skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, but be careful with the argument that it's bad because it forbids a necessity. It doesn't defend activities that are less 'necessary'. You don't need a soldering iron at home - the registered one at work is plenty. You don't need a decompiler, or a rooted smartphone, or to run unsigned kernels, or your own mail server. One by one, activities you're permitted to do can be chipped away, till all that's left is work and consuming sanitized entertainment.
List of companies with a culture inspired on Basecamp
Yes, yes, no, yes, yes.

That seems fairly easy to navigate, are there harder questions that prove this is a more nuanced question?
try the umatrix extension...I got nothing but nicely readable text.
Similarly you could use Azure Container Service too.

Edit: Just found out they are canning that in 2020. So K8S is the default Azure solution.
I'm sure I'm biased, but this feels like a severe misreading of Evan Williams' history. He's abnormally persistent about enduring failure until he finds the big thing. Blogger and Twitter were both preceded by long periods of failure. Also, given that he resigned from the Twitter board and has other people making his investment decisions it seems pretty clear that Medium is not a pet project for him.
Singapore Joins CCS Combo Charging Bandwagon
AWS SDE here.

The short answer is, in order to get your team to adopt something, you need to make the case that it's better for customers (including things like migration costs). If the modern thing is more efficient, is higher availability, increases velocity, and so on then the case can be made.

Some specific examples based on things you cite:

* For an example of something OSS or "modern" coming from AWS, checkout Firecracker (written in Rust): https://firecracker-microvm.github.io/

* With regards to "reinventing wheels" Apollo + EC2 solves a lot (not all) of the problems that containers solve, and existed for years before containers became the hotness.

* Docker, which brought containers to the masses launched in 2013.

* EC2 launched in 2006 (7 years before Docker).

* Apollo (and the build system Brazil) predated EC2 by many years.

* Amazon.com was migrating to EC2/AWS before 2012 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f45Uo5rw6YY)

* Another example, Lambda, which launched in 2014 runs on EC2 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdzV04T_kec&t=1611s).

* New services get to build in AWS and use Lambda, ECS, DynamoDB etc based on their business needs.
I would like to read this but I'm not signing up to medium to do so.
>It’s hazardous and frankly inhuman to boil down human interaction into metrics like “number of participants.”

the tech today allows to for example easily and frequently Skype with your family, like parents, sibling, nephews residing on the other continent. A humongous improvement compare to previous modes of expensive international phone, especially when many of those participants didn't have a phone back then. What is inhuman here?

It also allowed for communication like we have here on HN. Before, it would be limited to just watercooler chat with colleagues at work with very limited exposure and exploration of genuine opposite/conflicting opinions, whereis we can have a bleeding-trolling-edge blast online.
Here (Australia) at least you can do custom burger orders on demand, which explodes the SKUs.
You don't get paid $300K without being a true believer.
What quality improvement do you think McDonald's needs? They have already gone to excessive lengths to appeal to parents and advocacy groups by adding healthy meal options (apple slices, milk, salads) and reducing portion sizes (which helps them more in the profit department, than it helps the overweight consumers) and clearly showing the breakdown of each item on a large prominent poster near the register. They're a fast food restaurant who has already gone above and beyond all of their closest competitors IMO.
April 4 set for Musk contempt hearing
Booth agents are sabotaged very early in the campaigning process. The most common scenario is where the booth agent will secretly contact the opposition candidate and continue to pretend to be loyal to his own master while deliberately feeding incorrect information. In many cases he will simply not spend the cash that was given to him to distribute among voters. In some cases he will deliberately ignore visiting the swing votes.
> Domino's generates over 60% of sales via digital channels

This blows my mind. I remember when the online pizza tracker first came out, and I was blown away. I couldn't imagine the logistical nightmare they must have solved to get this installed in 5,000+ stores in the U.S. It really was ahead of it's time, and I can't think of any other online food ordering platform that gets this close.
I think mattermost is working on a couple plugin.
PicnicHealth (YC S14) is hiring engineers to make medical records useful
Not an app developer. But isn’t a big reason for native apps just to harvest more metrics and data about your customers? (Not implying anything bad about that in this context btw)
No, sense of community is actually stronger than ever I think. But those communities are less geographic and much more ideological. The communal bond these days happens more in ideas and beliefs than in physical proximity. Social media made it so, and this shifted sense of community has given rise to increasingly radical and extreme ideologies — but also much stronger bonds in my opinion.
So true, in essence driving them into online friend interactions.

Makes you wonder what life will be like for children 50 years from now, and how that would compare with today.

After there was a time when making explosives was a childhood right of passage along with chemistry sets, making fires, even having a pocket knife. Today, such common activities would not end well at all, however innocent the intention. These are activities people still alive today will recall.

With that, online is still in part a wild-west and new playfield, open, less restrictions compared to real life and with that, perhaps the logical outlet for teenage freedom.

But even that is slowly being eroded away with the same mentalities that drove children into 1984 style parenting.

With that, todays children may very well in their 50's look at the children of the time and feel how restricted and curtailed they are compared to the freedoms they enjoyed in their time. That would not surprise me, but equally, when do laws, rules, restrictions reach a zenith when no more need be added or changed! Until then, the lamentations of life march on.
> "... may feel like loneliness."

Isn't the feeling the whole point?

It's a bit strange to claim that, even though some people might feel lonely, they aren't /actually/. Lonely is a word that refers to an emotion -- not a word that refers to the circumstances that tend to bring about that emotion.

I'll grant you that if we had a perfect account of what those circumstances were, the two might be identical (for a physicalist, anyway). But that some people "may feel lonely" even now is a proof by counterexample that your account is not it.
> even sending your URL data to Google

"Each site you visit is checked against the Safe Browsing list on your system. If there's a match, your browser sends Google a hashed, partial copy of the site’s URL so that Google can send more information to your browser. Google cannot determine the real URL from this information." -- https://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/privacy/#safe-browsing...

There's no way Firefox would be ok with sending all their user's visited URLs to Google.

(Disclosure: I work at Google)
The very biggest require proximity and geography. But you can get to many times larger than normal ones just by proximity to the thing that is causing the tsunami.

See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-DJkj5yr9E for a computer simulation of the Etna megatsunami that hit the Mediterranean 8,000 years ago. See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQcpys0QHmA for a different simulation that focuses on just the hardest hit areas. (The two simulations are of different models of the event with very different wave sizes. I have no idea which one is closer to what happened.)
FWIW, I make a full time living there on part time work and they've sent my articles several million readers that never otherwise would have heard of me. Also I was just approached for a mainstream book deal. Those are all massive goods.

The bad is that I think Medium hasn't stayed in one place long enough for people to accurately understand it. But I've been working with them from the beginning of this strategy shift two years ago and the basic strategy hasn't changed at all.
Basically, that sounds like a union for app developers. That might end up being a positive thing.
US Trade Negotiators Team of Barking Dogs – China
Earbuds that can read your mind
According to the TFA, Apple (or any foreign company) is not obligated to block traffic at the device-level in the manner described by TFA:

> This censorship occurs despite the fact that when in China a cell phone using a foreign SIM is not subject to the firewall restrictions (all traffic is tunneled back to your provider first), so Google, Twitter, Facebook, et al all work fine on a non-mainland China SIM even though you’re connected via China Mobile or China Unicom’s network
There's some internal builds tools that I can vouch for. If you're still at Amazon, feel free to ping me at dbarsky@ and we can chat.
Not sure if its just me, but I tried it and the mouse wheel does not cause the numbers to change, either focused or not. (latest chrome on mac)
Kevin Lawler and Scott Locklin (posts on here sometimes) tried to make a tsdb similar to kdb+ called kerf I think. I don't think it worked out, but it would've been nice to have a more affordable competitor.
The evidence is that incarceration just doesn’t work to deter crime or discourage recidivism. But America has the largest prison population in the world, and IIRC, the largest proportion of its own citizens in prison.

In a country that values punishment over any empirical improved outcomes, I wouldn’t hold my breath for people to care that taking a driver’s license away for unpaid support will end up hurting the children involved, or society as a whole.
There is nothing cheaper about cloud than bare metal if you’re doing a “lift and shift” and you’re not willing to change your processes.
...good.....comeback?
Yeah, I switched my main domain email over to Fastmail two weeks ago (still on the free trial!). I'm liking it so far.

I just switched the MX records over, hopefully I can keep my grandfathered free G-suite account as a searchable archive for the time being (I should also back-up all the mail in there but haven't had time to). It wasn't quite organised enough for me to want to bring it over.

I'm using DuckDuckGo for search now on my home laptop and phone, Safari on my Mac and Firefox on Windows machines instead of Chrome, Apple Maps on my phone. The one thing I can't see moving off at this point though is YouTube since so much of the content I watch is only there.
I'm not sure how you square that against the reality that many companies specifically and obviously do not have humans backing up these things. Do you think Google has never heard of human support? When you have hundreds of millions of people clamoring for your products, ignoring several million -- regardless of what the issues might be -- is easy. These things literally do not show up on their radar, which is why stupid shit like posting to HN about it is required to get a basic level of service and fairness out of the system.

Their organization and priorities absolutely do not leave room for support for everyday people. There is zero evidence that they have any intentions of changing this, just like every other one of the past 20 years.
True, but if you believe the marketing hype as a Chinese user, you might be suckered into using it, believing it would protect you better than WeChat did.

The point is, Apple sells Privacy everywhere as their brand, but in China, has deprived their users of most means of attaining it, either by making their own offerings less secure, or by banning from their App Store, any third party apps that could let their users have privacy from the government.

And then Tim Cook went to China and praised the government for it's vision of an open internet: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/12/04...

A lot of excuses being made for Apple not living up to their principles in China and kowtowing to the almighty dollar (or renminbi in this circumstance)
Rewards can also backfire. I'm currently reading "Punished by Rewards", by Alfie Kohn, which spells out all the ways in which rewards are counterproductive. Interestingly enough, I found this book via Marshall Rosenberg's book on non-violent communication, in which Marshall urges us not to use rewards as a means to manipulate others (and not to use punishments for that purpose either of course).
Teens Who Prefer Their Own Company May Be on to Something
Aphex Twin wrote one of my favorite songs of all time. Quiet. Melancholy. Absolutely gorgeous. Not the least bit noisy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AWIqXzvX-U
China Censoring Apple's News App

FTFY
This seems like a really good idea. Do you have any suggestions for a hosted email client similar to Gmail as well?
Sounds a big like they are from the planet in Asimov’s The Naked Sun in which people live miles apart and only see each other through holograms, never in person.
Democracy works elsewhere, don’t condemn it because it cannot magically make one country a better place.
Having previously worked at Google and seen how they communicate internally - yes, many people absolutely do make that kind of money there without agreeing with everything they do, and while objecting to much of it. However that doesn't mean that the people making internal objections always get to overrule the people making the mistakes. Clearly not.

To be clear, at Google there are cases where internal objections do affect what Google does; but nowhere near always.

(Note I haven't worked at Google for almost 4 years now and am not speaking for anyone other than myself in this comment.)
P2P vs using central servers.

This is all thanks to NAT. Skype had very creative functionality to pierce through NAT.
Most of those nations didn’t really have viable / accessible public markets until the 90s. So there’s not a lot of reliable data from the first half of the century to go on.

And I’m not saying the US / Europe robbed any of those countries — just that there was a lot of easy growth in those countries in the 20th century, and western companies stepped in to facilitate and got paid a lot of money in the process. That growth is reflected in the stock prices of American and European companies.

My point is that those big, easy growth opportunities aren’t there anymore anywhere; and the growth opportunities in the future will be diminishingly small. We’re no longer bringing a country from the Iron Age mining with hand tools to the industrial era with mechanized mining and smelting; we’re largely just replacing one form of economic activity with another, slightly more efficient version.
What’s surprising is that the Holy Father committed straight to master during Lent.
TCP/IP is literally the internet, it's in the name. Nobody said WWW.
> Presumably you can get 90% of the value for 5% of the price. McDonald's isn't Amazon.

"McDonald's isn't Amazon" seems like a good enough reason.

Amazon can "just hire a few PhDs/seasoned engineers", plug them into the right places in the company, and expect good things to happen.

McDonald's would need to hire a new team from the leadership down and would be working up-wind in a hot seller's labor market at every level.

> They have 100 (?) menu items, not 1,000,000 products.

McDonald's is a huge company with lots of opportunities to apply ML. Store operation, hiring, supply chain optimization, menu/product design, lots of resource scheduling problems, marketing, etc.

I can easily see McDonald's making back hundreds of millions very quickly just by decreasing the friction and amount of time required to make improvements in these and other areas.

> Is McDonald's the right owner for a high-tech customer intelligence product? It just feels like such a bizarre cultural and core-competency fit.

Automated ordering is becoming a core part of McDonald's customer experience. Automated and augmented decision making is becoming a core part of McDonald's franchise management. Outsourcing those things would mean putting the fate of the company's future in someone else's hands.

Plus, there's huge upside to owning that IP. McDonald's is taking leadership on automating away the sales clerk and decreasing reliance on skilled/knowledgeable franchise owners and managers.
YUP

Tell me a family that says " YOU BETTER BE HOME BY SUNDOWN "

Today.

Regardless of neighborhood...

I used to only come home for provisions and to prevent being grounded.

LET THE FUCKING KIDS PLAY. FORCE them to be outside and play. Period.

This is how you get nice things, like the internet.
Honestly something we'd all love to see
The article claims that:

"Stoics believed that everything in the universe is already perfect and that things that seem bad or unjust are secretly good underneath. The philosophy is handy if you already believe that the rich are meant to be rich and the poor meant to be poor."

But here are some of the things Seneca, one of the greatest of Stoics, said on the matter of wealth:

"Would you rather have much, or enough? He who has much desires more - a proof that he has not yet acquired enough; but he who has enough has attained that which never fell to the rich man's lot - a stopping-point."

"Money never made a man rich; on the contrary, it always smites men with a greater craving for itself."

"we must spurn wealth: wealth is the diploma of slavery"

"Why of your own accord postpone your real life to the distant future? Shall you wait for some interest to fall due, or for some income on your merchandise, or for a place in the will of some wealthy old man, when you can be rich here and now. Wisdom offers wealth in ready money, and pays it over to those in whose eyes she has made wealth superfluous."

"It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor."

"What does it matter how much a man has laid up in his safe, or in his warehouse, how large are his flocks and how fat his dividends, if he covets his neighbour's property, and reckons, not his past gains, but his hopes of gains to come? Do you ask what is the proper limit to wealth? It is, first, to have what is necessary, and, second, to have what is enough."

Quoting Epicurus:

"Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the whole world."
Actually we are running a Whatsapp group for solo-entrepreneurs. We have video-calls from time to time and share milestones or problems.

I won't share the group link here, as it would probably overwhelm us. But if you do want to join, drop me a short email to group868@vlx.cc introducing your startup and I'll send you the intro document.
Programming books actually worth reading
It just occurred to me that virtual interaction is like a vitamin pill. There should be a right amount of human interaction, at right timings, in a right way. But today it's happening too often and/or too much, and the type of interactions is limited. Just like vitamins, it's easy to overdose. The best way to take nutrition/interaction is through natural ways because it gives you other kinds of nutrition and there's less risk of overdose, etc.
Common everywhere, they're "grill slips." It's not a new SKU, but a customization to it. Still, wonder how much analytics they pull on that when designing new products.
And yet if you look on Google Trends you can see that Open Office has 15x the number of searches LibreOffice has. Trademarks are incredibly sticky in people's minds and forks are hard to pull off. I have experience here as I run a multi-threaded fork of Redis and people constantly ask if we have the same features.
Becoming 'A Tech Company That Sells Pizza' Delivered Huge for Domino's
Is being so boring and antisocial a norm these days ? :D (Just busting your balls haha)

I think a lot of us deeply care about the future society that will cater to the people that are currently young. And it seems remarkably boring, superficial and for the lack of a better word, just devoid of anything fun.

In the end noone cares if this is a subculture (there were enough subcultures when I was in school i.e goths, metalheads etc), its more of a problem if this behaviour becomes uniform across all cultures and mainstream.
Just because you can communicate with someone doesn’t mean you don’t feel lonely.
I remember the World of Warcraft add-on that made news headlines because it allowed you to order a pizza in-game, during a time when we were seeing constant stories about someone dying (or causing others to die) thanks to gaming addiction and forgetting to sleep/eat/feed children.
I think one piece of context that your missing is that the people targeted by this law aren't the people running the wires, it's the people running the servers behind the wires.

Today, if people in Russia or China run the servers there isn't much the EU can do (see: scihub and the US, for a long time piratebay too). You don't need a massive indestructible satellite constellation for that.

I'd also add that a billionaire isn't the criteria you're looking for here even if it was a policy targeting the people running the wire. It's a foreign government with sufficient military power to deter the US from arresting you, and sufficient technological power to set up such a network. Maybe it's a Russian Billionaire who launches them in your hypothetical, but it's the Russian government who provides the security that allows him to do that.
“We did it, ~Reddit~ HN!”
50 years from now teens will have a subscription to curated experiences for them to get together in-person for while their typical interpersonal interactions will happen over the Internet where it’s nice with a relatively null marginal cost.
I don't believe Marshall's idea is to apply a template-based approach to communication, if that is what you mean. The templates themselves are not NVC, but are rather a guide to help the uninitiated to apply the philosophy behind NVC.

Aside: I'm definitely interested in learning more about Krishnamurti after reading this thread of conversation.
Remember the teens with leet T9 keyboarding skills?
I worked at a startup whose first service was "upload CSV, and we automatically generate interesting charts". That's not trivial, but it's not exactly rocket science, either. The main trouble we had is that in order for this to work well (and it makes for a terrific demo), you need to start with a great CSV file. The average CSV file you find on the web isn't.

CSV is about the barest amount of specification in a file format. It's common to run across files which are some weirdo encoding you can't easily detect, or are a mix of multiple encodings, or a mix of line endings, or which should be treated as case-insensitive (or only for some columns), or which have weird number formatting (or units, and not the same units in every row), or typos and spelling errors, or it came from an OCR'd PDF and there's "page 2" right in the middle of it, or they tried to combine multiple files together so there's multiple headers scattered throughout the file (or none at all), or the top has different columns from the bottom, or it uses quoting differently (obviously not per the RFC), or it's assumed that "nil"/"NULL"/""/"-"/"0" are the same, or ...

In short, data (which hasn't been cleaned by hand) sucks, and CSV doubly so. If you want to put your AI/ML smarts to work, write a program to take a shitty CSV file (or even better, a shitty PDF file!) and generate good clean data, plus a description of its schema. That would be an amazing tool.

So far, OpenRefine is the nicest tool for this that I've seen. Figure out how to make it fully automatic, and everybody with piles of raw data (governments) will beat a path to your door.