skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The one advantage of this business nobody is mentioning so far is that they've been around since 1999. The first thing I do when I see "long-term" or "put all your data in our hands" is see if they're a recent, VC-backed company. If they're recent, then they might be inexperienced. If they have a good team, then the product and network are still new with bugs waiting to be found. If they're VC-backed, then run. The reason being they'll sell out eventually with the service and your data possibly going offline. Happens way too much.

So, for anything long-term, I always recommend going with an established company with a track record for innovation. I don't know these people but they've been hosting since 1999. That means they showed up during a hard time [1] for IT then lasted and improved until 2016. I don't know if they're VC-backed or the quality of their product. Looks innovative, though, for a 90's era company. So, altogether a nice, first impression without the sell-out risk common among storage providers that show up on HN a lot.

Note: One can still use VC-backed providers so long as they're just one among many you use. That way you yourself can exit when they do without threat to operations.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dot-com_bubble
If they could turn basic HR records into a detailed threat assessment, they'd be selling that ML breakthrough to everyone in the world rather than pitching online scare stories.

I'm betting "apply machine learning to internal... records" looks more like listing the employees with disciplinary records and going "revoke network access from these people".
I'm not sure Mr. Trump is as prudent financially as he projects. There is still Gary Johnson...
Why is regular FTP even supported for so called secure storage?

So far it reads as secure 'because we say it is secure'? I find the whole idea of putting your data on hardware other control and still consider it 'secure' a bit strange. Though that might be just my twisted mind.

Also note they charge for internal traffic (and im not sure if you can measure these yourself to make sure the invoice is correct.):

"An operation is an action between your temporary safe-deposit box and C14 infrastructure: Archiving, Unarchiving, Destruction or Verification.
Transactions are billed according to the volume of data to be processed at a price of € 0.01 / GB"

Do your math before simply signing up, my penny.
One good reason to keep mixing a bit of liberal arts into our education
They've been doing that since 2009 (and arguably before).

The problem is that the money is distributed through the broken financial system which isn't distributing the money through the entire economy efficiently. This is why we currently have local inflation in San Fransisco and New York, and local deflation in Mississippi and Nebraska.

To use a hydraulic analogy, the central bankers have two things: control of a spigot, and an average water pressure gauge. The gauge shows decent water pressure throughout the pipes. But some parts of the system have very high water pressure, and in other parts the pipes are almost dry. Someone needs to solve the real problem, which is that the pipes are blocked.

Personally, I think the issue has been caused at least in part by the confluence of two factors: consolidation in the retail banking industry, and the growth of venture capital (which tends to predominantly fund ventures in geographically limited areas). This is why people with just an app idea could get plenty of funding in certain regions, but getting a small business loan in fly-over country requires showing 5 years of profitability. The risk profile of funding is very geographically distorted, with most of the country dealing with risk-averse funding and too many risk-takers concentrated in certain cities.
Faceted Exploration of RDF/S data sets: a survey [pdf]
I hope they're not. I will welcome all the remain territories back into the EU with open arms but I think people should learn to live with the consequences of their small minded decisions. We've been hearing all this nonsense about leaving for years and quite frankly I'm sick of it. Cameron thought he could play politics and look smart and instead he got royally shafted. He will live with the consequences for the rest of his life for sure. If people want to be selfish, greedy and easily manipulated puppets then they should be made live in the world they have chosen. For the rest of us we can continue on with our progress unimpeded by small-minded BS.
"a huge new market called "the UK" just opened up for genuine and fair trade"

That would be fun to see. How do these small farmers get stuff onto the shelves of Tesco and Lidl (while the latter are still trading here)?

Room for some intermediation?
It's published by the Baltic Exchange, which is a futures exchange located in London. No idea what the history of the name is, I'm afraid.
Founders yes, but what about the New Testament? Nobody today observes anything that's said in the Old Testament, save for some religious nutcases.
It's fairly common. Think the successful male stepping out of the car and greeting his attractive wife.
Magnitude is important. If government spending is say 40% of GDP and it drops to 20% GDP then the drop in revinues is not 50%, but closer to 20%.

Importantly for a country used to borrowing every year living within their means will seem like a huge sacrifice even if it's not optional. The further drop to paying down debt is even further, but it's that or default. And no you can't grow the economy with stimulus spending when you got used to decades of stimulus spending in the first place.
EU state aid laws make it illegal to prop up industries, though. The only reason it works for farmers is because..well...who knows? The UK would really, really like to give some state aid to a few steel companies right now but it blocked from doing so by the EU.
Let's be fair here. Liberal bias requires people to either believe anyone with conservative leanings MUST be stupid or the received wisdom that liberal philosophies are naturally correct must be incomplete. There's no real choice here, every single person on earth will assume everyone else is stupid before assuming they may be wrong.
Per the article, some contractors were not extended various privileges during the period the author worked on Google's campus. The author's curiosity regarding the differential access to Google facilities, equipment, and food precipitated his termination.
Statik: A multi-purpose static web site generator for developers
Bad news for all EU citizens, even worse news for UK citizens.

We hackernews folks will be OK. As always, the vulnerable will suffer most.
Its a Tory government, of course they will be supported. Green wellies &c.

Manufacturing not so much.
After going through quite a few of the top-ranked static site generators on https://www.staticgen.com/ I just couldn't find a static web site generator that allowed me to define a generic data model in a simple way (I had to hack each application or write plugins to get them to do what I wanted). So I wrote my own: Statik.

Written in Python (3.5+). Define your models in YAML format, define instances for those models (YAML/Markdown), write your templates as Jinja2/HTML templates, write view configuration in YAML (with SQLAlchemy queries), and Statik will load it all up into a queryable in-memory SQLite database and crank it out as a static web site.
It seems it matters. It seems that having a hugely conflicting refugee camp in your territory is something you are prepared to do for a close ally, but nothing you will risk for a comercial partner.

The EU was more than a market for the UK. You'll eventually see that.
Co-creator here. The #1 reason we made QCBrunch is: we really love breakfast food, and every time we talk about getting it, we end up google brunch hours for each place. Many don't publish this online, and no existing POI database tracks the very specific "brunch start time and end time". Hopefully this will save some googling.

Direct link - http://qcbrunch.com
That is exactly the combination I was thinking of when I wrote it is controversial.

I agree that combination is at least as good.
We had massive austerity cuts during tory / liberal coalition, and that resulted in the first conservative majority government since 1992.

Look at things the British people love: The NHS. We've seen huge cuts in the NHS, and the conservatives still get elected.
It's even less mentioned that the French abolished slavery about 40 years before that.
Sweden launch blockchain solution for Land registry
I use Simplenote [1] via Notational Velocity [2] on my Mac, and the Simplenote iOS app otherwise.

[1] https://simplenote.com/
[2] http://notational.net/
Flagged because this isn't news, he said half a year ago he'd vote for the nominee.
If the post-2008 world isn't proof enough that printing money does not automatically increase aggregate demand, I don't know what would count as proof in Econ.

By the way, I'm not saying it can increase AD, just that it does not automatically does so, for some reason that is widespread now.
I don't follow. The rich don't have everything because they don't bid for everything, which is still consistent with your parent comment.
> "Could you elaborate leading by example `how it is different`?"

I'll try.

By the end of the 1950's, modular programming based on procedures and subroutines had become problematic. It was hard to have large teams of programmers working on parts of the code at the same time, and it was hard to create large well-structured programs.

The answer in the 1960's was to break down a problem into pieces, then sub-components, then subroutines through functional decomposition. This better allowed large problems to be understood, and worked on by different teams at the same time. This approach is known as structured programming.

This approach has resulted in quality software over the years, but suffers from painful limitations. One of the big ones is that as one works on a problem and discovers its requirements, the decomposition used needs to be modified, often from the top down.

Object orientation (much as for the "data" movement) represented a different way to approach a problem. Let's break down a large problem or system into entirely independent concepts that know how to to do things themselves. Let's not orchestrate concepts (objects) centrally, but instead have them do things themselves together to solve a problem. This comes close to the way we think. We recognize and organize things in our minds around us as objects. We differentiate between them by their attributes, and we classify them. When we see a tree we recognize it as such, and differentiate it from other by its attributes and also by its place in the hierarchy of types of trees we know. Behavior on the other hand is only immediately important to us if it is causal - for example if it threatens us. That unknown thing moving fast towards you prompts changes in your body, but once you recognize the object is a beetle and not a spider, you change.

Hopefully that helps.
It also seems like there's no push from the buy side, in CA we're all sheep. likely b/c there is no community so the rent-taking can wratchet up all day long.

I think if people en masse began to reject extortion rent we could have a situation. This never seems to happen but it would be a spectacle: thousands of 160k/yr workers decide to camp in tents until rents subside, all camped out in the streets in a section of Sf.
http://www.apple.com/mac-pro/ I do not understand why many choose to do it. It is definitely annoying.
The main thing is that regardless of who pushed for or against the UK exiting the EU the voters voted to leave.

Neither Boris nor David made a unilateral decision. The people took action and voted against the EU. Lots of people are in shock but should not be.
Exactly the one about expulsion of foreigner who are criminals.

According to Wikipedia:
"Foreigners who commit a crime would be automatically expelled from the country, regardless of the severity of the crime." [0]

I don't know the laws in Switzerland, but I can tell you that in Germany if they catch you without the train ticket for three times, you can potentially go to jail. In Switzerland, if such a law existed (I don't know), such a person would be expelled. This is ridiculous to me, because in a life span anything can happen. If you commit rape, homicide, break-ins, I can understand. It's the "regardless" that makes me wonder how welcome foreigners are. Although "ridiculous" might be the wrong term, I think that such a referendum should not even exist. Why was it even thought about? Why the "regardless"? What's wrong with us humans? Foreigners come, make your country richer - especially foreigners, PHD, master students, and highly skilled employees - and that's how you pay them back? Treating them like if they were worse than animals? "If you fuck up, go away".

I don't doubt the effectiveness of referendums, although I come from a country in which they hardly have an impact. I really appreciate Switzerland's method, as it keeps its citizens closer and more interested to politics. However, I am still of the idea that news can corrupt democracy pretty much everywhere, no matter how it's implemented - as long as citizens are the main responsible for the elected people or laws.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_referendums,_2016
I used Twilio to make a simple SMS wrapper around an app. It took maybe 30 minutes and I had never used it before. Very cool product.
My experience of being British over the last 5 years has been one giant shame or scandal after another.

Fuck this country.
That is not true. This site is built with Hugo hosted on S3, running behind CloudFront and uses the AWS Certificate Manager:

https://owenconti.com/about/
UK to EU exports 45% of all exports. EU to UK 6%. EU will be just fine. It's not as if import/exports will cease to be either. UK will be hurt, EU not so very much.
The issue with health care and free markets, is that a fully free health care market would not morally sit well with a lot of people, and some sectors of health care lack the ingredients that make free markets work.

EG: in a free market, if someone has a healthcare emergency, yet cannot afford to pay for the service required, the free market would say -- dump this person in the street. Not exactly a morally pleasing choice. Free markets assume a rational and informed consumer; a person having a medical emergency is not always going to be a rational and informed consumer.

Not to say there is plenty of scope for a competitive marketplace in healthcare (there is, particularly for less critical care and wellness etc.), but certain portions really don't fall in scope in my opinion.

The problem with the US healthcare market is that it kind of pretends to be this "free market healthcare" system, while in reality being a half-baked socialized medical system built in bits and pieces over time. Some people are covered by the government (Medicare and Medicaid). The government relies on companies to provide much of the remainder (with tax incentives), but heavily regulates the type of health care that can be offered (eg HMOs). Since not everyone is employed by a large company, this leaves many gaps where people have no de facto health coverage at all. Except for emergency rooms, which (thanks to some notorious emergency street dumping instances in the 1980s) will accept anyone these days.

It's a mess. "Obamacare" merely plugged a couple of gaps. Much greater reform is needed, IMHO.

But there does seem to be a chorus of people who, with their strong belief in free markets, believe that the US healthcare system is a free market one (it's not) and consequently believe that the US healthcare system is the best in the world (anyone who has traveled knows how laughable this statement is). It's hard to get meaningful reform as long as this belief persists.
Oh neat! I hadn't seen this before. Any chance you all would like to get on http://rust-lang.org/friends.html ? :)
the FTP is actually TLS enabled

Mik (Online.net staff)
The reference is given in the pdf article:

International Symposium on Ball Lightning (ISBL-10), June 21-27, 2010, Kaliningrad, Russia. Proceedings: Journal of Unconventional Electromagnetics and Plasmas (UEP, India), Vol. 4, 163-179, 2012.
I can't find the source, but as the Leave campaign has been stressing the importance of limiting immigration and doesn't want freedom of movement, it seems that they'd go for leaving the EEA as well as the EU. If they were to stay in the EEA, nothing about free movement would change.
I used to use Photoshop. Most of the killer features are the workflow, which is what GIMP is lacking (GIMP is a bunch of hacked together tools). But that actual toolset is not _that_ complicated if you wanted to pay someone for a year or two to do it.
Ask HN: What source code is worth studying?
It has been a long time since this was asked previously here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=879101
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7602237
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3225296
It would deter immigrants who are coming for economic reasons and don't make it or are just coming for the benefits to begin with. There of course also should still be a pass to citizenship.
That's like saying betting the house on one of Germany, Italy, or Spain winning the Euro cup is a reasonable gamble.
i dont mean their service is like backblaze, i mean their underlying tech...
What they want to attack is someone who breaks the trade barrier - this was my point.
The FTSE 100 is mostly companies trading globally, often just being listed in the UK.

The FTSE 250 is probably more representative of UK business as a whole and that is down more today.
We slipped, yes, but the FTSE100 is close to 80% recovered from this morning whilst the GBP to USD exchange rate is currently where it was at in February of this year.

Our televised news hosts like to dramatise, it seems.

Meanwhile, the Spanish market is down is down 11%, Belgian one is down 5.5%, France down 7%, Germany down 6%.

It's looking like Europe is hurting more from this announcement than Britain at the moment.
It's an interesting tool.
Other kernels in D: xomb and trinix:

http://wiki.xomb.org/

https://github.com/Rikarin/Trinix
Why is D a good choice for writing a whole OS?
Trump newsletters are apparently going to spam automatically for a lot of GMail users, I wonder if this is why.
Yes it did. Romanization was a real thing. Much more so in the last centuries when both Galo-romans and Egyptians where christians. Even after the city of Rome was no longer relevant in the empire other provinces still produced staunch Roman patriots. The Illyrians are the best example. In the darkest times of the third century crisis the greek speaking romans from Syria formed guerrillas to tackle the Persians during the collapse of the goverment.
Twenty years of free software – part 5 pristine-tar
You can just as easily ask, why not any other language, for the exact same reason.

But since you asked about Go, here are the 3 reasons that I would not pick Go:

1) no generics means less code reuse, which mean more testing of more code (potential runtime issues)

2) allowance of Null, means potential NPE/seg-faults (runtime issue)

3) non-type safe, inconsistent error handling (another runtime issue)

Go is a fine language, like many others, but it's not the same as Rust, and doesn't offer the same features (like no runtime/GC), which means it's not as flexible in its usage. But, I will grant you that Go is "easier" to write code in.

Anyway, there will be and are many great programs written in Go, as there have been in C, C++, Java, Perl, Python, Ruby, Erlang, Haskell, Ocaml, Ruby, JS, etc. To each there own. Mine is Rust today, was Java before that, C++ before that, C before that, and Basic before that.
The numbers are in the text. That's a lot more concrete than most "infographics" you see on the web.
The mouse wheel is broken, but the scroll bar seems to work fine :)
The only flaw with free market economies is assuming the US actually has one. The regulation of commerce is so extreme in some areas as to border on near fascism (don't equate the term with NAZI) : where government dictates prices for goods and services without risking anything of its own. Politicians setting rates and guarantees that are not driven by market need.

grade inflation exists because of this unwillingness to offend people and telling people they are not the best if offensive. hence why colleges like affirmative action is that they will get candidates not used to being at the top of their class and be more willing to accept lower grades (go look it up, it does exist and been studied)

the US health care system, well it only got into the condition it was in because of over regulation. preventing insurance from crossing state lines pretty much doomed it
The City or...? :)
Show HN: Video reporting of problems directly in your web app
Yes, I agree.

And it also reminds me of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_contract and one can see how different block-chains need different interpreters to understand what computation are needed in order to "execute" the message.

About intential programming, see DCI http://www.fulloo.info/

>The essence of object orientation is that networks of collaborating objects work together to achieve a common goal.
> The common sense of object oriented programming should reflect this essence with code that specifies how the objects collaborate. Our industry has, unfortunately, chosen differently and code is commonly written in terms of classes.
> A class tells us everything about the properties of the individual objects that are its instances. It does not tell us anything about how these instances work together to achieve the system behavior.
I wan't focusing on hardening a server, my point was avoiding simple random scans for the sake of log management.
Maybe I've used the word "security" too lightheartedly?
It isn't.

Emacs vs Vim is more a matter of personal taste.

I have used both, here are my opinions.

Note: I was a vim user that switched to emacs.

Vi/Vim:

=============

It IS worth learning because it is the de-facto standard editor on most unix and unix-like systems, and most of the times it comes preinstalled. The basics can be learnt in half an hour or so.

The nice thing about vim is that it fits very well in the Unix environment doing basically one thing and doing it fairly well.

Please note that vi and vim are two different things: 'vi' is more of a family of editors, with vim being the most widely used one. Most vi-like editors share the same keybinding and stuff, and you can use most using the same of keybindings and concepts.

One of the things where vim falls short is that its scripting language is quite crappy, and it's quite a PITA to work with. Plus once you learn it, it is quite useless outside vim.

GNU Emacs

=============

GNU Emacs is a radically different approach to editing text and it resembles one of the early lisp machines: you have a bunch of functions lying around and you call and compose them as you need them.

The learning curve is quite steep but it is very flexible, it has a reasonably nice scripting language that you can use even outside (well, most of the syntax).

The thing I like about emacs is that it gives you a coherent environment to do most of your things, and a scripting language to customize most of its aspect.

So what?

=============

Well, nothing. Try them both and stick with what you like.

I think it is really worth to learn at least the basics of both.

To be fairly honest, I have some pain points with both of them... But that would be OT, and better suited for another post :)