skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
we've outsourced everything already to the developing world

LOL no. If I had a few billions of capital to deploy I could put a lot more people out of work in the US within a few years. This is great from a consumer point of view (personally I often prefer using a machine to having to deal with a person) but it's pretty terrible from an macroeconomic standpoint because you have an ever-shrinking pool of people earning money relative to the size of the population as a whole.
That's totally unsurprising to hear. Wal-Mart apparently defaults to portraying unions as pure evil. I don't know what the current procedure is like, but they used to make new hires watch laughably biased "educational" videos about unions. I don't remember the contents in detail, just that they roughly reminded me of '80s anti-drug PSAs/specials, with union organizers essentially taking the place of the "drug pusher" who wants to profit by ruining your life. Wal-Mart management, of course, takes the place of the wise parent/guardian who has your best interests at heart.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curse_of_dimensionality
It's adorable. I love it when people let their kids on the Internet.
They're not interfering with the right to bargain collectively though. For all we know, they're genuinely warning their employees that they may be involved in a PII collection scam. They can't reprimand/dismiss you for using the app, but surely they can tell you it's unwise.

I don't see why people are so quick to tie Wal-Mart to the pyre; for what they pay, their employees are satisfied to an outsized degree. Given that they are the third largest employer, behind the DoD and the PLA, they've surely done something impressive in building one of the largest and most satisfied minimum-wage-or-thereabouts workforces in the world.

Obviously we can't take their statement at face value. We also can't take the union's statement at face value. Each party has its own interests. I'm sure anyone here who has dealt with a real union recognizes that nobody runs one because they love their industry's labourers. They are no less political than the corporations they bargain with.
> But the problem is that "TAO targets" is in rapid flux, given developments in automation and AI.

You are implying that cost of TAO consists mostly of labor costs. Which is false. NSA and friends are not really limited by money. They are limited by amount of unpatched software vulnerabilities. Every use of vulnerability in the wild is a chance of revealing it to world and losing it. Snowden docs reveal the existence of automated software which evaluates chance of vulnerability being revealed by attack. XKeyScore or one of related pieces, AFAIR.
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That's a great example. Maybe software engineers could wear a silicon ring.
No, it's not reductio ad absurdum. The reason r.a.a. is a fallacy is that it introduces the false premise that the opponent must believe something ridiculous (that they clearly don't believe) for their statements to hold. But you actually just did defend the Dalai Lama site.

Are we agreed that ENDTHEFED.COM should be filtered? Maybe we're just arguing past each other.
The thing I find most interesting about childhood amnesia is that that, despite this headline, it's not that we don't form early memories. We do form them, and then as we get older we forget them again.

If you ask a 5-year-old child, they will accurately remember things that happened to them when they were 2. Then they gradually forget, and at 11, the early memories are completely lost.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Childhood_amnesia#Fading_memor...
Self help/productivity/pop business books all seem to follow the same template these days(I had a 100 book reading challenge this year and read a at least a quarter of them fit in one of those groups.

Chapter 1: Tell a bit about the author

Chapter 2: Tell about the amazing thing someone has done because of "the technique"

Chapter 3: Tell about the authors path to discovery

Chapter 4: More stories about amazing things people have achieved(note by this point the author has never mentioned what their great one thing is

Chapter 5: Another bunch of stories about how great the author is

Chapter 6-12: More stories from people about how their life was changed by the author. Possibly a sales pitch for an online course.

Chapter 13: About 2 paragraphs describing something super simple "Start a mailing list"

Chapter 14-25: More stories
I definitely keep work and personal data separate. There are a number of legal and ethical reasons for this.
This is basically "we have to be compatible with the guys with the bigger market share". Unclear why. Nobody installs add-ons on Chrome. I have the same add-on for Firefox and Chrome, and it has 100x the installs on Firefox that it does on Chrome.
So do you print the source again after every change? And what happens to the then obsolete paper with the previous version? (or do they get version numbers?)
The item I'd like to see added to the device infobox is an answer to the question "Can I run my own AOSP on this?", backed up by a link to some wiki or blog post of someone demonstrating it.
Why replace twitter? just do your own thing and let twitter do its thing
Normal, free market competition does not apply to healthcare because, unlike any other market segment, transactions between patient and doctor are never fully free (voluntary).

If you go to a mall to buy a TV and see two different models offered by two producers you have THREE choices: buy TV A, buy TV B, or buy none, if both are too expensive.. When you are sick and need to see a doctor the third option is not viable - you need to be treated otherwise your condition will get worse and you might even die.

That's why free market in healthcare causes high price inflation: you are not buying a product, you are buying your own life and well being.
to supplement my universal basic income

Ah, you're going to supplement your future income stream that doesn't exist yet. Good luck with that.
A combination of a NAS, Crashplan (I may be switching to BackBlaze) and occasionally burning critical data to BluRay discs for cold storage.

On my work desktop I also do incremental Acronis images and Windows File History on local drives.
Well, I already have one - I was in the last generation to get an actual student grant and no tuition fees - but I suspect the main obstacle people will face is language skills and the difficulty of a course not taught in one's first language.

Then there's the plausible scenario of having to apply for a visa in a hurry if the Brexit balloon goes up.
Your own link lists some of the collected data as PII.
That's how real men do it.
More like 25-35. I'm a high school teacher and most of my current crop of students spend virtually no time on Facebook.

Twitter and Snapchat, on the other hand....
You should actually try it before making such statements. It scales well enough. Also, we could use getElementsByTagName instead of querySelectorAll. But that's not important.

The point is that there are approaches to handling "components" with current APIs. They are simple, they work across all browsers right now and they are good enough for 99% of websites out there.
Years ago I caught myself watching Entertainment Tonight this was around or a bit past the Mary Hart and John Tesh days. I caught myself with a smile but my eyes following along if that makes sense I call it the Joker smile it was terrifying to think what I had become. So I stopped watching any stupid tabloid shows outright starting that at that moment.

The other day I realized that social media is essentially the same thing tabloid junk. Only now in the social media we choose to watch it we seek it out and then comment on it we become part of it.
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No, I think I'm done. You stopped engaging with my facts a while ago and switched to pure rhetoric. You've lost.
Retired, so no need for work/personal separation, but I never did it before, but made sure that my company knew any work I did at home was going onto my general tape backups and was not going to be deleted any time soon after I left the company.

Nowadays: most important stuff, rsync.net, more than a bit expensive at 20 cents/GB/month, but their many other virtues and especially simplicity make up for it, including support of private git repoes. currently $9.60/month, that's a grandfathered price in that now the minimum you start with is larger.

Saved my email repository and a fair amount else when the Joplin 2011 tornado trashed the machine that it was on as well as my BackupPC discs which were in another room that suffered the only wall breach (my main system came through fine, and that near miss of losing everything else prompted me to start using tape again, LTO-4 was capacious and cheap enough by then, I'd long outgrown DAT).

Most of most important stuff with BackupPC to a 1GB USB 3.0 drive (would be all to a bigger drive, and will be when the next item changes state, but I'm economizing now).

Since my 2 2TB bulk drives are all over 5 years old now, they're getting nightly rsynced to a new 4 TB drive on my other system, which when one of them fails will physically replace both of them.

Backstopping all of that, a LTO-4 tape drive on my other system, tar incrementals every night, those tapes cycled every week from a pool of 5, then full backups every month, which are put off-site sometime during the month.

Now that I've got a serious Internet connection, if I was starting over, and didn't have the sunk costs of the LTO-4 tape drive system (drive, SAS controller, fast disk to feed it) and plenty of tapes, I'd probably do this level of backup to the cloud at a fairly raw level to S3, Glacier, GCS, or Backblaze.
Does it have to be "advertising bullshit"? Maybe GRRM sees reading differently than you do? For someone who has devoted their life to writing, that is a sensible perspective.
Management does not nor will they ever want to pay for that. That's enough for them, the managerial class, to make sure something like this never happens. As it is they already complain about shortage of cheap factory workers, I mean software engineers, that they can exploit. So you really think they want scarcity in that supply? The end issue is not the code monkey, that's doing the work. It's the generals ordering those things to be done. They need to be reigned in.
Building up the infrastructure to support a new profession takes generations. Lawyers have been doing it for centuries, doctors slightly less. It will take a very long time to iron out the details of licensing and cross-state recognition of qualifications. It's not a thing just for industry but for the entire society to adopt.
> I've read claims that social media is addictive but not that it is engineered to be so.

Recommend reading up on the "Hook Model" - http://www.nirandfar.com/hooked - or watch this video - https://youtu.be/oQBsnSC_TRM - the techniques for building addictive products are well known, with a history that goes back to Las Vegas and the gambling industry.

Most social media companies - with the exception of one or two like Zynga - of course aren't overly announcing "we're building stuff to get you addicted" but their business depends on audience numbers so guess what: try searching LinkedIn jobs for "Facebook" and "psychology" and it's pretty clear
Journalistically, what are the ethics of scraping HN comments for your story? Was each commenter contacted to follow up in any way? Obviously you can't check out these stories very well.
Google killed its golden egg.

Google lives off the open web. Two out of four of its main products depend on the open web:

1. Search - the less of an open web, the less is searchable by Google. Facebook is a classic example.
2. AdWords/AdSense - Facebook, CNN, BBC don't need it. They have their own networks, and they 're big enough to offer a "take it or leave it" approach.

(The only two main products not relying on Open Web is Google Cloud and Android).

Google actually had everything set up, a social network (blogger), a wall (reader), IM (Google Voice, email).

But they decided that FB is taking over. What did they do? They made "their own FB". Which solved no one's problems. Google+ had nothing over FB (except for circles, which FB promptly copied), and killed their old social apps.

Now their running around as a chicken without a head.
I'm not referring to any specific offering, but just the sheer amount of ways to accomplish things on AWS - and the docs don't help, I urge you to compare (or even time) the process of following the docs in setting up AWS versus GKE clusters. You'll notice the process is much faster with GKE, especially because the docs include at least some real-world examples, compared to AWS where the documentation is almost completely abstract.

And as a "very" curious developer, I always get pulled into analysis paralysis. Not so with GKE. There's one way to accomplish a particular thing, the only choice is UI versus CLI - and since most of us have Google accounts anyway, gettings started with GKE is maybe a couple of commands and you have a cluster up and running.

Try googling how to set up Jenkins/WordPress on AWS/GKE. A VERY real world examples and Google provides docs, AWS does not - I'm not interested in high-level overviews, I want to solve a particular problem.

What AWS needs first and foremost is a competent UX team.
It's certainly unwise to interpret their concern that charitably--it only has access to photos and it's a chat app. It has the same concerns any other chat app would have. They don't publish PSAs about texting.
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Another thing to consider is how often people need to write macros. The vast majority of programmers will just use base language and libraries. The libraries contain the macros. Advanced programmers can create the macro libraries. This provides the massive benefit on adoption for regular programming without the drawback of metaprogramming. Further, the macro language might even use s-expr syntax that prettier language is converted to in first pass of parsing. So, instead of paren language as default, it's an ALGOL-like language as default with syntax extensions or mods being made for macro work. In reverse of of lispers normally do it.

Re WISP. Looks better but still prefix. The prefix notation is the problem as it's designed to be easy for computers & compiler writers, not humans reading it.
They do, I graduated with a degree in Computer Engineering from a Canadian university and receiving your iron ring was part of the graduation ceremony for all engineering students.
Similar to pipelinedb, though not open source: https://aws.amazon.com/kinesis/
Some new jobs are being made, but not enough. Actually, serious economists are beginning to worry that macroeconomics is broken and that the existing models of economic development are no longer functioning as expected. I think the chief economist at the World Bank counts as a 'serious economist' and urge you to read his paper described in this news article: http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/small-biz/policy-trends/...

I really love economics, but you've got to realize that while microeconomics is extremely rigorous and everyone should know some of it, macroeconomics involves a great deal of ideological assumptions and hand-waving, and doesn't have a good theory of technological disruption any more than it has a really good theory of oligopoly.
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For most technical, scientific, and mathematic topics, it's usually very easy to find the next best book to read with a google search or two. Starting on or strengthening long-forgotten Calculus? Probably get Spivak. Et c. This might get tougher as you approach a field's state-of-the-art, but by then "what to read next" will often come from a journal, not a book.

Literature and verse? Harold Bloom's western canon list, whatever its faults, is pretty damn good and could keep one busy for a lifetime. If you want to mix in more works by e.g. women or more asian works or whatever, there are very good lists for that, too:

http://www.interleaves.org/~rteeter/whatbooks.html

(above includes Bloom's list)

Want to learn science and math from classics? The list from How to Read a Book should help, and St. John's College's reading list is public: https://www.sjc.edu

For a given topic, there's often a subreddit with a decent reading list in the FAQ.

Which topic(s) are you having trouble with?
Backblaze. Works great, $5 for unlimited space, covers everything.
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That's very true - if data is leaving unencrypted then they have made a mistake. This is an easy mistake to make though if you bank on your LAN being truly private. However, on the other side of the coin...lots of traffic is unencrypted by design(NFS 1x,2x,3x, and 4x unless you use krb5p, and iscsi).
I have three backup systems.

My main backup is a local harddrive formatted with btrfs. I have a script in cron.daily that runs rsync then makes a btrfs snapshot.

In addition to that, I run crashplan to back up my computer to the cloud. In some sense, this is actually my main backup because I trust them far more than I trust my own backup system, but it is not as convenient to restore from than a local drive (but still quiete convenient).

I also keep have a two small hard-drives in a safety deposit box. These drives are exact mirrors of each other and tested/updated once a year.
If you have the access to the encrypted volume, then you'll also have access to the key the moment the volume is unlocked and the key is stored in memory.
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Great tutorial. Just a tip - if you change www.kernel.org to cdn.kernel.org you'll get a closer mirror site.
At the end of the day is the managerial class. They are the ones making the stuff go down, and then the code monkey gets blamed for their lack of ethics. Really? You tell us to jump, and we ask how high, and that's generally expected. And you expect us to bear the burden of ethics too. I don't think so. You want to hold anyone responsible, hold the people who gave the orders, who signed the contracts. Not the code monkey whose entire life is predicated upon carrying out orders as they are given.
The OP was talking about class action lawsuits. The plaintiffs in class actions are individuals, not governments. I took that the mean the OP was talking about penalties to private actors, rather than to governments.
Work must always be separate from personal. Period. End of story.

I use Synology. I simply love it. I have RAID 6 which cuts down on the space I can use, but it gives me the peace of mind that I need, especially after one of my drives already died and I had to get it replaced. With RAID 6, I had no impact in speed whatsoever and 2 more drives would have to fail before I lost anything. Thanks to Amazon, I can get a new drive next day, so the chance of data loss is relatively small.

I also have an external USB connected to it that I will occasionally do full backups, every few months (my data doesn't change a huge amount).

Using a Synology plugin, I upload all my pics, encrypted, to Amazon Cloud for $60/year. I'm still figuring out if it's worth it to expand this to all my data, given that I don't completely trust how secure this is, and what it would look like if I did suffer a catastrophic data loss. I'm limited by time though.
Personal backups are done with Dropbox, which stores several EncFS collections.
Maybe they did in the past. I haven't seen it since I've been here. The bans I saw made sense. I countered it with detail on Barnacl.es:

https://barnacl.es/c/91kcev
Is it useful to report these potential mistakes? I have showdead on, and quite often I'll see decent comments. When I look at the user's history, sometimes there will be over 1000 karma for that user, decent posting record, and then at some point you see all their comments as dead (with no obvious troll comments that could have triggered it).

I wouldn't mind reporting on these, or vouching for the good ones, but it would be nice to have a channel where I could get feedback -- such as "this use was banned for reason xyz on these 10 comments".
The idea that markets are a force of nature indifferent or unbeholden to government policy, regulation and subsidies (Often told from the point of view from the benefiting side), is a fiction.
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> I highly doubt the outcry is imaginary.

Totally agree with you, in fact I know of several Mac users who genuinely require a beast of a workstation. These folks (movie production industry) are willing to drop 4-5K on the most powerful machine possible and the 16GB limit is hindereding.

I shared an anecdote that came to mind, with no intention to dismiss your comment or downplay its significance.
Ok, but let's be fair. There's also a lot of people blaming recent results on breitbart. You may not consider it fake news, but I know a lot of people who'd say it's "just as bad". So is it surprising somebody thinks that "faux news" may get swept up by a fake news banner?
To see some concrete examples of how this sort of phenomenon causes surprising failures in deep networks classifying images, see "Intriguing properties of neural networks"[1]

[1] https://cs.nyu.edu/~zaremba/docs/understanding.pdf
Love it.

When I was buying a budget android phone a few months ago, this was my primary criterion for purchasing. Wish it'd been around sooner.
Same graph previously discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12992777
I just "deactivated" Facebook and I think things are improving as well.

As for twitter, I want to use it as a personal brand vehicle, that and my quora page. So while I agree that it's poison half the time, it's also a great way to engage people and discuss topics that can lead to partnerships/work in the future.
Github for code and Google Drive for documents & photos.
Google photos turned out as the best solution for photo syncing, sharing, simple editing (rotation with keybind) and unlimited free storage of pretty good quality photos.
Google documents turned out as the most practical editor (cloud, sharing, all the basic editing commands). I am on the unix systems most of the time and I always find something missing in Pages or LibreOffice. If word was available on all systems I would probably use it together with dropbox, not because I prefer word, but because most of files I get are in word's format and if I have to change and help with something, its best to do it in word.

I don't really have anything else to backup. What do you guys have on your systems to require complete system backup?
I read recently that our memories are us recalling the last time we remembered it. They did a study which showed those that intoduced errors in their memories later recalled them as facts the next time.

So my thought is that childhood amnesia could be down to children living in the moment and simply don't spend time recalling past events. Only later do we consider events as being past, present and future.
Ask HN: How do you hackers maintain personal relationships?
I learned to 6 years ago, Although I don't consider myself a decent programmer, learning to code has helped me a great deal in understanding problems and approaching problems systematically.

Most of the world seems to be thinking not based off of logic but through thinking patterns inherited from their environment/society. Especially in personal relationships people are generally not as logic driven. In my life sometimes my friends and girlfriend are sloppy, sometimes I am sloppy but I seem to be making decisions based on logic on everything and completely forgot my old lame way of thinking. Although I have a healthy social life, have a lot of laughs every day. I get called machine or robot sometimes. Sometimes I am afraid they are right. (Not literally!)

How do you hackers/programmers who are driven by logic keep friendships and relationships?