skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While I generally agree with this advice, it only works when the person saying "no" is acting as a balance to others who are too enthusiastic/pushy. If everyone starts off by saying no then there will again be no room for discussion, and no progress.

A good team environment consists of people of many different personality types, and this is one of them. Implying that those who always say "yes", try out new ideas, take risks etc. are bad engineers is wrong.
Go to this website:

https://europa.eu/

This is the official EU website.

EVERYONE is being trained to click I accept.

And then they do a nonauthenticated javascript scrip insert into a secure page ON THEIR HOMEPAGE. You gotta love it.

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://ec.europa.eu/wel/surveys/wr_survey01/wr_survey.js"></script>

What would provide users some actual security is if their browser would block this unauthenticated insert of javascript if its in a secure page. In other words, DON'T trust the website to do the right thing, just take control at the browser level.
Car2go was also running into the wild-westness of America. Like this story about 75 car2go cars being stolen in a single day in Chicago. [1] I imagine things like NYC bumper-to-bumper damage adds up as well. Comparatively it's very calm in other markets like Germany and Denmark.

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[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20434719
I saw this on the elm subreddit the other day and thought it was a neat hack. Seems to have been moderated in the meantime. :/

https://www.reddit.com/r/elm/comments/e9y9ia/subverting_elm_...
Here's a plain English explanation from Joel Spolsky: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2016/12/09/developers-side-pr...
it is an oil and _an_ alcohol, which is a wide class of molecules. it's not a kind of ethanol. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sterol
Here is Washington state you are allowed (in fact encouraged) to visit the counting center during tabulation. This is addition to designated observers from each party that is allowed to monitor tabulations.

Voters don't even have to leave home to monitor the elections, cameras are connected to the internet to show the counting process to any voter.
> their cost to value ratio gets less dire

Yes I'm sure it sometimes pays off and sometimes doesn't.

But it doesn't deserve a mocking 'somehow.'
Oxford has astroturfing too: https://www.oed.com/view/Entry/325483?rskey=aidQ7O&result=2&...

Shilling does have a NorthAmerican connotation: https://www.oed.com/view/Entry/178128?rskey=UvAWn2&result=4#...
> Disabling location tracking in FB should also disable this on the FB server side.

Facebook is free to do with their servers as they please. Don't like it? Don't use it. I don't.
>A bunch of companies think that's somehow better to have that than to hire people to support general-use distributions.

I work for a Fortune 50 and we're one of those companies that made that decision. Having someone to call when things go south is worth every penny. It's not that you can't hire completely competent people to deal with any issue, it's just outsourcing the staffing and expertise needed to do it globally is IMHO cheaper. Even if you have a large company you're still probably gonna have a kernel guy and a filesystem guy and some CEPH guys who are all familiar with the code base. Redhat has a phalanx of people in their employ both contributing code to upstream projects and backporting features to their version of Linux. There's a whole room of kernel guys, filesystem guys, etc, etc, etc. Hiring and keeping that bench of talent happy is someone else's problem when you buy Redhat.

>I've had quite a bit of experience with Debian and Debian-derived distributions, a little experience with CentOS 8. I heavily disapprove of CentOS based on this experience and see it as not just restrictive, but also kind of flaky and shaky.

CentOS 8 may be "flaky and shaky", dunno... haven't used it. But RHEL 5, 6, and 7 have been rock solid in my experience. If anything Redhat was too conservative and I was delighted to see Redhat adopt a different and much more aggressive patch and update lifecycle for RHEL 8. But moving faster does sometimes break things as the mantra for HN will tell you.
I'm not a big fan of NSA surveillance, but given that you acknowledge this case is activism, it's concerning to me that the nonprofit built to sustain the allegedly unbiased encyclopedia Wikipedia is moving in the direction of political activism.

Poor stewardship of Wikipedia is a far greater threat to democracy than what the NSA is doing, in my opinion. Wikipedia is literally writing the history book of the modern age, and the amount of power their administrators have over public thought cannot be underestimated enough. Sure, it's largely written by the "users", but an insulated class of administrators and super users largely decide which characterizations get to stay and which get removed.

No doubt there are going to be abuses of power at Wikipedia, but activism like this makes it clear that Wikipedia has a bias, and the mandate is coming from the top down. Again, I don't think the activism itself is problematic but precisely who is doing it is the problem.
The US Government uses a lot of Red Hat. Every thread on every blade of every DoD HPC machine under the HPCMP program. Pretty sure a bunch of the DoE systems as well. I'd look at it as a national security investment: whether you agree with it from a business or engineering perspective, the US Government pretty much runs on contracts with vendors. In that version of reality you need an OS, and ideally you want a US-based OS vendor who will sign an SLA. Ubuntu is in the UK, so enjoys the US-UK special relationship, but still not "made in the USA".
It's also free of details, apparently. But this sentence seems key: "three new and different proprietary materials, which have never before been recorded as being combined in a battery" - that has "we're waiting for patents to be granted" written all over it.
This.

I worked at a defense contractor who was wondering what the next platform was going to be since parisc/hpux was our platform.

We were working with red hat and a bunch of us low level code group had a week long class at redhat on Linux kernal internals) it was excellent, and they higher ups got a happy feeling for the support they offered.

The project was delayed and I ended up leaving that company.

They told us in the class the open secret that centos is basically red hat
When you could get one, having a SmartCar was the cat’s pajamas in a city. I heard they worked well in DC for awhile too.
The site you're looking at offers a variety of different WebAuthn flows. I linked the one that behaves how you described, requiring a PIN (and yes it requires the PIN to log in) but now you've found and linked a different flow that doesn't require PINs and sure enough it doesn't require PINs.

I guess you could say the site is badly labelled. The true FIDO2 flow that I linked you to above is labelled usernameless rather than passwordless.

The flow they've called passwordless works with an ordinary FIDO key it doesn't need FIDO2. Because it simply doesn't have a password. Passwordless. Simple.
Or the security team agrees that the benefit to the 99.9% of macOS users (that have no idea Terminal exists and accepts drag and drop) is worth the additional risk to the 0.1% who use this.
Exactly, I’ve found RedHat (and CentOS)‘s security patching for be very well tested and packages are often provided with far more sane and safer defaults than say Ubuntu. Additionally SELinux with RHEL/CentOS has excellent coverage and tooling, if you want to harden your servers it’s a good platform.
I just wish they'd died soon enough to take systemd and wayland down with them; it doesn't look like that's going to happen.
Amazon Announces Facility for Project Kuiper Internet Satellites
Gamedev is full of interesting problems. The industry scares me because of a few friends. Fun to hack on, on the side and I’m jealous of the story and mystery this team got to chew on for a while. I know it’s hard but still jealous of these gems.
I like this explanation:

"First, what was NOT said. Obi Wan did NOT say, "There are no absolutes." And, he did NOT say only a Sith believes in absolutes.

Second, what he DOES say is "Only a Sith DEALS in absolutes." Dealing in absolutes has more to do with the unilateral nature of the correspondence. Once you make unilateral proposals, you aren't negotiating, you aren't even really "dealing" at all. Instead, you're dominating the other party/person.

Third, think of the context. Anakin is saying things like you're either with him or against him. Not, "let me hear what you think" or "give me your perspective on this matter." He's dealing in an absolute manner.

It's not a contradiction to say Only a Sith deals in absolutes. Making an absolute statement such as "There are no absolutes" would, however, be a contradiction."
Spamelopes
Fascinating! That could explain why he gave Simon the name "Peter" (Stone), and references like "The stone which the builders rejected has become the chief cornerstone" (Matthew 21:42, quoting Psalm 118:22.)
Right, but the problem is it's VERY expensive to change the amount of infrastructure. Widening roads is expensive, sometimes impossible. Parking lots can't be resized later. When you put down a grid of streets you can't just readjust that grid later.

Pittsburgh is one of the cities mentioned as obese. Homes are cheap, the cost of living is cheap, and generally I find it a pleasant place to live. Owning a home is a possibility, even relatively easy for the middle class, without major sacrifices/crushing debt. The public schools are pretty good, crime is relatively low, libraries are pretty good, there's quite a variety in bars, restaurants, concerts, etc.

Currently I live in California where the rent is sky high, and it makes me generally sad. People who don't focus on making money are generally ejected from the communities because they can't afford to stay. Similarly businesses that don't have high profit margins or at least really pack in the customers generally die pretty quickly.

In Pittsburgh you get tons of small businesses, often have an acre or two of land (usually from the road back to the treeline) and it's easy for them to break even because the rent is so low. Wander into a hardware store and the person has been working there for 10 years, actually understands what he sells, and can break even on a few customers an hour.

Contrary to the story, my non-obese city (with no parking, high rents, a shortage of houses, high traffic) requires more driving than the obese Pittsburgh. The main issue is that low margin businesses can't afford to be here. People that make $10 an hour can't afford to live here. The public transportation is still terrible. So Costco ... drive to a different city. Windshield repair... different city. Buy a pair of socks... different city. If you have an entry level job in any profession... you have to live elsewhere and generally drive to work. To make matters worse that entry level job ends up paying a fair amount just to park.
i'm waiting for AI to pass that test https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NCw83LVWFo&feature=youtu.be...
It wasn't winding stuff down. Marissa Meyer was tasked with spinning off the website business and protecting the Ali Baba holding for investors.

Meyer did her job exactly as she was supposed to, and this criticism placed on her ignores that.
View the original declined drafts here -

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Draft:Apache_Arro...

Geez if you want to use Wikipedia as an ad, put a bit of effort in, when did marketing become so lazy and blame the platform.

Although this meta ad is possibly a far better payoff.
Can you compare these to https://github.com/TimelyDataflow/timely-dataflow ?

It seems Spark is rolling on inertia more than being a modular system for low-latency cluster computing.
Did switching to Red Hat Linux resolve your problems?
I wanted a diagram or GIF. I get the idea, but boy, it would have helped if wiki had some media.
Used in finance for sure.

And the reason is the extensive (and expensive) paid support. It acts as an insurance for these businesses that are all about risk management.
Pushing back and managing expectations is an important part of company politics anywhere in the world. Otherwise you're going to end up disappointing your client when you fail to deliver what you enthusiastically agreed to.
Is the article title accurate? What's an accurate and neutral title?

It obviously needs to be changed, but I'm not sure what to change it to.
They used those in Montreal, and yeah, they were not effective on even freshly plowed roads.
I seriously doubt there will be the manpower to keep pushing those projects once the money dries up. They are not intrinsically interesting and their implementation leaves a lot to be desired of.

There will be yet another huge mess left for the distros to deal with then things will be back to normal in two or three years with everyone remembering why the Unix philosophy is important and that 'this time it isn't different'.
They have their own IOT platform they are working on called WebThings. I took it for a spin and it is pretty cool, although it still had some rough edges last I looked.

The gateway runs on an RPI and they give you a URL so you can access it from anywhere.

I'm surprised it hasn't got more attention here.
I hope Twilio (and other companies) are reading.

One bad experience can turn many engineers away from your recruiting pipeline.
And the same guy submitted it here 3 times. Also overtly promotional.

riboflavin, genuine suggestion: ask one of the PMC members or committers to rewrite the article from scratch from an engineer's perspective, source everything, demonstrate notability, and resubmit. If they still don't take it, move on with your life. ... but you might have generated a lot of ill-will with the Wikipedia elites here already.
Here are the factors that come to mind regarding the popularity of vape pens.

1) Availability Bias - The weed pen can be on your desk or in your pocket. Coca Cola exploits this human misjudgement, and that's why you can have Coca cola all around the world. The takeaway is that you're more likely to consume because it is there.

2) Mobility - It's mobile, unlike a bong. Get high right before your favorite song at a concert. Whip out the vape pen.

3) Stealth A) (Form Factor) - I think these are becoming popular with teenagers primarily because, if a teenager wants to smoke in their parents house, and avoid detection from their parents, a vape pen is less obvious. The pen is objectively easier to hide than a flower setup.

B) (Stench) Vape pens don't smell as much. I've seen signs on businesses refusing service due to the marijuana stench on customers. People even smoke vapes in public and it's indistinguishable from vaping tobacco unless closely inspected or smelled. (The smell from vape pens exists, it's less noticeable than flower.)

4) Convenience - The steps to smoke a vape pen (push of a button and inhale) are simpler than the process of smoking out of a bong. We're dealing with stoners here! (Not all stoners are lazy, but many stereotypes are loosely based on truths.)
I don't know if Australian's are genuinely allergic to nuclear power. Some people make a lot of noise about it, but some people make a lot of noise about wind too.

And it's unlikely we will ever find out, because it's so expensive compared to the alternatives. If nuclear had of delivered on its promise of "too cheap to meter", my bet is the things would be all over the planet like a rash how - rather like wind turbines are today, squawking nimby's be damned.
In addition to the other comments, Red Hat (and SUSE, Oracle Linux UEK) have cemented partnerships with many hardware providers like Dell, HP, Broadcom, Emulex and similar. New hardware kernel module needs are routinely backported to their production stable kernels (low risk to adopt), and in reverse many of these companies only make tooling which works on these distros. Ubuntu / Debian do not have that kind of support - it's a gamble; Red Hat is not a gamble for the Enterprise, this even extends up the stack into Oracle DBA, SAP Solutions (HANA etc.) and other large Enterprise ecosystems.
As is well known, a child learning language will often initially assume that rules/patterns are more regular that they actually are.
PLATO, Graphics, Time-sharing in 1960s
If only that were true. Read some search warrant application affidavits sometime. Especially technical ones.
Could you give a use case?
I think Google needs to explicitly spin out a Google Product company that is customer focused and develops/maintains/supports platforms and applications.

Honestly, and I'm more of a Google side-eyer than a hater, but I'm not sure they're capable of this, it's just not in their DNA. I've been saying "Google is bad at product" for a long time, like a "high PR" long time, and this mindset has been greeted with continual killoffs and usability stumbles (current Android is kind of a mess UI-wise, e.g.).

I simply don't think they're capable of putting a division together that could be relied upon. Heck, Alphabet might simply kill that off after a few years!
Another "settlement" that's scaled more like a sales tax.
Trying it on Chrome, it works as you say. On Firefox it just failed to auth, I assumed it was because my Yubikey lacked onboard storage for storing the user details but it looks like it's because of the lack of PIN support. Thanks.
You are so clueless and off the mark I wonder if you're trolling or are some teenager that watching a lot of entrepreneur videos.

A dollar saved is a dollar earned. AWS is a terrible choice unless you have a huge amount of free credit. Also, an income of $4000/mo puts you into the average American household income bracket. Why would you throw away 25% of that on infrastructure to save 2 hours on the front end?

Not every startup needs to be the next Instagram. There are tons of people out there happy with their small and medium sized SAAS companies which have allowed them to leave the rat race.
Exactly... The big reasons I've seen people using Red Hat is because most of the core Linux developers either currently work at Red Hat or have worked at Red Hat. So when serious complex issues arise (like in kernel drivers), the support is there and these issues get fixed. These same customers might have been using HP-UX, AIX or Solaris previously and have migrated to Red Hat because of the great support.
Sad to see this but to note out some recent things in the carsharing industry:

- Tiny EV carsharing companies like Bollorè are parterning with US cities like Los Angeles: https://www.eenews.net/stories/1061603873 , I'm guessing between the cheap small EV, city partnership, they're trying to optimize for nearer term profitability & business sustainability.

- On the opposite end, Lyft piloting rentals in SF: https://blog.lyft.com/posts/introducing-lyft-rentals
What about throwing a small speaker through the window that blasts out “Alexa, unlock front door ... Siri, unlock front door” ? (I’m no criminal mastermind, but just a random thought)
This article was struck for not meeting the notability criteria, which involves citing reliable sources that make a straightforward claim of notability. It's not a perfectly good article.
Some companies are just too big to jail:

> top Justice Department officials, led by then-Attorney General Eric Holder, ignored an internal recommendation to criminally prosecute HSBC four years ago because they worried that criminal penalties might send shock waves throughout the global financial system.

Oh, wait...
His name was Gautama Adicca.
If what you want is inflation... why not just inflate the money supply more directly? What's the point of trying to do so through the tax system?
So its not supported by the canonical text makes it mythic. Ok, I get it now. Apocryphal.
Is this a postmortem postmortem?
This reminds me of q/kdb's limits[1]:

8 maximum parameters on a function
96 maximum constants
32 max globals
24 max locals

The self flagellating q developer will enjoy these limits under the guise of good coding practice enforcement (if you have more than 24 variables in your function, you should split your function up)

1: Table of Limit Errors at http://www.timestored.com/kdb-guides/kdb-database-limits#con...
People value those things. They also have to eat.

"money talks"
It was unsuspended, as noted in a comment by the original post author:

> Apparently they have considered my account as high risk (fraud), and they just suspended without warning after so many years of using their service. I was using debit visa, guess that's their stand for risky account eventhou the payment went through with advanced credit. I have to get in touch with their agent for more than 3 times, waiting for their email but every time was a letter of rejection with a default template and can't even reply. Finally I get to speak to one of the agent and bulldoze all the way to their risk management team and finally got it through. What an experience....
It's definitely nothing compared to Infosys cash flows as a whole; I'm only on the fence because I'm not sure how large it is relative to the profits of this specific scheme.
How about "Red Hat's Cloud Forms is migrating into an IBM Cloud Pak"?
You did say

> So you have this awful culture where everyone views themselves as this unbelievably valuable "alpha dog"

In my experience this may be true of upper management, but it simply isn't true of most employees.
I'm bracing for the deprecation of the name "Red Hat" entirely; thanks to Drumpf, red hats are now considered hate speech at a minimum and potentially criminal intimidation. Adopting a hate symbol for your name and logo, especially when you have huge enterprise customers is -- how do the young folks say it -- "yikes, not a good look, my dude".

Then again, IBM probably has like a zillion contracts with ICE and other oppressive government entities all over the world, and simply don't care.
> I would hope those 5 people have other responsibilities besides babysitting the OS all day long every day.

Then you are unlikely to hire 5 people with deep expertise.

If you only need a deep expert two weeks out of the year (Especially when you can't predict what those two weeks are), it makes a hell of a lot of sense to pay for a support contract, then an in-house expert.

You probably drive a car every day, but you're not a certified auto mechanic. You outsource that expertise, for situations when you need it.
First time I discovered Tesla's Valve through this post back in 2013 [0]. Author did some extensive testing on its functionality and made some interesting comments/observations about old patents. Highly recommended.

[0] https://fluidpowerjournal.com/teslas-conduit/
Is it certain that he ever existed? Or is it like Jesus?
Farmers in Australia have been pointing out for a while now the higher temperatures isn't the worst aspect of global warming. They can plan for and work around higher temperatures by planting different crops, irrigation or whatever.

What they are finding hard to handle is the increasing variability. This was driven home to be when an interviewed farmer said they plant 3 crops now, whereas the used to bet on one - which ever one would handle the predicted conditions. Now they have no idea what the conditions will be, so the plant 3 crops in the hopes that one will do OK and crossed fingers - the others won't be a right off.

The "pretty cold right now" is the same thing at work. You had record high temps earlier this year. Now you are having an unusual cold snap. This about how the effects the poor bugger trying to grow something.
There's a diagram, it's right at the top.

Here's a direct link if for some reason you can't see images on wikipedia: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/52/Tesla_va...
Defective by Design: A Resistance to Restrictions
The name Red Hat probably has a lot more positive connotations in the tech sector than the name IBM. Which basically makes you run away screaming.