skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do BB publish pricing of what they paid for drives? Sort of a TB/$/Failure rate. Those 12TB HGST drives must cost a ton
Tech-Enabled Health Insurance Company Raises 300M
Oh, I see. I created this great patch and commited it.
Then I wanted to push it, but it reported some strange error.

I checked out master but now my commit is no longer there.
HELP!

Can I somehow push my changes to you so you can fix it?

Ah let's intuitively try:

git log --graph --decorate $(git rev-list -g --all)

For comparisson:

- mercurial would show your commit all the time, no matter what currently is checked out.

- Only when you push, you have to force it, to create a new head in the remote repository because most workflows expect you to merge heads locally.
Is there any difference in editing a structured document which is intended to ultimately be text for presentation and reading, versus a structured document which is describing requirements for code or a storyboard for a design?
Do these different end-results change the collaborative environment?
You effectively consent to the possibility of surveillance every time you go outside your home, office, or anywhere with a "reasonable expectation of privacy".
AI on a MEMS Device Brings Neuromorphic Computing to the Edge
Using Microservices Architecture to Build a Knowledge Management Solution
You contradict yourself. You imagine a school where everyone looks the same but thinks "different", and yet by your own definition that school doesn't have any women, blacks, gays, etc. How would that work? Do you imagine an academy of straight white men, some of which serve as delegates for the types of thought that emerge from groups that aren't allowed to attend?

Your line of reasoning is the perfect example of this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance

"Why are you tolerant people so intolerant of my desire for a world without all this tolerance? I thought you hypocrites were tolerant!!"
ARM Mbed Linux OS
Just another example of the utter amorality of the silicon valley mindset–which has been exported globally. Everybody cares about what they can achieve technically, while virtually no one cares whether they should or not.
There are still a lot of them in southern Europe.
Yes, 72 is late onset. I don't understand why OP is cynical. There is a big difference between getting Alzheimer's at 50 and 72. If exercise and other measures give me an extra 22 years of productive life, I'll do them, whatever they are
I think the biggest failures at the software consulting houses I've worked at have come from not building adequate tooling and not establishing a framework for knowledge/skills transfer. A close runner up would be failures related to trying to build actual products. The problem with consulting though is scalability. You can make a product and recoup your NRE with the first x units, and then most of what you sell beyond that is pure profit which can roll in while you sleep. Scaling a consulting business is tough. You just have to increase billable hours and that is a lot tougher than it sounds(especially in the current market).

I made a lot of money in consulting over the years, but at the middle of my career I find myself looking for a product company to call home. Consulting can be great... or it can be terrible. My friend is now charging $165/hr for his solo corp... but sometimes the invoices never get paid and you have to swallow a loss(I'm owed over $14k currently and will probably never see it).
Does the Tribler client have the feature of acting like a "super-node"? Namely I don't want to download anything right now, but I am OK to donate (rent?) my bandwidth and storage so people can upload to my machine (and download from it) while I am out for 6 hours doing chores and errands?
Raising literacy on a topic is beyond the scope a post on HN but observing that it is low is not.
What PocketPC do you use?

Do you just use it for Age of Empires?

Have you heard of the Pyra[0]?

It's nearing completion, hardware should be final at this point. Just need the software to get a good run up.

[0] https://pyra-handheld.com/boards/pages/pyra/
Er, it's part of the posterior chain and squats will always target the lower back to an extent, both high and low-bar. Squats were one of Arnold's favorite lower-back exercises. No way you walk away from heavy squats without feeling it there.
Most relevant info here has to be how banks are thinking about the current market and climate of IPOs. Seems like the view is that market conditions haven't really changed, even with recent market jitters. Will be interesting to see how this perception holds through to the actual IPO date next year.
> China is easy to pick on because it's the greatest evil the world is facing today.

Not really a big fan of China, but lets be a bit more consistent here.

China is in the middle of an empire-building enterprise and like every such enterprise, (UK, Russia, United States), does many awful things. Yet compared to some places in the Middle East, I don't think it's nearly as evil. Certainly not "the greatest evil the world is facing today", (the only way I can see that is if you think U.S. global supremacy is great).

Personally, I'd argue the greatest evil the world is facing today is people in power ignoring climate change.

> only China is capable of forcing almost every country and company into their submission

You must have missed the war in Yemen, as an example.

> there's a big difference between using a free product and working for a company that supports China/Saudi Arabia/etc.

How so? The products I mentioned are not free software for the most part, by using the product, (even their "free" plan), you're supporting the company China/Saudi Arabia invests in and thus supporting these governments economically.

> bringing billions of dollars worth of investment into a country that sends Muslims to concentration camps

As I said, that's really a case against empire building and a case I agree with, however it's been done by every empire. Similar things have happened at black sites in Iraq etc. so I think the consistent line to take is to be against investing in any empire in that case, which would include YC's home turf.

> I would resign without a second's hesitation if I found out my company was involved with these evil governments

That is a great stance, however the cynic in me thinks they probably already are in some way, even if you don't know it.
The macbook pro 2018 keyboard makes me want to cry. My fingers don't flow the rate my brain does anymore :(
Actually, this is exactly why Canada should be looking for other markets. The US has clearly indicated to us that we can no longer rely on them for trade. It's long overdue, but now is the time we need to act in reducing our dependence on the US, since clearly one dumbass can impact our economy in ways that one dumbass shouldn't be able to.
Bullshit. The "mental model" has never been the issue with git, it's always been that the UI is garbage and a giant abstraction leak, requiring knowing the implementation details of the commands and the storage model to work with and step over footguns. Because rather than an actual, designed, considered UI, the porcelain is crummy shortcuts on sets of operations on the underlying storage (not mental) model.

Mercurial has the same "DAG of revisions" model as git, and works just fine, because it has a good UI.

Darcs has a more unusual mental model than git, and works just fine, because it has a good UI.
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Thanks. I wish there was a website like lang-8.com but then for people who know English quite well, except in its finer element. The fact that I am not sharp in languages in general (even Dutch, my native language) and am not really refined in English feels like I am prone to these type of mistakes when the edit functionality of a comment is gone.
> How do you know at least some of our children are not going to starve, or worse, be forced into warfare over crucial resources?

Of course I can't know that, I have no crystal ball. I'm saying that assuming that we're all doomed is as bad as assuming everything is fine and denying the problem.

> 50s optimism and status quo dropped us into most of the current problems.

I wasn't advocating 50s optimism but rather saying it's an extreme and we've swung to the other extreme, at least on HN. I'm not optimistic about the future but I'm not fatally pessimistic about it either, at least not anymore. Reading comments here is a good way to trigger that fatal pessimism, make you want to quit your job, buy a gun and go live up a mountain.

> It is all fixable but the upheaval is likely going to be massive. We have no idea which form.

Exactly my point. There will be upheaval. We have no idea. And it won't be a magical fun time. But it might not be a hellish nightmare apocalypse either. Just bear that in mind, comment readers. Don't fall into despair about the future.
I noticed you didn't reply to the pie-chart feedback. I'll second that criticism: pie charts are unwise.
Fair point, but if you strip any money from product development, this implies you don't have a budget for further development and maintenance, except if you make it support-intensive. And for what gain? That very few cloud providers make more money and enslave customers into their walled garden? Cloud providers don't even need to provide QoS or support - they can just shrug and say "we're running an OS project as-is". If no money can come your way, then development and support is simply not sustainable.

The projects you mention: Linux+git development has good financial standing from companies who could be seen as going (or having gone) aggressively against commercial Unix from a business PoV. gcc thrived on freedom enthusiasm but has seen many, many patches from commercial vendors wanting their OS, CPU or whatever supported.
Hell, even high-bar isn't completely upright, and even if it was, you'll get tension there.
I'm not at all sure where you got any of that, it seems like you have an axe to grind.

You clearly didn't read the link i said which says our issue with WTFPL is with the lack of warranty disclaimer and with the rights grant (which is not likely to be valid in a number of countries).

You will find nothing, nor have i stated anything about the ability for google to use the code for "monetization" reasons.
It doesn't even enter the equation

It is very hard to take your comment in good faith as a result.

Our policy pages are clear on why we ban licenses, even things like AGPL. You'll note they are not economic concerns (IE google won't be able to monetize), but compliance ones.

(Of course, you should view these in good faith, they were originally written for an internal audience)

I can definitively state I have never banned a license at Google due to Google's ability to "monetize" the code, or even indirect versions of that (IE that if it became popular, it would hurt google's ability to do that).
All concerns are compliance ones.

Additionally, the pages i linked you to very clearly encourage people to contribute back as much as they can.
Distributions like Debian, Fedora, Ubuntu, etc. require that all software in their core repos be FOSS. It's not about their legal obligations but about their own policies forbidding proprietary software in their core repos.

Since the new Mongo license violates rule 9 of the DFSG, it is considered proprietary software by Debian's definition, and that means Debian's FOSS policy will require Mongo to be moved out of the core repos and into the non-free repo. Fedora and Ubuntu have their own policies which will have the same effect.
Should mummy dinosaur have immediately drowned him in tar just in case?
Sometimes the weather blows.
> SSPL is based on the GPL, not the AGPL, so no, the SSPL isn't itself a copyright infringement

I don't see how the distinction makes a difference here, both have the same clause about changing not being allowed.
Yes, good catch, grazing from sheep & such are a big part of why the british isles have lost much of their forest.
It does seem ridiculous. Devil's advocate, it may be that he is so immersed in campus culture that he assumes everyone knows that "justice" is code for illiberal leftist ideas like the progressive stack and forced equity.
> it was always already the government’s money

Sounds like you went to the same fallacious economic school Elizabeth Warren did
He also hired Mike Holmgren, who coached them to their first Superbowl appearance in franchise history, behind the leagues top offense powered by Shawn Alexander.
I think the big question the Odyssey asks is what does time and violence do to people. What did Odysseus' journey do to him, what did it do to his son who grew up without him, what did it do to his wife and father who had to go on living like he was dead, what did it do the political system back home with their leader and so many young men gone and a void there where the suitors begin to fill. And once they are all reunited after so many years, what then. Athena grants them a happy ending, restoring Odysseus' youth, but what about the rest of us.
No single methodology is right for everyone, but lean principles tend to be a better fit for most. And that's really what Agile and Scrum are.

The most important thing for teams is to establish a rapid feedback loop, and make sure someone is tasked with handling that data. Once you know your customers' needs, you can act to resolve them. If you're using a waterfall approach, you can miss the window, which delays your ability to get changes in front of customers, which delays feedback and increases the chance that you're wasting time.

Before we adopted an Agile-inspired process, we had several projects get scrapped after weeks or months of work because we misunderstood the customer's problem. When we adopted a new process, we built smaller MVPs (took days instead of weeks) and got customer feedback that indicated we needed to make a shift. Many of our features got smaller because we didn't get time to over-engineer them.

The major flaw, IMO, is technical debt. Our product is released on a schedule, but we get feedback from users with alpha products, so we have time to clean up the implementation once we get hands-on feedback from customers.

If we adopted Agile 100%, we likely would rack up more technical debt, and I've actually seen this happen in that same company as management made changes (I became trainer and technical lead instead of project manager).

If you drink too much of the kool aid, you'll get a stomach ache.
Either of those options is radically extreme.
Something similar to this which I think has gone totally unreported is that large chains like Walmart are feeding their security cameras in real-time to the US government, which is being used to find and track wanted criminals.

Edit: Most of the above is speculation based on stuff I've been observing over the past few years. I don't have any evidence that the system exists, or that it is real-time.
Ever hear of the phrase of war "Salt the earth"

You mean the entirely symbolic ritual after an area is conquered? Or did you mean the myth that this was actually done to actually render the land infertile? 'cuz that didn't happen: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salting_the_earth

I normally wouldn't be this pedantic (oh, who am I kidding?), but when I got to this:
you begin to realize that this commercially farmed food literally takes more energy and nutrients out of your body in the processes of digestion, metabolization, assimilation, and elimination than you get from the food!

...I realized we'd wandered off to fantasy land, so a little pedantic banter couldn't make it worse.
Is there a religious contravention against donating organs?
This looks very attractive. Is the project open to setting up bounties to express certain features?
Because Amazon is all about squeezing every penny out of their supply chain.
Apple ‘deeply apologetic’ for payment app phishing hacks in China
Not only that it has branches -- it has four different ways to branch. http://stevelosh.com/blog/2009/08/a-guide-to-branching-in-me...
> the catch rate in the sticky ground traps fell 60-fold.

This sentence made it hard for me to take the article seriously. What does a 60-fold decrease even mean? I understand what a 60-fold increase means: it means that there is now 60 times more than before. But it's not possible for there to be 60 times less than before for a quantity that cannot be negative. So we are left to wonder. Does it mean that there is now 1/60th as much as before? That is a peculiarly precise number. Is it really 1/60th i.e. 1.67% and not, say, 1/59th (1.69%)? Whatever the truth is, this sentence is obscuring it.

I don't mean to cast any doubt on the proposition that there is a serious problem here. This is a criticism of the journalism, not the science.
The data was visible as a block of jumbled pixels as the bottom, not sure how concatenated files render visually (especially jpg format), so for all I know it may have been exactly what you're describing. Pretty sure I found it on an image board anyway.
When we evaluate the bid, I'm sure we'll weigh previous occasions when Chinese firms placed spyware in hardware/firmware.

I'll point out we haven't rejected the advice.

What Canadians on this thread have rejected, is Yankee carpetbagging.
>You’ve gone from saying that the Orthodox world had separation of Church and State to pointing out that there were periods when the fusion between the two was less than perfect.

The separation was having two different sources of power -- as opposed to one, and those sources having relative autonomy.

Whether the two occasionally collaborated, or one occasionally imposed its will on the other and vice versa, is something different than having both religious and state power concentrated into one entity (caesaropapism).

Nothing in historical affairs is "perfect". Separation of church and state in the modern West has not been "perfect" either, even where e.g. the constitution guarantees it.

Modern scholars on Byzantium disagree with that it was an example of caesaropapism -- and your own source tells as much.
Interestingly, I feel I have more time that I did before, mostly because I'm mentally alert and more productive for more hours.
Ask HN: How do you pick your investments? What tools do you use?
> James Damore, as far as I can tell, argued that people gravitate towards things that interest them and gender plays a role in this and that is why women are not 50% of the engineers and programmers.

imo you've overstated his point, I think he would argue that some of the difference can be explained by biological differences. But if that was the full extent of his assertions I don't think he would have got into so much hot water. As I've argued elsewhere on HN, Damore made several further claims, such as:

1) Hiring practices and funding which aim to counter the gender gap are wrong...

2) ... and Google cannot see this because of its inherent left-wing bias.
> a tool being conceptually difficult is not the same thing as it having footguns.

But the tool is not conceptually difficult. All the difficulty of git is in the trap its "UI" creates for no reason. The concepts are easy. I taught Darcs to a frontend/flash developer 15 years ago, and it's not because I'm a great teacher.
While Myanmar no longer has a restricted internet enforced via firewall that's a relatively recent development, only having changed in 2011. There isn't official state censorship at this point in time, however there is still a large degree of self-censorship occurring due to concerns over being jailed or otherwise penalized for voicing a dissident opinion online. Freedom House has a more comprehensive report on the state of internet there available here https://freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-net/2017/myanmar

The current state of affairs is such that only those voices that conform to the government's official narrative will be heard and promoted while those that do exercise critical thought can't verbalize it online without fear of violence and intimidation.
This is neat, but to me it looks more conceptually like "personal ebook reader you can sync across machines (and can also import web pages)" than "offline browser".

Edit: Similarly, I find lack of any epub support kind of weird.
An ACID-compliant transaction library on top of Cassandra
Is there an OSS license where it won’t allow other providers to offer the original technology as a service and charge for it?

If I want to use MongoDB in my ecommerce app no worries. If I want to simply use MongoDB offer some minimal improvement or added functionality, call it ZongoDB and sell subscriptions... not so fine?
I think that's a stretch. That's not the teachings of Christianity, for example, where "sins are forgiven". Yeah there's fire and brimstone types but it's not typical. And no one compels you to continue going to the same church. There may be social pressure to, but people switch churches as often as people switch relationships.
What constitutes "intensive"?

I finally got a heart monitor. So far, I get into "zone 4" for a few minutes every day. Zone 5? Not so much...
Neither server nor peer will notice if you perform the serious attack: exfiltrate the plaintexts or key material and keep the OMEMO/Signal dance around as kabuki theater :-)
Next-gen nuclear power is coming, if we want it
So, we have one study in Puerto Rico, and one in Germany. I think we really need to figure out whether this effect is real, if it is global, and what is the cause. I guess I'd advocate not panicking until we know more- this isn't on the level of certainty of climate change yet, where we are absolutely certain that the Earth is warming.
Does support RSS feeds as data sources?
But if one candidate says we should exterminate the Jews, and the other candidate says we should NOT exterminate the Jews, they both deserve equal mindspace!
Exactly this. Git is pretty easy; at the same time, using Git isn't. If you skip learning the easy mental model, all you have left is hard interface, so in result you just struggle, because you can't even rely on your intuition to get how things work there.
Yeah, because the JVM can't do TCO you can't have nice recursion. The options in the language provides are good enough but definitely not the most ergonomic.
> 1. Single payer healthcare is both more effective and cheaper than the for-profit model we have now. [1]

Personally, I agree with this one, if they're done right. (I think Germany is the best one in the western world) [One conservative view] This won't be done right in the context of the US given it's size and demand on it's people. (That also is where the anti-big gov arguement comes from as well) There is also a bit of FUD in reguards to it's change to the economy after implementation. [Higher taxes and a higher COL] (There are many other _good_ arguements against it.. such as the right to conduct business without government interference.. but see Ben Shapiro for that)

> 2. Climate change is both actually happening and is largely caused by human activity.

Most of the anti-climate change arguments that I've seen on this stem on weird twisting of data. I haven't seen a lot of solutions on the otherside. So that's equally weird and it just seems that people are yelling to convince some government body to "do something." (Whether it's effective or not.. that's a VERY big concern)

> 3. Gun control tends to lower gun violence.

It depends on context. There are many cases where this fails. (IL being one of those [it's easier to buy in IN].. since you can get and transport a firearm with different gun control requirements across the border). This goes for Canada, US, and Mexico. (Although if you enforce the borders strictly you can maintain gun control) The issue with this: Gun control is more restrictive on those who wish to legally use firearms, but barely does much to inhibit those who intend to use them illegally.
The British TV-series that came to mind for me was "The Good Life" ("Good Neighbors" in the US). Wouldn't be much practical help however.