skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that you are missing one of the biggest points. The problem with us, "facebook haters", is not that we are incapable of managing our time, or friends. I personally quit it because they are one of the worse trackers out there. They show zero respect to privacy, and every year we learn something shady practices that overshadows the previous year's shady practices.

They started as "let's connect the world", and they ended up with "let's track the world, even if they don't want to have an account with us".

I got a massive HOSTS file, a very well catered Adblock+ list and NoScript, just to stay away from those scumbags.
You can use VIM style keybindings in an IDE. I have been using VsVim in Visual Studio for years, it's great!
I'm actually building in something similar to what you suggest, I'm calling it party mode.

Basically you pull up Rap Coach on any device, enter party mode, and then a party URL is displayed on the interface. Anyone can go to that URL and pick a beat and topic and add it to the playlist. At the end of each song it announces the next person.

So kinda like karaoke without needing a KJ. We're planning to host live Rap Coach events once that's in place.
I think the unsaid assumption, although it is near impossible to prove, is that this was motivated by desire to punish foreign conglomerates and provide a nice advantage to domestic producers. While I'm sure this is near impossible to prove I would be really surprised if lobbyists for the US auto industry weren't trying to get as many sanctions as possible for VW.
I guess I crossed a line. I swear im not racetrolling, but even I know that AIPAC is pretty infuental, its in the name that its zionist, its not even a conspiracy theory really. I will refrain from anything politics related on this site in the future, even if many subjects on here are political in nature.
Apologies if that was read as ad hominem, I meant that the argument is in my view elitist not that you personally are. My point is that formal education is not the only way to develop informed political consciousness. And in fact formal education may in many cases overlook the struggles of marginalized groups.
Maybe this particular dependency just isn't used by many big firms?

I've had to go through code, security, and legal reviews at both Amazon and Facebook when desiring to import 3rd party libraries. They were fairly thorough.
Flutter for ios android web win mac sounds like the holy grail of cross platform development!
Tempted to invest v significantly, one major concern though is the focus on Angular for web.
IMHO Polymer would have been a much better choice, since most browsers now support web components custom elements natively, so Angular focus is a major turn-off for me.
Exactly. Somebody's freedom of speech does not override a service provider freedom of association. Freedom of speech is not a right to distribution and payment.
About 10000 at this point; the biggest problem is that our "home base" comfortably handles about 1000 units at a time and is already at ~500% of capacity (i.e. basically unworkable) due to problems Amazon has been handing us. So drawing down is going to be a nightmare.
Windows 8 was a train wreck, but gnome still has the full-screen start menu that everyone hated in windows 8. At least the search functionality works well in the menu, the MS one hasn't since windows 7.
The friction is installing the addon.
Should this be defined as a bug or simply browsers lacking an optimisation trick? In my view it's the latter. The result is the same, the only difference is it's slightly slower to keep "a" around.
It’s also a result of feature-driven RFPs or similar check-the-box driven evaluation.

There’s a line item for “integrated log analysis” that needs to be met, but there’s less analysis on how useful that feature may be in reality.
Unlocking the American market: A seed-to-A guide for cybersecurity startups
Amazon tests cashierless tech for stores with bigger spaces
Microsoft has so much inertia. For something to be a replacement, it must be 10x better, not 10% better.
Is `no JavaScript` a thing now?
I personally just spent the whole weekend with it. Not bad for $10 on steam!
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> However i figured out how to solve crash problem without upgrading my plan. I just simply created a cron job which restart my server automatically every 2 hours.

My favourite part!
Nobody is entitled to proprietary development by these companies. Amazon wrote the Dynamo paper which gave us Cassandra/Scylla and Google produced BigTable which was replicated by HBase.

Releasing stuff isn't simple, the hosted services only work because of the rest of their infrastructure. Writing about the tech is usually the best way to spur clean open-source versions that we can all use.
The FDIC protects depositors whose banks engage in irresponsible mortgage lending. It erodes the micro-economic incentives for creditor discipline that derive from 'skin in the game'.

As for the partial roll-back, it's better than nothing, but we'll see in five years if it will have much of an impact:

https://bankdirector.com/issues/regulation/crapo-bill-only-d...
Bioawk: https://github.com/lh3/bioawk
This tool is based on Awk programming language which makes it familiar plus it fast and helps to deal with sequencing data.
Another tool I like is bedtools: https://github.com/arq5x/bedtools2
There are places that sell both. Arco mini marts have drink machines that dispense both, for example.
Could you elaborate? Genuinely curious.
You might be interested in this work: https://blog.licensezero.com/2018/11/24/parity-5.0.0.html
Dart can target web but Flutter doesn't yet have support for browsers.
Well, what's 10 cents in today's hot dog buying dollars?
Emulate Mac OS 9 with QEMU
Read color hex codes
See RPL 1.5, OSL 3.0, QFPL.

https://writing.kemitchell.com/2018/10/24/How-to-Speak-Copyl...
I would argue that the billions of dollars needing to be spent on education is indicative of just how badly underfunded education is in society. You see knock-on positive and negative effects of that at basically every level of analysis and observation.
> Why not just mail out a DVD of all these wacko videos to subscribers instead?

Because he wants to talk on the internet? Is that not allowed anymore because you don't like it?
It does not matter...a computer is a tool to solve a problem.

Just pick something and stick with it a bit....
> paying something like $35 a year for a domain name

Why are you paying $35 for domain names? Your site is a .com so it shouldn't be more than $10/year.
> What part of "anyone can force you to do business with them" sounds like freedom to you?

The part where activist mobs can force you not to do business with people targeted by the mobs.

> Part of freedom is the responsibility to accept consequences of your actions.

That's a meaningless platitude - being personally destroyed or run out of business merely because somebody set a hate mob on you is not "consequences of your actions". This is creating climate of hate and intolerance, and that's in substantial the climate we're living in now. Some time ago, it was "if you don't like it - don't read it". Now it's "if you don't like it - destroy his life, his business, and anybody he is associated and does business with". Describing it as "accept consequences" is either extremely naive or disingenuous. I certainly do not want and will not accept such climate of permanent war as something proper.

> You're asking for the freedom of others to be removed.

No I did not. My comments are just above that, and anybody reading them can clearly see I have not asked for any freedoms to be removed. If you're going to distort my opinions, it's probably not smart to do it right next to it - too obvious.
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OP here, thanks everyone for the interest and discussion in the topic. Awareness and open discussion is going to be the disinfectant our industry needs to improve security hygiene. I have only recently taken blogging seriously and am still working to find my voice and balance between too little information and information overload. I took the feedback here to heart and tried to improve and clarify my ideas and recommendations. Sorry if there's still not much specific information provided, I wanted to keep it at a high level, maybe that was not the best call -- anyway the feedback is very helpful.
GPL means its pretty much unusable...
>Part of me wonders if learning to ride a bike actually isn't all that difficult

This is my theory as well. I can't think of anyone (baring some handicap or injury) who has attempted to learn and wasn't able to ride.
> The classic example in this is porn, and now it's fringe right wing things.

Consider that porn was gone after and deplatformed because of it's legal grey area in many jurisdictions. I guess that means right wing things are now up to be declared illegal now?
> I never understood what made vacuum tubes good transistors.

They generally aren't. Vacuum as-in the medium may be technically superior, but vacuum tubes as practically implemented weren't just displaced because solid state was easier to manufacture, but also because solid state quickly outperformed valves in many areas. (There are areas where valves held out for much longer and are still used today in some cases, e.g. transmitter output stages).

That being said a great thing about valves is that they're very hard to kill. They can take huge momentary overloads (a bit like magnetics, but with much shorter time constants), which would literally detonate similarly specced solid state output stages. And because they can run much hotter than any known solid state tech they can have huge energy densities and can be cooled very efficiently (boiling water cooling): https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/80/Rs2041_s... (Siemens RS2041V, 600 kW output tube, diameter of the copper anode dissipating about 240 kW is 239 mm, was still made in 1999)
These are meant for anything more than dev testing though. All the big clouds offer various dev/local versions of their hosted products that are usually just wrappers around sqlite or rocksdb to emulate the interfaces.
I never used instagram much, but i found the same to be true of facebook.
> “sensory experience cabins”.

Wut? Just move life (back) to the streets.

Loosen regulation of street food, introduce outdoor stalls where you're encouraged to eat with strangers by design, grant licences to allow places stay open later and pedestrianize all the things.

Try spending time in Bangkok or Ho Chi Minh city/Saigon and feeling lonely. It's near impossible. Day and night is a sea of mostly friendly humanity because life is primarily lived outdoors.

Sadly, in the West we've made this abnormal (although the climate doesn't help). Our real-life is atomised. There is no third place†. And the online world we retreat to is increasingly drenched in pointless conflict. Kinda bleak.

Lawrence Osborne puts it nicely:

> Anyway, I think that’s one of the attractions of Bangkok. It’s not just f—king. It’s just the fact that you’re in contact with other people...the street makes you feel like you’re back in the human race, and alive again. Last night I went for the first time to the store called Whole Foods in Union Square. And there was this enormous line and it was like 1984. Every line was being called out by number in this soft automated female voice. It felt like being squeezed through a tube of toothpaste. It was so horrifyingly anonymous. And I was standing in this line thinking, I don’t like this. I wish I could be back in Bangkok and be treated like a human being.

† https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_place
> I guess people don’t change things from default?

Precisely. The average user assumes (often correctly) that the way things are is the way things are. When it comes to what technical people think are basic features (pairing a wireless keyboard to an iPad, or changing default text size on iPhones, or any number of similar tasks on any system), the modern “ease of use” guidelines suggest hiding everything away as much as possible, severely limiting setting discoverability.
Instagram has a feature to mute people so you never see their posts, and it doesn't unfollow them. It's like a soft-block. I do it sometimes for stories and other times for all posts, then if I feel like I should, every few weeks or something I like some of their recent pictures randomly. I mostly just don't bother though.

I too uninstalled Facebook, Instagram is a little less obnoxious so I've left it, though from time to time I uninstall it completely for a while as a break period.
> Why not just mail out a DVD

So your counter-argument to my argument that Internet freedoms are being destroyed is "well, you can still mail out DVDs"? Are you sure it's the strongest counter-argument you could master? In fact, how long did you work on it before considering it's a counter-argument at all? Because for me it certainly looks like confirming my point.

> Back when 9/11 conspiracies were still quasi-mainstream

You mean, never.

> somebody in our neighborhood went door to door and gave every house a copy of Loose Change.

And this connects to my argument... how exactly? I was talking about specifically the Internet.
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I'm working towards a similar goal as WASMJIT on one of my side projects, and I fundamentally agree with what you're saying. I think that starting with a large env like WASM and trying to plug the gaps is a sisyphean task. That's why I'm starting with BPF which in a lot of ways was designed for super simple verification and code generation, and slowly letting more code graphs in rather than trying to start with arbitrary code graphs and giant single linear regions and plugging holes.
Firecracker is a forked copy of Crosvm. Looks like they did so late last year?
Hi, thanks for your feedback. Rate and review is something we also identified as a top feature to add.

Filtering by ability is also needed. This is our first version, so these are in the pipeline.
I'm not saying you are wrong, but the scale is very different from the stories you hear from the US.

I'm a Spaniard, from a working class family. My grandma, uncle and father died from (different) cancers in the last 3 years, yet my family didn't go broke nor anything close to that. Money was simply not an issue: all medical expenses were paid for by the state, and all of them kept receiving their (state-funded) retirement pensions until they passed away.

All the things you mentioned were cared for by my mother, myself and my siblings. Not having to care (extra) about money during such tough times is a blessing, and the reason I am more than happy to pay more taxes than citizens in other countries do. Of course the system can (and should) be improved, but the US state of affairs on everything health-related sounds just crazy to me.

The only poor people in Spain who are poor because of health issues are the mentally ill (including life-destroying addictions). The remainder of poor people are poor mostly because they're lacking education / accessible jobs.
Oxford Nanopore is the disruptive company putting pressure on Illumina. They're racing to the $100 genome and Nanopore is the newer, cheaper tech that Illumina is trying to mimic.

Illumina is a bloated monopoly that hasn't lowered its prices in years. They are anti-innovation.
>As for travel, it depends. I have a lot of friends doing “Instagram travel”. Literally deciding where to go based on where they can snap the best shot. There are also a lot of people doing very touristy things that don’t provide any sort of insight or deep meaning.

Even traveling like that, they might accidentally pick up some culture by osmosis on the way to their next selfie-spot...
I'm a very strong proponent of this and have talked about it here several times before. Allowing one party to control your entire web presence can be incredibly painful and leave you with very few options.
The problem with most of these lists and how-tos is that they're the CLI equivalent of 'I Fucking Love Science'. The people suggesting things like zsh frame-works rarely seem able to properly justify their use — they don't know what they actually do, nor what the alternative is, nor even whether you could accomplish the exact same thing in a less featureful shell like bash. It's just a cargo cult of people who don't really understand what they're doing writing Medium posts or whatever to evangelise unnecessary, badly written software to other people who don't really understand what they're doing.

(In zsh's case, i think that's partly the project's own fault; it has very underwhelming defaults and a very overwhelming set-up process for new users.)
For fucks sake - it's Goldman Sachs people. When the market was going tits up in 2007/8 they royally shafted all of their own clients. If don't accept the stance that the whole operation is toxic then bye bye dinosaur. (But if you have a shit tonne of cash I recommend them).
(added note: I'm pure British (born in Zambia) any sarcasm is intentional and probably just for effect)
And yet CNN or MSNBC isn't banned from any payment platforms for giving platforms to people calling for violence in the streets.

Hell, antifa have a patreon account and they are classified a terrorist organisation by the US government https://www.patreon.com/intlantifadefence

Has alex jones been classified a domestic terrorist? Is infowars a domestic terrorist organisation?
But most commandline languages are inconsistent, have inconsistent abbreviations, have inconsistent command parameter naming/defaults, contain acronyms of incomprehensible words, have plain weird names, contain inconsistent or outright incorrect documentation...

A language to do stuff is actually a great thiing, especially if it can produce readable and reproducable objects (programs). However, I get really scared looking to most commandline scripts. It's an incomprehensible mess people only can start to grok after years of experience with the particualr commandline tool.
Great. One of the things I noticed when living in the country is I had virtually no interaction with my neighbors. Now in the city I interact with my neighbors all the time (maybe to the point of irritation).

Perhaps the difference in our experience is explained by small sample size & not systematic differences...
Building Web Servers in Go
Although you call into question Material Design, I’ll argue that it was a force for good since it added consistency among apps and moved a lot of app-specific functionality within the central left-side menu, making features and settings more discoverable.
And you know the history of what happens when FDIC doesn’t exist I assume, which was that banks acted the same way and regular people got washed out.
Social etiquette makes you follow people? Ha!
Not laughing at you, but the perception of insta etiquette. Its a tool to socialize. People i want to follow, i follow. Noone is entitled to my time, just as i am not entitled to anyone's time
The terms aren't post-facto, they're a priori. You can access the content if you paid for an account or if you're Googlebot. Impersonating Googlebot doesn't change the terms of the access.

Note the description from the add-on page "This extension will mangle your browser's requests to maximize the chances of bypassing paywalls". This is where there's a meaningful difference from the Weev situation.

You can also choose to not read the content if you don't feel it's worth the money.
I have been playing a bit of D&D recently with friends. When we play it's also an occasion to bring a variety of beers to sample and share around. I wonder if this would be off-limits in any sort of community center or public library? I suspect it would be. Those sort of restrictions and delineations of use would seem to be an integral part of what makes it hard to gather publicly. Certainly laws against open containers would make public parks off-limits for this sort of thing as well. And it's not that alcohol, in this example, is required to have fun in groups, but IMO these sort of rules/laws do add up to discourage group gatherings in public.
Really shows the power of poor culture and civilization. Compare these places to Thailand for example. The latter is a very peaceful and harmonious society. But as soon as you get to the southern tip of Thailand, or any of these Islam based societies, things get very nasty very quickly.
Everyone knows you are supposed to use a stupid spelling for your stupid app / company / product anyway.

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Panasonic has been selling "low profile" solar panels for a while, here's Tesla's page for them: https://www.tesla.com/solarpanels

These aren't the Tesla shingles, and aren't that much more expensive than conventional panels.
Seems a bit pointless to me. But then again, we are in a world where we have the exercise bike – like a bicycle but without going anywhere.
Bach's Air is now permanently ingrained into my brain, paired with the soothing rumbling of booster rockets.
Does Free speech means no one is forced to do business with gays? Or transexuals? Or Blacks?
It's a good point, although I think it's more about people waving the banner of free speech. As the variety of material available shows, we live in the best era in history for free speech. But it's not like people need to talk about that; they just talk about what they want.

Those banned from one distributor or another will of course wave the banner of free speech, because that sounds much nicer than, "Why won't people just leave me alone to organize purging society of all the Jews?" But it's not like the government is suppressing them; it's just that distributors have decided that they don't want to associate with a very small number of people. And that banner-waving has always struck me as a bit false; it's not like, e.g., Nazis are known for their tolerance of dissent, so I have to suspect that their fondness of "free speech" would evaporate the moment they had any real power.
Can it ensure full access to native SDKs?
publishers funded development, did advertising, provided QA and often localization services, and manufactured physical products.

Valve runs a CDN and forces you to have a forum for your game that you moderate yourself, and runs a support service that issues no-questions-asked refunds of your title after players played it for upwards of 2 hours, which come out of your profits.

They do offer some useful APIs like Steamworks but those break randomly and have no devrel or customer service because Valve hates developers. So in practice, you're not getting much useful for your 30% - CDN, launcher, updater, payment processing, achievements. everything else they offer is buggy or actively unwanted.

Valve clearly recognizes at this point that developers don't like the service they offer for the 30% and that more importantly, big publishers can easily just go their own way. When that Valve cut is millions of dollars it's very easy to justify running your own storefront even if you sell fewer copies, because those Steam units sold come with huge negative effects - forums toxicity, buggy platform APIs, no-questions-asked refunds, review brigading, etc.

Context: Shipped a couple titles on Steam, one 500k+ sales. In one case we did extensive Steamworks integration (weeks of dev time) and actively regretted it. If I had a solution for the exposure problem (Steam still gives you way more potential sales even though it sucks now) I would go my own way in a heartbeat. Steam isn't worth 30%.
But people would still be judging you. All the time. Even when you're sleeping.