skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Test automaton guy here. Why reinvent the wheel? Selenium/WebDriver is already a standard (https://www.w3.org/TR/webdriver/). It has years of maturity. Maturity means that through use and development iterations it can now cater for a lot of corner cases. How to do domain authentication in IE. How to handle all the different types of modal dialogues. And so on. It can be used in several different REAL programming languages so you can interact with a database, or drop a message in a queue or call a webservive during browser interaction. I have done all of those. But sure, if you want a tool for a specific small use like a business analyst doing one linear test case, go ahead. If you don't believe all the corner cases, do yourself a favour and look under the Selenium tag on SO.
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Honestly, I feel that it would almost be worse if the Court ruled in Oracle's favor on the ability to copyright intuitively obvious functions. There are only so may ways to write `return x >= a && x <= b;` that aren't unnecessarily obtuse and contrived. It's honestly tantamount to being able to copyright math itself.
If your employees love their jobs and trust their leaders, they will not steal, and will not tolerate other workers who do. In order to be trusted as a leader you must earn the respect of those you lead. Earned respect is hard, but worth it.
Your other comment says different things though. I think it's a fair question "how do background checks work for foreign persons" vs "IMO, it's wayyy much easier to corrupt people from second or even third world countries, there corruption is the norm".
>None of the vulnerable programs enables verbose by default,...

So the compromise is mostly theoretical...
Micromanaging will just piss people off, and cause them to look for work elsewhere. Challenge them and let your quality expectations be known.

If the work is slow and low quality, you should analyze the decision making processes behind how work is assigned. At my previous job (as a developer), tickets were assigned based on who was interested, rather than who would best complete it (i.e. the dev who recently built something similar). Also, I'd recommend figuring out a way for your developers to share codebase knowledge effectively. It's much more efficient to spend an hour pair-programming with someone than debugging an issue for 2 days.
New Mexico sues Google over collection of children's data
How do you insert a row and get the automatically set Id set by the database portably? That’s a standard create operation.
Fake News: Trusting the News Media in the Trump Era
Many loans you have to be careful that you don't pay them like that. If you don't specify that you're paying down principal with the extra, it just goes toward next month's payment. So next month you might only owe $50 instead of $500.
Not sure this is good advice. I like a firm mattress, but IKEA mattresses are absolutely terrible. I also cannot sleep with a foam topper on any bed. They're hot and screw up my back beyond belief.
I would love to see his twitter browsing history. I'm genuinely curious how he came to find some of the stuff he posts.
The reason to connect liabilities to publishers is that publishers have the ability to respond to those incentives. This is not like UGC websites. UGC websites can't practically respond to content liability proactively in their current economic model, since the marginal unit of content has such low value but imposes such high risk.

Therefore, if we tried to connect liability to the UGC business, the semi-democratized form it currently has would have to die. Instead, you'd have a situation much more like the broadcast model where producers and content would need to be vetted beforehand. Small-time producers without much economic value would not be permitted onto UGC sites because the risk of liability would outweigh the benefits of hosting.

(I don't see YouTube going in the direction of 8chan. It would be too damaging to the brand. So the idea that there should be no moderation is right out the window.)

That's the reason why these provisions exist: without them, the businesses cannot exist. Now if you think it's a problem that teens and mommy bloggers and small time streamers can upload home movies to YouTube, you might applaud this result. But personally I don't think there's a problem with that segment existing on UGC sites, so I think it's a terrible idea to connect liability to UGC sites.
You understand that the Obama administration oversaw an illicit investigation of a political rival on the basis of the Steele dossier, which was bought and paid for by the DNC. The FBI and CIA knew the Russia narrative was false and pushed it anyways. Look if you need a Progressive source for this info because you can't appreciate alternative points of view, then Jimmy Dore did a very good job of breaking it down:

https://youtu.be/HjPgO57AzjQ
Facebook will now pay you for your voice recordings
> I think a fundamental issue is that journalists want to be a protected class

No. Goverment and polictians want to be a protected class.
Is DoltHub also open source?
> Ime past a certain point years of experience doesn't seem to improve one's programming ability. [..] Yes you can continue to gain experience in new tech but the fundamentals of thinking through software solutions doesn't really change.

In my own 20 years of programming experience I've kept improving significantly every year. There are so many different areas to cover (hardware internals, compilers, languages, tooling, databases, networking, graphics, user interaction, i18n, cryptography, compression, etc) and in each area there are so many different competing ideas. Each of them, when deeply understood, will provide insights in other areas. I don't see my learning hitting significantly diminishing returns before death by old age.

I'm curious, at what year of your programming history did you find yourself not progressing in fundamental software thinking and how long has the plateau lasted?
That's true, but Virgil just changed the word order to fit the meter (see dactylic hexameter[0]). Latin word order is relatively free, so poets would reorder things to make them fit the meter used. It also appears that the author of the article changed from the more standard verb-final ordering (SOV) to SVO because it fits the English translations word order better.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dactylic_hexameter
I’m talking about censorship of legal content. These companies serve as sort of a web host, but also an application service provider.

I have friends and acquaintances who have worked hard to build audiences, and then these platforms took that away from them via censorship. Of course, you can make the argument that it was really Facebook’s audience the whole time, but that ignores the content being generated by my friends which drove the whole thing.

Useful instructional videos and webpages I liked watching/reading and wanted to revisit had been deleted in the intervening time.

It’s destroying value, because these sites function as content-neutral hosting... until suddenly they don’t one day as the censorship hammer comes down. I have been telling people to start hosting on their own domains instead. This is the only way we can disintermediate our audience we work so hard to build.

The gun emoji one is more subtle. Emoji are, recall, plain text. Changing the rendering of plain text to alter its meaning is really, really bad. Here’s an example scenario as to why such ambiguity is harmful:

Imagine you’re a parent. It’s summer, and it’s hot. You have a squirt gun battle with your child. The next morning, you take them to school. (You’re a parent in the southern hemisphere, probably.)

An hour later you get a text from them: johnny brought a (gun emoji) to school

The rendering of this image is platform-specific. Their message is either harmless context-referencing fun, or cause for the most major of alarm. Which is it?

Depending on the sender’s device, they could be indicating a toy gun or a real one. Depending on the receiver’s device, it could render the same or differently.

Regardless of how you feel about weapons, surely you can recognize that introducing that communications ambiguity introduces a safety issue because it just impaired communications.

Now realize that they did so as a political statement.

That’s not okay, any more than changing the rendering of any other letter of plain text. I really, really do not want my text handling and rendering systems editorializing to me. Ever.
There are extensions that can help with this. First google result: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tracking-token-str...

Hooks into chrome.webRequest.onBeforeRequest.addListener(...) to rewrite the request url at request time.
This sounds familiar. I am reminded of KFC in the UK switching to a cheaper supplier of logistics (DHL) and promptly having almost half its stores close for lack of chicken.
Sounds like the main data sources were previous drug trials and possibly the kind of lists of similar compounds that drug companies generate and patent when they hope one of them might turn out to treat a particular disease well. So with some luck they have taken one that already has a few lab tests under its belt (like halicin).
These sort of systems for desk workers is the equivalent of measuring productivity by lines of code. Completely misses the point of generating value.
Should we be able to sue HN over any comment or post that gets made in this website? Do you not realize that HN would be forced to shut down overnight since the legal liability would be completely untenable? Your legal regime would effectively make internet moderation impossible. It would, without a single trace
of exaggeration, instantly kill almost every single internet community in existence.
I think your missing an option that is kinda similar category of 1.

The platform only removes illegal content, but moderation is not done by the provider at all. Instead users moderate the content themselves.

Think of how search engines can apply safe search filters going from safe, moderate, and off. So let users mark content with tags/categories, or some kind of rating. Then users can had posts that have or don't have certain content tags or a rating below x ect...

Also you have platforms like discord that lets users create areas dedicated to a topic and self moderate.
Um, isn't this exactly what Microsoft did up until they got slapped with that antitrust trial in the late 90s? They found out the hard way that not playing the game can be very costly for the company.

It'd be nice if it wasn't like this, but it just isn't; this country is too corrupt for huge players to just ignore politics, when their competitors don't.
How do hackers make money from your stolen data?
To be fair, Entrust and RSA tokens are a relic of the past, systems like Duo Mobile are far better and easier to use.
It was actually a layered failure. The "handshake" couldn't happen because the comm was temporarily disrupted due to the location in orbit
- Ordering IRS to target conservative groups

> Initial reports described the selections as nearly exclusively of conservative groups with terms such as "Tea Party" in their names. According to Republican lawmakers, liberal-leaning groups and the Occupy movement had also triggered additional scrutiny, but at a lower rate than conservative groups. The Republican majority on the House Oversight Committee issued a report, which concluded that although some liberal groups were selected for additional review, the scrutiny that these groups received did not amount to targeting when compared to the greater scrutiny received by conservative groups. The report was criticized by the committee's Democratic minority, which said that the report ignored evidence that the IRS used keywords to identify both liberal and conservative groups.

- Obamacare / You can keep your doctor

I'm not sure "compromise to allow _any_ version of a bill to pass rather than being blocked by Mitch McConnell" (who, lets not forget, famously said that he would block any of Obama's legislation, regardless of its merit or good for the country, just to block it) is "corruption".

- NSA PRISM Surveillance System

PRISM began in 2007 in the wake of the passage of the Protect America Act under the Bush Administration.

- Holder committing perjury multiple times

Did Obama have the power of puppetry over Holder's actions, alleged or actual?

How do you compare this to Trump explicitly blocking his administration from testifying, multiple times?
A VC does the deal in exchange of a part of the company. They will make their money once you exit, either by becoming public, or by an acquisition. The deal can be different and could certainly include some kind of repayment, but that's not the norm for a VC deal.

A loan has to be repaid though, whether the company exit or not. The terms are fixed and you need to pay them. This can be quite hard when you get a few bad months, while a VC will just get sad if that happens.
Thanks for whatever you contributed to at Linode <3
Is this in anyway tied to Ellison recently hosting a trump fund raiser?
I'm amazed at how naive people are on this site about how the world works.

And go ahead and quote my reply with the > and tell me awkshuwaly how wrong I am.
Unreal is the worst here because their C++ API documentation is unusable, and all their official, fleshed out docs are for a visual node-based scripting system called blueprints. Those blueprints seem to be their main focus and I just hate programming via click and drag.

In unity/Godot, at least you can still write a program mostly in code
Later school start times are associated with more sleep and better performance
You hit the nail on the head, we are best for SMBs and teams that want to get things done quickly and don't need the hyperscale and added complexity of AWS. Our focus has always been on simplicity and as our customer needs and our own internal needs have grown we've added additional products to continue to allow customers to scale with us. We launched with just Droplets in 2012 and have since added block storage, Spaces object storage, load balancing, kubernetes, managed databases, firewalls, and more.

Our goal isn't to be bigger than AWS or Google, but simply to provide a great service to our customers and to continue to expand our offering as those needs grow.
Ah, Jeppson's Malört, only alcohol that survived prohibition on account of a taste so strong the government decided noone would enjoy drinking it.
Dragging is a command I wish existed. I’m not super sure how to test draggable components - any thoughts?
I paid a little extra (~$600) for a foam mattress manufactured in California. I figured there is a lower chance of harmful offgassing than the cheaper Chinese mattresses like Zinus. I don't have any way to test that though.
I was doing some research because I'm going to have to buy one for a vacation house later this year. On the one hand, I don't want to just randomly choose an expensive purchase. On the other hand, truth be told, I spend a quarter to a third of nights in various hotel rooms and they're mostly "fine."

And I've personally had everything from a waterbed to a (high-end) futon in my own house.

So I know I don't want something really crappy but so long as I don't go off in some weird direction or really cheap out, I'm sure I'll be just fine.
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I love this. I've always thought their guarantee was meaningless because almost nobody is going to actually mail back a mattress.
Almost all companies re-invest at the rate of depreciation, which is why depreciation rates are a good approximation of cash you are going to have to spend. Move on down to "investing activities" on your cash flow to see all that "non-cash" depreciation bleeding out. Better yet, check out a balance sheet. Net income = change in balance sheet YoY.
Yes. Every article I've seen mentions "retail client assets" for the $360B.
We've been working on the prediction problem for some time. We should have a blog post coming out about our approach (it's pretty neat and in-line with this post) soon.
Anyone who has the desire to downvote things like this is just underscoring the point.

If you can't let a critical word about your side stand without the desire to snub it out, then you're not thinking independently.

Debate and discuss reasonable criticism. Don't snub it out. That's the core problem in today's hyper-partisan world.
A hotel is basically a gigantic used mattress store with massive churn.
Yes, let's not lump the CDC in with the WHO. The two organizations have struck entirely different paths.
Casually state talking points as fact without citation. Proceed to call the commenter stupid and malicious. Projection perhaps?
Wi-Fi sharing solution that pays you everytime someone uses your Wi-Fi
You're awkshuwaly wrong in the sense that the whole story doesn't need any kind of conspiracy regarding owning twitter to occur.
I too like the spring mattress with memory foam topper.
Oh man, good luck with social media. The Chapo Trap House community uses "post hog" as a memetic insult.
Crunchbase lumps together everything including debt as funding. DigitalOcean raised $123MM in equity and the last raise was an $83MM Series B led by Access in 2015. There hasn't been a need since to raise equity investment and instead debt is being used to continue to grow the business and expand our infrastructure footprint.
If Wi-Fi is supposed to be the universal access gateway to wireless internet, why don't we all just get a single sign on user and password to all Wi-Fi networks, everywhere.

RedFenix is a collaborative Wi-Fi network. Our solution pays you for every person that connects to your shared Wi-Fi.

People or businesses share internet with their communities making money for it and mobile users connect for FREE on all shared networks.

We are building a wireless network that is accesible to anyone in collaboration with people, businesses and internet providers.
Vultr allow running on bare metal and they also allow access to BGP. That's both niche needs, but that's also what you expect from a smaller player, to fill niche market.
Thank you globalization! Ross Perot was right. The Dems and Repubs both took Corp money and left the workers behind. Cesar Chavez knee this too. No one listened. And now we wonder how it happened.

It’s no wonder. The pols, the Koches and many other industrialists sold us all out.

On the other hand we can afford heaps of cheap junk that doesn’t last longer than it takes to ship it over cargo ship.
In other news, you can now remotely start fires from your phone.
As a counterpoint I have done exactly this and am perfectly happy with my IKEA mattresses; your mileage may vary I guess.
I strongly approve!
Actually it does play a factor, GDPR had it so the data on EU citizens had to be located within the EU. Now they have alternative options for the UK - then that aspect does as I initially outlined becomes key.

Hence the question of actual costs to Google in hosting in say Ireland (staffing, taxes, rates, utility costs, cooling....) compared with another location outside the EU that may very well have cheaper running costs due to many factors.

I hope that clears up why location is a factor now as it related to running costs and if they can save some money, well, they will.

More so if they suddenly free up capacity in a datacenter which has higher costs than some other locations outside the EU. All these details do very much, however small, stack up at the scale of users Google operates with and for the UK, several million is a large chunk of potential savings.
And Tesla recently released a _marketing video_ touting their identification system, that showed their car running a clear stop sign!
I used to spend a ton of time on Twitter, but actually nowadays I've been on Instagram a fair amount (according to the Screen Time total). Takes over a decent amount of my spare time not involved in more productive activities.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Nacchio

Perfect example of a guy just a little bit too far outside of the circle to get away with ignoring the inner party’s mandates.

They cooked up some insider trading to throw him in federal, too. He’s out now, I understand.
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It can be confusing to compare the mortality rate of cases in hospitals (which are be definition the worst cases) to the mortality rate of all infections (many of which never get to hospitals or get officially diagnosed). Gotta make sure we compare apples to apples.
They don't remove data related to your FICO score that they can legally keep for that purpose.

They remove any other data about you that they collect and would otherwise 'anonymize' and sell. You can ask them to give you the data first before asking them to delete it if you're interested in what it specifically is.
The US often offers more protection compared to most countries.

Many countries copy the US so it's important they act as a leader.
Yes, it's less black and white than I suggested, but the improvement is still a minimal increment compared to what someone would expect when hearing "blockchain". I guess I'm afraid the public record would just end up looking like this:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/09/Redacted...

with citizens unable to discern between abusive and reasonable interventions.
"IRS Apologizes For Aggressive Scrutiny Of Conservative Groups"

https://www.npr.org/2017/10/27/560308997/irs-apologizes-for-...

Clinton blamed Benghazi on a YouTube Video:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JtWTQ9AzwEk
I guess there is a niche, not every enterprise spends millions a year.
We're a pretty happy customer that spends maybe a few thousands every month, if there are enough of us it could already be a sustainable business?
I don't think CCP can cover 50k death with ease. Unlike many western people assumed, CCP is not omnipotent in China. There are checks and balances of power. Not distributed democratically, but still distributed in some opaque ways. 50k death can lead to some pretty serious power dynamics change if true.

Btw it's not too far off that right now 10% of world's population is more or less under some level of quarantine.
And the next question is... who determines who is or is not a journalist. I don't believe there is a definitive requirement that is used to differentiates between a blogger and someone that writes for the NYT.
> The Dems and Repubs both took Corp money and left the workers behind

I get that the statistics show billionaires owning the majority of the wealth while the common-person in America makes $30k/yr but... there are plenty of Americans doing a-ok too. Who is really to blame?

Take a trip down to South Florida. You'll see a lot of Bentley, Rolls-Royce, Lamborghini, Ferrari. Lots of high fashion and packed restaurants. Workers are getting left behind, sure. But some workers are making it too.

Especially those on HackerNews in IT who are fiscally savvy, packing away six-figure salaries responsibly.
>>IRS did not target conservative groups

Then why did lois lerner plead the 5th?
Yes. A typical example would be the use of statistical emulators, emulating process (physical) based models that are computationally complex in the environmental sciences.
Thanks for your thoughts and prayers but no one is selling the business or nor are we looking for someone to buy it.

Debt is a normal way to fund a high growth up front capital intensive business and it is cheaper than equity because you aren't giving away parts of your company to do so.

If you look at AWS which is many times larger than we are they are also using debt to fund their continued expansion. It's under capital lease obligations and there are quite a few write-ups that detail how much exposure they have, but it's in the billions.