skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let me clarify the phrase "targeted access to data", as we already know what that means — a good example sits right in front of us. The current NSA wiretaps and massive information gathering operations including wiretaps, fiber optic splices, and equipment installed at network exchange points are what is understood by "targeted access to data".
Imagine spending an hour transcribing hex codes, only to type the run command and have it crash

This is basically how/why I learned how to program. I had a knock-off Apple II clone (Franklin Ace 1000), and I'd type in BASIC games. I was terrible at typing and often made mistakes. I learned the basics of debugging when trying to get those games working. In a lot of cases, just getting the game working was far more fun than actually playing it.
Do you have a story to share regarding this?
Great opinion mneil. Thanks a lot for sharing it.

>>assuming you're a perfect candidate for every position you've interviewed for

I'm really sorry if it sounded that way. I agree I may not fit for the role for which I was interviewed for. But I really wish to know whether such factors really exists.
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None, I have my physiological senses and that is enough for me.

I don't want a sensor telling me one room is 1C colder than another room. Or controlling my light.
Same goes for the Amazon Echo wiretapping for the CIA.
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>life isn't really that fun anyway

>think I'll just hit the eject button early

You should try sky diving
I know I'm preaching to the choir here but... I'm glad all those law abiding criminals and terrorists will only use government sanctioned services with the back doors in. They'll never think about using anything else. Oh wait. They will. So all the government will be spying on will be law abiding citizens. So when the system is inevitably breachrd, only law abiding citizen will have their data expossed. The people pushing this are either very smart, very stupid, or a mixture of the both wth the smart channeling the stupid.
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What if he really believes in the potential of his fund, and simply choses the graph that better conveys his belief- even if someone else might object that it's not the complete or most neutral representation?
Key escrow proposals don't "work" unless you outlaw encryption schemes that don't opt in to the escrow. Key escrow's weakness is certainly bad. But it's much worse that you can no longer be free to execute these mathematical concepts. Can you even discuss them freely in a world where the implementation is outlawed?
Part-time PhD while working at Google: how does it work?
So, you’re not saying it’s manipulative, but it’s reasonable to assume it is? That seems contradictory.
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It does remove some momentum from the elevator, and sends it down towards Earth.

The system is not connected to Earth, so it doesn't change the planet's orbit.
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For what it’s worth, my grandparents told me that their 60s was one of the best period of their lives.
"UK chip and pin is noticeably and consistently faster to perform transactions" is not because chip&pin process is faster, but because the risk of counterfeit cards is lower and the system can be configured to not verify small transactions against the bank, saving a network roundtrip - the terminal just "talks" to the chip, and does the full verification with the bank later in offline mode, without requiring the customer to wait for the outcome. Doing the same with magstripe would be much more risky.
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Funny thing, I live in Rio de Janeiro, and no one is talking about it today.

That's how much people care. It's sad.
I would have never though that I will see WSJ and balanced in same sentence.
I've used Tiny Tiny RSS. Works well enough.
The nature of programming has changed so much since then. Back then, you could get going by knowing a very limited set of building blocks (BASIC keywords, all described in a single manual). The challenge was to build something meaningful out of those building blocks. Programming could be hard, but never too complex. Problem solving at its purest. That's what got me hooked!

Today, the set of building blocks is unlimited. The challenge is to find the right building block for what you want to do, using the infinity of resources available to you (all the APIs, libraries, Google, GitHub, StackOverflow, blog posts). You're drowning in complexity, even if what you want to program is straightforward. And you are constantly mindful of writing idiomatic code, always wondering if there's a better way to do the same thing, which is normally a good thing but can be time-consuming and getting in the way of the fun part that is the problem solving.
There is more to Serverless than just APIs. For event based, eventually consistent workflows where you don’t need real time responses like working with queues, stream processing, etc. it’s great.

But, I think it’s used a lot more than necessary for end user facing APIs they need fast responses.
Agreed. I don't feel like I'm good enough to apply, but this job ad really made me want to (and I might, at some point)!

EDIT: plus, I'd have to move to the US first, I guess :-/?
We still have modern rock (or pick your genre) stars. You won't see a crowd of teenage girls holding "MARRY ME" signs and losing their minds when Zuckerberg is giving a talk. I also disagree with trivializing/ignoring the fact that these industry titans sit at the top of companies that employ thousands of people. I don't think Nirvana ever had cities competing with handouts and tax incentives to get them to tour. No, these guys aren't the rock stars, they're the record execs, and they've earned the public's disdain.
>That sounds specious - grass is greener fallacy. The evidence was that the CP team failed at the job. But where is the evidence that the architecture team would succeed?

Anybody who has worked for a couple of decades of large software project, doesn't need any, cause they have seen this play out time and again. Brooks doubly so -- he literally wrote the book on software development timelines.

Sure, technically you're right.

But it's not like every piece knowledge needs to come packaged in a fancy LaTeX, with confidence intervals, and control groups. Sometimes experience alone is enough to assure us that the rain is wet and that a team of 150 will invariably fail in this way when assigned such a task compared to a team of 10.
I am not sure, it makes a lot of '100 books to read before you die' lists[1]. Perhaps the best evidence to support it as worthy of the 'classic' moniker is perhaps the CSMonitor review [3] which points out that it has held up as a great story over several hundred years.

How would you define a "classic" and what books would you put in that definition?

[1] exemplar -- https://www.businessinsider.com/100-books-everyone-should-re...

[2] Quora discussion -- https://www.quora.com/Why-is-The-Count-of-Monte-Cristo-consi...

[3] "Dumas published the book in 1846. It is no exaggeration to say “Monte Cristo” still ranks as one of the most exciting stories imaginable, one every bit as good as anything Steven Spielberg or J.K. Rowling could ever conjure up." -- https://www.csmonitor.com/Books/Book-Reviews/2011/0206/Class...
> driven by your productivity

Curious, how’s it measured?
As others have pointed out, this is an odd issue that really shouldn’t be happening. Hopefully, since posting, the author has investigated alternative solutions for website hosting as there are many (which are very nice and very free).

I sort of got the impression that this was just a paid promotion for CloudFlare workers. If it wasn’t, maybe they could do you a solid and help you identify the actual issue. :)
The right to private communication ought to be absolute. It is after all related to the right to express oneself through encrypted means. Limiting the right to private communication requires limiting the right to generate encrypted communication, meaning that it requires violating free speech.
I have a strong feeling I tried newsblur before and didn't like it so there might still be room for a couple of RSS readers.

(No this is not a jab at newsblur, it might be an excellent product just like other things I don't personally like. My point is only there is room for more products.)

Personally I use Feedbro which I find excellent:

- works nicely (well, I had to restore my opml a couple of times) but when it works I really like it

- no login. No account.

- runs locally as a Firefox extension

It is not open source though as far as I can see.
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You can use images hosted on GitLab's Container Registry. Especially - you can use such images as the base for CI/CD jobs running on the same GitLab instance.

It was possible since very erly state of GitLab's Container Registry. The problem was when one wanted to use images created from internal or private projects, which require previous authentication. Support for such workflow was added (partially) in GitLab Runner 0.6, and with GitLab Runner 1.8 (late 2016) it's possible to use any private registry with GitLab CI jobs. And private images from the same GitLab instance are accessible without any additional work that needs to be made by the user - until the user who triggered a job has access to the project where requested image is stored.

Details can be found at https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/docker/using_docker_images.htm....
Brazilian officials fear incalculable loss of artefacts after museum fire
Thank you for the warning about the auto play video.
Doesn't outsourcing imply you're working with other companies? If I outsource my IT staff, generally that means I am hiring another company to handle my IT work, right?

With remote work, the workers are still employees of your company, they just don't always sit in your office.
yeah but I can't wait until browsers implement random background color change at 60hz for every https website because of "security"
In a less paranoic way, there's this related item: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8862689

...which evolved from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8856829
Redistributing information will have the same effect as redistributing property. It will discourage private enterprise, because it will reduce the incentive to generate valuable information, and will breed underground criminal organizations as a means of circumventing the state apparatus.

The Soviet Union was one of the most corrupt societies on Earth by its end, largely as a consequence of making the formal economy so restricted that they pay off of operating outside of it grew enormously. Today's Russian organized crime is just the continuation of the organizations and networks that ran its grey/black markets during the Soviet era.
I actually wonder if that is the true purpose and not what the media glued together out of "thing moving on cable." It could just as well be a test for a space tether or cable centrifuge, with any space elevator research being a secondary thing
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> Gets super interested.

> Opens website and sees
subscription based model

> no thanks.
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I've known a few toddlers who respectfully beg to differ about not eating floored food. And non-food, for that matter.
I have an old, shared webhost with a lot of users who want to forward emails to gmail, but aren't willing to pay for gsuite to get a custom domain and stop using my webhost for forwarding. Plus gmail isn't very good with custom filter rules.

I had most of the traffic moved to procmail/spamassassin, and added greylisting, but there is still enough spam going to gmail that I was having deliverability problems. These show themselves as gmail giving soft fails and a huge queue building up.

My current solution is 2-fold:

1) It turns out that gmail is likely to soft-fail the spammiest incoming messages. So I have a script that deletes them from the queue, with rules that match addresses that get the most spam. That way my IP only gets 1 badness point per spam message, not dozens for all of the retries.

2) I moved the outgoing email I care about to a different IP.
Modi is India's greatest politician in recent years.

If anyone thinks that he didn't get exactly what he wanted, they are absolutely incorrect.

For the record, my meager guesses of Modi's moves once he became PM were correct, so I have faith in my assessment of him.

Modi didn't give a rats ass about the stated reasons for this exercise.

Thats why the target moved so many times. Cashless/Terror/ counterfeit etc. etc.

Contrast that with ACTUAL projects he works on - those get targets, goals, and media communication which is spot on.

Modi would never abandon the exercise, because in one move he crippled opponent political infrastructure.

Every day, Modi fights a scorched earth political battle to destroy the Congress.
True and that’s completely orthogonal to Serverless.

Use RDS for DB servers and just use Elastic Beanstalk. It takes most of the complexity out of deploying load balanced web servers.

Serverless for app servers is sometimes fine if you don’t need real time responsiveness like working with queues.
Travis recommends storing secrets that dont change between branches via the project settings. Also, secure envars in the Travis config appears to interfere with deep merging on triggered builds.. Hopefully they can do better :)
Ah, “Micro Adventurer” was awesome for the same things in English. Cross-platform BASIC code, I did a lot of work based of an article on more natural Adventure command grammars. So much fun!
I'm not using a parser I wrote. Though of course someone must maintain it.

I considered writing this in C++ to get more tooling (JS parser, C++ AST libraries, etc.) but in the short-term I do not see myself switching. I'd be a little more likely to switch back to D though because I find data structures in Rust annoying.
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Yaay I told everyone that night how it's a nonsense move for the reason cited, lol those who mocked me then now don't have a face but I rub it into them everytime this comes up ^^
You don't need full sized, nor declared, adversaries. NSA workers, and associated private contractors have lost, leaked or even published backdoors and other very private information in the not so far past, along with questionable security practices in their own computers. Individuals, criminal organizations, corporations and so on will get pretty soon access to those backdoors, and that is something that will impact everyone.
Why is that relevant?

All the barriers are just increasing the power of gmail, making it impossible to filter it off.

It's mostly likely that the volume of spam will remain constant, whatever we do. But the current fight (led by Google, for some reason) is just breaking the email federation. By the way, now that we have all the natural language tools, what was made of content based filtering?
Why do people keep posting this as if they are educating the masses who think when you refer to “Serverless” people think your code is being run by a bunch of leprechauns. Everyone in the industry knows in context what Serverless means.
I have syringomyelia which in the worst case can result in paralysis and the surgery is one of those 50/50 cases (50% improvement, 50% a lot worse - They put a shunt into your spine to drain it which means pretty high risk of infection in the spine).

Spinal stuff scares the crap out of me but at least the periodic MRI's show it's stable, so I'll 'just' be stuck with numbness/pain and a limp in the best case.

I'm glad you did documented this, anyone googling their medical condition (and everyone does) may find it :), glad you are on the mend as well.
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How does your alternative hiring path work?
>The Comedy of Errors has a whole scene that's just fat shaming for no good reason.

I really don't think fat jokes are considered off-limits for present-day comedies.