skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IMO, MongoDB was suss from the very start. They made claims and overpromised (though I might be a little unfair in that others jumped on this bandwagon more heavily), so removing MongoDB from RHEL is not necessarily a bad thing.

Of course, I'm not a MongoDB fan for many, many reasons so I'm quite biased.
I've never had to understand the internals of a web browser or text editor in order to use it; drivers ed courses don't start with a discussion of thermodynamics. Why should it be necessary for git?
Ambient radio waves are not "air"
Very misleading title
Can’t speak for others, but we would have no chance distributing our content digitally on Twitter or Hacker News. Or even RSS and mailing lists. We strive to find other ways, but sharing on Facebook and paying for eyeballs seems to be the only realistic option at the moment.
I'm in the middle of upgrading javascript written by somebody who loves it to typescript. I definitely have a preference for strongly typed languages. It's not a crazy amount of work but I seem to be eliminating lots of dodgy code in the process.

There are whole categories of bugs that you can completely eliminate by simply annotating your code with some types. IMHO with the current state of technology, opting out of a static type system is getting pretty hard to defend. Why would you open yourself up to all the nasty bugs that can trivially be detected by a type system? How is that acceptable or better? Transpilers, type inference, linters decent editor integration, etc. have removed most of the traditional argumentation against this (e.g. verbosity, expressiveness, etc.).
Disagree. Those companies exercise their owner's or editors' free speech. The rest of the large organization are functionaries with severe limits on their speech, like at any other corporation.
Better yet, don't. Just use something decent like fossil or mercurial.
Cms - Wordpress

Application - rails
2.5 L of water go in.

1 L freshwater comes out of pipe A.

1.5 L wastewater comes out of pipe B.
Because every source management tool has a model, and to use it at all you need to know the model. Else you're jabbing buttons and turning dials on a complex machine and the outcome is going to be tragic.
That is kind of creepy indeed. In my country you are allowed to video tape inside your own home and I assume that right extends even if you rent it out temporarily.

I guess far from every host does this, I would even say it's probably very rare. But maybe there is a reason to stay in a hotel after all ;)
I contribute to git, if anyone's got any UI warts they're bothered by in particular I'd love to hear about them. Maybe it's something we can fix.
Multiple #Fortnite flaws allowed experts to takeover players' Accounts
But also does targeted advertising increases the size of the advertising pie? Companies have an advertising budget, they will spend it where they think it will yield the most sales. But is that budget increasing because they can do more targeted ads?
Nuts, that doesn't sound good, I haven't been able to test on Android because my Android device does not have a Gyroscope :\ Hope to fix this next week.
This makes sense to me. If you are targeting me, I have told you I like it, and therefore don't need you to tell me about it.
These "how they render these graphics" breakdowns are always like meditation to me. Even tho I don't work in graphics programming there's this vibe in these posts that always puts me in a chill mood. Instead of skimming I'm actually reading and digesting every sentence.

Does anyone feel the same about these kinds of posts? Were you able to pinpoint what specific writing features they employ that might elicit such responses in us?
You are thinking about tax issues not issues of fiduciary duty. The market value issue is to make sure you’re not illegally funneling money between entities without proper taxation.

You generally couldn’t, for example, transfer significant wealth to a friend without high taxes by selling them something for a dollar When it’s market value is $10 million. This issue here is completely different.
For every 2.5 liters seawater, the products are 1 liter fresh water and 1.5 liters of brine.
I mean, github does too. Some projects have 0 stars, some have 16k; some have 0 contribs, some have thousands; some have no forks, some have hundred. You know what I mean ? All these variables are a pretty good measure of recognition, I check them every time I add dependencies to my projects. And just like any other measure, it isn't perfect and is hackable in ways I haven't imagined yet.

Forks are similar to citations in a way. It's not the same, there are many differences, but there are some similarities in my opinion. By the way, wouldn't it be great to be able to contribute to papers, and their assets (figures, code, equations) ? I don't know how a system like that might work in practice, it must be non trivial to govern, like any other sizable community - but I can see how it could work.

Does science really need to pay for recognition and prestige today ? It used to be the these journals allowed more people to have access to quality research, now it restricts them. Non free journals are dead a parellel universe Nietzsche might write.
At least you know who is putting their skin in the game rather than some generic name.

Also Tesla is not named Musk, or Amazon, Bezos.
This reminds me of the boardgame 1830 Railways & Robber Barons. You're an investor buying shares in railroad companies, and personally running any railroad of which you are the largest shareholder. A popular opening strategy is to first buy an expensive private company, then start a public company and have the public company buy your private company at inflated price.

It's a great way to shunt some money from the company treasury to your private wallet, which is otherwise impossible to do (except for dividend payments, but those are limited and go to all shareholders and not just to you).

It's absolutely a robber baron move.
"While most studies focus on salinity as the
primary cause of biological effects, many chemicals are used in the desalination process (e.g.
antiscalants, biocides, etc.), some of which can be toxic."[1]

[1] https://www.waterboards.ca.gov/water_issues/programs/ocean/d...
That's a way for McDonalds to make more money for McDonalds shareholders (at the expense of a private franchisee who's well aware who he's leasing from and probably feels more secure leasing the location from someone that isn't going to turf him out for a higher rent offer from KFC). From a MCD investor point of view, them owning the real estate and earning money on that too is a good thing. It's a bit different from a hypothetical scenario in which McDonalds picks locations personally owned by McDonalds' CEO Steve Easterbrook, in a manner which probably tends to benefit him personally far more than McDonalds' shareholders.
Very misleading title, ambient radio waves are not "air"
Good, Mongo is rarely the right database.
https://outline.com/WMUaqc
In a complex system a feature test can detect a problem but not diagnose it. For that a unit test is desirable.

The hole you get into is, lots of units are changed and a feature quits working and everybody says 'its not me!' and it doesn't get fixed.
It's more like "blinking" on my device. I have a samsung s9 and I am willing to test any update if you hit me up later.
That's a good point, but I assume what they meant is that to output 1 liter of fresh water, the plant needs to process ~2.5 liters.
It's worth noting that luminary capitalists like Adam Smith were very much concerned with privately enabled rent seekers in addition to government enabled ones.

There's nothing inherently capitalist about corruption. It's a property of power, not capitalism.
I think what you're referring to is different or more advanced. Simple remarketing involves putting a tracking pixel on your website, and then your ads show only to those users on another platform such as Facebook. It usually (on the base level) does not include purchase history.
That does explain why the damn thing felt like such a brick.
Agreed that it could be useful to have a "go to" project to rally around.

Arxiv.org is very successful for pre-prints, at least in some fields like computer science. Maybe a modern "journal" offering review and editing could be built on top of that? It would utilize open reviews instead of the traditional anonymous private reviews. Once a certain bar has been reached with reviews, the paper can be nominated for appearing in a journal, which editors can decide on.
I think you misunderstand.

I'm not arguing against red tests. I'm arguing for them.

What I'm arguing against is 1. writing the finished code, 2. writing green tests to "prove" the code correct, 3. trying to sabotage the finished code to "prove" that the tests works by making them red.

Sounds crazy? That was what OP said he was doing!
Proper analogy is Western tourist coming to China, and filing reports about dissenting Chinese citizens. It's not about waving banners.
Ask HN: How to pitch startup to corporates without losing ownership?
I was just reading this [https://playbook.samaltman.com/] and thought I would post here.

I have a startup and a well specified product in my mind and I'm already drafting a business plan. It's a b2b product which requires an upfront investment to develop an MVP for. Some will ask why don't I built it myself - I am not a coder, nor a full-stack developer.

The plan is to reach out to a bunch of businesses but I am afraid they would either laugh me out of the door or simply take my idea and with their infinite balance sheets build it themselves.

Besides asking the representatives of those Corporates to sign an NDA at the door during the demo what else can I do to protect myself?

Finally, let's say I wanted to create animations such as this [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2y6aVz0Acx0] to demonstrate my use cases - which software would you recommend for me to work on?

Many thanks
Nice little teardown. It's interesting seeing this written in a way which could just as easily be used as a stepping-stone to analyse other tracking scripts.

I always wondered how people figured out what minified scripts did.
There is no "later", unless Article 50 is revoked.
LFS works by installing hooks. This prevents me from adding my own. Also the one-hook-only policy makes it harder to share hooks.
I'm renting houses/apartments on AirBNB and place cameras outside the homes (to watch who's in front of the entrance door, activity). Placing them inside the home is a real privacy concern - a zone that I would never even consider.

The reason for the cameras outside is to watch closely how many people enter as we're constantly fighting prostitution which leads to a pain with neighbors and other stuff.
3 months in, sorry you gotta dig in and step up or step out. Your first year should shine. You should be impressively getting it done. After that first year if you did a good job then you have earned some pushback points. 3 months in - I’d say you are still way too new unless you have prior experience with the team you are with. It’s fair to not like the project but you should have a clear understanding of how it will positively impact the business. Ask your manager to help you by reinforcing what that impact will be and yeah if they have a crap answer we’ll the job market is hot so go shopping but keep in mind short hops on a resume do look bad.
Developing a Real-Time Taxi App with Django Channels and Angular (updated)
But is Neumann is the sole shareholder? Musk certainly is not Tesla's sole shareholder. If Musk pays himself through some juicy Tesla contract, he is fleecing other shareholders.
Show HN: Tool for convenient 3D visualization of boxes
Thanks for the tips, currenlty playing with a Fritz!Box 5490. Let's see how far we can get :)

It sucks however for non-techies that this option is hard to recreate at home.
> Fundamentally, I think authors have the right to determine how their work is used.

Fundamentally, I think TAX PAYERS have a right to access all funded research!
Today I learned, people still use Yahoo for their email provider.
Major components of improving your landing page UI/UX
Unfortunately, you fell for the myth.

Mechanical keyboards might just be worse for RSI etc, because it's hard to rid yourself of the habit of pounding on the keys to bottom them out, which one has to do on a membrane keyboard. Most mechanical (certainly most Cherry) switches actuate before bottoming out, and through some mindfulness, it is possible to train yourself to type sedately, without bottoming out. But it's hard, and not possible to do all the time. The long keytravel is also a literal pain.

The only reason to have a mechanical keyboard is enjoying the key feel, and noise. Typing at the speed of light is way more enjoyable on a keyboard that clacks along happily as you type your tome. If a membrane keyboard does it for you, all the better. Save yourself $$$ on the expensive keyboards and (worse still) expensive keycaps.
Conclusions emphasize on no practical use for machine learning algorithms but in the way learnability is defined and treated while using mathematical models to describe it. Some of this mathematical models could result in undecidable algorithms if the wrong model is chosen
Well, FreeBSD does it by calling a sh builtin:

/*
* We are the child; make /bin/sh expand `words'.
*/
(void)__libc_sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK,
&oldsigblock, NULL);
if ((pdes[1] != STDOUT_FILENO ?
_dup2(pdes[1], STDOUT_FILENO) :
_fcntl(pdes[1], F_SETFD, 0)) < 0)
_exit(1);
if (_fcntl(pdesw[0], F_SETFD, 0) < 0)
_exit(1);
execl(_PATH_BSHELL, "sh", flags & WRDE_UNDEF ? "-u" : "+u",
"-c", "IFS=$1;eval \"$2\";"
"freebsd_wordexp -f \"$3\" ${4:+\"$4\"}",
"",
ifs != NULL ? ifs : " \t\n",
flags & WRDE_SHOWERR ? "" : "exec 2>/dev/null",
wfdstr,
flags & WRDE_NOCMD ? "-p" : "",
(char *)NULL);
_exit(1);
}
I had this problem myself. My solution: focus on agile, feature-driven development. Make the next feature work in a scrappy (ie exploratory coding) way, then take what you learned and refactor. Don't take it as an opportunity to refactor everything - just the code around that one feature, and close relatives e.g. common functionality that can be abstracted out.

Presumably you're working on your software for a reason - not just to press keys for hours on end. So focus on getting the software ready to fulfil that purpose and don't get so caught up on software engineering practices. Most best practices in software engineering are solely there to allow large teams to work on a single codebase anyway (especially so for extensibility and modularity) and that doesn't apply to your project so why would you follow them?
For those that are not too versed in distributed systems, kubernetes or docker I highly suggest you read the comments on the post. I am going to promot myself a bit here and link directly to my comment https://medium.com/@rmb938/thanks-dan-for-the-great-post-1ef...

Sadly a large environment was brought down due to not following best practices. This event probably could have been prevent or at least have very little impact if best practices were followed.
"What was I trying to hide on New Year’s Eve..."

Something like this, presumably:

https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2016/jan/07/airbnb-new-ye...

It's not an excuse for the owner being an ass, or the inappropriate camera placement and lack of proper disclosure, though.
It seems like it would be pretty easy to just have a step down transformer from 120VAC to 9VAC. Also wire up the 9VAC to a bridge rectifier to get 9VDC to then convert down to 5VDC with an LDO or buck regulator of proper current rating. It wouldn't be the cleanest power supply but the C64 board should have proper filtering for each rail.
Tell that to the McDonald family.
Restaurant knife sharpening is another small business that prints money.
How to Try Kotlin in Java Back End Codebase Without Risk
I know it's not generally accepted on HN to say "please read the article before commenting on the article." But it's worth noting that the contents and effect of the "brine" as distinct from "sea water" get two full paragraphs devoted to them in the article.

Maybe let's not attack the journalist.
Keeping a React Design System Consistent
Not something I witnessed personally, but at one of my previous places (a web agency) my boss interviewed a guy that showcased a porn website as one of his projects. Apparently the interviewee was pretty pleased with himself on the how he tackled technical aspects of the work - handling favourites, tags, account part etc. while going through the live site with all the videos without a hint of reflection.
> How should we get them to fix this? Petitions?

Nah, you're doing a full disclosure right here and now; so they better hurry up and fix that.

Else, you can cancel your Yahoo account and go somewhere more security-focused (Protonmail?).
What flavor of Aurora were you using, and which RDS engine and version did you switch to?

Within Amazon's Aurora and RDS product families (https://aws.amazon.com/rds/), there are

* Amazon Aurora MySQL

* Amazon Aurora PostgeSQL

* Amazon Aurora Serverless

* Amazon RDS for MySQL

* Amazon RDS for MariaDB

* Amazon RDS for Oracle

* Amazon RDS for SQL Server

plus the variations in different versions (e.g. Amazon RDS for MySQL supports 5.5, 5.6, 5.7, and 8.0).

Without knowing that it's hard to understand how you solved your problem. E.G. If you switced from Aurora MySQL to RDS for MySQL i expect you'd still need to use a tool like pt-osc and copy your tables.
"The freedom to run the program as you wish, for any purpose" (freedom 0)

You can't run it using closed source management software to offer MongoDB as a service.
Massive spinning ice disk forms in US river
My wife's church sold a multi-million dollar parcel to the museum across the street because one of the church members is a real estate agent and made a commission.

This not only denied the church any revenue from making the parking lot a parking garage as the museum did but prevented them from doing anything else with the land in case of expansion or simply a future sale if they move. Talk about stepping over dollars to pick up pennies.
I know a few people who think they're being clever by doing things like this (playing with their (E)SSID). I'm still patiently waiting for one of them to learn what a BSSID is.
Say what you want, but sweaters don't spy on people.
This isn't absurd at all. Sea water contains lots of components, not just salt. Many are non-toxic at their current concentration; if you remove the water and pump in the rest into the ocean, you're potentially increasing the concentration enough to make it toxic. It is quite literally toxic waste. And the journalist did you the favor of linking to scientific research that says the same thing.
I've had this recently as well, even with a few years of software dev experience. It was for a software dev role. I graduated with electrical however, and was met with whiteboarding random hardware questions. Circuit theory, bit fiddling questions, op-amps, even using a spectrum analyzer. I had to dig deep on the spot from my school years. I managed an offer for the software position but I was so confused. I waited a week and took an offer for a more exciting position. It was very strange.
I guess, it's more "X gallons of sea water result in Y gallons of drinkable water and Z gallons of brine", where Y=1.0, Z=1.5 and X >= Y + Z.
It's funny seeing people from niche things you used to be into pop up in other places. When I was in my teens I did a lot of Ultima Online emulator stuff and have seen many of the server devs at places like Google in my career. I remember Drew's name from minecraft reverse engineering and development when I was in college.
Same. Firefox on pixel 2 renders about every second. Chrome works
I meant Citizens United as a reference to the Supreme Court case not to the specific entity in that case. The effect of the cas was that corporations in the U.S. have free speech rights.
Does anyone, ANYONE remember Fat Cat Café? With the "Fat Cat Chatrooms?" This is likely very early 2000s.
Perhaps it’s more like ”Who framed Roger Rabbit”?

Always suspected that Agatha was a bit simplistic. Maybe the real bad guy always gets away!
Journal of Computer Graphics Techniques recently published a breakdown of their costs hosting an open journal. Approx. $100 per annum ;)

http://jcgt.org/news/2018-01-04-expenses.html
>He may be willing to bet on WeWork's viability in ways that other landlords won't.

Perhaps, but as someone else in this thread said

>The self-leasing strategy + WeWork makes the property value higher (presumably because the rent-ability of the property is proven when a WeWork tenant moves in). Then the property owners can leverage the property.

And never mind the fact that he's basically guaranteeing he has a tenant for each building, that will also likely making physical improvements to lure in customers (which will mostly carry over for a future tenant) and effectively building free equity in the property so even if WeWork suddenly folds he can sell the properties at competitive prices and still walk away with a profit.

>Landlords may have been asking him to personally guarantee leases.

Perhaps with the first location or two but a quick google search shows they've raised billions in funding which would be more than adequate (unless they are growing too fast, which appears to be the case, see below).

Now as far as guaranteeing rent here's something interesting

>In March 2018, SEC filings indicated that WeWork had raised over $400 million alongside private equity fund The Rhone Group to start a fund to purchase properties directly.[33] In April, documents filed by the company in association with a plan to raise $500 million through the issue of high-yield bonds showed that the company's revenues rose in 2017, but costs rose faster, and the company owed $18 billion rent

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WeWork#History_and_funding

I don't know how many of the sites he owns but even if it is only 10% there is 1.8 billion 'free' money servicing loans on commercial properties he owns.
Google Manipulated YouTube Search Results
My wife’s family did this also. They owned the buildings and leased them back to the company.

It saved their butts when a partner they took on tried to take over their very valuable company.

I don’t see the problem unless there’s obvious overpricing, corruption, or failures to disclose. At some point it makes better sense to put property under a holding company or similar.
I can't be the only one who thinks behavioral targeting is a bit creepy?

This has happened to me at least 3-4 times in the last 2 years: I go to a supermarket or a store that I have never been to, I do shopping and come back home. After a few hours, I pick up my phone to check Email/Facebook, only to find myself staring at an advert for a product that's sitting in my fridge.

I mean, come on... The first time this happened I thought it was a funny coincidence, but it has happened with products that I did not bring home either. I can't be the only one?

And this is my point precisely as to why behavioral ads suck. They make you realize just how much companies are spying on you and using your data to feed you crap. Would I really want to have any part in this kind of an endeavor? Let's be real here.
Stupid question: Being that a large fraction of the problematic plants seem to exist close to or within desert countries, couldn't you simply pump it into the desert? I figure, if you find an appropriate area, you'll have not much of an ecosystem to destroy anyway and the area could eventually function as an enormous evaporation pond.
It is a significant issue which I think needs to be fixed. Thanks for your comment!
Here's a long read about it from the New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/10/30/the-family-tha...
(Proof-Of-) Replication Is Bad for Decentralized Storage
Is that good, bad, or neutral? I'm not familiar with TransIP
Any serious deployment know that one should never deploy mysql / mongodb / postgress with the default maintainer repo.
Thanks for your comment. People don't anymore?