Twitter users hit hardest by follower purge https://cnnmon.ie/2KVgIkj"[1].

When reading the article, one will find that Trump lost the second to last fewest followers in absolute terms (204,000) and the fewest in relative terms (0.4 %) out of all the Twitter users mentioned. The closest relative loss was 1.7% of "the main New York Times account". President Obama lost "nearly 2.4 million" followers, or 2.3%.

Given these facts, I believe it is an indication of political bias on behalf of the CNN to mention "President Trump" as the first thing when tweeting about the article.

[1] https://twitter.com/CNNMoney/status/1017936776298680321

EDIT: It could be argued that CNN mentioned Trump first for the maximum clickbait effect. But if that is the case, why did the tweet have to cast Trump in a negative light? It could have just as well been "Trump lost barely any followers compared to Katy Perry and Barack Obama! What a whopper of a surprise!".
In the digital world of brainless games, and binge watching media it is very hard to focus on reading as our minds are being trained to get most amount of information in as compressed way as possible. While commuting on trains of NYC I tend to look around and see 9/10 people are either playing some no brainer games or watching something while listening to music. Hardly would we find a reader involved in his/her kindle or a book or even reading on phone. I am guilty of binge watching a show endlessly sinking in my couch (even while working). I think rather than fighting whether we are reading a device or a physical book the important point is that we keep reading and promote reading to our next generation with all mediums available (book, kindle, mobile, messengers...) and whichever is the most convenient for them.
Please read the article folks. The headline is misleading
and and why I usually don't bother with Techcrunch articles.
yeah, if you have a spam detector that outputs a probability, then that's a rating of trustworthiness on a scale of 0 to 1.
We use DistilNetworks to do bot and scraping limiting. I wouldn't exactly say I recommend it, I'm skeptical about it's usefulness, but it might be worth trying to see if it solves the problem. At least then they are battling a third party with some expertise in it and additional data, rather than you having to try to come up with countermeasures from whole cloth.
It's not personally identifiable data, so probably not.
I agree that there are consequences. Whether it rises to the level of negligence as in your example is debatable. And I think that debate is going on as more and more people are talking about and becoming aware of the societal impact of social media.
> There is so much misleading reporting right now. Everyone has their agenda and they ignore facts to push it. It makes me read way fewer articles online cause it's all such a mess.

I think it's probably always been this way. It's just now, with the internet, we can find out.
Exactly. The primary difference (to me personally) being that I'll probably activate this at least once a day. ;)
All the Major AI conferences are published in English, are you concerned about that as well? English has long been established as the lingua franca of Science, it's not discrimination it's just reality.
Certain strains are better for younger people. When I was young things seem boring or slow and sativa would make things fun/exciting. Now that I'm older I'm never bored I usually need more time. Indica works better. Hybrid strains are even too much.
I also believe that having 'normal' jobs provides greater business insight when developing.
Its partisanship. Democrats were loud about surveillance and foreign wars during the Bush years. Then they got quiet once Obama came in and did the same. Republicans were super concerned about the deficit during Obama years and now the completely forgot about that. People adjust their opinions based on who is in power.

It's almost like 1984 " We've always been at war with Eastasia "
> Because Facebook forwards posts that are marked as false to third-party fact-checkers, she said it was important to build systems to assess whether the posts were likely to be false to make efficient use of fact-checkers’ time.

This seems like a "the road to hell is paved with good intentions" kind of thing. On one hand, I understand not wanting to forward every single story when a troll is mass-reporting, on the other hand though, this seems like a very 1984 approach that like all algorithms is horrendously naive.

Any closed group is likely to have a skewed sense of reality. On one hand, third party fact checkers are hopefully true to their title, but on the other hand, they could just be adding their own bias to the decisions with no oversight in a way that affects users going forward.

Add in no ability to appeal and no visibility into the system, and you have a closed system ripe for abuse.

Good job Facebook, you have learned nothing.
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Archived copy without GDPR nag screen:

https://web.archive.org/web/20180821143120/https://www.washi...
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10 years behind? There might be competitors (perhaps) but the Closure compiler does quite a lot of impressive engineering -- not just the tree shaking and identifier renaming that Elm is trying finally to do, but also automatic function inlining, loop unrolling, numerous other performance tweaks. And it all works fantastically, very reliable. I've been using it for 4 years on a huge codebase and I've not once had a problem that was due to the Closure compiler. It's robust and stable.
He does consider it. "Or was it my fault for not having the foresight to realise it was a mistake to spend roughly $200,000 on a school where, in order to get my degree, I kept a journal about reading Virginia Woolf?"
Refreshing to see focus on a better product and not a pivot into a website builder of sorts. Congrats on the launch, looks solid!
How to make money with no code websites built with these 3 tools
“The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum....”. This quote comes to mind.
I will be in startup school. I'm interested in a Non-commercial capacity, just a simple 3D printable case to support open hardware.
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Combine it with DNA.
If you can find a commercial soda machine/gun kit for $65 I would by it on the spot. The operation costs are super cheap, which is the point, but I haven't found the equipment anywhere cheaper than around $800.
That's your response to Microsoft fixing a problem they have the ability to fix? Would you rather they didn't fix it?
Yeah, I can see the convenience, and in fact I've used iMacs and enjoyed them. They're dead simple to set up, they look great, and importantly for the company they keep the Apple logo on the desk instead of under it while keeping the screen manufacturer's logo away.

I think it's when I see the iMac Pro that I start to really balk.

The irony is that Apple's design is pretty much a descendent of Bauhaus' and Braun's form-follows-function design -- and yet at least at the pro level they often appear to be sacrificing function for form.

I'm still a Mac user, though...
thank you mr president
Seriously?! Giving cookies to protesters vs. invading the country? Or are you comparing the cookies to hacking a candidate's e-mail server and offering the e-mails to the opposing candidate?
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That is right. Not sure if it's called corruption tho. No one is getting paid on the side.