skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think in terms of catchy marketing phrases, its a good switch, considering they wanted one that sounds as good as the previous one yet does not clash with existing professional terminology. I remember thinking for a few seconds about what I would change it to back when reading criticism about them using the term "Zero Knowledge" and couldn't off the top of my head think of something different but still catchy. Seems obvious once it's thought of...
> The fact remains that the legal obligation you claim exists does not. Not in statute. Not in jurisprudence. Not in common law.

Wrong. The matter was definitively decided in 1916:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodge_v._Ford_Motor_Co.

Note that Milton Friedman was four years old at the time, so this data point also falsifies your claim that Friedman invented fiduciary duty to shareholders out of whole cloth.

You really should do your homework before you accuse someone of "dispensing of the very concept of truth."
hauling the most lethal cargo there is

I can think of about 50 more dangerous things I'd rather not pass on the highway.

The truck carrying a nuclear warhead is about a squillion times more dangerous than the warhead itself.

Trucks have killed more people than nuclear weapons ever will.
Prototypes in js are almost always used in a way that approximates classical classes, but with confusing syntax. The 'class' keyword just makes things more readable.
The license incompatibility has kept it out of the mainline kernel for Linux, so it's not really a viable option there in many situations. Linux is definitely lacking in this department.
You and I have very different definitions of the word "simply".

Arranging proper backups at all is not something to take for granted when you're dealing with small businesses that have many other things to do, but obviously they're important for safeguarding the provision of products and services to all customers and it's important that any backups that are made are handled with proper regard to both security and integrity.

Requiring businesses to separate every tiny item of data that might ever be legally required from every tiny item of data that is collected and used with consent for reasonable purposes, just in case some customer one day decides to retrospectively withdraw their consent for some or all of that data, could easily become absurdly disproportionate. I hope it would go without saying that incentivizing businesses not to keep backups of all important data because of the compliance overheads is insane.

However, without such fine-grained separation, two weeks might be far too short a period to keep backups. To use my own businesses as an example here, we have accounting and reporting obligations that potentially require several years of data. The reporting information is typically derived once a year during reporting season, from straightforward records kept in the main databases and/or spreadsheets. However, we would probably have to completely restructure those records and denormalize all kinds of things in order to delete everything we don't strictly need for some legal purpose, which would be a huge amount of work.

That's just the structure of the original data. Then you have to consider things like deduplication in online backup services, where it's practically impossible to guarantee the complete destruction of all instances of certain data without destroying all backups that ever involved that data and starting over.

If this is the situation for small businesses that typically only collect a small amount of personal data in the first place and for obvious and necessary purposes, I shudder to think of the implications for organisations that actually process personal data as part of their main purpose rather than incidentally. I'm not sure it's reasonable to assume, in general, that it would even be possible to totally separate legally required data from everything else in such organisations, and there would surely be a lot of grey areas.

Now, please don't misunderstand me. I'm all for reasonable regulation to protect individuals from exploitation. I'm a privacy and civil liberties advocate, and I run my own businesses the way I hope others would run theirs, even if sometimes that means not doing things that would probably make us more money because they also make us feel uncomfortable. But there has to be a sensible balance, and the EU does not have a good track record of balancing its business regulations sensibly. (See also: EU VAT, cookie law, various provisions in the last round of consumer protection rules, etc.)
Tree Shaking with webpack and babel (JavaScript)
It seems to me that this would be a lot easier by just using Apps Script.
Unless you can design a nuclear cargo ship that's safe from being commandeered by pirates|terrorists|nutjobs, this will never happen.
It prevents the browser from requesting all the external files (CSS and/or JS), so yes, it may be that high.
Q&A: Richard Muller on why the flow of time is not an illusion
> This has essentially become a (somewhat one-sided) prank war.

Isn't there another term for a one-sided prank war? I think it's called harassment or something? Combined with theft and vandalism... I can see why they prefer to be anonymous.

It's hard to meme from jail.
Blue Tarantula Hair Inspires Nonfading Color Pigment
Wow, the learning resources on that page are too good and I can't believe how much valuable info is efficiently organized into such a readable index!
Huh the last bit of that article seems very pro nuclear container ship primarily due to oil price instability and environmental concerns.

Interesting read though, I wonder if the US's nuclear ship was a decade later and actually​trying to be commercially viable if we'd have nuclear container ships right now.
But will those benefits be shared equally? How do you feel about current class inequality being split further into a select "super race" of a beautiful, genius-IQ, long-living 1% vs... the rest?

The weaponry cold war did happen: how do you feel about a genetic enhancements cold war?
You can edit the genes so they are always passed on, rather than passed on half the time. This means that the genes will eventually spread to every organism in the species (given enough generations, but it will be an exponential rate).

It's cool you could encode your name into your genes and then it would live on as long as humanity.
Very true. Early in my career I made the mistake of viewing a salary in terms of what it would be like in my rural area to earn that amount, which was a big mistake. It turned out I should have demanded at least double due to the significant increase in the cost of living in the city I relocated to.

For instance, for 20k a year you're homeless in NYC vs. having a house, a car, some land, and pretty good dining in rural Georgia.

I'd recommend the OP look up cost of living, as well as just applying around in his area for jobs to see if he's getting underpaid or not. If other firms are willing to pay more for his or his friends skills, its a good sign he's getting underpaid otherwise probably not.
"It's too bad that your friend has a disease, but I'd rather have them pay for it than pass the bill off to a bunch of innocent people who aren't sick."

His friend can't pay for it, so what you're essentially saying is you'd rather have his friend, and people who can't afford their medical care in general, die rather than have others subsidize healthcare through their taxes (or any other way). In other words, because of the current cost of healthcare, only the obscenely-rich get to live while the rest die off. That's just incredibly cruel, vile, and disgusting, but sadly, hardly a minority opinion.
A manifest is an element of a Git repository. Importing a manifest is a git operation. So OP is looking at memory patterns per distinct git ops.
Yes, it's fiction, but it seems to me to be a reasonable extrapolation from legislation that is moving through the UK parliament right now.
Lichee Pi Zero Is a Tiny Linux Computer That Costs Just $6
Blog about JavaScript topics like frameworks and web performance: http://www.syntaxsuccess.com/
I use it all over with LUKS on Ubuntu. It works fine, but there's one little hitch:

when calling anything that ultimately calls grub-probe (e.g. apt-get upgrade), you have to symlink the decrypted device mapper volume up a layer into /dev because grub-probe can't seem to find the ZFS vdev(s) otherwise. ie: "ln -s /dev/mapper/encrypted-zfs-vdev /dev".

This is in fact the case on every Linux distribution I've run ZFS over dm-crypt on.

EDIT: IOW its a grub bug not an Ubuntu bug.
I'd say it's an average powered machine, at best.

I wouldn't have bought an i5 with 4 GB of RAM and 128 SSD for my sw development job in 2013. I had a Core Duo 2 with that much RAM from 2006 at the time (well past its end of life). That was still pretty ok CPU wise but the memory became really tight. I could make it faster with a SSD but it wasn't worth it.

I bought an i7, 16 GB (up to 32 GB) laptop at the beginning of 2014, with a 750 HDD that I swapped with a 1 TB SSD an year later.
Do you think java is elegant or do you think ocaml is elegant?

Google built Dart once as a alternative and it did not make it into the Browser.

Are JS frameworks not simple? I really want to know how you feel about Spring or Magento.
edit: The post title changed, it used to reference drug value

the value of a drug is the amount someone is willing to pay for it. different for everyone.

while im a big proponent of lower drug costs and agree drugs cost more than they should/could,

drugs are typically very underpriced compared to their actual value. a drugs actual value to the a person can be tremendous. if we charged people the same amount as the value it brings them, they would not buy it! it would be a wash! since lots a people are buying lots of drugs, we know drugs are typically priced under their real value; that's a good thing!!

in other words, talking about the value of a drug if you're arguing to lower their cost is the last thing you want to do!
Why not just tax only the cargo that is unloaded at the port, which would avoid the double taxation problem? It would also place greater revenue in the hands of the consumers that are paying for the shipment of those goods.
The fact that recent progress has come out of academia has been a big factor in setting the culture.

Apple has struggled to hire people since they don't publish much.

I think it is actually a minority of researchers publishing code, most implementations you will find online are reimplementations based on reading the papers.

I also think that very few researchers share the anxiety about AI that famous people seem to have. I spent some time at an academic ML conference and no-one I talked to thought superintelligence was going to happen in the next few decades.
1) Keeping a log mechanism per bucket would be expensive, since it is a heavy mechanism. It will cost memory & network traffic. The additional information needed by Bizur for a bucket is minimal, basically, just a version.

2) In Bizur, rejoining the cluster includes the equivalent of copying the snapshot. However, that node can start participating in the Bizur even before it finished reading the entire snapshot, because of the key-value data model. Once a bucket has been copied, it can start serving it, which is much faster than log-based algorithms.

3) You are correct about the size of a bucket. In our implementation we aim to have up to 8-10 keys in a bucket, to avoid the overhead you mentioned. That's why it's especially important to be very efficient pet-bucket (see point #1).
We left the pool of normal species as soon as we started using tools, agriculture, and industry. This is just the next step. Who knows where it'll go, but homo sapiens isn't equipped to be space-faring or even survive on this planet beyond a few billion years.
Same from France and UK.
Nobody knows for sure. There are only guesses for the number of immigrants and the net migration flow.
Aristotle's unmoved mover argument (and it's slight variation in Aquinas' cosmological argument, and the whole class of arguments for the existence of God of similar general form) are discredited in the sense that they either (1) rely on equivocation, or (2) are internally inconsistent, or (3) simply introduce an additional unproven entity without explaining anything, or (4) even if one assumes it's completely true, it doesn't prove the existence of anything like the usual conception of a personal God anyhow. (The options aren't mutually exclusive, though usually onky one of the first two applies, depending on exact definitions of terms—though often those definitions are unclear enough to be uncertain which of the two applies to a particular argument.)

If "everything in existence depends on something else" is a valid generalization, introducing an entity with out such dependencies is a cobtradiction.

OTOH, if it's not a valid generalization, any number of things in existence could lack such a dependency, and there is no need to assume a unique and special unobserved entity with no dependencies.

An independent common first cause or unmoved mover is, perhaps, an aesthetically pleasing (for some) solution to the apparent problem that things generally seem to have causes but infinite regress is an unappealing belief. But it is neither logically necessary, nor does any first cause necessary resemble God (the Big Bang works fine as an uncaused cause on which all other events in the universe depends, and isn't anything like any traditional concept of God, as, more generally, does any initial state inferred from modern observations of physics.)
For reference, a reasonably big alternator on a mid-2000 petrol car is ~2200 W. Alternators are perhaps getting bigger as we stuff more electronics into cars?

That 3600 W for the Model S sounds high if I understand it's just for the brainbox; that alone would consume all your 85 kWh in less than 24h.
It is not an open-source project, but rather a proprietary implementation.
> By not complying and "just sending the goods", you are in a very serious breach of regulations. Don't be surprised when your shipment is stopped at the border and the payments are frozen.

That would be the good outcome.
Would love feedback?
You wouldn't have to trust them if they made the client open source. It still baffles me that they're aren't doing that given that their entire sales pitch is about security and privacy and "no knowledge".

I'm a paying customer and I use SpiderOak for some non-critical backup/synchronization tasks but I refrain from using it for anything sensitive because of this.

I'd also like to be able to hack the client to remove all the cruft I don't need, it's not exactly pleasant to use currently. On linux I'd actually prefer a good CLI over the weird GUI we have now.
It's absolutely stunning to me that this practice ("civil asset forfeiture" without an associated conviction) has survived Constitutional review for this long.
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Plus all the safety features mean they won't go off. I was told safety is even overdone to point that many are expected to be duds during atmospheric reentry due to fail-safe tripping by mistake.
> All sorts of impossible things suddenly become possible when there's profit to be made or lost.

This only works when there's no alternative. For example, say Germany would prohibit nasty-fuel ships to enter the Hamburg port... Shippers would instantly switch over to e.g. Rotterdam, it's close enough.

For America there is no alternative except Canada - and if the federal US government imposes a rule like "have scrubbers or you don't have access to our ports", then shippers have to abide. In the EU there are 22 countries with a coast which means unlike the EU does a regulation there are 21 other countries willing to pick up the business. Just look at how much money goes off to Luxemburg or Ireland...
Non-native English speaker here. What exactly is the grammatical error in: "The amount of images in circulation affects our ability to appreciate and understand them"?
Sure, but your ZFS pool will have redundancy, and ZFS will know which block was corrupted. This lets it recover from the error.
The U.S. pharmaceuticals market is far from a free market. And it's actually the main cause of the high drug prices in the U.S.:

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/us-drug-prices-remain-high-gene...

Companies wouldn't be able to "charge a billion dollars" or even increase the existing prices by 5,000% overnight, as it happened for several different drugs last year, if the generics and drug importation markets were much more "free".
When we look back, we recognize that things took a lot of time, but when looking forward we expect everything to go fast ...
Native ZFS encryption may become available soon.
It is pending code review:
https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/pull/5769

There was a presentation of this by Tom Caputi at the most recent OpenZFS Developer Summit.

Slides:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5hUzsxe4cdmU3ZTRXNxa2JIaDQ...
Video:
https://youtu.be/frnLiXclAMo
Conference:
http://open-zfs.org/wiki/OpenZFS_Developer_Summit
> backroom deals by assorted players in the healthcare food chain

The articles dances around the details of who these players are and how they conspire to push up drug prices in America. This article captures the dynamics very well: http://www.diabetesforecast.org/2016/mar-apr/rising-costs-in...

and the accompanying graphic is the picture that is worth a thousand words: http://www.diabetesforecast.org/2016/mar-apr/images/insulin-...

A good summary from a more recent article on insulin prices: https://medium.com/insulin-report/why-does-insulin-cost-so-m...

Drug manufacturers make insulin available to insurance companies at a much lower price via middlemen called pharmacy benefit managers. The difference between the list price and the lower price negotiated by the pharmacy benefit managers is called the spread. Part of the spread is pocketed by the pharmacy benefit managers, leading to a perverse incentive in which the higher the list price of the drug, the higher the earnings of the pharmacy benefit managers. The price rise affects the uninsured and under-insured the most, many of whom can no longer afford to buy insulin at its list price any more.
It's funny how anti-doxxing the chan people are when it's directed at them, but they cheerfully do it against their enemies.

And let's not forget that along with relatively minor stuff like this, they'll be getting death threats and swatting attempts for the foreseeable future.
No, but JS will kill them both :)

</not the answer you/anyone wanted to hear>
Unless as we shed these corporeal bodies and transition into more informational forms of being..
what if the language that creates our informational selves is JavaScript?

In other words... What if we BECOME Javascript?
> Drugs are typically underpriced compared to their value.

For drugs under patent, which are monopolies, that's unlikely.

For drugs for which there is relatively unrestrained competition in supply, that's expected, since competition drives prices down toward costs even if value is much higher.
Yeah. I actually have a lot of stuff in common with the author of the article.
(low platelet count, low thyroid function, low vitamin d, low iron, (also high uric acid))
And my aunt has rheumatoid arthritis.
I've also always had a serious peanut allergy + a few other minor ones.

Except that, I feel fine. I'm 34, I do lots of cycling and hiking, and work on making computer games in the evenings. Reading stuff like this definitely stimulates the hypochondriac in me. Also I feel so bad for the people posting the awful symptoms they suffer. Considering I'm ok atm I should just not worry about it I think. Anyway, bit rambling, but my 2 cents.

ps. I only found out about the above details when I went to doctor for 1st time in like a decade for dizziness. Turned out there was a natural gas leak in the apartment I was renting at the time which definitely seemed to be causing it.
NASA gives out data about star with 7 Earth-sized planets for free
I think the LA Times takes the crown for the most unperformant tracker and advertising infested legitimate news site. Ghostery counts 88 advertisers / tracking scripts on this page and it still not done loading. What a disaster.
Pharmaceuticals are only about 10% of all healthcare costs [1].

The vast majority of healthcare spending goes to hospitals and doctors, yet the political environment hyper focuses on drugmakers. Why isn't there a larger focus on reducing the costs of hospitals and healthcare professionals?

[1] http://www.pfizer.com/files/about/Position-Role-of-Pharmaceu...
>But I still must, ultimately, trust you, your competence, and your motivations.

This is true about any entity that has access to your data, including your bank, health insurance, or any other organisation which you have an account with. It is true that they don't say they can't access your data though...

Regarding their motivation - having developed a system with end to end encryption for sensitive information, I can tell you that the worst thing from both a business and professional perspective would be a data security breach - that gives quite a lot of motivation to get things right...
What if I sync my contacts containing your phone number, or a photo of us together? If you demand the deletion of "your data" then do my contacts and photos disappear?

This is one of the most tricky areas in deciding what is reasonable. Obviously there are advantages to being able to share personal data about other people for your own benefit. On the other hand, every time you do that, you are potentially giving someone personal data without the subject of that data's consent.

I don't think we fully understand the implications of modern technologies in this area yet. However, I suspect we'll be learning some lessons the hard way over the next few years, as the correlation and processing of that data starts to catch up with the volume of data that's been collected.

It's also possible that some of the people giving up that data about other people, or more likely the businesses that encourage individuals to do so, are going to come under a lot of scrutiny even in terms of compliance with existing law and regulations. For example, if you install a social network's app on your phone, and that app uploads your contact list complete with names and phone numbers to their database, then both you and the social network have obviously just compromised the privacy of everyone on your contacts list. That much is black and white, but if the social network concerned then uses that data for any purpose other than providing whatever services you are explicitly requesting in terms of the contact list you already had, then from a data protection point of view it becomes a lot more just black. I'm a little surprised that data protection regulators, particularly in Europe, have taken such a hands-off approach to this issue for as long as they have already.
Have you thought of setting up a USD account with a US Bank? Canadians can do that without a problem at most branches near a border, and I expect it could be done remotely. Another alternative is to set up an account with RBC(USA) https://www.rbcbank.com/banking-in-the-us/checking-accounts/....
> KB3073930

Nope. Also, i'm seeing it more as an adult not telling a kid where the key to opening the gun locker is. Heck, the fact that you haven't yet googled it yourself is plenty proof to me that you don't have the mindset to be given such power.

(You also messed up the reply chain.)
Re: gene driving. Does this mean they 'quine' the CRISPR genes inside the CRISPR? Any details on how that works?
I don't think this stems from not liking what they had to say, rather doing it just because it's something that can be done.
>this is the kind of thing that seeds fake news and forwards

One could argue that careless readers are "that kind of thing", more so than anything else.