skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In other news this week:

- 15 tb from samsung

- 32 tb from huawei

- 48 tb from lenovo

- 64 tb from someone in 3.5" form (edit: was the seagates in the article)

I'm looking forward to putting about a hundred terabytes of SSD into my tiny little 2.5" 4 bay Synology NAS in a few years. The M.2 version will be nuts - https://www.qnap.com/en/product/model.php?II=222
Mostly just one for every app on my phone that is just wasting space. However here are the first few ideas that come to mind. Because it is a chatbot for most of these things you can offer an app for just the local business, it doesn't matter if I have to use different chatbot in a different city.

- Pay parking (payment, expiry notification)

- event tickets (purchase, rsvp, ticket image)

- catching pokemon (just catch whatever and message me a snazzy report full of pokemon names every once in a while)

- ordering food

- managing bills (let me know when phone/electrical/heat bill comes in, check usage so far, coordinate payment between all the people in the conversation)
Yev from Backblaze here -> Thanks! We try to keep the droll posts to a minimum :)
One that allows voting with in the team/channel. Bonus points if it can be Quick and Easy Voting for Normal People (shout out to CPG Grey!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orybDrUj4vA
Not a bot, per se, but perhaps you would like: https://github.com/trentm/jirash
To be clear, I think that the stated belief that there is higher male variance is possibly true. I think it has a good chance of being false, but that's not the point. Statistically, for example, the male population has a greater chance of genetic disease and indeed lives shorter life; this is supposed to be in part because of the lack of two x-chromosomes, which, as a mosaic, both express themselves in the ordinary female body.

What's emphatically not true is assuming a normal distribution -- specifically out to the tails. It's not even clear that the variance doesn't turn around at some point to have higher female variance at the top end of the curve. It is extremely easy to synthesize violations of a normal distribution of ability for female subjects -- there seems to be a powerful threshold effect that, in addition to cutting out large numbers of young women in certain cultures in mathematical competition, tends to preferentially spare the very top. If things were normally distributed, of those women that compete in mathematics competitions, almost none would make it to the very top of the competition, mathematically. That has been proven empirically false.

Few scholars directly assert that the normal distribution is a perfect model for intelligence, but people seem to take the implications quite seriously.

I'm pretty sure they're mistaken on that front.
> But the argument is it benefits the poorer more than it hurts the rich.

This is a really hard point to prove.

> A society should search to maximize utility.

"Society" doesn't do anything. There is no hivemind. We are each individuals pursuing our own self interest. It is up to the individual to help those who need it, not a small group of people who think they know what we should all be doing.

> One starving person has a utility of 1. One not starving person has a utility of 10. One mega-ultra-rich person has a utility of 100. One ultra-rich person has a utility of 99.

If you take money from 1 mega-ultra-rich person and give it to 2 starving persons: 99-100 = -1 2*(10-1) = 18 +___ +17

You are going to have to clear that up for me because I am frankly not understanding it.

> A rich American wouldn't be rich if they didn't receive any benefits from society.

Yes and society benefits from having rich people with capital invest in companies that produce things we want. It's not a fixed pie.

The main issue I see with this line of thinking is that you simply cannot speak for "society" and whenever we as a species tried to organize everything to our personal standards it has failed miserably.
Would people argue over the proper treatment for cancer as prescribed by physicians and oncologists?

Don't answer that.

Physicists who need a little help with the math become experimentalist. JK. (I was an experimental physicist.)

Physics is already open in a real way. It's just that the natural language of physics is math. And people don't like math, for whatever reason.

Re dismissing things out of hand: unfortunately, sometimes the errors are so obvious that all it takes is one look to see that it's wrong. I mean, if it's easy for a practicing musician to identify a chord by ear, why should one think a physicist is arrogant if they can spot the error right away?

(See my other comments here on arguing about conservation of energy and momentum in an online forum.)
The tighter their grip, the more value will slip thru their fingers into bitcoin.
As discussed elsewhere in this thread, the most direct translation of that code would also be a linked list of futures, but I don't see an alternative for that sort of structure in general (i.e. every scheme for this sort of asynchrony will have a dynamic chain of allocations).

However, the library does provide various abstractions that can abbreviate certain patterns and do them more efficiently than otherwise, e.g. http://alexcrichton.com/futures-rs/futures/fn.collect.html for this case.
What's that from, just their desktop backup service?
Houston Based Start Ups?
As the title states, would there be any here in Houston Tx?
I'd be interested to know what the bug is that causes both West Bank and Gaza titles not to be displayed. I couldn't find anywhere else missing. When you search for Palestine in maps it doesn't point to Texas. It's disgusting that people are alleging some Jewish plot because of who the founders are. That's just bigoted. As for Palestine/Israel I wish they'd just sort out their differences and stop squabbling over namespaces, people really suffering over nothing.
Well, for one, it perpetuates the rather elitist view that the not-as-educated-as-me cannot make rational decisions for themselves. Anyone who follows a demagogue (not necessarily a true demagogue, but one defined by media or elites) is labelled as ignorant and unable to think for themselves. They are "fooled" by the demagogue. And the person labelled demagogue is presumed to only seeking power at the expense of those he is fooling, which may or may not be the case (i.e. the supposed demagogue may actually be passionate about his causes as well).

While true demagogues exist, the application of the label demagogue is largely political. In this case, she is clearly talking about Trump (but cleverly not naming him so has plausible deniability). She is pointing only towards things which draw parallels to Trump to the exclusion of the larger picture, and the implication is that people only support demagogues out of ignorance. But ignorant people don't support demagogues when they feel they are being adequately represented.

It is disenfranchisement that lead to popular support for emotional appealers. And not every person who rides to power on this wave of disenfranchisement is a automatically a demagogue (see current top comment about John Bright). When your options are "vote for the guy who says what feels good and might actually represent me" versus "vote for someone who has shown he won't represent me" (whether that thinking is correct or not), the supposed demagogue is the rational choice.

Education doesn't fix it in any case. There are many candidates who have run on platforms that appeal to educated voters, but have clearly only done so for power, because their actions in office have, at best, been neutral towards their supposed passionate platforms, but have personally enriched themselves. Educated voters still line up behind them.
Actually, the website _is_ powered by React Server! :)

We wanted the project website to serve as a demonstration as well as a source for documentation.
Here is a link discussing this issue.
http://variety.com/2016/film/news/ghostbusters-loss-sony-50-...
Thanks! The sound quality of it depends mostly on the sample rate it is able to achieve, which is somewhere around 9.6khz if all it's doing is reading a sample and then outputting it to the DAC. At 6bit 9.6khz a guitar sounds surprisingly clean through it, aliasing is only really noticable at the highest frets of the high strings. At lower bit depths and sample rates it gets really interesting.

Getting the best sound quality out of it also depends on finding the sweet spot on the input gain to get the best dynamic range from the DAC without clipping, although I designed the preamp to sound pleasant when overdriven, mostly using JFETs.
Which of these are read optimized drives? I know that the 100TB announcement this week (forgot the vendor) was optimized for writing once and mostly reading, kinda like for cold storage ala SMR.
(1) is the user's OS responsibility. All modern OS systems have a complex system in place already for this (using ICMP preflighting and DNS resolution timing checks and simultaneous v4/v6 connections, among other things). We're already in a world were networks have to be IPv6-first or IPv6-only (mobile networks are IPv6-first and soon likely to be IPv6-only; several large US cable ISPs have moved or are moving to IPv6-first/IPv6-only; etc), at least in the consumer world.
You're missing the use-case where you want to use a wildcard certificate and an EV certificate. You can't get an EV wildcard certificate.
The website itself is meant to serve as a demo. :)

When you land on the site the first page is rendered by the server. Then the client controller wakes up and subsequent page views ask the server for data, but render in the browser. That's what we mean by "seamless transitions".
> I guess my real concern is, that is a lot of data to lose to one device failure. So raid/mirroring is so much more important.

Yev from Backblaze here -> Yea, we raid across different pods w/ Reed Solomon (https://www.backblaze.com/blog/reed-solomon/). With these that would be very costly, but the benefit for us is that an entire pod or two can go down and it's still OK.
How to recover a forgotten password
Looks nice. Is there a quick start or simple example?
Wall Street runs the 2nd largest charity in America
Greenland Sharks Can Live for 400 Years
The brilliant thing (For them) about this is they don't need the hassle of parallel construction if they're not building a case-- they can just use the NSA information to steal the money, and then never file charges, and thus never have to justify to a court how they acquired the knowledge that the money would be there.

The NSA gets a cut, I'm sure.
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Yev from Backblaze here ->

Primarily yes - though we just added a new service for cloud-object storage called B2 and that's taking off quite a bit as well (but that's only been out of beta since late-June). Mostly the backup service.
Streaming MySQL tables in real-time to Kafka
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I'd be interested in learning from founders of full-time businesses that started as side projects, how they made that transition from side project to full-time.

The amount of time you need to spend on a side project to grow probably increases faster than revenue. So inevitably there will be some point in time where your level of effort is much more than what you'd call a side project, yet your revenue is much less than what you'd call a business. I bet that's a frustrating point for many, as you can't just quit your job and stop paying your bills. I'd love to hear creative ways people have gotten past that hump that don't involve mortgaging the house, selling all your possessions and depleting your life savings.
Yes, definitely agree! We need better tutorials!

We need better docs in general. Contributions welcome! :D
how are the SSDs these days with respect to MTTF? I recall reading articles about SSDs having shorter MTTF than traditional HDs..
You are correct in assuming that the assignment would be a type error.

Similar to other languages, you'd have to allocate. In rust, it would probably look like:

let mut fut: Box<Future<()>> = Box::new(Future<()>::new());

and then

fut = Box::new(fut.and_then(|| file.close()));
The reason I don't mind dark pools is because it is merely an automated over the counter trade.

I think having some data from the dark pools would be good, just so people could have a frame of reference, but I don't think all trades need to be routed to one [set of] place(s)
Methane rivers carved canyons on Saturn's moon Titan, scientists say
Pokémon GO is the perfect antidote to a crazy 2016
The first big law/funding/ruling often stands intact for a decade or more. So getting it closer to right the first time is a worthy goal.
Toshiba to release 100TB SSD
A little unsolicited advice, but try putting some small gaskets between the screw and harddrive, it eliminates a lot of noise.
What is a patch in your case? Are you running a sliding window over the image or tiling it? Then are you marking each pixel as belonging to the edge of a document or are you marking detected edges as valid document boundaries? Also how do you model the links between the 4 sides? A reference to a paper or follow up blog post would be greatly appreciated.

Great work.
Laurent
I undestand "offline mode" as to be able to edit a note without connection and sync later.

I use (and pay) Evernote because of this. You can edit and create notes while disconnected.
5 Apps for Keeping Remote Employees Engaged
If all you care about is foreign policy, maybe Pence is okay with you. The guy is a garbage person though and made me ashamed of my home state on multiple occasions.
> Not only can they predict it, but I imagine to a large extent they control what people watch.

Oh man, new sinister revenue stream for Netflix incoming.

Next Google is going to realize that they can control which billboards or storefronts you drive by based on your Maps directions.
Sure: you're skillful, and you and your team can produce something of value.

However, you are not pushing frontiers in computer science. That's the key issue here: the physics autodidacts all think that they have an idea that can blow away several hundred years of well-tested scientific theory.

CERN and every single particle accelerator in the world can run only because Einstein's theory is taken into account.

GPS timekeeping works only because Einstein's work is taken into account.
I actually have a 3TB MyBook for personal media as well and it's dangerously close to being full. :) Currently I'm considering a 6TB version of the same thing as I'm sure these larger SSD's won't become affordable for another 2-4 years.
Or, for example, you're recording a lot of surveillance data and you never^h^h^h^h^hhardly ever modify it.

Edit: simple math HD stream 10mbps (1MB/s) 24hrs = 86.4GB,that is nearly 2 years of uninterrupted coverage on 1 drive in HD.
Let's Encrypt: The Road to Encrypting All the Things
The Four Stages of ChatOps
> Windows kernels have much more powerful async I/O

async DISK I/O
It should be a utility driven approach.

For tasks & information which are required for a short duration & that’s it and value for which is only for that moment should be implemented as bots.

Parking, ordering are all short, instantaneous tasks which are only of value there & then. Anything that meets this criteria can fit the bill of being a chatbot

https://medium.com/@sushaantmujoo/messages-messages-everywhe...
Simplenote does this.

These are exactly the features Simperium provides.
Make it possessive ("lets go by Jeremy's") and it would be perfectly normal English in my native south-east of England too.

I think it's just a more just an archaic usage in American English.
I'm not arguing against the idea that government needs coercive powers. I'm arguing against the idea that states are the optimal organizational level to have unitary and sovereign governments.
> You're missing the use-case where you want to use a wildcard certificate and an EV certificate. You can't get an EV wildcard certificate.

Yes that's not possible as EV certs are not issue for wildcards.

My counter is that EV certs are for chumps and the entire concept is a scamola. The only justification I'd accept for getting one is proper A/B testing that an EV cert lead to increased revenue. There's no inherent security argument for them.
It's not out yet but the ESP32[0] has Bluetooth. It's small and super cheap.

[0] https://espressif.com/en/products/hardware/esp32/overview
I've used async tooling extensively on several platforms now, including Go, C#, Java, Clojure's core async, the new async methods in JS.

The challenge of these state machine codegen abstractions is not performance. It's making source-facing debuggers do the right thing and handle errors in a way that doesn't break the illusion that the code running is the code in source.

If you can match the degree of support C# has for error handling, you'll be in an amazing place.
Thanks! DHT support is number one priority right now, and I was also very excited when I saw that post yesterday. Still need to check out the BEP-19.

By the way, do you know any decent DHT implementations that can be embedded into this with minimum trouble?
Depends on what you need. The ESP8266 has a lot of limitations depending on what you want to do. It doesn't have any internal memory, so is dependent on an external flash device. It only has a single adc channel, so if you're doing an sort of measurement operations, you'd need a breakout board of some sort. It requires an external clock crystal, again increasing the BOM. It's also not 5v tolerant, which is useful in some applications. There are definitely a lot more compelling micros out right now, but AVRs still have a lot of tricks up their sleeve that other micros can't meet yet.
It's the easiest way to make your portal sticky.
As a small robotics startup we use Arduinos to control our grippers just because it was easy for the founders to get started and because adding new features is fairly fast. We've actually moved to a board that pretends to be a mega2560 but is entirely custom but we're still sticking with the Arduino libraries.

Some day we might move to a standard uC approach but that'll be when we have many more employees.
No. That only works for a small list of very specific datacenters, and only works for a connection to your own servers in datacenters. It doesn't give you the price you want for end-user bandwidth costs, forcing you to fork out an enormous amount of money if you're doing anything that's even remotely content rich.
To which correct German sentence does "Let's go by Jeremy" correspond? Closest I can come up with is "Lass uns bei Jeremy vorbeischauen". Though in this case 'bei' has more of the meaning of 'at' and 'vorbeischauen' is an integral part of the sentence.
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Does this text seem more rational to you? https://www.gnu.org/licenses/why-not-lgpl.html

It's an argument for why LGPL exists, and when FSF thinks its the appropriate choice. It seems to me that it disproves the irrational black-and-white view of the world you cite.
"seamless transitions" in the web design world is often taken to mean "transitions" in the sense of CSS animations, i.e. instead of hard page refreshes elements smoothly morph into their positions in the next page state. See eg. Google's Material Design or Apple's iPhone UI. This is a big, largely-unsolved problem in HTML5, at least in making them pervasive, performant on mobile, and easy for developers. Advertising this may lead to some unwarranted excitement and subsequent disappointment, since the website doesn't really have transitions at all of this sort.
> But 'Palestine' is not an internationally recognized place

Yes, it is. The State of Palestine is recognized by most countries in the world (136), and is a non-member observer state in the UN, as well as participating in various other international organizations.
Of course it makes for an interesting business model to mount a pair of 100TB drives as a mirror pair for torrents. Of course you won't know how reliable they are so every month you will want to replace one of the mirrored drives and recycle it through your wholly owned subsidiary "Drive-full-of-torrents.com" :-)
Why would it be mental illness? Does it affect my ability to live my life, or anyone else's to live theirs? After all, I make decisions that carry moral weight based on my moral, not aesthetic compass.
For routing of URL paths to "page" objects we use Yahoo's `routr`.

We've tried to keep data store selection out of React Server core. There are so many good options in the React ecosystem that picking one seems limiting.

The data bindings that the framework cares about are at the http request level. We have a wrapper around `superagent` that manages transfer of response data from the server to the browser. So, when the client controller wakes up in the browser and tries to make the same requests that the server just made while _it_ was rendering the page, the data is already present and the requests are short-circuited.
Smart usage of NPM packages is "free" in the sense that, on average, you gain more than you loose in terms of time/productivity.
True, yet they push absurd agendas of their own, see for example The Daily Show's ridiculous outrage-mongering over women's football.
One of the great things about React is its support for server-side rendering

Cool, I never knew that.
And the BBC (news on mobile at least).
Hehe, sure. with so many of new drives being optimized for write-once, read-often, it's important to know that from the announcements. Otherwise, people will get hopes high, thinking they can have 100TB random access flash drives in a year.
Why is that? My understanding is that fracking "recipes" are secret only because they're so boring. If it's just soap and sand and whatnot and you're making $50mm a year on it, you gotta keep the recipe a secret or else everyone will copy it and you're out of business.
I think a few things contribute to this in a big way:

1) Explanations of science (or the findings of science, anyway) in school are often awful and/or wrong, and not always for any good reason. See: how airplane wings work, for an exceptionally bad one. Finding this out for one thing after another as one grows up paints all of science as kinda bullshitty.

2) People who (apparently) know what's going on often have trouble explaining why something that seems like it ought to have a decent intuitive explanation works other than "the math says it does, so it does". See, for an example: basically any place online where several seemingly-knowledgable people try to explain how/why the Oberth effect works. Also the talk section for the wikipedia page about how airplane wings work :-(

3) Most people (I'd guess) are looking for satisfying answers to "why" in science, and often science actually does run out of answers to that question beyond "because the math says so" or "because we've observed that this happens, for whatever reason", and sometimes surprisingly far from the edge of our knowledge on a topic. These spaces are often filled with fairy tales, which may be tossed about as if they're "real", confusing laypersons. This obscures where the satisfying-to-a-layperson part of a given topic ends and where here-be-dragons-and-magic-and-mostly-just-math begins.

4) Common words overloaded to serve as highly specific scientific terminology are incredibly difficult to parse as a layperson, and they're all over in science. It's easy to get fairly deep into a topic before realizing that a term like this is barely mapped to any common meaning, if it is at all. Doubly so if the reason the term was originally used turns out to be wrong, but the term remains in use for whatever phenomenon/term it was describing just because all the experts are used to it. Physics is extremely bad about this, to the point that it comes off as intentional.

Given those things (among others), no wonder non-experts have trouble sorting BS from legit science.

[edit] "there" to "where"
New evidence confirms that humans arrived in the Americas by a coastal route