skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Time for another rant, sorry. So how is it different from Dropbox, iCloud, OneDrive and countless other offerings? At this point I opted for a physical server at my home, with encrypted cloud backups of important stuff and periodic offsite backups of everything. I have a love-hate relationship with Synology. It is a closed system running some bizarre variant of Linux, but at least they are doing something with a nice interface and nicely pairs with their mobile apps. I wish there was some open-source effort for a home server like this that is equally well-designed, but so far I have not found any, so I am running with this. Hopefully Sandstorm or OwnCloud or someone else will get there at some point!

It is very cheap storage, it is connected to the internet, it has some nice phone applications that I can use to access my content, I can run scripts on it to back up data from other services like Instagram, it is available on all of my computers.

If I am ever to get sucked into another cloud storage, give me encryption, open source client, mobile apps, connection to other services to backup my content, API access to my data, openness to third parties building connections with your platform and I will chase you to give you my money.
In athletics, usually not. But perhaps surprisingly, in the American legal system, yes! The relevant question actually is whether "they would have won anyway".

The standard is that if the prosecution intentionally "cheats" and obtains a conviction through unconstitutional means, the conviction cannot be appealed unless it can be shown that there was a "reasonable probability" that the verdict would have been different without the violation of rights. Worse, in our adversarial system, prosecutors are essentially obligated to argue that any misconduct had no effect. One might even conclude that they are "obligated to cheat".

Ken White, a former prosecutor and legal blogger at Popehat has an excellent explanation of this in his recent piece "Confessions of an Ex-Prosecutor". I'm tempted to just quote entire sections from it, but perhaps better just to link to it. If pressed for time, start with the section "Prosecutors Are Duty-Bound to Argue That Rights Don't Matter": http://reason.com/archives/2016/06/23/confessions-of-an-ex-p...

So, while your point is excellent, one might ask whether our voting system should be more like an athletic contest, or a legal proceeding? And if the answer is "like an athletic contest", what does that say about our legal system?
Can “Free Speech” Be “Moderated”? Yes
> Huh, I'm a little surprised that the try/catch de-optimization is still a thing.

It's fixed in Turbofan, but that's not shipping yet.
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That's websites.

Basically every brick-and-mortar business with more than a couple of computers has a Windows Sever domain controller and Exchange server in a closet somewhere. It does not generally host the website.
>The criticisms of hypocrisy are fair, but only go so far. If they violated rules, they were rules of their own making, and not rights granted by the Constitution.

That's like saying, "Lying is only a crime when you're under oath. Ergo, the party leaders are free to lie all they want and no harm, no foul."
I assumed the author meant that the market had stabilized and the period where you might see large gains or losses by the individual players over small spans of time (like a year) is over. The war metaphor is just a metaphor after all (and a pretty lousy one at that, clearly).
Tech companies in Southern New Hampshire pull partially from the same talent pool as Boston. A lot of people commute to Boston every day and the other way. Those people sacrifice almost two hours a day which isn't great from a work-life balance standpoint.

If you do get a job in New Hampshire itself, the high tech companies that have to hustle to make enough money to keep up with Boston salaries or risk losing people to the commute.

I live in New Hampshire and I love it but I can't say my work life balance is any better than when I lived in Boston. But my quality of life is quite a bit better. I have a house here, I could never have that in Boston.
Sorry. Here's a picture.[1]

LG had a problem for a while - more manufacturing capacity than Chevy needed. They shut down the battery plant briefly. But that turned around.

[1] http://www.autoblog.com/2014/09/25/lg-chems-troubled-chevy-v...
in addition to that, I think it should be pointed out that self-reported salaries on anonymous internet forums are highly susceptible to ego-driven inflation.

I mean, it should be obvious, but people just lie all the time. even if they don't even make that salary they still want to say that they do because they have some notion that it will boost their status or something.
You are definitely right that at-home PT is essential and that you can learn to do it by going to see a PT.

Practically though the quality of service that you get from a PT practitioner varies all over the place and there is very little that is consistent or evidence based about the practice.
Something that the Chinese market seems to like also are big phones

See models from Xiaomi, or even the Asus ones, it seems the bigger the better.

I already dislike how big my Moto G3 is, but it seems they're fine with it
Great point! Didn't realize that.
Thanks for an informative answer.
Definitely learned something new. This is why I'm here.
My point is that Google's had a unified login system across all products (except legacy Blogger and YouTube accounts) since at least 2008. It doesn't really make sense to call it a GMail account - GMail was one of the services that it gave you access to, but it also was your account for AdWords, Analytics, Google Voice, Blogger, Reader, Docs, etc. You can find references to it on the web from 2009 onwards, as well as reports that the Chinese hacked it in 2010:

http://blogoscoped.com/forum/164385.html

http://www.computerworld.com/article/2517360/security0/repor...

The "G+ is just an identity layer on top of Google" was a common soundbite reported by executives at the time, and perhaps they even believed it, but my engineers-level view as someone who worked with the G+ codebase was that this was mostly marketing speak to differentiate us from Facebook and deflect criticism of "Well, if G+ is a new social network, why would I use it over Facebook?" By saying it's the identity layer for Google, they can then say "Well, you use Google already, this is just the social layer that ties all Google products together." On a technical level a "G+ account" was just a bit set in your Gaia record that indicated whether you had opted in to G+ features.
The hating foreigners and feeling constantly maligned can easily transition into "Are we going take being disrespected like that? Hell no! Let's go punch them in the face!" and the tanks start rolling.

If there's one bright side to Western Europe's 30+ years of low military spending, they don't have many tanks to send. Of course that's easily fixed as well.
The problem w/ ranking people (in general) is that it embodies this idea of "the best". At SO, it appears this ranking system is internalized by the employees who are consistently ranked below "the best" (5). So why bother trying to be "the best", when it's made to seem so impossible by the ranking system? Ranking is demoralizing.
It's an interesting contrast with The Martian: both are geek porn, but one says "Geeks are awesome because they might have a high-school level understanding of science which would be improbably useful if they were stranded alone on Mars." and the other says "Geeks are awesome because knowing the script to War Games demonstrates moral fiber." and believes it. (The character who established the challenges believing this is not problematic. The book believing it, heart and soul, is a knock on the book.)
That's a poor analogy. In statistics you can have an acceptable level of error (called an error rate) where the primary pool of data is still sufficiently accurate enough to be usable.

So say they throw out 5% of the results or give a +/- rate you can measure to the final stats and use that to determine whether or not it was significant enough to warrant a recount or a new measurement. If not then it's probably not worth the time as you can assume the majority party will be satisfied with winning and the losing party would not benefit from a recount.

Additionally, the bar would have to be extremely high that the likelyhood it coulld affect the outcome of the results given the extremely high cost involved in doing the data collection or analysis over again.

So, basically, the OP made a fair point.

Whether or not society should be okay with the level of irregularity and fraud is another question. Even if it didn't ultimately affect the results, that doesn't change the morality or questions of legal responsibility of those who manipulated the results.
I see it more like gun buybacks -- "we're not going to ask too many questions, you already have this dangerous thing, give it to us and here's some cash."

In other words, I don't believe bug bounties incentivize people who would otherwise not already be looking, but it gives them a safe outlet and official validation that they can put on their resume/website/whatever.
Photos from the Korean War
Actually yes, that is what we're doing.

We are (currently) making the equivalent of 1 extra mortgage payment a year, which should reduce the amount of interest that is paid over the lifetime of the loan. That, coupled with the increased value of the house since we've bought it, would help us remove the PMI payment.

Doing the Maths, paying the extra 10% down, wouldn't save us much over the length of the loan where PMI applies, so we opted to make an extra mortgage payment instead.
Buddhist monk vs. hackerspace (2011)
The link says that the issue has been resolved, but does it not mean that before the fix, passwords could have been leaked? If so, should one be updating all their stored passwords? I'm not sure if this has been discussed in the comments here. There are 342 comments at this time; haven't read all of them.
I, for one, do want technology companies making ethically informed decisions. It doesn't mean they will always make the right ethical decisions, but it has a far higher chance of positive outcome than simply avoiding the matter altogether.

I can understand why the author is somewhat frightened by the prospect, but fear doesn't justify inaction.

To say Twitter isn't free speech because it has limitations seems dubious. The U.S. is fairly well-regarded on the rights of speech, but even here there are limits. That doesn't mean free speech doesn't exist, it means it is paired with responsibility with penalties for failure to abide by those responsibilities.
Moment is a fantastic library; I used it to build a world clock to go across the top of a display wall UI, and it made dealing with timezones in JS painless. Huge thanks to Tim for writing it!
But the second this news broke, Lenovo backed our immediately and issued a firmware update removing the bloatware.

At least this issue should be solved.
Which is why in California certain races are top-two win. For example in the "primaries" two democrats were the top-two vote getters, so the general election ballot will only have democrats on it.
I hate to be a curmudgeon but is machine learning really necessary for a wavelet decompose?

Can anyone give an example where this enables you do to things that couldn't be done better with other techniques?
I'm surprised why would someone give so much money for something that exists and no additional value to it.

Here is upcoming startup and I'm waiting to release its beta to the public:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3aXb5RqS0s

Private, Streams and Just works.
> Necromancer

I misread that as "Neuromancer" and pictured you as Case-on-hiatus, jacking into your deck up in amongst the trees.
Storage is still pretty limited on laptops. For example even on Macbook Pro you are still stuck with max 1TB. If you carry your computer around, external storage is pretty inconvenient.

One issue with cheap local storage is the reliability. It is easy to get an external hard disk or NAS box, but quite difficult to setup appropriate backup procedures and maintain those. For example keeping data and backups in one physical location is not a very good idea.
> Well, such use cases are internal email via IMAP with STARTSSL, they are browser traffic with default browsers (those don't allow custom CAs either, you'll likely have to compile a custom build yourself), etc.

Do you have a source for this? Whether non-standard CAs are accepted is up to the individual apps. Android N still has the ability to install custom root certificates. I haven't seen an announcement regarding, for example, the standard mail client or Chrome for Android.

> Basically, if you want to use any app - be it IRCCloud, Slack, Locally-Hosted Google Apps for big businesses as a box, etc locally, with a custom CA, you have to customly modify every single one of those apps, or you have to buy a CA.

"Buy a CA"? There's no publicly-trusted CA that will issue certificates for internal domains, period. Just stop using internal names for this purpose and you're fine. You can get domains and DNS hosting for a total of $ 0.00, so that's not a valid argument in my book.

> That's a great fucking piece of shit.

That's a security trade-off that's meant to help protect regular users while inconveniencing a small number of organizations that chose to still use internal names while ignoring many warnings that this is not a best practice, and who are now unable to get publicly-trusted certificates for these domains.
The Typography of ‘Stranger Things’
All good points. Perhaps I was too flippant. To clarify, it does matter how people behave. I just have little faith that the commons won't continue to fall tragedy to itself without some sort of indoctrination (or incentive system as you pointed out).
A benchmark for some popular ES6 features in Node.js ( V8 / Chakra )
but that's Dropbox. So contrary to what the article asserts, this is just another dropbox.
Time to pivot.
> Why would you "burn out" doing something that is presumably wholly voluntary?

Because as the creator the project itself is wrapped up in your identity, something you made. One feels entwined with it's fate, no less than a founder of a startup does, and the more popular the more issues, noise, pull requests, etc.

It's easy to feel stand back a lot later and recognise that you are overwhelmed by it all, drowning. But even a successful project builds slow enough that one adapts to it all and don't notice.

It's a classic boiling frog problem and the project creator and core maintainer is the frog.
Been there, been done like that.

I don't need the certainty of a court verdict to convince me a bozo isn't worth my time. When there's no shortage of good people to work with, anything less than a "yes" is a "no".

Conversely, I also choose my own friends. I've befriended social pariahs many times, because having played that role many times myself, I get it.
The REST term is problematic and should be redefined to how it's commonly used
Well, the "system" might be corrupt and idiotic, but remember that this process is run by the Democratic Party itself. If they wanted to implement a system without delegates and super-delegates and mega-ultra-plus delegates, they could do so next week without requiring any involvement by the Federal or State governments. (Short of informing the State governments who manage the ballots about the new rules.)

Keep in mind that what you're seeing in this article is a relatively small and independent part of "the system".
I think the point is that there's less to differentiate any given Android phone from another one, compared to differentiating an iPhone from an Android phone. You can argue about maturity or other types of "better-ness" but for many people they are still sufficiently different to not be fungible, which is less true within the Android ecosystem.
Uhm, how do one compute the cubic root of x^3 modulo N?
Nobody was happy with desktop OSes thirty years ago, but it was still impossible to get them to switch to something better because of ecosystem of applications and hardware. The same is probably true of phones today, although maybe the internet/ cloud makes users less locked in.
No, using a towel could lead to contamination. Use a disposable paper towel. Also, Security Experts (TM) have not proven that Windex helps, but I'd use it just in case.
Whether Sweeney is right or not, this whole discussion illustrates exactly why it behooves everybody (except Microsoft, I suppose) to switch to an F/OSS OS like Linux or a BSD. Everybody is trying to make their platform a walled garden, and the "war on general purpose computing" still rages as well. Using an F/OSS operating system, and open hardware platforms as much as possible, is essential to keeping computing open to everyone.
I've heard pundits say the reason for bigger phones popularity is amongst people who don't have tablets and PCs as well. Essentially if you have to pick one size of screen for all your needs, then something a bit larger is a good idea.
Microsoft appears to be open sourcing PowerShell
Results from that data alone: https://www.23andme.com/for/scientists/
Wikipedia has different definitions (example below). I don’t know where you get your definition from.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism

“a genus of political ideology whose mythic core in its various permutations is a palingenetic form of populist ultranationalism”
I'm fine with a mind/body dichotomy.

When I'm asleep, I'm not aware of anything, but I toss and turn. When I wake up in the morning, I instantly know where all my limbs are. I can also move my arms around my desk with my eyes closed, and reach towards things even if I can't see them - I know the position of my arms without any other senses.

I'm not sure why that doesn't qualify as a sense.
That still doesn't lead me to believe that it is a larger battery factory than the Gigafactory, either in square footage(the Gigafactory will be the largest factory in the world when completed, not just battery factory) or in total battery output(the Gigafactory's output is obviously unknown, but there are at least design targets that put it at greater than the entire WORLD's 2014 battery production). It may be larger than the Gigafactory is now(14% complete) or produce more batteries(not very hard, since Gigafactory isn't producing any yet), but those aren't really meaningful comparisons when judging the newsworthiness of the Gigafactory.

If there are actual hard, numbers that put the Gigafactory's to shame out there, please share. As a Tesla investor I want to know :)
You know how in parodies 15 years ago, they made fun of how cell phones were getting smaller and smaller? They stopped that trend about 5 or 6 years ago and started getting bigger and bigger.

I only looked on from the outside as an observer, since I don't have the money to throw away on replacing my phone ever 2 years like everyone else seems to.

But now, with the iPhone SE, they're reversing that trend again.

It reminds me of that scene in Wall-E, where they say "red is the new blue" on all the screens, and suddenly everyone presses the button to change all their personal possessions (including clothing) to blue!

I hate the word sheeple, I really do, but seriously guys, what the hell? It's a fucking phone.
Dropbox project Infinite should help with this. It should make it possible to replace some contents of the Dropbox folder with place holders that only get downloaded when they are accessed. Personally I'm very much waiting for this. The current selective sync is too cumbersome.

https://blogs.dropbox.com/business/2016/04/announcing-projec...
I think the arguments about usability are missing the point. This looks to me like the reemergence of the old debate between baroque (skeuomorphic) and classical (flat) styles, with usability thrown in by both sides as a red herring.
Yes, the one. It was (is? don't know, I don't use Apple products) a flaw in how Homebrew and its homepage operates.
stack overflow is a relatively small company and not a "software major". Google pays 50% more than small companies.

this is also base salary. I hope you're considering that and not just adding in bonus and stock grants thinking you're doing a fair comparison.
I made the Official Third Jewish Temple.

God talks.

Ask Him about the Holocaust. God's world is perfectly just. Do the math, retard-nigger.

The nigger brain cannot understand what a NIST legally certified random number is.
>This article is more probably to convince ppl to use Google Cloud rather than how to run multicloud strategy.

Yes. For public cloud, it's AWS v. everyone else right now. This is why Docker is popular among IT mega-vendors because container portability gives IBM/Microsoft Azure/GCP/Red Hat a fighting chance to stop AWS from gobbling up the entire cloud infrastructure.

Container portability => less AWS lock-in => They'll come to my platform, perchance.

Some relevant articles: http://redmonk.com/jgovernor/2016/07/15/what-kubernetes-and-... and http://redmonk.com/jgovernor/2016/03/08/rise-of-the-docker-p...
Side effect free functional programming was taught using Lisp in the 60s.

See "Pure Lisp", a style and subset, where no side-effects has been used.
Domestic cats are also good examples of two genetic phenomena:

Siamese cats can have white fur but dark paws and face, it's because of a temperature sensitive mutation enzyme.

Tortoiseshell cats are usually female, and the patterns in their fur are a result of X-chromosome inactivation happening in random clumps of cells.
Trucks do not work 24 hour shifts, they sit parked while their drivers are clocked out. Truck drivers are limited to 11 hour shifts and must take a 30 minute break after the first 8 hours. So an electric truck that can be recharged in 30 minutes only needs to last for 8 hours to be a drop-in replacement for a diesel truck. And nobody said they have to be a drop-in replacement — it is entirely possible that savings on fuel will make up for whatever productivity is lost stopping to charge.

All that said, I don't think electric semis make much sense for long-haul trucking. That market would be much better served by electric trains. What does make sense is using smaller electric trucks and vans for local deliveries and waste pickup.
I mean... Walmart Labs IS part of the valley (ok, Brisbane south of SF, but still), so...
Election Justice USA reporting their site is under attack since reporting their findings. [0]

[0]https://twitter.com/Elect_Justice/status/758376021674561536

At this time, I'm still unable to reach their site.
> So how is it different from Dropbox, iCloud, OneDrive and countless other offerings?

It takes your files off of your computer except for an intelligent local cache. It doesn't integrate with your file system. The creators clearly think storing everything locally and syncing copies to the cloud is over.

I think a lot of techy people fail to realize exactly how little most people rely on their computers for anything other than web services, and how extensively most people rely on their phones for basically everything. None of the offerings you mentioned are really that great with phones.

Based on your use of your own local physical storage server, it's pretty clear that this isn't for you. It isn't for me either. But try putting yourself in someone else's shoes for a change.
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Sorry to see you go, I'm also thankful for moment. It really reduced the date issues from team members trying to roll their own. You allowed thousands of projects to leverage your work and let them focus on their project. Thanks!
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It sure sounds similar.
Any recommendations on investment books?