skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Search: https://www.startpage.com (free)

Mail: https://www.posteo.de (12 EUR/yr)

Contacts: posteo does CardDAV (included)

Calendar: posteo does CalDAV (included)

Chat: Signal (though not decentralised, the only service that seems robust, trustworthy and usable by the not-so-technical (=friends)); (free)

Drive: Dropbox w/ partly encrypted content (currently GPG, but should move to cryptomator or similar for convenience/scaling; Spideroak is not open-source despite promising to become that for years now, don't see why to trust them); (free plan)

Youtube: :( - impossible to replace, i guess

Maps: https://www.openstreetmap.org on occasion, mostly still G. Maps :(

also:

Desktop OS: Ubuntu (I don't see significant privacy concerns currently; also, this is the only OS i would recommend to either browse-and-mail users or interested and motivated friends)

Mobile: Still on OEM-Android; would switch to CyanogenMod if i could root safely, see below (in future: CopperheadOS); using it with most G. Apps disabled, NetGuard blocks all but G. Services (required for Play & Signal)

Browser: Firefox w/ uBlock, NoScript, Request Policy, HTTPS Everywhere, Decentraleyes (hasn't been mentioned here?!), Random Agend Spoofer (disable in reverse order if this seems excessive/redundant)

looking for:

Skype: good SIP client and especially server - anyone? :) (also non-SIP alternatives...)

Mobile hw: good hardware (Nexus seems paradoxically logical to either get serious updates or compatibility to projects like Copperhead/Cyanogen; maybe also S. Galaxy?)

Mobile sw: open-source scripts to root above "good hardware"; open-source su apps (phhusson's seems to be the only one outside CyanogenMod? and still in rough beta)
Wouldn't they be the victim when placing these calls to the PD? Sounds more like it is the people committing the crimes who are costing the PD money.
It all depends on how much data you would like to keep and monitor. If you're going to keep data let's say for last minute, last hour and last 24 hours (100 data points each) you'll be fine. It will extend base memory footprint by about 4MB approx basing on my experiments. When it comes to CPU, these operations are not so expensive and consume up to 0.1% of my Macbook Pro power (on default settings which are 3 series of 60 datapoints)
Doesn't Walmart pay local taxes to support the PD?
> AMD tried and failed.

What's your personal definition of "failed"? AMD may not be the market leader but for the same price, their multicore processors are far better than Intel's offering.

Old games that haven't been properly designed to take advantage of more than 2 or 3 cores don't benefit from AMD's 8-core processors, but calling a marketing issue a failure, particularly a technical one, is simply disingenuous.

> Multiple cores is what the FX is all about. What's the one type of application that drives processor sales on the desktop? Right, games. What's one of many types of applications that do profit more from fewer stronger cores than from more slower ones? Right again, games.

False dilemma. All processes take advantage from faster cores, but more cores don't mean faster cores. More cores offer the ability to run more processes concurrently.

If an application isn't developed to take advantage of the available cores, you end up with a system where over half of the available computational resources remain idling while only 3 or 4 are taxed.

Inefficient software isn't a hardware problem.

> And games are also changing. Not too long ago you could still play games (like Fallout 3) with a single core.

That's precisely the issue. Game developers need to target the computer hardware that gamers use, and the computer hardware that the average gamer uses is very old. For instance, let's look at Steam's hardware and software survey:

http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey

Nearly half of the hardware runs with less than 2 cores, and around 95% runs harware with up to 4 cores.

Yet, AMD offers 6 and 8-core processors, which appear to be used by less than 2% of Steam's gaming community.

Why would video game developers spend their resources designing software that take advantage of the available computational resources provided by AMD's 6 and 8-core line of processors if this only impacts less than 2% of the gaming community?

Therefore, games keep being developed based on constrained hardware requirements.

But this is by no means a technical failure on behalf of AMD.
Also it's yet to be seen what chipset we are getting,
atm you shouldn't buy AMD not because the CPU's are
utter garbage, but the chipset is utter trash.

Zen is going to have an integrated memory controller/PCIe root complex on dye. So this should help with IO concerns (no north bridge). Ofc this is gen 1 tech so who knows it could be crippled for certain tasks.
Most modern R usage I've seen, even on Kaggle, has used margittr/dplyr since it's orders of magnitudes faster/easier than the base functions. (i.e. I almost quit R in favor for Python without those two)

A quick example of my own notebook which uses margittr/dplyr heavily to process Stack Overflow survey data: https://github.com/minimaxir/stack-overflow-survey/blob/mast...
Yea, but does it scale?
Hasn't App Engine been around for more than 4 years by now?
PEP 495 - Local Time Disambiguation (folding) handles this in Python 3.6 quite elegantly:

https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0495/

It adds an extra attribute 'fold' that can be '0' (the default) for normal times and '1' for the later version with that same local time representation in the case of the clock going backwards.
But poverty in the US is better than it has ever been. As a percentage there are fewer people in poverty than quite some time if ever, the social safety nets have never been this generous, crime is relatively low, especially compared to the 1980's and 1990's. As for criminal justice reform, I'm not sure how we could reform it in a way to stop shoplifting without just throwing more people in jail for petty crimes.

Laws can't force people to be civil. Civility is part of culture. And when civil society starts to break down it really can't be fixed by anything other than a cultural change.
Thats quite an impressive list for a jury. I had a quick look at the 'ideas' board. All of the ideas seem to be blockchain based (mainly on Ethereum), is there policy on what sort of ideas they except?
I haven't played the game, but there's a novelisation, which is basically all the text from the game printed out. It's... very odd, but I enjoyed it.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1315984.Portal
I agree, and am guilty as charged.
Namespaced filesystem shouldn't even be a special requirement - your program should use relative or at least configurable paths. I mean, directories are namespaced filesystems.

What networking problems does Docker solve?
Are you suggesting we start charging people for police protection?
"To the extent that CRDTs are conflict-free"

There is no "extent" to which CRDTs are conflict free, CRDTs are by definition always 100% conflict free.

"No matter what the consensus system used be it CRDTs or OT"

CRDTs and OT are worlds apart. CRDTs are guaranteed to be conflict free, whereas OT is generally too complicated and unproven to offer that guarantee at all.

"If editing a block of text and two users try to replace the same word with another word there are a number of possible outcomes"

There are actually many more possible outcomes than those you listed, so that with CRDTs designed explicitly for collaborative string editing you can provide perfect intent-preserving merges to the user. There is an excellent paper on preserving intent, see "Replicated abstract data types: Building blocks for collaborative applications" (http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1931272")
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I found the posts from Suzie Dawson (@Suzi3D) to be quite interesting. Long but worth the read.

https://contraspin.co.nz/the-weaponising-of-social-pt1-the-c...

https://contraspin.co.nz/the-weaponising-of-social-pt-2-stom...

and

https://contraspin.co.nz/the-weaponising-of-social-part-3-th...
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Yup, that's essentially what looking that byte-size means. However, just because it doesn't fit in memory might not make it big data if it's just poorly engineered.

But many times this happens because of wasted or bloated indexes that aren't useful. Or it happens when data types are picked incorrectly.

For example, I once worked on a database where the original developer used Decimal(23, 0) as a primary key. This was on MySql and that ended up taking up 11 bytes per row, versus a Long which would have just been 8. In one table, maybe not so bad but when you start putting those primary keys into foreign key relationships... we ended up with a 1 billion row table in MySql that had 4 of these columns in it. That might make it "big data" by that definition but it's also just bad design.

Another example in that same database was using text fields in mysql for storing JSON. Since text fields in mysql are stored as separate files, this meant that every table that had one (and we had several tables that housed multiple) ran in large IO and disk access issues.

"big" data is probably a bad term to use these days because of easy it is to accidentally create a large volume of data but not need a big data solution outside of the fact that it's not the business that needs it, it's the poorly implemented system that does.

But the real reason we talk about fitting in memory comes from the core of the issue: IO. Even a super large memory set could end up being slow if it's postgres and single threaded reader that's scanning a 500 GB index. AWS offers up to 60 GB/s memory bandwidth and we'd need it for this index, since that would still take almost 10 seconds to warm up the indexes in the first place.
>The last point is, why bees are going very well in Australia even so Australia is the most extensive user of neonics?

Well we know since the introduction of Neonicotinoids in the US the honey bee colonies numbers are down from about 3.5M to just above 2.5M. I do believe the good news is that the largest drop was from 90-96 (3.5M to 2.5M) and then a steady decline until 2012 (~2.35M) and since then a steady uptick back to just above 2.5M.

My understanding is that CCD is not a disease at all, but more likely is a symptom, and that symptom is associated with neonicotinoids as concluded by this study and others before it.

I can't really speak to Australia, or other countries where the total numbers might be up since the introduction. However, lets acknowledge bees, especially wild bees, are difficult to inventory. Looking at the US data, we know managed colony decline started simultaneously with the introduction of Neonicotinoids and the largest decline was in the first 6 years followed by slow steady decline for 12 more years and then the more recent slow but steady increase since 2012.

Here in the US we have thousands of honey bee species, we really don't even bother identifying/naming them all, and there are about 5x the number of species globally. It really isn't far fetched to conclude certain species were susceptible to effects of Neonicotinoids and others are resistant, such is a story we see in nature regularly. Everyone's favorite example is the Panama Disease[1] that wiped out the dominate commercial banana on a global scale, leading to the resistant banana species we see in the store today, and now of course new strains of the Panama Disease are threatening the modern commercial bananas (which some experts guess will be extinct in 5 years).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panama_disease
It seems as though this is following a familiar pattern (as in the UK) of:

"Privatise the profit, push the risk/cost to the local community"
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People usually hear about child geniuses when they enter post secondary at an early age and less than a decade later when they finish their PhD. Sometimes you don't hear about them because the media isn't interested in their field of study
If FBX is shutting down, does this mean you can no longer re-target on FB?
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I agree but this is an optional feature which might cover most of the developers needs. But, if not, it's configurable:

pendulum.set_weekend_days([pendulum.SUNDAY])
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"Why will an investor invest in you when you have not even made 1 sale?"

Well, to get a great deal for starters. Once you do have some sales you are going to have investors lining up at the door.
But how many do you think are possible. If you were to capture the whole market, because your product is the best and you outsell your competition, how many would you end up with?

All 7 billion humans isn't your target. Maybe someday, but not right now. How many people are there with 3D printers? With things to print?
>The reality is that Walmart is a victim of their own success in some ways. They have a core demographic (the employed and unemployed poor) which they've been extremely successful in attracting, so much so that the demographics even at a store like Target are markedly different (middle class-ish).

Note that this is only true in some geographical regions. In much of not-California, Walmart is one of the only convenient places to shop, so everyone shops there.
Wholeheartedly agree on OSGi. Disastrous implementations. I worked with servicemix and still have nightmares around class path issues and crazy bundle scoping rules.
A plain old maven built jar with shading works much better in practice, but shading itself is shady :)
Walmart would also be the largest state in the US by population. They have 1.4 million US employees alone, and over 100 million weekly visitors. Asking why Walmart can't prevent all crime is kind of like asking why California can't prevent all crime.
The article also said that Wal-Mart needs more employees and private security present and visible in the stores. They said Target and grocery stores have this. They also said that Target uses computer vision analysis to identity shoppers who linger too long in one area, and other theft patterns.

Walmart can do more. Are the legally obligated to do so? Not unless laws are written in a jurisdiction that says stores of that size need to have some minimum security and anti-theft measures.
I'm so happy this uses squash merges, using rebase for this purpose is exceptionally overkill when you just want a clean commit history (due to the complexity of using the rebase tool), if you're writing a feature that involves a large amount of changes throughout the codebase it can be a handy tool to break up your work but for the general case of smaller PR's a squash merge is the way to go.
Well spotted, by the way

f8895720bef037a0705ca561343680b2 is the md5 for "I'm full of shit"
I would say exercise. A jog or a swim. Exercise has boosted my productivity a lot. Enabled me to work longer hours. Helps me be in a better mood and just feel healthy which spills over to my work.
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> In Germany one should never (esp. after our latest reforms on sexual laws) have sex without written and videotaped consent of the other party

I wonder if they have that in uploaded form: cute German girls consenting to have sex. Would be an entertaining watch if you ask me.
This works for me except for on boot, which only happens once every few weeks so it's fine: http://winaero.com/blog/disable-lock-screen-in-windows-10-an...
You must be young. It's generally an after-dinner dessert drink.
Serious question: what is a reverse company? Flat organization / no hierarchy or something? Sorry, I just don't know the term.
I worded my comment poorly. The seabrook PD is tiny and basically all the calls to walmart were causing other places to be policed less. The revenue brought in from the walmart isn't enough to offset the cost of hiring more officers.
Author here.

To answer some questions: yes this is obviously poking fun at Docker, but I also do really believe in Docker. See the follow-up for more on that: https://circleci.com/blog/it-really-is-the-future/

In a self-indulgent moment I made a "making of" podcast about this blog post, which is kinda interesting (more about business than tech): http://www.heavybit.com/library/podcasts/to-be-continuous/ep...

And if you like this post you'll probably like the rest of the podcast: http://www.heavybit.com/library/podcasts/to-be-continuous/
They are non tech specific, I guess they just haven't gone out to the broader community, that or the name ether.camp attracts only Ethereum peeps. There's still a couple of months until it starts so it'll be interesting to see if they attract any devs from outside the Blockchain world.
Following the logic it should be the hypervisor
> This workflow is scary. A rebase should not be part of any everyday workflow and must be reserved _only_ for exceptional situations.

This is what Mercurial Evolve tries to solve. There's nothing wrong with rewriting draft commits. The only potential problem is rewriting public commits. Mercurial uses phases to distinguish drafts from published commits and you may optionally designate certain repositories as non-publishing, so that they can be used for collaboratively editing draft commits.

A similar de facto convention on git is to only rewrite certain branches (e.g. feature branches) but never rewrite others (e.g. master). Commits that are local-only can be rewritten at will. Mercurial just codifies this convention via phases.
> almost a year volunteering in 7cups.com as a listener

How have you found it? I've thought about doing that myself from time to time, and I would value anything you'd like to share about your experience there.
I simply use MSMG Toolkit over at MDL forums, remove all the packages I don't want prior to installing from ISO.

No cortana (warning: no start menu searching either), no modern apps (you can intergrate calc.exe), no store, defender, remove alot of telemetry, one drive, etc.
A reasonable strategy for what? If they're obsessed with the Riemann hypothesis and it brings them pleasure to think about it, sounds great. If they'd prefer to have the largest collection of salt and pepper shakers in the world, visiting flea markets would be a better effort.

If you're asking whether an average person has a good chance of proving the Riemann hypothesis or has access to the latest ideas in the field, the answer is no. But I make my own clothes without having access to Paris or Milan or Hong Kong. We can all do rewarding non-elite things.
The keypoint here is, that opsec is all about character. Doing sexpartys on MDMA with random strangers does not fit together with being the superman hacker. I would be interested to know who does the real work at the torproject.
$5/month is a small droplet at DigitalOcean, or hell, doesn't the nano server fit that?
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This is definitely true in most of rural Oklahoma, where I grew up. There were no other major retail or grocery stores.
It's tough to not think about what you want to say/add when the conversation is engaging.

That is, "your thoughts, when told to me, made me have my own thoughts about the subject which, hopefully when I tell you, will make you think as well."

There are moments where I stop myself from interjecting during a quick pause, and rather politely wait for a long pause to add my viewpoint only for the conversation to have altered course to the point that I'd have to backtrack on a topic no one is talking about anymore. Something that is especially difficult to do when it's a group conversation.

To disengage the impulse to attempt to further/enrich the conversation has got to be a learned behavior, in my view.

This type of debate raises the question of what kind of conversation is best. Is just being listened to better than having a thoroughly-engaging convo? Depends on the person and the moment.
> The person doing the talking didn't really gain anything.

That's not necessarily so. If you just sit there like a lemon while somebody makes words at you, then, sure, they're not likely to get a lot out of it, except perhaps slightly improved buccal muscle tone. You have it within your power to produce a more valuable result.
You get more stuff done in actual parallel execution instead of having processes fighting for CPU time.

Specially when some of those processes are CPU-hogs like firewalls and anti-virus.
> Belittling the contribution of scripting to the web as mere 'novelty' is rather disingenuous. I could list other benefits but I suspect you're already aware of them and discount them because they don't apply to you.

I don't believe that scripting does contribute to the web (i.e., the interlinked web of hypertext documents we all use every day), or at least not enough to be worth the cost. The web is about documents, and documents are eminently readable without scripting (ever since writing was invented and displaced oral tradition …).

The cost does apply to me. Every page which requires me to enable JavaScript (and thus forfeit the security of the computers I do my banking and work on, and forfeit more privacy than that necessary to request a document) costs me. Every page which displays nought but a white page costs me.

I have — as I've noted — no objection to web apps qua web apps. Some of them are quite cool, and some are even useful. It's definitely nice to be able to use Linux and run programs written by people who have never used it. I do wish that browsers implemented a better language than JavaScript (which is an embarrassment to our profession) to that end, but what really gets me is the needless proliferation of apps which are really just document readers. I already have a document reader: it's my web browser.

I remember what the web was like when it was just a bunch of folks writing about things they liked and linking to one another. That was a pretty awesome web. I hate that it has been drowned out by folks who think that in order to read their documents I should give them execute privileges on my workstation.
Ask HN: What should I expect as typical Amazon Redshift charges?
Just finished on a two month trial with Amazon Redshift but still none the wiser. Im on the most basic cluster package but i dont know how to estimate what our monthly charges are likely to be. Can someone provide some guidance?
There's a Walmart in the article that was declared a public nuisance and charged $2500 for each police call.
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The lock screen bugs me too but that's what's stopping you from upgrading? If that bugs you, you're going to be driven insane once you run across everything else you can't turn off. I know first-hand, I permanently moved to Linux last week because of it.
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Brain enhancement is coming to sports, too: http://spectrum.ieee.org/the-human-os/biomedical/devices/oly...
Minimum Viable Airline. OK Eric, you've gone too far this time