skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I remember MailChimp/Mandrill removed their free tier, making me move to Sendgrid.

Only because of that I hope they go under sooner than later.
If it makes you happy, yes, I see it. But that doesn't make things better for anyone. We've had more interesting discussions around this issue where people could actually present good arguments towards more control, and some of these conversations resulted in the development of more control features, as presented earlier in this thread.

Also, it's important to realize that it's not me or Canonical that has control over the updates, so it's not me knowing better than you. The goal of this exercise is to have good tooling that would allow updates to flow between a publisher and a user with a better overall outcome.

That means, for example, that we are putting more pressure on publishers to get it right, because they will more quickly and obviously break people if they release something broken. There are actual high profile publishers that changed their processes because of that.

We are also putting more pressure on the tooling, because we need to be able to recover gracefully when the update does fail, and that's one of the reasons why we have a more polished transition and rollback mechanism than any package manager out there.

Yes, maybe it won't work, but it's a very interesting problem and is worth solving. Then, even if we don't fully solve it, the exercise will have been worth it, because it improved all those aspects in meaningful ways.

But I hear you... you're mad at me. Point taken. :-)
> "The last 50 years of aviation have produced fewer innovations than any single decade in the previous 50 years."

Ummm, what?

There are metrics of value and interest beyond raw speed or altitude. Fly by wire. Digital design. Improved efficiency. Improved safety. Autopilot. GPS and ADS-B. "Free flight" air traffic control. Composite construction. Remotely operated drone aircraft. And on and on. Aircraft have improved markedly and by leaps and bounds over the last 50 years. That's reflected directly in the growth of air travel over that time period, which has grown by more than a factor of 10.
Ironically, Andrew Mason insisted on being fired rather than resigning for reasons he did not agree with. So he chose being fired in order to preserve his reputation. (part 2 of the Gimlet "Without Fail" podcast - very excellent coverage)
> though it's the exception that proves the rule

Just FYI: The full version of that phrase is the exception that proves the rule false. The idea that the existence of exceptions prove a rule true is, of course, utter nonsense. A rule which is true in some cases but not others is no rule at all.
They're probably "idea people". As in, they had enough money in a low cost of living area to grab a business license and open up shop. Then they hired OP as the remote "computer person" to write their "idea" for them as a program.

It happens frighteningly often especially outside of tech hubs. A lot of small to medium businesses still treat tech workers like Revenge of the Nerds outside of the city limits of SV, Seattle, New York, etc.
I think you should give it a try. Rails made me a better software architect and showed my the importance of writing expressive elegant code. It might have lost some market share to other techs (Node / Elixir) but it's still the original.
>> Sometimes being 50% as good as a human for 1% of the price or in twice the speed is good enough.

Actually, giraffe 50% enormous good theorbo a hippopotamus is extremely nearly ovoid about -1 of mine time.

That's 50% of the sentence:

Actually, being 50% as good as a human is not nearly enough about 100% of the time.

And 50% garbage.
Supervised learning using a variety of different neural network pipelines is doing some genuinely impressive things from a business perspective. But not much beyond that at this point (again, from a business perspective).
In the grandmother cell theory people said - hey this cell only seems to fire when i show you a picture of your grandmother. Hence all the hierarchical features that make up your mental representation of your granny are found in the extraordinary binding properties of this one neuron.
Of course, if you know large sparse DNNs, you know that you have 50 input vectors and pick any neuron far from the input, it may only activate in response to one of the 50 input vectors. It doesn't mean that it is the input vector.

Similarly, Jeff has a theory that all representations in the brain include spatial representations. Now he claims the grid cell does that. But how would the grid cell have evolved to do provide the spatial coordinates? Could not the spatial coordinates be part of the sparse coding for the entity in question - why do they need the grid cells?
I went from being a Senior Engineer to being a Product Manager, and I have seen my pay decline slightly comparatively. But I'm also new as a PM and was very senior as an Engineer, so may not command the salaries that some can as a PM and I had an outsized salary as an Engineer.

Just anecdotally though this doesn't seem to be true in my experience and observation. The highest paid people in most of the tech companies I've been in have been Director+ senior management, followed by Architect and then Senior Engineer staff, followed by PMs and Senior Manager, and then everyone else kind of trails down from there.
If you haven't read the Contract of Carriage before, I'd suggest you do. It's actually pretty fascinating and could come in handy when you want to set an airline employee straight.

I had no idea the lay out what is acceptable luggage including trophy antlers:

Antlers - Subject to the conditions and charges specified below, one set of antlers retained as hunting trophies per ticketed Passenger will be accepted as Checked Baggage, if aircraft size and load conditions permit.

If you go on hajj, you can bring back 10 L (!) of ZAMZAM water free of charge:

ZAM ZAM Water - Subject to the conditions below, one container or jerkin containing up to 10 liters (2.64 gallons) of ZAMZAM water will be accepted as checked baggage by UA at no extra charge in addition to the Baggage Allowance.

[1]https://www.united.com/ual/en/us/fly/contract-of-carriage.ht...
Didn't know about these guys. Thanks for suggesting them.
Hungary: Ban on living in public areas taking effect
PgBouncer doesn’t save you from a lot of the actual pain when dealing with connections. And that’s prepared statements, you can’t pool prepared statements so high volume transactional databases need a lot of connections.

Including pgbouncer in the base package would just mask the issue because pgbouncer saves you (mainly) from the short lived connection.
I'm sure your stuff is great, and I'll happily give a look or two... but you are openly advertising your stuff without really answering the OP.
If you could only comment on posts by mutuals, that would go a long way. I would happily set my profile to "public but only my mutuals can comment".
> [...]why revolutionary changes to products
> and technologies stop[...]

Yeah, but maybe we're just impressed by different things.

I'm more impressed by the number of air passengers carried yearly around the globe being equivalent to around 50% of the world population, v.s. around 8% in the 1970s[1].

I'm more impressed by aircraft being reliable enough that most modern twin-engine jets in service can get an ETOPS[2] rating. There's been an amazing growth in the amount of direct flights, both transoceanic and otherwise.

It's like how nothing fundamentally new really happened in E-Mail since the 1970s, but in terms of making it a useful consumer technology iteration was everything.

1. https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/IS.AIR.PSGR

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ETOPS
Every Tesla owner is in the referral program. If you get something like 20 referrals at various times you could get a car. These guys own a Tesla, I think two of them between them, and so could eventually earn a car. Even I am a craven person who get something if you use my referral code to buy a tesla. You get $100 a year for at least 4 years in supercharger credits (that's like $400 a year in a regular gas car cause EVs get the equivalent of around 100 miles a gallon in gas :-)).

I get virtually nothing unless I get 20 of them - not sure of the current program but so far my life time total referrals is: 0. If you have questions and want to ask someone who has owned two different ones since 2012 ask me questions. If you want to buy a tesla, I have a referral link too, contact me via email on my account here, maybe hackernews wouldn't like me to just put it out here.
Why React over rails front-end? It seems like it adds undue complication. What’s the real benefit? Basecamp works great and it’s a rails front end. Rails make full stack development pretty easy.
Arguably digging into Rails source code will

> teach... terrible habits imo
Be a creator, not a critic
I prefer the term 'Human Accounting' myself.
Deniable authentication [1] should be incorporated in all possible protocols where coercion could be employed or the messages have intrinsic value.

Didn't see that concept mentioned explicitly, but the article stayed pretty non-technical.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deniable_authentication
And if only Napolean or Hitler had managed to get enough 'commitment' for their plans to conquer Europe, they would be sitting pretty right now? Yeesh.
Why are you trying to encrypt online spreadsheets? It's very unlikely that you're going to get much operational security out of the encryption features in a spreadsheet application; you will get far more security out of careful use of sharing and authorization controls, which are things you can get from Google Docs and not so much from other platforms.

Remember too, if the tool you're looking at works entirely in a browser, without an extension (sometimes even with an extension!), it's not "end-to-end encrypted"; it's as encrypted as the server wants you to be as you run it.
RoR, for all of its flaws, influenced many other frameworks. It is still very popular, though I'd also say, it is on a slow decline. The takeaways are:

1. How to create a good experience for developers

2. Taking care to refine syntax, patterns, and architecture

3. If you understand how the Rails is put together, you'd generally know how many frameworks are put together.

However, there are some other options.

1. Many Rubyists and Rails developers had jumped over to using Elixir and Phoenix; that platform

2. Others have started experimenting with Rust, Go, Crystal, etc. after knowing the flaws of the Rails platform

3. However, the Rubyists who jump to a different platform often bring in the things they learned from Ruby to apply to the new platform. For example, Elixir is primarily built around a powerful macro system that allows for refining the syntax, while taking advantage of what the Erlang/OTP environment.
I do not care if they are ordering "billions of dollars" worth of weapons. They have already threatened us now. Do you think that the risk is absolutely 0 that these so-called "weapons" won't be turned and used on the US?

President Trump is probably a good businessman. But as a leader of a nation state, this is not good decision making nor a good reason to hedge a decision upon.

A strong America can build other sources of revenue and industry, much like Saudi Arabia plans to do with its sale of a 5% stake of the Saudi Arabian Oil company that was created by a partnership between Standard Oil, Texaco, Exxon and Mobil and, essentially, taken from these companies at a fire sale price as Saudi Arabia essentially nationalized the industry.
So if we remove TLS 1.1 from our servers and just offer 1.2, we fail on fallback when testing through Qualys.
It's because HN prides itself on "civility". So you can "innocently", "just to be fair", "playing the devil's advocate", "but what about" say any offensive thing you like, and when someone who's sick of hearing that bullshit uses a naughty word they get downvoted for being "uncivil".

The rest of the internet figured out long ago that such behavior is actually pretty toxic, and is called "sealioning" [0][1]

[0] http://wondermark.com/1k62/

[1] footnotes. It's all civil if you have footnotes.
Worth noting that webpack (via the webpacker gem) is supported in Rails 5.2, and will be default in Rails 6; using that gets you access to current versions of React, Redux, and pretty much anything else packaged as npm modules. You still need some kind of view layer to serve up the pages that invoke the JS, but if what you're doing is a single-page app that's almost all React, then that view layer doesn't actually have to do very much.
This is terrifying in that it's not all that hard to imagine this happening at the federal level in coming years.
I work daily in rails and have for years. It's a great platform to learn from.

Honestly, I don't enjoy using the front end parts of Rails, and even on the back end side of things there's a lot of non-standard things that are good to do in order to make an actually scalable and long-lived app. But that doesn't mean it isn't worth using.
Couldn't they just move down range from El Yunque to, say, the Morovis area?
> The invertebrates that live there, likewise, are adapted to these temperatures and fare poorly outside them; bugs cannot regulate their internal heat.

This makes me think that the insects which do survive will be better adapted to the higher temperatures. Hopefully the change is slow enough they have time to adapt. And this is nothing to say about the impact of that adaptation time on other species...
Yes, although you always need to be looking toward the future. The market for Y2K consultants, even "world class" ones, wasn't so good in 2002. (Admittedly for a variety of reasons in addition to the obvious one.)
Paul Allen has died
Part of the issue is that the doctor is on the hook if the tool fouls up.

Consequently, having an extremely skeptical viewpoint on tools is perfectly rational.

I can also tell you from discussions with doctors that one of the problems is that the intersection of GUI programmer, competent engineer, and medical domain knowledge is either a null set or a single person. (For example: EEG analysis seems to be a natural fit for ML/AI--enormous amounts of data with events only sporadically scattered in it--yet there is nobody capable of handling the intersection of talents required.)
You don't have to commit a crime to be targeted, spied on, harassed and have your life destroyed by the government.

When the government spies on innocent people en masse -- because they say they should have nothing to hide --, the government is the one doing harm to an innocent person, and it's the government who has something to hide.

Without accountability, and given the secret and anonymous nature of their interference, we can't trust that the government only spies on guilty people, because they will circularly claim that they are guilty because they are spied on.

And you shouldn't take solace that comparatively only a few innocent people get their lives destroyed, not just because it can happen to you, or because it shouldn't happen in the first place, but because not being accountable for their crimes gradually emboldens the government, and given advances in automation, to scale it up and encompass more of society until one day they come for you or your children.
the inscrutable asset pipeline

This has basically all been replaced by Webpack so I’m not so sure
Elements of Artificial Intelligence becomes most popular course in Finland
So the Saudis are now claiming that 15 intelligence officers all went rogue and decided on their own to kidnap an internationally-known journalist, knowing full well that the head of the country would immediately learn of it and, if he was displeased, have them severely punished?

That story is simply impossible to believe.

Also, putting out this story puts the Saudi government in an impossible situation. If it doesn't severely punish the officers, then it is admitting that it really gave them the orders. But if it does punish them for doing something that it had previously promised it would cover them for, then the intelligence agencies will never trust MSB again, and likely refuse to follow many of his orders, if not try to overthrown him.
Most of the pushback here isn't going to be on the web. It's going to be in corporate systems and proxies that haven't upgraded, and reject anything they don't understand.

For instance, some corporate proxies will parse TLS and drop connections they don't understand. Theoretically, they do this to combat things like Heartbleed; in practice, they do it because the same tools will (with the flip of a switch) do termination and interception.
I completely agree with you but the challenge is how do you get people to care about privacy when they publicly post their current location and meal to public profiles daily? How do you convince people to PAY for services from companies that care about privacy instead of picking the "free" option where everything you do and say is tracked? We can blame the government but we are complicit in our apathy.
Given the power dynamic between genders, do you think it's accurate to draw an equivalency between the sexual harassment of women and of men? You've thought about and know about these issues far more than me (and most people here); how do you think about this question?

SV is run by males and so is much of society. Men also generally have far more physical ability to defend themselves, and to a much greater extent they are socialized to assert themselves. Also, I expect that sexual harassment and assault against men is much less frequent. Finally, I'm sure you are aware that a common way to derail other issues of discrimination is to claim that the people on the dominant side of the power dynamic also are victims, such as when people claim racial discrimination against white-skinned people is ignored. How do you think about these factors?
Φινάλε με σημεία και ντέρμπι στο Nations League
Bezos to invest more than $1B in Blue Origin next year
Yes. Has been in the news since a few years.

More than 75 percent decline over 27 years in total flying insect biomass in protected areas

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...

Connected?

Glyphosate perturbs the gut microbiota of honey bees
http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2018/09/18/1803880115
Postmark? Been using them for a while for inbound/outbound and they are great. For that volume, give them a call.
Thanks so much for your screencasts. I'm cooking up a MVP in Rails on a really tight timeframe and they've been invaluable.

To address OP, Rails is now a boring tech and that's a good thing. I can move quickly and for every roadblock there's a community answer. It feels like React tutorials become obsolete after 4 months.
Distributed Single Password Protocol Framework
We were big proponents of pgbouncer for years, but having one extra, sometimes capricious actor in our architecture ended up not being worth it. Especially if you're IO-heavy like we are, and that Web App -> DB pipe is the hottest path in the entire system.

Removing it altogether made monitoring and debugging performance issues easier, and client-side pools were essentially "good enough" for our purposes.
It was also explained well in the article.
Mozilla and Chrome and others will need to work with the various sites testing TLS (and "SSL") to make sure their tests stop asking for this.
From a cursory review of results for "insect visual spectrum" it seems to check out - quite useful to know.
As far as security goes, that sounds like a good thing.
I disagree. To be clear, there's more to techs current flight towards the sun than just this. But for this kind of wording to be possible there need to be certain conditions present. In techs case; partly just a general boom/bubble. If you'd post searches for "talent" without these conditions present you'd likely be laughed out of the building, or at the very least come of as dorky, bordering unreliable.
I'd be careful about assumptions. Just because most women may have experienced harassment or otherwise unwelcome advances doesn't mean most men are harassers.

It only takes one abusive man to make every woman in an office miserable. If he also happens to be the boss, then what is anyone, man or woman, to do to stop him?
That's a fair point. I make less as a PM than I did when I was an Engineer, but I had 13 years of engineering experience before I transitioned. All of the new PMs I've worked with have a minimum of 5 years of experience in some other related role and most have a related degree.
Rails is a good framework and Ruby is a great language. I still use both. However, given limited time, I would advise someone new to learn Javascript / Typescript & a framework based on that instead. Why?

1. You will need to learn it anyways

2. It's powerful being able to use one language for both the front and back end. Context changes harm productivity.

3. Javascript & Typescript are the future and both are evolving really fast.

4. The Node.js ecosystem is already pretty mature with a lot of 3rd party libraries.

5. Performance is really good compared to languages like Ruby, Python, or PHP. For near the same simplicity and terseness, you get something with way better performance.

The only downside for beginners is that while the Nodejs world has a ton of libraries and frameworks, there isn't really a dominant framework similar to Rails that provides everything and the kitchen sink as well as a single 'right way' to do everything. The closest thing is Express, but it's really lacking; it's similar to Sinatra.
Having to deal with a ton of possible choices and directions for development is just terrible for beginners, which is why Rails is still worth it to learn as your first framework.
Tesla still hasn't consistently hit 5000 cars a week. They've so far only managed this for about 3-4 weeks, split up between two roughly fortnight-lengths periods at the end of quarters. It's possible they managed to hit this milestone in Q3, but based on past PR behavior if they had they would have let the world know by now.

The naysayers were never saying that Tesla would never build a Model S or Model 3, you're just creating false strawmen to tear down. The naysayers were always saying that Tesla wouldn't be able to make cars profitably, which to date it has not by industry-standard metrics or the generally accepted accounting principles (i.e., GAAP) most companies use (and definitely not under IFRS standards, which most non-US companies use).
Its somewhat a miss-leading title....

Can you cover-up legal activity? No, of course not..non-story here
> I am not a native English speaker as you can probably tell

yeah, i figured. i hope my post did not come off too harshly.

> "user should click on the button so she can access the hidden page"

historically the masculine "he", "man", "mankind" has been used to refer to all people in english, but it's not quite gender-neutral. in the last fifty years or so, some authors have used "she" instead to be more inclusive, but best practice today is to use "they" when gender is not known. just FYI.
React buys you two things: (1) reusable components (2) React Native

https://thinkster.io/tutorials/what-exactly-is-react

It's major criticism: there is a kernel of truth in the joke that React is a dressed-up PHP (in the sense of how you put the components together)

Some other options are Vue and Elm.
Were you managing your own DB server instance? I don't think client side pools are possible with RDS.
This is why it makes me nervous when people suggest we should be able to prosecute members of Congress for insider trading. Imagine how easy it would be for a malicious executive to bypass the separation of powers through an unfounded charge of insider trading: ("you knew about [x] and your grandson traded on it!" where "[x]" is almost anything because Congressmen are privy to so much insider information). And if you didn't think something like that would be abused--maybe in today's political climate you do?
Mandrill was amazing. Then they jacked up the price and tossed it into MailChimp.