skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Before I die, I want to be cryogenically frozen and revived 500 years from now, just to see how people speak in the distant future. And then I'll die a very confused old man.
Isn't the correct english "a Trump dig". Doesn't it suggest now that Trump was forced to dig something?
rsnapshot: "rsnapshot is a filesystem snapshot utility based on rsync. rsnapshot makes it easy to make periodic snapshots of local machines, and remote machines over ssh. The code makes extensive use of hard links whenever possible, to greatly reduce the disk space required."

http://rsnapshot.org
I'm assuming they are trying to replicate the success Chinese platforms, like WeChat.
Explaining the concretes would be a lot of unpleasant detail. The why is far more interesting.

I am very good at "tunnel vision". Taking a thread and following it in depth. Completely learning a system in depth so that anything that comes up, I know exactly where to go and what to do.

I am weak on "peripheral vision". Keeping track of 15 balls in the air, and operating with limited information about each. Being effective with limited context about each individual system because there isn't time to learn any of them in depth.

Tunnel vision is a virtue in a software developer. Peripheral vision is essential for a sysadmin.

Now imagine a person with poor peripheral vision trying to learn a system as big and complex as Google's. And being responsible to support 15 different pieces of software written by 15 different teams so that when anything went belly up with any of them, you can trouble-shoot and get it running again.

Nothing particularly bad happened, but I also wasn't accomplishing the job to the standards that Google wanted in that role. And I was not the only person on my team failing in that way.

Ideally it would have been my manager's job to say, "I recognize that this person isn't working out here, is there a better role for them?" That didn't happen. Several months later my manager got fired. I was privately told that my situation was a trigger, but I don't know details.

The fact that my situation is fairly common strongly suggests that the ultimate failure was organizational and systemic. I don't fault Google for hiring developers into their hybrid developer/sysadmin role. I do fault them for not having an explicit onramp/reconsideration process to mitigate the risk that they create by doing so.
Best way to handle these are to use a random string for all the answers if you can, and if they let you create your own questions use more random strings; same goes for login names.

What city was my dad born in? xGU,wT&Yvcn6vr?]#,mE of course.
It's a number of services written in a mix of Java and C++.

https://code.facebook.com/posts/820258981365363/building-mob...
https://code.facebook.com/posts/699902483369896/inside-faceb...
https://code.facebook.com/posts/403496919755405/scaling-the-...
Beyond a certain size (basically, once the time the migration will take because of the size of the data it applies to is too large), migrations are a heavy investment - in elapsed time, I/O, and so forth. As such, they are planned to a degree that CD probably isn't the solution for it (for example, you probably can only have one migration in flight at a time).

They aren't done live as a single big process that have the potential to lock all queries/updates over their execution, but rather as a set of smaller steps that don't lock.

Facebook has spoken about its online schema change process before - https://www.facebook.com/notes/mysql-at-facebook/online-sche... and its follow-up at https://www.facebook.com/notes/mysql-at-facebook/online-sche... for example, and I'm sure elsewhere.

Most people using MySQL would potentially first use something like https://www.percona.com/doc/percona-toolkit/2.1/pt-online-sc... instead of trying to create their own.

The same principles apply to other data stores that have more rigid schemas.
It's in the works. We're aware of the request.
Yes that's correct. But DCE RPC is used for control of all AD-DC instances. That's why it's rated important.
Show HN: We built a bot platform on Lambda but aren't persuing it, interested?
Hello,

We made a bot framework but have decided not to pursue it. Normally we would just shutter the project and move on to something else.

The thing is that the product itself is really cool. I'd hate to just let it wither and die.

I don't have anything specific in mind but if you're interested in this space (which just got hotter because of F8) then let me know and we can chat.

Here is an example of a bot that manages a group text message chat room. https://medium.com/@jmathai/create-a-group-text-channel-in-under-a-minute-with-joule-using-twilio-and-aws-lambda-58a2d12450e8

It's not limited to bots. But it's a great use case of the platform.

We have a few friends using it but haven't pushed it a wider audience.

Details:

* URL: https://joule.run
* Documentation: https://joule.run/docs/quickstart
* Tech: Python, Flask, EC2, Dynamo, Lambda, API Gateway, Vagrant, Node, NPM
* Public source code: https://github.com/joulehq (mainly npm packages to help build Joules)
* Code quality: Very good for an MVP
This is exactly how eatwith.com got started.

In the Netherlands something similar was very popular for a while: 'aanschuifmaaltijden' (as a general term). Not anymore I think because local governments forbid or enforced strong regulation (just like restaurants).
Not a scientist but I first read this on The Economist and they summed it up pretty well:

"At its destination it would beam back pictures of the star’s planets with its on-board laser. No current observatory could possibly pick up such a signal—but the kilometre-wide launch array should be able to. The optical systems used to meld the output of the lasers could be used in reverse as a vast and sensitive telescope."

http://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/2169687...
Yes, and this matter has been appropriately handled. We'll be doing a lot more to ensure it doesn't recur.
Hotel categories will surely vary because certain places are primer. We intend to have alpha rooms for backpacking, flagship and elite rooms
The old ways of building a following are still available, but much, much less so than say in the 90's. Many of the local clubs have gone out of business, as you're more likely to make more money in a commercial space doing almost anything other than staging live music. There are of course exceptions, as in music hubs like LA and Austin, but around the Bay Area for example, I'd say 50% or more of the local clubs have shut down.
Edit: typo.
Reads fine for me (Firefox under Ubuntu).
I've seen requests passed to Google, which is how I noticed it in the first place.

This source appears to show at least for downloads the browser is sending data to the API: "From Firefox 32 on, downloads are checked against the local list and a remote list if the local list does not return a hit."

SOURCE: http://www.ghacks.net/2014/07/23/prevent-firefox-sending-dow...
> The short answer is you design around it.

Sorry but that seems like a pretty crap answer.

The answer to "what tools allow you to manage database migrations with CD" should not be "don't do database migrations with CD" or "roll your own toggling features."
Boring Is Sexy: What the Avengers can teach you about startups
Auto zoom D3.js network
Otherwise you have to manually do a release after it gets promoted.
Apple grows to 7.4% of worldwide PC market
Yes, that is basically the idea for the first version, I will take a closer look to Karma Platform
Yep. It makes it harder to convince the rubes to die for someone else's private gain when you enslave them outright. Works much better if they're desperate due to "austerity" measures, so they choose to sign up.
The last sentence should be:

Unlike practicing law, there's no punishment for working as a software engineer without a license.
We BYU alumni have the advantage of an education that was massively subsidized, down to the point where you can actually afford to work your way through. State schools are supposed to do that too, but they don't anymore. That's why BYU is now near the top of the Forbes list of "Best Value Colleges" or whatever it is.
For healthcare I think the circulation definition applies; that is, if you can't afford healthcare, you probably aren't middle class.
I would prefer finding a subset of JavaScript in which omitting semicolons is okay. Maybe this could be enforced in a linter. For example, if you never begin statements with [ or (, would it be okay to omit all semicolons?

A semicolon doesn't seem like much but that's a lot of extra typing over the course of a career.
This update is great. Very happy I bought Arq :).

I was excluding cache.noindex from my other backup system (carbon copy cloner). Is it still safe to do so?
You don't seem to realize it but your countLines() method is a getter.

At the end of the day, you need to get values from your class, otherwise, they are useless (and they do side effects).
You're assuming people who are unhealthy, lack options, and live shorter lives are always unhappy. Assuming that "health, freedom, and longevity" lead to happiness is a value statement and entirely subjective.

Do not disregard the importance of gratitude in determining happiness. A grateful person can be happy even in the face of death and oppression. Grateful people are the outliers that always seem to confound studies on money and happiness.
I do mean pay. I'm kinda assuming someone isn't going to be stealing from the cartel. That would be... bad for ones health.
Ahem.. why does the object have to be behind the solar sail?
Cant it be, one object hanging between two solar sails?
Or Three?

Is there something i dont get here?
> Instead, the logo is noteworthy precisely because it has achieved critical acclaim despite, or more accurately, because of its failure to communicate.

That, right there, is a damning indictment of the entire modernist project: communication achieves acclaim because it fails to communicate; art achieves acclaim because it fails to be beautiful; life achieves acclaim because it is sterile.

As an aside, I love the dry tone of the piece, with lines like 'However, not only does the new abstract logo break this entire history, but it adds even more potential readings of the logo' — with a demonstration of how the upside-down new logo looks like a hand flipping the bird. The essay's full of bone-dry commentary like that. It's glorious in its restrained vehemence.
> "Considered" by whom?

German and EU authorities.

> What are the actual levels? How do they compare to the radioactivity of other foods?

http://www.sueddeutsche.de/bayern/hohe-radioaktive-werte-wil...

Legal levels are <400 Bq/kg for baby food and 600 Bq/kg for other foods; contamination in these cases ranges from 1000 to 10000 Bq/kg.
just the fact that it feels _unnatural_. I'm not saying it's wrong, just that personally I don't feel it's a good thing. I know it's tracking only the things you add to it, but still. I think my problem with it is that it feels messy.

My approach: git repo with a very simple setup script that creates symlinks to the dotfiles/dotdirs. It also manages some sensitive things like gpg/ssh keys.
Creating a Delightful User Experience with iOS Keyboard Shortcuts
We've already established that this is a documentation issue worth fixing, but surely you're not suggesting a lack of IIS-specific documentation on the website is reason enough to keep using the beta-label? Have you ever had the pleasure of buying a certificate from $RANDOM_CA_RESELLER? I'd have no trouble sticking an "alpha" label on the majority of those!
Right after coal bears the true price of air pollution?
I can't disagree. But I (and the Samba Team) didn't create the website or do the hype.
Very confused!

Here's an example of English as spoken ~600 years ago (Chaucer):

"Ye knowe ek that in forme of speeche is chaunge
Withinne a thousand yeer, and wordes tho
That hadden pris, now wonder nyce and straunge
Us thinketh hem, and yet thei spake hem so,
And spedde as wel in love as men now do;
Ek for to wynnen love in sondry ages,
In sondry londes, sondry ben usages."
> Future generations depend on it.

Why?
This (somewhat insane) linter prohibits unnecessary semicolons: http://standardjs.com
Location: Seattle

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We upgraded all Arq 4 purchases in the prior 90 days to Arq 5 for free. We even converted the per-computer licenses to per-user licenses, so if you bought licenses for 3 computers, you now have Arq 5 licenses for 3 users.
this is an important enough bug that lots of vendors need to patch immediately,

I'm curious who those vendors are that have trivially MitM'able networks.
Google got the entire search business (including from those yellow pages) exactly because it wasn't a yellow pages company.

It showed people what they wanted to see, while other companies were focusing on what they were paid to show.
Generative music already is a tool / method in some artists' portfolio (particularly in ambient or experimental circles). However, it doesn't tend to be the only approach.

AI could perhaps work soon for certain formulaic music (like say bubblegum pop) as well as some forms of synth music (I easily can see generative minimal techno for instance). I will say that people don't tend to like overly formulaic music though; they tend to like the twists, turns, and "personality" that people can bring to art. Even in pop, formulaic pieces are quickly forgotten. But it's probably possible to write an algorithm now that does this sort of stuff really well.

Beyond pop formula, I think AI advocates sometimes underestimate the difficulty. There are no real "rules" in music. The music of the world is very diverse, the "rules" even in pop / folk vary from culture to culture.

Many styles of music are way beyond AI at this point IMHO. They are either much more technically complex (Western classical) or rely on improvisational skills that I would think would be difficult to parametize (jazz, Indian classical) Heck, even with something like say blues music, which pretty much uses the same template for most songs (well, a similar rhythm and similar chord changes at least), you've still got the soloists and the singing. Vocaloid ain't got nothing on Muddy Waters or BB King etc. :)
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Seriously? I'll give you Africa of course, it makes sense. But the Middle East? Saudi Arabia, Qatar, etc? All these countries are almost literally wiping their ass with money.

My question got downvoted a lot, but I was quite serious. Why would the US be upheld to "higher standards" (whatever it means)? Are we supposed to believe in some form of American exceptionalism? And are we just talking about Africa or should the US have higher standards than, say, India, Australia, Italy and Argentina?

I just wanted to understand the parent comment.
Oculus Rift preorder customers are facing months-long delays
For comparison: https://creative.adobe.com/plans

$49/month for all of Adobe creative cloud including Photoshop and Illustrator, or for one isometric diagram tool.
IEEE's Spectrum changed to a Cooperesque logo a few months back. I used to like it, but after reading this article, I'm not so sure.

http://spectrum.ieee.org/

"consistency is more important than cleverness. Consistency is actually really hard to achieve. Cleverness is a cheap commodity."

I hope I can pull a Cooper the next time I am accused of being derivative and lazy.
Please, for your own sanity, don't even bother investigating how operating systems actually work.
Same way it got there?
Laser focused on earth?
Needs good aiming though.
Literally anyone can put a streaming app into the major app stores these days and bypass all of this.

Why are the Big 3 still in this chokehold position? Is the market failing, or do they actually provide valuable services that can't be obtained elsewhere?

In either case: why is that?
Got a reference for this? I literally just bumped into the rate limit today
FT paywall blocking the way.

Google work around works:
https://www.google.com/#q=Spotify+co-founders+threaten+to+qu...
Things have to get really bad for Santa Monica prices to fall. It's probably one of the most desirable places to live in the US so there will always be people willing to move in as soon as prices fall even a little.
>Therein lies the rub. You can't beat real circuits and valves especially when you're cranking it loud for a gig.

Actually you could very much can, and especially in a gig, where acoustics are not as perfect as at home with expensive hi-fi speakers.

You'd be surprised how many top artists, with huge followings, use amp simulations and plugins both on stage and on their productions.

>The difference between the (admittedly pretty amazing) VST's and the real deal is the difference between sounding good and sounding great.

No, that's talent and a good mixer, producer and masterer (neither of the three lesser acts have).

Tons of great sounding albums where recordings with VSTs. Heck, even Bob Ezrin uses the things nowadays...
Patreon engages in content censorship.
Maybe they should have single day "test certs" for which you can issue an unlimited number on a given day for a given domain. Not even completely sure this would work but it might be convenient to have even with the limit increase.
Keep in mind, S3 was still a very new project at that point. Launched March 2006 and the first of its kind.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_S3
It's worth remembering that this is the pain point Adsense and Adwords originally solved for by only allowing a title, 2 lines of text, and a URL. And they did it so well they disrupted/killed a mutli-billion dollar industry of online flash ads practically overnight.

And then they become that problem by taking on flash ads a few years ago.
I think they meant the video game. Space race victory
Yeah, so what's the workaround to that 12 months? When you file simply state you were working on it 12 months prior.

Not hard to game that at all. I'm sure business ethics will prevail though.
Why would that tip the scales versus Time Machine? Time Machine should provide the same protection as Arq, i.e. versioned backups from before the ransomware attack should be safe.

I know there was some hue and cry a little while ago about Mac ransomware that can encrypt network drives and external hard drives, but there's a reason why the _encrypt_timemachine routine was an unused stub. From what I understand, Time Machine has protections built into the kernel that prevents existing backups from being modified. New backups after the ransomware attack would obviously end up backing up encrypted data, but the existing backups should remain untouched.
"The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster has no confirmed casualties from radiation exposure, though six workers died due to various reasons, including cardiovascular disease, during the containment efforts or work to stabilize the Earthquake and Tsunami damage to the site.[15]"

source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nuclear_and_radiation_...
Your experience with ecstasy and mine are rather different. It may because I seek out the "pure" substance - MDMA, rather than E - but anecdotally it may also be due to differences in our natural serotonin. The "raver hangover" is pronounced (anecdotally) in people with naturally lower seratonin. Take 5HTP.

I recently phrased it like this:
MDMA is like a colored light source. A little bit, and everything is brighter. You can see the colors of the light, and the things (other people) illuminated by it. A lot, and all you see are the colors of the light.

One of the things this means is that it introduces you to the "best" version of yourself. What it feels like to be that person is still a touchstone of mine.
Hadoop is not map reduce, repeat Hadoop is not map reduce.

Also Spark is not a solution, it is an engine.

We run Spark on HDFS using all the paraphernalia of Hadoop to maintain some sort of sanity around it, how do you manage access? Encryption? Scheduling?
Photoshop and Illustrator are definitely not direct comparisons, that's like saying you can spend $100/year on Microsoft Word or you could just use nano for free.
I think that problem has been unsolved for ~500 years? More?
Well, that sure is a good point.

Upon further reading, looks like you can achieve >99.9998% reflectance for a 10% wavelength band (in this case, in the infrared). [http://www.crystallinemirrors.com/wp-content/uploads/2013072...]

Still, you're right in saying that it's probably still quite a ways off.
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> How does one differentiate themselves from the pack.

That's called marketing, and it's something the major labels are exceptionally good at.
I'm thinking that either they are really afraid of messing up WhatsApp like how the current and previous Skype owners messed up, or else it is part of the purchase deal to mainly stay out of WhatsApp.

The whole end-to-end encryption on WhatsApp doesn't seem in the Facebook spirit at all.
10 light-seconds is a massive underestimate. If we assume a constant acceleration from zero to 0.2c over two years, the average speed is 0.1c. Therefore by the end of two years it will be 0.1 lightyears away. Deviations will have to be anticipated over a month in advance!
Having access to the internal network is a "game over" scenario for 95% of real-world networks. I'm not sure if anyone would even attempt to use something as elaborate as MitM in a crypto locker, when they could most likely just throw a random exploit kit at the network and be done with it in the majority of cases. Not to say people shouldn't fix this, but this was extremely overhyped.
If you look at some of the successful startups that started on a platform, this is what they did.

Example:
Instagram - used Facebook for viral distribution and eventually eclipsed Facebook
Imgur - built image hosting for Reddit and now has eclipsed Reddit.
Fun fact:

Tinder (as of my last login last year) displays an user liked pages along with their interests and then only their first name so that there is some "privacy".

I used to put all that data through Facebook Graph search and it would get me their full name and contact information, which in turn would lead me to their email address, which would lead me to their addresses or phone number.

Fun, fun time. It's a good thing that I am not the kind of person who would abuse of such things.
Central Paris was built quite a while ago :-) Paris is actually almost uniquely dense among large cities in developed countries. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_by_population_d...

Which I knew but wouldn't have guessed. Looking at a population density map https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Paris I think the reason may be that the City of Paris is a very small chunk of the total area.
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I assumed this is already the case, but it it isn't, it is an awesome idea!
These refer to two studies, with a total of about 250 women between them. This does not qualify as "extraordinary evidence".
I don't think so. 15 years ago I created a service to let people access data from my company's intranet via AOL Instant Messenger (which everyone was already using for internal chat). It was still a big hit. People loved the convenience of just being able to ping a bot and immediately get back Client X's phone number, instead of having to wade through umpty-ump levels of menus and web pages to get the same info.

The interface to that service was extremely crude by today's standards (basically a set of magic keywords that comprised a simple query language), but people liked the convenience so much they were more than willing how to talk to the bot in its own lingo. I can only imagine how much more popular it would have been if it had a real, natural-language chat interface.

As long as it's easy and convenient, and comes back with the right answers (a big if, that last one), nobody will care if there's a human on the other end or not.