skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your aversion to threatening employees reminds me a bit of the old "just following orders" canard.

It's not that. It's that in this very short life we have, it's not only not helpful (in the longer run) to pursue actions which knowingly hurt people for the sake of some perceived greater good (unless absolutely necessary) -- it leads one down a very dark path.

My solution? I'd prefer to educate people about the simple fact that most of these social media sites just don't do very much to improve our lives, are a huge soul-suck and time sink generally, and basically not worth the gargantuan amounts of time and emotional energy we invest in them.

So that eventually FB, WhatsApp and all the others will hopefully just die of starvation without a single shot fired (or employee being threatened or doxxed).
It's possible to generate PDF client side. You might consider adding that feature.
Interestingly, all of those activities you list seem to have an underlying purpose beyond merely "fitness for the sake of fitness" - exercise (and the fitness which follows) are incidental side-effects of completing those activites.

Not sure what you mean by "actual" evidence, but we know a lot of what we know from studies of modern-day hunter gatherer groups and it seems unlikely that the ancients would have significantly different behavior around needless calorie expenditure.
Oy, I just imagined watching Skyfall where every time a product appears on screen, #ad appears in the corner.

I have no problem agreeing that paid Instagram posts should say #ad in the image, but I think doing the same thing in a movie is going too far. I can't really defend that though.
"Comcast video streaming service is not in the same category as Netflix, Hulu because...."

Back to square 1.
For what it's worth, I've worked with it for a couple of customers with pretty large Riak stores and never ran into or heard of any problems myself.

I've used the official JS aws-sdk and boto3 as clients.
I'm not sure OSS ever meant that:

Many people believe that the spirit of the GNU Project is that you should not charge money for distributing copies of software, or that you should charge as little as possible—just enough to cover the cost. This is a misunderstanding.

Actually, we encourage people who redistribute free software to charge as much as they wish or can. If a license does not permit users to make copies and sell them, it is a nonfree license. If this seems surprising to you, please read on.

from:

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling.en.html
Setting the hidden layer activation function to

value => value >= 0 ? value : 0.5 * value;

seems to improve convergence a lot.
Neither do I, but as I've described at tedious length here a couple of times recently, I do miss the social life I had a few years back, and which opting not to sign up for Facebook cost me.

It would be really great if the choice not to use Facebook did not often entail serious negative consequences. For one thing, I'd be a lot less annoying on the subject. Unfortunately, that happy state of affairs does not appear to obtain in either case.
A legislative act is not an act of the court - that'd be a judicial act - but of the parliament ie a law; that's the legislative body. Ofc a regulation needs to comply with laws; how else is a legal state supposed to work? And afaik traffic shaping done in a content-neutral way is network neutral; for it favors no particular provider. "Provided that equivalent categories of traffic are treated equally" is quite limiting.
I am wondering the same thing about the Google HO team. Their product is a horrible piece of garbage (ask any avid Ingress player) and they do _nothing_ to fix it. Who is responsible for this? Is it bad management? Is it bad engineers?
Formal Proofs Are Not Just Deduction Steps
Try Joyent's Triton. It literally is

> a real API for "use this endpoint to deploy your container."

I've been using Triton since as early as possible and it's fantastic.

You can tag/label containers and they show up in the SDN DNS by tag (called CNS), no need for Consul or other service discovery.

I do still use Consul for many reasons but CNS is awesome for bootstrapping a cluster as well as public dns routing/failover.
What's crappy about the iPhone simulator?
‘Makerspace in the ‘Hood’ wants to smother poverty and crime with creativity
> Captiv8, a company that connects brands to influencers, says someone with three million to seven million followers can charge, on average, $187,500 for a post on YouTube, $75,000 for a post on Instagram or Snapchat and $30,000 for a post on Twitter.

Grey market indicator on the market value of the platforms themselves
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By definition though, we're talking about issues that get a huge steam of +1's, and are unequivocally extremely useful to a wide group of the project's users.

When the project maintainers fail to prioritize the things that huge streams of users are +1-ing, I think that's a strong signal that the project maintainers just want to poke around their preferred aspects of the project, rather than address actual needs.

In that sense, they aren't actually "volunteering" time -- they are receiving the compensation of their satisfaction of poking around only the parts of the code they like. They aren't doing it "for" anyone but themselves, and it's this idea that all open source contributions are "volunteered" and are given infinity free passes from criticisms about prioritization that causes a lot of the trouble.

In order for the time to be "volunteered" it has to be directed at things that others are benefiting from. If few are benefiting and it's just a personal quirk, curiosity, or interest of some random developer -- who wants to tune out the +1 noise of people asking for things they actually need -- then that developer deserves zero praise or kudos for "volunteering" time or anything. There's no sense in which it's generous to fail to support aspects of a project that people need in order to instead support aspects of a project you personally happen to like.

I think a lot of the +1 streams are about this kind of tension. Developers saying, "leave me alone ... I'm already doing this 'for free' -- what more do you want." And then cranky users saying in reply, "But you're not doing anything 'for free' -- you're picking the parts that bring you personal satisfaction and then trying to argue that those are higher priority than the things project users rely on and need."
eh it's a longer quote taken out of context, not my words nor my opinion, but shows it's indeed not a respectable CA
But why do you think that any hint of being advertising discredits the content? Surely if there's reason to think that, you'd want to know if content is discreditable? Or do you just think that the masses will mistakenly discredit content if they know money was exchanged?
I would pay for this.

The product you should be building is replication (what you have actually built) and wal-e configured to backup to amazon s3 (where I provide the bucket).

you guarantee that the backups are happening, build in some intelligence to make sure catastrophic "DELETE" statements would trigger a backup first, etc.

Give me the ability to spawn a replica using the exact backup that I choose, etc.

This is something I could totally pay for!
Personally I don't care if something is an ad or not. If it's someone that has some notoriety I sort of expect it. I love calling it out with something simple like "#ad" because I don't feel like I'm being deceived regardless of the clear distinction that the post would clearly be an ad without it. Having the simple hashtag just means that I can trust that the brand isn't trying to be deceitful.
One problem could be crime rates - Philadelphia usually ranks in the 10-15 worst metro areas in the country.
> Note that the law is very clear that this only is allowed "provided that equivalent categories of traffic are treated equally."

They can, for instance, slow down P2P traffic. What do you think about that?
Been there. Consider whether you want to stay there. If you aren't sure start looking for other jobs. Even if you want to stay consider other options. If you're going to have to do a lot of catching up to get where want to be is it going to benefit you in the long run? It could be an opportunity to learn and grow in the but don't expect them to do you any favors.
Nope; that would simply be challenged in court.
In terms of deploying trained models, you can probably get away with using TensorFlow Serving and let Kubernetes handle the orchestration and scaling part of the job. I do agree that there is certainly a need to have a tool that glues all these different bits and pieces together for improving the process of taking a model from development to production.
I think it's also quite likely that the psychiatrist's patients are searching for her profile just to checkout how's her personal life on FB which might give FB some clue as these people might know each other hence a friend suggestion. I do that sometimes to see some of my not-so-close friends.
Capable? No, people with the sort of metabolism I'm talking about need that (high carb/protein) on top of the healthy diet you described. Removing that dining option to keep fatsos from gorging themselves doesn't seem fair. High calorie food lets me get adequate energy from a reasonably-sized dish.

A brief skinny manifesto: I hate how the world caters to the obese. Thermostat kept at low temperature in all seasons because of fat insulation. Replace high calorie options with high fiber so their overworked/stretched system feels "full." All diet/nutrition advice biased towards losing weight. The list goes on... and things geared towards losing weight/being comfortable as an obese person naturally are useless or make life worse for somebody trying to gain/maintain weight.

It's a public health crisis, I get it, but it still sucks.
Which works fine for iPhone owners, and on the 15% of Android devices running Marshmallow, in the relatively rare case where someone knows this can be done and acts upon that knowledge. Everybody else is hosed.
> Yes, I would rather have decisions made by people in Brussels that understand what they're doing.

That requires having people in Brussels who understand what they're doing - at least better than local politicians. But I'm not sure how exactly you ensure that. If we assume you are right that the people around you (excepting you, of course) are woefully misinformed and so are local politicians, where would the enlightened folks in Brussels come from, who would elect and appoint them? If you plan to keep the democracy around and not replace it with absolute monarchy with people as well informed as yourself at the helm (how do you ensure that btw?), I don't see how exactly that may work.

It is a great delusion that democratic mechanisms and limited federalized government are the way to put the best people on top and manage the system most efficiently. They are not. They are the safety valve to mitigate the effect of so-so and worse people being on top. And this mechanism is necessary because there's no viable solution so far that can identify "best" people (whatever that may mean, we have no idea for that either) and put them on top.
What exactly are the point of rules if you can reinterpret them in your favor as you see fit? It would be perfectly reasonable to rewrite rules going forward, but to retroactively change what the law says invalidates the point of having laws to begin with.
Uses cases like these are a really good fit for Minio. i.e videos/photos ... actually any blob/file.
> Edit: Not sure why'd you want unique unguessable prefixes, the data is accessed with the key. I actually encode timestamp information into my backup names for easy display.

The random prefix is to prevent overwriting an existing backup. See the sibling comment from cperciva and my reply to it.
Air pollution is an externality even when caused by people who breathe.
What exactly do you mean with encrypted replication?

Just stream the WAL in an encrypted format, and store it there? Easy enough. But that'll mean that it'll potentially take a long time to re-apply all those changes to a base backup.

Actually apply the changes, even though the database and WAL in encrypted? Unlikely, don't really see how that'd be possible. And even if, I'd bet that it'd be fairly easy to generate compression type attacks.
Just today: http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/08/paul-lep...

Maine's Governor Insists the Problem Isn't His Racism—It's Being Called a Racist
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My point is that competition only leads to lower taxes and worse governmental service by the countries on a global scale (though single countries can benefit on the cost of other countries).

Even without competition Governments have the drive to keep taxes as low as possible to boost the economy and keep local businessmen happy.
Even in 2006, when I was still in high school, most of the time in gym class the teacher would just roll out a ball. There was no other physical fitness type of classes.

I think at best once a year we were measured. There was no requirement of anything, just a hey let's see what everyone can do and record it, kind of thing.

It should be noted that in larger schools it is most likely different. This is just my personal experience.
It's more like game engine, not a graphics engine. Canvas enabled me to draw basic shapes with a specific transformation. I had to implement something, that would give me a convenient way of managing them (like grouping them, or animating them - as canvas only provides a way of drawing and forgetting them). So with my code I can add an object to some scene, add children to it, transform it at the fly and move the camera. With pure canvas that also would be possible, but not as simple.
>> If I lose my job in Nowheresville, USA

It's easy to find another job, but it's doing some incredibly tedious and boring job for a manufacturing company or something like that.
Ok, I guess I see where you're coming from, although that sort of usage seems almost too over the top to happen in real life. But as I said in another comment, we're not referring to a specific person in this context, we're talking about an abstract human being. Unless there's a risk of denigrating "users of technology" or something, I don't see an issue.
Great feedback here, but also through the on-site chat. Again, the current version is built with very limited resources mainly to check if/how the idea would resonate.

- We will try to add Point-in-time-recovery asap (saving base backups+xlogs). These would run of the replica, not putting load on your database server. As koolba correctly points out, this will make it more "backup" than "replica". Will have to figure out how this fits in the pricing model.

- I would personally love to offer better (guarantees of) encryption of the backups, ideally encrypt the data pages on the primary server. We would have to see how this would technically work.

- First couple of backups are currently replicating :)!!

Thanks, HN!
High school and middle school PE were fucking miserable for me. I wasn't fat, but I was slow and in a group with very fit (naturally or by practice) guys. I was also uncoordinated as I had a massive growth spurt and, being extremely near sighted, wasn't active in any typical sport so my coordination lagged behind for years.

College PE is different. It's not (usually) a general class. You typically pick which one you want. Weight lifting, running, cycling, golf, swimming, etc. This means you're working on a physical activity that you enjoy or have some moderate interest in, unless you truly despise moving and can't even find one thing in the list that interests you (and somehow never fits into your schedule over the 4 years of college).

And all those options were at a cheap, no-name state school.

EDIT: As well, you typically end up setting your own goals within the constraints of the course. Usually an A requires: Be fitter/healthier/faster/stronger than when you started.
I've been wondering about this for that use case myself: https://ipfs.io/
Maybe you could point us to a similar (succinct) description of the involved cryptography? This one e.g. https://eprint.iacr.org/2015/1098.pdf ?
Your math is off. And you can do commute time subsitutes by living in the cheaper areas.

You can save that down payment in 5 years probably. With higher incomes come higher saving margins.
Ask HN: What is equivalent of Nextdoor for business?
I use Nextdoor.com frequently, especially for plumber/contractor recommendations.

Where do you turn to for recommends for a coder or designer? My LinkedIn network is too small and niche-y to be useful for such tasks.
comcast could in the US, and won in court. Despite US regulation being seen as quite robust.

By this text, they'd need to show it was an exceptional and temporary necessity to deal with congestion.
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Is it less discoverable than the proposed alternative though?

In both cases one looks up the documentation, in one I find that search for the line start requires a regex with "^" and in the other I find something like "begin with" of Simple Regex Language (SRL). I still need to read (or test) to find what "begin with" means and I still couldn't guess it - why not "start with", "open with", "first character", or a myriad of other possible options.

Whatever suits the user I suppose.
Yes: "intercooler-0.9.7.js:1507 Uncaught SecurityError: Failed to read the 'localStorage' property from 'Window': Access is denied for this document."

(As mentioned above, I have cookies and localStorage disabled via my browser settings.)
We are currently working on the distributed version and will be making a beta release soon.

Currently minio supports

- pure FS backend with single disk
- pure Erasure coded backend with multiple disks on single node (like ZFS)

For more information you can read here - https://docs.minio.io/docs/minio-erasure-code-quickstart-gui...

We do not do any sort of replication erasure code handles disk failures and we also implement transparent bit-rot protection as well.

To replicate one setup to many you can use 'mc mirror -w' which would watch on events and do continuous replication.

Relevant docs can be found here

https://docs.minio.io/docs/minio-client-complete-guide#mirro...
I can definitely see the demand for something like this, but the engineering on it becomes quite difficult. Without the ability to cancel long running queries there can be some replication lag and the WAL disk could fill up. Without actual administrative access to the instance it becomes very hard to fully guarantee such replication.

If you do want this more out of the box the real options today are either built it yourself or choose a provider that's delivering it.
Allow it to widen. I have my browser wide for a reason. If I wanted my browser narrow, I'd make it narrow.
Of course they have FB accounts. That isn't the point. The authors of these algorithms introduce - often without conscious intent - their own biases. They bring their own background, morals, etc when they design an algorithm.

This is a general problem with creating an algorithm to supplement or replace anything previously done by humans. Even if the algorithm is given accurate and unbiased data (which is rare), the choice itself to use an algorithm in the first place and the design of the algorithm also contain bias.

Sometimes this bias is intentional such as "redlining" where housing loans were denied to blacks using various proxies for race. I suspect that in most cases the bias is accidental, which is why it is very important to check the results carefully for any unintended bias. In situations like Facebook, simply asking their users first (opt-in) if they would like to participate in "local friend discovery" would be a great start.
Hehe, guess I'm not the only one who likes using ancient gods as names for technology. My backup server is called Seshat, since she's seen as a record keeper.
An exciting sub-project within Monero is the possibility of using I2P[0] as a transport layer[1].

I2P is an onion-routing network overlay similar to Tor, but different in that:

- It focuses on internal services, rather than proxying out to the regular internet (though outproxies are available).

- Tor is designed primarily for TCP-based use-cases (proxying to the web). I2P natively carries both TCP and UDP.

- In I2P, every node is a router, unlike Tor where most nodes are just clients. Last time I checked, Tor had in the neighborhood of 6k routing nodes, and I2P had around 20k.

I2P is a fascinating project with a hard-working team that has been maintaining and growing the network for a decade. It's worth checking out.

[0] https://geti2p.net/

[1] https://forum.getmonero.org/1/news-announcements-and-editori...
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I agree with you to an extent, but I've often heard the argument that in that case wealthy individuals would just place all of their finances in a corporation and never have to pay any taxes whatsoever. How would you address this?
I'd like to know more about what you need done, and I'll let you know if I can help. I sent you an email.
A Brief History of Artificial Intelligence
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I think it distracts from the substance because this is the latest comment in a moderately sized and growing conversation which has nothing to do with the substance. To be sure, that conversation is one I started, but consider the possibility that other people, who are unlike me not obstreperous asses, might just quietly ignore whatever you have to say as a result of the linguistic choice with which I've taken such vocal issue.
A segfault on a null pointer isn't a memory safety problem, so that's not the same thing at all.
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The recruiters I've been in communication with seemed to use burner Google Voice accounts
> Do you remember when open source meant people just working on stuff for fun and trying to provide free as in speech alternatives to pay crap?

OSS is a path bound to failure.

On the one hand, going OSS means the project will never have the resources because it ain't charging money. On the other hand, it will never be able to charge money because people don't want to pay for something that's advertised as free. That's a vicious circle.

The average non-crap software is taking astronomical effort to make and it's getting harder and more complex over time. A bunch of guys working for free in their spare time just don't have the resources to keep up.

P.S. When in doubt, remember that the difference between the great pyramid of Kheops and Microsoft Windows, is that Windows took more effort to make.
Iterated 1v1 prisoner's dilemma with a known number of rounds is effectively just a single round of prisoner's dilemma.

As to strategy's it really depends on what the penalties are and if you can see other peoples rounds. AKA if Algo 3 can see when Algo 1 and 2 have their rounds, before having a round with 1 and 2.

Another interesting version is escalating prisoners dilemma, where round X is worth more than round X -1.
I love watching the change of seasons. When I had to move to the west coast I was really upset about losing that. Trying to move to NY again to get it back
Would one expect any issues with large files? Can one file span machines? For example, you have a 1TB single file, but one machine has 500GB free and the other 200GB and third 400GB or whatever (stupid example).

I really think this could be useful to build something like Avid Interplay on top of.
Especially metrics comparing cost of getting your own vs offloading to AWS or whatever. When is the "break even" point for buying your own?