skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been a tarsnap users for years (keeping personal photos and emails). I'm really please with the service.

I added a cron script years ago with the right paths/filenames, and cron emails me the output (the default). Eventually, the script got a bit more complex, because I wanted a nicer email subject, and being other silly aesthetics.

Still, the service is great and deduplication is awesome: data transfer is extremely low every day, but I have a separate archive for every day for the last several years.

I have a backup of my tarsnap keys off-site, so I don't lose any photos even in case of things like the house burning down. As for emails, chances are I'll never have to need those backups, since they're on my laptop, desktop, and fastmail.
but the camera is on the other side so it's literally impossible
The top comment on Medium is hilarious. It contains "Get off the plantation and build your own." I remember quite well what Taleb said, that to be truly free, you need to be neither a slave nor a slave owner. What good is "building your own plantation"? That literally makes you nowhere better than a slave/the people who originally kept you in the first place.
Looking at crazy stuff like this, I'm so glad most browsers can render PDFs natively and I don't have to rely on any Adobe software anymore.
I'm so sick of 'designers' thinking they're programmers and smashing out some NodeJS or JavaScript heavy crap with no regards to performance or security. Elixir seems to attract some smart minds that think 'big picture' - obviously I'm generalising here and I'm not stating that this particular project is brilliant or anything but it is a trend I've observed.
Because of how my brain works, I have extremely short attention span when watching videos, but I am much better at reading. The current shift towards video-only online courses and tutorials worries me greatly.
It seems like they'd owe it to their investors to at least comment on the ones that make it into news articles, and appear to be worrying a small percentage of their userbase.

Keep in mind, they have a Privacy Policy, a Terms of Service, and dozens of pages on their support site that cover all sorts of issues in great detail. Surely it's at least worth a sentence in their ToS and a tweet from a middle-manager, even if the accusations are completely bogus?

Personally, I put the probability at around 30%, so I think it's more likely to be false than true.
You basically do the shit SREs tell you to do if you want support. I took a service through a PRR, and while it wasn't 100% formal, my SRE peers were able to request improvements to monitoring, fault tolerance and release process, so it worked well in the end. Other than the launch checklist (is it still called Ariane?), Google has few truly formal processes in general. People converge on what works for them.
It's up to the SREs taking over the service. A storage SRE PRR is different from an Ads SRE PRR.
The rest of the talks from this workshop were great as well: https://simons.berkeley.edu/workshops/schedule/3748. These are part of a broader program on foundations of machine learning taking place this semester: https://simons.berkeley.edu/programs/machinelearning2017
Sad news. The last thing Mozilla needs is to alienate addon developers because addons are one of the very few things that still attract us to Firefox.
Very interesting. I'm also wondering whether we might just be approaching this with too much b/w thinking - it might simply differ widely between individual patients. The operation was done by only a small number of doctors, so it might well be that each set of patients (regionally somewhat separate) has slightly different results. Or even that each individual differs - they weren't operated with modern precision and even with modern techniques you likely still would get slightly different operation results on each attempt.

For the second suggestion to be tested they would have to identify someone who was tested 10/20/30/40 years ago and try to repeat the experiment.

One last thought: that information flows between brain halves doesn't exclude the possibility of there still being some disconnect and/or even two 'personas'.
Unfortunately, just having someone tell you something doesn't prove anything, unless you have a way to check that the fact is true- and for most of Kim Peek's life this was not the case.

For instance- his article on wikipedia mentions that he "enjoyed approaching strangers and showing them his talent for calendar calculations by telling them on which day of the week they were born and what news items were on the front page of major newspapers".

I assume he did that throughout his adult life, so when he was in his 30s an 40's, in the 1980's and 1990's, how would the person he approached this way check the news that Peek told them were on the front page of X newspaper? They couldn't very well google it on their iPhone back then.

Besides, this is not very clear in his wikipedia entry, but it seems to me like he made a living out of his skills, so you know, it was at least partly entertainment (without trivialising, or in any way shape or form ignoring, the fact that the guy had obvious disabilities).

So I'm saying, when a guy tells you he can recall for you a bunch of facts you dont' really remember yourself and you can't very easily verify, and by the way you're welcome to a donation, you can take what he says with a big pinch of salt.
and then the NaN error. bummer
If you want a hand with some design work for the site, drop me a note. I'd be happy to help, and local to you.
Immediate fix by SWE can only be released after it is tested and canaried, so it's not really "immediate" most of the time.
But then you will never know in your code if there was an error. What if you want to send an other HTTP response in case of an error?

With an exception you can still generate a json response, but also handle errors in the way you like.
No it's just that you are not hiring enough. You have to put employees with high marketing skill on it. I was able to repel 3 lawsuits without issue.
I do use noscript. By default on every site. This slowness is different than your typical js-bloat slowness
I wouldn't say it's encouraged to give every control a custom look. It can be done, and far more easily and useful than in Windows forms, but that doesn't mean you have to use it in every application. Horrible owner-drawn controls have been a thing before WPF and just because WPF has better separation between appearance and behaviour doesn't cause inconsistent looking UIs without the developer doing weird things.

The tooling you look for is probably Blend.
That reminds me of how, back in university, a mate said to me over beers: "Happiness is the derivative of well being"

He's a professor of statistical econometrics now.
Is it possible there's some wireless communication going on via electric fields that we're not yet aware of?

Quick google search suggests this is a thing: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/02/110202132617.h...

Could it be happening on a large enough scale to allow communication between hemispheres though? I'm not suggesting this would take over for the corpus callosum, but rather that it may be happening for everyone, so the true amount of transfer even after the corpus callosotomy is higher than expected?
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I help operate an online shoe retailer so I have watched ShoeME.ca (the Canadian e-retailer established in 2012 that merged with Shoes.com and OnlineShoes.com) over the last few years. Here is what I've noticed:

- Their prices were not competitive. Some brands sold for at least $60 more than the MSRP found on other sites. I don't think even Zappos could've gotten away with similar premiums – despite their renowned customer service – which according to reviews and articles, ShoeME did not have.

- They were a drop-shipper so every item had to first travel from the supplier, to ShoeME's warehouse, THEN express shipped to the customer. Shipping from their Vancouver warehouse to Eastern provinces may have cost up to $40. Drop-shipping can add over a week to delivery time depending on how responsive your supplier is. Frustratingly, ShoeME did not make this their drop-shipping transparent and would instead send you an email about the delay AFTER you had ordered.

- Fakes sales. There was never a day without a sale banner, popup, or email blast claiming 30-40% off. The moment a "last chance" sale ended, another one was put on the next day. In reality many brands were permanently excluded from the promotions. Consumers catch on quickly, especially in the online world.

- In the past year and a half, ShoeME started buying their own inventory for some brands so they clearly thought they were getting somewhere. However, anyone who has run a shoe store knows how hard it is to keep size runs full. Some styles may sell well one day, and you may not sell another pair for a few weeks. I wonder if they had enough data to anticipate customer demand without stocking too much.

- They also started work on a supplier portal which never got off the ground. While working to integrate with them starting in mid-2015 them, we constantly received incorrectly setup credentials, changing representatives, and no updates whatsoever.

- Returns. It's no secret the return rate in the shoe industry can exceed 25%. I can imagine how sprawling ShoeME's warehouse must've been considering the hundreds of brands they sold. How do you even organize all the one-off returns from different styles and manufacturers?

This announcement pretty much caught us off-guard this afternoon, although retrospectively you can see some customer service issues regarding lack of transparent drop-shipping and dishonest pricing and sales. Personally, I thought they were too big to fail and always questioned the sustainability of their constant sales and pricing.

I feel sorry for the customers who still have outstanding orders with them. Websites are all down. They're social media pages have posts from just a few hours ago so I guess many were blindsided. This is like FutureShop's sudden closure all over again.
And Americans think that they have freedom.

In general for anyone conscious about freedom of speech and press it should alarming how certain agencies breach people's data and then put gag orders in place. This isn't freedom, this is tyranny.

The citizens of North-Korea probably have more freedom that then the citizens of USA.
Hey, thanks we used three.js for it. We also wrote a blog post about how we built it - https://blog.peer5.com/peer5-live-network/
What difference does it make? If a person can recall from memory the scores for any major sporting event on any arbitrary day, who cares which source they originally memorized them from? Regardless it is easily verifiable, even pre-internet, and regardless it qualifies as super memory.
I think OP's point was that you should be accounting for match fixing when comparing across the eras.

If there is incentive in modern times to have some results and the incentive wasn't there before then it should be accounted for.

I have no clue about american football, but presumably this would be like accounting for differences in ball materials, regulations etc.
Another approach is to use Signal's "Linked Devices" capability. Designate a central "device" (server) for FOIA purposes, and mandate all relevant public servants/elected officials using Signal add that as a linked device.

Then there's no need to retrieve a device and dump its message store, which obviously depends on the device being in a functional state. Instead there's a one-time setup when Signal is first installed.
I guess I didn't really investigate packages for Dart as I already had the C# code so I just ported. The reason I hand-rolled it for C# was mentioned briefly in the C# post; all the OAuth libraries where HUGE (like DotNetOpenAuth pulled in 10+ NuGet packages). Not only did these seem like overkill for what I wanted to do, they also seemed like massive liabilities.

I feel like I spend half of my life at work investigating or working around bugs in dependencies added by past developers, patching abandoned libraries, fixing conflicting dependencies dependencies version constraints or just working around incompatibilities between their goals and ours (both of which may have changed since the dependencies were added).

I also think we generally don't think hard enough before taking dependencies on from complete strangers. With Dart this isn't quite so bad because the source is all there and you can scan through it but in C# people just pull binary dependencies and assume they're safe. I don't think this is good practice and I think it's only a matter of time before some relatively popular package ends up with obfuscated malware in the binary in the package (but not the repo) and everyone will get upset :-(

--

I just actually took a look at the Dart twitter pub package. It has a bunch of TODOs on the homepage and the pubspec shows a dependency on a Git repo by the same author for OAuth using the "random-secure" branch. Not only is this repo full of stuff I don't need (like Shelf extensions to do OAuth flow I don't want) but the Git dependency means I have no control over the version of that that gets pulled (and the name of the branch doesn't fill me with confidence). Sure, if I used it it would probably work; but for the little code it took I'd rather eliminate a huge set of possible future complications of that author starts making changes in that Git repo.

I know some will refer to this as NIH and I'm ok with that. I'd rather spend a little more time now and save time later, and in my experience taking random deps (esp. from small unknown devs) always results in pain down the line. I don't claim this is the best/correct way, it's just what feels best to me based on my experiences :-)
How does tarsnap compare to borgbackup https://borgbackup.readthedocs.io/en/stable/ ? rsync.net has quite some praise for it: https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/42feqz/i_asked_here_...
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> why use a Chrome clone when you can use Chrome

If every browser looked exactly like Chrome, I'd still choose the one that contained the least amount of Google.
I just noticed the OAuth package on pub is the same guy, so I wonder whether the published twitter package uses that isntead of the git repo mentioned in the pubspec on GitHub. That would be slightly better.

That said, with OAuth so common and used by Google a lot (and such a risk to get wrong) I'm surprised there isn't a Dart Team-owned package for this. I'd be much more confident using something from a company with a reputation to protect and a good dev/QA process.
Totally agree. Norhing beats good old pen and paper for notes or sketches. I'm also a fountain pen nut so I get to use my fountain pens while taking notes so it's a win-win for me.
This is a insane setup, congrats ;)

I thought I was doing well running flexget[1] on Ubuntu on a crappy old netbook.

HTPC manager[2] might be worth a look too.

[1] Setup guide: http://www.htpcbeginner.com/blueprint-flexget-setup-guide/

[2] http://htpc.io/
Cute. But impractical, not to mention messy. They should allow you to put your company's logo on it, as it would be a cool alternative to branded coffee cups, pens and mouse pads.
Relevant: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-01-26/world-s-b...
OK, but then again: https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvekey.cgi?keyword=chrome+pdf
It's not like Google ever cared much, though. The 'metro' Chrome was exactly the same, just full screen. Still unusable with touch, because of the same tiny hit boxes for controls. They just drew their normal UI (which is completely custom anyway) with a different flavor of DrawBitmapToScreen.
It's an open redirect, not XSS. It's a matter of debate whether an open redirect is a vulnerability or not.
In theory it might be possible to avoid trap representations for _Bool if one would specify that it would be like other unsigned integer types, i.e. 0 is false and non-zero is true, instead of the current situation where 0 is false, 1 is true and anything else is a trap representation.

Now this would break at least one possible optimization that at least GCC does, namely that if you know that the value is either 1 or 0, then "!x" can be implemented as "x^1" (bitwise xor the value with 1) instead of a branch. I'm not sure that this optimization is particularly significant in real world code, though.
Looks like a useful tool, but I kinda wish this kind of programs had a CLI. It seems to be doing one main thing (searching), and it could be super useful to be able to pipe the results to a downloading program. Some programs can benefit vastly from a GUI, this... I'm just not sure what's the point. Kudos to the developer nevertheless for the tool itself and for the choice to go with Elixir.
Inventing your own dialect of a language when none of the libraries support it sounds like you are going to be writing a lot of wrappers or reimplementations of things?

I would have really liked to hear what the argument for switching to Java is - over staying on Clojure or switching to a language other than Java.
Your desires come from other people desires, because of mirror neurons. What we call "Me", our entire personality, our "Self", is 100% made of many other people "Self" (explains "You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with"). Rather than suffer from your attachment to desires, we can indeed control what we desire.
Can anybody recommend good books (other than the SRE Book), blogs, mailing lists, IRC channels, articles, videos, etc, that have SRE as the focus and go into it deeply?

For example, I'm looking for forums where you can engage in serious discussion about the role, or other books/blogs/articles that aren't simply regurgitating what the SRE Book says.
Reading this, at several points I could barely tell if you were talking about the game or real life...
A manager doesn't need to know how to write a Hello World. It can be useful for a manager to have technical knowledge but purely for managing wetware (i.e. humans/programmers) it isn't required.
Count the instances of "arbitrary code execution" for chrome vs adobe. Its a huge improvement! Granted its not just the pdf reader in the case of adobe.
Why? Do you have a history of Amazon ripping you off?
Of the many biologists I know / am aware of, Michael Eisen is probably best suited to make such a transition. one of the founders of PLOS journals (Public Library of Science; https://www.plos.org/) - a set of open access, peer reviewed journals (some of) which now rank among the top, he comes across as a very motivated, passionate campaigner for what he believes in.

God speed!
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I hope someone writes (has written?) a book about operations engineering that isn't from the perspective of an "internet company". Google's approach is that of some software devs who were tasked with maintaining infrastructure. Which is markedly different than typical Enterprise-scale engineering, even if Google is bigger than most enterprise orgs.
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Finally, the last piece for my TARDIS.
Standard stuff, you want media attention for your blog, twitter whatever? You'll need to have a bot army to upvote your own stuff, relink and like your content.

Having a botnet is now an essential part of building your social media following.
>So are they underpowered or overpowered? Make up your mind, man!

Not sure if you have bad reading comprehension or if you're just omitting text to support your argument.

They're underpowered for me. They're underpowered for people who need a "real" computer. For the people they're aiming the new portable at, they're completely overkill and completely overpriced. They're the new MacBook Air, essentially.
Thanks for the suggestion i336_

So what i am planning to build is SAAS service that provides all the feature's listed above and more, customised for an (unspecified for competitive purpose) industry. The web client is used for entry of data related to sales, stock, payroll. I am also making apps for various operator's inside the plant to upload data using their android phone's and tablets.

Then i want to process and display all this data (related to Manufacturing, Sales, Marketing etc) on web, iOS and Android.

So essentially there will be apps for employee's working in the plant(for data entry) as well as for the managers and owners(to monitor everything and make decisions)

I want the web dashboard to look somewhat similar to - https://demo.baremetrics.com

And since i have no experience in building mobile apps i want to know what languages/frameworks would be best suitable to develop good/native looking apps for iOS and Android using web technologies.

Thanks.
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Another "inspirational" list thanks to the US government, from a HN comment[1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13237667

[2] https://ustr.gov/sites/default/files/2016-Out-of-Cycle-Revie...
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I love my Asus Zenbook, but I get the feeling that the screen resolution is too high. There's no need to have a 4K screen in an otherwise small laptop, especially combined with rather patchy support in Linux.
So what i am planning to build is SAAS service that provides all the feature's listed above and more, customised for an (unspecified for competitive purpose) industry. The web client is used for entry of data related to sales, stock, payroll. I am also making apps for various operator's inside the plant to upload data using their android phone's and tablets.

Then i want to process and display all this data (related to Manufacturing, Sales, Marketing etc) on web, iOS and Android.

So essentially there will be apps for employee's working in the plant (for data entry) as well as for the managers and owners (to monitor everything and make decisions)

I want the web dashboard to look somewhat similar to - https://demo.baremetrics.com

And since i have no experience in building mobile apps i want to know what languages/frameworks would be best suitable to develop good/native looking apps for iOS and Android using web technologies.

Thanks.
Yes we should because it is most likely the best selling Apple laptop at this time based on my experience at the company. That's what I'm trying to tell you.
You can always create an Email type or a CreditCartExpiry type that validate in the constructor if the string contains @ or if the date is in the future or in the past.
In this way you are guaranteed that you cannot pass around an invalid email address or an invalid credit card.
Obviously in Java nothing guarantees that you won't forget to handle the failed state, while in languages with exhaustive pattern matching is pretty much granted if you write idiomatic code.
Fuck this is relatable.
I'm quite a solitary person, I'm constantly in my head contextualizing and overhauling past opinions and bias.

I thought this was mainly computers that taught me to think this way, didn't realise there was documented philosophy behind it.
Ask HN: What is the best startup pitch, not pitch deck, that you have seen?
Ask HN: Print magazine similar to BYTE?
Just wondering: Do you know if there is currently some computer magazine in print that is similar to BYTE?

Digital only is also an option but I am nostalgic of a good old paper magazine to read on the weekends :D
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> how likely it is to earn in the mid 100s doing full-time remote work in the embedded software field

I maintain a list of remote friendly companies. Here are a list of companies that might be doing embedded stuff.

https://remotebase.io/companies?technologies=C&technologies=...

I don't have enough information to help you, but on the website there is a chat community for remote workers. Feel free to ask questions there.