skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Honestly they're pretty much the most expensive out of all of the storage solutions. Other than versioning they have less features than their competition as well. If they were born today I can't imagine they would have gone much of anywhere. Not sure how they're doing financially today but it seems each product they create flops.

So even outside of this surveillance stuff I don't get the point in using them.
Yes, agree, just wanted to give the correct Python for the (still) ill attempt at traversing OrderedDict keys in order.
Rust has now known sin.
Well I'd say for their core products such as AdWords Google are treating their customers with care. It's just that they simply don't give a shit to the majority of their other products. Why would they anyways? They're an ad company and really just as the founders said themselves, the other projects are much experimental in nature after all. That's just the reality in a business sense.
Brain Scans Used for Biometric ID Also Reveal Addiction, Mental Illness
Money and power
Yeah, totally. The difference is a bioinformaticist with a PhD generally gets to choose what they research, whereas a bioinformaticist without a PhD has to work under someone else's grant. Biology actually has the lowest pay of any major for people working in their field with a four-year degree. You are lucky to make more than minimum wage with a four-year degree, especially if your interest is field ecology or something similar.

If you want to talk about a shortage of labor where it would matter, biology as a field is probably hurting way more for talented software engineers than any company that needs a data engineer. There are so many great applications for programming in biology, and unlike other sciences, say physics, researchers don't tend to pick up on any amount of programming skill on their way to their PhD.

I've tried getting involved in bioinformatics on the side, but it's really difficult to keep up with the field if you don't have thousands of dollars to drop on journal subscriptions. It's also really hard to get access to the data researchers use in general (in any field), but it is made even harder when dealing with researchers involving people due to concerns about privacy. I don't think a focus on privacy is a bad thing, but a lot of publicly available data is sanitized to the point where your sample size would need to be in the billions to draw any inferences. You can request access to less general data, but good luck doing that without the support of a research organization.

Anyways, unless you have a martyr complex, there really isn't any reason to go into bioinformatics.
Disclaimer: I work for Mesosphere (Champions of Apache Mesos and DC/OS)

We have total respect for K8s, but I don't think you can claim winning just based on the community and stars.

OpenStack has a huge larger community of developers and advocates, but it is still haven't reached it's potential despite many years and incredible effort, seminars and summits

Also most of these next gen infr projects now (DC/OS which is powered by Mesos, K8s, docker swarm ) are converging feature wise, but they also have their strengths and weaknesses, some of these are temporary, some of these are structurally by design

Mesos (and DC/OS) were not just designed for scale, but also for extensibility and different workloads, which is why you can run Cassandra, Kafka, Spark, ..etc In production. None of these workloads run as traditional containers, with DC/OS they have their own operational logic such as honoring placement, simple installation, and upgrade, which is a core design function of the two-level scheduler

People usually complain that standing up Mesos is hard, which is why we we built DC/OS and open sourced it to give you the power of mesos and its awesome capabilities in managing containers and data workloads without going through all the effort to stitch everything yourself. Check it out at DCOS.io, I am sure you guys will be blown away.
Thank you, some good ideas there. I wanted to be careful not to upset the Hollywood elite since I live here ;) and they are a litigious bunch. But with some further development I could make torrent streaming a possibility and/or consider other possibilities to enable people to use it like that. i.e. with 1channel/soundcloud/tomahawk assuming it's easy enough to get to that data and would definitely be interesting to experiment with.

Completely agree about crowd sourced meta data.
AMP is bastardized HTML used as an excuse to making a website fast in the first place. I totally agree.

Additionally, AMP wants to become the arbiter of the mobile web. Just look at their list of "Supported ad networks." [1]

Who gave them the authority?

AMP worries me greatly.

[1] https://github.com/ampproject/amphtml/blob/master/builtins/a...
I'm not sure it is accurate to describe a situation where two companies have a couple billion users between them and the rest don't come close as "free competition". Facebook and Twitter compete, sort of, between themselves. Does anyone really compete with them?
Sure the point of this article is about customer support offered by Google. I'd say for their core products such as AdWords, Google are treating their customers with care. It's just that they simply don't give a shit to the majority of their other products. Why would they anyways? They're an ad company, earn their profits through ads almost exclusively, and really just as the founders said themselves, the other projects are much experimental in nature after all. That's just the reality in a business sense.
Who do you think employs vast majority of Linux developers? Who do you think writes they paychecks? Ever looked into who the biggest Red Hat customer is? Hint, it's the DoD.
If you're from the South, then you know it's been beaten into you with a wink and a nudge. The South is terrible for the "but everybody REALLY knows" line that happens when you are no longer in mixed company.

Most Southern whites are particularly thin-skinned when it comes to anyone calling them out on either their racism or their inability to perceive racism... and I say this as a white guy whose family owned plantations.

I personally feel no shame for the sins of my ancestors. They lived in their own time with their own set of rules and laws and morals. It's the behavior of my living kin that bothers me.
> Credit card interchange runs up to about 2.9%, but that's only on the cards with the most benefits

Repeating what I asked in another comment, it's important to know what percentage of cards have those benefits. If most credit cards in the U.S. and Canada have cash back, miles, or rewards, then it follows that merchants pay 2-3% on most transactions. In my experience in the U.S. and Canada, almost everyone seems to use a cash-back or reward-type credit card.
Hardly an excuse
I think it's an interesting theory, but I don't find myself very convinced.

Competing hypothesis: People's motivations are less driven by self-interest when the discussion is an abstract one and more driven by self-interest when there are real losses and gains to be had. It still has a self-interest component, but now the claim is that it is those who do not want redistribution acting out of self interest. Self-interest is clearly a component here, but singling it out as a motivation for wanting redistribution makes for certain specific arguments.

I'm also not sure how transferable the results around distribution in a game are for questions with societal implications; I know these sorts of experiments are common in psychology, but I wonder if the limited scope of this game means people are more willing to take everything they've earned since many of the reasons to support redistribution do not exist in a game setting, e.g. real suffering, not wanting violent revolution, etc.
I guess I'm coming from the wrong side. I think happiness for its own sake is really meaningless. I'd much rather struggle and advance than be happy doing nothing until I die, but I guess I'm in the minority. Happiness, to me, is a choice to not let negative things make you unhappy. You can acknowledge negativities and not be consumed by them.

Fighting for happiness is like fighting for peace. You win by not fighting anymore.

I'm sorry if this opinion somehow reads like satire.
And no one should questin George Bush. /s
VW engineer pleads guilty to diesel emissions scandal
Acid Treatment Could Save Hundreds of Tons of Gold from E-Waste a Year
Did I say it was a one-size-fits-all, or that it was flawless? I also suggested OwnCloud before describing my own setup. All of your software choices come with tradeoffs.

For my passwords I use pass and store them in a private git repo on a server I trust. http://password-store.org
You pay a few dollars to get your extension listed in the Chrome store or your app published in Play Market AFAIK. So by definition you are. Hell, even the customers who bought some apps in the store have a share of their money going to Google, so they are also Google's customers as well. It's just that they contribute way too little financially and are so many in number that Google choose to not give a damn. Ads has always been their only core, true business anyways.
Show HN: Format HTTP request/response payloads to the JSON API specification
You know, the number of upvotes on this submission is interesting. There have been much more impressive pure-CSS checkbox-styling and -animating demos, but those posts never got remotely the upvotes of this one.
People do like free shit. This is why the wealthy like being wealthy. They get to live comfortable lives while their money earns them more money.
There are different types of card that have different fees, like Visa Signature or MasterCard World. These usually have rewards. However, it seems like most credit cards I've seen (at least in the tier I've considered) have 1% CB or equivalent at the least, even without being Signature or World.
2015-10 Security Bulletin: Junos Space: Multiple Vulnerabilities in Junos Space
Data snooping blunders by UK spies, cops led to wrongful arrests–watchdog
aprilzero is a friend and knows it's not tumblr but he just likes to troll :)
A Worrying Trend for Psychology’s “Simple Little Tricks”
Here's my argument against: If your job can be done from home, it can be done from India or the Philippines. Be careful what you wish for.
What are the legit reasons? Isn't it just reading and writing files to the Dropbox folder?
Theoretically, the PM could find herself having trouble with her social media reach in the lead-up to the next election.

The primary criticism that gets leveled toward Facebook is about privacy, but I think the degree of control they can exercise over communication is the more worrying issue.
Not really. Sure you can make a replica of it but it won't behave the same because you'll be able to minimize or close it but the secure desktop you can't do jack to until you either accept to decline whatever it's asking.
the os seems to be built on top of linux and gtk?

can you really sell a linux distro? given it's gpl licensed?
Corporations are just a group of people with legal status. How many people beyond which you won't accept that argument? 1? 10?
If we're worried about theoretical abuse, the client could access all of your files because it runs as you.

You can opt out of the kernel extension? Still, you give it root to install, and it has a long history of hacking the file browser to get icon overlays... it seems weird to me that this would be a deciding factor.
> A rootkit doesn't need to be remote and the user isn't necessarily an attacker.

No one said a rootkit needs to be remote. (I used "remote" in quotes just to align it to the backdoor.) And in the context of security, it is definitely an attack. If there's not a user executing unauthorized commands, then it's simply installed and authorized software.

> It doesn't need to have any functionality for user interaction...

This is true, and I can see how some of my statements were maybe a bit more specific about this than they needed to be. The point is still to give an attacker a context with elevated permissions; it need not be an interactive context.

> It runs with the same privileges as the OS that it is part of.

This I still think is overly restrictive. I don't think running in ring 0/1/2 with the kernel and drivers is a necessary component; having "root" access such that it can invoke kernel functionality necessary to achieve its goals is sufficient. Now, it may use "root" access to modify kernel files and drivers, which is perhaps what you're referring to and where the line blurs and pedantry beings. If "root" access gives you unfettered access to the system, including modifying kernel executable files, then there is basically no difference between "root" and ring 0.

> For example, by your definition: a remotely accessible privileged service is a rootkit, because an unprivileged internet user can interact with it - accessing data and executing code in the service's privileged context. 'sudo nginx' is not a rootkit.

More pedantry. Clearly intended and authorized access to a service is just normal operation. This is why I'm very explicit about the usage being unauthorized and label the user an "attacker".
> Wikipedia makes me believe that Mexicans are generally a mix of European and native ancestry. But why does Mexico have so much more of that than the US? Especially considering we stole much of our land from them...

Because the US (starting before it was the US) engaged in policy of separation from, genocide against, and subjugation-in-separate-polities of the natives, whereas the Spanish in Mexico (and elsewhere) implemented the encomienda system (essentially, a quasi-feudal manor system, where the natives were essentially in the role of peasants, but -- by royal decree -- free peasants, not chattel slaves like blacks in the US.)
It's self-evident to me, but you might suspect I'm biased, being human and all. (Is this the right context in which to assume that everyone on the internet is a dog?) When the martians come to take the planet away from us, I'll volunteer for the Resistance.

A book I read earlier this year really bent my brain when it included characters working against humanity and for an invading alien intelligence. Seeing it in print was enough to convince me that it would totally happen, but I hadn't considered the possibility before.
Using your credit card for everything is a great way to find yourself deeply in debt. It's (intentionally!) easy to overspend when using a credit card, and end up carrying a balance.

Also many people (like me) don't have good enough credit to get a fancy-pants 2% back credit card.

I personally use a Simple card for spending and only transfer spending money to it weekly - helps keep spending in check and limits my losses if it were lost / stolen. I've been using a method like that for several years and avoiding credit cards as much as possible and I'm now very close to being completely out of debt, which never would have happened if I continued to rely on my own self-will to not overspend on a credit card.
> It just doesn't do us any good to act like race in America is a southern problem, and it's odd to only cast it as such.

I don't think that's what was being said. The original comment was very specifically talking about the south in the past, and how past southern practices may have informed peoples experiences if they grew up there, and how recent some changes are.
The USB Stick That Will Fry Anything
Note that that is not what that "effect" is for. It's not, strictly speaking, even an actual "effect". Windows is creating and attaching another "desktop" to your screen, and putting the dialog there. The alternate "desktop", the "Secure Desktop", is inaccessible from any other software on the computer, so a piece of malware can't say "Ask for permission to do blah, then find the 'Allow' button and click it" The "dimming" is to make it clear that this dialog is completely modal, and you can't get to anything else while it's around. It's in no way meant as a "Look, this is an OS prompt", and it's quite easy to match the effect from another program, just grab a screenshot, dim it, throw it up full screen, then throw your dialog in front of it.
I love Little Snitch and have used it for years, didnt know this existed, Thanks!
Their client just works better at syncing quickly and reliably. A huge criteria for me is how much CPU it uses in the background compared to competing solutions from Google or MS and it was often an order of magnitude less (other clients may have improved in the last year or two, I haven't checked).

Another significant advantage is that they support a stable command line client for Linux.
This is also why I prefer using C over Python.

(End Sarcasm).

Seriously? You're so productive that the cost of cloning a repository is a major impediment?

The benefits of a cleaner interface mostly trump the benefits of speed.
> board members

Plural? Who else?

There's a difference between bringing in a single famous person and the rest of the board agreeing with them on certain issues.
When have they ever done that before? Everything is within the realm of possibility, but just because someone has the technical ability to do something doesn't mean they will.
When President Obama entered office, one of his first acts was to sign an executive order to close the Guantanamo Bay prison. That order was disobeyed.

Congress published a report describing crimes against humanity committed there, in great detail, naming names. No one who was named has been punished.

The CIA has exhibited a pattern of committing crimes against humanity, interfering with attempts at oversight by the White House and by Congress, and destroying evidence. One is left with the impression that it is not, in fact, loyal to the Washington DC government in any meaningful sense, but in fact exists only to protect itself while providing cover for sadists and other war criminals. The president's and congress' failure to take strong action, to outside observers, does not look like any sort of policy decision; it looks like weakness and cowardice, from a government whose de facto power falls far short of its de jure power.
UX for what? Web interface? Desktop two-way syncing 'folder' and shell (context menu) integration?

I enjoy the web interface for Box the most, followed by OneDrive's visual design, but not performance. Google Drive's user interface outperforms OneDrive's in my subjective opinion, but file manipulation options can be a bit obtuse. I have no experience with other cloud drives.

As for shell integration, they're universally garbage. Two-way sync is default and there is no way to enable one-way sync (in either direction). It fulfills a simple use-case but there's no way to configure it otherwise with the stock sync apps.
If the "right" solution is more difficult, and no more effective than fucking this noise, then in what sense is it even desirable or good to use the "right" solution? How is it more right?

I think the nuclear option is pretty nice, since it solves every git problem I've ever heard of. All the "right" solutions only solve some particular slice of cases. Why should I be bothered to care?
Oh right, the Chinese connection had slipped my mind. Certainly that too.
The biggest real problem with hydro is proper assessment of impact of local climate change and damage on ecosystems. You can find some readings about the effects of big hydropower projects in Siberia or Middle Asia. In the latter construction of hydropower plant may even become a casus belli due to deficite of water and impact on agriculture of the countries down the river.
Also, who ruled Indochina? Wasn't that France?
The Senate has already passed it unanimously. The Congress will likely override any veto.
Yes, you implied that you know better when you critiqued the author's choice to reach for iCloud and suggested your self-hosted 'alternatives' instead as better. Except the one you prefer is not an alternative. It's not even playing the same game.

Some people are willing to spend their finite life building personal infrastructure and the rest pay others to do it. You conflate the two at your peril. The best decision I've ever made was to stop running all of my own stuff -- you get literal days back in your life. Days.
The Nazis also defined Jews as subhuman, and made discrimination, expropriation, imprisonment, and even killing of them legal. Similar things happened in the US with segregation, Jim Crow laws, eugenics, slavery, the "War on Drugs", and now with torture and the "War on Terror".

None of the above made what happened anything less than a perversion of justice and an ass-covering redefinition of words. They can do it, and they can often do it legally, but that doesn't excuse any of it, and most people aren't fooled.
"Non-Hispanic Whites totaled about..."

Hispanic white people are white as well if by white you mean of predominately European descent.
This is what really confuses me about AMP. All it does, really, is force authors to strip their page down to core, performant components.

Another way to do that is to strip your page down to core, performant components without loading a JS library from Google. But Google dangles the carrot of improved SEO with AMP, so everyone has to do it anyway.

(note: they don't actually prioritise AMP pages, they prioritise page load speed. But AMP pages are put inside a Google CDN, so, what do you know, they load fastest)
University of Colorado – Computer Science Colloquia Lectures
How did you turn that into 5 steps?

1) Use one of Chef/Puppet/Salt/Ansible to bootstrap docker
2) Use docker to build a container for the app (once)
3) Use docker to start your container on multiple hosts
Some one is bound to mention PG's submarine article, http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html so it might as well be me.

I mean yesterday we had an article about how Goldman was making its SecDB available to high networth individuals and today we've got another article about how UBS is targeting the same group.

UBS hasn't traditionally been held in the same tier as Goldamn Sachs etc as far as trading and quant jobs go, but one area they do excel in is a more traditional banking are, Wealth management for high worth individuals.

This is the area of the bank the article is talking about.

They are trying to be for high worth people, what Wealthfront or Betterment is for middle class people in that they are trying to bring money strategies that previously were the area of hedge funds to high net worth individuals.
Note that there is a reply to that letter: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3198336/
conjecture: the population of Los Angeles County, if measured using the same approach employed by this study, would show more genetic diversity than the population of Mexico
How LaunchDarkly Serves Over 4B Feature Flags Daily
This is why, if you're a small company unable to have a direct, strategic, named Dell sales relationship, you buy from Dell through a reseller. ALWAYS USE A RESELLER. The reseller has the strategic relationship, they'll go to bat for you, and you don't have to mess around on twitter trying to get your $500 back.
This. I cannot stress how important both of these factors are.

I still haven't found a solution other than (http://meocloud.pt, which was implemented by my former colleagues) that was within an order of magnitude as fast and/or as light in terms of CPU load, _and_ that supported Linux directly (let alone had halfway decent MacOS support).
A) That's 10-20°C, not °F. We're already seeing temperatures of 120°F (49°C) in parts of the world, so another +20°C puts that at 156°F (69°C). I'm not exaggerating all that much.

B) The projections keep getting more pessimistic as more data is accumulated.

C) We're talking about the theoretical worst-case scenario where everything spirals completely out of control and Venus starts to look like a temperate climate.
Creating a mirror switch
I also use Rancher and quite happy with it.

The cool thing is that you can set up and environment using cattle (their own orchestration system), k8s, mesos or swarm. Up to you and your preferences.