skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I understand that some customers may have lost some confidence in the service that we offer

Only "some"...

> So, I want to explain ...

Just an explanation? No refunds?

> A new platform will be available by the end of the year for customers which we will provide self-managed and automated snapshot backups

That's great, it will really solve my problem

> I hope this goes some way to win back your confidence.

"some way", for a very small "some"
Something along the lines of:

“Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.”

? i.e. the context of men doing it is different, because men are violent/threatening/etc.

If so, I can assure you many consider this line of reasoning as unfairly demonising men. If not, can you explain to me the difference?
And now you lost me.

Why is it different?
Are You Blaming Your ATS for Your Bad Candidate Experience?
Use Ruby to Build Reactive User Interfaces
Is it possible that you do know them, but don't know who they are? After all, if you're a guy, you'll never be the target of harassment - and if they do most of their harassing one-on-one, you may ever witness it, either.
Have you ever published a paper in an academic venue?

What publishers offered was delivering paper versions of articles to your local research library. Now they only host PDFs online. Apart from that their added-value work is negligible. The biggest improvement I've seen by a publisher of one of my papers was changing "Sec." to "Sect." when I was referencing section, and putting page number in blue rather than black (true story).

Anyway nowadays when a paper is accessible directly from a public repository, it is that version which will be used most often, and it includes literally zero work from the publisher.

All the real work is done by the authors, and by the reviewers, who are other researchers doing their normal job (i.e., they're not paid specifically to review papers, and more importantly not paid by publishers).

The only thing that publishers provide is reputation/prestige, and that's only because of inertia, and it's difficult to change because they own the titles of journals they publish. That's one of the numerous reasons why bibliometrics is an entirely bad idea and is counter-productive for science.

Also, not all open access journal are charging author, that is a lie installed by publishers lobbying (and this is how they actually spend money). You can research "diamond open access" or "overlay journal" for some examples of economical models where journal are high quality, open access and free to submit to.
Most 'statistics' cited in the media are completely made up, this isn't at all unusual. I spent about 18 months trying to track down the primary source of every interesting stat I could find, and most of them didn't pan out at all.

There is a saying that "reality has a well-known liberal bias" because most left-leaning publications base their arguments on statistics, whereas most right-wing arguments are based on emotion. But in fact most of the statistics that used to support left wing policy are either completely made up (e.g. "137 million American adults don't have dental insurance") or else wildly misleading (e.g. the stats on college tuition increases), to the point where most of the arguments being made are completely divorced from reality.
So people will just travel an extra 15 minutes to the next country to buy their dinosaur-powered vehicles instead.

This won't do anything but push sales tax money out of the country unless they also do something like ban new vehicle registrations as well as sales.
Reporter pulls Houston man to safety before car is overtaken by flooding
What is beyond the horizon, across the sea?
The second slide says "If 8 out 10 (or 80%) businesses fail after the first year, the remaining 2 (or 20%) would probably not survive to see their fifth year" -
how does this follow? The 'myth' only talks about the first year of the business, and doesn't say that 80% of businesses fail every year.
The Income Tax: Root of All Evil
They chose Java because it made sense at the time. Most mobile apps before the current smartphone era were Java based using j2me (or whatever it was called). Just like most iOS developers were existing Mac developers using Obj-C.

Still don't know why they don't have hooks for other languages. Your option is to use NDK (I think haven't coded for Android in ages) for those that insisted on C/++
I think you'd be surprised. Guys don't really brag anymore about their sexual conquests to friends (at lease, IME). But given the chance, guys who seem totally cool, and non-sexist, will change at the drop of a hat.
Autodesk buys Arnold (Renderer)
You're just amazing, that's why! So amazing! Or maybe they hide it well. Or you're just lucky. Or you're just clueless.
Also the Angkor Wat temple area is approximately 30 miles by 30 miles. You only get that sort of crowd where the tour busses go for the official sunrise viewing spot. I had my own motor scooter for transport and it was easy to find ruins where you were on your own - no tourists, locals or attendants.
SciHub can and does do it for less. It's the whole point of the article.
You do realise that a woman can be wrong about women's rights, right?
College Student Is Removed from Flight After Speaking Arabic on Plane
How to Deploy an Angular 2/Rails 5 App to Heroku
I had considered that a few years ago but at that point I wanted to use the freedom to travel. Right now I'm not sure how sustainable a small app workshop type company would be.
Then "over" makes no sense, right?
> What's the reason for allowing web pages to get absolute screen coordinates?

Back in the 90's, Microsoft and Netscape were all too happy to give JS developers the world with almost no regard for security consequences.

We've spent the last 20 years trying to fix their mistakes.
> Looking at my facebook newsfeed nowadays, for example, there's an awful lot of sharing going on, but it's not original content - there's very little creation going on. I'm slowly weeding this stuff out because what I really want to see is what my friends and family are saying, or posting, for themselves.

This is reportedly something that Facebook has noticed themselves.

> Overall sharing has remained "strong," according to Facebook. However, people have been less willing to post updates about their lives as their lists of friends grow, the people said.
Instead, Facebook’s 1.6 billion users are posting more news and information from other websites. As Facebook ages, users may have more than a decade’s worth of acquaintances added as friends. People may not always feel comfortable checking into a local bar or sharing an anecdote from their lives, knowing these updates may not be relevant to all their connections. [1]

[1] http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-04-07/facebook-s...
> We already have an energy-saving self-driving mechanism - ... (and obeying the speed limit.)

Obeying the speed limit is irrelevant; the actual speed is. A given car at a given speed consumes the same amount of fuel per unit distance regardless of what the speed limit is.

All the data indicating that "speeding wastes fuel" is basically just proving that fuel economy is a function of engine power output.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCTH8ht2RuA
Remember, green looks far better for building new power plants vs. replacing existing power plants. 2025 is still a long way away, and those electric cars will still be electric in 2035 as would any gas cars bought.

PS: Their greenhouse gas emissions where down -5.2% from 2004-2009. So, with new demand the mix could change fairly rapidly.
I did not present anything that had to do with discrimination or skin color. The in store example is patently different for many reasons. For example, for most in-store credit card purchases, the issuing bank of the credit card bears the risk of fraud.

A faster way to parity would be to put pressure on the credit card industry to enact technical improvements that made card-not-present purchases the same risk profile as card-present purchases.
or it could mean exactly a decade!
Does anyone know if something like this exists for other languages as well? Ruby, nodejs?
A blog project written in MEAN stack
Philosophy is a science of science. It's original purpose is to define the foundations of knowledge and principles of building knowledge. At least that's how I perceive it.

All that blathering about meaning of life and whatnot that people often see as philosophy's main topic of exploration is, in fact, for most part an exercise in argumentation and exploration of logic.
> Do you think if you mass drop all the important physics paper and maths paper on nuclear physics in syria - then somehow ISIS will be able to create a nuclear weapon ?

I don't know about this particular example, but I do know that some scientific works are kept secret because they do have obvious military applications. I have only one example I'm sure of, the Orion project, but I'd be surprised if there are not lots of others.
There is also a termbox based editor that works on Windows as well: https://github.com/nsf/godit

--edit-

This works on Windows as well...
Creativity Is Much More Than 10k Hours of Deliberate Practice
He's got positions on the US government that rubs a lot of people the wrong way (including me; then again, my positions on the US governments rubs a lot of other people the wrong way). That's probably where the accusation stems from. While I disagree with him a lot on politics, like you I don't see any justification for calling him a shill.

It seems a lot of people don't understand that most people who have political views they don't like hold those views because they honestly believe it is best, not because of some nefarious conspiracy.

More importantly, I've yet to see any security advice from him that is in any way suspect. Strangely enough it is possible to disagree with someone about politics and still trust their technical advice when it time and time again is demonstrably sound.
Yet given the actual state of Gtk development, even Linus is using C++ nowadays via Qt.

https://github.com/torvalds/subsurface
Such is national scale finance. We can cut it up to sound worthless, or make it sound like a fair chunk of change. Would have bought a lot of infrastructure or regional development.

Perhaps most relevant to today, it's 1/8 the national debt.

That's quite a lot to just leave on the table. Per capita? That's where the Scots, especially SNP, angle starts. They do have a similar population to Norway after all...
That's what I thought it was called when I looked it up to see if x64 was same thing. Typed in EM64T to get three or so more haha.
You can get absolute position of windows or even mouse cursor without any "child window magic": http://codepen.io/anon/pen/pyVYvb
Maybe it's not actually that widespread? I mean, you always hear about the negative things and never about the positive things. That just the nature of life, the positive things are expected so they don't get mentioned.
There's SPARK (http://spark-2014.org/) that's an Ada dialect with verification features, and there's frama-c, doing something similar for C (http://frama-c.com/).

In both cases the compiler is pretty much part of the trust base (which is a problem because they're annoyingly complex), but the issues discussed here are declared invalid by the subset (ie. you mustn't use statements that may lead to undefined behavior).

For seL4, mentioned in another comment, there was proof that interesting properties of the high-level code and the low-level binary were equivalent. That only works with a relatively static compiler version and for some optimization levels (anything that optimizes too globally will seriously mess up such attempts of showing equivalence), but it takes the compiler out of the trust base.
That super-shiny interface made me entirely skeptical of everything they said. To me, the visual experience screamed "marketing BS". Anybody else have the same reaction?
Startups abandon Tech City as commercial rents soar
"...At the time of the survey, Berkeley had two women to 17 men, while MIT had three women to 11 men. At Harvard, there was only one woman compared to 12 men...."

The amount of working female astronomers at a given institution seemed woefully small. One sexual harasser in the bunch could harass 100% of the women. It's hard for me to believe that universities have a monopoly on a-hole men. What seems more believable is that they don't lay down the law like the rest of societal business institutions.
That does look quite interesting, I will keep an eye out for something similar in my area, as it appears although it is a remote job the applicant would need to be based in North America. Thanks.
One asshole will harass 3-5 women over a career.
Women make up ~15% of the workforce.
Half of women are harassed.

To get to those figures, only ~2% of men need to be assholes.

This is why it's so important for the few men who see it happen to never let it go or brush it under the rug.
You're right, it was lurking in the back of my mind that it must be on the stack entirely.
Full Duplex Wireless Communication with Single Antenna
Very interesting. How are the roads weighted in this? Meaning is there any travel time involved? Or is it just length? It would be interesting to play with different weighting and see if it changes.
Well, yeah. (Also they're not naked.) Heck, there are Bibles that have pictures of naked women in them. Are you saying women aren't allowed to be naked, or no one is allowed to make pictures of them, or they should only be photographs and not fantasies, or what exactly?
My comment isn't about gender. It's about the fact that the same lawyer can prove that you, whether you be a man or woman, victim or criminal, guilty and non-guilty at the same time. Depending on whose side the lawyer is.
> Bill Cosby as an example.

Rich and wealthy people can cover up a lot. See Michael Jackson. It doesn't mean that child abuse is rampant among musicians.

I also work in IT and I share the GP question. If it's as rampant as some articles and people make it out to be then the harassers are getting very good at covering it up.
SciHub piggybacks on the publishers' work. Stealing the output of a company and giving it away does not mean you can do their work for less.
I know we're supposed to be focused on the end-result, but I'm really just in awe of the code. Everything is so incredibly well documented, tested, and structured. I already see a few things I want to borrow... will definitely be coming back to this project for ideas.
You're ignoring breaking. If you go significantly faster than the speed limit your far more likely to break at highway speeds.

Further, IC cars often get better fuel efficiency by mixing slow acceleration periods at optimum RPM and coasting. (Car engines get ~10-30 efficiency based on usage.) You can do this manually, but it's hard.

However, air resistance is going to be the dominate factor at high speeds.
> ...unprocessed "rape kits" being but one concrete evidence...

The size of the "backlog" is an impressive number, but it was my understanding that it is primarily due to policies that lead to collection by default - regardless of actual need. Like when the perpetrator of the crime confesses, or when the DA determines that the rape kit isn't evidence of rape. Collecting by default makes sense as it is a time sensitive issue, but there are plenty of good reasons not to process the kit. If you think that processing should be done by default that is one thing, but lack of processing certainly isn't "concrete evidence" of police apathy.
Of course the actual life of the business idea and team is broader and not 100% the same, but it makes sense to count the days you are actually incorporated. You sign the papers with your government that your corporation starts on day X and died on day Y. So this data can be used to calculate your business's life time.
Huge fan. Use it often. Recent updates look great!
Its something to unite against, and its the business model. At least in part. I had a roommate who's parents were NOT into D&D resulting in some conversations on this topic.

We'll all unite against it, regardless if it exists or is even a problem. Its been the bane of minorities for centuries, although it works pretty well. So you get 100 teens in church holding up their hand or praying or whatever they did to promise, well, it doesn't matter, the point is they got them unified. From memory his mom worked the unity angle, what matters is every teen in the congregation made the same pledge. To some folks unity and conformity is more important than the rights of minorities. "well, maybe its not fair and maybe they're good people at heart, but what really matters is they're them and we're us".

Again from memory, his Dad was freaked out by the business model. So wait... you're saying that its possible for a very small number of people to sit around and write a completely fictional work of vast size that is creative and interesting mythology and publish numerous books about it and it becomes crazy popular and culturally influential? You're not, uh, implying anything about the development process of a certain book we consider holy from 2000+ years ago, are you? So this annoys the parents twofold, first of all its highly unfavorable direct analogy with their favorite business model aka religion, and secondly no one likes weasel words and if you're trying to say holy books are works of fiction then just spit it out don't talk around it. To those parents it sounds a lot like "I'm not coveting my neighbor's wife, I just want a one night stand with her, so technically I'm off the hook WRT sin and commandments, right, I mean the words don't literally match up so its OK, right?"
Of course, many cities do have tram lines - Manchester's network is substantial, reuses abandoned railway lines in part, and has received a lot of investment in recent years including a project right now to put a second line across the city centre.

Many are surprised to hear London has a tram line (South of the river, near Wimbledon), or that other towns have light rail schemes put back in within the last 20-40 years.

Guided bus routes have also started to emerge: smooth, segregated routes that run every few minutes using relatively cheap, replaceable and potentially entirely green vehicles with less up-front planning, consultation and construction than a light or heavy rail solution.

It's interesting to me that we seem to be going into an age where people value public transport more and more, but I suspect that's because VED and other costs associated with running a car in the UK have risen so sharply in recent years.
They do quite a bit of it and fund it through their fluff and click-bait. It's actually a similar model to a lot of traditional broadsheet, just applied to the web.
Namecheap Is Incompatible with Google Apps for Domains
> "if we find the Mona Lisa boring, no problem. We can run the image through the Fatify app or add the graphics and colors we like to make it amusing or better than the original! Should we be surprised that people often find the world uninteresting and dull?"

How is the ability to play with the Mona Lisa not part of the world? Our lives online aren't imaginary, they're just as real a part of our world as the physical. If you enjoy tweaking the Mona Lisa, making it more personal, then that's you actively finding the world interesting and fun.
23 Ways to Decorate Your Bedroom If You Love the Color Blue
No, in this case it pretty much does boil down to Rust or C++. This is a low-level tool, not a webapp.
Maybe, but that does not make sense to me. If anything, pictures online make me want to go see something in person. Also, the popular pieces can usually be found online which does not fit the model of must come to see. My guess is the less popular pieces are so numerous that it is too expensive to properly photograph and host images of everything.
You might, they just aren't doing it to you or around you.
To answer your question though, maritime law largely applies in space.
Glass skyscrapers meet those requirements but arent typically thought of as brutalist.
Microserver is a Java 8 native library to run Java Rest Microservices
Recently I was at a pretty cool rooftop bar in downtown Chicago with a great view of the lake with a couple co workers who hadnt been there before. I try to limit my social media services (if I start using a new one I drop one I've been using) but snapchat seems to be ruining moments for people. My co workers all had to snap everything that was happening rather than just enjoying the moment.

Instagram I understand because you can keep the photo but snapchat is gone in an instant. I dont get it.
Yeah, that happens too. (-:
> There is a saying that "reality has a well-known liberal bias

you do know that was said by a comedian as a punchline in a standup routine, right?
I live in the Southeast and would love a $700 round trip to Europe. Even offseason is still close to $1k and in season is more like $1500.
We're probably still understating the deficits by assuming interest rates will increase soon™ - and yet the deficits are somewhere in the region of 1.5 times GDP in the UK[1]. It's terrifying

I empathise with you on the personal pension - but that's the reality of risk/reward investments. I'd have thought a lot of the bad performance should have recovered based on current markets? Depending on your age the solution is usually to:
-Contribute more
-Risk on (aiming for higher rewards)
-Work longer.

I think it's really really important to recognise that early retirement probably means finishing work ~65 years old if you want a comparable "lifetime in retirement" to earlier generations who retired at 55. One simply cannot expect to spend 25 years in full retirement after only working 25 years. I think as a society we've got to make some huge adjustments in expectations, because we're stuck in a mindset from 70 years ago that isn't really viable. Personally I expect to aim to retire "early" into a different role that is less stressful and in the countryside - but I don't intend to stop working until much later.

[1] I haven't seen updated numbers in a few years, maybe it's better now..
> Web developers have always pushed for more access to information about the user and their environment. Browser and tool developers are happy to provide that access. There's always some use case that sounds reasonable, but you're right that it's just a security issue waiting to happen.

I'm torn. On the one hand I understand the privacy implications; on the other hand, if you'd want to be serious about those, you'd have to get rid of JavaScript and half of CSS. Every interesting feature can be turned into a privacy/security violation; how far are we willing to go in removing them?
Looking also for a Random System Design Generator with buzzwords and diagrams, for entertainment.
I've used it to automatically position auxillary windows adjacent to the main window in a data analysis application. I don't see how it reveals anything private about the user... my screen resolution and window location are not secrets to me.
Relay and Redux serve different purposes.

Relay makes it easy to query for data that lives on the server and is backed by a schema. Redux makes it easy to map actions into a local state. In most apps you'll have a need for both.

The Relay team publish their roadmaps publicly. I believe there is a plan to eventually handle client state.
It's the sort of thinking that gets abusive people who commit crimes public criminal records (or at least records of a series of accusations) instead of slaps on the wrist which forever remain private so they can continue their abuse.

The other alternative, calling in University-owned mediators who have no incentive to help you and every incentive to "just make it go away" will almost certainly not improve your situation -- as described in detail in the article.
CoreOS also does this, much of the base system is mounted read-only.