skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
US legislation and precedents are not binding in other legal jurisdictions throughout Asia and Europe. There are international agreements (such as TRIPS[0]) that aim to provide a degree of intellectual property law consistency across the world but if Oracle prevails in this case it does not follow that APIs would be automatically copyrightable in all TRIPS signatory nations.

However a visit or letter from a large litigious opponent is likely to strike fear into the hearts of most regardless of the legal merits of the case. For example this has been effective for Microsoft in licensing patents they cover aspects of the Android operating system[1].

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRIPS_Agreement
1. https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/microsoft_on_the_issues/...
From the looks of it they will be posting a public postmortem to their status page.
It used to be the government. When these individuals no longer want to do it, the government will step in again.
"What Andy Giveth Bill Taketh". Software still can solve problems and deliver value.
Yes, the NYT reported it for example [1]. Edit: ok, to be more clear, they were medically qualified to examine victims of torture, but they gave him a full medical evaluation.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2019/05/31/world/europe/ap-...
> “there is really only one way to do this” situations

In the context of building API compatibility, there is indeed only one way to do this so this ruling would mean any attempt at compatibility is a copyright violation.
The connector is the primary reason I'm eager for wider adoption. The C connector is significantly more robust and doesn't require three attempts to plug in.

It certainly makes sense that such a hardware change slows things down a bit, but USB-C phones have been on the market since 2015 and pretty much standard since not long after that. If I want a USB-C powerbank or flash drive, I pretty much have to buy it online and I'll likely pay a premium for it. If some newly-introduced device in 2019 uses a USB connector to charge its integrated battery (a misfeature in itself if you ask me), it's almost never USB-C.

In short, I don't expect existing product lines to get revised, I expected to see USB-C show up faster on new products that aren't phones or tablets.
[2009]

Anyone have any interesting stories about this happening in more "regular" fields?
Maybe not, but please don't post unsubstantive comments here, and especially not personal attacks.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
You can choose to depend on them if you wish, but I choose to be responsible for my own data in any way I can. I believe that it is the right thing to do, and I must do it to the best of my ability. It's not a fear thing. It's a constant annoyance thing. I just don't want to play their one-sided games.
And so say we all.

Free Assange!
This headline is grossly misleading and very clickbaity "Killed our company". It's not exactly big business that you scale up to 10 droplets for short bursts, I am willing to bet their spend on DigitalOcean is less than $500 a month, yet the author is expecting enterprise support.

DigitalOcean should go the route of AWS and kill off free support completely and offer paid support plans. Something like $49 a month or 10% of the accounts monthly spend.

If you are a serious company with paying Fortune 500 customers, you need to act serious and pay up for premium support and stop expecting free.
When you parse JSON, what is the reason to choose special classes for structure (and sometimes data units) instead of using Java-native equivalents?
It's always bothered me how software teams view internal and external users differently. We'll spend lavishly on designing an amazing experience for customers... But internal users are stuck clicking through 500 VB6 forms to get anything done.

Companies forget that selling more isn't the only way to make money; cutting internal costs can also make you more money. A happy team is a productive team, and a streamlined team is a productive team. More productivity means less people you have to hire and train.

But hey, that comes out of a different budget and our internal people are already being paid peanuts, so work on this feature the sales team claims will help them sell more. Operations people are just there to clean up the crap no one else will, right? (/sarcasm)
Having no free options is a sad state to be made aware of, but without such awareness no action could be taken to correct it.
Also, good luck working the aforementioned mode switch into every darn programming language, and finding all the places in existing code bases where it has to be applied, and then doing the work.
> Why is killing accounts part of the way they do business in any way, EVER?

Because fraud and abuse exist.

Sometimes customers really are doing malicious things which need to be stopped immediately, and the only thing that will make that happen is disabling their account. Trying to make accommodations for those users is a fast path to getting sued, getting blacklisted by mail providers, and/or losing your upstream connection entirely.
In all seriousness, I think the next 100 years of climate deterioration will provide plenty of motivation to everyone.
“Why” and “How” TrueCar Moved to True CI/CD
This happen more often than most people realize.

Especially in the accounting tech space. Take a look at HubDoc (which Xero accounting acquired for ~70m) and their practices of asking accountants to share their clients login credentials + challenge questions to every online service they want "automated" instead of using OAuth. Their FAQ even encourages this "Hubdoc will have all of the information it needs to connect and fetch your documents": https://support.hubdoc.com/hc/en-us/articles/360007260052-Wh...

As for bank feeds, no one has solved this the right way. Not even Plaid. Scrapers are not the answer. Maybe open banking standards like already happening in Commonwealth countries? Or a dropbox like app that lives on the user's machine and that does all the scraping without giving away the login credentials to other actors.
Are kosher kitchens not a thing in San Francisco? They aren't common in Boston but I think most places allow them.
If a cloud service is supposed to be ready for production, then customers should be safe to assume that they will not simply be shut down, especially not without warning. Otherwise, the provider must make clear that the service is only for hobby use and not for commercial use.
"We don’t have any news or announcements to share at this time. Stratolaunch remains operational" is not an emphatic denial.
wrong. it should take <1 minute to follow the link and read that section.

> (2) Charge a customer a penalty or offer a customer a discount based on the customer's decision to provide or not provide consent under paragraph A.
The arguments here between "file hierarchy" versus the "library/drawer/shoebox" styles of organization highlight a fundamental failing of traditional filesystems:

The need to store certain content under multiple horizontal categories (or folders.)

For example I will add the same song to multiple playlists, for different moods and activities, or a photo may have multiple elements that I might search for (e.g. "nature", "warm", "urban" etc.)

Symlinks/Aliases are too cumbersome. Tags help alleviate this a little, but they're still a tacked-on layer instead of a core FS feature in modern OSes (even macOS has inconsistent UI support for tags and becomes unwieldy if you have hundreds of tags.)
"In this particular scenario, we were slow to respond and had missteps in handling the false positive. This led the user to be locked out for an extended period of time."

This didn't seem like a case of being "too slow" - the customer in question went through your review process (which was slow, yes), and the only response he got was "We have decided not to reactivate your account, have a nice day".

That just seems like a lack of interest in supporting your customers that are falsely flagged.
> Testosterone maintenance

What do these words even mean?
Ultimately we need to get off this rock as a species; the Earth is fairly overdue (statistically as I understand it) for a major asteroid hit.

We seem to have this hubris that we'll be able to "detect and deflect" - both of which are unlikely with our current technology for any size dire enough to care about.

We don't even have the "detect" part in place - not in the way it needs to be. As more than a few recent incidents have shown, we're currently blind and a sitting duck, so to speak.

Even a relatively small strike, depending on where it landed, could potentially trigger a nuclear launch depending on the political climate and such at the time. We need better eyes, if for nothing else than the avert that kind of "misunderstanding" which could lead to an existential crisis.
Awesome use-case with redis and it’s newest modules. Very well done.
Thanks for these explanations!

As a blind person who works more productively in a text editor than a web interface[0], here are a few things that might help:
* Give me the ability to enter JSON directly in the permissions screen. I'm sure the query-builder is visually nice, but I can accessibly edit JSON strings better than you can accessibly visually render them, so let me just give you a string and have your interface validate it. Maybe just parse it, then transpose the values directly onto the form inputs in the visual interface.
* Give me a command to validate YAML migrations without applying them. This could even be a --dry-run flag to `hasura migrate` telling me what SQL would run and the JSON for my new/changed permissions.
* Some basic documentation on hand-coding migrations would help. I can sort of reverse-engineer them by pouring over the file formats, but the time taken to work more slowly in the web interface hasn't quite inspired me to take more time learning the undocumented format. :)

I'll see about filing these as issues soon if I can remember to do so. :) Either way, thanks for a cool product! Even if it frustrates me to use, tools like Hasura really hit a pain point for me in building apps.

0. Obviously that isn't universally applicable, but it is easier for me to solve logic problems than "why is my CSS all weird?" problems. Tools like Postgraphile and Hasura make it possible to test more of an app's functionality by writing just SQL rather than lining up my ORM with my language with my SQL schema. I guess just as Node supposedly reduces context-switching by placing more logic in a single language for front-end developers, tools like Hasura and Postgraphile let backend developers focus mostly on SQL when building out the app logic. And while I can't make something look good, damn can I think through how it should work and how someone might break it. :)
The instantly recognizable connotation of "fallout" is "nuclear fallout". The game series, which is post-apocalyptically themed, almost certainly derives its name from that.
UV breakdown is easy to address with a sheath, but it's not nearly flexible enough for garden hose use. I have only used PEX-C, I hear PEX-A is more flexible, but it would have to be more than I think it is.
Apple is not splitting up the apps on macOS as part of a nefarious plan to make you pay more money. They're doing it because the apps have been split on iOS for years already:

- The new Music app will have the ability to play local music, so it won't need a subscription. (Conversely, you can get an Apple Music subscription with iTunes right now.)

- The TV app will likely function just like the iOS one: if you have videos in your library that are playable by it, it'll play them, no subscription. If you subscribe to a TV "channel," it'll show up there. (This presumably includes the forthcoming Apple TV+ service, but there are no details about its pricing model yet.)

- Again, the Podcasts app will likely function just like the iOS one, which means it's not something that Apple is making money from. You subscribe to podcast feeds in it the same way you do in any other podcast player.

To be clear, I'm not saying Apple doesn't actively have nefarious plans to make you pay more money -- I'm just saying this isn't one of them.
> What do you mean "trigger".

> If inflation (as measured by the Fed) increases and the Fed wants to lower it, they can decide to raise interest rates but it doesn't happen automatically.

That's what I meant.
I have seen fairly convincing evidence presented quite recently that for the vast majority of people it may take months but after that period the intestinal microbiome is nearly indistinguishable from how it was before administering antibiotics.
> After sending multiple emails and DM on Twitter they unlocked our account, we got 12h of downtime and got a nice

Wait their entire business was effectively shutdown and all they did was send an email? Granted the DO handling of a possible abuse situation is shocking, but to allow your business to go down for 12 hours and not be trying to call any and every actual human being at DO seems to be negligent on their part. While us technical types love interfacing via digital means, some situations benefit from actually talking to a live human.
Specifically (though there are proposed amendments) http://www.mainelegislature.org/legis/bills/getPDF.asp?paper...
You are so lucky! I've had math papers rejected after a year!
As I was reading this I just kept hearing in my head...

Take a point called Z in the complex plane,

let z[1] be z^2+C...

let z[2] be z[1]^2+c...

let z[3] be z[2]^2+c

And so on.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrztrxV9OtQ
TY - that was the secondary goal (the primary being to inspire new use cases...).
Cheers! I'm happy to say that a normalising cache is indeed in progress and we're planning to finish it soon https://github.com/kitten/urql exchange-graphcache

We've got the cache itself done but are just figuring out the API for its customisability in terms of cache resolvers and such
Clinton's people would've come out and said if any of the emails were forged. They didn't.
> A fungus that specializes in infecting Anopheles

Research was made in the nine species known of the genus Metarhizum. Some of them are known to science since only 10 years ago when some of the species were better studied and split and hidden species appeared.

Some species seem to be specialist, like M. acridi, that target grasshoppers. Other are generalist, like M. anisopliae that can attack insects of seven different orders. Some spores can be diseminated by water and target aquatic larvae, other spread by the air. Surprisingly, M. anisopliae is sold since a few years and used with the purpose to kill beetles of several species, and planned to use it to kill ticks and mosquitoes.

Source: Journal of Funghi 2017, 3 (30).

So first doubt, are the species used in research really specialist and selective?

"A transgenic, broad host-range M. anisopliae strain expressing an insect neurotoxin (AaIT) from Androctonus australis reduced mobility and blood feeding interest of adult Aedes aegypti mosquitoes"

"broad-host range" looks the opposite term to "specialist" to me

Source: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6128571/

More things: Mosquitoes die quickly

"Since M. pingshaense spores take 2–3 days to penetrate host cuticle, RFP and Met-Hybrid do not cause mortality 24 hours post-infection ... Met-Hybrid achieved >80% mortality within one week with LT80’s of 5.18±0.482 days, 5.54±0.326 days and 5.25±0.269 days for Anopheles coluzzii, An. gambiae and An. Kisumu, respectively".

So when it says "fungus rapidly kills mosquitoes", maybe should say, "fungus kills mosquitoes between 2 and five days"

"The fungus has been given genes to produce an insecticide, known as a “hybrid”, first extracted from the Australian funnel-web spider and already approved in the US for treating crops."

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/malaria-mosquitoes...

This is what the independent says. I haven't found an official source for this claim but if true, I don't have words for this fact, only expletives. Has somebody asked american citizens if they agreed to participate in this experiment?
Paul's sister Jody running the joint now. She's probably more pragmatic than Paul was. Letting the craft go airborne was her homage to him and the team. But we have many players in this space doing better. Time to refocus
When EU legislators say "privacy" they usually mean data regulation (e.g. GDPR)

Data regulations like the GDPR are in fact anti-privacy: they interfere in the free data transactions between companies and users.
It already exists, called Cloud Kitchens. There are a lot of take out restaurants that really don't need a storefront, so why not consolidsate their operations in a few locations around the city and deliver quickly instead?
There was also a 3 million dollar extortion attempt against Assange to not publish footage of him in the embassy. His lawyers filed court proceedings in Spain. I'm sorry I don't have a reliable source in English for that. [1]

[1] https://elpais.com/internacional/2019/04/26/actualidad/15562...
How does it violate the rights of non US citizens? Non citizens have no inherent right to enter the US. Applying for a VISA to enter the US is a voluntary act, therefore, a non citizen is completely free to chose whether it is worth providing this information in exchange for possibly being allowed in the US.

People that are upset about this being asked have obviously never had to complete a VISA application to the US or likely any country. The US and most countries ask far more intrusive questions.
Are you willing to pay $8 or so for wifi access on the plane? Boom, you have mosh access.

I mean, yes, I get what you're saying, but I think it's at least plausible that the long-term solution for "doing developer things on the iPad" is going to involve network access and The Cloud™ for heavy lifting. (Granted, I think long-term, the distinction between local and remote everything is going to progressively blur over the coming years.)

[Edited to note: I think "Xcode for iOS" or an equivalent is almost certainly on the road map. I'm not sure whether full-blown web development of the "I am running a local web server on my iPad to test things" variety" is, although thinking about it, I can imagine ways a "LAMP App for iOS" might be implementable even today.]
When this happens they should contact law enforcement, not play god.
Was that censorship in order to conform to US law? If not, sorry but you're comparing apples to oranges.
"you're responsible for doing all your own offsite backups"

That's going to be true no matter which cloud provider you choose.

Their ToS almost certainly include terms which allow them to kick you off and refund any monies for any reason whatsoever.

Good luck if you bought into their entire ecosystem and can't move elsewhere on a whim.
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Public post mortem? Brilliant.

Hope you can share what you learnt from this incident and hopefully you'll take a hard look at your processes.

I'd hate to be caught in the same issue, especially that we are already customers, and I'm not sure I'll have as much clout as Nicolas here to get your attention.
I had !remind me in 2 years setup for it. Didn't really know why, but figured out eventually by how long it's taking them.

Also - isn't the tech behind it is going to be obsolete pretty soon?
I feel you re. integration and connectiveness. I do not envy you for having issues. But I can say that if I waited until I wasn't "depressed" (what does this mean in the wider scope of our stories we tell each other? When you can't know good without the bad? I think we're all depressed else we wouldn't know happiness) I likely would have dropped off a chair instead of dropping some caps and stems.

You have to understand where these mental hangups are coming from sometimes. And it is my most sincere hope the OP can see what all of us are trying to say before letting the abyss take them. I so hope they know we've felt it pulling. Even if they aren't interested in drugs in the least I hope they know they're not alone in any of this.

I'm not a bad enough dood to explore much of these new drugs. Mostly experienced in the classic 3 and once DMT (hope to again someday when I figure out how to make the rig work). But from what I've seen in this thread and vague posts in the past it seems like ketamine offers a very empathic experience.

I'll never forget the day I figured out how to cry again, cry healthily, thanks to these things. Like a ghost of all my missing emotions I sloughed off in the distant past came back to me. It is wonderful.

And can people please, please stop the senseless cynicism in this subthread. I'm being reminded why I stopped posting on HN. No matter what your personal position is. It is ultimately irrelevant to this OP and the energy you're putting into handwringing can easily be put into reminding them of the fact that they are not alone. There's someone right there with them and sharing in it for one reason or another. And we all have a responsibility to take care of them in the same way we do our better selves.
Correct, but this is COMPLETELY missing the bigger picture. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-42183-0
Undesign: Collection of free design tools and resources
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20064245
Caps and quotas limit the size of the chargeback.
Bismarck vs. Beveridge: is there increasing convergence of health systems? [pdf]
Long-term, there are likely to be iOS development tools that allow this. They may not be this year, or the next, but given that iOS already has Git clients, code editors, and even sandboxed programming environments like Pythonista and Scriptable, it's hardly ridiculous to think that an iOS equivalent to XCode is already under development.
> Every 2-3 months we had to execute a python script that takes 1s on all our data (500k rows), to make it faster we execute it in parallel on multiple droplets ~10 that we set up only for this pipeline and shut down once it’s done.

Wait, a whole distributed computing sub-system to make a 1s process faster?

> I got their final message right after arriving in Portugal.

Did he initiate the script from a IP address outside France?

Though that might explain why DO's fraud detection was triggered, it doesn't excuse their actions. Send an email first, jeez.
NeuronBlocks – Modulized NLP DNN Toolkit
Not micropayments. Macropayments.

Tiered to nominal standards of use.

Centrally collected over a large set of services.

With an open and public process of service determination and interest advocacy.

With a disinterested-party dispute resolution process.

Predicated on ability to pay.

Taxes.
OK. Now, quite seriously, how can I lie to every app I own and make it think I’m 12?
This is getting into the realm of philosophy. According to Stoicism, one has no control over others thoughts. I personally think thats a quite valid view.

I would evaluate a message from a manager by practical rubrics.
1. Clarity.
2. Comprehensiveness.
3. Terseness.
Even those are fairly subjective, anything beyond that is so subjective it could counjour perhaps any image in someones head depending on the person.
According my my rubrics above, the managers message was fine.