skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1. Hello Streisand effect.

2. Does anyone else hope semi-anonymous apps like this will lead to a new age of unionization?
Maybe you should check the environment of former socialist republics (e.g. Soviet Union), since you somehow believe that collectivist systems take better care of the commons.
1. Daily: rsync snapshots to disk attached to Raspberry Pi (similar to rsnapshot)

2. Periodically: duplicity to Oracle archive storage (7x cheaper than AWS Glacier - $0.001)
We must identify a solution which prevents Pitchfork from being blocked
1. I have a synology which acts as central store for everything.
2. Everything on synology (except for videos) gets backed up to crashplan.
3. Once every few months I backup synology to my 5TB external drive.

I hate to loose any file even if its not important :) I still have files from the floppy disk era.
All of my machines get backed up to my Synology NAS. The NAS then syncs all the backups out to Amazon Drive. It's not "real" offsite backup, but it's good enough for what I'm doing. In addition, the NAS also syncs music, video, and images out to Amazon Drive separately so that we can view our media from anywhere without depending on our home internet connection.
Actually, inefficiency would probably be a better term than "scam". Here is an article that goes into some of the reasons:

http://insights.som.yale.edu/insights/why-is-healthcare-so-e...
I'm in the process of setting up a system. Anyone using Amazon Drive unlimited storage?
https://www.amazon.com/clouddrive/home

I'd like to keep my laptop files backed up automatically.
I disagree on this slope being slippery (or actually, this being a slope at all).

Let me be more precise, and use tptacek's words in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12999887: "fake news = spam sites built from scripts consisting largely of a backcatalog nonsense stories [...] with a one or two carefully produced fake stories as a "payload".

I think this definition is as objective as it gets, and clearly excludes things I might disagree with politically, but are not the target of this extension.
What you've described is a similar concept to what immunologists call Vectored Immunoprophylaxis (VIP). VIP has been used effectively in vaccination and treatment of HIV in mouse models [1], and primate trials are ongoing. Essentially this approach entails delivering the gene encoding for an antibody (for example N6 from this paper) directly in a viral vector to cells in the body. This process completely bypasses the traditional physiological vaccination and antibody selection process which may fail to produce a useful antibody such as N6. Instead, the antibody is directly expressed, and secreted from cells that the viral vector infected. Because we know the delivered antibody is effective at targeting the pathogen, these antibodies enable the immune system to home in on the virus in a deterministic way.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3990417/
There have been. The algorithms/datastructures section is entirely new, and I know the CHICKEN x is new as well.
Vinod Khosla says 80% of IT jobs can be replaced by automation and it's exciting
I'd probably be what you'd call a digital nomad. I keep a Time Machine backup on a ruggedized external drive, and I use Backblaze. I've been very happy with Backblaze, if that's what you're asking about. Additionally, Google Drive and another external USB flash drive for a couple sensitive documents.

I don't work.
Code targeting Python 3.2 which was released five years code is still compatible with the latest versions of Python 3. What is the issue exactly?
Had never heard of apex. Looks really nice and giving it a try now!

Edit: Feedback: Really like it. One feature that would be very nice would be the ability to trigger a ping on demand, e.g., for testing auth set up on a request. Runscope implements a similar feature. Otherwise great so far!
Bup. https://github.com/bup/bup

Git + bloom filters + Python

I backup hundreds of thousands of user accounts at cloud.sagemath.com using it, plus my own data, etc. I've been using it for four years and haven't found anything better for my requirements.
For some definition of "must", sure!
Github for my contracts.

My music collection sits on a server hooked up to my stereo. I had the disks in RAID-Z1, but when one of the disks pulled a Seagate I accidentally made the disks striped vedvs. To back this up, I boot up a rackmount server with larger disks in RAID-Z1 and use rsync.

This is the only data that I really care about preserving. I found this out through changing my operating system a lot and having my laptop stolen.
Here's the result of the auction:

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-auction-nobelpeaceprize-id...
Isn't it simply because of this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synaptic_pruning ?
Agreed. I use rescue time and it has a feature to block distracting sites. Very helpful to train yourself to stop being distracted.
Ah, classic. X in Y minutes is a great resource if you want a concise, simple, brief example of what's cool about a language. It's not enough to actually learn the language from, but it's an excellent place to start.
Hey Everyone, I'm Rohan Smith and I'm the co-planner for the Remote Working Conference. I'm here to answer any questions you may have.
deepitee1 says:

"we might end up with a northern channel in about 4 years if it stays this warm."

A "northern channel"? Do you mean a wider "Northwest Passage" from the Atlantic to the Pacific oceans?
i'm guessing those people aren't going to be real happy with the toilet cleaning job.
So just to be clear, you think there really is a chance the Dalai Lama endorsed both Putin and Trump?
Fake news isn't the problem. People willing to think critically is. The problem is, no one wants to know their baby is ugly. So the bury their heads in their person echo chamber.
Short of a totalitarian technophobic regime taking power [1], there will always be idiots with compilers willing to do any terrible thing. There's no (non-dystopian) hope of regulating things at that point, but we don't really need to.

Where regulations, or professional society codes or whatever else, could be usefully applied is where software gets loaded onto something important. You can write all the terrible code you like if it doesn't leave your office, but the moment you package it up and send it out to be installed on a thousand new aircraft (or a million internet-enabled toasters), you're at a ripe point for scrutiny. Can you attest who is responsible for what portions of the code? Have experts signed off on reasonable guarantees of security, safety, and correctness? At that stage, having your engineers be recognized members of a professional society that will hold their feet to the fire to stand by their word is useful. Not all code needs to have an engineer's stamp, but it doesn't make it into a specified set of "serious applications" without stamps.

[1] Albeit not implausible, either.
You may notice that Software Engineering indeed does have a Principles and Practice of Engineering (PE) exam, although most jobs do not require it.[1] So SW Engineers can indeed be certified. Although I am not aware of any place with licencing requirements. Likewise for electrical engineers / mechanical / civil / etc you can often work for decades without one as long as the company has one PE to sign off on your work.

I think that Software Engineers should be held to the same standards as other kinds of engineers (and yes, I am aware I am implying Software Engineers are Engineers). The industry just hasn't caught up yet.

[1] http://ncees.org/engineering/pe/
Another item in the long list of obvious stuff so called experts in intelligence purport not to know.

simple answer you wont get from her majesties propoganda channel.

"memory" is a learnt skill. just like everything else, it takes a few years to learn it.
Facebook creates such an impression with the existence of closed and secret groups, private messaging and so on. Now, i don't take their promises of privacy very seriously because I know they could change the ToS at any time and have done so before, but I think the general consumer assumes that the contents of a secret group are at least somewhat secret - not necessarily enough that it would be safe to engage in illegal activity therein, but certainly inaccessible to anyone outside of law enforcement or FB engineers.

It's not very reasonable to insist that everyone conceptualize all assurances as blatant lies all the time.
Praying and LVM RAID1.
My backup solution is #YOLO
I'm arguing as it is, there is no penalty, because people choose to live in a bubble and not have their views challenged.
Yes, but in direct contrast to Chomsky (who would say there's not enough data/time for kids to learn from) I am saying that there is a ton of rich dynamical data in the world around us all the time. Plenty to learn from.

Just plug a webcam into an adequate system and allow it to learn dynamics by trying to predict what it will see next.

Chomsky is almost right for the wrong problem: there won't ever be enough human-labeled data for good generalization. ;)
> The real problem with cost in the US healthcare system is that the majority of people have a third party payer that will cover almost anything, so they don't care whether prices are remotely fair or not.

Why then are healthcare costs significantly lower in countries where everybody has "a third party payer that will cover almost anything" (i.e., the national health system)? People in these systems also "don't care whether prices are remotely fair or not"--in many cases people don't even know what the prices might be, because they aren't charged--and yet these countries spend much less than the US for health care. Why is that?
Thanks! Agreed, I have that on the list, quick sanity check is always good. Taking a bit of a break to work on other products but I'll keep adding to it.
For my personal systems, I use rsnapshot to make incremental copies on a nightly basis into another internal SSD used only for backup. Because I only use SSD, the whole thing runs under a minute. Then monthly this gets it copied into an USB external HDD.
I use borg for laptops and servers.
I use syncthing for (android) phones and tablets to sync photos/videos to home server where they are then backed up by borg.

In the past, I have used rdiff-backup and tarsnap.
I found the critique unconvincing, especially since I don't see any Smalltalk examples in the article to support his position. Not I that I doubt there are languages better than both JavaScript and Java.
Just set it to 20min visit, 8640min break. My goal is to just read /beat and /bestcomments. Won't be able to comment myself very well this way though. Wish me luck :)
Tarsnap is my preferred backup provider for personal and work. Do be careful with the key. I also have a OneDrive.

Work stuff also goes on an LTO tape. I guess we are just traditionalists at heart.
Have you checked if the articles in your Pocket share something, for example upvotes or number of comments? Because then you could browse the top posts only once per week. Either via Hckrnews [1] or use the curated Hacker Newsletter [2].

[1]: http://hckrnews.com/

[2]: http://www.hackernewsletter.com/
Daily Duplicity snapshots that sync to S3, plus hourly snapshots via Back In Time to an internal drive, plus an occasional manual rsync to a portable USB drive off-site.

Probably overkill, but if one backup method ever has a flaw I'm still fine.
randomness is very addicting, even if most stuff is not interesting, the few interesting parts keep you coming back.
Food, in general, is one of the biggest producers of global-warming gasses. If we could only tackle the world's Obesity and overeating problem we could make a big dent in Global Warming.
I find secret forum censorship including up/down vote rigging, post visibility weighting targeting a specific group, and secret shadow banning to be some of the most egregious ethics offenses programmers can commit. It's below bribe-taking on the ethics ladder, because at least one person directly benefits from a bribe.
There's no "debate" involved with these sites. They're webspam. When someone sends you cialis spam, do you reply with an email attempting to persuade them to stop sending unsolicited commercial email?

Yours is yet another comment arguing from the faulty premise that "fakenews" describes sites like Breitbart. Breitbart is a horrible site, but it's not webspam fakenews.
Those aren't the total chances of dying during a pregnancy, they're the chances of dying from pregnancy-related causes. You can take that 0.006% gap, and then add another 0.004% for 9 months of traffic fatalities.

It'd be interesting to see the numbers after accounting for obesity.
That's an excellent idea. I wrote the copy on that page trying to convey "can I get your help against these bad people?", rather than something blaming the user, or a scary looking warning.

But showing them the _reason_ why a certain website is blocked can become an opportunity to teach people critical thought, something that other comment threads point out.
Wow this is a cool blog. Seriously.

And now I understand memory segmentation. Wow, that is terrible. Seriously Intel, what is it with you and overcomplicating things?
When Google blocks cialis spam from your inbox, do you consider that censorship? Because that's what these sites are: spam.
This would make for a great `Awesome-${thing}` repo that lists them all out.

Eventbrite is another to add.
> It's very easy to imagine a relativistic system where momentum is conserved but energy isn't. Imagine if the universe was made of inelastic billiard balls, with no internal "heat", so every collision just lost energy.

This won't work. Let's suppose we have just two billiard balls, and that 3-momentum is conserved in the center of mass frame (in which it is by definition zero), but energy in this frame decreases at each collision. (Ignore the fact that this obviously implies that the 4-momentum of the system is not conserved, even though it is undergoing no external interactions.) Now transform into any other inertial frame. You will find that 3-momentum is not conserved either; it has a different nonzero value after a collision than before.
> It's a form of cultural terrorism, where one's private ideas can get them killed.

49 people were massacred this year for going to a gay nightclub, but Eich was a victim of terrorism because he was fired? What are you smoking?
what's your angle? this doesn't seem like anything new?
I use rsync, mostly to backup from LVM snapshots over SSH to either rsync --link-dest snapshots or ZFS snapshots.

https://gitlab.paivola.fi/tech/pvl-backup
Encrypted rclone [1] with multiple cascaded self-hosted peers.

[1] http://rclone.org/
Heads up -- Chrome is blocking is blocking a lot of your site's requests to lambda endpoints (net::ERR_INSECURE_RESPONSE) :)
dito! the cartoon dude is terrible... made me not read the post.
Appreciate it. I comment only to bring perspective.
I mentioned in my first comment that I think there's a lot of uncharitable parsing and cherry picking going on, all around. I think that's going on here, just as I think that's going on in a lot of political discussions, and it's obscuring a lot of very real issues that people generally agree on and increasing polarization.

I'm getting that impression from you in this discussion as well. Given the email as a whole and his follow-up, I don't get the impression of a CEO that would have someone fired over either of the T-shirt examples you've given. So far in this thread, that's been implied by your argument, and that's the only thing you've put forth. I also don't think that's everything you have to say on the topic, and I'm not going to assume what that is. Building straw men is in no way a useful exercise for constructive discussion.

I think there's a lot to be said for your statement:

"Social commentary on the current attempt to render expressions of affinity for one's "cultural background, language, and heritage" as socially unacceptable, and indicative of regressive and/or antisocial mindset"

I also don't see that being fairly applied across the board by a lot of people making arguments like this.

As stated before, I don't know that much about GrubHub or the CEO. If there is other evidence based on his behavior or experiences at GrubHub, that would add to this discussion of the letter and its affect on GrubHub. As I don't have any, I don't have anything more to say on the topic.
CrashPlan. Dirt cheap for unlimited storage for generational backups for 10 machines. Whole extended family fits in one subscription.
"a third party payer that will cover almost anything" (i.e., the national health system)

National health systems make choices about what to cover. Some of them fix prices.

edit: also, I meant stuff like 'all the expenses of a visit to the ER' rather than 'cosmetic surgery'. So the people I was talking about don't have a lot of visible expenses. If we fixed prices that would work out fine, but we don't fix prices.
Are you saying people who believe odd things no longer have the right to say them? Would websites covering the million man march in the 70's have been considered 'fake news' back then?

Somebody saying the Dalai Lama endorsed both Putin and Trump is producing original content and by definition isn't spam (unless they stole that content from somebody else, of course). Whether nefarious, delusional or just misinformed, do you think merely being wrong is proof enough to label an entire site as 'fake news'? Are we applying this standard to Fox News and CNN? They aired quite a few inaccuracies during the election.
We've banned this account. If you feel like you'd like to commit to commenting only civilly in the future and you'd like to be unbanned, we're happy to hear from you at hn@ycombinator.com.
It was before the law was voted, and the law was in favor of his opinion at the time, therefore there was nothing reprehensible at the time.

Plus, the point is, if we purge people based on their political opinions, why bother with democracy?
Are you trying to say something about Hacker News?
> When I was earning my CS degree, Ethics was a mandatory course. As it was for other engineering majors as well.

Many of us didn't major in engineering, as the article states. There are no ethics classes in Math (what I studied in school).

> In hindsight I wish I had walked.

I have not yet had to make this choice, but I am specifically making sure my financial situation is in order enough that I wouldn't be tempted to go along with something blatantly illegal or unethical. I'm not completely sure if, in the moment, with the ability to pay rent on the line, if I could refuse in a situation like you mentioned. Luckily, I've never been asked to do anything too questionable.
Best 3 books out of the lot that you can recommend? Thanks!
How Well Can Computers Read Fiction?
Dropbox for most stuff. External HDD for manual image backups.
Yes, in particular I hope that apps enable more autonomous, directly democratic, distributed unions that are more resistant to capture by union bureaucrats and management.
It works remarkably well if you use a development toolchain (serverless and claudia are both good though I prefer the latter).

My only gripe is that API Gateway (APIG) charges $3.5 per million requests and there is no other way to invoke lambda functions over HTTP. Had to scale back my micro-service ambitions because of this.
Yes. I am more concerned about Liability. @gregjor addressed this in his other reply. And it makes sense. I guess rather than trying to get Liability Insurance, I should reduce my risk exposure by having a Contract Lawyer draw up a clear, comprehensive contract for the software work?
> Once virtual addresses are enabled, they apply to all software running in the machine, including the kernel itself. Thus a portion of the virtual address space must be reserved to the kernel

Reserving a portion of the address space for the kernel is a performance optimization and not necessarily required.

In 32-bit macOS the kernel has its own separate address space just like a process. Syscalls copy or map data in and out. The benefit is user mode processes can use all 4 GB. The obvious downside is the extra overhead and TLB flushes.

32/64-bit iOS and 64-bit macOS use the standard convention if having the kernel's address space mapped into all processes. Especially on 64-bit there is no benefit to doing otherwise.
Let’s replace Twitter with something much better
I'm saying that sites that report as news that the Dalai Lama joined Putin in condemning Obama and Clinton as progenitors of ISIS are not worth listening to.

We are not applying the same standard to Fox News and CNN, because neither of those organizations simply invented crazy stories out of whole cloth and ran them as news on multiple different sites.

Here's an exercise: take the craziest story you can find on ENDTHEFED.COM (the spam site), and search for the headline. You'll see it's not just on ENDTHEFED.COM, but on several other sites. That's because it's laundered, exactly the same way webspam is, across many sites to conceal its origin and lack of originality. This is 2005-grade spam technology.

You think you're arguing passionately in defense of open-minded political discourse. But you're not. You're defending webspam, run by cynical webspam farms. You should stop.
Cost differences in the US vs. Mexican market

The 2017 Tsuru MSRP is 142,600 MXN ($6,910 USD).

The 2017 Versa MSRP is $11,990.

Ref:

* https://www.nissan.com.mx/tsuru/

* http://www.nissanusa.com/versa/
2. More than you can imagine. Technology should be bringing an end to sharecropping, not further increasing economic inequality.
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Do we need legislators and regulators to tell us to do our work with due care for those whose lives we affect in so doing?

There's a role for them, to be sure. But as you say, and as we see from the history of other disciplines, that role is generally after the fact. We can, and I think must, ourselves create professional societies which can develop codes of ethical conduct and put incentives in place to uphold them. To a certain extent, that comes after the fact, too. But we're at the very least rapidly approaching a sufficiency of horrible examples from which to derive salutary lessons. I'd like to see us develop a sense of professional culture, as an industry, which gives us to think long and cautiously in those cases where we might produce yet another.
Not everything is a learned skill, and you have absolutely nothing to base that opinion on other than obviously loathing those pesky experts and... the BBC?
Crashplan. Its awesome
"the law was in favor of his opinion at the time, therefore there was nothing reprehensible at the time."

What is legal is not the same as what is moral or ethical.

Figuring out how to tolerate dissent is an issue I think a lot of people are trying to figure out right now, as your statement is pointing to.
I used to use backblaze, but their client would take up too much space - i've commented on here about it before being very buggy. So i switched to amazon cloud and have been syncing files that way.
Encrypted rclone [1] to local external HDD and Amazon Cloud.

[1] http://rclone.org
That's an interesting effect of dual licensing, but I'm not sure I understand it right. If you write a routine that uses the `chol` command, that's not a derivative work of chol, is it? It's just a function call, which is a normal use. It seems like if you give someone this routine but don't give them CHOLMOD, they can use any implementation of that function signature they wish.

But maybe since it's an oct-file (or I imagine a mex-file in MATLAB), it's baked into the interpreter and it's a different story.