skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Avast, source https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13079569 AJ007

Here are the terms, it's in section 8.Privacy, processing of personal information.
https://www.avast.com/eula-avast-free-products

However "AVAST may publish or share such information with third parties that are not part of the AVAST Group but will only ever do so after removing personally identifiable information."
I'm not sure they would ever do that. They're going to try and set up a favorable environment for the politicians who will pad their bottom line. That means making it easier to access sites like foxnews.com and breitbart.com.
So you surely believe the idea we're living in a simulation of some sort is complete bunk?
I love the ethos of Scheme.

The language has ways that the program is expected to do things, such as named let and syntax-rules, but is flexible enough to get out of your way if you have a different idea, such as defmacro.

I wish that the rest of my userland would be as flexible.
FBI will no longer accept FOIA requests by email
Yeah yeah yeah, I get it. But no.

Raising money is one of the hardest things on the planet to do, right after 'building a great product and getting revenue'.

And you don't get money 'just because you have a good product and company'.

Let's not be naive about that - there is a lot of 'game' to raising money, and to have done that successfully is a huge 'win' for the founders.

So sure, it's 'not a milestone', but really it is. The founders have to put so much energy into it, it's very risky, and since most companies absolutely must raise subsequent rounds after Angel ... it's a big milestone.

You can have a decent company and not raise money. That's reality. So there's 'existential risk' in that part of the process.

Sure, it's by no means an excuse to rest on one's laurels, or to think it equates to success is fine - but - to guffaw founders for exhibiting pride, excitement, and even a 'sense of accomplishment' for having done it is just unfair.

Besides - the mere fact of raising money ups the companies cred quite a lot as well, which is very beneficial outside of simply the financial aspects.
Last Friday, my OpenBSD firewall, which runs on a SYS-5018A-FTN4, mysteriously crashed. I chalked it up to an alpha particle or something and rebooted. About 12 hours later, it failed again. This time I did some more digging. On the console was the following message:

NMI ... going to debugger
Stopped at acpicpu_idle+0x22d: nop
ddb{0}>

I googled it and found one similar report on the OpenBSD misc mailing list from September 2016 [1]. Interestingly, the person who reported the bug was running the same Supermicro board as I was. The report didn't get anywhere other than a vague suggestion that it might be heat related. These boxes run very cool and I didn't think that was likely. I thought it might be a RAM issue and that it was probably just a coincidence that the other person had the same hardware as I, but now I'm inclined to think that both of us have experienced the issue described in TFA.

Seems like I'll be looking for new firewall hardware.

[1] https://www.mail-archive.com/misc@openbsd.org/msg149348.html
How about when you're told you pass and moving on to the next round, then never contacted again?

Or invited to an on-site at a specific time, then no one answers you, and there's no actual interview when you get to their location?

Or passing the interview process, them telling X salary was OK, then when it comes to the actual offer, they offer X/2 salary?
>Please stop with the conspiracy innuendos.

Simply documenting. Last time I pointed out a post had been "shadow flagged" (because it didn't say [Flagged]) I got told off.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12473904

I'm sparing someone else from being told off if they notice my post before it is [Flagged]
What you want is http://www.daemonology.net/bsdiff/

All objects in git packfiles are already compressed, so you aren't gaining much by adding another layer of compression.
Did this change occur recently? I've noticed in the past 3-4 months Instagram has become a lot slower. To be fair, it's started to gain some speed in the past month, but I'd be interested to see how this increase in latency coincided with the migration to React Native.
I think your idea of distinction between "governments" and "corporations" is naive
No True Scotsman isn't a formal fallacy, and simply saying "here's a line, and these so-called examples are on the wrong side of it" isn't No True Scotsman.

Rather, No True Scotsman requires that someone change their definition to exclude counterexamples while maintaining that they're keeping an untainted definition.

It's entirely legitimate to say "There are people who call themselves Christians but do not act in accordance with X, Y, and Z teachings of Christ. Therefore, I don't accept their claim." That's definition, not redefinition.
While CMake is better than anything I've seen, I still find it awful given it doesn't let you move your project to another folder...
Had the same thought. The article mentions the 1815 but I have a 1515 which apparently has a C2538, which is one of the models listed.

(Synology 1515 specs: https://www.synology.com/en-us/products/DS1515+#spec)
Every job is a means to end, though. Employees agree with employers to exchange labour for money.
Very intriguing partnership.
> They're almost like public utilities, and saying "you use Facebook so you must not actually care about privacy" is like saying "you rely on the police, so you most not actually care about cases of police brutality."

While I agree that they are like public utilities in many ways, I think your analogy is grossly flawed. For Facebook and Google to do what we want them to, they have no choice but to constantly invade our privacy. The very features we desire most from them are directly related to and tied to our personal information. By contrast, a police department absolutely does not require a single officer to commit violent crimes in order for them to keep the peace, arrest criminals, and protect the public.
I believe PLS is related to PLSR, where the difference is that you are trying to maximize the covariance between the predictor variables and the observed variables.
Can you elaborate---how is the standard deduction related to housing/mortgage interest deduction?
Cyberlink PowerDVD
It's kind of interesting how knowledge works with some subjects.

If you don't know anything, you will agree with the statement. When you know a bit more, you will disagree, but when you learn more than that you will once agree.

It's true that real databases need to guarantee data won't disappear even at power loss, so you would think that container crash should be comparable with power loss, if not more trivial.

The thing is that the database can provide such guarantees (write things in correct order, write to disk when database says so etc), but only if the underlying system provides specific guarantees to the database.

The storage drivers are quite buggy, so reliability of your data is still in hands of these drivers.
For now, yes. Neither theory explains anything and both involve the invention of a higher order and have the same prime mover problem.
House service/maintenance/repair. Severe lack of professionalism and customer-service-orientedness there. Serious disruption needed.
Have you found such a language? I've looked hard, and I'm still looking.

In my opinion, no existing language satisfies these two simultaneously:

> - Let a large group of devs of varying skills produce a high quality code base with the least amount of overhead/rules/babysitting

> - Performance is high enough to meet a point of diminishing returns given the problem at hand
Know any businesses that suffer from a Sunk Cost Bias?
Why... not? It's an article. It doesn't preclude other articles on related subjects.

I guess I'm a little confused about what you think a good answer to your question would address, beyond the obvious fact that the author didn't decide to write about Islam.
People in all countries make jokes about the problems of their society or lives, or their government or bureaucracy or businesses; you don't have to live in "cruel unjust" absurdity or be "drunk enough" to do so, or be afflicted by any other stereotype or trope.
Ask HN: Who is the cheapest django hosting provider?
I have built an app that would allow visitors to find availale deals. I am looking for the cheapest hosting provider.
Exposed: How world leaders were duped with manipulated global warming data
I'd classify the systems I work on as "cloud"/systems work. So not exactly what you'd call "Web" but close enough to the kind of use cases Google designed Go for, i.e. their infrastructure. We've managed to make C++ more or less fit better through mountains of in-house libraries and code.

I've used C++ with Qt in building embedded applications and my experience was mostly good. Then again Qt had its own types which were incompatible with C++ and a fair bit of work was getting more or less standard C++ mated with Qt. I remember writing a lot of glue code that used Boost.Signals2 ...

On one hand it's true that people who still see C++ as C with classes and don't use things like lambdas, algorithms, smart pointers, STL data structures, are contributing to some hate/misunderstanding of C++. On the other hand, C++ developers who do use the modern features get used to all the quirks and don't understand why others don't see what we see ;) So we just maybe std::move, or inherit from enabled_share_from_this without thinking twice and know the difference between && and & and the new lambda syntax but really, as a developer, most of the time, why should I care? To some extent a camel can't see its own hump.

What you're saying is basically exactly what I would have said 2 years ago before I started using Go more heavily. Now it's mostly C++ because I have to and Go because I want to... Not that Go is perfect but the stuff that it does well it also does easy.
1000% this. I've had multiple co-founders over the years that love the idea of being part of a startup, but were unwilling to sacrifice any free time and accomplish anything.

If you've had more than 3 meetings with no commitment of time, walk away.
I expected that to be a 1970s computing shanty but D.Kriesel spotted it in 2013 and it took until 2015 to get it properly patched. Incredible.
I think employers should pay a premium for H1B or any visa worker. If they truly need them and there is truly a dearth in candidates, they should be falling over each other to pay it.
A 'raise' is a huge signal that the company has operated successfully in at least some areas, and some 'intelligent people who should know better' are making a 'big risky bet' on the outcome.

That someone is willing to put $X in likely an entirely unprofitable company is a very strong indicator that they are doing something right.

Think of it this way: if 95% pitches don't get funding, it means that funding is roughly a sign the company is in the top 5% of companies at that stage.

A round A raise means they are the best of those who got seed and didn't get to round A. A seed is for those who made it past Angel, because so many don't.

And - 'money is not just money'. Money is the essential fuel, without which it's nary impossible to build a company.

There are tons of unfunded companies that would be able to be considerably more successfull were they to have 'more money' - but they just don't fit some investors criteria, or they don't have the right fundraising skills.
If I may summarize the blog post to characterize the allegations more accurately than the House press release:

NOAA scientist used as the basis for a major climate paper a data set which was in an alpha stage in terms of post-processing. This preliminary data should have been at least indicated as such but was not done in the paper submission. The exact differences between the alpha version and released version is not documented, and the dataset used for the paper hasn't apparently been located, so finding the differences is difficult.

Notably, Bates doesn't seem to be accusing Karl et. al. of actually manipulating the data to get spectacular results. Rather, the allegation is that the rush to put out the paper induced Karl et. al. to bypass transparency rules designed to prevent, well, suspicion of the data being manipulated.
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"Rewriting a software system from the ground up is nearly impossible."

Humans likely won't be tasked with solving that problem in the future though.
From some very obscure ones, may be. Not from any major ones however. Try buying a Dell without any OS. Or some other major brand.
It's common to structure data as arrays in Fortran and other scientific computing. No reason you couldn't in C or C++.
You make it sound like it is as simple as that, only a method table instead of a header field :)

That said, you mention using a varint or uint32 which "use more CPU or memory" -- 16 bits vs 32 bits in applications that use megabytes seems trivial. Can you explain why that's a concern?
The wording in the linked article is surprising and disconcerting:

"This fact has always been a thorn in the side of climate change alarmists, as it became difficult to disprove the slowdown in warming."

That is some fairly loaded language, including "climate change alarmists."

I am disappointed that taxpayer dollars are being used to put out official government writings that improperly vilify people with no context.

Someone who is concerned about climate change is not a de facto alarmist.
you can skip sklear and other packages and just use numpy (which is supported in pypy now), and just do an svd of the input matrix.

U,d,Vt=svd(X)

D=diag(d)

Xhat= U[:,:2].dot(D[:2, :2])
I think they want quality goods for a cheap price, but are easily fooled.
I looked into building such a unit. The problem problem with that style machine (like the sous vide supreme) is the heating element. It's a flexible mat. Getting it at a sufficiently high watt density, to keep it from taking forever to preheat and totally sucking wind when you add a big hunk of cold meat, is expensive. In that industry your build cost generally needs to be about 25% of retail, so an extra $20 for your heating mat means $80 more at the store.

It's also less accurate temperature control because the thermocouple isn't submersed. It's a strip on the outside of a metal pan.

Rice cookers and crock pots don't have to heat up nearly as much water (which has a high specific heat capacity) as a sous vide machine big enough to handle a slab of ribs.
I wouldn't go to Russia either, but Kyiv is a great place to visit. I also recommend Lviv while you're at it - one of the most charming European towns I've ever seen.

And of course Georgia: it's very easy to fly from Kyiv to Tbilisi or Kutaisi. But beware: you go there once, you'll want to come back for the rest of your life ;)
The website basically seems to be a signup squeeze page. Would be great to get some more info before signing up.
I think most people want quality goods for a cheap price, but we are easily fooled.
Is the Schmidhuber talk about his idea that benevolence and "fun" reduces to maximizing compression of sensory experience? I really wish he would stop peddling that.
Ask HN: How to start a profitable side project?
Planning to start a side project which should eventually start making money. How can I go about it ?
Metered Licensing Mechanism and Enhanced Conversion of AutoCAD DWG to PDF and PNG
The statement was "There are no killings in cities", which is clearly not true - there ARE killings in cities. There are probably less overall than in America, but I really don't care enough to check.
The problem isn't the risk of the service being a scam (which vetting by the BTC community takes care of) but the risk that the users are scamming the service.

Without all the 'KYC BS', it would be too easy for someone to use stolen credit card numbers to buy Bitcoin which would quickly bankrupt the service or at least cause them to have to pay high processing fees or have their processing terminated.
$25K
haha it was legit.
It's not clear to me how this is interestingly different from model-based RL, where you learn the state function and reward function, and then use various types of simulation to learn a value function. I guess I'll have to read more than the abstract...
3.7mill is not enough of a fine. The fine should have been 50mill plus.
Warren Buffett and Bill Gates think it’s crazy to view robots as bad
Snap CI Is Going Away
You have to secure your Yahoo account by changing the password and there are various tricks through which you can secure your account. for more details:http://igurus-inc.net/how-to-change-yahoo-password/
"Performant" is basically just a buzzword but I've always viewed it as encompassing a bit more than "fastest" - something like "most efficient in real world use".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dell_n_Series
Doesn't VS only support a really old version of c++?
The Azimuth Project
> What is the meaning of "compactness"? A proper comparison of theoretical parsimony requires comparing the Kolmogorov complexity. Compressing ontologies positing reals and/or rationals are definitely less parsimonious than ontologies positing only naturals.

As far as I can tell, by this argument there is literally nothing that would convince you that anything but a discrete theory was correct. So I don't think it's a very interesting argument, sorry. But thank you for explaining your viewpoint.
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We have this. 5-7 people per area, some smaller, some larger. Moving to open office space in six months. I think the office culture will take a definite hit.
My understanding is that it is different in at least these ways:
1. Was focused on a specific threat
2. Didn't apply retroactively, to all green card holders
3. Didn't fully stop the programs, just slowed them down as processes changed

I'm not super familiar with Obama's original order but any one of these three differences I think is enough to say that his order was substantially different.
"Real" object databases — "OODBMS" — uses to be a thing, too. They still survive in some niches, like finance and health, though largely as legacy systems. Products like Objectivity, ObjectStore, POET, Caché (which is built on MUMPS), GemStone (Smalltalk) etc. were once big, expensive products that seemed poised to take over from old-hat SQL databases.

Those databases failed not necessarily because the technology was wrong, although they certainly made some choices that didn't help; those databases were often tightly coupled with opaque binary object serialization formats (with no way of looking into a database without going the binary route) that were in turn tightly coupled with the app's class hiearchy. For example, several of these actually post-processed your code (e.g. your Java bytecode) to insert serialization code, so that when you followed a relationship (e.g. "library.books[0].author"), it would automatically query under the hood and return the author as an object. They ended up being clunky to work with as a result; for example, in the beginning, very few of them had a query language, so the only way to query the data was by following relationships through your graph of objects.

Realm looks interesting as a new approach to the object database design, but at the same time seems a bit limited. It doesn't seem to have schemas or any kind of role-based permissions, and seems to make the same mistake of not including a query language (so you can't build a REPL for it, and every language binding needs its own query builder). The transaction semantics also seem to be entirely undefined (is it read-committed?). From what I can tell, it's also "offline first", in the sense that you have a local database that can sync to/from a server, but you're technically always working on an offline copy of the master data; while nice to have for a mobile app, it does limit what you can use it for. I also don't see any support for fine-grained updates. Every write you do seems to overwrite, which I assume means the last write always wins; how do you deal with conflicts, or implement things like counters, maps or arrays that need to be incrementally updated?
Correction:

> To compile a list of all companies that have their personal information an user would have to identify every business they have a business relationship with that could possibly be gathering this information and then send a written request to each on a regular basis as the request is only valid for information disclosed in the preceding year.
...but it helps.
Impeachment sure would be nice.
Ask HN: Is the old OCaml Rust compiler around anywhere?
Looking for the OCaml compiler that I've heard was used to bootstrap Rust. Just curious about it -- thanks!
How about fraud? Why is tricking someone to give you a password and using it enough to go to jail, but recording everything someone watches without their permission and selling to 3rd parties not?
Thanks Mark, I appreciate the kind words.
I am so surprised and disappointed that such a shallow article has made it to the top. It provides absolutely no value.

Most of the upvotes (gathering a consensus from comments) are not because they believe that Docker is not the right tool but because they have been frustrated by the ops part of things.

I'm also surprised at how many think that one tool will come and solve all their problems. Guys, it doesn't work that way. Docker had one job and it does it fairly well - process isolation for humans (ok the engine goes crazy sometimes but hey everything does). For all the other things, you need to setup your own workflows, tools and processes.

Tomorrow, another rant article would come at how apt sucks but in fact, apt and friends are just an amazing example of how packaging should be done. It is not ideal, but it works! Everything fails sometimes and that is when new things for it come up.

If every immature developer started adding rants on the internet, we would pretty much be disregarding half of the software. To the OP, if you are not able to achieve something, please don't rant just because you couldn't do it.
Honestly, I'm 100% more fine with Apple spying on me than pretty much anyone else. I'm less perturbed with the entire concept of spying than I am with who is doing it.
You really don't need to be a passionate programmer. However, passion will bring you much further when you have to work on something that's boring, tedious, or has no real end in sight.
Crazy how many "founders" keep "pivoting" before actually building anything.
Brother if you truly are interested and seek answers you can read the Bible and see if what the bible says happens or try to prove for yourself. I am a witness to miracles. I will post a couple of videos below for you to watch. This things are happening daily

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqQrT84kjc4 ----- undeniable healings

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=tb+joshua+heali... ----- undeniable healings

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHFyV-DSr0_fbxqaB10VnNg ---healings although not in english

https://youtu.be/Kqo6a5n1ArQ?t=587 ---- undeniable prophecy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Aw_sNWCg2U ---- undeniable prophecy

follow these channels on youtube there are many things happening but you don't hear about them in the media. Brother please ignore everything and try to prove for yourself by investigating if there is a God.