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I can't say much about its technical merits but I find it misleading that an application be described as "serverless" when in actuality it very much uses servers. The "serverless" moniker comes from the Serverless Framework, produced by Serverless, Inc. "Serverless" is the name of a product and should be capitalized accordingly.

That kind of research will be done regardless. I'd rather their results be publicized and customers be cognizant of their own biases and the way they are being manipulated.

By the same logic, Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein would be russian agents too.

The benefits of that kind of CoC remain to be proven. Meanwhile, I note that HN's moderating guidelines do not mention sex, gender, religion, food choices, or most of what FreeBSD's new CoC describes.

HN's moderating guidelines are about content whereas FreeBSD's new Code of Conduct codifies human behaviour, as the name would imply. They are different things.

If anyone's wondering, that's a 104⅙ grosses.

Recently, I went shopping for vitamin D supplements and I was surprised by the very wide range in products marketed for daily usage, going from 600 IU to 12,000 IU.

The recommended intake and upper limit vary depending on which country's ministry of health or which non-governmental health organisation you ask.

The Mayo Clinic places toxicity at 50,000 IU [1] and there is anecdotal evidence (i.e. unverifiable comments from the EFSA public consultation on vitamin D) of individuals taking up to 100,000 IU a day.

[1]: https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/nutrition-and-h...

I haven't read a single comment here from someone "getting angry at the idea of diversity." What I've read are comments expressing disappointement that speakers are being judged by the color of their slides, not the content of their presentation.

Louis CK jokes about masturbation too; They're entertainers and raw humour is 2GD's trademark. It's like hiring Don Rickles and then complain that he wasn't nice to the attendees.

The issue with that hosting gig is that the tournament logistics were a disaster and he ended up having to stretch a solid 10 into several hours of filling dead air.

How is that even an argument? That's a false dilemma. The choice isn't limited to binary blob Flash/Silverlight vs binary blob DRM plugin.

"insecure", "huge red flag." For a banking site, an e-commerce site, a webmail, sure. Must an aquarium enthusiast forum be resistant to Man-in-the-Middle attacks? What about weak ciphers? Should every site be resistant to offline decryption by a state actor?

The other side of that coin is there needs to be a cost to bad actions.

If Bernie Maddoff was to reimburse every penny he stole, would you ask people to trust him with their money? I expect not. Similarly, if a politician was against equal rights for a long time and only changed their mind around the time it was ruled unconstitutional, I wouldn't ask people to trust them with their future.

I don't see anything that I would describe as "spamming" in that account's history. I can't say what the feature was meant for, but we can see how it's been used.

Is that a lot or...? Without a frame of reference I don't know if it's more than a litre of coffee or a litre of asparagus water from Whole Foods.

If I understand correctly, this quantum computer came closer to cracking RSA the same way shifting in your chair gets you closer to Jupiter.

Rehash of this previous submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11074587

The drop in pull request acceptance from gender-neutral to gendered is worse for men than for women. (Figure 5) Anyone can cherry-pick parts of that preprint to support their argument.

By the way, "dumb" means unable to speak, or mute. Using "dumb" as a synonym for stupid is as offensive as using "retarded" as a synonym for idiotic. Which, in my opinion, is not at all.

Are you sure you want to compare cryptocurrency exchanges' safety to 19th century banks?

In the 21st century, customers of traditional banks usually don't lose any money when a bank is robbed.

Over the years, I saw the language in the Taser article on Wikipedia go from "less-lethal" to "less-than-lethal" (shortly) to "non-lethal" (current) when describing the weapon. In retrospect I wonder if the Taser company was involved in that change too.

People who read the first submission (before the rebuttal) will miss the follow-up if it doesn't reach the front page. Assuming they don't go back to the first submission to read new(?) comments.

I expected something that would extract a color off Google Images in the background.

They didn't just threaten to shut it down, according to their email (https://imgur.com/QC51FZz) they did disable it at the same time they disabled the parent repository a few days ago. (https://archive.is/XiTS9)

Can either of you give a source backing your argument?

I thought the "Share for a chance to win*" button was a demo illustrating the kind of button not to click.

The README mentions Squash, where you can see the results of many more compressors. https://quixdb.github.io/squash-benchmark/

Opera has the same horrendous user-agent string, except with "OPR" instead of "Vivaldi".

Here's an excerpt from the article. The very first words of the article:

> A day after Google publicized a flaw in Windows 8.1 before Microsoft could do anything about it, [...]

I stopped reading after this, for obvious reasons.

> Perhaps the maintainer should burn out

I find this comment in poor taste. A burnout is not something I wish to anyone.

The author of the article does, since it's mentionned in it.

> What do you do when the Feds show up with a lawful order?

I don't expect them to say no. That's why I don't expect them to imply that they would or suggest that they never have.

To me it seems that these statements are needlessly specific. They remain technically truthful if: - The back door was created by a third party. Apple didn't create it. - Apple created a backdoor without working with a government agency. - Apple provides a "frontdoor". Some sort of bulk access to the data that is not considered a "backdoor." - many variations on the same theme.

Same thing with allowing access to their servers. They may provide access to some other part of their infrastructure. The government agency may provide their own servers that are a mirror of Apple's in a way that does not require direct access to Apple's servers. And so on...

Tim Cook should have said something like "We do not provide bulk data to any third party."