skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you use Snapchat a lot, you may notice how often you get updates from people or see their public story change. Do you ever stop to think about the old snaps, or miss them? No, because you have a constant stream of new ones. You can always make more memories.

Nothing about the cloud is that different from what we had before. With shared hosting providers, you and 50 other users would fill up your disk quota on one or two hard drives on some dinky 1U server running Apache and ProFTPD. If the drives died, along with it went your data. Which is why you kept a copy on your own computer. Back then, nobody expected anyone to keep their data for them, so they just kept their own backups. The same was true for managed services and colo with the exception that you had to do more of the work yourself.

Because the industry has gotten better about preventing data loss, we get complacent and stop saving our stuff as much. But why piss and moan over more reliable, more massive services for cheap or free? Because it isn't perfect, or innovative, or more transparent?

The status quo of the industry is to reinvent the wheel, so it's hard to get mad at people for re-packaging the same solution in a different container. The obsession of holding onto all your old stuff just makes this look even more unnecessary.
In France the very elite students get paid during their studies (equivalent to Msc, not PhD). In exchange they are supposed to work as civil servants for some time (not sure all are supposed to do that), but some go work abroad right after their studies so that investment is mostly lost by the French government.
Chronic fatigue syndrome has the very unfortunate property of being a symptom, rather than a disease per se, so that it ends up being code for "undiagnosed". This makes any research which attempts to study it extremely difficult to interpret and sensitive to details of the study population which may not be reported. This makes raw data especially important.
Looks like increasing the efficiency by providing a better airflow path. This will also make them burn hotter but presumably the cooks can compensate for that.

Nice result from what is essentially steel scrap.
US power grid vulnerable to foreign hacks
May be useful at the enterprise level/in a work context. I will be honest and admit that as an executive at a startup, I often sign up for tools that I plan to later sunset but forget about / think "Well, I might use that next month." Totally different mindset than I might apply personally.
That's true, I think it's human nature to get defensive when there's any personal element. Same reason it's ineffective to say, "you're wrong about X", but rather more effective to say, "the thing you said about X is wrong". If it's about the person that said the thing rather than the thing that was said (even if it's just the slightest whiff of it being about the person), even the most confident and self-aware brains can get super defensive without even realizing it.
The Cloud is a rip off - i Engineered AWS as a sub-contractor for Amazon.
Yes, but a dining plan can be significantly more costly than buying food at a grocery store. When MIT tried to require that all students get on a dining plan, there were protests from the less-expensive dorms on the east side.
Are you familiar with any specific meditation traditions? Most historical traditions split practice into those two categories--concentration meditation, which is one pointed and object focused, and 'bare awareness', which allows the mind to wander as it pleases, without judgment, while observing what that is like.

Just pretty neat if you came up with those both on your own.
> history is littered with companies that closed down on very short notice leaving their users' data deleted or inaccessible

That's absurdly unlikely to happen with S3.
There's an irregular community around the 'Rocket stove' concept who seem to love playing around with different stove designs. It's briefly mentioned in the article, but it's a good starter term to search if you're interested in more information.
What's the relative risk that my specific control panel will get hacked and I, specifically, will lose all my data, vs. the risk that data on my local store will be compromised by a virus on my computer encrypting my whole hard drive and refusing to let go until I send XYZ bitcoins to a specific address?

There's risks and then there's risks. As always, you can spend some time and money to mitigate some risk, and decide some risk is low enough that you don't care to mitigate it. I wouldn't just assume one risk vector is higher than another without some concrete numbers.
I wasnt taking issue with you giving your opinion, I was taking issue with the reasoning behind your opinion. Your comment amounts to "I have concluded they won't be able to do anything new. My reasoning is that I cant think of anything new they might do."

"I can't think of anything" is a pretty poor reason to begin with, but the entire topic is something new they might do. Almost by definition, that hyoithetical new thing is going to entail something you haven't thought of. So "I can't think of anything" is even worse evidence in this case.
Is their opportunity to rent/lease wind turbines or solar panel arrays not on your own property? Similar to the time share concept. A field of such is created and you gain access to lower cost electricity without having it on your own property. Think of it like a co-opt. It would ideally be situated near you, say in set asides many subdivision have but maintenance is improved and there are no site/sight changes to your own property.
He's saying that the article does not apply for S3 and other paid services.
Stremio is a 100% legal, unlike Popcorn Time it's not designed and distributed only for infringement use cases.

Of course, just like Plex, you can use torrent add-ons with it.

Something to point out is that we do suggest to the users add-ons which are popular in the area, so it makes any experience very streamlined.
Do you hit up recruiters or stakeholders at companies?
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If 1 was true, it would be true for Chiquita.

>A half-century later, its parent company would find that it was no longer economical to own its own ships.
Would you mind listing some specific features you're interested in? I ask because I've recently switched from WordPress to Pelican, and I'm quite happy, so far at least.
How does it compare to Plex? Seems very similar.
Might as well just change "use the cloud" to "use a computer".
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Given that you can become a resident of a state by not being claimed as a dependent by your parents and having an in state address, makes it possible for most students to get the in-state rate if they choose. Typical path seems to be spend a year at a community college which can transfer credits into your chosen university, attend that college until you have filed a tax return with you as your only dependent, transfer to the state school in the fall (or summer sometimes).
What's with disabling pinch zoom on mobile devices?
What's in a conference room name?
No. But the team that designed CL was.
I argue frequently that the cloud causes cognitive dissonance. People want the ease of use and reliability of centralized outsourced services, but other people want data privacy guarantee and control of those services. If anything is a threat to one or the other, it's the fact we fail to understand the various requirements from distinctly different use cases.

These polarized "requirements" are usually rationalized away by each group. As a data privacy advocate, I believe that I can provide a reliable storage solution to my company without using a centralized cloud service, which then guarantees my privacy because "I'm in control". As an advocate of centralized cloud services, such as Amazon, I present that their team is better at security and reliability than any other team on the planet and that I can encrypt something and trust that my key management is secure. Both of these arguments have fallacies and assumptions.

The solution is to challenge ourselves to build better solutions. At what point in time did technology advancement ever slow down? At what point will we ever stop and say "Y'all, this here compute system is good enough and should be centralized/decentralized!"? Never, I say.
If you have gone through many tutorials and feel there is still something missing, then definitely. If you feel you could present the program in a new more effective way, sure.

Things to keep in mind: (a) People are only beginners for a comparatively short time. (b) Language choice is very important. (c) Beginners will not know how to set up their development environment, and this can cause a lot of friction for any language.

In the end though, making something useful for other people is not a bad thing. If you are confident that you can bring something important to the programming education scene, go for it.
If you test it out, you'll find out. It's much easier to setup & use.

Besides the usability and ease of use, it's pretty much the same concept :)

Plex cannot solve these issues easily, because of it's technical design, the add-ons system / concept itself and the server architecture that is so important for their users

Think of Stremio as a possible Plex for the masses.
I fully understand that part, perhaps the FDA needs to adapt as well. Testing doesn't need to be static, there is room for cooperative certification and corrective actions to insure the test completes. With the rapid advances in some areas of technology you could run into a situation where you obsolete the technology you are working on as certification issues reveal improvements.

While the medical field certainly has additional concerns I do see a time where, with proper processes in place, that the final delivery may not exactly be what entered the certification phase.
Or editing Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Cloud_seeding#Vandalism
Turning gravity into light
>Follow @DoleCargo

I'm amused that the Cargo fleet has it's own twitter account.
Playing with Facebook's Birthday Data
Wait, so every task I undertake will become a piece of cake?
For what it's worth, in my tests, Hoard (http://www.hoard.org, https://github.com/emeryberger/Hoard) significantly outperformed SuperMalloc on a machine without TSX. For example, on a simple microbenchmark that tests scalability, Hoard is 2x faster with one thread, and the gap widens with more threads (Hoard is 3.3x faster with 8 threads, 4x faster with 16 threads).
>reproduce the MIT license alongside your GPLv3 license

The MIT license must be included in the provided software, but it isn't a part of the new license.
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My interest lies orthogonally to this… I wonder how much effort is required to port the runtime to a non-unix, non-c-standard-library API. (also not Windows, in case you were thinking that.)
Given article context she said that there must be a way of cracking encryption without installing backdoors which tech experts advise agaist. Where she dissmised what they say?

I think with quantum computing and possibilities that breaking encryption brings to the table goverments will have this in near future.
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I'm not sure why the title leads with the registration system not making sense rather than the fact that it's illegal. It seems like that's the much more important detail.
I see the sarc tag, but if you had a long-term contract with Reader it'd probably have been a different story.
At a large state school.
https://admissions.msu.edu/finances/tuition.asp

13k, for tuition alone.
It's a natural outcome of federalism. State A invests revenues heavily in a world renowned university. State B invests little in its postsecondary education. It is each states prerogative to decide how much to spend on education- federalism.

Naturally many State B residents will want to attend the world class university in State A. But they didn't pay a dime of taxes to support it. Hence, higher tuition rates for out of staters.

You see it as restricting access to education, but I see it more as reaping the the seed you sow. Each state chooses how much to spend on education, and lives with the results of their choices.
Rory Stewart, the speaker here, is a slightly unconventional politician, having in 2002 walked across Afghanistan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rory_Stewart
I know its uncool to here to talk about Bernie, but if you dudes are really serious about this- vote for Bernie, even if you're rich because rainy days may come anytime
Getting the scientific community to agree to almost anything makes herding cats look like a military parade. Even within a field, there are wildly varying opinions, and some fields tend to have higher or lower means. And thus far, I'm only talking about non-human where the primary concern is the ability to benefit from your own hard work without being "scooped on the analysis". Patient data adds a whole new dimension---with just genome sequence data, it's possible to infer someone's last name [1]. So deidentification is not as trivial as you make it sound. You can remove the obvious factors, but there's likely to be other things in there that you can't or don't know to remove that will inadvertently identify people.

None of this is to excuse the original authors or KCL, but it is worth remembering that science is huge, and no single policy will work for everyone. What I think. PLoS could do is, as an editorial position, require anyone publishing with them to have some "close to raw" data publicly available BEFORE the manuscript can be published. Would at be controversial? Sure, but I think it's also in line with PLOS's mission of making science accessible to the public.

[1] https://www.sciencemag.org/content/339/6117/321
> demonstrate that ... on a number of cloud platforms ... that their rates of data loss are significantly higher than your "home spun" storage

You seem to be missing the point.

People are not saying "don't use cloud storage at all"

They are saying "don't use cloud storage exclusively"

You might trust that your cloud providers will never be hacked, that your individual account on them will never be hacked, that they will never suffer a catastrophic failure, that they will never go out of business, that they will never be fully or intermittently down at the moment you need to retrieve some data, and so on and so forth, based on their claims and documentation, or that you won't cock up at some point and cause data loss in your account, but I prefer to have my own copy (or copies) as well as the ones that are "in the cloud". For truly essential data at least one of those copies is both offline and offsite.
If someone makes it into compeling game, yes. But it is very hard to do it, and in this case it happened by accident.
Well you have to be careful with what you're comparing. It would be rather unfair to compare the original UNIX design with a modern design like NT. UNIX did not have async I/O. It even blocked syscalls in its original design. I think Linux added async I/O quite recently (2.6?). I'm not really a kernel dev, but I have had to work on systems level stuff quite often on both OSs and from what I've seen NT has a much more richer I/O model. The I/O class/device/filter/driver model of NT makes writing driver code less of a chore IMHO. Also async I/O is supported on almost all I/O devices. I believe its only network and disk on Linux.
Mindfulness is definitely not meant to suppress thought or even certain types of thought. At its core it is non-judgmental observation of arising mental phenomena. That means thought, emotion, perception (e.g. touch), and even consciousness as observables, without any type of internal labeling ('that's a bad thought, that's a bad emotion, etc.').

It's possible for people to fall into this, where they exclusively focus on concentration meditation (like the breath) that leads to a kind of narrow-mindedness. It's also difficult because there are just so many books out there for people to read, that it's tough to know exactly what people are reading and suggesting to others, and some of the new-agey type literature ('think positive!') can possibly be harmful.

There are many reputable sources (historically and currently) that can say that the purpose is NOT to suppress your thoughts, even though this can be a common misconception about meditation practice.
Anyone know if there's work being done on a 7th edition of Windows Internals? I read Inside Windows 2000, which was totally awesome, but not super much changed on the architectural level between 2000 and Windows 7 (which is covered in the 6th edition), at least not to my untrained eye. Windows 8 and 10 might have some radically new stuff, just judging from the range of devices they target, and their efforts on speeding it up on slower hardware (reversing the trend of the bloating Windows versions up to Vista).

Now I've not really used Windows much in the past 10 years. I switched to OSX and then to Ubuntu (when the desktop experience became more bearable, and the license issues with OSX more important to me). But reading about the NT kernel feels like reading about how a kernel should be designed. It really is that much cleaner in my opinion than anything I ever read on OSX or Linux. If they ever did open source it, I'd certainly join a subculture of before-it-got-hip Windows kernel lovers with XMonad as a window manager ;)
These statements are true, but may not be reflective of why this story gets top billing on Hacker News. See techdragon's extrapolation comment that's a sibling to this one. ;)

Place smells more and more like Slashdot every month.
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But, your app, your marketing on the site(the movie & tv show images of copyright content) and comments here is called contributory infringement. https://ilt.eff.org/index.php/Copyright:_Infringement_Issues.

So, sorry you are making yourself liable by trying to do a work around what popcorn time was doing, as well your marketing on the site and the comments you leave here and elsewhere on the iNet makes you culpable no matter what country your in.

Overall your site looks awesome and I miss popcorn time and happy to see another similar app pop up. No doubt there will be tons more similar apps after yours gets shut down by the copyright dummies; dummies because they need to change their game/business model. Make the social experience of going to a movie theater something that makes that experience piracy proof and let piracy run rampant but they make money from it somehow. Let all of us hackers create amazing innovation around their content and they buy/own the best inventions... not sure, but they need to do something different if they are concerned about piracy. Though Star Wars did just make a half a billion dollars in one weekend and other films did similarly this year too, so they aren't suffering!
Yeah I guess I can see that. But then again I would never give important data to a 3rd party without some sort of contractual arrangement.
Article mentions ships were sold for debt relief for Chiquita, implying some other issues.
So, in South Carolina, The State reports that the state estimates that there are between 10,000 and 20,000 dams in the state which are not regulated by the state.

You'd think that a publication called 'The State' would be a lot more careful about throwing that term around, but within that article, it talks about "the state" meaning South Carolina as a geographical area, "the state" meaning the SC government as a regulatory authority, "the state" meaning government actors in general, and "the state" as a newspaper (though they do refer to themselves as "The State newspaper". Presumably they aren't claiming to be the official state newspaper, just a newspaper called 'The State').
Some of the Lisp and Haskell code examples aren't doing the same thing. For example, these two do completely different things:

(remove-if-not #'p xs :count 5 :start 3)

take 5 . filter p . drop 3

I don't like Haskell, and it's not immediately obvious to me how to achieve what the Common Lisp is doing, so I won't bother, but one way of writing the Haskell in CL would be:

(loop for x in (subseq xs 3)
when (p x) collect x into result
until (= (length result) 5)
finally (return result))

Another option would be to use subseq and remove-if-not, etc, but without lazy evaluation, the loop version will be more efficient. And though some Lisp people dislike LOOP, I like that it's easy to read, if not always easy to write ;-)

About the topic of the article, though, to me this seems like less a philosophical difference than a result of Haskell not having easy to use default and optional parameters. There's currying, but it's not a great substitute, and it's a little awkward to use.

I like the Common Lisp way, even if it's crufty at times, because the keyword arguments to functions like remove-if-not and sort are easier for me to use than chaining a half dozen functions. I don't have to think about whether I need to call filter before or after take or drop, etc. At the end of the day, it's a personal preference, though.

Another advantage is that I don't have to "roll my own" for common idioms.
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I don't. Credit unions exist.
Interesting read. Thanks for sharing.

Has me thinking about how language in the workplace influences emotion. What workplace emotions have you all experienced? "Looks like somebody has a case of the Mondays..."

Would defining workplace emotions be a good thing? Does it lead to more productivity? How could this affect engagement?
Yes: https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/projects/ruby-trunk/wiki/ReleaseE...
My point was more on the quality of the article. The article's point is a valid one, if you can find it.

To constructively disagree, though: I keep backups. I have a Synology NAS device that I really like. But for your average person, I have to wonder - are their digital photos really safer on their laptop than they are on Facebook? Facebook is a fairly stable company. Laptops are lost, stolen, and damaged all the time. Files are accidentally deleted. People get viruses. People forget the password to their full drive encryption. When Facebook does bite the dust, it's hard to imagine that data just disappearing - it's incredibly valuable, and in the worst case, someone would buy it just to sell it back to people. Not ideal, but it isn't lost, and you had free storage for several years anyway.
Considering that this is a comment on an article about Forth, I don't think "major project" is even in the realm of discourse :)
While upgrading "just because" should be avoided (and indeed, DHH stated as much in a keynote at one of the RailsConfs), that's exactly the approach the Ruby community/ecosystem have adopted as a whole. Most Rails plugins don't maintain compatibility with multiple versions. And if you use something that overlaps with Rails's dependency graph, you're going to have to deal with that in one way or another.

In Ruby and Rails, you basically have to keep updating regardless of the changelog simply to amortize your costs. If you fall too far behind then when you invariably do need to upgrade a dependency, you're going to have to pay all that cost in one swoop and the complexity of that amps up considerably.
Renaming jade -&gt; pug
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While those flight time requirements are 'true' they are not accurate. I've been a flight instructer for 30 years and have never signed off on someone with only 40 hours...the national average still hovers in the 60+ range...
Because you've built your slides with Reveal.js (http://lab.hakim.se/reveal-js/#/), for example.
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Doing it manually every 90 days isn’t that hard. I’d prefer if the default client would properly separate the parts it does, though.