skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Depending on your needs, you could try Syncthing [1].

IMO the major functional differences between it and Dropbox are:

* You have to provide the servers that Dropbox provides. I.E. you have to provide the level of availability that you want. [2]

* FOSS licensed.

* Because your data is only ever stored on your machines, you are only limited by your own storage and bandwidth.

[1]
https://syncthing.net/

[2]
This requirement has actually loosened to some degree because the latest version of Syncthing introduced relay servers. So you still need to provide available storage servers, but you can use relays to overcome partitions in your network.
Or more concretely, since these projects are typically running on a hypothesis-testing paradigm, you can do a hybrid power analysis: compute a fully Bayesian analysis of the original experiment using other experiments and informative priors which take into account the true distribution of effects in a particular subfield (eg a broad distribution with many large effects if it's related to IQ, or a narrow distribution around zero if it's related to things like priming or stereotype thread) to generate a posterior distribution of effect sizes.

Then you can simulate the results of future experiments with _n_ datapoints: sample 1 effect size from that distribution, generate _n_ datapoints assuming that effect size, run the hypothesis-testing, and return the _p_-value.

The fraction of _p_<=0.05 is your best forecast of whether the future experiment will succeed in reproducing it or not.
No, not in the slightest. Take strawberries: an additional 5 cents per pint would increase picker wages by 50% [1]. Businesses minimize worker pay both because they can, and because there is a collective action problem that needs to be solved by the government. Wages for fast-food employees are similar. viz the raise in minimum wages in Seattle which, contra all predictions from conservatives, has not driven restaurants out of business. See eg study suggesting a minimum wage of $15 for fast food workers would increase customer prices by 4.3% [2].

[1] http://www.ufw.org/_board.php?mode=view&b_code=res_white&b_n...

[2] https://www.purdue.edu/newsroom/releases/2015/Q3/study-raisi...
You know, financial theory pretty much has this theory of people lending directly to each other not looking so good.

Quite frankly, you have zero predictive ability to outperform the market, particularly over an extended timespan or multiple credit cycles.

Furthermore, even if you were to "average out" / index your portfolio of P2P loans, your transaction costs would be way higher than simply going through a financial institution that streamlines that process for you so as to minimize transaction costs.

Aside from legal reasons, this is one reason stocks and other financial instruments aren't sold P2P. Considering transaction costs are probably the biggest controllable variable affecting your portfolio's returns, particularly over time, I just can't see how this makes the cost of borrowing go down for the system as a whole.
You can't do freemium unless you are prepared to upsell the crap out of your free users.*

Otherwise you're wasting your time and your users time.

* Unless you want to eat the costs for a few years. In that case you need to really develop your brand to become top of the line in your market.
Really agree with this.
Its not my go-to language for many things that could be done with a simple script, but its good to have it in the toolbox when i do have those sort of problems.
I think if i was writing a high-performance API i would use Go
The general rule is that copyright terms are never reduced. Some of the countries in TPP signed up for the Berne convention before 1978, which means that the US method would reduce the length of some copyrights.
JP Morgan and Fidelity targeted in 'one of the largest hacking schemes ever'
If you don't mind me asking, is your salary compared to the people in Canada quite high? (Kind of like in the U.S.) I know that in some countries making money as a software engineer is as lousy as working in a bakery.
That's a feature, not a bug. It incentivizes the sponsor to offer a compensation package that won't be sniped.
Disclaimer: I’m the CTO at Jut and have been with the company since it’s inception.

Actually Jut didn't shut down last week. We figured out a much better way to package up our tech and ended up making some big changes to execute on this strategy. Unfortunately @PurpleQuark and a number of other really great people are no longer with us.
Interesting. Since the difference between not buying something and a boycott is communicating your intentions to the public, I think this is really a restriction on speech.
That's just a storage enclosure. You'd need a separate server with SAS connectivity to use that. It still may be worth it $$/Gb wise depending on cost.
Yes, this is a good point (and I've hit this in the builtin XML unmarshalling too). I should point out I'm mostly looking at go in comparison with Ruby rather than the C, so the JSON implementation is still high-performance by that metric :)
You can renounce US citizenship, as long as you have paid all your taxes up to that point. The point is it's a proactive action.

http://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/legal-consideratio...

Persons intending to renounce U.S. citizenship should be aware that, unless they already possess a foreign nationality, they may be rendered stateless and, thus, lack the protection of any government.

There are also a lot of exceptions to that IRS rule, depending on the type of income.

PS: As to renouncing Citizenship; Social Security is an example of long term obligation that transcends where your living in a single year. If your willing to give up Social Security by renouncing Citizenship then things get simple.
Most comments on here regarding xenophobia etc seem to be missing the overall point of this article.

The real issue is that these companies and individuals cannot be held accountable by the FAA. Usually every single item of work can only be officially signed off (which makes you legally responsible for it) by somebody the regulator considers qualified to do so. If it later turns out that that particular job was done incorrectly a paper trail follows directly to the individual(s) responsible. Not surprisingly this kind of accountability makes your average engineer very diligent.

If you have a lot of engineers that are not accredited and so cannot legally approve work (someone comes in and rubber-stamps everything), or are based in a country with a sketchy legal system you're gonna have a bad time upholding standards, regardless of how "good" the engineers are and the quality of their English. It would be xenophobic if the FAA was freaking out about work done in Europe, Canada, Australia etc too - but it isn't.
It seems like a potentially interesting article, but it reads like it is not not written in double negatives.

I mean the article states that being drab is about not investing in expensive traits. But everything about it is written as if there isn't a lot of natural culling of colorful things that is more natural to talk about.
> these appliances, while cool, are pretty far from state of the art. We're (Dropbox) packing up to an order of magnitude more storage into 4U.

Blog post or it didn't happen :)

Seriously though, there seems to be some really cool engineering at Dropbox, first with Go usage (https://twitter.com/jamwt/status/629727590782099456) and now with your storage capacity. We're all craving for more infrastructure details, see what you consider as the state of the art and how you use the different pieces of software/language !
Man I feel pretty bad for Boston Dynamics. They went from having a bright and glowing future with Government/Military contracts to being dimmed down by Google. They really seem like a company that shouldn't be tamed.
H1B isn't capped by skill or position, only by total visas, so I'm not sure what you're talking about with exotic skills.

H1B applicant wages must be higher than existing U.S. citizens, so if anything it's increasing average wages for educated labor and further incentivizing citizens to train for these skilled positions.
Anecdote. I suggested that a bright young PhD science student switch from point-click software to scripting software for his analysis. He replied that he would never do that; he was "too old to learn something like that."
More on Orphaned Works:

"Significant among those changes were the elimination of the registration and notice requirements, which resulted in less accurate and incomplete identifying information on works, and the automatic renewal of copyrighted works that were registered before the effective date of the 1976
Copyright Act." [0]

Bringing back registration and ending automatic renewals would do a lot of good. (Adding a fee would be better.) Has there been any work on laws to do this?

[0] http://copyright.gov/orphan/reports/orphan-works2015.pdf
The real question is when will they extend their API to facilitate integration?
And also, nothing that lives or dies down there has any effect on humanity.
Maybe I misunderstood, but do you really think they would be compiling Chrome on Windows XP? I doubt that's the reason.
I don't. Twitter is crap
> Employers are setting these wages when they hire immigrants many months in advance

That's not how people are hired in exceptional circumstances, as is the stated intention of the H1-B law. That IS how people are hired for outsourcing body shops, which should not survive this change.
Again, why not just remove the cap?

If you're rearranging the application process to solve problems created with the bidding, which is to solve problems from created from cap, why not just solve the original problem?

The review process and due diligence for H1B takes months, so signals are still only available in large intervals, which creates volatility that favors high quantity employers like H1B shops.
I remember awhile ago Martini used to have a large performance hit that Gin didn't. I think it had something to do with the url multiplexer, wouldn't be surprised if it's since been fixed but it was the reason I initially chose Gin when I first started writing Go.
So, what's the URL so I can see if flu is prevalent in my area?
takes forever, and now the file list takes 8GB+ of space - support says the only way to fix the problem is to create a new account and go through the months of backing everything up again
If this issue is interesting to you from either the researcher or software engineering side please consider working with, taking classes from, or just supporting
Greg Wilson's Software Carpentry http://software-carpentry.org
or the spin off Data Carpentry.

Full disclosure:
I am not affiliated in any way shape or form.
Just a fan of the intent.
What did you manage to store?
Is there any software to create a simple intranet prediction market?
I've been quite (pleasantly) surprised at the quality of electronic components/tools I've ordered off of Aliexpress/eBay. And yeah the leading indicator seems to be how consumer-focused the item is - A while back I did a test with 4 random 5V1A phone chargers, figuring one or two would be shoddy. The best of the lot could put out 600mA - I didn't even bother opening them up for visual inspection.

I attribute the popular refrain of "Chinese crap" to general simplemindedness bemoaning the state of the world. Your average person is not likely to focus on where a product is made when it works. Since everything is made in China, broken->"Made in China" is the association that gets made.

It's not like people aren't aware that it's the Western companies cheapening things, but they won't stop supporting them and the general unifying factor is still "China". Take something like Harbor Fright - it's clear that everything the store sells is "Chinese crap", yet they're still patronized by the people complaining the hardest. I think people just like to complain rather than act.
Also, it doesn't help that the O1 visa mentions Nobel Prize and Oscars in its description. Only a handful of non-Americans in the world would qualify in any given year going by these qualifications.
Sorry for the misinformation then. Thanks for clearing this up.
Yes:

reply, err := redis.Givemethevalue(key)
if err != nil {
return err
}

thing, err := postgres.getById(reply)
if err != nil {
return err
}

Go allows you to assign with := if at least one of the left-hand-side variables is new.
I'm not sure we're using the term "strongly typed" in the same sense. Could we back up a bit? In what sense are you using the term "strongly typed"?
By definition it cannot be a motte-and-bailey since motte means mound or hill, of which there is none.

It would also be an extremely small fortification that would be exceptionally hard to build. So while that explanation might be worth examining, I think logistically you would need to explain why they wouldn't have just used wooden bound structures instead (which you could source more locally). It isn't like four stones make something fire proof.

Plus it entirely ignores other linked religious ruins in the area like the town of Amesbury four miles away (and their stones). And those clearly have no military purpose, and were also moved and resurrected.

I'm all for buying into a theory that Stonehenge had a purpose. But militarily? Meh. It is just not consistent with anything and doesn't make a whole lot of sense. It looks nothing like other military structures from the time.
There's also very little incentive to write code that's ultra-transportable. For the most part, I'm using it, for this one specific thing, and that thing alone.

I once refactored some code of mine to make it way more accessible and automated. It was, to be blunt, a complete waste of time.
I don't buy the pivotal assumption:

"Among the top 10,000 sites that show third-party capable advertising, we find that on average 15% of users visit the site at least 10 times per month, with the more popular sites tending to have more loyal visitation. We further estimate that if one-fourth of such loyal users ultimately subscribe to the sites they visit, a monthly fee of $2 would generate revenue comparable to the entire stream from third-party advertising, based on current ad rates"

Why? Because the friction associated with paid subscriptions is still prohibitive, especially when the natural tendency is to evaluate the subscription decision (monthly recurring fee) in light of reading a single article.

The notion of a fluid, browser-based payment system could easily overcome these frictions by allowing users to trivially pay a nominal fee to access any individual piece of content.

While I can see Microsoft backing Do-Not-Track lobbying to weaken the threats coming out of the Bay Area; any browser-based content solution will likely strengthen the same companies who now control internet advertising.
On some points interpretation may be needed. On other points it's a stretch. At still other points maybe a stretch to breaking and beyond.

You may not care for literal text, but a lawful society depends on it. Governments just doing whatever they feel is best at the moment aren't generally very robust. There has to be restraint over a judiciary. A limit to how far they can stretch things. Opinions vary on what this limit is, but, back to the original point, some aspects of NSA data collection, from my point of view very clearly exceed this limit as embodied in the constitution.

Probably the real answer is we need an update. A 200 year old document might not be the best guide for modern times. But you can only have authorities claim it is day when it is really night for so long without people starting to suspect corruption. And I think that's where we are at. Sadly.
Although the conversion rate to paying customers provides one simple-to-estimate portion of the value and at an astounding 11% conversion rate, that alone might pay for it if the support costs weren't so high.
it takes months to get everything backed up, and now the just the file lists or whatever is taking up 8GB+ on my disk (i use a smaller SSD as the primary drive so space is precious). I contacted support and their only solution is to create a new account and go through many more months of backing everything up again.
Brozillionaire Evan Spiegel Is Quite Taken with Brazillian Jorge Lemann
Nah, WW2 era occupations were anything but nebulously defined. Just reminding people that the US never honors its promises when it comes to withdrawal.

EDIT: I'll admit that the first Okinawa comment wasn't entirely thought out.
lol, probably true, but it's actually pretty easy to keep up with accounting standards once you're somebody with his experience and you just have access to the FASB website, like we did in my accounting class in university. On a side note, this guy was my friends' little league coach :)
I have this theory that Zuckerberg married Priscilla in an attempt to allow Facebook through the great firewall of China. I think if Zuckerberg portrays himself as a man of the Chinese people (marrying Priscilla, traveling to China frequently, posting Facebook photos of said travels,) that eventually China will soften up enough to open that sweet, sweet 1b person market up to Facebook.
I wish I could get that card, seems the offer is no longer available :(

Next best thing I found for my shopping habits was the Citibank one with 2% flat on everything
It's not an exact comparison, but this is in the ballpark.

https://github.com/FormidableLabs/react-shuffle
Interesting, with this information and some idea of what they pay for electricity +support staff/drive replacements/maintenance you could probably figure out their break-even mark.

Their cost for the pod (which they say includes labor) comes out to 0.044/GB. The cost of redundancy is 3/20 drives, which would place the cost to 0.0517/GB of data. They are planning to charge 0.005/GB on the B2 service this is made for. That's 10-11 months to break even on the initial cost. Add electricity + maintenance costs (of which I have no idea what it is) and you get the break-even number. My guess is that it'd be 1 year. So however long each pod lasts past 1 year is gravy (aside from the electricity + maintenance costs).

Amazon S3 must be making a killing. As a customer you must be paying for the cost of the "pod" every 2 months.

Please excuse me while I buy stock in Amazon/Box/Dropbox/Backblaze/etc....

----

As a aside, as a personal user if you store over 1TB you are getting storage at a cheaper cost than B2 users. If under 1 TB you'd be better of using B2.

Seems to me that the average storage per user must be well under 1 TB on their unlimited plans.
I think a more fundamental problem is that coding and documentation aren't actually taught in a formalized way to many scientists, so you pick up the habits that worked for you at the time, and just carry those forward.
Not trying to align with any movement. Just saying that we give the design away. Appreciate all the feedback and we'll re-look at adding a license.

To be clear on our philosophy - we don't want to restrict people from building these for their own purposes, modifying them, giving away the design, selling the boxes, etc.
I don't believe in government protections for elite workers. The median salary for H1B-holders is north of $70,000, well above median household income in the US, let alone individual income. I'm sure that within particular industries H1Bs make less than local workers, but perhaps the pay in those industries is inflated due to the low supply of workers. Ironically it is technology workers, responsible for more labor-market disruption than immigration and trade combined, who are complaining the most about competition from H1Bs. What's good for the goose is good for the gander.
The Species Problem
That looks like a really fun gizmo. I'm surprised it took him that long to get the capacitors though. Another fun way of storing energy is a flywheel on an axle driving a generator. You can mechanically get the flywheel up to speed while the coil of the generator is open circuit, and then power your apparatus with it by shorting the output coil. If I did the math right and you used an old 20" car rim and weighted it up to 25kg (55 lbs) you would need to spin it at 2,500 RPM to store up 27kJ of energy. Lawn mower motor could do that, I've seen it on Battlebots :-).

But perhaps more interesting slug. The NRL uses a conductive "sabot" in the gun which then launches the projectile (which is not plasma at that point) our the end. Seems like some improvement to be made there.

Also there is the issue of erosion of the gun rails. How many shots before you need new rails?

The best thing though is the really awesome small talk at parties, "I was tuning up the rail gun to manage the shock wave that develops on the leading edge of the slug when it goes supersonic in the barrel you know? And then I noticed hey, the plasma is creating a partial vacuum from the heat, and the shock wave I'm seeing comes when it hits the air at the end of the rails, and I think hey someone has to have solved this problem ..."
Defining a sector is problematic. To narrow and you can just bid for jobs in the "systems administration" sector and then move them to software engineer after hire. To broad and we miss companies that produce non-monetary value like biotech or chemical research.
Slavery, genocide, and tyranny are a fact of life for many people in the world today. We haven't gotten it right yet.
Because Paul's dream of open immigration for startup employees is a giant negative externality for the rest of us.
Former neuroscientist here. Used to work with intracranial EEG (electrodes directly on the brains of epilepsy patients).

This is very cool, and there will definitely be some neat consumer applications.

But this is not a "proper" headset, compared to lab equipment. Lab equipment has more electrodes, positioning protocols, and electrode gel. As yoz-y mentioned, that electrode gel can boost signals by orders of magnitude. Good luck getting clean gamma signals from a dry electrode. (Power falls off non-linearly with the frequency, and gamma is the highest frequency we typically capture with EEG.)

The most likely scientific application of stuff like this is long-term/ecologically valid recording. E.g., let the user wear this all day with Google Glass. OTOH, even a small number of dry electrodes should suffice to train ML algorithms to turn on your computer with your mind.
> They call him "Loudmouth Linus" because he reportedly called them names, and reference the recent WaPo article.

He did call the OpenBSD folks that: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/706950
Yup I'm learning to play an instrument and the tactile instant feedback is amazing; but software is clearly cheaper and infinitely more configurable (you're limited only by your memory, so basically there's no limitation!). It sounds like a worthwhile problem to look into making interfaces to bring that feedback to software.
> What's the point of backing up a bluray rip?

What's the point of backing up anything?

> Either you have the source material, in which case its almost always going to be faster to rerip than restore from backup

Sure, it will be faster, because it will be a local operation, because you probably keep the original near the same place you keep the main rip. That also means that the original source and the in-use rip are vulnerable to being destroyed together in a site-affecting event (fire, flood, robbery, etc.), which makes having a remote backup valuable.
It's like hell has frozen over!
On a Nexus phone, the pathway to unlocking the bootloader (and thus being able to install an alternative OS) is this:

$ fastboot oem unlock

On the vast majority of other Android phones, one must perform a customized attack against your phone in order to unlock the bootloader... and on some phones, that attack has not yet been discovered.
isn't that just how options or event prediction exchange / markets work?
> ... hasn't anything remotely to do with productivity. Which is the only thing that matters in workplaces today.

Hahahahahaahahaahahaahaha, if only.
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