skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
2nd solid post today and despite being familiar with the concepts I don’t understand any of the detail.

Marketing spiel is fine but somewhere concrete details need to be provided without the BS. Very disappointing that Tim Berners-Lee would be associated with something so poorly expressed.
Right- and left-wing are poor overall predictors of behaviour, at least when comparing two different nations or two different eras of the same nation, as they are essentially seating arrangement. Instead, authority versus liberty is one axis, while a different axis might be free market versus central planning economics, and a third could be if power is mainly decided by democracy or by wealth.
The article stipulates that the contract dates back until 2002, about 11 years before the Snowden allegations came to light. So while they could have switched afterwards, the contract may have had a longer contract period, locking them in for a while. You also can’t just switch the identity provider for your national ID system, such a move would need at least some lead time.
As someone who has worked with teams from Israel, I'd like to hear more about this if you have good sources.

In my experience, it's been the opposite. They like to play office politics, focus on keeping work off their plate, and they're not really team players.

I may just have a bad sample of Israel tech workers, though.
Regarding the question of education/college costs rising drastically, I thought a key answer was that govt started to fund education a whole ton less.

In Canada (where this has not happened as badly), an undergrad in CS used to cost 3K annually a decade and a half ago, and costs 10K now. Other disciplines cost 6K I think .. CS degrees cost more since colleges decided that students earn a lot more and there is huge demand anyways. That doesn't seem unreasonable to me.

So .. Patrick's education costs question has an easy answer - govt funds got pulled in the US, and the wide availability of student loans acted like steroids. In places where got funds didn't get cut (e.g. Canada), things cost about the same (when adjusted for inflation and increases in salaries necessary due to things like rent/house price increases).

The question why we could get to the moon in just 9 years, or make the tallest building in 140 days? That is simple too. As a society, we are less desperate than our parents. We are more demanding when it comes to life (hence, wages and living conditions). This has spilled into the regulations we make as a society. I read it was near impossible to make some types of factories in the US anymore - due to our concern form environment, etc. I personally find a lot of red tape frustrating but then I remember .. we (as a society) put it there for some reason.
https://status.atlassian.com/history

We keep an ifttt webhook into this page, very helpful to resolve the WTF chorus when something is busted. Props to Atlassian for transparency: please keep this going.

We use confluence, bb, and jira. The good news is that triad is very nicely integrated: you can easily crosslink issues between them. There is definitely room for improvement on uptimes though.
It is also one of my favorite ones, I think the continuous throw away of technology like Singularity, Midori, XNA, Longhorn, UWP,... is the usual outcome of the internal politics between WinDev, DevTools and Marketing divisions.

It was supposed to get better after the reorganization, but apparently it hardly changed.
This is a great article, it helped clarify my understanding of functional CSS and made some really good points.

However, I still don't think it is the complete answer. Mostly, if I'm wearing my developer hat (rather than designer hat), functional CSS would drive me batty. If you are working in a larger team, where some of the team write the HTML and some write the CSS styling, this really disadvantages the people who work with the HTML. As a developer, I need to write HTML where I am semantically describing what the component is doing as I have no idea about the details of the design.

What might work is a hybrid approach? That is, designers work with functional CSS and then at the end, map the compositions back to the semantic class styling? I.e you would do mostly the same thing, but would move the functional CSS styling into the CSS and have a mappings at the end. Would this give the best of both worlds - keeping the HTML semantic, but still allowing designers to mostly work with functional CSS?
That's not how I see it. There is definitely hype around decentralization and something is bound to come out of it. If I had to chose someone in this space to trust it'd be Tim Berners-Lee. He's shown his merit and we know he keeps the best interest of the WWW at heart. To me, his work on (re-)decentralization is just a natural extension of what he's always been doing (WWW, linked data, open data,...).
Any suggestion? Thanks!
Nothing to do with Snowden revelations, but with RSA prime number generation. Because of a bug on the chip, primes were generated starting from numbers divisble by ten, which are way rarer than those divisble by two (pardon the extreme simplification.)

That's a hardware design error. The claim is that Gemalto failed to fullfil the contractual clauses about quickly informing the customer (the Estonian state) of the security breach, not the existance of the security breach itself.
> Netflix makes servers that can be distributed to the ISP's

Distributing servers to every ISP doesn't seem very efficient. It may work in the US where I you can count the number of ISPs on one hand, but where I live there are 100+.

> Multicast

Has multicast ever worked?
Just because something is a factor doesn't mean there can't be other factors that lead to a similar outcome.
Well, he literally called it "insanely better", and you felt the need to double-check whether they do prefer it.

That's enough implying in my books.

(Besides, if we're to play this game, I never said that _you_ "implied they didn't prefer it". I just asked, "why wouldn't they prefer it").
The Tor network has little capacity and it's abusively slow to use for normal web browsing. The experience for video streaming will be abysmal.
Do a search on "duckduckgo" on Google and you get an ad for DDG.

Kind of interesting Google allows a search. DDG still not showing up with any market share.

http://gs.statcounter.com/search-engine-market-share

No clear business model for DDG so be careful sharing your data.
>Why do there seem to be more examples of rapidly-completed major projects in the past than the present?

I'm no historian so this is probably misguided, but I feel like this is an indicator for a society on the decline. Corruption is increasingly rampant in both the public and private sectors, and money is being siphoned off at every step. If we don't figure out how to fix it, mounting costs and inefficiencies could put and end to our era prosperity soon. We've allocated power to people interested in screwing others for short-term (e.g. their lifetime) gains. Rah rah doom and gloom.

>Could there be more good blogs?

>Are there incentive structure tweaks that yield more good blogging?

The missing validation mechanisms like Facebook likes the author mentioned are largely filled by link aggregators. Posts on HN and Reddit have a score which acts as a similar dopamine drip to likes. I feel validated and encouraged to write more when my blog generates discussion around the net (though often with an equal sum of embarassment when my flames make it to my colleague's desks).

>Why are programming environments still so primitive?

This guy should try working with plan9 and acme for a few months. Author, if you're reading these comments, you should install 9front, spend a weekend grokking it and becoming comfortable in a workflow there, then set up a Linux VM with vmx(3) and a 9P mount to your host system to get your Real Work done while continuing to learn about the plan9 model. Be prepared for your entire workflow to be turned on its head and to have to find creative ways out of your problems. Maybe today is one of those days where you change your life in a big way :)
>It was supposed to get better after the reorganization

I feel that reorganization was a financial sleight of hand to raise the stock price by emphasize money making projects and hide lack-lustre offerings.
Walmart could've started out on their own. They wouldn't have been far behind because e-commerce is still new in India. But no, they spent billions buying a glorified smartphone shop that people will desert the moment they stop offering deep discounts.
I remember people on here and Reddit saying stuff like “Steve says that xxx”.
Thanks for the article. Your writing style is fun and easy to read. Learning more about tracepoints and bpf is also on my TODO list, and I'll certainly re-read this later.

The 4.15.0-33 output from uname -r does not mean that your kernel version is 4.15.0, it's probably based on a later 4.15. The ubuntu package version is 4.15.0-33.36. I'm not sure what the 36 means here. There are no upstream 4.15 releases any more, the last was 4.15.18, in April 2018.

I know how it works in Debian, which is similar. E.g.:

-$ uname -a
Linux mekker 4.17.0-3-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.17.17-1 (2018-08-18) x86_64 GNU/Linux

uname -r says 4.17.0-3, but that's the package name (linux-image-4.17.0-3-amd64). The actual version is 4.17.17-1, which means it's 4.17.17 with Debian patches.

The number 3 is the an ABI compatibility number. So, as long as the kernel ABI keeps the same, newer versions (e.g. 4.17.18) can use the same package name (4.17.0-3). However, if the ABI changes, the -3 is bumped to -4, it causes a new package in the repository and when installing it, the user has to recompile self-made modules.

The only reason for the .0 in the package version name is because there might be something expecting three numbers in that place (like it was with 2.6.x kernels).

https://www.debian.org/doc//manuals/debian-kernel-handbook/c...
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Another false trope pushed by everyone...

"Women are marrying later and having less kids because of career concerns, lack of maternity leave and child benefits."

The countries with the best maternity leave and child benefits have the oldest marriage and lowest birth rates.

And japan, where most women give up their jobs once married to start families and where the government pays women to have children have one of the lowest birth rates in the world.

So it's not career/jobs, it's not maternity leave, it's not child benefits. Could it be societal? Media? Education?
"End-user computing is becoming less a bicycle and more a monorail for the mind."

I shall steal this quote. The humble spreadsheet is just about the only 'programmable' application left on the typical corporate endpoint/educational client PC.
Jira's primary user demographic is by its very nature capable of building a replacement for it.

Build a bare bones system just like Git itself that keeps track of the data and ACLs, and let the silicon valley startup guys make fancy web interfaces and cloud packaging to make it palatable to middle management.

Like Git the core can be moved around and interacted with in the terminal so you're not dependent on any one vendor, and if you don't like any of their GUIs you can just work on the console.
Arguably, no, you contrive issues that don't make any sense. Such as presenting the issue that the end of the file might be downloaded first. Or that you can't have different quality versions and dynamically switch.

The end will only be downloaded if the client requests it, which won't be unless the user is watching the credits...
In many cultures (including western ones, like the UK) the wedding is a party thrown by the parents of the bride, not by the couple. So the parents of the bride will invite all their friends, as well as the couple's friends. The older parents will have a much larger social circle, due to being older.
When some people do it it's "empowering the underbanked" or "empowering an underserved market". When China does it, it's "pushing ethical boundaries".

https://www.forbes.com/sites/audreymurrell/2018/07/31/pushin...
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According to Maxwell's Equations: faster changes in the current generate stronger magnetic fields. 40 trillion A/s is insane!
Do generators compose?
Equifax: "sorry, we're denying you a loan because an algorithm no one understands said to"

They will feed your behavior into a machine learning algorithm, which will probably develop biases.
>and their lazy and useless way of life

Is that against some particular to them "lazy and useless way of life" they follow, or because their way of life doesn't match some american ideal (e.g. personal ambition and protestant-work-ethic), and thus it's "lazy and useless" because its different?
> Where do you want to work in Germany? Which tech company provides the opportunity to earn a lot of money while working on really interesting topics at a large scale?

Global companies have massively increased their presence here.

Google has a huge presence in Munich, notably including a chunk of the V8 developers. Apple has a large hardware team in Munich. Amazon Berlin is aggressively hiring for developers to work on AWS. If you're after SF style salaries go work for Google Zürich and take home €200k.
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The other SEC vs. Tesla settlement
> modest 2 hours of instruction per day

Isn't this close to what students could/should be spending doing homework, reading or doing some projects together with their parents - effectively one-on-one tutoring for every single one of them?

I suspect that US education spending is so high compared to other developed countries because it has to compensate for lack of social support elsewhere in society. The #1 factor in student success is parental involvement. Instead of buying iPads for low-income schools, what's needed is stable 35-40/hr week jobs that you can live on for low-income parents so that they can spend evenings with their family.
I'm not a beekeeper. I used to write professionally but quit.

The honey/bird poo imagery was simply the most striking I could think of.
Magnetic fields are all about current and rate of change, the voltage isn't nearly as important a factor as long as it generates the required current. So the biggest element in all this is the internal resistance of the supply, hence the use of capacitors to dump all that energy in one go into a very low impedance coil. I mostly missed the microsecond/million factor, that's 10^12 we're talking about.
In China, yes, very much so. Historically, when gender imbalances have gotten to the levels in the current statistics, rebellion and violent millenarian religious cults have found fertile ground, when times turned tougher. Having an excess of downtrodden single men without much to lose is not a great situation for stability anywhere.
Notice my comments. Being a good CEO/board tweeter is not that difficult.
I’d probably stop talking on this thread if I were you. If your management chain sees this, you’ll have at minimum a conversation about using judgement when speaking in a public forum, at worst, your comments might be used as justification for disciplinary action.
Nowhere I've seen that Musk designed Falcon rockets himself. My understanding is that Tom Mueller is the real engineer behind SpaceX, having designed the Merlin engine.

There are comments about how quickly Musk managed to understand rocketry but that doesn't make him an engineer. I suppose he has enough knowledge to understand what SpaceX is doing and where to invest but not for designing entire rockets.
Seems great! I used https://github.com/miyakogi/wdom a few times but it wasn't satisfying because you have to get your hands dirty with js when you want to customize things (not in js libs but with the widgets).
Does the poster or anybody else want to comment on how this compares to https://appear.in/ for instance?
Am I correct to interpret this as it's up to the app developer not to put any features that do anything of any importance in the web interface, because one should operate under the assumption that it's not only the logged on user in front of the computer (even when address='127.0.0.1') that can press the buttons?

Unless I'm completely misunderstanding I don't agree that is at all comparable with the security model expected of a "standard desktop gui framework" nor safe.

Though indeed if there are large, random and unpredictable IDs required to perform actions it may defeat or make the attack difficult.
Maybe by the third article, someone will tell us what it is.
Sounds like Bohr doesn't believe the "astonishing hypothesis". As stated on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Astonishing_Hypothesis:
The Astonishing Hypothesis posits that "a person's mental activities are entirely due to the behavior of nerve cells, glial cells, and the atoms, ions, and molecules that make them up and influence them."
The client matters though. Even just getting that client onto your end users systems is going to be problematic. And even those bullet point aside I raised other issues you're yet to reconcile. Plus there are other problems I'd not considered (eg RMTP is often sent over UDP and bittorrent is not only TCP but has additional CRC checks that you don't really want with video streaming).

But as you're clearly an expert in video delivery you should build a torrent based video delivery platform. You could make a killing (assun. Or alternatively you might discover these opinions you were dismissing might have had a point and actually video delivery is a lot harder than you first assumed.
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Yeah, to me Webmail is a backup not a default. Naturally Gmail is a bit nonstandard there too, but by and large functional.
Start-up Nation: The Story of Israel's Economic Miracle makes a good case. [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Start-up_Nation
Disruption is driven by need though. Uber succeeded because traditional cab companies suck. I can’t remember when people weren’t complaining about cabs, even before the internet, and Uber came and removed almost all of the annoyances. Sure they were bad for labour, but for the customers it made sense.

I’ve never seen anyone complain about Instagram or visa. How can you disrupt services that people love?

I mean, it should be obvious by now that almost nobody cares about privacy.
Huh, I haven’t seen a link like that in months. Unless... is it inside that “...” menu?
You're flat out wrong in your premise that it's a tax dodge, and it's very easy to demonstrate. Neither of those links support a claim about tax evasion in any regard.

There's no special tax benefit to what they set up. There are only structural benefits, in that the LLC can give to political campaigns and make private investments (neither of which are tax deductible). It also enables Zuckerberg to continue to directly control the Facebook stock while it's held by the LLC.

Any shares sold by the LLC generates a tax event as it would with an individual. You know the best way to avoid taxes like that? To keep the stock to yourself and not sell it at all.

The only tax deductions the LLC can take are identical to what an individual can take, the money must have gone to a 501c charity to generate a tax deduction. Nothing is gained in regards to avoiding taxes.

The first link openly admits it doesn't benefit Zuckerberg to use it as a means of tax avoidance (much less tax evasion, which is a crime that you're claiming is being committed). He'd be just as well off to directly donate the stock to a charity instead, as the ideal example given lists the LLC doing exactly that instead.

Any potential tax deductions accrued are saturated instantly, as they're limited to a fraction of the LLC's income in a given year and the total value of the deductions expire after five years (ie any charitable tax deduction carries forward for a maximum of five years and may only deduct against a maximum of 50% of your income in a year). There's nothing special about this deduction with the LLC, an individual gets the same arrangement. Again, there's no special angle.

Gates for example once gave a very large single year donation to his foundation, back in 2000. He saw very little tax benefit, because it saturated his ability to deduct a hundred times over.

The second link - an angry personal blog post - has the title calling it a fake charity. The first paragraph opens by insulting Zuckerberg's marriage. The second paragraph opens by insulting the Zuckerbergs love of their daughter. You can throw that one out as being biased immediately.
I don't buy the German automotive dream and it doesn't impress me, sorry.
I think it comes down to two scopes of the .git:

1. preserve source code change history
2. preserve history of how the project evolves.

Github serves the #2 well but in an centralized way. But #2 is kinda essential these days. People need to know how the code changed but also WHY.
I had just about 10 friends. Wife had the same number.

My father in law has lived all his life in the same city. Has a lot of friends, acquaintances, and relatives. Inviting them to the wedding becomes a social compulsion in such cases.

Indian weddings are strange in that the bride and groom hardly matter. It's essentially an event hosted by their parents.

Trying to get my parents to back down from a big wedding was a futile exercise as well. For them, it was a matter of "shame" if they couldn't host a large wedding
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Fastmail is web based and still way faster than gMail
Maybe people don't want to bring children into a world that will be worse off in many ways than the one they grew up in?

That hypothesis would correspond with the observation that it's the most educated, most long-term-focused people in (currently) stable societies that are delaying or avoiding children.
He is a glorified (ex) 20-something that built a social profile app for his university in PHP.

Despite the whole cult of personality the man isn't Musk, Gates, Jobs, or anything like it.

Most of what followed were a couple of good obvious moves and connections. VC money flowed in and the whole thing got in autopilot because it was something that filled a gap in the market.

Zero of the success, in my opinion, was due to some special guidance from Zuckerberg. He doesn't have any special technical savvy, he doesn't have any special business savvy, he is not much of a people's motivator, and so on. He is not some hustler type CEO either.

Just a kid which accidentally hit on something, and was in the right place to make billions.

The same is true for Google IMHO (only in its case the original founders had real technical chops). It mostly went on autopilot on the strength of the search engine algorithm, and when it was time to monetize things the big guys (Eric Schmidt and co) came in. Heck, Brin and Page wanted to sell Google to Excite for $1 million in 1999.
Ive been debating a full move to protonmail. Or is fastmail the big current alternative?
I know this is not bery popular point of view on HN but:

Burn out? You are in your mid 20ies, if you can’t put in long hours and hard work now you won’t be able to do it later in life trust me.

It really comes down to how industrious and conscientious you are rather then how smart and happy you are.

If you’re a hard worker and know your job well you will make it on any job, even the ones with shitty management. If the managers are unbearable leave - you are lucky to be in the industry where if you’re any good you can land a job in a day. Most people don’t have this luxury, work very long hours in completely shitty jobs (think cleaning toilets) and never burn out and lead happy life.

It’s basically down to your personality and what you value in life, nobody else but you can really tell you what’s best for you.
Ah, then in that case, it's not against the GDPR, but if it was accessible from the EU, then it would be. In a way, this is the sort of thing the GDPR is designed to prevent.