skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
With thousands of sata SSDs, I've seen one fail in a traditional fashion (some sectors weren't readable, otherwise mostly fine) and the rest of the maybe hundred that failed would just disappear from the bus. I don't monitor the wear out indicators, but from occasional looking, we're never near a significant fraction of the wear capacity. I'm very happy not to have anymore spinning disks in production, because the ssds fail less often, it's just the failures are more annoying, because it's hard to have an orderly shutdown when disks disappear.
"Put's people first". Yeah right, more it literally and figuratively puts people out of the picture.
I agree most countries do what is in their own interest, at least as they perceive it. I'm sure they considered whether they should wait a month for the election to be over, but this is serious business. I don't think the us govt hacked the dnc. We need to do something to discourage this. I don't think we can do much or anything though.
Why is this even news?
Not sure if this will help any. http://www.emsps.com/oldtools/msdos.htm I also read about using a CF to IDE adapter. http://www.yqcomputer.com/1118_467_1.htm
There's always something to anticipate around the corner, because the future is actively marketed to you. Oftentimes this marketing precedes the actual goods being of value - for example, VR went through a hype cycle circa 1990-1995, then disappeared for a while, because it really just wasn't doing very much yet, back then - and the headset and motion sensing tech was conflated into the onrush of CGI imagery, interactive 3D scenes, digital video, and internet technology. Most of that stuck around and consequently became ordinary. When the technology is actually the future, it becomes pervasive and ordinary very quickly. When it's a hype bubble, it crashes after a while and a bunch of companies fail.

That was the dot-com bubble: even though the internet was a big deal, pets.com and Webvan were not viable internet companies as they took on something the ecosystem wasn't ready for. They did, however, anticipate, and market to, a future where their business became viable, in the form of today's Amazon. 1990's Amazon was purely a bookseller, and perpetually viewed as sitting on a knife-edge.

Now we have a second hype cycle for VR, and while it's much better stuff this time, that doesn't mean it's actually the future. The hype around AI is similar. There was hype over previous AI techniques, too: expert systems, for example, had a period in the 80's where they were promised to do everything, assuming "everything" meant encoding a huge decision tree. Now it's the neural networks that will do "everything". NN also had a hype cycle in the 90's, but without the data and computational power, they weren't able to achieve the results we're getting today.

Developments in AI today are enumerated in achievements that become banal moments after you first hear of them: Watson beat a Jeopardy! champion. AlphaGo beat a top-level Go player. We can detect cats in images. Cars can self-drive a course better than trained race-car drivers. And so on.

It's good to be excited about the future. The marketing hype is not evil, it's necessary - it creates a dialogue, focusing people to think in terms of new technology. It's not the same as its realization, which tends to be more of a "one morning I woke up and realized I was in the future" self-reflection.
I'm still waiting for my flying car... It's well after the year 2000 and I was promised flying cars!

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzm6pvHPSGo
I prefer that HN doesn't say the score of other people's comments, it means you have more power to make your own mind up rather than the vote brigading or "piling on" that can happen on Reddit
​US officially accuses Russia of political cyber attacks
Russia can do plenty. Like fuckup the US's overthrow of Assad so they can build their precious nat gas line through Syria that Assad won't allow. Russia put a stop to that. Now it's down to how much blood is the US willing to spill in order to ensure Europe gets free of Russia's natgas hold on them.
And yet if you try and submit to publishers in JATS, editors tell you they have no idea what it is, and can you please send a Word document like everyone else...
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Now that I reread the article I see that you are right. The authors whole argument depends on the Jaeggi study which has not been successfully replicated after multiple attempts.
Not the OP but: If the servers were poorly secured, the number of entities that could have hacked them goes from "nation states" to "damn near anyone who wanted to"

With a much larger pool of potential actors, it's more difficult to conclusively assume that exactly one actor is behind all of the hacks to the exclusion of all others.
React provides the kind of portable isolated and testable components we wanted for our views. Turbolinks provides some of the UX we were looking for, but certainly doesn't provide isolated components that are simple to test. In addition it would mean we'd still need to decorate client side behavior with something like jQuery.
Russia is a convenient boogeyman but to call it a cyber superpower is laughable.

Who controls the manufacturing?

Who tapped in all the internet cables?

Who has the power to get any info they like from technology giants such as google, microsoft?

Who can turn any phone, webcam, microphone into a surveillance device?

Who has their fingers from the lowest hardware layer up through the whole software stack?
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You're right, Putin shouldn't stand by idly as America builds a missile shield around Russia to negate their ability to launch nukes...

We already have a deterrent for war with Russia. Russia knows this, I think the US is forgetting it.
You could highlight the first comment of each new subthread, or have an option to collapse the threads down to that point. You could even have a single button that scrolls down to each consecutive new comment chain.

But it would probably have to be a lot more minimalistic than a new sidebar.
I'd guess that they just didn't release the republican national commmittee hacked fruit yet. If I was russia, I'd obviously hack both. In a normal year, probably the Russians would be for the dems. It's just this bizarro election year where the dems are the hawks.
> Are you looking for different answers from those you already got?

I'm looking for a lot of yeses.

> Are you currently learning via videos?

I am.
Tangentially related, I think everyone should watch "Zero Days" regarding Stuxnet primarily, but the official stance on leaks/whistleblowers....

Its amazingly well made - and it does a fantastic job of narrating the evolution of the stance against Iran's nuke capabilties.
With such heated topics, I struggle to detect sarcasm.
I actually think that the single namespace and weak macros are design mistakes.

The lack of (as much) historical cruft is probably a Good Thing.

call/cc is a great teaching tool but a terrible thing for use in an implementation supporting production software: it's goto without the limited scope of TAGBODY.

I don't blame Scheme for not learning from Common Lisp, since the former predated the latter; indeed, Common Lisp learned from Scheme.
Don't get me wrong! I'm not uncomfortable with the values test here! I'm just confused as to the logic behind appointing her, and thus about what her appointment says about Dropbox.
Yeah, that's kind of my point.
Several reasons. Snapshots, Cloning, Replication. Customized record sizes per database. There are many good reasons to run PG on ZFS and almost everyone does. Except the MySQL/Linux crowd. The rest of have moved on from the pain of the well worn FS's of the distant past.
It looks like not many people died in the 70's, I think we need to bring back disco, bell bottoms and pot smoking!

Seriously though... antibiotics and widely available and distributed vaccinations have done more for human longevity on average than anything else.
And I just switched to a local provider and am cancelling my xfinity tv and internet. I'm done with them.
I thought it was to ensure on-going funding. If you don't conclude that further research is necessary then that's surely the worst possible thing for your continuing to be paid to do said research.
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The Nature Convervancy wants to use machine learning to prevent illegal fishing
What Rails brings to the table using React? I'm starting to see a maintenance/legacy mode nearing RoR development. This is very interesting (not for railers, which I am/were)
"Did you try it with one hand or two."

^^ was this supposed to be a joke? (I laughed at first when I thought you meant stretching the left hand between the left CTRL key and the [ :-D ).

I guess I could see someone trying to type it one-handed with their right hand, but I would have never even have thought to do that (and I don't know that I ever use the right CTRL key anyway).

Outside of the CTRL keys, I touch type pretty much everything normally, with very few exceptions (like using my ring finger on Escape). I find moving my right pinky to the right CTRL key to be very uncomfortable, so I just always use the left CTRL key.
All that to compute the question which answer is 42.
Only used Firebase before, why Technically Rethink is superior to Firebase?
such lies.

1.) Paul Manafort, Trump's previous manager, received a cash payment of more than $12 million from Pro-Russia party in Ukraine

2) Donald Trump's campaign's ONLY intervention in the entire GOP platform was to remove anti-Putin language from the platform re: Ukraine.

3) Not only that, but just days before the RNC, Carter Paige, one of Trump's foreign policy advisers traveled to Russia and gave a speech attacking America's policies towards Russia, calling America's focus on democratization and fighting inequality "hypocritical."

4) The Intelligence community has confirmed that Russian Intelligence is responsible for the hacking of the DNC, which is an obvious attempt to harm Hillary Clinton's campaign.

5) Furthermore, Donald Trump called on Russia to release/hack any emails they could get their hands on.

6) Trump's campaign manager has ties to pro-Putin oligarchs who were propped up by the Kremlin. This isn't new information. As long ago as 2005, there were calls to McCain's people to try and do something about Manafort because he was working against American interests in the region.

7) Trump has praised Putin numerous times, calling him a far better leader than Obama.

8) Donald Trump has taken an anti-NATO stance.
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> When the shooting starts, how much you could have spent on our military doesn't matter.

Agreed. However, NATO, and the U.S. in particular, still outspend Russia by a very wide margin.

> The size of Russia's military

From what I've read, they lack the capability or money to deploy more than small forces beyond their borders. Russia is poor, has serious economic problems, and wars are very expensive. Iraq cost the U.S. over a trillion dollars, IIRC.

Everything they do is on the cheap, designed to maximize the appearance of strength: In Syria Russia sticks to the air, and we don't know how many missions (or at least I don't), how much it costs or for how long they can afford it. In Ukraine they used small amounts of special forces to seize Ukraine's southern peninsula, Crimea, and support insurgents mostly with equipment.

They hide deaths of the any Russian troops in Ukraine, indicating that there may not be much public support for foreign deployments.

> especially the number of nuclear weapons

Nuclear weapons make a strong impression but are status symbols; in practice, they are almost unusable. They do prevent the invasion of Russia, but nobody was going to do that anyway except, as a long shot, China in the far east. Probably they do make the U.S. and Russian forces in Syria keep a distance from each other, to avoid unintentional conflict. Otherwise, they provide no influence; nobody worries that Russia will nuke them.
No, I like flying as well, except for the security bullshit.

It is nice to have a meal, watch people, observe the infrastructure, see where you could go from there, and so on.
Disco-descendants and weed are perennially popular and I'm sure bell bottoms will come back through the endless cycle of fashion repetition. Devise some experiments now to test your hypothesis.
That's good clarification, thank you.
Just going out on a limb here, and I know neither MongoDB or RethinkDB (nor the companies behind them) very well.

But, from what you're saying it almost sounds like that RethinkDB would be a great companion to MongoDB. And if so, that the company behind MongoDB might be a great custodian for RethinkDB.
Somewhere in the next 4-7 years, I predict we'll see Facebook give away free (or sell extremely cheap) AR glasses - which have a significantly reduced form factor.
Abraham Simpson said it best "I used to be with it, but then they changed what it was. Now what I'm with isn't it, and what's it seems weird and scary to me. It'll happen to you..."
That's what I'm wondering as well. Having done amazing work to make replication and sharing work the right way, it would've been a straightforward way to make it run reliably (managed) on AWS and such to productize it and make some money.
Many folks don't have an option to switch away. If we want change we need to vote it in. That reminds me to get back to work fixing the problem.
Baltimore Penn is a great example: https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/7a/df/4c/7adf...

Old enough to have real character, and nobody seems terribly inclined to gut it and fill it up with soulless blondwood veneer. I've never seen it much more active than in the photo, either. Really, a significant part of the reason why I prefer train travel to flying is because when I choose the former, I have the privilege of leaving from and returning to Penn, rather than the modernist Skinner-box nightmare that is BWI.
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If I were Putin I would be mad at Clinton for punking me re: Gaddafi. Russia made a good-faith attempt to stop Libya from descending into total chaos and well, look where it got them.

I think it was a timely reminder to Putin that NATO has no interest in playing nice with Russia, and informed his actions in Ukraine and Syria.
> Having Theranos on your resume now is going to be a huge resume stain, and probably prevent you from getting any kind of decent job.

From my own history I've seen this to be false. I was previously at a place that had a lot of ex-Enron employees (after Enron imploded). I think most smart employers understand the vast majority of people at places like Enron or Theranos are not "tainted" by their employment and just had the misfortune of working for a company with ethically challenged management.
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yeah, and with the only Ctrl-[ option that I would consider, you are having to use both pinkies simultaneously. I have a feeling I would just end up missing all the time and getting irritated.

xD
How do you know what the feeling of the place is? Have you ever been to that gas station?
>Is WaPo still a credible medium ...

No but notice how even otherwise highly intelligent Americans collapse under the spell of 3-lette-agency propsganda. Its amazing!
From what I can see there are two bits of evidence other than IP logs:

1. Russian metadata on some of the files was added, implying it came from (I believe) a known Russian government actor.
2. The timing of the attacks match that of business workdays in Russia, including a cessation of attacks during official holidays.

Now, if we were talking about a hack of NORAD or something , i.e. a hard target, where the pool of actors that are likely to be successful at hacking the target is low, then this circumstantial evidence could be reasonable. The problem is that, from what we have seen so far, the DNC server and others were poorly secured. This means that the pool of potential hackers goes from "nation states" to "skript kiddies and up" and as a result, circumstantial evidence is much weaker.
If you've got no other choice besides Comcast, it's worth noting that their business plans don't have data caps. (Though they are slightly more expensive.)
As more and more of "our lives" are live online, this is going to be an issue we must confront. On one hand, we need to admit the hard realities that the internet is a physical network that requires real world resources, and every time we pretend that limited resources are unlimited we end up in trouble. On the other hand we can't say, you've reached your cap, so we are in the right to charge you to utilize public resources or attend "online protests" (I realize this immediately runs into net neutrality issues).
Even just showing 2 or 3 items from /newest in a box at the bottom of the front page would encourage me to vote on them. Maybe only show it to a handful of logged in users with a nominal amount of karma to reduce any effects of it in promoting spam on the front page.
> What if there was a button one could click, to find out what others think about a comment?

How would that be different from comments which reply to the comment? What someone thinks about a comment, when written down, becomes a comment.

Ah, but perhaps there could be special "annotating replies" which are hidden, and anonymous; they could be used to write things like "I downvoted this because ...".

A feature of these "annotating replies" could be that they are ephemeral; they disappear after, say 24 hours. Say, around the same time when a posting becomes ineligible for downvoting. If you access an old post, you woudln't be able to view that material; it would be gone.

This quality would discourage people from trying to carry
on discussion threads in the annotating replies. Also replies to annotating replies would not be featured: just one flat level.
Oops, arrays and hash tables.
She sure is smart in being a hypocrite :

https://youtu.be/qcqh0gRy-og
So did I. Same goes for Tumblr.
Re your last para I think "expect" is the better choice. "If you use our stuff to do your day job then we expect you to help with our finances" - they're not forcing you to but they are applying social pressure.

"Expect" isn't a contract-like term IMO as it's too vague. If you were demanding it then they'd offer a difference license; this is not [as it's written] instantiating a contractual obligation, it's calling on the users moral nature.
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The problem with the authors principles is that they are based on a study[0] that has failed to replicate and was faulty to begin with[1].

[0] Susanne M. Jaeggi, M. B. (2008). Improving Fluid intelligence With Training on Working Memory. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0801268105

[1] Courtesy of it_learnses: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/brain-training-do...
> Not the OP but: If the servers were poorly secured, the number of entities that could have hacked them goes from "nation states" to "damn near anyone who wanted to"

The argument that Russia did it has never been that "only a nation state could do it" (which would leave lots of possibilities besides Russia).

It was that forensic analysis revealed specific indicators of specific threat groups that have been previously identified as being operated by specific components of the Russian government being the parties involved in the attacks. Motive is also a factor.

I mean, yeah, the door being unlocked means anyone could have gotten in without breaking it down and killed the guy, but its kind of natural to zero in on the guy whose fingerprints were on the knife and who had a motive to commit the murder.
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Not holding it against you, but generally you'll want to follow some sort of 80-20 or 90-10 rule. Share/contribute 90%, promote your [employer's] stuff 10%.
"Russians".

They could just as easily be hackers looking to sell to the highest bidders, criminals, etc... The fact the US even allows electronic voting machines is beyond absurd. Honestly, living outside the US, your whole election system looks like a joke.
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12634422
You can definitely use LISTEN and NOTIFY to watch for changes in Postgres. Here's a presentation I did on that last year, though oriented more towards web apps than analytics. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsorlkAF83s

For analytics I would want stronger guarantees than LISTEN and NOTIFY alone can provide. I explore options for that here: http://btubbs.com/streaming-updates-from-postgres.html
A lot of the datasets behind the big image recognition and reinforcement learning (especially recently) have been open sourced:

- https://research.googleblog.com/2016/09/announcing-youtube-8...

- https://techcrunch.com/2016/10/05/udacity-open-sources-an-ad...

- http://image-net.org/

There are also more paid, private dataset services now:

- https://fantasydata.com/pricing/nfl-data-api.aspx

- https://www.quandl.com/

I could see there being a lot of opportunity for startups that democratize data, which would then unlock more startups to build novel ML architectures on top of.
All of those are Oscar-bait prestige pictures. They aren't really aimed at the middle.
Elon Musk is a great presenter. It's refreshing to have someone not overconfident and who is a little skeptical.

The avatars did seem pretty childish, which makes me think this thing could be aimed at kids and teens. Makes sense, given their adoption of Pokemon Go.
Agreed. Much like public utilities. The Internet is already a public utility in my mind, but we still regulate it like cable television. That must change. But, looking to utilities, one sees the democratization and decentralization, due to battery and solar technologies, taking place in that sector. It would be wise to leapfrog some of the solutions and get straight to a decentralized, private-mesh/public-utility solution as soon as possible.
I've had enough (not positive) interaction with dev marketing at ms to know how uncoordinated your departments are haha. I'm only judging that this was his only contribution on a new account.
Partially. It's also about perceptions. People who are having a problem love to believe that there is a magic silver bullet solution out there somewhere -- one that will let them have to do a lot less work than the Old Way. It also makes them feel superior to the ignorant followers of the Old Way.

Install library X or buy app Y and all your problems will magically go away, and you're awfully clever if you realize this is the case, versus the unenlightened who continue to do things the Old Way. This is the basis of most sales and marketing techniques.
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Has Firebase been through Aphyr's Jepsen tests?
Way to misinterpret what I said. I said that "dude" and "guy" were asexual, not "lady".
Well no one is suggesting that you'd input characters any other way, and acme supports sam's structural regular expression command language for keyboard-based editing; so acme supports the keyboard features you're looking for and also has, as you've admitted, better navigation, via the mouse. I suggest you give acme (and/or sam) another try without the prevailing pro-keyboard bias of those people commenting on HN.
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We won't need RC cars, though -- we'll have cameras on every vehicle always uploading, yeah?
This technique could help to break this monopoly of big data as it relies less on labelling which is even harder and more expensive for a large dataset than the actual data.
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