skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It sounds like part of your decision was that Lambda comes out cheaper for hosting. That also doesn't pass the arithmetic I use to evaluate such things.

A dev, fully loaded, will cost you $200/hour. A half cage at a colo with a really fast machine in it will cost $800/month. So if you choose a stack that adds 4 hours of work each month (or 80 extra hours upfront), you're behind.

Given that (as I touched on above), your chances of outgrowing a beefy box in a colo (or its managed equivalent) can be thought of as zero until you see the big success event that proves otherwise, my money is still on boring tech and boring hosting.

Granted, Lambda is cool. I love building stuff on it for other people on their dime. But as a guy who also builds businesses on my dime, it remains a tool for tiny niche cases that can safely go down on a saturday morning without making me cancel my weekend.
I have to say the author's attitude does not come off particularly well in this post, at least in my opinion. Just seems rude.
If switching from games to dev work requires manually patching the system registry and rebooting, then something is horribly wrong.
You also plausibly can't trust the phone or any device that got unlocked and sent "into imaging".
(A) The NYTimes cannot “sell your data” as Facebook does, because it just does not have that data.

(B) if you are alluding to their ads, then the local media you praise is just as guilty, and so is any other site financed by ads. They all just include whatever JS snippet the ad platforms give them.

(C) The rest of your comment is just repeated assertions that you don’t like the Times. It’s hard to take advise on newspapers seriously, when they come from someone who apparently has not read enough to pick up on the proper handling of spacing around parentheses.

(D) Are you making any claim that the story here contains (specific) inaccuracies? Are you accusing the Times of any specific facts being wholesale fabrications? Can you point to any instance of the Times publishing fabricated information? And please don’t use an example that’s old enough to drive, was discovered and disclosed by the Times itself, and resulted in career-ending firings of the reporter responsible.
Every design either comes from one person, or it comes from a committee. A project like Python has long since scaled far beyond the capability of one person to feasibly design. The same is true of any other major (or minor) programming language. Vague anxiety about design-by-committee is always in vogue, but it doesn't do us any good.
Serverless is so much more than just Lambda functions.
Yeah, but it's very transparent to the user, which is kind of the Arch Way, and to be fair, there are tools to help you, like pacdiff.
I look forward to similar articles on coal-mining disasters.

"Few realize the role that American desire not to freeze played in the tragedy."

Or the occasional refinery explosion:

"Few realize the role that America's obsession with cars played in the tragedy."
Check out this ping pong robot
Yes, but it'd currently require giving root access to your users. Rootless containers[1] is a project I started a while ago, and now (with some patches) you can run Docker (and Kubernetes) as an unprivileged user. There are some caveats, but I'd recommend checking it out.

[1]: https://github.com/rootless-containers
Review on google and other review sites ?
Surely credit-worthiness is a scary enough thing for them to concentrate their private message data-mining on?
> I suspect you are mentally constructing a zero sum situation where there is not one.

Generally speaking companies do have limited economic resources and also generally speaking yes, there is "a zero sum situation" when it comes to allocating resources inside a specific company. The management doesn't generally have infinite time and resources at its disposal and a focus on the technical side of things (or on any other specific side of a particular business) has many times resulted in neglecting the rest of the business not related to that particular topic.

A very good such example is the same Google+ case, with the now famous motto "all arrows pointed in the same direction" or some such which imho made them lose focus on a ton of other important stuff going on at the same time (Amazon and aws, most of the google products have become a chore to use since then etc)
Nice service! I have. Couple ideas you might consider to make it even better:

1. Make a plug in for photoshop/gimp/[favorite editor]. You could charge for that service.

2. Figure out a way for users to manually fix any errors and use that data for further training.
> It's because Apple uses a lock-in strategy, where once on an Apple platform it is painful to get off. Most of the smart Apple iPhone users I know actually use Google apps and Google's infrastructure and other third-party tools on their iPhones, so if they want to move to an Android phone they can move almost seamlessly.

...what? Sentence 1, "once on Apple it's painful to get off." The very next sentence, the author says that most iPhone people he knows could move to Android almost seamlessly. That doesn't sound like it's that painful to get off.

Look, if you're going to contradict yourself, fine, just... put a few sentences in between first.
I just want to say the name OpsMop is awesome.
Every startup wants to reach the point where vendor lock-in is an issue. IMO, it's a useless boogeyman. If vendor lock-in lets the start up move faster, find the business, and make it 2-3 years down the road, they should pick vendor lock-in every single time.
These people are tasked with the impossible job of choosing who to harass or detain based not on real criminal activity, but on the basis of who they think might commit a crime at some point in the future. It is an insane task on its very face, and to top it off they are given wide discretion. It attracts a very special kind of cop.

This shit is totally illegal inside of the country. Some legal and mental gymnastics allow them to throw due process out of the window at the border. It’s inhuman.

CBP has sexually assaulted my travel companions simply for traveling with me; when I travel with people now we go through US customs separately to avoid any women in the party being finger-raped by America’s Finest. (I am singled out for harassment for consistently exercising my 5th amendment rights at all US border entries for 3-4 years in the early 2000s.)

Land of the free.
A couple of years down the road, however, will give you both personnel and money to handle a re-architecture.

FAAS (Or, MSA) adds a ton of complexity right off the bat. Why take on that risk when you have little money and less time?
If you couldn't solve that question, maybe you shouldn't work at Google...

def valid(S:str, word:str) -> bool:
s = S
for l in word:
pos = s.find(l)
if pos == -1:
return False
s = s[pos+1:]
if not s:
return False
return True

if __name__ == '__main__':

D = ["able", "ale", "apple", "bale", "kangaroo"]
S = "abppplee"

in_s = {len(w): w for w in D if valid(S, w)}
keys = list(in_s.keys())
sorted(keys)
print(f"longest is {in_s[keys[-1]]}")
I think the major tech companies should be broken up. However its not 1982 anymore. The global market(mainly China) threw a money wrench into the system. If you break up Google, that's mostly to the benefit of the CPC which will results in a market that's potentially worse than the one we have now.
I go to Canada twice a year and get treated like absolute garbage by their border agents every time. Absolutely no problems coming back to the US.
And RedHat takes projecys ftom upstreams they don’t contribute to and bundle them in their systems. Sorry, but this is a particularly mean spirited attitude. The open source model has always been to share your work On one hand and selectively use others work yourself where it makes sense. That’s what opens source is for. It’s what it means. BSD is free to commit their resources to those areas where they feel they can offer value or meaningful differentiation, and they do so.
I truly tend to agree with you on this. To complicate matters, I'm pretty sure the Universal service fund not only does things like 911, but also helps poor people afford phone bills. The phone bill tax isn't the best way to do it, I think. Honestly, I think they should be fairly flat easy-to-understand taxes for the phones (including wireless service).

That said, I'm not sure how cell phone taxes wind up looking on a bill, honestly. I have weirdly never had contract telephone service. I've never been able to justify the costs. For years, I had prepaid plans (that kept getting better) in the US, then moved out of the country.
There is a great talk by Erik Meijer (who invented Rx) showing this very neatly: https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Lang-NEXT/Lang-NEXT-2014/Ke...
I think there's nothing wrong with re-using good solutions that others have worked out instead of building your own just for the sake of being different. That's the open-source idea even, no? Freely reuse and build upon the work of others, so that we don't have to reinvent things again and again.
AppLocker isn't available on Pro either.
They needed those permissions to allow for sending/receiving of payments over Messenger. NYT is being intentionally misleading with what "permissions" mean here.
> - first privately founded company to do orbital launch, check

To be fair, if you gave me ~$6bn from the Government, I could probably have a bloody good go at it too.

> - internet payment platform, check

Sure, he created x.com but who ever heard of that?
Which is a human with biological biases ( recency bias being built-in)
"What the F is this thing?"

Is the #1 thing that 99% of web sites get wrong - especially in tech.

"Let's maximize your ROI"

"10x your development"

"We make all of your customers happy customers"

Here's something I found: if I have to visit your Wikipedia entry to find what what you do ... then you'v failed.

BTW I don't always hold it against tech companies as often communication isn't their #1 thing.

Also - having done some of this myself, I do realize that sometimes what appear to be poorly constructed sites are actually well designed for clickbait action or some indirect metric.
I wonder, will we ever see (or is there already) the equivalent of a game engine on a chip? Like a ray-tracing rendering pipeline, where the polygons of a scene (and the position of the observer) are directly sent via a low-level API to the GPU and then it returns an image.
> Is there a way I can present my phone such that it drops into a mode that contains no data?

Yes: don't have a phone. If they press you, it broke last night and you didn't have time to fix or replace it before traveling internationally.
What Is Software Design, and How Will It Make My Software Better?
> It turns out optimally computing the LZ Distance Metric requires efficiently solving the Longest Common Substring problem, which can be solved with a generalized suffix tree in O(N + M) time.

Imagine you walked in to your Google interview, with all of the experience from improving the size of GWT output fresh in your mind, but before you "ran into the 'LZ Distance Metric'". They sit you down and say "LZ Distance Metric is related to your past projects, we want you to solve the LCS problem. Use this whiteboard, markers are to your left, you have 45 minutes."

You don't have time to read some papers, research, prototype things or sleep on it.

No doubt it takes experience, curiousity and exposure to algorithms to solve but in order to solve it under Google interview like conditions it mostly requires that you've done it before and memorized it.
I came here to say this. It should really be an opt-in behavior rather than opt-out.

It's not the only reason chrome has become a not-so-good citizen on macOS: the memory/CPU footprint is bad enough, but it also does things like give system-like popups when a new printer is detected on my network. I'm not sure when I permitted chrome to do this, and it seems like it's trying to subsume more and more of my system's function without asking. I find the command + q thing to be a particularly annoying version of this.
Keeping Your New Year's Resolutions
The thing that bothers me the most about the differentiation between home and pro is that they both include the same set of defaults.

Even in Windows Server, Windows Explorer includes links to Videos and Music as default. Why....
> So, technically, I made a game. It’s a game where the only level is a giant room that looks like my business card, the menu system writes a giant code across it, then it takes a screenshot. Thirty times a second. You win the game by waiting for 7 seconds. Then when you quit, you have a folder full of 200 images, each with a different code on them, which you can send straight to the printers.

This is an amazing approach.
Opened it in chrome (my primary browser) in a new tab. It wasn't that bad to kill all the pop-ups from the task bar in windows. Took about a few minutes (<5). Rest of my open tabs remained unaffected.
By benefiting free society you strengthen yourself against the CPC IMO.
Berlin: Morressier raises €4M to help scientists make progress faster
Those cheap licenses are always used. They exploit the fact that these can be used to activate ~10 copies of Windows. It's even worse than that though. One seller could keep track of this limit, but what happens is that a bunch of sellers source their keys from other similar sellers. So they don't even know how many times a key has been used.

Last time I bought one of these 15€ keys for a friend, I had to write to the customer support over 10 times and shuffle through at least 6 different keys until one actually worked.
We’re debating the morality of the law. My comment is criticizing the law. You’re trying to argue that the law is morally correct based on a legal definition of innocence (and probably also defense).

And while each person may have their own opinion about morality, every society in the world has decided that theft is wrong enough to outlaw, so clearly morality isn’t purely subjective (certainly not by definition). Similarly, every society respects an individual’s right to defend themselves (note that “defense” here is defined as some minimal force required to confidently stop an aggressor thereby excluding things like executing an aggressor after he’s been subdued) so clearly this is moral as well.

Please don’t accuse me of moving goal posts. It’s clear that I haven’t. If you can’t participate in good faith this conversation is over.
Blockstack is like a framework that allows people to create and access decentralized apps on top of it. It enables that by letting users created a decentralized ID that is stored on the blockchain (bitcoin) and giving users access to the apps based on that ID (like authentication).

Gaia is a storage system built by the Blockstack team. It is different from IPFS and others in the sense that it allows the user to choose where they store their data. This storage location is called Gaia hub. This approach gives users absolute control over their data which is unlike other distributed storage systems.

You can learn more about them here.

https://blockstack.org/what-is-blockstack/
https://github.com/blockstack/gaia
Thanks - the mountain of JS on the other page failed on iOS
Sure but at a very different price point.
I'm pretty sure you actually can do this with firejail, see: --overlay and --overlay-named. For some reason it looks like these are hardcoded (yay, UNIX culture!) to point to `$HOME/.firejail/<progname or name>`.
I think it's other people who don't adult well. You and I are doing it fine.
Advertisers can still figure out how who you are without linking an account. It may take them slightly longer, but the information is out there.
Window.moveBy()

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Window/move...
I can absolutely imagine this at any airport besides Heathrow in the U.K. Heathrow tends to be a bit more polite and more efficient.
> Got any examples of that?

Not the person you were talking to, but looking at certbot, it puts files into /lib/systemd/system/ and /etc/cron.d/ with root:root.
He is a copyful dullard who has no creativity and is only adept at implementing codes that do obvious things or stealing ideas had by creative types. He stands in contrast to real geniuses of the last centuries, whose every quote echoes through time. He is hack.

The infiltration of the ivy league by the CIA makes it very possible that Facebook itself is a direct asset of US national intelligence services. Zuck would never be able to stand up to that kind of pressure.
A landmark 2012 paper transformed how software recognizes images
This is why I applauded Firefox shipping it by default. It’s so much easier to leave it in than have to install something else or figure out which ad blockers are trustworthy.
Solve a puzzle at the Linux command line with nudoku
The question to ask is rather, how much money is OK to remain silent. Unfortunately for the majority it’s not in the millions. Almost any big corporation does some activity that are not strictly in the ethical norms. To me, strict laws must be passed and people must be held accountable to really see a change.
That's a developer that added an invisible div.
Free UX Illustrations
at any point in time, user and only
the user has access to their notes

I don't think that is true.

When I use your app, you can do anything you want to my data. You might promise me that the Javascript you delivered to my browser is treating my data in a certain way. Storing it in encrypted form or whatnot. But that is just a promise. Reality is: you can ship me code that does whatever you like.
Similar in concept to the General Theory of Reactivity, GTOR: https://github.com/kriskowal/gtor/
Yes. But the Microsoft of today is a much different company than twenty years ago. They have completely different leadership. Is it fair to judge them still for then?
Right-click is very useful in some cases. I have some productivity apps I have built for myself using web technologies, and it's extremely useful to be able to have custom context menus. Since web applications are doing more of the work that native apps used to, I'm ok with some level of annexation of the browser's UX territory when a site can really justify it.

That said, I would be in favor of an option to disable it globally, or for certain domains.
"FabricMelt is a distributed Blockchain protocol with embeddable AI directives for hyper-optimizing DNS lookup K8 containers, specifically designed for AR/Virtual Cannabis tokenized grow operations."

What's so hard to understand?

Only old people (aka over 25) won't get it ...
there is startup cost you pay in latency. You have to debug systems in prod not just in dev and debugging lambda used to be pretty crappy experience. "if you are using AWS for more than just hosting VMs" thats the thing the original question was how is better for avg starup than simple DO setup?
Don’t Despair While Building a Sustainable Business
Couldn't you open the popup immediately while keeping a reference, do the proceeding, then just manipulate the reference to the window you just opened?
Sadly, you'll still encounter pages in the middle of the night (well, if you implement the monitoring) when AWS services fail and you need to write up a support ticket.

Granted, they're usually already aware of it, but it can still take tens of minutes to hours to resolve - time during which you are down.
Sorry a dumb question. What are the use cases ? Thx
Jack Parsons and the Occult Roots of JPL
Don't discount human relationships! For example, I have at least few friends who would be willing a small server in their apartment for me (especially since nowdays, such servers are physically small and draw very little power).

In the theoretical case where the personal photos are hosted on IPFS, they could provide storage for me. And since it is IPFS, it would not require much -- even if they get super popular, the outgoing bandwidth is still relatively small.

Going further, imaging a web build on IPFS, where it is considered acceptable and recommended to pin all the sites you link to. So ipfs hacker news pins all the articles that people are linking to, and my browser bookmarks pin all the bookmarked content (possibly via Firefox sync service), and my personal website pins all the outgoing links so they never go broken.

(Note that this likely would not with the videos very well, but I am fine with that -- most of things I bookmark, and most of HN content for that matter, is video-free)

This is all dreams today of course -- there is a number of technical reasons and missing technologies that make that setup non-feasible now. But wouldn't it be nice to have no broken links?
The article talks about moving away from a serverless architecture due to the cost of API gateway.

I wonder if the fact that application load balancer can now invoke lambda functions could've made serverless viable. https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/11/alb-can-n...

Mind you, the post was written in August 2018 and the above announcement was made in December 2018.
I can think of no better way to kill innovation than to regulate all technology companies. Look at the state of the telecommunications companies in the US as an example.
This is a frankly ignorant statement about SPA design. Pushing history on major navigation events has nothing to do with malware patterns. It is way of making SPAs compatible with user expectations and protocol investments based on the non-SPA web. It allows them to use their own tools for bookmarking, link sharing, and history management rather than forcing a from-scratch experience when they come to the sites.

Accessible navigation patterns are a key part of making the web accesible to decentralized improvement. If every SPA was a black box with its own navigation regime, the web would regress to walled garden apps that characterize 90s desktop and early iOS ecosystems.
the point of serverless is that everything is much simpler, it is just functions! it is more a question of how early do you break even on ROI in simplicity, and maybe that isn’t in the first 6 months of a startup’s life yet. But in the future the break even point may be zero minutes.
Feel free to correct me, but from memory they would be forced to stay within the <100mw range to comply with FCC in most parts of the world but with a directional antenna in both directions you can achive kms as long as no obsticles are presented.
But who sets the goal? What's Python's goal? Etc.

Maybe it can be as simple as a benevolent-dictator election. Or it can be as complex as direct democracy (voting on PEPs) - but then who can vote becomes the issue, etc.
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cf London Underground - Central Line does ~260M journeys a year which is ~40k/hour assuming an 18 hour day. (I suspect peak times will be ~50% higher than that average.)

Even the Waterloo & City Line, the most unloved of all lines, manages 3.5k/hr over 260 days (16M/year, 5 day week).
Did you tried it, is it worth it?
dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18680206
And too often, developers (smaller companies) and ops (larger companies) time is considered free because they are salaried and are expected to work more than 40-45 hours per week.

Yes, earlier in my career I would have accepted that, but I’ve successfully pushed back a few times and said I won’t babysit a process/server etc but I will design a method where it is auto healing, autoscaling, etc.
Commercial GEO is declining. Cell networks are becoming good enough that they can beat out satellite network providers. Same with TV networks, why bother with a satellite uplink when you can stream 4K over the internet?