skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Explanation from Anton Nosik (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton_Nosik):

"To understand the logic behind those obviously absurd and inefficient bans, one should look deep into the very essence of the "checklist system" (палочная система in Russian). Once there's a law in place, requiring the police, the prosecution, the courts, the Ministry of Justice and the Ministry of Communications to find and censor "bad" websites, it means that they have to find and ban some URLs every other month, just for the record. It does not matter much, whether those sites are actually bad, or how many million other sites do carry the same content, but haven't been included in the current version of filtering blacklists. There is only one relevant KPI for every single official in the chain: a checklist, showing how many sites they've blocked in every given month.

There is one district prosecutor in Ufa, who initiates the whole judicial process of blocking Russian copies of Hitler's Mein Kampf online, one mirror at a time. For every copy there's ample paperwork, starting from police investigators, who conduct primary finding of fact, then the district prosecutor's office, that petitions the district court to ban the copy in question. The court passes its ruling, citing the URL as stated in the filing. Then the Ministry of Justice in Moscow enters the URL into Extremist Materials' List, and Ministry of Communications updates its Banned Websites' Registry. Even before the cycle is completed (usually takes 2 to 6 months), the process reopens with another copy of same book, on a different URL. Five years since the initial inclusion of Hitler's manifest in the federal Extremist Materials' List, which is today, there are still some 300 copies of Mein Kampf in Russian, freely accessible online, and five years from now, there will probably be 3000. But every single civil servant, involved in the blocking process, duly receives his salaries, promotions and other benefits of government service, as long as he doesn't forget to submit the updated checklist to his superiors. That's how this system works, and there is absolutely no point in trying to evaluate its efficiency in conventional terms of common sense or public good."

http://dolboeb.livejournal.com/2843155.html
If you look at past Jepsen test mostly they fail, and sometimes they fail spectacularly. This is one of those things where if you don't have an automated test suite to continually verify correctness you will end up with bugs.
Also, if it's their public API used by their mobile/web apps, it would likely be crashing all the time anyway from normal user interaction (if some OSS were able to crash it via HTTP).
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B&H, an electronics store in NYC, won't take orders by web from Friday night to Saturday night but the website itself works otherwise. It is owned by Hasidic Jews (Satmar) and apparently a Rabbi must have issued a responsa that allows them to keep the site on but not to take orders.
Did you just assume who is getting beaten in the relationship?
Bigger news is that Jepsen tests are now part of the MongoDB continuous integration suite: https://evergreen.mongodb.com/build/mongodb_mongo_master_ubu...

Open and available for everyone to see, for every build of MongoDB. Is there another database that has this much transparency? (for every build)
That is reasonable technical approach to the problem, but not how the courts work. On the other hand in court also should ask and answer the question of whether you triggered such behavior intentionally or not.
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This analysis was a collaboration with MongoDB over the past three months. MongoDB was able to fix these issues in 3.4.0 because I found them in rc3 and rc4.
Hi founder here,

Teller does work but only a very small amount of users have production access at the moment. We've been very cautious about broadening access in case banks responded aggressively and generally speaking they haven't. A lot of work has been put into making the service reliable when it essentially sits on private APIs the banks prefer no one but them uses.

Teller will eventually support every bank but the banks we support currently are:

- Barclays

- Natwest

- Nationwide

- Santander

- RBS

- Ulster Bank

- Isle of Man Bank

Re the single blog post. We only blog when we have something to talk about that could potentially get to #1 on HN (as our only post did). We prefer to stay focused on building the product, but stay tuned for more posts soon. :)
Wow, that was a surprise. I remember seeing him on TV not too long ago, no idea he was already ill at that time... A sad day.
Yes, I know this is possible, and as I mentioned in a response to a comment below:

«I thought about doing so with owncloud, then I decided that paying when I reach the syncing limit would be a nice way to encourage the project.»
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The example I gave was simplistic, but the value of JSX is the ability to easily nest elements. For instance, let's take my previous example and say we're creating a profile link:

const Dashboard = (props) => {
const {user} = props;
let link;
if (user) {
link = (
<a href="...">
<Avatar user={user} />
<span>{user.name}</span>
</a>
);
}
return (
<div>
{link}
...some other content...
</div>
);
};

If you want, you could create a `createProfileLink()` function, or you could create a `ProfileLink` component, or you could keep it as a variable in the `render()` function. This flexibility is what makes JSX powerful.
No, what you mean are "AGB" (terms and conditions) that govern contractual relations between companies and their customers. They are part of all contracts.

The terms of service ("Nutzungsbedigungen") that Oracle posts on their website that dictate how to use and access their website are invalid in Germany as well.
lhnz is a Teller beta user.
At Delft University of Technology we're working on this also for about 2 years. Currently 8 (big) banks reverse-engineered, the smartphone way (no scraping).

Besides universities there are not many non-profits that will have the legal and financial means to publish an open source lib. The legal landscape for managing a complete library with numerous banks is complex. As we see in this discussion thread, there are some fragmented solutions with limited coverage.

https://github.com/Internet-of-Money (empty placeholder)
Face recognition could also work.

Note that this is rather hypothetical.
If only there was some way a frontend system could queue things until a backend system was ready to accept them...
This is how must things in Russia are built after the fall of the USSR.

Except there's no competition between 2 contractors, so for 40 million, you get a shoddy 10 million bridge, and 15 goes into the politician who approved the project and 15 to his contractor buddy.

(Or the contractor buddy and the politician are actually the same person, so they just get 30 million)

The added benefit is that the shoddy construction falls apart quicker, so you can request 40 million again in a few years.
Also, most OSS licenses protect the developers against this kind of nonsense anyway ('...not guaranteed fit for any purpose...'), for good reason.
Jepsen and Research Ethics
Sad day. I will always remember his talks at TED. RIP.
Why do you think it has failed to monetize?
Actually, how does the tesla cools down? I have seen in pictures of the battery that they have pipes connected, does those pipes goes to a heat radiator? I'm curious now.
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0-60 (MPH) is a benchmark that Tesla has optimized. Many cars do 0-100 and 0-120 much quicker than the Tesla does. Additionally, the highest-end supercars (P1, 918, LaFerrari, Regera) have electric assist as "torque fill" - even the relatively humble NSX and i8 use electric motors to assist the traditional combustion engine to aid in acceleration.

Warning! Personal anecdote ahead! As a (poor) car enthusiast, I look for an aggregate of numbers, but ultimately it comes down to that ineffable quality of "feel". For me, personally, 0-60 times aren't as important as handling quality. Yes, I've driven a P85D (Ludicrous mode) "in anger". In sports car terms it's a one-trick pony. It's a hell of a trick, but it's not for me.
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ToS is not a contract, it's a license. By default you don't get a free licence to access and copy others' work, and so one has to be granted.

Much in the same way that you can't start using someone else's land without their permission and you don't get to say "I never knew" or "I never agreed not to use the land". By default, you are not allowed to and must have that right granted to you and you are expected to know that.

Should an (otherwise non-criminal) violation of a software license be treated as a criminal offence by the courts just because it involved a computer? Hell no. Private citizens do not get to invent criminal law themselves and the EFF should fight this hard but not for the reasons you give.
"Lawrence F. Katz, a prominent labor economist at Harvard, said companies like the H-1B visa program because it expands the pool of applicants. That means having to pay less in salary and retaining more control over employees.

“From the point of view of an economist, there are two big winners,” he added. “The workers who come here with H-1B visas and the companies that employ them.”"
Check out The School of Life[1].

"We offer videos, articles, products, events and services concerned with how to live wisely and well."

Also, philosophy in general sounds like what you're after.

[1] http://www.theschooloflife.com/
yeah, i'm British, and I kind of mean 'cool kids' to be a slightly self-deprecating ironic phrase. I meant that all the people I knew that were doing more interesting things seemed to be doing perl, so I followed that path. Filter bubbles were still a thing, even with less online communities
Pittsburgh officials are criticizing Uber’s “one-way” relationship with the city
Does anyone have a short recap of "Prevent wireless frame injection attack described at 33C3 in the talk titled “Predicting and Abusing WPA2/802.11 Group Keys” by Mathy Vanhoef. " ?
From LSA/SVD you get a V x K matrix as well - that's exactly what the factorisation is doing.

The following two papers also go into detail about the mathematical similarities between LSA and neural embeddings and achieving similar performance with both:

Levy, O. and Goldberg, Y. (2014). Neural word embedding as implicit matrix
factorization. https://www.cs.bgu.ac.il/~yoavg/publications/nips2014pmi.pdf

Levy, O., Goldberg, Y., and Dagan, I. (2015). Improving distributional similarity
with lessons learned from word embeddings. http://www.anthology.aclweb.org/Q/Q15/Q15-1016.pdf
Every medicine student should watch that video to understand how much a proper presentation of data might change your vision about a subject.
What if an all electric car was equipped with a complete battery swap out mechanism. Stock up a bunch of batteries. Pop out the dead one, pop in a fresh one, begin charging the dead one to reuse in a few hours (you may need quite a few spares)

This could actually REDUCE refill times (if the swap out is efficient enough). If temperatures could be controlled to allow it to run in an all out mode, this could be a competitive edge?

Or would this be somehow disallowed? I imagine this would be akin to swapping out the complete fuel tank in a car instead of refueling the tank, and I have no idea about racing rules.
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I think you mean the Regera (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koenigsegg_Regera) which is Koenigsegg's hybrid car?
It's been a long way from the "Call Me Maybe: MongoDB" post from years back. Aphyr/Kyle took them to task in so many ways for playing fast and loose with data integrity, and rightly so. MongoDB could have said, "that guy's full of BS, ignore him," but instead they did the smart thing and paid Kyle to help solve the problem.

n.b. I can't find the original "Call Me Maybe" post, but this later one [1] is similar.

[1]: https://aphyr.com/posts/284-jepsen-mongodb
In the last episode of "The Grand Tour" they did a race between a Veyron and the new Porsche 918 Spyder which utilizes electric power alongside a petrol engine. The Porsche won only by a very small difference. Porsche is using a complicated system where the electric engine fills the gaps when the combustion engine is in low torque. Seems like the best of both worlds for now.

In the same episode they also did a drag race between a Golf GTI and an BMW i3. While the latter was faster off the line, due to the instant torque thing, once they got past 80 the Golf got away by a lot. That's the beauty of the combustion engine, once it revs up it goes ballistic.
> Electric is unmatched for instant torque, but the current battery technology makes electric unsuitable for sustained high speed.

Well, not really (see Formula-E). If you want a battery that can sustain high power output (high specific power, e.g. LiFePO4), you have to go to a different chemistry than what Tesla uses (high specific energy, LiNiCoAlO2). Tesla could make a Model S that went fast around a racetrack, but it would mean sacrificing range. Since the 0-60 is mainly a gimmick, it's not worth sacrifising usability for.

> The lack of transmission gives a distinct advantage in surprise-passing a gasoline sports car.

Not sure if the advantage is that great: in the case of a modern >250 hp gasoline sports car with the de rigueur dual-clutch semiautomatic gearbox, the person in the sports car would plant their foot and be in the engine's optimal torque band within ~0.3 seconds. So I doubt there is a disadvantage of the equivalently-powered gasoline sportscar in this situation that is not dwarfed by the noise of human reaction times.
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The buisiness model really sucks though, because its hard to get people to pay for self-hosted stuff. On the other hand, people seem more amenable to a subscription.

This has the added benefit of possible adds and even gathering data of users.

The issue is exacerbated by the almost sure to be available open-source gratis software. Presuming the software is under-maintained.
Trump’s H-1B Visa Crackdown Threatens Cutting-Edge U.S. Medicine
Haha, what would you do in a room with only one exit, where people are standing in the exit?

I would ask those people.

Obviously.

Trying to find some other exit in a shop will mean trouble. I would expect that in most places of the world.
This is pretty cool. It'd be really nice if you could see a ranking by state somehow (e.g. it's no surprise that C# is most popular in Washington, but it'd be cool to see what numbers 2, 3, 4, and 5 are short of manually de-selecting them in the dropdown menu).
edit: of similar quality, but *more thick
Are you Measuring for Engagement? jwegan_com from Pinterest shows us how
> what is your typical use of templates in your simulation code?

Apart from templating over floating-point precision, we use templates and policy classes to do a lot of the code reuse / flow control you'd use run-time polymorphism for, but without the overhead of virtual function calls. This is pretty useful for us, because our simulation algorithm has a lot of sub-parts that can be done in different ways. Rather than having a bunch of switch statements (or virtual function calls) in inner loops, we can have that switch statement once, in a factory object, and return instances of objects templated over the correct policy class so that we don't have to branch in inner loops.

One of our main competitors is on the Fortran / Python plan. Our application has, instead, a few proprietary input formats (one XML-ish, and the other binary to be used with a GUI). This has its drawbacks (i.e. rolling and using our own Python-based macro language for use with the XML-ish input files). The CEO tells me, though, that this is actually kind of a godsend from a support perspective, because there is a point where all of the customer's simulation logic is frozen into a text file, which we can then debug (this is in contrast to the Python / Fortran approach, where the customer's simulation logic may be very tightly coupled with our own code).
Russian Ombudsman Proposes Allowing Businesses to Have Bitcoin Accounts
>>> in Europe, having guns widely dispersed throughout society...

>> In Europe a number of countries has and has had guns widely dispersed throughout society since forever.

> Gun ownership and gun deaths are minimal in Europe compared to the US.

I think you are moving the goal posts.
> Please, this is the kind of comment not welcomed here

Oh, come on. I'm not being facetious. The wording in the article is "work", "project" not "idea" or "initiative" -- which frankly would have been the article I was expecting to read. The article isn't even about her, by word count it's mostly about Brotli. There's nothing in the article to suggest that this was anything outside the realm of day-to-day software engineering.

> This is the kind of shit women have to put up with constantly.

Why are you bringing gender into this? I don't care what her biological sex is. I care that the original HN title made it sound like an interesting article about storage or service architecture and instead it was just "Google intern successfully uses existing Google library".
But that's my point. Russian часы has completely different meaning from Ukrainian часи.
Check this one https://www.consumerphysics.com/, I already have one.
Many people find deeply nested tree structures hard to read when you need to mentally balance a bunch of parentheses. The inability for s-expression languages to gain significant traction with lay programmers is evidence of this.
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My non-profit, MuckRock, offers that service for the FBI and 6,000 other agencies:

https://www.muckrock.com/foi/create/

You can also browse almost 30,000 other requests filed by users:

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Yodlee Supports almost all the banks in the world,

https://www.yodlee.com/
This is pretty much my setup but I still use the terminal a lot. What are you using instead? eshell? ansi-term? Or do you find you don't need terminals much generally?
It's not a contract, it's a license. A license grants you rights to something which is exclusively someone else's and that by default you have no rights to. But agreed that violation is not a crime, see my reply to @holtalanm below.
This is generally terrible advice in the US. The tax breaks for ownership (mortgage interest + property taxes) is huge, and it is likely - although far from guaranteed - that your real estate investment will become more valuable over time.

Rent - generally - never goes down, you have no tax breaks, and you have no asset.

There are many lifestyle reasons to rent but few financial (in the US).
The warning fatigue problem is still there - and we're talking about a warning for 4-10% of all connections according to the study. Plus, as you pointed out, this would only help against the average sysadmin; if we assume an advanced sysadmin convinced to not disclose their snooping or an actual attacker, replacing the browser binary would not be a huge obstacle. In that sense, it might even add a false sense of security. It's a bit like the state of certificate revocation - it works most of the time, just not when you actually need it.
> This could actually REDUCE refill times (if the swap out is efficient enough)

Have you ever watched Formula 1 or NASCAR? They can fill 20 gallons of fuel in ~10 seconds. Do you really think a battery swap system could even come close to competing with that?
Haha same here. And yeah, webpack error...it was just a 10 min hack project. Thanks for the heads up!
I personally find white noise to aggressive, mostly due to the high pitch. Pink noise works better, but it still keeps me on edge. That's why I like the more natural background sounds. They still mask outside signal, but give me less tension.
Off topic: I expected to see more iPad instead of laptop as a response.

Would the reason be economical, information density (more real state on a modern laptop/desktop) or something else?
Curious to what your are referring to, related to Tolstoy (or Tolstoj as I like to write his name). Can you elaborate? Thanks!
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You might have better luck with this on SO but there's no guaranteed order (nor would it make much sense for there to be one)
Wasn't designed as a way to lower wages.
> It's very reasonable to assume that everything, EVERYTHING, you do on the internet is recorded and stored by the government. This bill does not address that.

I mean, that's hard to believe. I work for a large storage vendor. If this was true, the feds would be our largest customer by far. They aren't. I don't think SE Asia makes enough disk to store everything indefinitely, and given exponential network traffic growth, even storing the most recent few years is a problem.
Cheers for the example. The Commons-Net library was where I ended up after some searching - so my experience is of someone who wants to get from 0 to 100 asap.

Cheers and have a good day!
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> I prefer statistical metrics because they seem more simple to derive.

That's exactly how I view it as well. My goal for this project is to reach a 90% "perfect" score. And in that case, ML seems to not even be needed. Perhaps the gap between 90 and 95-100% is where ML can help add value. But that in itself is what #3 is about in my original post.

Thank you for confirming my suspicions regarding the threshold though!
Never attribute to stupidity that which is more likely explained by malice.
Sorry, my fault.
By the same token, my sending an HTTP request to a server doesn't, on its own, do anything. Their server has to actively parse the request and send data.
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"Trading is among one of the few industries out there where you don't need to have anything like a customer."

Yes, but knowing how to trade is obviously very important, it's not just picking stocks, it's risk management, regulatory issues, and tons of industry specific knowledge.

That said - if they have 'tech that works' they should be able to partner with a few financial people and wrap a fund around it without too much trouble.

That so much negativity is on Glassdoor is really a bad sign.
HelloFax and eFax are already a thing -- the problem is that faxes require going through POTS, and are much more expensive to send than emails.
Then you probably want an aluminium battery.
Could you give an example or two of a beautiful 3rd part .NET or Win32 app on windows? In my mind many of the standard win-forms-esque looking apps are really ugly or have issues scaling on hi-dpi screens.
I think that in europe this is less of a problem because european banking does not depend so much on direct-debits. But, on the other hand in Czech republic almost everybody uses service called SIPO (acronym translates to something like "Centralized direct-debit for citizen's payments") which works as additional virtual account for direct-debits which you can associate with whatever account you currently use (or even not associate to anything and get invoices in mail) without notifying anybody else.