skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hmm... There's this big, great, 'perfect', heavyweight graph query language (GQL) that is on process of standardized while an alternative (GraphQL) language is more readable (much more lightweight syntax IMO), has gained much more traction, etc...

While GQL and GraphQL's target is different(one is for interacting with Graph DBs while the other one is interacting with backends), there is a lot of overlap ongoing, and I just can't erase the feeling of the overlap between XML & JSON (where while XML was more 'perfect', JSON won the war).

Edit: Ok, GraphQL is insufficient for GraphDB Querying. Thanks for everyone's clarification.
> According to currying, 'a -> 'b -> 'c is interchangeable with 'a * 'b -> 'c. (The fancy math word for this interchangeability is "isomorphism.")

I thought isomorphism was when a function was reversible. I didn't think it had anything to do with currying.
The first year it seems great. The real issue is 10 years down the road when people are using 5G and giving up their internet connections, who is left paying for the infrastructure and the union jobs?
I'd say .arpa
anything less than 6-7,000 people is a village.
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This is different. Agile and waterfall seem to be defined over the lifetime of a product. Iterating the concept over several products while doing waterfall on each design sounds like a combination of waterfall and agile. I'll be clever and call this transmogrification "agilefall"
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It's actually a fantastic business model if you care more about profits than ethics, and it seems like Facebook wants a piece of the living room surveillance pie that Smart TVs/Alexa/Google Nest have been enjoying these last few years. It's a shrewd business move on Facebook's part; think of the things people discuss and do in their living rooms and the additional data they will end up giving Facebook.
I live in rural Thailand, near the border with Myanmar and we pay about 18 EUR for 60 Mbps download, 25 Mbps upload speed.
This is also a good way to build airplanes and bridges.
I like the brake pedal analogy. It's not perfect, but it makes the point well. To add insult to injury, when the driver flipped a cut-out switch to disable the cruise control, the brakes were useless, the manual brake adjustment lever failed, and the only documented procedure to fix them at that point (for that model plane, err, car) was to turn cruise control back on.
Question then, would you say that the French had cultural imperialism when most geopolitical issues were conducted in French just a few hundred years ago? Or how about the Latin stranglehold on science and medicine? Why should english, german or polish speakers learn the Latin terms for dick all anything since it's practically a dead language. Who actually speaks Latin without being ironic? Or Italian was forced down every composer threats back in Mozart's day if they wanted to do an opera. Are those too forms of cultural imperialism?

My main point, dont pretend 'cultural imperialism' was invented by the Anglo saxons. Dont give them too much credit. Their egos are inflated as much as it is. All of history had a dominate 'culture'. I think the major difference to this shift to English is the fact the language is so damn easy and efficient compared to others. Maybe not as eloquent. But when it comes to information transfer, English is by far one of the best languages. Maybe that's why its inherently popular? I mean, in Polish, the word for the number 2 can be conjugated 50 some odd ways. Some intelligent anglo in history looked at other languages that conjugate like crazy and said it's fucking stupid. Obviously I'm being slightly hyperbolic. Only slightly.

Plus, the English culture is one where being upfront and abrupt is alright. Makes business real damn easy. It's a very "get to the goddamn point so I can go drink whiskey early" type of culture.

So yea, as a dirty slav, English is champ right now for very good technical reasons.
I was running the website you've linked to (noerror.org) with a friend, and I have met Taktik.

He is listed under his real name (Eduard Mueller) here in 2004 on the ableton website:

https://web.archive.org/web/20040816022620fw_/http://www.abl...

https://web.archive.org/web/20040914164146/http://www.ableto...
>When a small bandwidth of unauthenticated requests can disable a critical service, that is known as a denial of service vulnerability and not a security mechanism.

But what's your threat model here? Some attacker who's targeting you that somehow got your randomly assigned username but not your password? Or someone hitting every account number for "the lulz"? In the first case, it can be resolved with a 10 minute call to the bank to get your username changed (although you have bigger issues if your attacker was able to get sensitive information such as your banking username). In the second case, the attacker will get ip banned/rate limited very quickly.

>If you know someone pulls their transactions every 15 minutes, say (especially a business, which might even leak the time they pull transactions by sending payment receipts in response, for example), then you might very reliably be able to make 8 guesses per hour,

Sounds like a very non typical use case. Most businesses I know pull transactions end/start of day. Considering most/all banking transactions (ie. not done through a third party platform like venmo) are done daily, this isn't surprising. Even then, this exploit only works if there isn't a persistent login fail counter. Getting a password wrong twice before getting it right is ususal a couple times a day. Doing that 10+ times a day is definitely suspicious.

>Who seriously believes that banks will give you your money back on your word that you didn't authorize some transaction? Of course, they won't, they'd be wide open to fraud if they did.

AFAIK they're obligated by law.
I cannot believe ANY banks are using passwords at all in this day and age. Reading discussions like this makes my brain hurt - even a decade and a half back we were on chip and pin card readers for login/signing verification, now since a long time back there's a universal app-based 2fa equivalent (Mobile BankID).
That's not the case for "my bank(s)" but all banks here.

I wonder what makes the US/UK/AUS so special? It's all incredibly alien.
Nice. Even better, use it as the name of a company hawking snake-oil methodology consulting.
If the contract states that you are responsible for payments until you cancel the contract, then the failed payments would (could?) simply result in your debt being sent to a collection agency. Defaulting on a payment isn't always a good way to end a contract.
Sigh, guess its time to move to CO. If it means getting away from spectrum its worth uprooting my life.
/s ... maybe

But really the inconsistent speeds provided by cable companies, crazy pricing structure that often include things such as bundling a land line that I will never use and the clear area specific monopolies they run are outrageous. If ever an industry needed to be investigated for price fixing and running monopolies its the cable industry.
Does BT include a huge TV package with set top boxes (fees), premium movie channels (HBO etc.), a modem\router (fee), internet, voip, and likely a handset fee?

That’s the only way it would get to $230. I’ve paid between $70-$115 for symmetrical gigabit and that’s the most expensive you can buy. A £45 plan might be 100mpbs down and maybe 10 up.

From BT’s website:
>ULTRAFAST FIBRE PLUS £54.99

Average speed 145Mb

Speed guarantee of at least 100Mb

£54.99 is actually a worse plan that what AT&T offers. I can get 1gbps up/down for $70.
I don't know much about graph databases but there is a whole branch of mathematics called algebraic graph theory [1] which allows for the treatment of graphs algebraically. I took intro graph theory in second year so I have only seen combinatorial approaches but from what I gather it's a pretty powerful field.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algebraic_graph_theory
Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I think "human trafficking" isn't used correctly in the article? Human trafficking is the trade of humans. Coyotes don't do that, they just help people get from one place to the other.

A better term would be people smuggling.
> But it’s time to change something that made sense a long time ago...

Gun ownership, electoral college, for profit prisons (slavery), etc.
Those are all things that made some sense back in the past but still exist.
I loathe video for learning.

And most of the time when I'm web browsing, I do not want anything with sound.
Yes -- put more clearly, it's not possible in the relational calculus to fetch the number of degrees of separation between two actors.
It doesn't have a floating point processor so it would not do FLOPS very efficiently compared to modern machines.

In that era the power to performance ratio was not as critical since the clock speed of this device was typically sub 12MHz. (yes that is 12,000,000 Hz) Power losses are quite a bit less than at 1.2GHz
>You can completely disable the camera and microphone on Portal with a single tap or with a sliding switch. A red light next to the lens indicates the camera and microphone are off.

I think a hardware breakdown video would go a long way. For example, an engineer showing that the kill switches actually work correctly.

Either way, I hope somebody vets this.
> while an alternative (GraphQL) language is more readable

It's also entirely insufficient. GraphQL is nice to query APIs but almost pointless to query databases unless you map an entire DSL on top of it.
Isn't 1TB / month fairly average for heavy users? AFAIK many US data caps are at 1 TB. At 30 TB I'd say it is "literally unlimited".
SPARQL is for RDF data, which not every graph database conforms to.
Their salary depends on it. It's amazing what you can make someone do if you threaten their family with destitution.
I don't worry so much about cameras but about microphones. Is the microphone off button physically disconnecting the mike wires so it can't be software-enabled?
This sentiment that there's something wrong with promoting one's work is just bizarre.

It's even more bizarre in the context of an article that discusses how to make a living as an author.
I didn't mean that there's been no changes to office. Rather that office hasn't kept up with the modern habits.

Office is a world when vector graphics are in EPS, people don't want to re use diagrams in web pages, and app stores aren't mainstream.

Office having adopted tabbed toolbars in 2007 doesn't change that.
Without the exclusivity agreement, it sounds like you wouldn’t have been reconnected. A community provider probably wouldn’t allocate 70k in capital to bring 3 (potential) customers online.

So you’re benefitting by the subsidy of users in denser areas being forced into exclusivity.
Longmont, just south of Fort Collins, was the first city in Colorado to build out a municipal ISP, and it’s inspired surrounding cities to do the same. It’s where I live and it was a not-insignificant reason why I chose to move here. So far it has been a resounding success for the city. The buildout completed on time and adoption rates are higher than initially expected (the city planned for 37% but the last number I saw was around 54%). In my experience, the service has been so good as to be totally invisible. And I know my $50/mo rate will never rise. I wish Fort Collins the same experience. The fact that they both cities have municipal electric service will help this significantly.
As someone in the same boat as you, it does seem like Portal webpage is directly acknowledging this sentiment and addressing them[0].

Whether or not this page can be trusted, we'll have to see what people find out (I sure ain't going to pay for it to do that myself).

[0]: https://portal.facebook.com/privacy/
This doesn't completely solve the problem, but the top 100k domains on Alexa will be reserved for those domain owners (ex microsoft.com can claim microsoft, google.com Google, etc).
Alternatively, pay a fixed monthly fee which gets distributed among production sources depending on what you watched. Cut out the middleman of Netflix, Amazon etc.

Could work with the rest of the internet too. Instead of relying on advertisements for revenue, you would pay a monthly fee which would get distributed among the websites you used. Aaaand we reinvented the Brave browser model...
This is pure flame war bait and not likely to lead to any sort of constructive or useful conversation here.
except the last part of "edit it on mobile", you can achieve it with https://extracttable.com

Feel free to direct any questions to brain@extracttable.com
Agile works OK for electronics. I have done it.

With quick-turn fab houses, you can do two-week sprints in hardware. You can fix up the circuit with X-acto/bluewire changes, and roll the fixes into the next sprint. Or you can make individual subsystems per sprint.

And with firmware, most software methodologies work with minor changes.

Usually you can get something working in the first sprint, and iterate from there.
The value is giving FB video stream data to analyze and monetize.
> they want to spend time self-learning skills but that skill doesn't guarantee income.

Some people just enjoy learning new things. Not everything needs to be a grab for more income.
If you need to know, you are not the target audience. I don't have a clue either. So I am joining your club.
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> In all seriousness: what the actual fuck does Richard Stallman's opinion on what does or doesn't constitute rape matter? Why would he think that was a point that needed his quibbling? Maybe that's the judgement under question.

I mean he didn't just jump in with it out of nowhere. Discussion had already been started, and someone brought up both her age and the location, and declared it as therefore rape (__rape__, with emphasis). This communication was directed at RMS himself, as a rebuttal (bordering on dismissal) to his stance; RMS responded to it, each point in turn.
I know there probably won't be much actual discussion on anything but privacy concerns here on HN (don't get me wrong, it's an important discussion to have, but it tends to push out literally everything else), but I did want to point out that this quote from the article is nice to see:

>We’ve done what we can in this latest generation of products, now with integrated camera covers that are hardware, indicator lights when the microphone is off, and form factors that are less obtrusive and blend more into the background of the home.

I actually really like the idea of a dedicated camera device for communicating with family and friends who aren't nearby. And I've been looking for something that lets us do things like play couch-coop games, watch movies, and just in general act like we are together while not physically being together.

For example, some of my closest friends and a bunch of my family are across the country from me. I've played DnD over video chat, i've watched birthday parties from a phone, i've tried to do the thing where we do a voice call over some service then try to start a streaming service like netflix at the same time so we can watch it together. All those options suck in their own way, from poor-quality mics, feedback, connection issues, needing to hold a phone or device or somehow prop it up, and taking up a device which you might otherwise want to use while with those people.

Granted the Portal looks like it won't get very far without buy-in from companies like Netflix and other streaming services (although that whole ecosystem is so fragmented now and it's only getting worse that i'm not sure my hope will ever actually come true). And without the ability to really integrate with games outside of the facebook ecosystem this is going to be a non-starter for couch-coop as well in most cases.

I really like the idea, but Facebook isn't going to be able to build a better Netflix and a better game console AND be the only one doing video chat with those products. They have the chat/messaging side, but IMO that's not enough to really pull me toward this ecosystem, and I've been looking for something just like this for a long time now. Unfortunately, walled gardens are probably going to kill this just like they've killed countless other things.
There is insinuation in the post that minorities have some sort of blank cheque to have their PRs accepted because of the Contributor Code of Conduct.

But in the Contributor Code of Conduct I do not see such wording. In effect, the CoC says "please be nice to each other".

Am I missing something?
Check your passport, it's the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

"The medieval conquest and subsequent annexation of Wales by the Kingdom of England, followed by the union between England and Scotland in 1707 to form the Kingdom of Great Britain, and the union in 1801 of Great Britain with the Kingdom of Ireland created the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom
In Sweden at least "non payment" is not a valid way to cancel a service. You could end up with late fees and debt-collectors after you instead.
Fascinating. The worst thing about agile I feel is the stand-up meeting. It encourages people just to say stuff and posture as being busy. I feel it encourages the worst part about agile -- that input (work) is more important than results (a working product).
Kudos for "quarter of the bugs" and not "no bugs", seems like a great and honest developer.
We did that for parts of the system, but that mirroring also needed to be implemented and tested. So most modules we straight out replaced once the new versions were done.
Super broad question here but how do you guys do it? I mean, how do you go from knowing how to build a basic webpage to knowing that you need e.g. Elasticsearch for search queries. It seems like there is so much specialized tech to learn but no obvious learning progression path.
Well 6, SpiderMan was released and financed by Sony but Disney did all of the writing and producing. Sony's last two Spiderman movies before they did a deal with Disney were a flop.
Seems like a consumer-friendly version of Zoom or Google Meet (if the quality is as good as those solutions). I remember how difficult it was for the office administrator to set up our Zoom hardware. Perhaps this is a much friendlier version?
The problem is that everyone is paying for it, especially given the way property taxes typically work.
Honestly, being expatriated, I can kind of see the value in this - unfortunately I doubt the people I actually want to communicate with regularly will be adopters of this. The tech savvy being too untrusting of it, and the unsavvy not sure what $150 buys them over tools like Skype.
I beg to differ. I don't know that I'd rate it as one of the greatest works of all time--in the European/American world, there's what, three thousand years of recorded literature? However, I would have no trouble finding widely read folks who think very highly of it.
I agree with you that any topic should be able to be discussed, but I think a modicum of forethought and perhaps a higher level of self-discipline should be employed when discussing sensitive topics such as pedophilia, because these subjects don't exist in a vacuum. RMS gave no real provable basis for his statement- he was just vomiting a baseless opinion, which he has every right to do. People, in turn, have every right to call his opinion callous and stupid. To his credit, he did reportedly change his view after enough people explained to him why children could not be expected to hold the responsibility of consenting to sex with an adult.
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I wonder if they don't and instead compete on customer service? No idea if that's how it works, but that would be a great change of pace.
Amazon's Alexa has actually been quite successful.
I don't think you understand how limited 5G is. The range is basically the same has your home WiFi router. Without a fiber infrastructure to back it, 5G is nothing. If the city is no longer able to sell direct internet, then it will just sell/rent the infrastructure to whatever to 5G provider there is.
>IIRC there's also video reportage about it to be found...

The VICE piece is here:

How to Become TripAdvisor’s #1 Fake Restaurant

The Shed at Dulwich was the number one rated restaurant in London, with foodies, celebrities and bloggers trying to get a table. The main obstacle for them, however, was that it didn't exist. Over the course of 8 months VICE's Oobah Butler used an assault of fake reviews to get his 'restaurant' to the hallowed top spot on TripAdvisor.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqPARIKHbN8
It means there are two functions going between them that witness the isomorphism.

The witnesses in Haskell are the higher-order functions (they transform functions) `{,un}curry`:

curry :: ((a, b) -> c) -> (a -> b -> c)
uncurry :: (a -> b -> c) -> ((a, b) -> c)
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Andrei Makhine and Milan Kundera write in French, no?
Yes, but I have a healthy family and the shittiest, pay nothing insurance would cost $1700 a month and growing. That's more than I pay for my mortgage. So it's true I could buy insurance if I wanted, but it's financially crippling and you get almost nothing for it.

It's a complete and utter scam.

Bernie Sanders recently asked people on Twitter what their most absurd medical bills were and the response was enlightening as to the current health care status in the US:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucelee/2019/09/17/bernie-sand...
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I can't find the article, but the "Facebook Showerhead" and "Facebook TV" were both joke products back in the early '10s. This is hilariously predictable.
> The Portal TV is genius

No.
People who would by an Alexa show and still watch normal TV. So, my parents for example. Though an interesting thing has happened. Event though this is very similar to Google or Alexa devices with cameras, I'd bet money on my parents having a similar "how about no" reaction to any Facebook hardware. They are Facebook users, but I think there is a lot more inherent scepticism around Facebook that has been growing over the past year. Maybe, if this came out before the show, it would have been the other way around. I'm in Germany btw.

I'm definitely not the target. The two features here (TV and video chat) are completely opposite to my needs. I want a dumb (relatively) box to which I can hook up my Netflixes and Prime Videos etc. and view them without any ads in the UI (looking at you, scum of the earth Smart TV manufacturers). Apple TV, Roku or whatever. The hardware that is, not their respective services.
I suppose it avoids awkward politics. It's not clear to me, at least, which country would get to control the former Czechoslovakia TLD.
from my understanding its a suite of products. One sits on your tv like roku but has a camera to let you get the experience of hanging out with friends digitally / AR etc... The others with screens seem like just regular tablets to me but probably with less features.
Gun ownership still makes sense.
Sko Buffs!

But also Fort Collins has a lot of beer production, so they are ok in my book. It’s still not Boulder though...
Somehow it worked fine with everything under one roof for low price, until Netflix streaming contracts expired. Something tells me that the change has nothing to do with true costs, and everything to do with an attempt to extract more short-term profit from the IP, regardless of the ultimate damage it will cause to streaming space.
Somebody, probably Trollope (employed by the Royal Mail during most of his writing career) quoted Sir Walter Scott as saying that literature is a good staff but a bad crutch.