skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thinking that this spending is ok based on your reasons amounts to a tacit acceptance of a huge amount of dishonesty, I find it quite cynical.

This is a totally ass-backwards way to do stimulus and domestic investing, with the upside that it lets you do stimulus and domestic investing while pretending you're not doing it, but doing something macho and patriotic instead.

This is a way to maintain US economic and diplomatic dominance while pretending it's all about Defense/The Homeland/Freedom(tm), all while telling all those soldiers busy getting killed and wounded by (who this time?) and killing bewildered probably innocent (whooo?) that this is all about loving and defending your country.

If you can't openly sell empire to your citizens, maybe you shouldn't have an empire.
Germany's New Year 'Procedure' (2006)
China and the USSR being worse does not absolve us.
> There’s a reason that Clear History isn’t called “Delete History”: Using the feature will disassociate browsing data that Facebook collects from your specific account but it won’t be erased from Facebook’s servers completely, Baser said. Instead it’s just “de-identified,” which means it’s stored by Facebook but no longer tied to the user who created it.

I think this is a very important part of the article. History will still exist but not tied to a particular user.
> I disagree. In most of the US the air pollution is less likely to harm you than vaping would.

Area wise? Sure.

In regards to population centers?

Air pollution has a known, life long, negative impact. https://nypost.com/2015/05/26/new-yorks-pollution-and-povert...
Is London a forest?
ssdeep is also used https://www.forensicswiki.org/wiki/Ssdeep
I've by and large been on nicotine since I was 13. I'm 50 now. I quit smoking when my children were born. I switched to dipping, which my wife finds disgusting as a medical professional. I then went to vaping, which she doesn't like any more, but tolerates.

It's a proven fact that nicotine re-wires the brain receptors over time. I smoked for over 25 years. I'm sure my brain receptors were re-wired in that time. When I quit, I went zero nicotine for two years. I was an *hole during that time. I always craved it. I would walk from my car into the supermarket and smelled smoke and wanted it. I would be out with my wife on a date, smell it and want it. I wanted it after a heavy meal and other times. When vaping went mainstream, I got onboard. I use a pen vape that's 1.9 ml of nicotine. I still dip Skoal if I'm doing yard work, more for the oral sensation than anything, but a dip is the rough equivalent of three cigarette's worth of nicotine. I'd like to get off of everything, but the nicotine does have benefits. It largely prevents jet lag, gets me going in the morning before I down my 16oz. French press high-caffeine concoction. It helps me think and get through tough technical problems. For those never addicted to nicotine, please be understanding of those in your life that are long-term users. Scientists now understand that the re-wiring of the brain is somewhat permanent. It's sad that kids are getting on this treadmill. If I'm honest, I wish I never did, but I also enjoy it tremendously after a meal and when coding.
Community proposes, Matz disposes is a process, if a dirt simple, low-ceremony one.
Circle   Medical (YC S15) hiring physicians in Oakland to transform primary care
Your half-duplex points literally do not apply to the librerouter. It has 2 separated 5Ghz radios and a separate 2.4 for local access.

Before you tell others how to build the network they already run, you might take 10 minutes to find out that they've managed to serve otherwise unconnected individuals and communities in remote parts of Argentina.

Sure, this isn't cutting edge tech, but it's cheap, scalable, and easy to upgrade. If you want to help these projects, you can find a 802.11ac chip with FOSS drivers. Until that happens, their hands our tied. Sorry not sorry.
True that. And I should say, great show, not just great episode. Hell most of Rick & Morty's could be made into stand alone books/movies.

Love that I'm being downvoted for pointing this fact out, ah HN.
How many people do you know aged 15-24? It would not surprise me one bit.
Thanks. Gotta start using Monero, I guess. It's still no where near as widely accepted as Bitcoin. But you can just convert, as the final step.
I think they call it "serverless"
And it is mentioned as such in the article too that "Clear History =/= Delete History"

> There’s a reason that Clear History isn’t called “Delete History”: Using the feature will disassociate browsing data that Facebook collects from your specific account but it won’t be erased from Facebook’s servers completely, Baser said. Instead it’s just “de-identified,” which means it’s stored by Facebook but no longer tied to the user who created it.
Why is 18.04 not an available-at-launch image choice?
Parinfer is very cool! If you’re willing to use a custom editor for trees, you can clearly offer better usability than a standard text editor. But having a usable data format for standard text editors is also nice.
Don't Take the DNA Test You'll Probably Get for Christmas
thanks for noticing. will fix
well, automatically ensuring the documentation is correct is hard/impossible, yes, but it's simple to check if code change X impacts Y usage, and Y usage is documented, yet code change X has no accompanying documentation changes, so code change X is 'incomplete' due to lack of accompanying documentation..

see also: BSD-derived os's commit history, etc.
Whoops, that looks like an oversight. 18.04 is definitely available as well.
Yeah and the blue background and font also annoying. But he is not American, so maybe it works better for him and his readers.

TBH, there are few tips or rules. I have seen successful blogs that employ virtually every kind of format and style. Some that follow all the rules an others that break them all. First-mover advantage seems to be important. I'm sure the first person to blog about Bitcoin did well, but the 284th guy? Probably not so much.
That’s a fascinating essay, thanks for sharing. I sometimes fret over my caffeine habit - in fact I’ve quit several times, enduring headaches and nausea, just to start again. But maybe caffeine is what would be prescribed to me anyway to optimize my productivity and happiness, and I should stop fighting it and feeling ashamed of “dependency.”
Ninja Would Like to Get Some More Sleep
I had the same question and was happy to see an ML article that actually answered this :)

FTA
"The team trained the machine learning program...by providing it about 370,000 images... labelled as either having or not having a solar panel present"

So it seems like the Stanford team that did the work built a large ground truth dataset
I'm deeply sorry, that you have to read those disgusting words in your mailbox. To be honest, it even hurts me.

There are tons of people like this, I observe this behavior more and more these days. Go and talk to a random youtuber/twitch streamer how much hate they have to deal with for their "free" content.

I once thought its the German culture (doing business and earning money is almost a nono-thing in Germany and makes you an easy target), but I guess some humans are just like that...
Porch Pirate Nightmare
I'd argue that one of the reasons we have so many violations of basic human dignity in our prison system is that Congress has gone out of its way to prevent inmates from suing for their rights.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prison_Litigation_Reform_Act

Nobody likes lawsuits or lawyers, but judicial remedies are often the only option for relief that inmates have. When you take that away from them, they are at the absolute mercy of the prison bureaucracy.

Your constitutional rights have been violated? Tough, go fill out a grievance form.
This is not limited to Porsche.

Most cars with 6+ gears hit top speed in 6th, as this gear applies enough force at wheels to reach top speed. Some cars do it in 5th or 4th as well.

This happens because force needed to reach high speeds is follows the square power law. Higher gears simply can't provide the force needed to counter air resistance.

The higher gears, like 7th or 8th, are designed for fuel efficiency. They are known as cruising or overdrive gears, because in those gears, the output shaft is rotating faster than the engine.

Good info on this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overdrive_(mechanics)
Not meaning this in a combative fashion, but why is only what you think right in this case? I think there are plenty of people that were actually OK with the 3 strike penalty, and more that would be OK with 25 years. Why set the bar for the next iteration to keep getting lower? A large segment of the population does not agree with decriminalization of drugs as policy.

Personally I would be a fan of 3 strikes and you are committed to mandatory drug rehabilitation, and aren't let out until you are clean for x number of whatever amount of time seems fair and reasonable.
Do you have any citations for this? If it's true and the states are actually acting on that incentive, it's an epic conspiracy. I wonder if you could look at differences in anti-vape policy between states that took a lump sum payment and ones that didn't to validate it.
If you ever refind that article, please send it to me.
VCs have 10 year funds... many of the investments made in 2007-2009 are fully mature, and VCs need to return cash to LPs.
It's interesting, we have developed a very similar framework internally for our appliance and use it in our product for 4 years. We "present" files from templates filled with variables coming from the user interface and those presenters call "notifiers" (e.g. restarting a systemd service when a file changed on disk).
Basel<>Bern (direct) would need tunnels.. The other 2 routes are pretty flat. Most of the Swiss economy is in the valley between the Jura range and the Alps.

The necessary tunnels for Basel would probably cost less than this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gotthard_Base_Tunnel

But Bern<>Zurich is the SBB's bottleneck.
My strange trip inside Elon Musk’s first underground highway
In other words, you think if Debian had a larger, more vibrant community it would take in fewer "good solutions" from other projects and instead decide to create its own alternative good solutions in house?

I think this is the first time I've heard someone critique a model for encouraging anti-NIH syndrome.
My understanding is that those are more for “functions” or business logic. How can I leverage that for pointing my docker image to a 3rd party mainted base image?
From 2015, also curious who "funded" the study?
> any method receiving an Order could receive a DeliveredOrder.

This seems reasonable, if not outright desirable.
They probably mean that they wanted the DB hosted within the private subnet of their VPC. With a traditional hosted offering you’d connect over the public net to a system hosted by the SaaS provider. With RDS they could spin up the DB within their own VPC.
"Let Google do the patching"

Also replace your shepherd dogs with wolves, wolves are bigger, faster, and will do it for free[*].
I came to the opposite conclusion: you could probably start the car in 3rd and still pull an oak tree outta the ground. /shrug
they talked about NTP. which to me means Mongo on EC2 maybe?
wrt n-dim arrays: yes, it's a pain point.
we (Gonum devs) tried to push for an "n-dim slice" type a couple of years ago.
it didn't pan out.

generics may help in that department.

in the meantime, there's Apache Arrow:

- https://blog.gopheracademy.com/advent-2018/go-arrow/
I don't think they're even half aware of the awful consequences this will have. "Reichsbürger" and assorted "fake news" enthusiasts basically have been handed all they need from here on out -- like pouring some kind of synthetic super fuel on a fire we weren't able to deal with as is.
Craig Newmark’s New Hit List
That makes me sad. I would love for AWS to have a hosted Mongo solution or some type of NoSQL database besides DynamoDB.

Do people use ElasticSearch as a primary data store? In my limited experience implementations don’t treat it as the source of truth.
Indeed. Once the dust settles I plan to write up a detailed post-mortem. There's more to say.
Do you think this strategy could be successful/have a future for non-container based Operating Systems?
To me this kind of story should be on the front page of the NYT, not the fact that Netflix found out what my Candy Crush score was via my FB messages.

Being physically detained by law enforcement and having your Constitutional rights denied seems way worse than FB data leaks, at least to me.

And maybe I'm wrong but I can't help but wonder if race is a factor, that this and other stories like it would be bigger news if white U.S. citizens were the ones being subjected to this treatment.
Thank you very much for taking the time to explain that to me.
It's not really a commodity like oil. I feel The Onion was closer in calling it "crazy imaginary internet money" https://www.theonion.com/bitcoin-plunge-reveals-possible-vul...
Maybe it is. Would be good to benchmark it against stuff other than the byword for self inflicted cancer.

Is it as bad as coca cola? If so it should probably be discouraged.
>It's a crappy job. A crappy, unpaid job.

Did Guido rage quit because of this?
I spent 5 minutes going through your website, and am still confused about what you do.

> Music Engine / AI at the service of Composers

> The most ambitious composers create memorable and uniquely personalized scores. Our Music Engine was built to scale and supercharge your creative process.

This made me think that your tools would help me compose. However, the demos seem to show music just being created at the click of a button. Is this a tool for composers (and if so, how?) or a tool for users who'd otherwise go to stock music libraries?
many years ago in a an online disagreement someone wished testicular cancer upon me, which was flattering, because if he really wished ill upon me he would have hoped for something that is far worse like stomach cancer (few survive that).
The creator of Envoy had some choice words about Mongo a few days ago. https://twitter.com/mattklein123/status/1074717204224999427

Plenty of people here like to dish on Mongo and the product seems to have been re-architected a few times since I used it seven years ago. By what metrics can we say the product is one worthy of passing a HN smell test? Passing Jepsen was seemingly not enough. https://www.mongodb.com/jepsen
Thanks for the detailed answer!
Facebook’s former chief security officer thoughts about the NYT revelations
Sharing Docker Containers Across DevOps Environments
What about the positive effects of nicotine? Are you saying that the negative effects out weight the good? Or are you just opposed to anything that gets you "high."?
Distroless docker images
why?

Googles pretty damn good at auth... why is this better?
June 23, 2014: "E-cigarettes could stub out tobacco bonds sooner than thought"

"NEW YORK (Reuters) - The rapid growth of electronic cigarette sales poses a rising but under-appreciated risk to holders of as much as $96 billion of bonds tied to payments tobacco companies make to U.S. states from a sweeping legal settlement in 1998."

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-tobacco-bonds-ecigs-insig...
I appreciate that they're replacing the trash that is My Office with something that sufficiently handles on-prem Office installs as well. But this is still probably going to be one of my default-removals upon setting up a new PC.
Sorry about mis-remembering his name, but my point was a bit more nuanced. The frustration I had was not that certain features were missing, but I was met with a response that suggested that I was wrong for even wanting these features.

It was a comment on my personal experiences of interacting with the Go community, not the language and its limitations. My hope wasn't that Go implements my every pet peeve, my hope is that the community has gained some humility since I last dipped my toes in it.

Pike seems especially aggressive when interacting with people he disagrees with and this was for me indicative of the culture. It's been a few years though, so maybe by now I'm wrong!

Here's Pike on the topic of syntax highlighting:

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/golang-nuts/hJHCAaiL0so/E2mQ...
Does this mean we can more easily create a custom filesystem in Windows, thanks previously possible?
The IQ thing is a copypasta goin around the web.
Might be the reason for the downvotes.
> A language needs only one conditional control flow construct.

If by "one" you mean `if` _and_ `switch` then yes!
I think it's the same entitlement mentality that leads to "I want to use my ad blocker but I also hate your paywall." Yeah, I get annoyed by ads too, which is why I pay a few subscriptions.

The New York Times concluded years ago that those people would never pay you anyway, so why bother giving them access?
Good answer, thanks.

You bring up heath care, which is another industry also had a successful role in shaping American politics. It just seems like real estate developers / construction companies could up their game a bit to steer things towards infrastructure projects.
This stood out as the most realistic advice in the story to me. I've seen a lot of people stuck working on stuff they don't like just because they're the one who knows the most about it. The farther you go down that path, the harder it is to get away.
I'm sure the 20,000 network users around the world tried "the easy way" before investing considerable time and resources into developing "the better way."
Austen Collins comment:

"Hi, it tracks usage, not users. The project is open-source so we know nothing about its users. Further, understanding how open-source projects are used is hard and this data really helps. Many features simply would not exist without this. We're adding clarity to docs & CLI now."

https://twitter.com/austencollins/status/1075437969668882432
Wasn't Pluto predicted before it was discovered? And wasn't the mass of Pluto less than what was predicted?

Plutos wikipedia page seems to support this (under mass estimates).
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pluto

Ps when its discovered, can the planet start with a P so the rhymes still work?
libremap.net
I think Ubuntu 16.04 is used internally a lot with Google, as they have hardened it themselves. I believe GKE On-Prem will also be based on Ubuntu 16.04 for this reason.
For an enterprise scenario where the costs of remaining outweigh the costs of migrating this seems to me the clearest reason for doing so, and also likely why they skimped on their rationale ... in all likelihood they appeared to be nice juicy whale but turned out to be some form of shark.
That all makes sense. I called it a swipe because it was a personal ("your") pejorative ("bubble"). It's not necessary to do that—posts get better without it—and it routinely has negative side effects.
It's also important to get a number of other things worked out and discuss possibilities. The go process in terms of using a baseline directory with git sources seems to be a very pragmatic approach to start from. I started playing with node before npm was in the box. There were some competing ideas and eventually one won out.

I think that having a system in place with the language may be a better option than a company with its' own motivations and needs separated from the language/runtime/platform.

As to generics, I think you may well find generics in the future. I feel that most of the resistance was in order to better support core language features. I can't think of any languages (I'm no expert) that started with generics support, so I'd be surprised if this wasn't a go 2.x goal.

For exceptions, I think that the go solution works. Similar to the callback interfaces in node, it puts errors in your face, which isn't a bad thing. I mainly contrast this with node, as it's another language/platform that has grown a LOT but also relatively recent.

You can compare the progress of node, go and others to say python2/3, C#, Java and others. I think go progress has been great by comparison, and pragmatic choices have ruled out.
You're probably being downvoted because these topics are not unique to that show. Also, the "high iq" thing is a joke you fell right into.
Excellent book in a journalistic style. Good present. You will (both) have your own views on Krebs' strategies to make complex issues accessible to 'civilians'.
Is it possible for bad guys to just hijack on onmousemove? Or is that not sufficient?
I've been working for a startup that recently exited it seems to be common knowledge in the startup community( and everywhere else? ) that a recession is just around the corner. I'm definitely not an expert in economics but these are just the pieces I've put together.

From what I've heard/read the recession will primarily affect stock pricing and available investment assets. Many startups feel that if they don't exit now they will never have the opportunity or will have to exit with much lower numbers. This seems like a strong driver of exits.
How I Discovered That My Computer Is a Zombie Controlled by a Criminal Gang
What's the difference between this and pulling an official image from dockerhub? For example https://hub.docker.com/_/ubuntu/
Very cool, thanks.

> I didn't expect to get so much data; need new disks drives

Anyone know how much data they'd get in 7 days, and what models they'll run on it to search for planet 9?
Ah ok, I guess I just overestimated the level of precision they were working with.
No, MC definitely uses that data as part of their anti-spam operations. Source: have attended a few presentations by MC anti-abuse people.
Seems like a Windows version FUSE ?
Waiters and service industry people have done pretty well in every state I've lived in... minimum wage plus tips would equate to $20-$30/hr or more. But I could see it being tougher in states where the minimum wage is far less for service industry jobs.
I think this is only true if
(a) Your local computer is part of an existing secure, cloud-based personal solution for sharing generic files, and
(b) You have note-taking capabilities to work on a common note-taking file format across the devices in (a).

I think you suggest a point, though, that it seems that it would be ideal to have a general secure and accessible file storage implementation, with specific apps where needed.

And personally, along the lines of what you're saying, I'm actually more concerned about finding a really good, local note-taking method than even involving the cloud or de-centralized Internet in some way.
Time Zone Database
I’m not disputing that other communities benefit from unchecked eminent domain power. I see lots of other problems in the United States more fundamental than land acquisition.
This is spot on. As Warren Buffet said, “You only find out who is swimming naked when the tide goes out.”
I see why people like using something like MailChimp - but I would personally never do (nor advocate) doing so. Your mailing list(s) / subscribers are very valuable. Not controlling these entities and relying on MailChimp to handle them well is... well, quite a bet I would not want to take. Stories like the one referenced are quite common and even though these are outliers I would not like playing with these odds.
China spends trillions on surveillance and control instead of investing in social safety nets.
You're both right, but i see his/her point since I also have to pay my own electricity bill. A Raspberry Pi or similiar hardware will do this at an order of magnitude cheaper. Still, for romance reasons, I much prefer the solution in the article. Sometimes it's just worth the extra small bit of money for the romance