skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Testing backups or at least monitoring them for correctness is a huge deal and it's problem I myself fudged up on one occasion, right around the holiday season which was terrible.

I've since setup wal-e with daily base backups deleting things older than a week along with the nightly pg_dump's along with a hot stanby. Maybe thats overkill, but after having lost data once. Never again!

The nice part about doing wal archiving like barman or wal-e do is you can do more than just backup/restore. You can do it with some time target in mind as well.

Someone somehow do a massive update or delete or insert millions+ in garbage? No worries, stop, destroy, restore to a previous point in time, continue onwards.

A bug in postgres or the kernel or the filesystem or any other multi-million line codebase in that stack screw up? Most likely the WAL segments are good up to a point still.

Hot standby gets you potentially sub-minute failovers if you automate them, or short enough to be ok even with manual failovers. WAL archiving gets you another whole level of safety net that is hard to beat.
Spot on my friend, everyone should look that up, and wake up to the reality of what is really happening.
The mainstream media are already lap dogs. They've been taking orders from the rich and powerful for decades, and are a complete and utter joke.

Trump calling them to heel is just a method of pulling the already right-wing mainstream media further to the right. The far right will never settle for anything less than FOX, and for some of them even FOX is "too liberal".
It's built into firefox as far as I know, it's on the right hand end of the uri bar for me.
The owner owned the apartment building and added an entirely hinged wall to the unit, and rolled the car in with a ramp, then closed it up!
I was not suggesting that bitcode could be used for 32-bit -> 64-bit translation, but rather that bitcode means that Apple may be able to avoid similar situations in the future.

In any case, these (32-bit only) binaries predate bitcode by several years, so it's not relevant.
Leaked Executive Order Reveals White House Plans for H-1B Visas
And if anyone running things in the Trump administration actually knew the law, or history, they'd understand that treating people equally no matter what country they came from is not negotiable. You can't run a government like a business deal.
I don't know. 10MB still sounds really too big.

Why is it so big? What do we gain?

I don't have a system with 10MB of cache, so I imagine Java can't run faster than memory...
Bitcode allows you to optimize between chip versions with different opcodes, but not different architectures, word sizes, or endianness.

Source: the recent Accidental Tech Podcast that interviewed Chris Lattner.
But your work here is a port. You don't have any creative input to make you feel attached to it, and it's already going to be preserved in its original (NES) form.
Interesting so I followed it up... turns out the phrase is used in two places as far as I can tell:

1. A translation of the 8th benefit of mindfulness, as espoused in the Kayagata-sati Sutta: Mindfulness Immersed in the Body. Basically in this text the historical Buddha is saying that mindfulness enables recognition of one's past lives.

2. Iddhipada-vibhanga Sutta: Analysis of the Bases of Power in which loads of supernatural powers are listed as being granted to those who achieve concentration through the "four bases of power", and is essentially similar to the above, though it also lists many other powers like walking on water, diving in to earth and flying and is probably not supposed to be taken as literally as it has been translated. Further, it specifically references pre-Buddhist Brahmanic tradition. http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/sn/sn51/sn51.020.tha...
Yes, but for every job created in SV, 5 are probably wiped out in middle america lol
> With a small number of categories a full summary of the data easily fits into text.

That's fair. In my experience, summary measures are often calculated at many levels of an analysis, not just the final reporting.
Left GitLab for GitHub after today's crash
Causality is quite different from frame of reference.

Lets return to your equation. r^2 = m1*m2/F is a statement of correlation that's valid to many digits, that also says that "these are all the variables that affect anything here." It allows for calculations of quantities by plugging in numbers. In combination with other equations, it allows extrapolitaion and physical thinking. But equations alone are not enough for a physicist to make progress on problems, they don't combine arbitrarily, they still use that famous "physical intuition" that turns out to involve a heck of a lot of causality that they talk about in the cafeteria but don't often write about.

In the world outside of physics classrooms, most situations involve a huge number of variables interacting with each other, and the variables themselves are leaky abstractions. This means that the correlation of quantities does not go out to many digits, or even one digit. This does not make an equation a useful abstraction. People have developed probabilistic models that stand in for equations in these situations. Sure, it would nice to have an equation that modeled things like they do in the simple situations that Physics publishes on, but when the equations of physics are so weak that they can't even fold a protein, how are we going to use them to model the interaction of a potential drug with a protein?

Equations are great, when they apply. By introducing simplifying assumptions, we can sometimes extend their utility into new domains, but at the cost of introducing fragility because of those simplifying assumptions. They allow for calculating new things with only a very few computations. But nearly every new field of science invents new math. One of the more recent inventions is causality. It works fantastic in those sciences that use experimental interventions. Simple algebraic equations do not.
To be more specific, they see it as a feature when they're in a position of power (where they can actually do something about it), and a bug when they're not (where they can't fix it).
Look, I'm not trying to argue with you, I just don't remember. What, specifically, did Obama say about Fox News? (I don't care about Jackson; I hope that civility has improved since then, though recent evidence casts doubt on that position.)

Remember, the statement to beat is when Trump called journalists "among the most dishonest human beings on earth”.
For some reason seeing the "mid 20's" refer to 2020's felt really strange.
That is awesome. I'll have to remember that one.
* Many new jobs exist only to make sure that some robot works correctly. Even heavy equipment are robotized and remote controlled nowaday. Maybe you can create one million jobs thanks to a portal that would enable employers to recruit capacity to monitor through Internet, it would be improved later (two years) with capacity to assess and much later (10 years?) to operate equipments. The employer buy capacity, not a team. The employees bid for the job, but several can work simultaneously. A majority logic helps to verify if they are reliable. There is a reputation system for employees.
I fail to see how I did anything to your argument. The original poster showed the email, the founder responded saying they're going to review the contracts because what's in there is not their intent, figure it out and then add a FAQ. You replied to the founder with a simple regurgitation of the issue and nothing more. The issue the founder just said they will be addressing in the comment you replied to.

So I wasn't sure what you wanted your comment to accomplish. Sounded like it wasn't fast enough but if that's not the case what do you actually want from this conversation with the founder? Do you want him to apologize to you? Do you want them to issue a public apology? What was your goal to avoid me from construing your argument any further?
I read it fine, but Clojure is an application of the JVM. The fact that a popular interpreted language of the JVM takes 1.2 seconds for hello world is a problem of the JVM itself, or at least it's ecosystem. An interpreted language in C wouldn't take nearly that long.
I agree however, creating something revolutionary in these spaces takes more than just fiddling with a couple of tensorflow tutorials or udacity courses.

For instance I've always wanted to have a music recommendation engine/app that instead of using collaborative filtering uses some kind of machine learning or deep learning algorithm(s) to identify lyric sentiment, complexity and melodic/rhythmic patterns to recommend me music based on that (across different genres). It turns out that something that seemed straightforward (I really thought I could tackle this after playing around with tensorflow and machine learning tutorials & MOCS) actually requires a lot of specialized/intimate knowledge about how these algorithms work and the theory behind them, I would need to spend quite some time studying (and understanding) before I can even begin coding this as a side project for instance.
Release it straight away.

Don't worry about the code looking dirty, embryonic code always does. If it's a big enough tool it may warrant setting up a GitHub Pages site for it, just to make it a bit easier to find when somebody is suffering from the same problems you were.

In terms of new features, once you've put the repo on GitHub (or wherever) other people will likely suggest features as issues or modify the program themselves (and hopefully open a PR).
A game would be the easiest thing to get started with. I think down the line, virtually exploring places via scene reconstruction from multiple cameras is going to be absolutely epic, but that is a fairly hard problem.
> Lets not jump to conclusions. We need to be right about it.

Is a great justification for doing nothing, ever.

It feels like we are entering a very much unprecedented era in America, where the President freezes out news organisations that do not report on him favorably, and is actively attacking the media with the aim of establishing the official government narrative as the only one voters should listen to.

This is extremely dangerous. I'm not saying that we should rush to judgement, but we shouldn't just sit back and wait to see how it all unfolds either. This is an issue to be investigated and worked on, urgently.
There's no explicit reason not to use anaconda if you're okay with being vendor locked to anaconda's interpreter/environment. Anaconda is primarily developed with the data scientist in mind over the software developer. And the ecosystem Continuum Analytics has built with Anaconda reflects that design/vision.
Show HN: Thaum, a simple boilerplate and templating command line utility
Legacy VB != VB.net. VB.net is just C# with the words replaced (although there are a few unique logic structures). Legacy VB code has to be ported to VB.net.
> Example of small things Microsoft can help with: as far as I can see Nuclide doesn't work with dotnet core (only Mono). Throwing 1-2 devs that way would pay good dividends, in my opinion.

I don't know anything about Nuclide, but if they want to work with dotnet core, they should look into working with omnisharp-roslyn[0]. VS Code[1] and Atom[2] both have extensions that work with it.

> In my opinion Microsoft should focus more on base tools for F#, such as Roslyn, integration with dotnet core, etc.

I think there's already work underway for F# support for dotnet core[6].

As far as F# support for editors go, have a look at ionide[4]. They only have extensions for VS Code and Atom at the moment.

> Integration with Visual Studio is nice, but if the language is to be adopted in hacker circles, without major Microsoft investment, it needs to provide very solid and flexible tools on top of which the community can build awesome things.

Have you seen omnisharp[5]? If so, what's missing from that?

[0] https://github.com/OmniSharp/omnisharp-roslyn

[1] https://github.com/OmniSharp/omnisharp-vscode

[2] https://github.com/OmniSharp/omnisharp-atom

[3] https://github.com/Microsoft/language-server-protocol

[4] http://ionide.io/

[5] http://www.omnisharp.net/

[6] https://github.com/dotnet/netcorecli-fsc
Dang, I really wanted to see this apartment hinge system in action. Maybe they will have that in the film he references.
Whoa, turns out the story behind the barn find is a myth!

http://www.autoblog.com/2007/07/31/portuguese-barn-find-hoax...

http://www.snopes.com/photos/automobiles/barnfind.asp
I have a cool project that I started on but didnt have time to finish. Anyone interested PM me, its stack;
.net core
Html
Jquery

.net core / c# is the only requirement
"often to the exclusion of non-mainstream (professional) users"

The allusion is to the Mac Pro, not the Macbook Pro.
I pay for GitHub and can't deny their positive role in OSS, but I also use GitLab and will happily continue (and love that they have an OSS edition). I don't think it's a binary choice. Personally I will often adopt multiple pieces of software with redundant features because nuance often dictates the right tool for the job, and I enjoy being prepared for that.
Why not use tmux/tmate?

You can share any terminal that way then, with anyone's weird setup, vim or not.
In response to the advice I got here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13546201#

The project is in a usable state right now, but I'm currently working on autocomplete for templates, listing templates, "undo"ing actions if you've messed up. If you think I should work on other things, let me know!
Proguard is de-facto standard for Android Java ecosystem, what's the difference OpenJDK-Trim has? Except that Proguard determines used/unused classes automatically, by doing static code analysis, so you need to have proguard config to omit removing stuff that is used dynamically, of course.
What were you trying to accomplish with this comment?
By only offering the information in an app via the Play Store, you're creating a database of undocumented immigrant cellphones, and giving the feds a ready-made way to backdoor their phones. The security risk here is enormous if you're interested in protecting undocumented immigrants from being located by the US government. (A website without login doesn't have this problem.)
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Okay! In response to what "toomuchtodo" mentioned, I posted it as a "Shown HN:" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13546486

Hopefully someone finds it useful!
Did the juror agree to all of the line items there?
I'd say that causality seems useful for intelligence. Josh Tenenbaum has pushed the idea of causal models and inference, and I find it compelling

> Recent progress in artificial intelligence (AI) has renewed interest in building systems that learn and think like people. Many advances have come from using deep neural networks trained end-to-end in tasks such as object recognition, video games, and board games, achieving performance that equals or even beats humans in some respects. Despite their biological inspiration and performance achievements, these systems differ from human intelligence in crucial ways.

> We review progress in cognitive science suggesting that truly human-like learning and thinking machines will have to reach beyond current engineering trends in both what they learn, and how they learn it. Specifically, we argue that these machines should (a) build causal models of the world that support explanation and understanding, rather than merely solving pattern recognition
problems; [...]

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1604.00289.pdf

Some others papers related to these ideas:

- Learning a Theory of Causality http://stanford.edu/~ngoodman/papers/LTBC_psychreview_final....

- Theory-Based Causal Induction: http://cocosci.berkeley.edu/tom/papers/tbci.pdf
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Buffett is very conservative with the insuring. He actually took over many of the problem positions of Lloyds at one point.
Nonsense.

I just ran a load test against WP yesterday and with a traffic load (from tsung cluster) peaking at 430 req/sec, it was easily served by 5 t2.micros running Varnish + WP (behind Apache no less) + memcached.

The load test included random search strings 50% of the time so half the tsung visitors were getting live service from Wordpress.
> It should not be misleading to reveal only the minimum information necessary to a potentially hostile actor

I have no problem with this. But I see a big difference between asking one's employer "If I was already working on a project in my free time and wanted to take it further, what would I do?" and "I haven't started working on anything yet, but if I wanted to, what do I do?", when one has indeed started something already.
> Not really - I don't think implementing legal considerations into technology is the way to go.

I think that's totally fair to say. But just know that the immediate answer from Starbucks or whoever at that point is "Ok, then we'll continue doing what we have to do".

With the ToS/EULA, I think it's really a cover-all protection measure. So, if there's something that the user is doing that is illegal, the service provider is not liable for the user. For example, I go to Starbucks and torrent Star Wars; Disney sues Starbucks for facilitating me or whatever.

But I think your last point is where the argument breaks down. Yes, WiFi should probably be free at this point. But, there are tons of reasons that are valid (even marginally) someone would want to have someone connect to some website before connecting to the rest of internet. Without providing some way to do that, the terrible hacks will continue.
If you want "OO aspects", you can use C#. F# should focus on being a functional language. Features like currying exist for a reason.
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Ah, I see. They, the White House, are not going to send "surrogates" (talking heads) to talk to the press where they don't feel like they're going to be fairly heard (for some definition of "fairly"). That's understandable, in a way, but it's also a very bad move. First, having to explain yourself to hostile questioners is part of what the White House is supposed to have to do, so that the public gets a more realistic view of whether their policies are sane than they would get from the White House alone. But second, if they think they're being unfairly treated by a biased media, not talking to that segment of the media is not going to make the divide any less...
> it wouldn't be the worst thing in the world if the answer to this is, "They shouldn't have put it there in the first place."

Maybe? If you say a clause shouldn't be in there couldn't a lawyer immediately take you to court and get the document invalidated?

I wouldn't rush to saying anything about the contract IMO.

> Yes, it's probably some stock-standard boilerplate contract, but if companies can write contracts that contractors accept only on the assumption that they'll never be enforced, then when someone calls them out for it, they get to say, "Oh, people hate this? We'll change it (now).", what gives people the incentive to start with reasonble terms.

Gigster is a YC company so "move fast, break things" etc. They probably went with what was the fastest / cheapest at the time, no one had an issue with it and it was never brought up.
So when's the movie coming out?
I hope Microsoft continues to support VB.NET. I don't know what I'd do without XML literals.
> "That said, the question is about the (to me) bizarre defensiveness of Trump voters. Your team won, and has a freer hand than most presidents ever get. Why are you pretending you're oppressed?"

Is this addressed to me?
Okay, I made a github pages site for it: https://flaque.github.io/thaum/

Is using `wget` or `curl` the correct way to distribute the binary?
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Not just that, it was BillG who wrote the code for that. Not going deeper in MSDNA than that.
Put some reality into the conversation.

The OP's opening sentence asked for a project to make $500-$1000, not ride a hype wave.
It's unlikely, but it would be great if Microsoft would take ownership of the .Net port of Clojure. If there are two official object-oriented languages in the .Net stable; C# and VB.NET, why not two official functional as well; F# and Clojure?

Given Arcadia, the Clojure bridge to Unity, and Microsoft's interest in Unity via its Unity Tools, there might be some synergy there.
>"It is by the way an act of cruelty from Microsoft to only provide office users with a 20 year old language that hasn't been updated since the end of the 90s"

Office has support for multiple languages, not just VBA. The three that spring to mind are JavaScript, M and DAX.