skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Came here to post this. http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xx078x_global-gardener-2-ar...

Bill's work often gets overlooked because it's "low tech," but that's a feature, not a bug.
Damn it, Maciej! https://twitter.com/Pinboard/status/871944794343301120
> Interesting to see that the Google Brain Residency isn't that much more advanced than other graduate work or fellowship programs out there.

Why would you assume that a temp job at an advertising company would be "more advanced" than work conducted at an actual research institution?
Apparently of Kiwi origin. Fascinating to see that the Chinese were already setting the grounds for their climate changing hoax. ;)
Debugging .Net Core Apps inside Docker Containers with VSCode
Backblaze (and others) don't support backing up from a NAS, which, for a family, is impractical.
I'm calling it, it's not gonna happen.

For data storage, you need error encoding. Sia does that, but you pay for it. So for 1TB of data, you upload 2TB to the network (that's how Sia is configured) and at the current $2.02/TB per month, that's $4.04/TB, which is more expensive than Glacier. Glacier charges funny for downloads but Sia charges for downloads too.

I assume that if you wanted to store ~2.5TB like we're talking about, you'd be paying more than $4/TB, because 2.5TB is 10% of the total of all data currently stored in Sia, currently 24.5 TB. (By comparison the major cloud providers are undoubtedly in the exabyte range of actual data stored. Or for another comparison, you could comfortably hold 24.5 TB of storage media in one hand.)

Sia promises to be cheap because you're using unused bytes in hard drives that people already bought, but that's exactly what Amazon, Google, and Microsoft are already doing, except their data centers are built in places where the electricity costs less than what you're paying. Plus they don't charge you extra for data redundancy.
I would say Azure. Push deploy is very easy to setup.
Make Ansible automation your comfort zone
For some values of "plausible"? I'm pretty sure pre-Colombian mayans and aztecs didn't consume animal milk, as they hadn't domesticated cows, sheeps or goats.
Settlements tended to concentrate along the cost and other water edges, for reasons of food availability, soil fertility, and access to the water base transport you mention. Existing local routes between them would have been used and upgraded as needed rather than building new links except where the time+capital expenditure made it worth while.
Flightless birds are birds that lost their capability to fly.
Regardless of wether or not what amark claims is true, this is such a great example of how to approach new contributors. Well done!
Different color means different road. The angles are not based on reality, so you can't really say that the roads 'continue' based on this image, they are merely starting/ending in the same city.
Unintended consequences of this will be the complete dominance in affiliate and ad networks of major consumer sites like Google, Facebook and Amazon who already own products visited daily. It also means larger focus of all ad networks to aquire consumer sites or buy redirects or hijack users somehow to get their ads to show/track. Ads and addictive sites are going to feed off of this rule.
"Don't use tensorflow to predict everything"
I'm on vacation in Lutetia right now!
So, first of all I think you're focusing on the wrong thing.

The whole point of an unlimited tier is to attract large numbers of outsiders who don't want the cognitive burden of figuring out $/GB/month and estimating how many GB photos they'll need to store.

What we're talking about here is that they got some customers like that, but they also got a small number of customers taking them for a ride, call them 'power users' the kind of customers who (as we see elsewhere in these comments) won't stick around if the price changes.

There's nothing wrong with these power users storing huge amounts of data at subsidised price, just like there's nothing wrong with Amazon changing the pricing. They just decided to stop subsidising that behaviour and probably take a slight hit on a conversion rate somewhere.

As for your question about 'private' storage, it's a grey area. Privacy isn't absolute, especially in cases where a company is by inaction helping you breaking the law (whether you agree with the law or not). Companies work very hard to distance themselves from responsibility for their customers actions and don't want to jeopardise that by letting it get out of hand
There is a clinical psychologist in Japan who is doing the same thing, but without the data-mining. Unfortunately, the medical and academic communities here have been pretty aggressive about trying to shut her down.

https://www.disruptingjapan.com/can-this-startup-solve-japan...

It's a great idea. I hope we see more of it.
Workout, meditation, distraction, talking with people didn't work for me. They were ways to silent the emotions and postpone the problem.

What worked for me was a lot of self reflexion. Understanding way I was angry in the first place.

I found out that happiness is just the way of approaching things. That the world is just a projection on your head. An interpretation of the five senses + state (learned experience mostly).

Changing the input, just mades you an slave of the environment.
Changing the state, gives you back control over your feelings.

If you reflect about why the feelings appear in your mind that generates stress, anger, you can start accepting them, welcoming them, until the point you no longer get anger, or stress...

For me, it become a routine. A) a way to trigger the self reflexion, or consciousness while stress happens B) find the reason for the feelings.

Example: People don't understand what I say, and then do other things. It bring up fear, rejection, mostly coming from childhood. Ok. I converted an unknown unknown into a know unknown. I excuse my self and decide if better communication skills is a task that I am willing to commit learning, on that case I do, or I just acknowledge that I often going to have mistakes and laugh about it.

Time over time, I was able to have happier live. Even enjoying the sadness that sometimes generates things not going the way I wanted at work.
DNSDB IPv4 map
Do these decentralized storage networks provide any guarantees in terms of durability, redundancy and availability? I've been looking into Siacoin, Filecoin, Storj and the like, but lack of clarity around some important concerns have so far prevented me from taking them seriously as a backup solution:

1. Performing a restore in a timely fashion on a large dataset seems like a tall order if these networks don't impose any minimums for the upstream bandwidth of the hosts.

2. Files can completely disappear from the network if the machines that are hosting them happen to go dark for whatever reason, which seems to be a much more likely occurrence for some random schnub hosting files for beer money than it would be for traditional storage providers that have SLAs and reputations to uphold.

Maybe these concerns are unfounded, and some or all of these networks already have measures in place to address them? I'd appreciate it if someone more familiar with these networks could enlighten me if that's the case.
Why disruption is the most abused business word now
Be aware that there are places in Canada other than Vancouver.
Unlikely but possible it’s the dude/team behind the DAO fiasco, fits the narrative of ~$150m with subtracted ~$10m for the team and expenses.
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You can, but are you better than the classifier at actually doing? Have you done it for every web site you visited today?

Besides, there is some value in getting widespread blocking. When you're the only one who blocks, that's a signal. When Apple's new doodah blocks mostly-the-right-thing for 10% of the users, that's quite different. You get to be part of a crowd.
Having knowledge about legacy (Microsoft) tech is not bad if you're good. Many companies I know run their business on VB.Net/WebForms/Knockout/ELK/MSSQL. We do at my current gig. You have to be its mother to love that stack.
Unless I'm misunderstanding, the technology described in the article is designed to fight against cross-site tracking (i.e. following users all over the internet to different sites)

I suspect few users would object to a single web property remembering them across multiple visits.
(Finally) Apple announces support WebRTC and Media Capture – WebKit
This is great and a very detailed report as well!

Although if I understood this correctly, these performance improvements will only take effect if you compile using .Net Core 2.0 and run using .Net Core 2.0 runtime?
I did not realize .Net Core had diverged this much from .Net Framework.
How to Rip a DVD onto a Hard Drive in PowerDVD Copy?
Uber 'obtained rape victim's medical records'
It's great that Prolog routinely makes an appearance in such overview documents, and is often even mentioned quite positively or at least cautiously positively.

Some quotes from the article:

By the standard of academia Prolog and Haskell are both successful languages.

Prolog in a sense proved that logic programming does not work in practice (what??)

We personally think that Prolog is one of the most interesting languages ever created, but even we could not find a place for it in production code.

As to the last point, how hard did "even you" look? How about capturing the essence of the article as Prolog facts that associate these languages with relevant attributes? That would make reasoning about the article quite interesting.
Sometimes I feel the US would indeed be better off if the individual states were in competition with each other more. In particular I feel the mobile market in the US would work better for instance if it was carries that only run infrastructure for a handful of states rather than all.

This is what makes infrastructure cheap in Europe. The Swiss rail companies build infrastructure for Switzerland primarily (unless they are contracted out) and not for all of Europe.
The USAF could transfer the A-10s to the US Army ( as has been proposed many times since the 1970s ) and focus on the supra-tactical missions, but that would require them to swallow their pride and end the Johnson-McConnell 'agreement'.

That dates back to 1966 and forbids the Army to operate armed fixed-wing aircraft. The USAF would rather keep the A-10s, no matter how unenthusiastically, than ever permit the Army to take control of the air-support mission. It is ridiculous that such 'pride' has any part in national security decisions.
ok I will stop. I had more than my say. delete/edit my comments if you like but please dont ban me!
Facebook Analysed 2B “Messenger Reactions” for AdWeek
Encrypted Container Secrets with Terraform and S3
How to Find a Profitable App Idea?
I'm off the impression that the Romans didn't travel by sea often, based on accounts of the cruising of the English channel; they seemed terrified of the sea. Not exactly sure why they didn't do this more often; maybe their strategy was to move by land and secure a spot channel as they went?
Indeed. However where I erred was misunderstanding the GP. I thought his "flight" description was intended to be relevant to present birds as well.
Lack of accountability is an important, perhaps even the most important, part of the problem:

With private projects if a project is overdue or if it is exceeding the originally projected costs either of the parties will be held accountable, either through civil liability enforced by a contract or in simple economic terms.

With public projects there generally is no such accountability. If a public project is delayed and it costs more than planned the public purchaser (the state, city, you name it) - and by extension taxpayers will simply cough up the money, put up with the inconvenience of yet another unfinished and out-of-repair piece of infrastructure and move on.

If we want to change that creating the right incentives is only one side of the coin. The other side is holding both civil servants and politicians accountable for the public projects they're responsible for.

Given the amount of money typically involved in these projects personal financial liability wouldn't be practical. Disciplinary consequences for gross negligence or the outright nepotism rampant with that sort of projects shouldn't be out of the question though. I find it unacceptable that civil servants and politicians who demonstrably and deliberately waste tax money continue to climb the ladder with apparently no care for the damage they cause.
It's normal to experience emotions related to what happens at work. It's called "being human". And dealing with emotions - putting words on them, accepting them and moving on - is a key skill and a part of growing up.

What varies, in my experience, is whether and how much it is acceptable to discuss (and thus process) these emotions in the workplace itself. Being able to say "I'm sad / angry / joyful about X" makes a world of difference.

Once I became aware of that I started being able to remedy it. To start with I actively sought and encouraged discussions of the emotional components of whatever work I was a part of. Retrospectives were a great way of having a structured framework for these discussions (as opposed to giving the impression that I wanted to psychoanalyze my colleagues or vice versa).

After a while I noticed, too, that management in some places actively preferred the dehumanizing effect of making emotions undiscussable, because it afforded easier control over people. I started avoiding these places and selecting jobs that accepted and expected me to behave as a human adult.
Lowest-bid tenders are kind of like democracy - a terrible system, but the best we have invented so far.

If someone is spending their own money, then going with a vendor that feels the most competent is going to deliver a better overall result than lowest-bid. But if someone is spending other people's money, then too much subjective freedom in choosing the vendor greatly simplifies corruption, and it's not obvious whether the end results will be better.

What lowest-bid tenders critically need is competent, motivated people working for the government writing the Request for Proposals. People who know the field, know the risks and complexities, and know the "tricks" used to underbid and overrun. People who write tenders that push an appropriate amount of risk and liability to the vendors - not letting themselves to be taken advantage of, but also not adding too many penalties that make vendors pad their estimates just in case and reach for expensive lawsuits if something happens.

If you have that, then there is a good chance that the bids will work out for all parties. But if not, then shady vendors will steamroll over the customer.
In fact for any disk, it is important to have a script that reads all the data at least every couple of months. It will force the bad sectors to be identified or to be notified you have a bad disk before things get worse.
Romans were notoriously poor sailors. Even when they acquired total domination over all sides of the Med (through sheer stubbornness and massive production of naval units, so that they could move enough land troops to the other side rather than trying to win naval battles), they couldn't completely eradicate piracy; this means sea routes were cheaper but not necessarily safer.

Also, I believe coastal routes were mostly connecting town to town in organic ways. An inland route was usually planned explicitly, and hence named for the consul or emperor who approved it, whereas it looks to me like the coastal routes took more topographical names (adriatica etc) or ended up as extensions of original inland routes (aurelia).
They boast about it, but I find this practice very frightening and diametrically opposed to iMessage's E2E encryption.
In the US? You get a court summons delivered by mail. Then you should probably go to court.
Do you have any evidence for this or is it pure speculation?
Are you claiming the impact/$ for the LHC is higher than would be expected from funding many smaller projects?

According to wikipedia the project costs about $9B, but I doubt that includes all supporting efforts and researcher salaries. That would fund 12 thousand of these smaller $700k projects.
It's a small data point, but the in-game market in Fifa17 suggests that there's 3 times as much PS4 activity than Xbox One activity. Given that it's one of the biggest games on either platform, that would suggest that yes, they are losing out to Sony.
Sorry, I misunderstood you and thought your "flight" point was meant to be valid for current species as well as the early incarnations. Appologies.
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Quote: "From the very beginning, we’ve defaulted to blocking third-party cookies."

So what's the difference? Not everyone has enough time to waste to manually manage exceptions. So they're trying to make it smarter. If it works 90% of the time, it's still a big win, and you can still handle the remaining 10% yourself.
Today in Berlin: June 7 1802 or Little Spots in History
See http://www.cambridge.org/us/talbert/talbertdatabase/TPPlace3... and http://www.cambridge.org/us/talbert/talbertdatabase/TPPlace2....

Edit: seems to be somewhere within the Iraqi marshlands: http://www.indiana.edu/~nelc/events/documents/Jwaideh/jwaide... (back then at least).
Even though that's how it makes a lion's share of its revenue, I don't think anyone actually considers Google just an advertising company.
@AznHisoka I would like to hear more about this!
This is exactly a problem we are trying to solve (http://evolution.ai)

One cannot even imagine how many people in the world have a boring job of looking at word document and C&P some of the data into excel spreadsheet. Other half have a job of looking at some document and effectively making Yes/No decisions all day.

Disclaimer, I am the CTO
> Which lead to a 6 month delay to get an MRI in BC (which proud itself to be no. 1 province). Not to mention that the public insurance does NOT include dental, or if it does, only the bare minimum. I had to personally pay for a root canal because only a complete extraction was being reimbursed. Moreover, all my cleaning have been out of MY pocket, on top of MSP/RAMQ.

But isn't that what makes it great? I have no experience with Canada but Austria is not very different in that regard. My state insurance costs me (purely medical) around 5000 Euro per year independent if I self insure or through my employer. It gives me about what Canada gives you. No copays for employees and there is a 10% or 20% copay for self employed or management.

In addition I pay about 3000 EUR a year extra for private insurance. I did not feel like waiting 2 months for an MRI so I decided to use my private insurance at a private carrier. Paid 500 EUR for that out of my pocket and the private insurance reimbursed everything but the contrast agent. I could also decide not to pay for my private insurance at all but I did the math and the plan I have now seems a pretty good way to spend money for later in life.

It gives me the freedom to chose what I want. The cost for most non covered procedures is laughably cheap here. It seems like a better deal for my money.
Although your point is valid, currently, Google uses quite a lot of other domains for analytics and tracking than google.com. For analytics, some (unknown to me) things are served from google-analytics.com, and I'm seeing cookies from googlesyndication.com and doubleclick.net as well.

As with many things in ML and NN, the premise of the tech is that it won't be a 100% perfect solution, but it'll hopefully be good enough or better than what you have.
I use stuff like that all the time with config files where sections span multiple lines. For example, if ~/.ssh/config has a section like

Host example
HostName example.com
IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_example
Port 1234

Host next
...

Then the following selects the identity file:

sed -n '/^Host example/,/^Host\>/{/^\s*IdentityFile/{s/^\s*IdentityFile\s*//;p}}' ~/.ssh/config

Although I would probably use awk after sed because it handled space-separated fields nicer:

sed -n '/^Host example/,/^Host\>/p' ~/.ssh/config | awk '$1=="IdentityFile"{print$2}'
I see way too many people taking their jobs more seriously than they ought to. There's something very odd about people who sideline their families and close ones, because their daily work is more important. They're way too busy to speak, or meet or be nice even when they leave work.

I think unless you're in a field where lives are at stake, it's well warranted, and it's noble what you're doing. For the vast majority of us, it's a job. You have one, you don't. Most of us are smart enough to get a new one. You do your best, you do it at work, and keep it there. Note down things on a notebook, things that you can continue on the following morning.

Trying to be as honest, upfront, easy-going and helpful, the kind of person you are at home, also helps bridge things better. That way, you don't need to be a different person, and switch between them.

Generally, just take it easy, you're not out saving the world. Do your best and carry your bag home, not your baggage.
Why is "cookies can't be used in 3rd-party context" not turned on from day 0?

Right now isn't it a cat and mouse game of holding many domains/subdomains, and passing the cookie flag across them. It seems technically possible to cancel out the protections of ITP. However, deciding cookies can never be used outside of 3rd party context may mean I have to make some additional logins to services from time to time, but have much better tracking protection.

Is my assessment faulty?
So you'll have to rely on the webshop to keep track of purchases? I'd rather have a third party involved that has to keep both the publisher and the advertiser happy.
This is actually the British system: the NHS covers everything, but you have to deal with their opinion of your need and may have to wait quite a long time.

Quite a lot of higher-paid working people in the UK either buy insurance or get it as an employment benefit, because it can enable you to get back to work quicker if you have a serious accident or illness.
As they recommend, you can easily do ad attribution on the server. Simply have the ads link to yourdomain.coffee/widget/adnetwork, see if they convert, have a cold drink, and stop paying networks that don't convert.
If you get that mad at your job I would suggest switching jobs man.
Strongly recommend avoiding Landmark and things like it. At least extensively research it. Landmark has a reputation for psychologically abusing and damaging participants. It has the flavour of an a-religious for-profit cult. Here's one story of many: http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2009/08/landmark-42-hour...
> so nothing is ever deleted.

It could be overwritten though. A good backup protects you from more than just destruction at the primary site. There are various relatively efficient ways to arrange snapshots when using rsync as your backup tool.

Also, remember to explicitly test your backups occasionally, preferably with some sort of automation because you will forget to do it manually, so detect unexpected problems (maybe the drive(s)/filesystem in the backup device are slowly going bad but in a way that only affect older data and don;t stop new changes being pushed in).
> Why is "cookies can't be used in 3rd-party context" not turned on from day 0?

It's been the long-standing default of Safari to block 3rd-party cookies. As is described in the excellent post this links to, there is some functionality that 3rd-party cookies enable that can be beneficial. They use single-sign-on as an example.
Good salaries are necessary, but not sufficient to attract top level talent. If the whole environment is mediocre, it won't be able to produce better research or education, regardless of money.

(Speaking as someone who graduated #1 university in Poland, but nowhere near #200 globally...)