skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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> This actually raised an interesting thought to mind about the long-term ethical implications of lowering the barrier to entry for genetic engineering. What happens when anyone with a little know-how and $10K can use the techniques?

The barrier to entry for genetic engineering is already zero; but it has much less sexy names like "washing your hands" and "sex". DNA synthesis is just a matter of being more specific and deliberate about which biological organisms you keep around. Anyone is capable of selectively breeding bacteria, fungi, molds, or anything else. I think the reverse(?) question needs to be asked as well, which is what are the ethical implications of trying to restrict the ability to make DNA?

Here's some infotainment I guess: http://diyhpl.us/wiki/diybio/faq/news/
I think it's actually quite common that you can; see for example Pareidolia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareidolia)

This page links to some YouTube examples:
http://theness.com/roguesgallery/index.php/skepticism/audio-...
I tried making a double-linked list in Rust the other day. I found it hard to do without resorting to 'unsafe' code. I don't think a datastructure like HAMT would be a walk in the park either.

The thing about GC is that it makes it easy to write code. That's the main benefit. I don't want to deal with weak/strong references or ownership, just write code. True, a GC has downsides like increased memory footprint and possibly long pause times, but for most of the software I'll ever write it will never be a problem.
A more accurate title: Youtube's Facebook Piracy Problem
We all agree that staffing agencies classify workers as employees. And that's the right thing to do.
The focus is on the on-demand economy. Very few on-demand platform decided to go for the w2 route instead of the 1099 model.
I might be wrong, but I can think of 3 in total
There's also undoubtedly lots of interesting and potentially profitable art and innovation that is impossible because of those IP laws. I can't confidently say that one set is more worthy than the other.
> If we just drop IP laws, that further enriches these corps at the cost of individual and/or small creators. That makes no sense to me whatsoever.

A good question, but I'm not sure. Those large corporations produce a lot of IP; maybe the small guy will benefit more than the big guy. Remember we're all stealing from and building on each other's IP. Imagine if all the proprietary software was open source, from OS X to Office to SunOS to SAS to Mathematica to Photoshop to AutoCAD to Google's search algorithms.

It would be a dream for many to be able to study, learn from, and reuse that code. It would be like the IP of the academic world, which generally is open and reusable by others.
Right. And for a lot of reads consider running your server off of SSD based drives.
Look up the work of Geoffrey West at the Santa Fe Institute on cities and total economic activity (which scales with land values) by population.

As you increase populations (and population densities), cities become more economically active.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/19/magazine/19Urban_West-t.ht...

After two years of analysis, West and Bettencourt discovered that all of these urban variables could be described by a few exquisitely simple equations. For example, if they know the population of a metropolitan area in a given country, they can estimate, with approximately 85 percent accuracy, its average income and the dimensions of its sewer system. These are the laws, they say, that automatically emerge whenever people “agglomerate,” cramming themselves into apartment buildings and subway cars. It doesn’t matter if the place is Manhattan or Manhattan, Kan.: the urban patterns remain the same. West isn’t shy about describing the magnitude of this accomplishment. “What we found are the constants that describe every city,” he says. “I can take these laws and make precise predictions about the number of violent crimes and the surface area of roads in a city in Japan with 200,000 people. I don’t know anything about this city or even where it is or its history, but I can tell you all about it. And the reason I can do that is because every city is really the same.”
Columbo pretty much did that, with a toll road camera and a face mask.
What does "accurate" mean? It's not comprehensive - what it does is show you where their honeypots get the most attacks from over time.

That said, it's not all that useful - there's no shocking information here. As mentioned, it's largely a marketing tool.
ahh Oracle, the elephant's graveyard of software.

"I'd like to buy a CRM system" - "No problem, which of the 6 we have accumulated over the years would you like? Siebel? CRMonDemand? Peoplesoft CRM? Fusion? ...."
With the gun-toting police and a prosecutor in the room, there is not such thing as "voluntary".
This is very helpful. I did find that using the example relx.config, I could never past the "No goals specified for this release..." error as long as the app goals list in the release tuple was empty. Modifying it like so:

{release, {erlang_app, "0.1.0"}, [erlang_app]}

seems to do the trick.
OpenSSH to Replace SunSSH
I would normally be with you, but in all fairness they did commit to raising it to £9/hr by 2020, which seems reasonable to me. Of course, I would like it to be higher, but given the political climate I think the current plan is one to be happy with.
YTMobile.tk background YouTube player for Android
If twisty mountain roads work "magic" for the Startup Bus, maybe it is time for the Start Up Vomit Comet. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reduced_gravity_aircraft)
Staff at Tony Hsieh’s Downtown Project Abandoned Holacracy Nine Months Ago
I don't understand the point of your comment - it's obvious and well known that YouTube's copyright protection procedures work in some cases. Describing a few of those situations doesn't really add anything to this thread of the conversation or do anything to invalidate the fact that in some specific ways it's incredibly stupidly broken..
The Undocumented Software Engineer
The post has an answer to why that happened:

Web Components were a Google effort and little negotiation was made with other browsers before shipping. Like most negotiations in life, parties that don’t feel involved lack enthusiasm and tend not to agree.

Web Components were an ambitious proposal. Initial APIs were high-level and complex to implement (albeit for good reasons), which only added to contention and disagreement between vendors.

Google pushed forward, they sought feedback, gained community buy-in; but in hindsight, before other vendors shipped, usability was blocked.
A decrease in the cost of inputs is good for businesses. China will be fine.
When you consider that most applications are just CRUD processors for some business logic that very rarely hit performance issues, the use case becomes obvious. GC saves developer time, which is the most significant cost for anything that isn't large scale.

The clerk at the front desk isn't meaningfully impacted if the backed has to GC for 350ms once in a while. But the clerk is impacted when his/her software is missing a ton of features because it was written in a language that exposed too many implementation details and led to the development budget running out.
Would you mind posting an anonymized version for everyone? Seems like it would be instructive.

Obviously, if there's no way to anonymize it without completely changing it, don't.
That's my whole point.

I regard such tracking pixels as morally reprehensible. While I know most of my subscribers will disable remote images anyway, quite likely they would think poorly of me for serving them.

All the stuff I read about email marketing is all about all the kewel things one can do with email bugs.
...YouTube isn't really to blame for all of this...

In the case of ContentID, which bypasses the DMCA, yes, they are to blame, along with all the media companies that demanded its creation.
I use DO and silently complain about the lack of daily backups. I don't really have a need for the other stuff, and Vultr is cheaper (when I last looked). But for some reason I always end up just using DO.
Three of Ethiopia's Zone 9 Bloggers Released from Prison, Cleared of All Charges
XKeyscore Exposé Reaffirms the Need to Rid the Web of Tracking Cookies
That doesn't contradict what I said. Go shares ALL memory, erlang may share some sometimes.
And then there's me, who enjoys the Persian breed's motto - "Live imperiously, die inconventiently".
No offense, but the use of "on-demand economy" appears to be little more than marketing spin. Lots of established temp agencies can accommodate companies with short-term needs and deliver warm bodies quickly.
Electoral votes per county isn't really all that close to population-weighted; electoral votes are not apportioned proportionally to population.
Yes - but probably only for quite small values of yes.

Who's your threat?

Your attacker would need a backdoor or 0day into AWS itself - which while you'd be a fool to assume such a thing doesn't exist, its very unlikely to get "burned" on a run-of-the-mill website hack or defacement.

If your site is ISIS or Wikileaks or DeSpiegel or The Guardian (or some other well known considered-by-the-NSA-to-be-a-terrorist-organisation) - you wouldn't bet against the NSA having firmware backdoors in the network cards and hard drive controllers underneath AWS (as well as the hypervisor and all the available deployed virtualised images, and all the internal Amazon network hardware and the core routers at both ends of Amazon's datacenter's optical fibres).

If your threat model is closer to Anonymous or GamerGate, you're probably more at risk of your "unhackable" credentials being social engineered than a purely software hack.

But in a purely binary interpretation of your question - Yes. _Everything_ is "hackable" given a sufficiently motivated and resourced attacker.
I don't think anyone will be willing to say yes or no.

Just don't count on something being 'unhackable'.

AFAIK there are no published flaws in S3 static hosting.
A static website that is served over HTTPS only[1], and lets say for the sake of argument, HTTPS secure enough not to MITM, and no services outside of your control (DNS, etc) are MITMable, and your credentials to Amazon can't be stolen...

The only way to hack your site is to actually be at Amazon with access to whatever disk array stores your data. As in, I'm pretty sure "inside job" is the only route left.

[1]: http://www.troyhunt.com/2015/06/understanding-http-strict-tr...
no.

edit: depends on the company
> and they all forgot how to use git revert?

Implying they use any form of VCS at all...

The Knightmare fiasco might serve as a useful datapoint for re-calibrating your expectations:

http://dougseven.com/2014/04/17/knightmare-a-devops-cautiona...

> I hate to sound like a conspiracy wingnut, but it seems unlikely that there were major outages at NYSE, United Airlines, and the WSJ all on the same day and it's merely a coincidence.

My expectations are calibrated at roughly "this is noteworthy?" Taking the long view of things, it seems unlikely it's taken this long for there to be three major outages on the same day. Well, rather, there have been - one wee little "yet another OpenSSL security vulnerability" and half the internet catches on fire, it seems. Or Michael Jackson dies and the full internet catches on fire. (EDIT: Or an AWS region goes down and you make a drinking game out of what popular websites are down because of it.)

Or, even ignoring mass issues like that - I suspect it's likely there have been "three major outages on the same day" before - and we simply didn't notice. I wasn't aware of the United Airlines outage, for example. I didn't notice this. I had to have it called to my attention.

> and they all forgot how to use git revert?

This also ignores the fact that git revert is insufficient for something as simple as an SQL schema change if you don't want to lose data. Rolling back your blog's comments is one thing - they were mostly spam anyways. Rolling back financial transactions is entirely another (breach of contract? Fraud?)

It's entirely possible to generate rollback scripts which handle this, of course. These aren't necessarily faster to execute than it is to fix the actual problem, however, if you've got a sufficiently large database. Murphy's law means you'll hit some edge case, your rollback will fail, and now you're trying to untangle yet another layer of things gone wrong.

(EDIT: Hell, rereading about Knightmare, they tried to rollback. They succeeded, but that just made things worse in the process!)

> Were we cyber attacked today?

Nothing to suggest it was one so far, IMO. Although I'll certainly grant that a "computer glitches" hand-wave isn't a terribly strong indication it wasn't one, either. "Cyber attacks" (what does that term mean to you, exactly, I wonder?) are common enough I wouldn't find it too terribly surprising, though. I can predict my rough reaction: "I guess they were wrong about that."
No.

Never be the first employee, be the last founder.
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How about global thermonuclear war?
Speculatively (pun intended): we see in saccades (rapid eye movements) rather than static analysis of scenery, so we're bound to understand the frequency of, say, edges over the fixed-period saccade rhythm better than we understand distances over a plain 2D-field representation. This is why we're often surprised by perspective in photography (well, also because of stereo vision): as we move our eyes the relative position of lines at different distances moves imperceptibly so we get a clue of 3D space.

When I was younger I took some drawing lessons because I hoped to be an architect, and the first thing we learned was precisely to undo this instinct and see the world as a flat thing -- this is why artists are seen stereotypically as extending their arm and looking at their brush with one eye -- they're using it to measure the distance of points in their visual field as a static field, as contrasted to the dynamic field that can't be put on paper.
No offense at all. I am obviously biased. If this was true though, our customers would have not left traditional agencies for us.
They all told us they did it for the same reasons: faster and easier to use.
The way we manage our workforce is also fundamentally different and better for the workers ;)
Warren, McCain team up to reinstate Glass-Steagall banking reform
For some universities you need a student card to get in to the library
Ask HN: Examples of startups that failed due to moving slowly?
Conventional startup advice is to 'move fast' and 'pump out features.' Are there any startups that created a great new thing that was growing and then failed because they were improving too slowly?

How slow is too slow?
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> I can imagine a lot worse than that.

From the RadioLab podcast linked above (excellent, btw), far more frightening in the long run: introduce genetic changes to the reproductive cells.

... which then automatically become part of any offspring.

... which are then automatically inherited by any subsequent generations.

And, new species.
For those curious about what she looks like in her signature cap, here's a video of Tama-chan from a 2008 CNN story:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WVPwJIoPWk
This is fantastic and unfortunate that it didn't stay on the front page longer. First time in a long time that's I've felt the urge to go read some old novels. Literature if you want to make it sound that way.
I'm still wondering how does it happen that I never ever had as many problems with spam as I have with anti-spam systems and goddamn google in the first place. Actually, at this point it well might be only google. And it's hard to ignore when more and more emails in your contact book have "gmail" in them. Makes it seem that something as simple and fundamental as e-mail now belongs to google. Just ridiculous.
Yes! Imagine if your local library was furnished more like an old book store; with decadent yet comfortable furniture and more soft lighting that is just slightly more yellow than the bright white they use. All the libraries I have been to (admittedly not many, these days) all look like hospitals.
فني+تركيب+ستائر+الكويت+هاتف+55757238+
Call for editor independent completion engines
Their homepage says "Norse Tracks over 200,000 tor exit nodes". Tor metrics [1] says there exist 1,000 ish Tor exit nodes. So is Norse's statement a blatant lie?

[1] https://metrics.torproject.org/relayflags.html
I haven't used DO since 2013 and I probably won't since I'm extremely happy with Vultr, but it's good to know that it's been improved!
Patch Adobe Flash Now Exploit Detected in the Wild – MailShark
So... uh... I guess it works sometimes in favor of the actual content owner. But I'm not sure what your point is.
The Development of Wooden Skyscrapers
Without knowing the order of magnitude of the size of your data, its "shape" (is it a fixed layout, is it different per write?), as well as the perf requirements you mention (how many simultaneous reads and how much is being read each time, and what does "real time" mean to you) it's really hard to make a recommendation.
Maybe also consume Twitter's firehose and use some combination of frequency of mention + some kind of influencer score (e.g., "verified" accounts and accounts with lots of followers are more heavily weighted) to determine hype. I've been wanting to built a sentiment analysis system for trading for a while now.
ContentID doesn't bypass DMCA. It is neither required to take advantage of the DMCA safe harbor with regard to suits by copyright owners not compliant with the DMCA safe harbor provisions for suits by users hosting media, but it doesn't bypass anything required by the DMCA.

People sometimes confuse the things which trigger DMCA safe harbor provisions with mandates but they aren't, and the only reason to be guided by them is to take advantage of the safe harbor attached to them. Real businesses often want to have better relations with big money content suppliers than the minimum required to avoid copyright liability, and can already structure their relations with end users in a way that they would have no liability for any take-down in any case, so exceeding what is necessary for the safe harbor on the content owner side while not concerning oneself with the safe harbor on the end-user side if perfectly rational, and doesn't bypass anything.

It might underscore why the DMCA isn't as balanced as it seems on the surface but instead radically tilted in favor of content owners, since only one of the superficially parallel safe harbor provisions is even relevant to most hosts.
"Now we have incredible machines that can reproduce intellectual property almost infinitely"

I think the main problem with this line of thinking is that it takes nothing to reproduce IP, but creating it takes thousands (and sometimes more) man-hours.

"A third: Many creative people are motivated to do great things withhout payment. Remember, all those FOSS creators, from RMS to Linus Torvalds to Tim Berners-Lee to every little FOSS project on Github."

https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=linus+torvald+net+worth

Linus has a net worth of ~$150 million. So I'm not sure if this is a good example of someone creating FOSS out of the kindness of his heart.

RMS makes money through autographs, donations from big organizations, and winning prizes likes this: http://tech.mit.edu/V121/N59/59stallman.59n.html

Again, he's making a very good living by pretty much anyone's standard.

"Remember also Van Gogh and millions of other starving artists you have and haven't heard of (quick, name a poet who cashed in on their life's work). Perhaps financial renumeration, while fair, isn't entirely necessary (and perhaps we'd have less crap with less of it)."

10 years ago, I remember many people saying the exact same thing that you are saying now. The result has been less developers actually being hired. With so much free software out there, why would a business want to hire an actual engineer when they can hire a software mechanic (at a much lower wage)? Since the engineered parts are given away for free with so much free sofware, it makes the choice pretty easy.

Intellectual property has made it so with basically a computer/tablet/phone/very little startup capital, anyone has a real chance at making a living. Why are we actively trying to take away a very good way for social mobility?

It already happened in the music industry. Before the explosion of piracy, an indy artist could make a living selling music. Because of piracy, music is pretty much seen as worthless, which is what piracy does: It's not stealing, it's counterfeiting. Which completely devalues the item being counterfeited.
Ask HN: Are you using docker?
If yes, are you using it in production? Do you have security concerns?
Skewed search results? Fun, not funny.
>Gmail isn't known to use any public IP-based blacklist for deliverability

Good to know! I bet they have their own internal ranking system which is far more accurate than the public blacklists.
It looks like Leanpub isn't doing it either -- I guess they're both prioritizing title keywords.

Maybe a subtitle would help? "Hello Web App: Making Your Own Django App" or something.
Your last several comments have all been pretty mean. Please don't post comments like that to HN. Thoughtful criticism is fine, of course, but meanness poisons the well for everyone.
You could just use Web Components within your React views;

'React.js Conf 2015 - The complementarity of React and Web Components' - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0TD0efcwVg
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I will say "Yes". With 100% certainty.

Interesting people do stuff like this "for fun":

http://dangerousprototypes.com/2013/01/19/29c3-travis-goodsp...

and this:

http://spritesmods.com/?art=hddhack

How much would you bet against the people described below having even better versions of those two hacks, and being fully aware of Amazon's supply chain?

"The book included a photograph of intercepted packages being opened by NSA agents, and an accompanying NSA document explained the packages were “redirected to a secret location” where the agents implanted surveillance beacons that secretly communicated with NSA computers." -
https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/10/10/core-secrets/
I have never worked outside of my own private space. I just feel uneasy, unsure and anxious that I am doing someone wrong by doing so.

If someone has covered up or hidden the outlets, to me that's a very clear sign that they don't want me there (atleast for that reason), and as such I would feel really guilty for using them. I suppose that's slightly different in a food court though, it's a bit more public than a coffee shop.
Ask HN: Why aren't people solving real problems?
Stop lying to yourself. You shitty startup is not going to change the world. If you solve a problem, it's a minuscule one.

Talking, writing, printing, radio, computers, the internet. These things are important. Why would any capable human not be dedicating their life to get this sequence further?

I have grown to be obsessed with communication (as the sequence of inventions above might indicate), and that's the one thing I'm dedicated to improve. We need radically better ways to think, organize and communicate. I've been searching for years, and I've yet to find anyone who's both ambitious and serious about these issues. It is extremely clear that the vast majority of people waste an incredible amount of energy solving unimportant problems, and that's incredibly frustrating.

Is anyone ambitious anymore? Why aren't real problems being solved?
Are people sending DMCA notifications for the copies? They have the right to and if you stop the troll copies (whether they did use DMCA process or not), nobody can benefit from them. Still not perfect, but why do the scam if you can't benefit from it.