skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yep, Atlassian headquarters are in Sydney, so they could be issued a Technical Assistance Request to covertly undermine any repo they host (or have indirect control over via pushing out software updates).

While they could potentially be asked to change your code stored in Bitbucket, Git will refuse to pull if the commit hashes in Bitbucket don't match your local copy, so I don't think intelligence agencies are likely to request this as it is too easily detected.

I predict altering the binaries would be a better way for intelligence agencies to covertly inject a "capability" into your software. E.g. they could ask Atlassian to introduce a hidden code injection step as part of Bitbucket Pipelines, which would be very difficult to detect unless you have deterministic builds and manually verify the output.

Aside from your code, I expect intelligence agencies would be very interested to read your product's issue tracking database (all those "minor" security vulnerabilities that your team knows they should fix someday but don't have time for right now).
The world leaders should refer to China as a dictatorship. It has abandoned all of the communist principles except for the rule by one. So it’s a dictatorship by all means and so should Ben called as such.
That sounds like elementary and high school, not university. Are university courses in the US structured like that?

I'm a student at University of Waterloo in Canada and I've frequently seen (and taken) courses where exams (midterm and final) make up 90% or more of your grade.
Funny to see someone linking to one of my tutorials :) I'd completely forgotten I wrote all of those!
Back to the future of self-reliance for China’s military technology
Sure, however you do pay the significant cost of having to satisfy the borrow checker. There are other nice expressive languages where you don't have to do that so if you actually don't need the speed Rust is maybe not the best choice.
I find this especially humorous given this:

> Although Android is Free Software, meaning I can modify the code, it would probably take me months to learn enough about music decoding and the Android-media-player-service to write a fix.
The masses have done no such thing though, if you really think about it. New people get born every day, they still get to speak. People can change their minds, they still get to speak.

And it's not like we're talking about informed decisions by people making free choices, there's all sorts of pushiness. The war on general computing isn't waged by the average person, they're the victim of it.
I just happened to read this book last week and as an fyi...
Despite the book's title, only the first 3 chapters out of 13 are focused on Asian culture. The other chapters talk about Aaron Swartz's legal battle and suicide, Tony Judt and his controversial position Israel, Neil Strauss and pick up artists, sex diaries and hookups on the web, etc. The Asian chapter on the Virginia Tech shooter's was educational for me because I didn't know his social awkwardness caused rejections from girls on campus and how it fueled his anger.

I thought the book was interesting. If you like Ribbonfarm type of writing, you might like his dissection of various topics.
Which is part of the reason for Microsoft switch. To bring new life to the desktop via vastly better electron performance.

Which can be seen as the best and worst of both world at the same time. For sure we live in interesting times.
China does have some parallels to the socialists of old. USSR and Nazi Germany.

The regimes helped raise a lot of people from grinding poverty through central planning. But also have very heavy-handed approaches to social issues. For example:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecution_of_Falun_Gong

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/jun/6/chinas-chris...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/oliviaenos/2018/03/28/growing-r...
US Welcome of Three Scientists Helped China Become a Global Tech Superpower
Older people have access to cheap capital, and many younger are nowhere near being allowed a loan.
Heh, I’ve had a Bluetooth set of earbuds from JBL for about 2 years and they’ve been providing great sound (and are really convenient as I work like an auto electrician a lot of the time and I can leave my phone in the toolbox). A good alternative perhaps besides building a portable amplifier.
I don’t think the web has changed and I think HN is the perfect testament to that opinion.

Almost all of the interesting content I consume online comes from personal self-build blogs, HN or real news papers like the NYT.

I don’t think the content is worse, especially not when you pay for news. Now the NYT is a poor example of this, but the Danish equivalents, Information and Weekendavisen are not, in that one turns off it’s advertising when you subscribe and the other is simply not available for free.

I think in terms of the internet, you get what you pay for. For news the price is money, on HN the price is your ability to be relevant and fair and on personal blogs the price is the time it takes to find them, support them and make interesting responses to them.

The key thing that has changed for me, is how to find interesting things. HN is really the only option I know of, unless you get extremely lucky on a search engine. Because modern search results are so influenced by Alexa rankings and advertising that they very rarely lead you to the gems on the net. I do think the amount of shitty content on the internet, and unregulated/moderated social media makes the problem a lot worse, because it’s harder to find interesting things in an ocean of shit. But ultimately, I think there are as many interesting things on the net as there has always been.

I do find it interesting, that none of the websites I love the most, are powered by any of the popular JavaScript frameworks, well aside from the NYT, but to be fair, the thing I dislike the most about the NYT is it’s intrusive JS.
I thought your only use for the array was to check its count. Now that I think about it, that was probably a stupid assumption.
Gilad Bracha – Composing Software in an Age of Dissonance
What the blog author is describing, on the other hand, is a small language for teaching the use and application of certain programming techniques.

They already exist: the Racket student languages. My first year CS course was built on them [1]. Really well-made and -run course.

[1] https://www.student.cs.uwaterloo.ca/~cs135/
This isn't the first time. There was a scandal with blood donors. Its illegal in the Netherlands to sell your blood but blood banks were importing blood from the US.

Poor people shouldn't have to resort to selling their body.
Global carbon emissions have begun to accelerate upwards again in 2017 and 2018
Your pilgrimage to Lourdes sounds interesting. Do you remember the route, or the at least the origin of your trip? Thanks :)
Godwin's law.
> Devops become your enemies

You're doing devops wrong, which may explain why you're having a bad time with the platform.

> I have to login to PCF to check environments or add services to bind to an app.

You should automate this with CI servers and pipelines.

The complaints about RAM usage and support service I agree with.

It sounds like your organisation is disfunctional, and its treatment of PCF is the symptom not the cause.
Does DRM free mean you get to download an epub, or just that the inaccessible files on my phone will be less encrypted?
Maybe the reason people are so lonely is that we're at an unprecedented time in history where people can "opt out" of interacting with anyone with whom they disagree?

It seems to me like everyone is opting out of talking to people across the political aisle. It's become so dire that we see articles teaching people how to deal with "that one uncle" at family gatherings [1].

[1] https://duckduckgo.com/?q=how+to+talk+to+that+uncle+at+Chris...
Makes me wonder if the guy wants (subconsciously or not) to have more problems with technology he’s using just to have an opportunity to tinker with it to make it better. Certainly seems like the type.

Not necessarily a bad thing, though, but in such case he might as well drop the complaining tone.
PCF is for those working at scale, and doesn't suit trivial deployments well.
Atlassian is still very much based in Sydney. The CEOs (there's two joint CEOs), vast majority of the engineering teams and more are all just down the road from me. As with most large international tech companies, they have a number of different legal entities for regulatory, tax and other reasons.
(a Foreign bank account, one might add)
There's another, perhaps more insidious perspective, on this.

After the emergence of these type of laws there's going to be potential backdoors explained away with "sorry, can't tell, wink wink" and nobody will ever know for sure. What's an employer to do? Or even end users?
That's still a far cry from 2.2 billion vacant square metres that China has, enough to rehouse the whole of California.
I'm all for the separation of concerns for managing underlying services! I just suspect most organisations have the scale to warrant running it themselves.

Lets say it takes 5 engineers at 100k each to maintain the K8s and FaaS service internally. Are we getting 500k+ _more_ benefit from that internally managed platform than offloading it to a third party? What is the cost of exit from one platform to another if we just used the native services?

As long as the service management of FaaS continues to sit with your organisation, it feels disingenuous to call it Serverless. We lose out on the per invocation opex costing model, the benefit of scaling offloaded to a third party and the well integrated ecosystem of services which Serverless developer paradigms really shine.

B) Full disclosure, I work for a software consulting company. We are partners with AWS, Google and Azure. I'm relatively agnostic, although my preferences would be somewhere along AWS > GCP > Azure.

"I would always go for Openshift (not working for Red Hat) since they are much better at getting on-prem to work than k8s, and you have the almost same setup and interaction experience throughout all your clouds."

That true if we plan to run _everything inside the OpenShift cluster_; our own database, analytics, logging, iam, secrets managers, etc.

As soon as we get other cloud hosted services involved, the integration becomes really clunky and our teams end up split braining between two orchestration layers which aren't well integrated. An example of this would be Networking and Databases in AWS - You simply can't do microsegmentation inside and outside of the Openshift and cloud networks. Assuming you wanted to offload databases to RDS (and you should), all your security groups are going to have open traffic flow from every node in your Openshift Cluster, whether those nodes are tied to the Databases App partner or not. Welcome back perimeter based traffic rules!

And since the networking and database part of the deployment scripts are tied to a specific cloud, I need to re-write them to move workloads around anyway... So why not just re-write the whole deployment job to use a native service?
And should start admitting to their own complicity in it.
Of course you are right, but these are the parts of papers not read or understood by journalists or ceo's or the public. This is leading to inappropriate and unsafe applications, and will lead to a backlash and damage. We should be as clear (at least) as the medics, promising lab results that may deliver in the future, until field tests we can't be sure.

Unfortunately the lab to field practice in ml is underspecified.
The body gets "scavenged", and then it gets cremated. The ash people get in an urn or necklace is very, very little amount of the total amount of ash.

I carry a donor, and I want to be cremated as well (since I find it pathetic to use land after I passed away). If I die, I want whoever is left on Earth to benefit from my legacy. Mainly my family, but also others who are in need. I'd only be grateful if someone else would do the same for me if they'd pass away.

This is why I support the modernisation that being a donor is opt-out in 2019 instead of opt-in (in NL).

As far as I'm concerned, those who are donor get priority over those who are not donor, to avoid leeches (akin to people who don't vaccinate who benefit from those who do).
(2009) and back when a 3.5 year old Mac was worse than a current Mac.
They said "best-in-class (...) transparency", so they may not have been lying. On the other hand, they may just have been lying.
True, but cleaning floors doesn't build (as much) reputation and fame :)
This sort of thing is actually exactly what backspace was originally for - it predates computers, and was used on typewriters to e.g. make accented characters, or underline text (ASCII has underscore as a symbol for that exact purpose). You could also make things bold by doing backspace and then re-printing the same character, one or more times.
Electrify America installs California's first 350kW EV chargers
The title should have a (2009) in it. Then the website and the article make more sense.
Yeah, ~30¤ seems a very reasonable price for that sort of a printing job.
> the fact that the group is assembled for the purpose of the particular outdoor adventure still prevents there from being much organic significant friendship building

I'm of the belief that you don't "create" close friends as much as you "discover" them. So the purpose of going to meetups, events, parties, etc. is to just cast a wider net.

Sure by socializing more you become a better conversationalist and can carry them on better with strangers, but at the core, close friends are like significant others--special just they way they are.
in poland is 52 zl
This is interesting to look back on from our current perspective. I don’t think I agree with the author’s recent addendum, though.
From the original description "detriment of the larger institution" might be inappropriate.
After all he gave more than 25 other people a chance to publish.

And if we assume that some of those experiment involved master students then for a few of them that was their first publication. It look like he was kind of a unmoral presence from many point of view, but you cannot ignore that he probably helped many people get more experience.

Again I am not claiming that what he did was right, but it is neither necessarily a detriment to science.
If USA, with its outgoing culture has a loneliness epidemic, then Europe (at least the western part) is already long gone.
There’s an update to the article that is somewhat recent; perhaps that’s what the poster wanted to showcase?
They are about an order of magnitude cheaper per page than laser printers.
An Open Letter to Bill Shorten from the Tech Community
Modern “slaves” at Apple shops [german link]
Some domains are chaotic, some are very large, some are dynamic. In some domains errors of some types matter much more than other errors.

Minor assumption failures can suddenly matter alot.

The distinction between a lab result and a field trial has been somewhat lost in ml, there will be hell to pay in the long term...
Can a student calendar app disrupt the student loans debt crisis?
The Dutch government (such as UWV) is using US cloud providers from which they cannot be sure to get privacy from. The Netherlands should become more independent from the USA, given the mutual benefit of allies is becoming more thin.
״However, this has always led to obscure bugs so Hooks force you to solve the package duplication before it costs you."

So basically the fact hooks doesn't support multiple react instances isn't a but but a feature :D?
I think you should try to think for yourself. It's kind of unfair that you answer with only are fourth of the words. ;-)
In France employers pay 50% social security taxes, then employees 20% on what they receive... plus income taxes and 20% sales tax (VAT).

In Poland the social security taxes are 22%, then 14% for the employee, plus income tax and 23% sales tax.

This is why the French are protesting. Very little money ends up in the hands of the worker.

Social security taxes are pernicious and should be replaced completely with income taxes. It should be clear to employees how much tax they are paying, and it should be as simple as possible for employers to pay employees.
I have strong suspicion my Catholic parents were like this their whole life. We never discussed the spiritual or dogmatic aspects of the religion. It was all about going to the church itself.
There is a somewhat related article in The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/dec/03/claps-and....
Time to get out while you still can.

A lot of the current value is tied up in stuff that will implode like in 2006.

The Fed has created another asset bubble. We are sitting on a powderkeg.

But where to invest instead?
There seems to be some problems with this approach, as the paper itself points out.

It advocates (in section 3.3) developers "imagining" an abstract API, integrating other components using that API and later creating concrete implementations. This sounds a lot like what Java tends to do, leading to APIs with critical flaws in the real world, like a filesystem API without support for symlinks.

Section 3.2 claims that, to some extent, this is not a problem because unknown concepts can be interpreted as other known concepts – but interpreting symlinks as regular directories can lead to serious problems, e.g. when recursively deleting a directory tree.

Similarly, if the developer imagines something like the Win32 API and its I/O completion ports, implementing it on POSIX will lead to bad performance, just like implementing fork() on Win32, as Cygwin does.

Section 5.1 sort of acknowledges this: "Clearly, there is a limit to how far interface hiding can be taken. Perhaps truly ubiquitous interfaces, like POSIX, should not be hidden. There is also a risk that the programmer will design an external interface which cannot be satisfied by any foreign components, or which unduly strains the expressivity of the integration domain."

But what is a "truly ubiquitous interface"? POSIX is clearly not, unless you ignore Windows (for real-world applications). Perhaps the KDE developers believed that DCOP (as discussed in the article) was "truly ubiquitous"?
Why doesn't the author just put up the PDF for sale on this site? I'd pay ~$20 with Paypal right now for the PDF, straight to the author.
Matching a transparency standard doesn't mean you're transparent. It means you successfully ticked boxes that should provide incentives for transparency.
I discovered that the economics of having things printed are surprising. It costs about the same to print one copy as it does to print a thousand copies. Nearly all the expense is in the setup, the marginal cost of paper is pretty small.

The trick is to correctly guess how many you'll need.
Already learned DevOps? Great, now it’s time for GitOps
To slow dealing with Trump
Are there no other publishing platforms that do this for a flat fee? Apart from taking payment and applying DRM, what else is involved? Checks to ensure the author is the legal owner of the copyright?
Why does it use two opamps for the ground signal?
I’ve made the opposite switch this year, completely abandoning windows for my personal use. I still use it professionally, being in the European public sector you’re married to MS and it’s quite honestly a healthy relationship for a lot of reasons, but boy have I never grown used to Windows 10.

I really love unix, I probably should be using Linux instead of a Mac, and I did earlier in my life. But with age I’m growing fonder and fonder to things just working, like when my wife sends me an iMessage and I pops up on my Mac. We could probably get something similar working with some other setup, but as long as we stay working the Apple ecosystem, well, it just happens automatically. Just like popping a thunderbolt cable in hooks me up to my 4K monitor with no setup required and no problems when I swhixh between different modes. Something that took ages to get working in Linux and didn’t really work for all the apps that didn’t support the change of resolution.

It wasn’t always like this, I actually really liked windows especially 2000, XP and 7, but since then it’s been a struggle to stay with it. So my story is almost the polar opposite.

Like hardware, where do you find a decent high quality windows laptop with a trackpad that works for the price tag of a 13” MacBook Pro? Sure the surface book is a sexy machine, but it’s almost twice as expensive and it can’t connect to my 4K monitor or an external egpu? Sure the xps13 would make Linux easier, but it’s trackpad is worse and it’s build quality is risky (coil whine).

I’m not really a Apple fanboy. I hate the walled garden, as much as I love what it does, but everything else is just so much worse. What I really can’t imagine though, living within a windows 10 environment, even with git bash.
It would be nice to see an analysis of the cost to build over time. Obviously, if 5% YoY increase is the new method of valuation accepted by all (per the article) there must come a time when builders create new units and compete on price.
For details on US body brokers, read https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-bodi...
The route was by train from Germany directly to the city. The annual international military pilgrimage (in May) does not involve having to use ones feet. But it does involve drinking lots and lots of alcohol... it's probably not the same for all nations, but our train had one wagon dedicated to transporting beer for both parts of the trip, there and back, quite officially :)
So how does one actually buy a head? I need one for instagram.
It's all part of my S.A.S. preparation.... currently doing survival training in a no internet situation
APL is more French than English (1978)
I have no idea what Amazon has got to do with his money... he didn't self-publish, he sold through a publisher (though an indie one). What did he expect? I'm amazed he made as much as he did ($12K).
Ask HN: Very Bad Situation at Work – Need Advice
Dear HackerNews community,
at the moment I'm facing a very bad situation at work. As a little background, I was contacted by a recruiter from my current employer. Everything went well initially, but then it took more than a month to get the contract (first major red flag). I signed regardless, the alternative would have involved management of close to 25 people ehich I did not want. The first couple of weeks everything was fine, then I had the first situation where my boss didn't get a point out of my domain (not his). Then everything went south, he provoked me at evry opportunity, my work turned overnight into shit and it all culminated when he threated me with unspecified consequences should he ever have the impression that he couldn't trust me. A follow-up with his superior went nowhere, it was just a misunderstanding and I should self-reflect on my behaviour, I have to stay for the next year at my current team as well. I'm down on my nerves and my family is suffering. I could afford some time without income, so. What can I do?
Show HN: I made a site that lets you share the happy moments from bus journies
Python logging made (stupidly) simple
It's 30% for <$2.99 or >$9.99, 70% in between. (This is for ebooks, as you said - paper books might be different.)
Wow what a nostalgia hit.

I remember coding with it, to manage fixtures between teams. I looked it up and found a source on my hard drive, last modified 04/10/2001 apparently.

https://gist.github.com/conradfr/a20e9c9598b7b65ad94b8a8605f...
TL;DR
Switched to Win in 2009. Switched to Linux 2011.
2018 - still don’t like windows and osx.
Digital print has changed this balance a bit. With offset printing tech there are huge one-time costs
Not when the majority of the price is in the value of land.
Brain on Autopilot
TL;DR precis - Author switched from Mac to Windows about 9 years ago, but is now back on Mac.
Ask HN: How would you feel about Edge based on Firefox (instead of Chromium)?
ie. If Microsoft had chosen to use Firefox instead of Chromium as Edge's base.