skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For exactly same purpose I am grooming self-contained HTML Sandbox "datauri app" [0] living in my bookmarks that too retains its state in location (#hash) so is copypastable to other browsers. I like to load preview to isolated iframe and have single editor. (Not as golfed as xem's ([1]) but it's mine and I like its few extra features.)

[0] https://gist.github.com/myfonj/c8ce74bf549e19600026ce9022388...
[1] http://xem.github.io/miniCodeEditor/
Tata Motors partners with what3words for navigation services
I was in Bali last year and I saw several spots like rice fields marketed for Instagram pics. Locals had put up swings, coconut shaped canopy etc.. I was surprised to find out that there was huge queue for 'The Bali Swing' and one girl I spoke to, had spent the entire morning getting dressed up so she can take the perfect insta pic.

I have completely stopped posting travel pics on social media.
Well, those aren't incompatible statements. It just pre-supposes that GP doesn't like the sort of people that WeWork attracts, but that they like each other.

Personally I have no experience with WeWork, but I've never really found the urge to make much of an effort to know people from other companies in shared office environments. Sometimes it happens, sometimes it doesn't. But don't try to make me socialise with them, thanks ...
Convenience link for 'Operation Optic Nerve' for those like me who had to Google it https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optic_Nerve_(GCHQ)
Lived in Utah for a year and saw most everything I wanted to see in that time. I will go back one day but in the off-season and will alternate between vandwelling in a van conversion and pay a premium for nice accommodations when I need it.

A year ago my friend and I drove from SLC to the Tetons to Yellowstone to Glacier, then over to the PNW and down the coast to the Bay Area. This was honestly two of the best months in my life, I grew so much as a human being and expanded my horizons quite a bit just realizing how little I needed to be happy.
> Imagine a world where regulations only grow on the whole.

This is the world in which we currently live.
Apart from the RUC, the kettling, Orgreave, Hillsborough, the Macpherson report, "sus" laws, and the embedding of undercover officers in environmentalist groups some of whom had children with the people they were surveilling?

The fact that UK police are not routinely armed helps a lot, but they're still capable of some highly selective treatment of people they don't like.
Garmin hacked, customer credit card details stolen
It brings you the absence of GET requests and the bandwidth charges on your AWS bill. In this case, 45TB a day is going to add a lot to an AWS bill, you can shift that cost to the user that's downloading the files from you.
Jira, Confluence (Atlassian) is down (Sep 17, 2019)
Twilio has been non-GAAP profitable for a year now with a positive EPS for the last four quarters (possibly five, but my brain is failing me and Yahoo Finance only lists the last four), but you list it as negative. So that leads me to wonder if many of the other figures you cite have similar issues.

(Disclosure: I work at Twilio.)
You are assuming that any effort will be trying to break the advertising paradigm in favour of a direct payment one.

The article/grant doesn't seem to be about that. Whatever the business model, this seems to be more about breaking platform capture than breaking business model. The alphabook platforms particularly.

Ultimately it's a big field. We have direct payment models (netflix, spotify, iTunes, kindle...), ad-suported models and quite a lot of online content production where monetisation is secondary to distribution.

I think it's a good time for this initiative. YouTubers (for example) with millions viewers can (a) make very little money (b) chaffe at various policies, either money or content related and (c) generally have far less power vis-a-vis alphabook than their audience size implies.

Meanwhile, podcasts, a much freer medium, is both more profitable and quality oriented because of the platform openness.

...open doesn't mean no advertising. The main thing it means is decentralised, or centered around content creators.

This a a good idea. YouTube is no longer necessary. If it suddenly disappeared, online video content would quickly recover fully around alternatives. They contribute the least value while extracting the most.
You configure the Cisco routers, then?

The company doubtlessly has a CEO, too, even if you are so compartmentalized as to never speak with her.
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> the world record for speed by a piloted, powered aircraft

It literally says it right there. The ISS is not a piloted, powered aircraft. Also it was Mach 6.7, not 6.2.

Incidentally, the speed record for a crewed vehicle was set by Apollo 10 at 11.08 km/s - almost half as fast again as the ISS.
Depends. Using the "4% rule" you should be able to drawn down $40k/year, without depleting your capital, so if you can live on that then in theory the answer is yes. There are various provisos with using the 4% rule but I won't go into them here. A couple of other options:

1) You could retire from full-time work and do the odd contract.

2) Set up a little sideline. It wouldn't have to make much as you already have a lot saved.

3) Part-time job at Starbucks (or similar). This is also known as Barista FIRE (FIRE is Financial Independence Retire Early). The idea is in USA you'd get the Starbucks free health care, and a little income, plus it might be fun, if somewhat hectic.

4) You really do need to think about what you would want your retired life to look like. "Not work" will only be enough to take you through the "decompression zone", not beyond.

One final point. Things change. You change. Life happens. At some point you might want to get married, have ten kids, and build a house in the countryside. Who knows. I think that's why keeping your skills honed and brain working in "retirement" is probably a good idea.
In-atmosphere flight is completely different, and the line is normally considered to be somewhere between 70 and 100km.

Re-entry is faster, but not powered. Other vehicles (missiles etc) achieve high speeds but are unmanned.

Also, mach number is dependent on altitude if I remember correctly.
Serverless Database CRUD Example
The Power of Blog Comments and Other Stories
Hey folks,

I wrote a tutorial about how to create a serverless database crud example. The basic idea is to show how to create a simple serverless database and CRUD APIs using Netlify Functions & FaunaDB.

The tutorial project structure looks like this:

├── README.md

├── configs

│ └── webpack.functions.js

├── lambda

│ ├── create.js

│ ├── customers.js

│ ├── delete.js

│ ├── hello.js

│ ├── read-all.js

│ ├── read.js

│ └── update.js

├── netlify.toml

├── package.json

├── src

│ ├── customers

│ │ ├── create.js

│ │ ├── delete.js

│ │ ├── read-all.js

│ │ ├── read.js

│ │ └── update.js

│ ├── customers.js

│ └── hello.js

└── yarn.lock

Any feedback is appreciated, cheers!
I've been solicited for sex by random teenagers and young adults on a regular basis in North Africa, eastern Europe and Asia outside of coercion and trafficking despite not being close to be famous or having significant amount of money.

Simply based looking like I'm from a part of the world where life is not as difficult seems to be enough for a number of people living there to take a chance.
I could also feel how I was the focus of attention of many who did not dare but were considering making the move. A very strange and creepy experience.

And that was in the streets and public places, I'd expect that in the context of a private party the teenagers who managed to get their way in to be daring enough and trying harder, so I guess we have different views based on different personal experience.
Who monitors production? Who provisions routers, wireless access points, VPN servers?

Just because you are “throwing it over a wall” doesn’t mean the team on the other side doesn’t exist.
It's not that smart because they might throttle the bandwidth as a result. Also, one day the downloading may take longer than the time between tests and the entire test will start failing. Further, if you want to test the testing procedure, you want a cache anyway.

The data should probably be distributed using e.g. git, so that downloads are incremental by default.
I don't think she's the first person to object to his behaviour. I've seen a few more people posting their stories of objectionable behaviour, but I'm reluctant to point HN at them.

Edit: a list of complaints over years: https://geekfeminism.wikia.org/wiki/Richard_Stallman

Edit: at the risk of targeting people for harassment by HN commentators, some personal stories from Twitter. Apparently people kept houseplants to ward off RMS: https://twitter.com/starsandrobots/status/994267630457401344
I’m not and don’t claim to be an expert. That’s one reason I don’t have (and didn’t give) an opinion about the lawsuit.

Regarding the lack of an ICO, you’re correct. Others have called XRP a perpetual coin offering[1] since Ripple clearly raised money from investors, but you’re correct that’s not an ICO by name.

The rest of my comment was just direct citations, so direct your sarcasm at them.

[1]: “Ripple Hit With Class-Action Suit Over ‘Never Ending ICO’”: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-05-04/ripple-hi...
Yes, and the leak is from the author who first made the public call to remove Stallman while stating that she has no idea who he is.

https://medium.com/@selamie/remove-richard-stallman-fec6ec21...
"weaponization of empathy", I like it. Smart coined concept for something that seems to appear everwhere currently. Should be discussed more.
The vast majority of Americans aren’t trying to release content that would have been delivered via cable. Except maybe the public access channels.

That content can be uploaded to YouTube.
This comment is just the silly kind of bile that gets spewed on Fox News to convince Americans that countries like the UK and Canada as Dystopian Hellscapes. If you had any cultural context around the history of violent football hooliganism in the UK you might understand why those measures were considered necessary and a re supported by a large part of the public. Also there have been very significant anti-brexit, anti-austerity and anti-trump protests in recent years so I'm really sure what you're talking about there. I can only only assume this is some sort of hand wave to the idea that people in the UK aren't able to protest or express themselves like they are in The Land of The Free (TM).
> outside of coercion and trafficking

You have no way of knowing that.
Clearly. This is a false accusation that damaged his work and reputation. At the very least, these news outlets and media personalities must be compelled to apologize publicly.
I love engineering. I don't love over-engineering.

I also love to experiment with new interesting stuff. But that's not engineering, it's learning.
people have complained about RMS in this regard for a long time
From the article:

> “I honestly can say I was so terribly focused on flying those profiles as closely as possible that I didn’t really have time to look out the window and see how pretty it was,”

Joe Engle, describing the X-15
Obviously that happens when your product is so bad that you have to pay people to use it.
You were right on the “or there should be some other criteria” part, but not on the “They need to be independent” part.

If you start with independent Gaussians A and B and accept that A+B and A-B are Gaussians you’ll easily see that the sum of those is also Gaussian (because it’s 2A) even though they are not independent.
Irrelevant to my point.

Linus was told by trusted insiders "Get your act together" and he apparently took that to heart.

And RMS is being removed as a consequence of the angry actions of a woman who didn't even know who he was: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20993364

Edit: I wish you wouldn't do something that you feel puts other people at risk just to back up your point. Especially since you seem to think you have the moral high ground.

You are happy to throw other people under a bus to win an internet argument. Some angry woman who admits her screed wasn't really about RMS per se threw him under a bus. And you're fine with it. Because you seem to think that's morally acceptable if you have some kind of justification.

Social outcomes aren't about the actions of a single person. They are about the cumulative consequences of the actions of many people.

How people choose to respond to problematic behavior is part of that -- and often not in a good way.
Would you please explain? Thanks!
Yes, when I look at my contract rates in the nineties they look similar to what I'd expect today in the UK. I guess all that outsourcing and cheap imported labour had the desired effect.
It is indeed good and very inspiring, at least for me.
I think the differentiator is "powered flight". The ISS relies on momentum and gravitational pull to sustain that speed. Similar with the Apollo 13 CM which reached something like 36,000 MPH on the return leg, giving the astronauts on board the moniker as the fastest that humans have ever travelled in a man made vessel - not considered a speed record per se because it wasn't using an internal power source to propel (to a major extent).

The X-15 still had to deal with the other aspects of atmospheric flight like weight (carrying its own fuel source), drag and heating due to friction etc.
JSON Alternative Is Coming
Haxe 4.0.0-RC.5 just got released
The general public's impression of WeWork isn't really relevant here, though. It's mainly the opinion of institutional investors that matters. And if they've had the wool pulled over their eyes and believe We to be a tech company, then... well, I'm even more worried than I thought for our financial system.

Actually, my feeling here is that institutional investors have realized that We isn't a tech company. That's why the IPO would probably only have fetched them at most a $20B valuation, rather than the higher valuation they've been awarded from the private markets as a supposed tech company.

So this may not be an indictment of "Silicon Valley IPOs" in particular, just investors saying "no" to a clearly overvalued non-tech company, and that company then deciding that it won't accept a likely more-reasonable valuation.

(Not saying there aren't plenty of overvalued tech companies! But this might not really have anything to do with that.)
Thinking Inside the Box
RMS is being used because of cluelessness of the person who called for his removal:

"This was not, actually, all that much about Richard Stallman. Stallman was just the last straw. This was really about all the times I have heard about a classmate’s advisor crushing her dreams, about Seth Lloyd mocking female students, the number of women alumni that were too jaded to feel surprised by this revelation, the story I read from a 1987 alumn about the trauma she experienced at the MIT and the world of that era. This was really about everything that has come out before and after the Epstein revelations, before and after Richard Stallman’s emails.

Did I even really know who Richard Stallman was before those emails? To be honest, not really — I’m a mechanical engineer who didn’t pay enough attention, apparently."

https://medium.com/@selamie/remove-richard-stallman-fec6ec21...
Thank you for clarifying this, and I have noticed and shared the same concern about these articles putting words in Stallman's mouth.

Please note, I am one of the people in tech who thinks Stallman should resign from leadership roles for the comments he made; the media coverage which mischaracterises his comments and especially so in headlines (looking at you, Vice) is unethical, and damages the assessment of what he actually said.

What he actually said, unfortunately, is in my view incompatible with him continuing in his leadership roles.
Non-nullable types in are implemented using a combination of (powerful) enumeration types and generics.

Enumeration types in rust can be the usual ones you find in other languages:

enum UserStatus {
Anonymous,
Registered,
Confirmed,
}

But their variants are not limited to names, they can be other things[1]:

enum UserStatus {
Anonymous,
Registered{ email: Email, date: Date }, // a struct
Confirmed(date), // a tuple
}

Enum types can also be made generic. For example the Date type could be a parameter in the example above:

enum UserStatus<T> {
Anonymous,
Registered{ email: Email, date: T }, // a struct
Confirmed(T), // a tuple
}

Which brings us to the Option type[2] in rust. It is an Enum with a generic type attribute, defined like this:

enum Option<T>
{
Some(T), // a tuple with a single item of type T
None,
}

In rust, when a function says it returns an `i32`, it will always return an `i32`. It never returns `i32 or null`.

If you want not return an `i32` sometimes, you must specify exactly what else it can be. It is often convenient to return an Option<i32> instead. Then it can return `Some(i32)` or `None`. The difference with the "implicit null" from before is that the compiler will force you to "deconstruct the option safely", in compile time. You will never get a "Null Pointer Exception" in run time because of this.

For me, this is huge, and one of the reasons I like Rust more than Go.

[1]: https://doc.rust-lang.org/rust-by-example/custom_types/enum....
[2]: https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/option/
the headlines are just parroting what had been written in the call for removal of Stallman published on medium:

https://medium.com/@selamie/remove-richard-stallman-fec6ec21...
ROIC is effectively useless for tech companies because they do not capitalize nearly enough R&D.
The X-15 has always intrigued me, even more so than the SR-71 as a kid, when I found out that it could travel at nearly Mach 7. That is more than twice as fast as a standard .308 bullet muzzle velocity.
All 3 corporate firewalls I have been behind have been HTTP only. No actual internet connection. (Except for DNS, which worked.)
> If you were both under the age of consent, as is often the case, in many jurisdictions [0], neither of you were able to give consent, and your sex act was technically non-consensual on both sides. This is not just theoretical -- there are many cases of prosecutors charging consensual underage couples with statutory rape, or with child pornography charges for sexting a picture of themselves to their boyfriend/girlfriend, and often using these laws in unjust ways (e.g. charging only the black boyfriend with statutory rape, but not equally charging the white girlfriend).

> Let's assume you and your first love grew up in California, had sex for the first time just days prior to your 18 birthdays (when you both became legal), and are now 30 and have been happily married for 10-years. By your definition, you both committed violent sexual assault, and I'd be correct to go around your workplace saying things like "oh zzzeek? you know he's committed violent sexual assault. Some sort of rape. I don't know the details, but just wanted you to know."

Minsky was not even close to the age of the victim, though. You're creating a false equivalence, and you're even stating this yourself at the last paragraph, so why even talk about these things?
But the name changed to reflect the broader focus. It's not just that anymore.
"Doing away with" means "getting rid of" or "stopping". Is that how you're using the term?

I think you're right though. British people have a complicated relationship with surveillance. Mass government surveillance is mostly seen as okay so long as there are some checks and balances. CCTVs (and most UK CCTV is privately owned and run) are mostly seen as ok so long as there are some regulations around how it's used. But police surveillance does make some people feel uncomfortable.
...sub-human employees? What?
I would still maintain that the parent is correct and there is a large quantity of talented developers in SV who have never worked at FB/Google/MS/etc.

I know quite a few of them (and would like to believe I'm talented, too).
List of Every Time Someone Lost Control of Their Nukes
Hum, this had escalated quickly, with all the fake news and duck hunting and the strange patterns seen in the last months about how we need a better name for gimp, for moral reasons none less, how great is that apple has now an equivalent to 'festival' and other small strange things.

Open source is in a really complicated moment for its survival. Is like we would had arrived to a sort ot 'extinguish and replace' phase.
I was thinking the same thing, though maybe QUIC doesn't send acknowledgements on every packet?

I think you get this information for free as part of TCP.
Parse was a startup also offering an easier way to build a backend as SaaS. But then Facebook bought them and shut down the product, and all that remains is the open-source clone of the server that they were kind enough to make.
That’s the difference between a data structures and algorithms class versus a systems class: in the former the constant in front of the Big O doesn’t matter while in the matter it does. Any good CS curriculum would have both courses.
Skidmap Linux Malware Uses Rootkit to Hide Cryptocurrency-Mining Payload
At this point, I would add Docker (without Kubernetes) to the "boring" technologies that simplify your life. Having managed my own "server farm" of 20 machines on hetzner, with a very small startup, I found that abstracting away the underlying OS removed a lot of friction.
I’m going to give Pi-Hole a try at home. Seems like there are guides for dns crypt to be enabled with it.

Wish it was bundled with the official build though.
I've never heard of the Google stigma ... I googled it to no avail. More info pls?
iPhone 11 Greatly Exceeds Pre-Sale Expectations in China
33 Estonian technology companies signed a Green Pledge
Obviously invading A country is a bad thing and Afghanistan, Iraq, Yemen, Grenada and Panama agree. However the Russians attacked to gain access to crimea without which Russia’s navy would be enclosed. As NATO expanded and surrounded Russian I’m 100% sure the question of would Russia do nothing while NATO encircles was raised, someone played dumb. Of course in a fair world Ukraine can choose to align itself with anyone and do as it choses with its land.

In practice the powerful flex when they need
That's like asking the self-driving car engineer about the answer to trolley problems.

The correct strategy is not to get into those situations in the first place.
Slightly off-topic, but for anyone who hasn't encountered them: using continued fractions (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continued_fraction#Best_ration...), you can easily get the sequence of optimal approximations - where "optimal" means "better than anything else with a smaller denominator".

(e.g. pi -> 3, 22/7, 333/106, 355/113, ...)

This paper is about a different situation (Duffin-Schaeffer), where you don't just want the minimum denominator, but instead have more structured/custom constraints for whether a approximation passes/fails, based on the denominator.
JavaScript Event Loop – Why So Serious by Tapas Adhikary
The speed of sound is not a constant; in a gas, it increases as the absolute temperature increases, and since atmospheric temperature generally decreases with increasing altitude between sea level and 11,000 meters (36,089 ft), the speed of sound also decreases. For example, the standard atmosphere model lapses temperature to −56.5 °C (−69.7 °F) at 11,000 meters (36,089 ft) altitude, with a corresponding speed of sound (Mach 1) of 295.0 meters per second (967.8 ft/s), 86.7% of the sea level value. [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mach_number