skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Trite doesn't mean inherently bad, it's just beaten to death on a very shallow level. If you were to list the most overused themes that hot takey bloggers use to build theses around, this is one of them. And it’s a shame because I’m sure there is a lot of new, interesting, and legitimate research being done on the subject. Unfortunately that research isn’t involved in a lot of these kinds of articles, for example this one.
The copyrights are filtered out, because indeed there was a lot of them.
Mnesia is a joy to use, but keep mind it was written before the CAP theorem existed, so it doesn't behave that well in the face of network partitions.
Uber to pay $20m over claims it misled drivers over how much they would earn
AFAICT, Oracle bought Sun to get at their (really x86_64) hardware business, to compete with HP/IBM. One quick ref that kinda shows this angle: https://www.quora.com/Why-did-Oracle-buy-Sun

The rest of Sun was just extra. So Oracle's seeing if they can use them. If they find that they can't they'll just dump them. As they're doing now.
As a sysadmin from the 90"s. I was told by the CTO of a fortune 500 company, "You will never run Linux on my network". So yeah, what you said.
> Is it all Intel? That's excellent!

Yes.

> Tricky question, do you get battery discharge events via ACPI (run acpid, and unplug)?

I got this:

$ acpi // plugged in
Battery 0: Unknown, 100%
$ acpi // unplugged
Battery 0: Discharging, 99%, 83:38:49 remaining

> What material are keycaps made of?

Plastic.

Edit: Just saw that you meant acpid. With acpid nothing happened:

$ acpi
$ acpi -f // to run in foreground
$

Is this normal? I checked also the dir where acpid should save its event file (/proc/acpi/events) but there was nothing.

However, suspend on lid close and wakeup on lid open works very good and fast (much faster than with the prior windows installation, tried with i3). I don't know if this is related to the acpi events.
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Sidenote: Mindfulness (AKA vipassana or insight) meditation can give you that gap between feeling something, an emotion in this case, and responding to it. It's potentially useful for a lot of usecases - the NHS have been offering mindfulness-based cognitive therapy for a while now - but what you're talking about sounds very relevant!
The bar for dragging someone away by force for potential involuntary commitment is pretty damn high. It's way above making an appointment with a psychiatrist and moving further if he skips the appointment.
> A few hundred million people dying over a time of a couple of decades is very different from the end of the world though.

Really? Seriously? This seems incredibly dismissive.
Samsung expected to blame irregular battery size for phone fires
That would be too late.

EDIT: But even after two cadencies it would probably not be close to it.
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My guess is Oracle bought Sun for control of Java and perhaps Solaris and server hardware design. Perhaps combining their database, Solaris and server hardware would give full control of the platform. But things have shifted and cloud computing is the new big thing so all that they acquired has less value to them.
Only if you assume a linear response.
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I agree that we should stop producing GHGs as quickly as possible. I'm just arguing that climate change is not the end of the world. In the same way you can argue that another global war is probably not the end of the world yet we should avoid it by all means.
I've always had the general sense that "uses uBlock" is a hugely useful advertising signal. On one hand, it means you hate ads and are unlikely to respond to the average crappy banner ad (or phishing attempt). On the other, it means that you're tech savvy and potentially high-income. That's some great info.

(Given all that, why are so many under-ad-space texts so bad? It seems like if you're going to target ad blockers under your display ads you could do better with it.)
Usage of `var` as idomatic Scala is an oft used trolling mechanism.

I wonder what percentage of `_` usage is value/type discarding in pattern matching and type signatures vs. function application.

Would be nice to somehow ditch `case`:

adt match {
Foo(x) if cond x => ...
Bar(x) => ...
}

pairs.map{ (a,b) =>
...
}
All the Y chips are Core M chips, as used in the MacBook...
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* 'breakindent'

* :cdo, :cfdo, :ldo, :lfdo
Thanks! The data comes form GitHub snapshot, stored on BigQuery. Here is more details about it: https://github.com/anvaka/common-words#how
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It's all about where people hang out. From experience dealing with both I'd say you'll mostly find candidates with lots of experience on linkedin versus angel list.

AngelList = ideal for early stage startups (1 to 20 people)

Linkedin = Larger startups/companies(200 to +10000)
You are conflating two issues here. I am against the use of jammers, the UK govt has strict laws against this for the very reasons provided to this headteacher and which you refer to when you mention accident reporting to emergency services. We have no disagreement on that issue.

I had those issues to, but the school notified parents if the school was closing early due to adverse weather and I made arrangements in advance for after school activities, same way I made arrangements to meet friends before we had mobile phones.

re: cyber bullying I never supported the blocking of cell phone access. My point was that we can survive without having them available to us 24/7. In a school setting having children hand them in and collect them from the teacher at the start/end of every lesson is a reasonable solution. Should some catastrophe befall the the student the teacher is there to call emergency services or contact the parents, if the catastrophe occurs on the way home or the way to school or at break time then the student has their phone.
I believe in climate change, however, I'm not sure what the big deal is. It is a natural byproduct of increasing prosperity. Humanity can cope with the effects, and do so with relative ease. As a whole, the world gets better every day. Furthermore, the hyperbole (can extreme hyperbole exist or is that redundant?) that has developed around climate change is deeply troubling to me. The fear mongering and impending doom predictions remind me of religious extremists and worry me greatly. Look no further than comments right here which extrapolate a crack in an ice shelf to literally witnessing the end of the world as we know it. That so many people accept this detached extremism concerns me far more than weird weather patterns or a bunch of beach homes being exposed to storm damage.
> transmitted in plaintext over a normal TLS connection

I think we have differing views on what "plaintext" means.

Also, like it or not, it really looks like the calls are actually end-to-end encrypted, as in the server never sees or processes the cleartext content. Being possibly poorly designed and open to attacks does not change the fundamental underlying model.
We dont know that they are fingerprinted like this no. At least not generally as in "people". The whole XKeystore thing is blown up by reporters who barely have a idea what they are talking about.

What we know is that XKeystore offers filters for this kind of stuff. This could also just mean that if they look for a german hacker actively that they throw a few of those filters in. There is no reason to believe from the data we have that these filters are actively used against the general population.

Dont get me wrong, i hate the NSA and actually the whole bullshit system the USA builds on. Also i am at least as paranoid as any other geek. But this topic is simply based on assumptions.

Edit:// To further clearify, if this actually means that these filters are always used with other more concrete filters it does mean that _the general population_ (who uses Tails, Tor, Proxies) never ever showed up in any of those "lists" people seem to care so much about.
I second the lenovo recommendation. An X220t with 16gb ram and ssd would fit your needs and budget for sure!
Second that advice. In my specific case, I had a customer very interested in using my product for a very interesting use case I hadn't thought of, and it only took one pitch (and it was basically cold calling, although we did use connections to open that door).

However, because I failed to deliver on time, I've lost the opportunity to strike while the fire was hot and key stakeholders went on vacation (I do expect to rekindle interest once we're ready, but I totally blew my personal deadlines).
Carbon X1 - hands down, no doubt, go for it.
Get the 4th gen and you can max it to 16gb ram. Otherwise you're limited to 8GB.
Excellent linux support (which I need), fantastic resolution, I love the keyboard. Touchpad can be a bit too sensitive but i got used to it. Great machine.
Perhaps you misunderstood me, at no point did i say jamming phone signals was acceptable. 24/7 access to a mobile device is what i was suggesting was unnecssary.
So the ultimately Linux Desktop starts with Installing Gentoo? Am I on 4chan.org/g
Yes the author is asking for the document and believes it should be a non-issue because:

> 1) JPMorgan already has the document, so there is no element of surprise on the government's side.

To which the DOJ responds:

> 1) We didn't say we are suing JPMorgan.

Which is a bit of a confusing response.
You could just buy the whole security suite of your firewall program which comes with a firewall probably. For example ESET Cybersecurity comes with a firewall.
Anecdotally, I've gotten curious and messed with this setting. I'm pretty confident (>80%) that I could see a difference in what ads I was served, with logging-disabled searches not influencing my Google ads they way logged searches did.

Honestly, this article felt a bit FUD to me. Google's privacy text never led me to believe they would purge all record of no-log searches, just that they wouldn't attach them to my primary profile. As far as I can tell that's still what they're doing.
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If you need this to make money for you to live then work on it until it starts making money. You don't know if it ever will right now.
I still think you're making a categorical error. "being human" isn't a privileged class that inherently deserves something. That way of thinking becomes really messy fast in terms of drawing concrete rules.

It also seems a bit homo-centric coming from a human.

BTW, I think we do have genuine subjective probability, even though the universe is deterministic.
XP11 is still beta and they are working on bugs primarily-- they are addressing major performance issues but FPS optimizations will come later in the beta cycle.

But BOY does it look good! And the stock 737/MD82/747 are approaching payware-quality.
I tried to exclude copyright lines as much as I could. I used "license markers" for that, but I might have missed something.

Here is more information about it: https://github.com/anvaka/common-words#how
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Thanks! :) It's Scraping... yet to add Rotten Tomatoes.
It's not outright dishonest, but it seems pretty clear why they like the word "Swiss", but generalize Ireland as "EU". I'm sure many of their customers read that as "Oh, it's all in Switzerland, where privacy matters." I know Switzerland isn't in the EU, but I suspect not all their potential customers know that.
There exist people that are happy to take a personal statement and attribute it to the author's employer to score political points at the author's expense. When I use this disclaimer it's chiefly for my own benefit.
a.k.a. stagnation?
How is this off topic? You may think it wasn't very nice but it's about the article and topic at hand.
Protect your privacy by running this proprietary application!
Man, you live in a padded bubble. When the real world slaps you and your children in the face with a shovel you're all dead.
Is DLP even effective?

In my experience it either blocks false positives, or lets sensitive information out with the slightest obfuscation.
That just happened to me too (just accepted an offer for a new job). When they asked I politely told them I would not share that info, but I would tell them what range I'm looking for. It worked out fine.
please see my edit.
I was thinking more specifically of things like having to configure HiDPI settings differently for Qt and GTK, for example. There are also some copybuffer inconsistencies at times. It's not a big deal for anyone who is motivated to deal with it, but probably irritating enough to make some people give up early on even if they would otherwise like having a system that's configured properly.
Note that the Guardian has published multiple stories about this fake issue, and seems to be doubling down on its coverage: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/whatsapp

The list of names at the end of Zeynep's article is pretty much a who's who of people you don't want to be publicly called wrong by when reporting on security.
Elixir does make you think hard about the global state you keep. It's an "eat your vegetables" decision, and I've acquired the taste. Keeps me out of trouble when designing things. Contrast this to Ruby, where class variables and globals are all over the place and thread safety is a pipe dream. [EDIT: it's not that Ruby-the-language forces this worldview, but Ruby-the-community adopted it and most Gems show the effects of that.]

As far as ivars, you'll have to work hard to emulate that. There are no classes or instances. Probably you want to just use a map or a struct to represent an instance and its state.
The challenge I have with believing that theory is they paid an _awfully_ large sum for just the hardware business.
This is an odd request. Everything is undercutting coal. Coal has always been a rather expensive and dangerous technology, it's just that it's plentiful and in the land rights of Western powers.

Other forms of energy have been undercutting it since thermal steam rigs started working in North African farms. Probably longer when you consider the history of wind power.

If Natural Gas wasn't so arduous to obtain, a carbon liberator, and damaging to the water table to obtain, I suspect we'd be more excited about it.
Ask HN: If you could spend 1 hour with someone of your choice, who would it be?
Who would you pick for an hour chat? It could be anyone in the world.
Last I saw, ~300ft wide and ~1700ft deep.

https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/rift-in-antarcticas-larse...
* if you are using light enough images, this shouldn't be a huge issue. if you have 16/32gb of ram this is a complete non issue for most desktop scenarios

* Thats entire the point. Only programs that you WANT to operate with each other can. This may be inconvenient, you may need to set up a socket or something for ssh-agent to handle and then programs that need the agent would have to hook into it.

* Any files in the container should 100% be program data. Any persistent/user data should be volumized to the host. Which means you can just find files on the volumes rather than in the containers. This may make files MORE centralized (if you use some sort of convention for /volumes/<program> or something)
> Humanity can cope with the effects, and do so with relative ease.

While humanity will cope in the sense that the species will probably go on existing, the current human population of this planet only exists because a large number of ecological parameters are within the sweet spot. Anything that disrupts global food supply, anything that disrupts fresh water supply, will kill billions of people in a matter of decades.

Rising sea levels will displace a moderate percentage of our population and be the catalyst for a new round of wars, but the real danger lies in the fact that we're in the middle of a major extinction event that's increasingly likely to leave most of the population in starvation.
The best sales people I've worked with (in a software/services B2B
context - specifically when the customers are large companies) are
into long-term relationship and trust building.

Adding nuance, I was intrigued by an argument [0] that "relationship builders" weren't the out-performers in sales. In fact, they were the least likely to outperform in complex B2B sales.

[0] https://hbr.org/2011/09/selling-is-not-about-relatio
You know the school is responsible for them while their in the premises, right?
I don't mean the figure of speech "not the end of the world", I mean the literal end of human civilization. I think you have to agree that humanity can carry on even if every tenth human dies. That is less than the death rate caused by the Black Death (~50%) and back then Europe managed to carry on.
Scrubcsv: omg finally (67mb/s)
Farming data viz, that's really neat
Aside from blocking unwanted telemetry, I have multiple profiles that I switch between depending on the network I'm connected to. If I'm tethered to my phone, I restrict almost all traffic unless it's something I'm using so I can conserve data. The profile assigned to my home network is a lot more open.
Actually, it's 1000-9000 messages per server per day. Or about 1 message every 10-100 seconds.

Of course, that's just the new messages inbound. They may need to distribute that single message to 100M people (who likely won't even see it, but still.)

Problems that are trivally solvable with one database don't simply scale by adding more DBs or machines. Scaling isn't easy or they would have done it. I'm in no way disparaging their team, because I don't know what kind of constraints they had getting to this point.

Still, I'd bet it could be optimized by 2+ of orders of magnitude if people sat down and re-evaluated the whole structure again at this point in time.

Regardless, is that really a priority?

They may have bigger issues on their plate now (growing revenue, growing users, making users happy). Assuming their business can generate the cash flow to overcome the inefficiencies, they may be better served to focus on growth.
Does anyone know when .NET Core will get a decent linear algebra library?

I've heard MathNet.Numerics has a plan to add it, but so far there seems to not have been much progress.
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Usually a google search resolves these questions. However, it is a big problem for when I have a non-technical person using a machine with this tool installed.

I have heard, "I never know what to do when I see these popups." Unfortunately, I don't think the research assistant will help them either.
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Why to bring an article to the front page and then beat the shit out of it in comments??
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If Methane Hydrates work out, then natural gas will be less arduous to obtain - port cities will have pipes coming up from the seafloor into the harbor, delivering it to their millions of residents.
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It seems equally absurd to assume a profoundly sublinear response. Especially since the damage caused by flooding would cripple coastal communities.
Yes, I worked on a product with a DLP feature we touted yet it would fail to identify credit cards if you put extra characters between sets of numbers.

It sounds good, and because compliance is about by making good-sounding things mandatory (weekly password rotation, yay! /s) it got mandated in a lot of places.

And it did catch mistakes, like accountants sending the wrong files or to external addresses. Which I guess is justification for it right there.

But it's billed as a stronger (ie hacker) protection, for which it's useless, so I never liked it.

I think the world would be safer with an email plugin that helped you by suggesting that you should not send a document to a given address, based on rules and observations. It'd only be a suggestion so nobody would expect miracles, but it'd stop all the unintentional mistakes our system stopped, for a fraction of the price.
I doubt it would have met with long term success, Sun played a lot of the same stupid liscening games they did with Java.
With Chuwi, you might find issues with hardware drivers for sound and touchscreen:

https://techtablets.com/forum/topic/linux-mint-on-a-chuwi-hi...
Anecdotes and mild testimony from his peers about odd behavior sways you to the side of involuntary medical incarceration? I don't understand what convinces you here?
You are likely referring to Blyth's book by this title[1], but for those desiring a softer introduction, the author also made an excellent 5 minute introductory video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=go2bVGi0ReE

[1] http://centredelangues.ens-lyon.fr/anglais/espace-etudiants/...
Ask HN: Recommended guides for learning filesystems?
Hi, *nix newbie here. I'm struggling with understanding how my Ubuntu's filesystem works and what general practices various applications follow when they install to my Ubuntu instance. I'm currently reading the ldconfig man page and feeling pretty lost. Any good guides or resources for understanding how filesystems and links work?

Thanks!
> The hardest parts of linear scaling in RDBMS are enforcing C.

The hardest parts of linear scaling in RDBMS is actually doing the scaling - it's "what do I do when I'm about to outgrow a master and need to add a bunch of capacity", and "what do I do when the master crashes". At Crowdstrike we would add 60-80 servers to a cassandra cluster AT A TIME, no downtime, no application changes, no extra work on our side - just bootstrap them in, they copy their data, and they answer queries. The tooling to do that in an RDBMS world probably exists at FB/Tumblr/YouTube, and almost nowhere else.

> Think transactional systems that absolutely must be consistent. Like your bank account

Most banks use eventual consistency, with running ledgers reconciled over time.

> It takes a lot of time and a lot of effort. Hell, most companies don't even have an EDW. Let alone a pipeline from the OLTP server to Spark/Hadoop to the non-existent EDW.

In the cassandra world, it's incredibly common to setup an extra pseudo-datacenter, which is only queried by analytics platforms (spark et al). Much less work, and doesn't impact OLTP side.

> 1a) If you want a CP system, you have no choice but to deal with scaling problems of relational databases. You must have transactional guarantees for this to work.

This is fundamentally untrue - you can query cassandra with ConsistencyLevel:ALL and get strong consistency on every query (and UnavailableException anytime the network is partitioned or a single node is offline). Better still, you can read and write with ConsistencyLevel:Quorum and get strong consistency and still tolerate a single node failure in most common configs.

> Use the right tools for the right job, is basically my point.

And this is the real point, with the caveat that you need to know all the tools in order to choose the right one.
Oh, chat...
There are tools that get used by maintainers. For example, patchwork is used by many subsystem trees to track patches and the discussion around them. And those developers and maintainers who fix bugs (and who are getting paid for it, as opposed to bugs that get fixed for free), do generally use some bug tracking system, but it tends to be one specific for the production kernel tree or product tree. Yes, that means that there is some duplication of effort, but the fact of the matter is that people don't use the upstream kernel tree directly for any product or production service, so having a bugzilla tree for that only makes sense if you have a large team of people who are exclusively working on upstream --- and often times, that's not the case.
I think it really boils down to coder intention. Asimov's Laws be with us!