skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Boy they have to be angry with customers like me. I have Rackspace account created in February of 2014 and it was free back then. I think 2 months later they start charging mandatory $50. Like anyone else I moved all my servers out and only using their DNS console for DNS management which is good enough.

About your mailservers: location doesn't matter, as reputation is being build over the time. I have Digital Ocean $5/1GB machine that was previously used for heavy spamming (had to submit tickets with all biggest SpamHouses) and since then has pristine reputation with constant 97-99 SpamScore, etc. You just need about 45 days of constant raising volume of mailouts and you be fine. This machine currently does about 40,000 mailouts a day.
D6tflow: Python library for building data science workflows
Sounds like it worked as intended?
is there a html version?
Right. I would love to be a fly on the wall and see where things go wrong. Do the happy smiley PR people never talk to the actual figureheads making the corrupt decisions? Are they being held at gunpoint to say these glowing things about the company? etc etc etc.

I think Zuckerberg and Sandberg may not even be trying to be "evil" - maybe they are, I have no clue - they're "just" trying to grow their company in order to "do good in the world". If you convince yourself of something enough then you'll tend to put the blinders on to everything else. But people working jobs need to ask themselves on a continual basis if things are OK or if on the other hand their work causes real pain and misery
It's been a while since a Trump or Brexit type unexpected/unpredicted event that Facebook influenced has happened. As in nothing at a national scale.

Does this mean the architecture is getting better? Or are we going to get hit by more randomness soon?
My Own Private Adpocalypse
Great, now you're asking questions.

My manager was terminated before he could complete reviews for his staff (he was forbidden from telling any of us about it, because they wanted us to be surprised we were being fired, so my immediate manager just up and vanished one morning). His manager, and that person's manager both turned over from the company weeks ago after they were given a courtesy notice of this event coming. Rackspace then reacted to the turnover and forced the highest manager mentioned so far to stay and personally fire everyone.

I understand that you think your theory regarding this layoff is correct. It is not. Performance reviews had absolutely nothing to do with this event. At all. This event involved cost center.

Proof I'm legit: The meeting invite to fire everyone was called "Business Update," and scheduled by Liana Greenberg on behalf of Scott Crenshaw. They fired 30 at a time, then quickly cleared the room for the next batch.
What do you mean by soft punishment? The United States is a great place to be a dissident. Dissident behavior is kind of expected, and historically, they’ve been iconified.
The two key takeaways for me are:

(1) "Contrary to the common belief that message passing is less error-prone, more blocking bugs in our studied Go applications are caused by wrong message passing than by wrong shared memory protection."

(2) "Shared memory synchronization operations are used more often than message passing, ..."

So basically, (1) people have more trouble writing correct multithreaded routines using message passing, and (2) in large production applications people tend to fall back to using shared-memory primitives rather than message-passing anyway.

It seems the intention of the Go language designers was to make a language that would be simple and easy for programmers to pick up. Given that most programmers are already accustomed to multithreaded programming using shared memory and that this is conceptually simpler, I think the language designers made a mistake by throwing channels, a relatively new and experimental approach (yes, I know CSP is from 1978, but I'm talking about widely-adopted industrial languages), into the language. I think it was the single biggest mistake in the design of Go.
i don't get this. their machines are too costly. the old insane greatness has become watered down with a focus on global logistics. and what about the supply chain issues with China?

what does Apple have on the horizon -- data services? an emphasis on the privacy protecting ecosystem?

where is the new vision?
"Bitcoin SV" is the cryptocurrency created and promoted by a well known conman, Craig Wright ( https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Craig_Wright ), who has earned the ire of the Bitcoin community by, among many other things, fraudulently claiming to be the creator of Bitcoin.

More recently his creation of an incompatible competing clone of Bitcoin and calling it the confusingly similar name "Bitcoin Satoshi's Vision" has only furthered that irritation.

It's great and well appreciated that their development staff followed a good procedure with these reports (even though the reports weren't terribly interesting in this case), but that in no way excuses or validates the underlying fraudulent actions.
A landmark Vermont law nudges over 120 data brokers out of the shadows
The main problem with that energy usage is energy density.

While electric vehicles will be about, I think that personal transport, as one example, will become quite rare.

Does that make us poorer? I don't actually think so. I sincerely believe that it will enrich our lives.
Also, Mathematica is free if you're running Raspbian on a Raspberry Pi (or emulating one with QEMU).
Last place I worked did a skunkworks redesign project in their primary e-commerce site and A/B tested it against the existing site (which was perfectly decent) and recorded a consistently higher conversion rate. They could easily put an 8-figure value on the redesign which cost in the high 6-figures to design and implement.
When I explored something like this, there was webtorrent but that only allowed you to peer with other webtorrent clients.

Can you explain a little bit more about the tech stack behind it and how you got around this limitation? Are you connecting to other regular bittorrent users?
Are you volunteering to patch every program which uses OpenSSL? If not, you have the answer: it’s been widespread for decades and so many things use it that compatibility is a big concern. Think about a distribution like Debian with thousands of packages, some of which update frequently and others which haven’t been updated in years. If it’s compatible, you can ship one shared library update but if it’s not you’re either not upgrading or maintaining a ton of patches.
Why is this marked? I was approving of his app the way his app works.
Right, so you're saying it's a symptom of a systemic issue.

Sounds like we're well overdue for an adjustment in laws to ensure that such things cannot go unchecked. Perhaps it's also a sign that globalisation wasn't an exclusively good development as it's tended to make corporations above nations and government. I wonder how we can dramatically rein in all of them so that it's rather more equitable.
I'm not, it has nothing to do with race, it just shows that they are doing a somewhat weird definition of what gets counted and what gets discarded.

The numbers they present are so small that the farm murders in South Africa would significantly change the picture. As I wrote: they include "killed by criminal gang" in South America, and as far as I know, the farm murders are generally committed by criminals in search for loot.

It's sad that you can't mention South Africa without somebody showing up and implying that you are a white nationalist and completely avoiding to engage with the argument. Well, such are the days, I guess.
You could say it's a 'lemon market' ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Market_for_Lemons ).

A lemon market is when the buyer doesn't have enough information to tell the difference between a good product (peach) and a bad one (lemon).
Since the buyer can't tell the difference, the price he is willing to pay will end up somewhere between the value of the peach (more expensive) and the value of the lemon (cheaper). What happens then is that the sellers of lemons thrive while the the sellers of peaches end up leaving the market. This lowers the average price and creates a cycle where the price decreases which drive even more sellers of quality products to leave the market which lowers the price further...
“Just”

This would be like saying “it’s just that we haven’t proven P!=NP” in CS. Best of luck.

Meanwhile applied people will deal with the problem by model diagnostics and sensitivity analysis as has been done for decades. I can’t wait for the next AI winter to come. So tired of this handwaving by people who don’t seem to have practical experience.
No, actually, other than something like the communist film writers of the 1950s (who obviously had a better publicity department than most), most American dissidents have been forgotten.

Soft punishment means you don't let them get jobs doing what they're good at. Like commie writers in the 50s.
It’s not uncommon for something clear and expository to be invalidated and putting the date in the title may cause someone who knows the domain to say “oh, this must be from before this was all invalidated” and post a useful reference as a comment.

Well it’s a convention and some conventions (like this) are better applied uniformly than allowing for acidental editorialiation.
AWS (and more generally anything running cloud-init) does this fairly well - it prints it to the console log. I use this, and I have on a couple of occasions booted a new instance and mounted the old one's disk when my known_hosts file got trashed by mistake, so I could re-establish a trust path.

Of course you have to know to go there, wait for the console log to sync (for some reason AWS takes a few minutes ... I wonder if it's backed by some eventual-consistency object store), and scroll down in the log.

Come to think of it, it would be real cool if OpenSSH had a -o Fingerprint=ab:cd:ef... option you could pass, so that they could give you a single command to copy and paste to your terminal.
I <3 this reply. So, so good. Sneaky way of introducing the RCT.

You’re doing it right.
i wonder how long does it take for an uber driver to break even their car
Email/sms for messaging, a blog for posting stuff that supports microformats and rss. A social feed reader for subscribing to other feeds/blogs.
Install NPM dependencies that run in browser without Browserify, Webpack
That sounds utterly impossible unless there is somewhere on this planet an isolated tribe on some island who would have lost all their dogs eons ago.
Search for "Google Postmaster tools" or check out

https://postmaster.google.com/managedomains

You don't have to register per-se, but you get access to reports for your domain so you can see any potential trouble.
I doubt that helps. For instance, this is from 2016, had you read it before?

I’m simply suggesting it because I don’t think it adds anything to the conversation. In addition, I’ve seen this being added more often lately and I worry it makes people think it’s date relevant (as I did) or that it somehow provides less value due to some time delay.
The amount of worry they showed in the two articles about GDPR reassures that it was adequate. So long as it's enforced adequately.
If they worked better we would too. But you can't have threads without also stopping people from throwing one-liners into an ongoing channel. You need both.
you were claiming that number plate recognition is a ML task and if we don’t agree with you we don’t know what we are talking about. seems like you are the one commenting in bad faith. if you reread, you will see i used your own words, which may have confused you into thinking mine was the bad faith comment. good day.
Mailgun spun off a while back and isn’t Rackspace anymore.
My "theory" was a summary of what I read in the linked article in the comment I replied to, and based on similar experiences I've had. It's not a big stretch to assume 3 consecutive years of single digit percentage layoffs, in the same month, at the beginning of the year...might be stack rank activity.
Redesign is not just about visuals. If you change a few gradients/hues and add/remove rounded corners depending on the latest web fashion, then definitely you're wasting time and money - unfortunately, that's very common patter with companies, specially larger brands. However improving usability of the UI based on some actual metrics and research is definitely never a waste of time. In my experience absolutely every new app needs at least a few UX upgrades after some time, since it's impossible to get every detail of the UI design right from the first go.
What longboard did you get? I am considering getting an offroad board mostly to limit risk of injury.
GDPR is a bad joke. It makes life of every small- to mid-sized company miserable threatening them with huge fines.

But FB doesn't care, they breach any of the GDPR laws and what happens? Nothing.

Edit: 4 downvotes from people who've zero knowledge of GDPR nor implemented GDPR anywhere. Thanks guys.
It’s never an easy life to be a radical against the establishment. But, there’s plenty of tolerance for such behavior (especially if the behavior is non-violent). Even during 50s. McCarthyism was a knee jerk reaction to the Cold War. And, it was quickly rectified.

Our culture encourages thinking differently and speaking out - just consider our history of music, literature, film, comedy, political dissent, etc.
Often success in military affairs translates into who makes the fewest fatal mistakes. I think this can apply as well to business.
I thought he didn’t invest in tech because it was outside his “circle of competence”?
I hate to take “both sides” but in the absence of confounding by indication, you can often use propensity scoring within robust models to decrease these impacts.

Mind you, the problem with non random and undetected sampling bias is that it can be subtle. See for example https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/06/upshot/employer-wellness-...
TrueVault Atlas: GDPR Monitoring/Compliance Tool
Pretty typical story. Incumbents being replaced because they rely on the formula that got them there, so don't keep up with the market.
"In the US, we don't have any other social stratifications that would justify your response."

We do have this. Have you ever tried to raise money or interacted with VCs? Or dealt with the CEO of a large company? There is definitely a class divide. Look at all of the high end liberal arts students that monopolize the media industries. These aren't people from the trailer park.

"When you look at the fact that money is considered speech and the top .001 of the US makes as much every year as the bottom 80% of the country there is no way that even the amalgamated voices of the bottom 80% could hope to have the same political sway as those with money and this divide is only getting worse"

Except they were able to do this as per my example with Trump. Your theory sounds very valid, but the reality of it was the upper classes and all of their media empires couldn't stop someone from being elected. I think we can thank the internet for giving voice to those who historically wouldn't have it.
That's ultimately what this seems like.

Unfortunately from reading some of the comments it appears that private equity took over RS at some point and now it's just gonna be their cash cow until they go bankrupt.

They haven't done much innovation wise in years. Its really sad.
2015 called
Great writeup indeed.

> reform and change always occurs within a country. If that reform and change is not recognized by a country's organization, then it will happen informally and quietly in the hands of individuals with power, likely for their own benefit at the expense of the rest[..]. If, however, the country has a political process by which to reform itself, then that means that there is also, by definition, a way for some people in the country to undo reforms that do not work out.

Doesn't this kind of imply not leaving change to natural processes. Like... market forces. Does that mean a social credit system deployed by a government is better than one by a conglomerate of companies, because there is an official way of recourse? I guess in the end it always falls back to prevent power from centralizing as best as possible.
The New 30-Something
Most issues I’ve used AWS support for were because of my own lack of knowledge. But they are batting 100 so far. I usually use chat.

So far they have helped me with:

- S3 permissions loading files to RedShift and Aurora

- binary file support with API Gateway and lambda with CloudFormation

- a cross account Code Pipeline with CodeBuild, Code Deploy and CloudFormation - ended up you can’t do it fromthr vonfold.

- some problem a coworker was having with DAX (DynamoDB cache) with Python.
look how far down your original comment is ranked. that’s what speaks volumes. i’m calling you out on your BS. your arrogance is unfounded.
AWS is basically the definition of managed services. You can either go all in on AWS’s Manager Services, used dedicated hosts or stay somewhere in between.
If someone quits due to a moral conflict, that just leaves the job open for someone with a lower moral standard. And a $100k salary job is a $100k salary job.

Plus, almost by definition, you have to put the blinders on to work in public relations.
So, naivety or narcissism?
FTC Pulls from Old Playbook, Signals Newly Aggressive Approach to Tech
Most UI redesigns I’ve seen happened because people (usually leaders) get tired of the old design and want visible progress (two really bad reasons for a redesign)
One of my favorite games from this collection was Outrun - drive a Ferrari to get away from the cops.

Other great games in the collection:

Dragon's Lair,
Mechforce,
Populous,
Leisure Suit Larry,
Star Command,
Lemmings,
Wizardry
Should it really be "shocking" as in "surprising and bad"? I appears to me that one would have to be willfully ignorant to not be aware that FB & Co are very likely lobbying against privacy laws.

Having it confirmed should make you angry, but it shouldn't come as a surprise.
If I earn 300k a year maybe I can pay for club membership (if they let me in) but I would in no way have comparable wealth to members that were going to inherit 100M from their families. You're very focused on income, but people in the upper classes are not. In fact, high earning professions are often looked down upon because when you have family money, it's seen as gauche to work hard for what would be scraps compared to the real family fortune.
Ask HN: Why do I see so much crazy inline styling on websites these days?
I just googled for 'cloud hosting' and landed here:

https://try.digitalocean.com/cloud-hosting/

I'm often curious how the source of a page looks like. So I inspected the headline "Cloud hosting developers love.".

This is what I found:

<h1 style="line-height: 77px;">
<span style="font-size: 60px; letter-spacing: -1.33px;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="ub-dynamic">Cloud</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 72px; letter-spacing: -1.33px;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;</span></span><span style="font-size: 60px; letter-spacing: -1.33px;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">hosting</span></span>
<br>
<span style="font-size: 60px; letter-spacing: -1.33px;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">developers love.&nbsp;</span></span>
</h1>

I find this kind of crazy inline styling and absurd choice of elements pretty often these days. Why? What is going on?
We stopped needing to work in our 30s
My VW CC is not a quality car; it's got nice fit and finish, but it's probably the most unreliable car I've ever owned, and I say that having owned a Fiat Mirafiori in the 80's. My CC has chronic design flaws, assembly flaws, and leaves me on pins and needles when I think about having to rely on it for another 4 years.
Trump was only a unexpected/unpredicted event to the people who believed the ‘polls’ and devoured the mainstream media content because they whole heartily believed their person would win. The media completely played it up so they could profit off the emotional down turn. Day in and day out these last 2 years has been nothing but fear mongering for ad revenue. Journalism doesn’t exist in the United States as it once were. There is not investigation it’s just agitation. Keeping eyes on glass to make that advertising revenue. It’s so sad.
Ah, I thought you had something special to add about the use of JS based torrent tools in Europe; yes, using tools for unlawful purposes is unlawful.
Forward secrecy is mostly a myth anyway when the “ephemeral” keys used to generate the session are kept in memory for weeks, months, or years already (e.g. HAProxy)
It depends. Pick an old movie and see what the actors wore. They wore the same style of suit but they didn't wore the same style of casual wear.

Google search page doesn't change much, but online bank UI has improved a lots.
How annoying.

Not all math doctorates have university e-mails.
The author's point is not that schema changes are hard - but rather that versioning schema changes are hard.
Odd that Fedora isn't even mentioned at all-- at least in the past it has been one of the first to adopt mitigation techniques distribution wide.
Hi, just wondering, are you planning a second edition?

I'm now at chapter 12, and imho, there are a few things that could be improved to make it even better (e.g. a bit more details on what the code in the later chapters does, redundant explanations that could be removed to add something else, other explanations that are a bit too succinct, etc...).
>Mathematica is way more targeted to the "general public" though.

Actually, it's way more targeted to mathematicians. The level of symbolic computation it can do is way ahead of any symbolic toolbox you'll find. When I was in grad school, I used NumPy and my group mate used Mathematica. One day I was looking up identities in Gradshteyn and Ryzhik (a bible for identities), and he asked why I bother as Mathematica had it all. He challenged me to find any identity that Mathematica couldn't handle. I thought this would be easy as G&R has more stuff than any other identity handbook out there, but I lost the challenge.
> The word 'embedded' is not well defined

> ...

> My personal definition of embedded (which is of course still flawed) is anything without an MMU

Probably "embedded" would better be defined as an electronic device capable of performing digital computations small enough to be put literally into other stuff, usually everyday things.
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It depends where you come from. Not everyone is aware of the extent of lobbying. And, it may be - not necessarily - that FB does it more than other companies. These are all details that may get fleshed out in time
He is walking while working on a computer, not vice versa.
So the decline into Burst.Net territory has begun...