skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The most long-term successful secular income-sharing communities have been the ones that:

A) Chose to be large. Small groups can have a harder time weathering a single bad experience, and have trouble maintaining social dynamism for varied age cohorts

B) Had strong enough systems to exclude free loaders. Everyone’s approach to this differs, but it’s a pre-condition to giving everyone a sense of common ownership and avoiding resentment

C) Found a meaningful business into which new members could be trained relatively easily and that people don’t hate. Programming is unfortunately not a skill that’s easy to teach to sizable fractions of people joining communes, and lots of the people who are attracted to communes want to spend less time on a computer, not more
Their main offering is 0 config static hosting. They also added a CI service to build your frontend for you and then deploy it.

Then they have myriad other value added features, one of which is cloud functions. You can use that for your server side requirements, or you can use your own server.

It’s not what they do that’s special, it’s how easy/magical they make the process (as well as the very generous free tier).
I will be happy to answer for any critics/comments
I was referring to planned procedures such as giving birth.
>it's illegal to report an attack by US intelligence agencies

Could you expand more on that?
Go suffers from the same issue with one letter method receivers and parameters everywhere.
Still no Chrome/Chromium HW video acceleration on Linux
This is really the story about the 99%, very rich people lived about as long in ancient times as they do now. Well, woman still died from giving birth.

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20181002-how-long-did-ancien...

For the rest of us though, life has become better and healthier.
You could easily DoS obviously, but beyond that I agree that it seems tricky to do anything worthwhile.
Google drops out of bidding for $10B Pentagon data deal
This is pretty funny. If you have a job as a SWE at google, you have the opportunity to start working at probably 80+% of good software companies that are currently hiring. It is pretty cowardly to do something you know is bad just because you'll go from $300k/year at Google to $200k/year somewhere else
I agree. I think it is more important when a company is forthright about a breach quickly than the history of breaches. Both Sony and Equifax had large security breaches prior to the large hacks.
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Elsewhere in this thread there is an actual link to an actual NSA device that does exactly this. I don't think it's in the realm of science fiction.
can confirm. at work im addicted to Twitter/Instagram (even YouTube) but while traveling for couple weeks recently I found myself not caring at all about latest news in Politics or digital entertainment. Perhaps changing ones job is the most effective cure.
> Achieving abstraction is super hard when you can just reach down into some bytes and noodle around with them instead.

Disagree. In my experience all was wonderful once I was past the point where I decided to just not worry. Much the opposite, so much pointless and confusing OOP boilerplate (as well as blood, sweat, and all that) goes into "securing" code against misuse.

Invest some time into data structures with obvious meaning, or a procedural API that is easily understood. "Nobody" will "ever" misuse, and misuse will be easy to detect. Much better tradeoff IMO.

And lastly, of course, abstraction has nothing to do with "security systems". It's against popular opinion, but you can in fact have good abstraction with nothing but plain functions and void pointers. I like to view abstraction as mostly a conceptual thing that doesn't even happen in code.
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Yes, but that's probably offset by professors, researches, et al. (as well as better accommodations, food, entertainment). It's not apples to apples, but it felt roughly comparable.
It seems like there are two possibilities to me:

1) Bloomberg has a number of sources that are mistaken/misinformed, but this is not necessarily a made-up story, or

2) Bloomberg is nearly correct (minus some technical details) but the US government is forcing these companies to respond as if the story is wrong - possibly because of diplomatic reasons.

What is the likelihood that #2 is correct?

(there are other alternatives, but I believe that the likelihood that this is 100% or at least majorly fabricated by Bloomberg is near enough to zero)
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The Amish are split up into smaller communities and establish new settlements when density gets too high. The Wikipedia page itself mentions that the Anabaptist Hutterites limit themselves to 150 person groups.
You've got to be kidding. There's no way of validating anything about modern hardware, it's packed with independent systems running various firmware, software that's decades old, parts nobody can even identify unless you're the OEM. You can get to "that probably does this" level easily, but that doesn't tell you anything about its actual security or authenticity.
Exactly. Fake news! Look at founding fathers of US, and how old they were... They need to separate out infant mortality data. Life expectancy is going down now anyway - and you only need eyes to know this. People in the west are very sick. Infant mortality is very high in the US, autism is extremely high, and if people think preventative beast removal surgery is smart - like was being pushed via Angelina - then you don't understand the stresses of mid-old age groups!
These things are ruled by likely 10,000 laws passed by Congress to minimize corruption by allowing the executive branch to hand out favors. The people with actual power to corrupt are Senators and Reps who can add pork to spending bills.
Putting my paranoid hat on, this is eerily similar to the Iraq buildup. From the anonymous govt intel sources to the pictures in a mainstream publication to the throaty denials. What really drives the point home in my mind is that FAANGs have no way of completely exonerating themselves in the Court of Public Opinion, much like Iraq, without caving into several of the demands.

To put my tin foil hat on, will we be seeing increased pressure for physical inspections of FAANG hardware?
Just about any programming language can be made readable, with sufficient discipline. But it shouldn't require "discipline" to have basically readable code.

Python is like the opposite of Perl in that respect. It's inherently readable, and you have to go out of your way to make it difficult to grok what the code is doing. (Ruby is somewhere in the middle, but Ruby is more eloquent than Python, so I'll take a little clarity risk for the potential of even greater clarity.)

There's a joke running around Twitter about how it's hard to tell the difference between Perl and a cat stepping on your keyboard. You'll never see that for Python or Ruby.
Yeah, particularly given it was against a US telecom company, the NSA would make sense as the source of the implant.
Bloomberg really has it out for Supermicro.
You can do that in Haskell so it's not a problem of type erasure (last time I checked, GHC type-erases generics by default). It's a problem more specific to Java's generics implementation.
“Just following orders” (this quote Godwin approved)
It’s static hosting + CDN + ergonomic tooling.
> In my own experience struggling with addiction I've found that it is a symptom rather than a cause. Once you craft a life that is actually stimulating the tech loses its hold over you pretty quickly, if not instantly

I see it as elimination through substitution
It can't have been more than five years ago or so that I was browsing Usenet (through an actual server, not a web interface) and there were definitely a collection of, shall we say, interesting characters.
And how you do operate on the data in those objects? How do you filter, project, sort, stash for later, combine with data from elsewhere, edit, etc? How do incrementally build up a composition of operations from repeated experimentation? How do you record that composition in a script?
Hmm, apparently that's because his wife used the sperm he donated for artificial insemination - at the clinic they both ran. That feels problematic, if they didn't disclose where it was coming from.

That said, now that I'm thinking about this, I'm actually a little surprised that some famous individual hasn't decided to sell sperm at a premium with a contract releasing them from all liability. Given the obsession with fame a lot of the population seems to have, I'm sure there's a market. :/
yes, tldl he’s an expert in hardware backdoors who spent several months emailing explainers about how a hypothetical implant could work to an author of the piece and it turned out to be nearly verbatim the same as the one in the article, which he found suspicious

https://risky.biz/RB517_feature/
IANAL, but New York Times Co. v. United States is a famous precedent for the first amendment protecting the press' right to publish classified government documents.
Classic leftist claiming to be able to read someone's intentions. I agree with parent poster - why isn't he allowed to state his view that the article's view is warped? And why is infant mortality disqualified as evidence? Just that one correction completely paints a different picture.
There is a great documentary [1] about the Grande Chartreuse, available on DVD [2].

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Into_Great_Silence

2: https://www.amazon.com/Into-Great-Silence-Two-Disc-Set/dp/B0...
> Are they basically offering a way to prebuild apps to static assets and host them on CDNs?

Yes. Pretty much. They're a more dev friendly CloudFront. Supports deploying from a git repo out-of-the-box, where there's a separate service for this with CloudFront. More expensive than CloudFront, though.

> How do server-side only things will happen then?

This isn't the main problem they're solving. They expect that you'll have an API somewhere to talk to. But they do have a "functions" feature, which is based on AWS Lambda, so you could use that for things that would otherwise fall under server-side. They also have a simple "forms" feature for basic data collection.
The US cannot force those companies to lie. They can force them to stay silent, in which case they'd just say "No comments". If those companies are lying, they are committing security fraud.
When do you plan to use mainnet?
The same place the backend goes when you use GitHub pages.
May not be widely known, but a startup named Divshot launched what feels to me now like an identical service to Netlify, just a few years earlier. Existed ~2012-2015. They were acquired by Google and their product was converted into Firebase Hosting. I haven't tried it, though:

https://firebase.google.com/docs/hosting/
> The "trojan ethernet connector" paragraph mentions similarity to an NSA implant, which appears to be this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSA_ANT_catalog#/media/File:NS....

Interesting. This one seems to rely on the presence of the USB connectors for powering. So, basically, any ethernet port with only Ethernet connectors should be safe from this kind of attack? The only powering option there should be PoE but I have yet to see someone buy PoE switches for a datacenter...
> Versioning that it's still a major problem in the ecosystem.

There's actually a perfectly good way to solve this problem: a virtual environment with a requirements.txt file.
Building Javascript-based frontends are already compiling to static assets, which Netlify could already host. JAMstack is about having the javascript front-end call APIs on the backend. This is about creating an environment for all the back-end functions to be in one place, possibly with the front-end deployment. Not sure how it is going to be implemented though.
If nothing else, this has to put to rest the "gag order" or "NSL" conspiracy theory.
It was kind of explained in another HN story earlier today. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18174930

Basically one expert described how a hack could be done and the journalist re-wrote it as here's how China tried to hack.

>In September when he asked me like, “Okay, hey, we think it looks like a signal amplifier or a coupler. What’s a coupler? What does it look like?” […] I sent him a link to Mouser, a catalog where you can buy a 0.006 x 0.003 inch coupler. Turns out that’s the exact coupler in all the images in the story.
What made Perl 5 worse than 4?

$this->{mess}

The "object oriented" stuff, while making it more powerful, looked like modem line noise, and created a half-dozen new ways to say the same thing. It drifted away from the shell-like nature of Perl 4, and lost a lot of clarity.
I wonder what evidence caused them to claim the embedded "bug" is planted by China or its operatives -- how can they prove the source of the unauthorized modification? Are they just assuming?
It's basically the subset of AWS concerned with delivering web pages to browsers in a friendly package.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application_delivery_network

You can keep a static site with something like Hugo in a git repo and have Netlify automatically build it and make it available on changes. You can also just toss an HTML and CSS file in (like I do on https://unstuckdev.com/) and their robots put it up.

You can do more with it, and that's what costs money, but it takes a small but tedious hurdle out of putting some HTML on the web.
God is a verb
Then they’re screwed, because it was them who messed up and didn’t QA hard enough. We’ll see...
I don't actually hate my phone, but I tend not to take the calls unless I know the person calling.
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To your point re 400k condos, I would very much question the quality, size, and location for these. 400 seems very low and below market for the city.
There is a difference between being unfamiliar with the codebase (I've never seen this code or the MP3 spec before), and being completely unfamiliar with the problem domain and file format. I don't think it is helpful to write an MP3 decoder assuming that the reader doesn't know about one of the fundamental mathematical operations or the basic unit of the bitstream format.

YMMV, but I personally find names like this helpful. It ties the code to the underlying problem domain. E.g. I'm not exactly sure what imdct12/imdct36 are, other than the fact that they operate on a block of data smaller than a granule, but I bet if I opened up the MP3 spec the "12" and the "36" would be more helpful in finding the relevant section than other names that could've been used.

EDIT: In fact, the MP3 format defines two MDCT block sizes: 12 points and 36 points.
Yes it can, and no it can't.

Yes, you can synthesize a chemical. But no, refining is never perfect. If you get the chemical from a plant, then the impurities will be other stuff from the plant. But if you synthesize it from a chemical factory, the impurities will be other stuff from the factory process, which probably will be not at all the same.
> Google employees' manufactured outrage

Why is it manufactured?
> So we should weigh the negative impact to the familiar-reader of scanning a 64-character identifier distinguished only by a suffix like "_gr

Having a 64 character identifier is the bigger problem here.
I am saying that these devices can cause issues for normal poeple who don't have other severe issues. Do you disagree with this statement?

For those people, the device itself, and the relationship with the device, is the place to look when trying to improve the situation.

There is also an issue of practicality here. Even for people with significant issues that need to be addressed, it may be practical to do things like adjusting how one uses the phone, as a stepping stone to actually fixing the deeper issue.
At least one T3 (or higher!) Lamba School graduate working at Google by 10/9/19? I'll take that action!

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Exactly as disturbing as regular sunglasses, not very disturbing at all.
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> Good job! You know 2,100 out of the top 10,000 items.

> This means you know more than 13% of Americans aged 18+:

I was born and raised in the USA, but I grew up without a television, 5 miles up a dirt road in a house built by my parents with hand tools. Kerosene lamps, outhouse, generator, etc.
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Yeah, most phones are not OLED (yet?)
one big difference seems to be that once the critical point is reached, even if the threshold very high, the wood contributes to the fire and nourishes it, unlike concrete or steal. a skyscraper with proper sprinkling should be fine.
Interesting idea, will wait for your release on main net.
Will other currencies be added (I mean EOS or other smart-contract platforms maybe) ?
I use mack's ultra soft ear plugs (correctly inserted, which most people don't do) and Bose QC35's with sound cancelling on playing non-lyrical electronic music loud enough to only hear faintly.

You will not hear a 747 land in your back yard.

Edit: How to insert correctly: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xF1CjCugD_M
For a brief moment I was interested in noise cancelling headphones for airplane usage.

Much, much simpler, cheaper - and certainly more effective - is to use any old earbuds that you prefer and put them underneath a pair of these:

https://www.amazon.com/3M-Earmuff-Protectors-Hearing-Protect...

No batteries to deal with, no mode switching, much less expensive, etc. It works wonderfully and the only downside is that you look a little odd.
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I think thesis is absolutely ridiculous: "we need a group of new businesses to rise up and make money off of solving tech addiction"

There's not a lot of money to be made in stopping people from self-abstaining from pleasure. If someone wants to quit drinking alcohol or smoking cigarettes, then they can do so without having to pay for much (assuming they're not vulnerable to D.T. health wise). And while there's marginal amounts of money to be made off of nicotine patches or AA literature, these products pale in comparison to the amount of money generated by the alcohol and tobacco industries.
They could have circular polarizing filters on top of the satnav screens
I've documented our stack and how things are connected but I've found it difficult to promote employee contributions. How do you incentivize contributions to documentation?
Don't forget that the stripping also isn't automatic on the Rust side either, so you have to do that if you do it for the C :)
Larry Wall and his wife are some of the nicest people I ever had the pleasure of meeting. I posted this story on HN before several years ago (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9890504), but I think it's worth reposting here:

I have a very charming Larry Wall story. He came to give a seminar to the research center where I was working, and gave a fantastic talk on Perl 6.
Late in the evening, I ran into him and his wife on the bus when getting home from work - and started talking to them. Apparently, nobody from the department had arranged to take them out for dinner, so we ended up going out for dinner together, where we had a fantastic discussion covering religion, tolerance, and lots of other topics. I am a staunch materialist and atheist, while both the Walls are serious committed Christians, but we had a really pleasant discussion on religion and the nature of evidence.

I ended up giving his wife a copy of Hume's Dialogue on Natural Religion, and they were kind enough to sign a copy of the Camel book for a friend who is a huge Perl fan.

A lot of people know Larry by reputation - but his wife Gloria is just as smart and kind. It was a bit of a strange evening, but it was a rare privilege to meet two such interesting people.

I cannot emphasize enough how unassuming, kind and decent the Walls are. If you are also interested in very intelligent writing about religion, their son, Aaron, has a very neat blog: http://www.wall.org/~aron/blog/.
Great Question. "Experience." Sorry, but that's the answer because intuition is based on accumulated experience. So if you don't yet have the experience, particularly in a given field or with a given personality type the best you can do is try to bring in someone with far more expertise/experience, briefly, to get their "gut check" on the situation.
From a language design perspective it makes a lot of sense to add linear types to the language itself instead of using an encoding. Every encoding that I know of (such as region types encoded as monads, which is what I think the article wants to get at) leads to excessive sequentialization of code. This in turn leads to a lot of boilerplate (or crazy type inference problems) at compile time as well as suboptimal run time performance.

Linear types are the perfect example of a feature that belongs in the core language, or at the very least into a core intermediate language. They are expressive, in that you can encode a lot of high-level design ideas into linear types. You can compile a number of complicated front-end language features into a linearly typed intermediate language. Linear types have clear semantics and can even be used for improved code generation. If we ignore the messy question of how best to expose linear types in a high-level language then this is just an all around win-win situation...
That´s not actually the case for the United States, if you look at government spending carefully, it´s actually shrinking as a percentage of the total money supply. People who like to claim that it´s growing, invariably fail to factor inflation and/or money supply growth into their charts.

The actual answer appears to be that it´s being squeezed into the financial sector by several positive feedback loops operating around lending, and in particular securitized lending - but that´s not the sort of answer that helps to pander to populist sentiment, and securitized lending is a trillion dollar industry - so you won´t see it discussed very much.
Many rapidly growing companies that already generate profits? Even if the price of the stock would stay the same it would still make sense to get the extra profits as stock as you would pay much less taxes. Granted you'd have to have a way to sell them when you want out.

And vesting isn't always a bad option, don't you agree? In the case of many successful start-ups like Facebook and Google you'd have earned and probably still will earn a lot more from the stock than from any bonuses they could have given you.
Anyone else spot the Brainfuck in there?
48% I'm happy with that cause I'm pretty bad at actor names and such. There were a few that when I hovered over the tooltip I was like 'Oooooh yeah, I know that person' but I only clicked the checkbox if I knew without double checking.
I'm not sure - there were quite a few answers that I thought were British-specific: Harold Shipman, David Jason etc.
I have been looking for an Android app that simply turns the phone to silent when it is put face down. That way I can do that when I don't want to be disturbed.
It's because most of it is marketing speak. I suppose they don't want to call it a better GitHub pages with awesome UX, but rather invent a new category term. In the tech sector if it sticks then it's pure gold.

I've set up a landing page recently and it was flawless on Netlify. You provide a Git repo, connect it to their CI then give some build commands and they will handle the rest.

They still host it on regular servers obviously, but you don't have to do anything to manage it. They have a DNS server which is also pretty neat.
That would be awesome, but how could these things be measured-- decision makers saying no, proactive communication, etc?

Some of them, like financial runway, are also usually well-guarded information.