skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Semantic markup for the web was on the roadmap back when XHTML was worked on, but I'm not sure it ever had a chance of adoption because the use cases for the web were (and are) infinite.

Semantic web (RDFa), OTOH, can assert logical properties for arbitrary pieces of markup text; in particular, it's not necessary to use a "semantic" markup style (such as eg. DocBook).

On the conference, Steven Pemberton, who is such an inspiring guy to meet, and also of ABC (Python's precursor) fame, gave a talk worth watching on YouTube. He was involved in XHTML on behalf of W3C.
My desktop Linux machine (which is always running) doubles as the backup server, backing up itself, a couple of RaspberryPi’s (one Kodi, one home automation) and my SO’s windows machine.

Backup using rsnapshot to an external USB drive that is LUKS/dm-crypt encrypted. Every Wednesday the SO swaps the USB drive with a sibling kept at her office.

I really like the way rsnapshot works with complete looking images for each backup, but unchanged files are hard-linked across images. Makes it super easy to just mount the drive and grab the backup of that file I just corrupted.

For the windows machine, I’m using Cygwin to run an SSH server and rsync. Before running rsnapshot, the backup script sends a wake-on-lan to the PC, then SSH in to run a batch file that sets the go-to-sleep timeout to never, and make a shadow copy of the drive which is what goes to the backup.

Then rsnapshot does its rsync over ssh thing to do all the backups.

Afterwards, SSH again to run a batch file that cleans up the shadow copy and resets the go-to-sleep timeout back to twenty minutes.

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Unfortunately I’ve got some sort of weird problem where it dies while doing the backup of the root folder on the local drive. I’ve run spinrite on the drive, and blown the dust out of the machine, but no change. Last time I had this problem the power supply was failing under demand, but I’ve stress tested it and that doesn’t seem to be the cause this time… sigh. Bit hard to gather diagnostics as the machine is completely locked up when I come in the next morning…
That's very clearly not "no reason at all" though. They didn't want a kid. That is a reason.
AI is becoming a marketing buzzword. All software that do anything remotely clever or interesting is being presented as "AI" helping you solve business goals.
Unfortunately San Francisco is one of the most intolerant areas in the entire United States when it comes to political ideology. Metallica's James Hetfield (a bay area native who just left) said it best [1]...

"They talk about how diverse they are, and things like that, and it's fine if you're diverse like them."

[1] - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4053156/Sad-true-Met...
Next time before you comment, you should look up what "much more often" means.
>In general, Linux is faster and more secure than most closed source alternatives, including Windows and macOS.

Not that I feel the need to prove anything about myself, but I have been using Linux since 1995, so I have had a fairly long-term experience with using Linux, and I personally have never found it to be faster. To that end, I will concede that the word faster is not a measurable metric. We'd have to define a workload - one that isn't biased towards an OS design, provide an argument that it is a reasonable workload to compare OSs with wildly different design goals, etc, etc.

>Your claim that supporters of Linux who claim superiority over competing tech are clueless and ignorant about the facts is not supported by evidence. Do you have any?

Yes. I've been reading Slashdot since it started. There isn't a single story about Windows or Microsoft on Slashdot that doesn't contain false information.
I'm sure some people did that - or rather, returned the Linux machine because it didn't run the software they were expecting it to run.

I've heard the netbooks that had Linux pre-installed (circa 2009) had a higher return rate than their Windows counterparts.
the "early exercise" that harryh refers to carries the same handcuffs as an option grant - a (typically) four year vesting schedule. The difference is that instead of vesting "the option to purchase shares" you vest the removal of the option for the company to repurchase the shares it sold you, at the original purchase price. In other words, if I exercise early and leave after two years, the contract states that my employer can purchase my unvested shares back at the original price.
I could tell this without looking at the stats because Renee French definitely made their logo.
PuTTY has been a sort of industry standard for decades and they're still afraid to put a "Version 1.0" label on it!? Can that be right? I guess Google is still in the "beta" version of their little "Search Engine Thingy" too perhaps. Maybe somebody should invent negative or even "imaginary numbers" for versions, and then it would suffice for this shyness about integers. I don't know. We need Steve Jobs to come back and tell is what to do.

(I'm waiting for the ass-holes who will take exception with term "decades". Come on guys. let me have it. Don't i deserve a good HackerNews smacking?)
I mostly buy this and see the problem. I wonder though if the "marketplace of ideas" will become a naive notion. If the memetic success of an idea becomes totally uncoupled from its truth or virtue, then evolution will not select memes that benefit us. We are exposed to way more high fitness memes than ever before, and I'm not sure we are capable of effectively resisting them. We are becoming unwitting hosts.

In a world of weaponized memes, the battlegrounds may be entirely in controlling their exposure and thus their R0.
Ask HN: Drafting site terms of service – any advice?
Hello! Curious if anyone has recommendations for service providers that can help early stage startups with drafting terms of service? Or any other advice about best way to go about that - my budget and time are limited, so no fancy lawyers in my immediate future. Thanks in advance!
> So how can Lemonade be 80% cheaper?

Well, it's just sugar, lemon, and water...
My experience: working with the hardware engineers and convincing them of things like yes, you need to latch those signals because, no, I can't poll the signals often enough to avoid missing events.
Great marketing until you realise there are no links to their product or home page anywhere on this page.
Also an issue with NQSOs, though AMT doesn't enter the picture just regular cap "gains" (I use the term loosely because the IRS doesn't care that you have no way of actually realizing that gain as cash).
> By giving such speakers a forum, they're endorsing that such views are worthy of being heard or debated

No, they're not. In almost all cases speakers at a University are invited by a group of individuals, be it a student group or some other association. They are the ones who are saying the speaker has ideas worthy of discussion. If a University has any respect for diversity of opinion, it will refrain from suppressing any significant subgroup within its walls.
Udacity is trying with their nanodegrees.
"I hope not"

--the CERN team
The 4 was a piece of crap. But I've seen the 4050's run forever.
Teen suicide attempts fell as same-sex marriage became legal
I use ethernet for that sort of thing. I did get 200ms and 2000ms latency regularly anyhow
All DLLs or just specific ones? I'd heard a while ago they were going to blacklist specific ones instead of just making it so a user has to purposely decide to download a file.

I'm surprised they finally did something since we've been warning people not to use Chrome because of this issue for years.
For sure not a clear objective truth, it is hard to have a discussion about objective values in these hyper partisan times.
Leglislating on moral values is incredibly dangerous. Remember that a lot of people want their religion to be the official religion because they have better moral values. Remember that a lot of people want gay marriage to be banned because of their moral values. Remember that a lot of people want black people to have fewer rights because of their moral values.

We constantly fight against legislation on moral values, because morals change dramatically over time. Legislation based on resolving actual damage is much longer lasting, and there are plenty of pro-choice arguments that are based on mitigating or eliminating actual damage.
I just installed openSuse with KDE Plasma on my laptop after years of windows, and I have to admit, it's great. All that's missing is app support.
Manipulating silicon atoms to create ultra-fast, ultra-low-power chips
Not as explanatory. There would have been no difference from the ecological control then
Ask HN: Why aren't there any good productivity apps?
There are thousands of to-do apps. None are any good. They're barely smarter than a sheet of paper.

Why?
Can you elaborate on why you are a sad user of GitHub?
> integrate outbrain or taboola

As a potential user of your site, I really advise you not to fill your site with this clickbait crap.
It is odd they do not use URLs (or URIs) with 'upspin' scheme.
I had one of those netbooks, it came with both XP and some sort of Linux in dual boot. The thing worked like crap though.
Thank you for your try, but I think that your understanding of the state of addiction is lacking - but for realsies, thanks for trying, it was a good try, and well meant.

I don't think I have that much better of an understanding, but still:

Addiction seems to be predominately a coping mechanism, not a recreation. AFAIK, you don't see "the drug makes me feel good" nearly as much as you see "the drug makes the pain go away". AFAIK, most addiction in the US is for painkillers that are or were originally prescribed by a doctor.

Addiction happens when you don't experience a choice (you have one, but are unable to take it). AFAIK, that's what makes it an addiction - so thinking in terms of "decided to take a hit" or "choose not to do the drugs" misses the reality. I know a few people who've kicked addictions basically by reclaiming and then exercising that choice.

That all said, I'm pretty sure you're right that such policies are about the potential users / addicts, not the ones already there. Reality indicates that this is ineffective (I'll dig up stats if you want em).

> The case against punitive policy's isn't as cut and dry as your comment might make it out to be, and unfortunately our understanding is still evolving

You are absolutely correct, and unfortunately, the US's (and, alas, most of the world's) understanding is far behind... ehh not "academia", but, "the people with the most understanding". Portugal is a good example.
Any idea of how to do something like this for R?
and buoyancy from unvented exhaust from fuel cells ...

Edit: I'm very silly, confusing a few thoughts: e.g natural gas > hydrogen conversion in a cell, assuming some storage of the hydrogen, and less dense non salt water from that - all reducing the pod density but hardly exhausts one traps like a submarine vents.

What would please my errant mind, growing up by the sea, and startled at effluent pipes i could never believe were far enough out, at low tide, would be biomass conversion fuel cells, attached to sewage pipes otherwise dumping into the sea, but i don't know if treatment renders the mass useless as a energy source. The vision in my head was of container pods popping up, floated from their submersion, for maintenance, kinda being hooked in like exhausted tuna, winched aboard a maintenance vessel once a year, for a data catch... or being fed denser storage or servers...

However, what this might do well for, is submerging compute jobs that are expected to run for a long time without much or any external communication. Are there any simulation jobs where enough compute fits inside such a container, so requires mo networking to other containers, and can be retrieved when job complete, to gather results? Would the energy savings make any sense from a cooling pov, if a hypothetical internal power source could last say a year or two?
While this letter appears to be sincere, it is willfully ignorant of the decades long shift of some academic departments from a stance of "ivory tower" objectivity to the deliberate choice to use their prestige and power as political activists. It isn't like they are hypocritically pretending to be objective, they actively sneer at people who make the attempt.
Make another stack with the latest minimum, then when you pop that top value, you also pop it off the minimums stack. Then you have the last minimum before that one.

Is that it?
A major activity of drug use harm reduction at festivals is educated people that the paramedics will NOT turn them over to the cops.
When you pay for Google services you actually get support.

Source: Pay for many Google services, received support when needed.
I'd appreciate it if we could leave the slights and barbs at home. I really think we can have a conversation without.

As for the definition of censorship: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_in_the_United_State...

First sentence: "In general, censorship in the United States, which involves the suppression of speech or public communication, raises issues of freedom of speech, which is protected by the First Amendment to the United States Constitution". I apologize if my short-hand of "first amendment definition" was misleading - it's not defined in the 1st, but the 1st is definitely the basis of legal handling of censorship.

So now we have two competing wikipedia definitions. Looking at the National Coalition Against Censorship, the first amendment still seems relevant: http://ncac.org/resource/what-is-censorship

I think the case can be made, at least, that there are different definitions of censorship, none obviously invalid.

"If you really think that the truth is a clean thing"

In many cases, no. In many other cases, yes. There are things that are verifiably true or false. I'm not interested - for the purposes of discussing fake news - with the open questions. But for the purpose of experiment #1, I am interested in verifiable falsehoods. The dumb garbage. What if the government could and would sue for that? (N.B.: It's a thought experiment. I'm not advocating for that approach)

I also still think that experiment #2 leads in a better direction. Falsehoods will always exist, but there's nothing that says we need to make it easier to propagate them, under your or my definition.
the company refunds it. technically, what you generally agree to when you early exercise is to give the company the right to purchase the unvested shares back from you at the original purchase price.
If I were you, I'd connect directly with people working in security, either security for a "normal" company or working for a security company.

I can believe if you say that job posting is slightly biased towards senior positions, but I'm sure you'll find good opportunities easily, it's a very specialized job and it's hard to find good people.

If you let managers (or hr) know that you exist, a position will appear.
> What? If anything Windows is known for never being willing to break old versions of things

Windows breaks horribly between upgrades. I know many people still using windows 7 because they're afraid to upgrade.

I remember this thread from last week too: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13603837
Doesnt work in SF ... anyone knows why?
At least on key platforms, it's pretty easy to use an event driven model and watch for updates. Hell, if the vDSO handled TZ it'd be no problem.
How about, fund a UBI through bitcoins? That's something this forum could weigh in on.
Anti-gun-control nuts have not realized this.

Source: listening to my gun nut friends on FB.
How would you establish a definition for "worthy"? I'm almost certain your definition would differ from someone else's.

It's for that reason that I don't think we should prevent anyone from speaking. The only solution is more speech.

Also: Universities are doing a pretty poor job of bringing in certain kinds of speakers. If you want change, make it.
I think it's rather odd to take a stand for "everyone's right to speak" when many speakers openly hate liberal institutions and really don't seem to have any regard for facts or knowledge. Platforms to speech is what gives these people power, and if teachers and students say they don't want to condone those views, tied with racism and sexism, I think that should be respected. What happens when we give these people (alt right, bigots, etc) platforms is they get followers.

Look at the British National Party, they were piratically nothing until the BBC decided to massively increase their coverage. Was the BBC's coverage fair and impartial? Probably, but just giving them the attention causes people to look into their platform and realize blaming everyone else is a pretty comforting thing to do rather than take responsibility.

The deep question is who should be the gatekeepers, and I guess John Etchemendy is saying it shouldn't be universities. Perhaps he's right in a way, the board shouldn't be making those decisions. I do think the faculty and students do have a right and duty to though as giving platforms for hate speech empowers it.
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."

Skepticism doesn't entail blocking out viewpoints you disagree with. You automatically lose an argument if you refuse to engage with your detractor.
In the eyes of most of the rest of the world the policies in the Philippines are doing a good job of slaughtering citizens for morally dubious causes. The drugs are being fronted as a way to usher in dictatorial authority for the state and corrupt criminal elements.

Drug use is no different from any other vice, and the nature of addictive behavior is that most people will find some object to attach themselves to if you removed all drugs from the picture ( perhaps it would be human trafficking or gambling, both of which are widespread ) essentially what the people have done is shown that by being presented with a present danger they will willingly give over the very decency that allows a society to function. So no even if mass slaughter did manage to end the drug problem in the Philippines there is no way it should be accepted anywhere else, because it's an inhumane policy.
Did you intend to change language from "addictive drugs" to "illegal drugs"? Many non-addictive drugs are also illegal.
The point is being made that free speech is being suppressed by the very people who should wholeheartedly support and debate it, being that college is the appropriate place to do such things. The author is also pointing out that it has far greater negative implications on the world at present than any other current issue facing college campuses.
And those people would be the first to tell you that it almost always wins, because it likely did until they finally kicked it.
Vanity version numbering is a thing.
There's an interesting discussion buried here for business and the connection to the "not invented here syndrome". It seems to be a very careful balancing act to decide where to draw the boundary lines of your business vs. sourcing needed items externally.

For example, many people are surprised to find out how little of a car is actually built from scratch by an automobile manufacturer. e.g. the chairs you sit in while driving around are probably built and supplied by an entirely different company you've never heard of! The head unit, but another, the brakes another and so on. How much of a Ford is actually "Ford"?

Car manufacturers seem to have figured this out pretty well over decades and decades, but then we're very inclined to also see the benefits of tight vertical integration. After all, if you buy your rubber from a rubber supplier, aren't you de facto already paying for their company town overhead expenses, transportation, processing and a little profit on top? If you do it yourself, you can eliminate the profit payout, and maybe even optimize some of the production overhead even more!

Apple is a great example, screens, memory, disks, GPUs, batteries and CPUs are all sourced from elsewhere. Apple basically just designs the package and does final assembly of the components. Yet recently Apple has started to get into CPU design. Why?

I think the analysis of this decision would be fascinating to see.

For most of us, in software, we have similar decisions to make with respect to using external libraries, buying services from external vendors and so on. Why buy compute resources from Amazon when you can just build what you need cheaper? Heck, why stop there, why isn't your company writing their own operating system or their own Hard Drives?

There's lots of companies that make the wrong decision early on and end up buried one way or the other later on and it takes heroics to unbury from that decision if at all.
But university students should be exposed to 'deliberate trolling'. They are supposed to be developing critical thinking skills so they should be able to realize on their own that they are being trolled and leave the speech/room/whatever.

The current environment in universities is such that students are protected from ever dealing with uncomfortable topics, which leaves them inadequately prepared to intellectually engage them in the real world.
I'd like something similar (either a service like Disqus or self host like Isso) but for reviews.
Arrow's dissertation is very readable, and totally worth contemplating. To drastically oversimplify, it implies that any government policy, including inaction, will inevitably create winners and losers.
It's more complicated than that. Sometimes people suffer grave symptoms after vaccinations but it's almost impossible to prove causation. Many cases are probably pure coincidence. I suspect the court often pays out just to help out someone in a tough situation.
It is worse than lazy to consider all views morally equivalent.

It is aiding and abetting evil. It actively undermines reasoned discourse.

This is the point Jon Stewart was trying to make way back in 2004 when he took down Crossfire. The situation clearly has not improved. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossfire_(TV_series)#Jon_Stew...
Does Windows has stat() call? It is probably a function from some POSIX emulation layer and maybe that is why it is not fast.
Pseudo-anonymous forums
Ask HN: Does anyone have a use for automated testing in specific countries?
The product I have in mind would allow you to use the same selenium scripts you currently use. By using our driver you would be able to target any country you'd like.
I have a U2F key and had to go out of my way to get rid of phone authentication.
That's true. However, I'd wager that the data would still correlate with the hwsurvey results. Would be interesting to see the actual numbers, especially for CS:GO and Dota 2.
> White supremacy has entered the political discourse and it does not deserve equal time.

I'm curious to hear your thoughts on feminism and black nationalism. Do you consider these viewpoints to be "morally equivalent" to white supremacy?
How about some premium features for $x a month rather than relying on ads? Asking your most loyal users for $5 a month to hide all ads could get some decent traction. In my experience, users are willing to pay for products they use regularly, but a lot of sites are scared to ask for money.

If you're getting 600k ad impressions per day then your visitor numbers must be fairly high so even a marginal uptake of the premium features would probably beat that $0.1CPM

Look to Mixcloud for inspiration https://www.mixcloud.com/premium/

Also Promoted Posts (i.e. highlighted tracks) may work but you'd need to test if your user base is happy with this as I presume they value your independent voice.
There are a lot of smart people working in competitive insurance markets. To think AI or Lemonade can drastically reduce the cost of an intangible product is naive. Most of the cost in insurance is insuring the risk opposed to admin.