skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This trend is unethical and everyone involved in allowing this to continue is no better than the sacklers.

This is one of the reasons I dropped out of the gaming market almost entirely. The way I see it, 'gamers' are some of the least savvy consumers on the planet. They continue to buy games from companies they know have burned them numerous times. In some markets, consumers are known for holding decades long grudges against companies that have wronged consumers, but not gamers. Gamers seem to be exceptionally forgiving and naive in this regard, and that lets games companies walk all over them.

Invasive rootkit DRM, games broken on launch, games broken forever with the expectation that community modders will donate their labor to fix it for free, games that don't facilitate community servers, games that are split in two before launch with half the game being labeled "DLC", thinly veiled skinner boxes designed like slot machines designed to encourage binge-play ("grinding for rare loot") and sometimes designed to extract even more money from players who've already purchased the game ("lootcrates".) A DRM company, widely beloved by gamers, being forced by the courts to revise their abhorrent returns policy (https://www.engadget.com/2016/12/23/valve-steam-fined-2-mill...) Shit, I've had 'gamers' get fuming mad at me before for not worshiping at the altar of Valve, as though it were religious heresy for me to criticize a for-profit American corporation.

Even when the 'gamer community' recognizes something as broken, they seem to forget by the time the next game comes around. Just look at the history of Bethesda releases. Morrowind was broken but somewhat novel. Oblivion was again broken, though perhaps with some of the edges rounded over. Next was Fallout 3, which was still broken. Skyrim was very broken, at this point the pattern should have been obvious to everybody paying attention, and to be fair to the gamers the brokenness of Bethesda games was becoming a meme at this point. Fallout 4 comes around and it's their most nerfed game yet, but still broken as fuck. How could anybody be surprised at this point? Yet people still bought that, and they even bought the next game, Fallout 76, which was the most egregiously Bethesda broken game yet. Currently the 'gamer community' recognizes Fallout 76 and Bethesda as dumpster fires, but will they buy the next Bethesda game? I'd bet on it. When it comes time to vote with their wallets, I wager they'll be compliant consumers and do as the marketing tells them to. Even when they learn, they don't learn. The lesson doesn't set in, a new game is released, and the cycle continues.
Now more than ever, businesses are moving everything to the cloud. Unless you are big enough to afford sysadmins, netsec and other knowledgeable personnel, your data is safer at big cloud providers, than in your own hands.

Even if you have all that at your disposal, it's probably still safer (and more reliable) there, unless:

a) you actually have to worry about espionage from Google and various governments,
b) you cannot legally use them (I think some health/financial data under GDPR cannot be hosted outside of the EU), or
c) you are doing something illegal.

GSuite and GCP are ISO/SOC/HIPAA/etc. compliant, so if there is a breach on their side, you are legally covered.

Not necessarily my opinion on cloud vs self-hosting, but it makes sense from a business perspective.
In my experience that’s broadly unfair. Cheating is a big issue for the integrity of online games and something taken seriously. Although I’m coming at it from the other direction and might have been very lucky with the projects I’ve worked on. There is an obvious trade off between making a game that people want to play and making it secure. And that trade off gets stronger towards gameplay the more latency sensitive the game is.

I guess what I’m actually saying is that good security design has to extend to the client in those cases. Defence in depth.

I also think it’s unfair to suggest this is an issue due to lack of talent. Although I’d be open to knowing what you think is lacking in particular.
Looks like your link copied a little but if the word on the following line of my post. It should be:
http://andrewschonfeld.pythonanywhere.com/dtale/iframe/2
No thank you. In my 40 years of driving I've been in two accidents. Both times I was rear-ended while waiting to make a lefthand turn. Both times were major inconveniences that made me late for work and cost me time and money to resolve but no one was injured in the slightest.

Had I been on a e-bike/scooter/moped I would have certainly been badly injured and possibly killed.

Give me 3000 lbs of steel, multiple crumple zones, smart 3 point seatbelts, anti-lock brakes, traction control, active head restraints, forward-collision warning, automatic emergency braking, blind-spot warning and 23 airbags if I am traveling over 20mph. Especially if I've got family in the car.
I think it's much more likely that every tech startup will have some sort of AI component instead.
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If you have limited resources, it’s alright to say you will only defend those who cannot already defend themselves.
> somebody said that a thing is simply not possible and a manager asked "but what if it was possible?"

I've been an Individual Contributor, and a Manager, and am back to being an IC.

I've been on both sides of this conversation.

One of the benefits of being a manager is being able to see the forest from the trees while your team members may be so focused on their tasks they do not see the big picture.

Sure, sometimes the answer to "but what if it was possible?" if just "it's not."

But a lot of times, the good managers I've had would propose an approach to MAKING it possible that I just simply didn't see. And I've been able to do the same in their shoes.

Sometimes it requires a paradigm shift -

Q: "How do we get to the other town faster?"

A: "The horses are running as fast as they can"

Q: "What if we found a faster horse?" (e.g. a car)

But honestly in day to day office culture it rarely needs to be so revolutionary -

Q: "Could we finish the project faster if Bill's team helped us?"

A: "No, it's not possible. Bill's team said they are completely swamped"

<Goes off to do some managerial work>

Q: "Okay, I've chatted to Bill, and his team is fully available to help us finish the project."

I'll leave you with this "Expert" saying that something is simply not possible: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKorP55Aqvg

And an actual expert showing how it can be done: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7MIJP90biM
Nice answer. The musicians might complain in person than on the web. But also if you are a musician with a hecktic schedule I guess you are probably doing well and there is hope to be famous and successful if not already. A lot of programming jobs just pay the bills and hit a glass ceiling. Once that happens who wants to do 60h if you can do 40h instead? I also think that programming is specifically mind taxing or can be and I can do 60h of work a week but not 60h of programming.
From the HN guidelines:

"Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> ... did you not notice the everyone doing their own ICO when bitcoin was 20k? Are you saying it will happen again?

I don't think that's what they're saying. I suspect it'll be more like support for existing major cryptocurrencies like Ethereum and Bitcoin. Either for payments or smart contracts, or other decentralized book-keeping.

I'm not convinced about "almost every tech startup", but I do think it'll become more mainstream.
But in the current system you can't. Nobody will tell you the cost of operation or treatment. It's not even malice: nobody knows what it'll cost. The system efficiently avoids competition.
What people who support small government tend to mean is a government that doesn't interfere with free markets and doesn't regulate business (and probably for the Federal government to be dissolved or weakened considerably.)

They seem to want to get as close to anarcho-capitalism as they can without actually not having states.
I've been benching it in production.

On a 1core 2gb vps it can do around 1200 logs/sec.

Compared to ELK, we're saving several hundred $ per month.
This is a situation where EV certificates would be helpful. The cost and the fact that it generates somewhat of a paper trail would discourage scammers from getting them.
Has anyone mentioned

1) recovery partitions

2) Rollback to previous versions data

3) weird things that WIMBoot (Win 8.x) did that meant that any updates were stored outside the compressed image. https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/2a59b58d-9...
Quake Live, which is pretty close to Quake 3, still has a somewhat active player base https://steamcharts.com/app/282440
They're talking about using cryptocurrency as part of their products, not just throwing hyped-up fundraising events.
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I'm looking for part-time contract/freelance/consulting opportunities.

How can I help?

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- Analyze and optimize performance issues.

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I once looked to see if anyone had made Pants rules (build tool) for LESS.
Oh, terrific, some ancient program in C, where somebody cobbled in a poorly designed and untested C version of JSON.stringify(). That is 21st century craniorectal inversion, not decades-old tech debt.

I started out working in that era (no COBOL, but all the rest of it). At least some of us were suspicious of data-in-a-few-characters and character column-number based records (ummm, punchcards). Some of us checked all kinds of things on input to try to reject garbage. Spaces in the middle of numbers? BOOM. Something unexpected in the "record type" letter? BOOM. The card reader actually had a diversion output tray where we could spit out the rejected cards.

But, still, lots of bad stuff got through.
Consider the source, right? How many people without a large vested interest in the propagation and uptake of cryptocurrency consider further growth likely?

My guess is that governments will more and more realize that the main utility of blockchains is money laundering and speculation. As has been remarked over and over again, they don't solve any above board problem more efficiently or with lower expense than existing technologies. I predict we'll see growing regulation increased amounts of crackdowns on cryptocurrency and its applications going forward.
This particular problem is "I need to know when I don't have two managers on the floor, and they aren't always wearing funny vests just because the computer guys are bad at deep learning".

If we can make up arbitrary rules and assumptions then just have them jot down on a piece of paper when they come and go, and if they are the last to leave then they have to send an email.
> under the aegis of "electronic privacy".

Regardless, that still doesn't mean the electronic privacy is the same as crime.

Or, would you be willing to hand over every bit of electronic information about you over to the government?

Oh, you don't want that? Well, what do you have to hide then?
I've stayed away from newegg since they got bought by a chinese company and allowed third party vendors. The prices are rarely the best anymore
i hadn't heard of pict, but there's occam-pi and jocaml which are based on the pi calculus. (jocaml is based on the join calculus, which has been demonstrated to be equivalent to the pi calculus).
Original paper: https://sci-hub.se/https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aay5734
There is like ~5 million people using crypto right. I could see this being possible if that number was closer to 500+ million
All the kids these days seem to want a hoverboard. So the Segway is still a success IMO. Albeit limited to toy usage (for now), but a lot of inventions start out as a toy.
Ethereum doesn't offer any serious financial privacy (yet) so neither does your statement make any sense.

Privacy is important though, doesn't matter if it's financial or not.

In the future, should more serious privacy options come to Ethereum, then it's important that everyone should be entitled to use it, just like we are allowed to use end-to-end encryption today.
Innovation is a set of lumpy perturbations on a mostly-smooth status quo. That’s the counterpoint to these outlandish predictions seen in other comments.
That’s because you’re concerned with the laptop still being usable afterwards. :)
I used Papertrail at my last job, search function works well, and it was easy to use.
With Hooks, React has gone full FP, so, basically, the war is lost. Try finding a bootcamp programmer that wasn't taught React.

Sure, you can still build object components, but it's informally frowned upon.
Clicked on your link... that Verizon Media privacy page is a nightmare. And then it fails to load the article...

Do you have any more information about the move to aws and why that was cheaper than their old setup?
I, and nearly everyone I know here in the US, also cooks pretty much every day.
> because we don't do that to humans

Except when we do. See e.g. historical killing of enemies and their families, to preempt retaliation.

> Intelligent beings can be reasoned with.

Except when they can't. As the orthogonality thesis states, intelligence is orthogonal to values. You could imagine smart bears whose values and ways of thinking could be completely alien to us (though evolving in the same environment would probably make us and them more alike than us and aliens). There's a term for that coined by Orson Scott Card[0] - varelse. "They may or may not be sentient beings, but are so foreign that no meaningful communication is possible with the subject." Except perhaps math. Which, in this case, mostly means game theory.

> Why is our conception of "self" in the meaning of "self-preservation" exactly the size of our species for the purposes of Dark Forest? Why is it not narrower or broader?

I'd argue, because of the first axiom: inability to establish trust due to communication delays. The clustering of "sameness" is determined by the speed of light[1]. And in the case of armed bears, "sameness" would too be determined by inability to establish mutual trust, this time given by communication problems caused by differences of minds.

> We do not consider pre-emptive strikes to be justified for a reason.

Except when we do.

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[0] - https://enderverse.fandom.com/wiki/Hierarchy_of_Foreignness

[1] - if we kindly ignore the existence of whatever quantum shenanigan communications Sophons were using, as apparently the author did. IMO, Sophons ruin the self-consistency of the rules of book's universe.
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He did it back in 2045...
The drug things is partially BS. The top 10 big Pharma (in random order)

GlaxoSmithKline British

Eli Lilly US

Sanofi French

AbbVie US

Roche Swiss

Pfizer US

Novartis Swiss

Merck & Co US

AstraZeneca British/Swedish

Johnson & Johnson US

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It's America - people get sued for far, far less.
That was very optimistic. And $200k Bitcoin? Might as well suggest $2m Bitcoin and the odds will be about the same.

I've become very pessimistic around cryptocurrency after a year of chasing coins.

Wake me up when Turtlecoin hits $10.
You’re right I was thinking FLDS, my apologies
> In Manchester, hundreds of people flocked to a 1793 heart-burning ceremony at a blacksmith’s forge: “Timothy Mead officiated at the altar in the sacrifice to the Demon Vampire who it was believed was still sucking the blood of the then living wife of Captain Burton,” an early town history says. “It was the month of February and good sleighing.”

Yeah, Captain Burton, bruh, your wife was banging someone else. I wouldn't be surprised if quite a few of these vampire allegations were just clever "outs" for a lot of clever people back in the time period.

It also has the advantage of not killing a living person (like a witch accusation might); so, perhaps this was the sophisticated safe and intelligent lie to cover your tracks...

/shrug
7 of the 10 most successful games of the last decade listed here also offer in-app purchases.

I don't ignore success -- Overwatch, League, Dota, and Fortnite are all objectively well-designed games. But that doesn't mean that every decision they make is good design. If success was the only metric I used to judge design quality, I would have to conclude that Farmville was a better game than Hollow Knight.
Denver has these, you can see them on Larimer and Market street in LoDo. Around the 1890s, the locals dug out a series of tunnels through the city. The snows would come in and people would just go underground for a few days for business. There was a bar that closed about a year ago called the Blake Street Vault—it used to be a bank—and if you asked they would take you into the basement to see the vault and the dumbwaiter. You can see down where they plastered over some of the wall, it used to have a teller window right there open to the tunnels for customers.

Supposedly, you could go from Union Station all the way to the capital building underground (but I doubt that).

I’m sure most of the tunnels aren’t passable, possibly collapsed, filled in, or flooded. But I seriously want to go down and try to map out some of them to be restored like they did in Seattle.
To add; Servers on FPS games used to be run by the players, who could handle cheaters any way they wanted. EA and others have removed this option and should take responsibility for running the only allowed servers.
Fry's did make changes. Maybe not as many as Best Buy, but they do price match Amazon, last I checked.
Just take your dog to a nearby park. You'll meet tons of dog owners in person...best social network... does everything useful have to have another useless "social network" ?
His about one for cat or parrot owners? At least they won't go to a park with their pets.
Power and Politics in Today's World
Modern people accustomed to ubiquitous electrical lighting would probably think of 19th century and beyond as quite dark.
that's a no scotsman argument.

You could claim erlang isn't full fp because you have a stateful process attribute dictionary, and, while we're at it, access to network resources like a Postgres database, but that would be an almost meaningless statement.

With Hooks, react basically went full FP. You can still make an object component, but it is frowned upon.
there is a typo in the integrated section, "platoform". Cool concept though!
Etheriums PoW algorithm isn't ASIC resistant, just largely unimplemented. Indeed a large reason NIST made Keccak SHA3 is that ASIC/FPGA acceleration is on par or even faster than SHA256 acceleration.

It may take a bit more ram and need a decent bus as a result which is why people mine on GPUs that have both. Rather than cheap ASICS that are cheap because they have neither. "Resistant" ain't the word to use.
Wikipedia states his financial support of John Brown as fact: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thaddeus_Hyatt
The problem of them not being as good at creating a new programming language as they want to be.

So many amazing projects started as someone scratching an itch, often completely unrelated to the eventual product. And even if a project doesn't take off, if the goal was to get better at programming (and not marketing, project management, etc) it may be still be a success. Both forms of projecting have value. It all depends on personalities and where people are in their careers.
I Escaped the Notorious Westboro Baptist Church
I remember people scoffing at the concept of 100 dollars per bitcoin like it couldn't possibly happen.
How about listen to their workers and maybe don’t require the exact uniform? Is it really so difficult to discern passengers from attendants on the plane?
This is incorrect. How can they kick you off the insurance plan? Also, the ACA has provisions to prevent one insurer from having to shoulder the costliest patients via some form of cost sharing with all the others.

https://www.cms.gov/CCIIO/Programs-and-Initiatives/Premium-S...
Thank you, will correct that ;) !
> People also keep suggesting I start a restaurant since the food tastes so good and is so easy to make. I'm waiting to meet the right person with experience starting restaurants.

I know a couple of successful restaurateurs in my area. It's an incredibly difficult business to be in. I would suggest that nobody opens a restaurant unless it's truly their love.
How are bitwarden/1password better than password manager for chrome and other browsers?
'Hitler's last soldier' evaded the FBI for 40 years and ended up in Colorado
> That things are slower than they could be doesn't matter to most users.

I'm sure everyone wishes these things were faster.
What sources this prediction is based on?

Arguably the present. There are hardly any innovations in mainstream PL design, the last one was probably linear typing in Rust. The most successful recent languages are all pretty conservative, in the case of Go extremely so.
Holacracy to scale international movement
Perhaps intuition is just fast thinking? To be able to connect bits and pieces of seemingly disparate information cogently?

I love flipping the pages of The Red Book. I am charmed by Jung’s calligraphy and art. Even if I don’t understand enough High German. The entire book is a work of art.
Why Does the Fed Oppose Narrow Banking?
I was specifically referring to this case. To hack a phone or account is generally an illegal activity. The government seems not even interested in piercing the veil on this type of activity which is the issue I’m bringing up.

I’m not entirely sure why you’re mentioning stingrays and IANAL but what you describe sounds illegal under 18 U.S. Code § 2511[1]. But again for some reason a corporation is making these devices and selling them (also illegal under §2512[2]). I presume they are selling to law enforcement and pseudo law enforcement for use where a wiretap is not obtained (otherwise they can just lean on the carrier who is legally obliged) which would seem illegal under ECPA [3] even with its problems.

There’s a whole section of EU law that covers man in the middle, hacking, data protection, etc. that would also make this specific case cut and dry. A government agency crying that Facebook notified an account holder their account was hacked by their corporate contractor seems beyond the pale. Further that news agencies publish this story with a slant that Facebook or Apple have somehow enabled terrorists is shameful. We should be holding our governments accountable to follow the law and obtain warrants. In the US all the corporate support they need is built into laws like CALEA and USA PATRIOT Act, the least our governments can do is follow the laws we entrust them to protect.

[1] https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2511

[2] https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2512

[3] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_Communications_Pr...
Google's Stackdriver.

I've been using Google App Engine for some ten years now and I'm still dumbfounded that this is still an ongoing struggle for other platforms. It collates logs from a variety of sources, presents requests as a single unit, has sophisticated searching capabilities, and the UI doesn't suck.

Best of all, it just works... there's zero configuration on GAE. Such a time saver.