skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used Backblaze for several years before closing out my account in 2012.

Initial backup took a long time. There was no easy way to prioritize, for example, my photos over system files. I ended up manually prioritizing by disallowing pretty much my entire filesystem, and gradually allowing folders to sync. First, photos, then documents, then music, etc.

Eventually it all got synced up and it was trouble-free... until I tried to get my data back out.

The short version of the story is that a power surge fried my local system. I bought a new one and had some stress when it appeared the BB client was going to sync my empty filesystem (processing it as a mass delete of my files). I managed to disable the sync in time.

Then I discovered there was no way to set the local BB client to pull my files back down. Instead, I had use their web-based file manager to browse all my folders and mark what I wanted to download. BB would then zip-archive that stuff which would then only be available as an http download. There was no Rsync, no torrent, no recovery if the download failed halfway, and no way to keep track of what I had recently downloaded. Also, iirc, they were limited to a couple of GB in size per file. (which didn't matter because at that time, the download would always fail it the file was larger than __MB (I don't remember the exact number. 100MB? 300? Also hazy on the official zipfile size limit)

So I had to carefully chunk up my filesystem for download because the only other option BB offered was to buy a pre-filled harddrive from them (that they would ship to me).

I felt like Backblaze was going out of their way to make it hard for me in order to sell me that harddrive of my data. I felt angry about that and stubbornly downloaded my data one miserable zipfile at a time until I had everything.

Once I was reasonably sure I had everything I cared about, I closed my account and haven't looked back.

[Edit to add] This was at least 5 years ago. No doubt their service has improved since then.
Great long-form reporting about the case in German (minus gifs) > http://www.zeit.de/2017/24/cum-ex-steuerbetrug-steuererstatt...
Using Metal 2 optimize, it's solid and I was even fooled by a red chair. IKEA would love this.

I realize on Google I/O 17 demoed Tango using Asus ZenFone with low frame rate is still not impressive.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ey47-i33bLI

I thought Samsung S8 should have AR on a premium phones.

Compare to 60-120fps on iOS 11, yup, Apple Metal 2 could boost by reduce latency from 16.6ms to 8.xms and even more with direct display, it matched PlayStation VR refresh rate, real world tracking is what we need.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yphh1Ue3D6g
Well they do have LTS versions https://github.com/nodejs/LTS#lts-schedule1
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Thriving to allow you to vote for general election from your couch.
Working on integrating blockchain proof of process to bring the highest level of security.
Dreaming about a more direct democracy.
I'm not tracking. Are we not a representative democracy? How are less (the word you seek is 'fewer') voters being represented? I need to know if you're one of the many millions of disaffected socialists who is still whining about the election last fall or if there is something of substance here.

The "I'm currently fundraising" is kind of a giveaway that you're one of them.

While gerrymandering is strongly disliked, I doubt there is much that is going to be done about it. The Constitution allows the creation of districts like this. Much like the electoral college, it is what it is and I don't see how it matters whether districts follow neat lines or whether they are all crazy and chopped up like they are today. This sounds like another feeble attempt at grasping at straws by people whose priorities are completely out of whack.
I do the same, video game sessions are great for refocusing, specially for weekends. Friday night gaming will take my mind off work. Early Saturday exercise allows me to start the weekend well. Given that I can leave your laptop at work, I try to have another computer at home so there is no way for me to access work email. I also snooze all work notifications in my phone. That gives me space to work on my own projects during the weekend and reclaim my mind's focus.

Gaming is just one of the things but an important activity.
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Oh snap. And Apple has been touting itself as the champion of privacy in comparison with Google, Facebook and Microsoft... This doesn't look good for them
You wanna read my YouTube data, eh? No no!
I don't have a single friend that has a home server. Most adults don't even own computers anymore, just phones and perhaps an iPad.
> One source says “quite a bit” of the new round was used to acquire the secondary shares of Discord staffers, with this person expressing concern that liquidity has come too soon for those employees, considering that Discord was founded in 2012.

>liquidity has come too soon for those employees

How is this a bad thing? Didn't we all agree that golden handcuffs are a terrible way to lock in employees?
New karken fee for BTC transactio: 0.0025BTC
Just received an email. this is ~6 euro and ~7 USD . it's probably too much.
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Bitcoin (XBT) withdrawal fee

Now 0.0025 XBT

Why the change? Kraken always pays a miner fee that is sufficient to ensure transactions are processed quickly. However, the average miner fee required to prioritize and confirm Bitcoin transactions has been increasing for some time without a corresponding increase in the fee we charge to clients. The update brings the withdrawal fee more in line with our cost for the miner fees. Note that the fee is static and represents our average cost per transaction, so the fee may not match the actual miner fee we pay in every case. Sometimes the fee we pay will be higher and sometimes lower than the fee you pay. Soon we will be moving to a more dynamic fee system that will match the fees more closely in each case - see below.
Sure. But since this is a negotiation, you probably have to make some choices. Should you press on exercise dates, or on number of shares? If both of these are worth zero in your calculus, you have no means to assess.
So it looks like you can run test code to check if memory ordering will cause issues in your code.

Is there something that will allow user space programs that do a variety of things to deal with concurrency to show up issues or potential issues?
That can only be the case if people are moving money from other assets into stocks because of index funds. Maybe that's happening (less CDs perhaps?) but the argument for indexing is much more "stop buying expensive managed stock funds and use much cheaper stock index funds". And that shouldn't create a bubble in stocks because there is no more capital invested in total.
The idea that collective agreement dictates morals is flawed and dangerous.
I would say the biggest problem by far is voter education--people simply are not educated on issues. They listen to idiotic MSM sound bites and narratives and are influenced by identity politics rather than anything of substance.
When the food runs out, it is 3 days too late for the revolution.

But food running out isn't the problem you are talking about. You are talking about the failure of the logistics of the supply chain to grocery stores. Those stores carry a 3 day supply for their area, and most people are 100% reliant on them. And if they fail, the towns go hungry. Therein is the single point of failure.

Our mitigation for that is to split the food supply for our family in thirds... we still buy about a third from stores, like everyone else. We grow a third ourselves, and we get a third from other farms, some local, some remote from whom we ship things in monthly.

It is completely feasible to diversify your own food supply. If everyone did it, we'd still have pains if the supply chains failed. But they would be survivable pains.
And if you happen to be running FreeNAS, there is even a plugin available via the GUI (same RAM rules apply).
Even the NSA has leakers.
I'll give this a shot, I like the idea of editing a file within a separate tab of the web interface.

Anything to help refactor things into and from file and the notebook is nice.
The partial medicaid expansion coverage of the ACA isn't actually putting people on medicaid, it is subsidizing private insurance at a percentage of cost. If you hit 100% of the ACA subsidy you are in medicaid territory, if you are up to 4x poverty you get a diminishing % of your insurance bill paid by the state.

My Dad has a $750/month plan but only pays $150 because of the medicaid subsidy in PA from the ACA for his income bracket.
Well, I guess there is a difference between what your company as a whole believes in, and what 20 criminals disguised as employees do...
I had same problem. Ended up developing personality change. It was like 'they are all idiots, what can i do!!' and now it is 'they are all idiots, great, i am here to take advantage of them'.
If 8.1 is only bug fixes and no new backward compatible functionality, then this release should be called 8.0.1 based on your semver link above (not 8.1)
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If I Pay lobbyists to change the law in my favor, at the expense of the tax payer, and then I do something like this. It is correct to say its legal? Yes it is.

Is it correct to call it Moral, ethical, decent, good for society thing to do? No!

Do things like this appeal to the Randian Masterbatory section of the HN "Libertarian" on here? Yes it does sadly.

Its clear that "loophole" exploitation that lobbyists create is an issue. Perhaps analysis software could be created to counter balance this global gaming issue.
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I'm happy to enter into any voluntary transaction where the terms are decided upfront and where I can decline to accept your offer.
Yes, but only one of them is removed after a day.
Prose is full of redundancy. You can skip lots of words and still get the gist of what's going on. The words themselves are also full of redundancies - rmmbr prse wrttn wth mssng vwls?
Being the victim of criminal behaviour, and not caring about other people's privacy are two very different things.
in Japanese:

Square yes (スクエア, sukuea）
Girl no (ガール, gaaru)
You can try this link:
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Yes and that is very nice.
The difference in disk space is basically nonexistent (I could gain significantly more by removing the 32b apps applications, especially since most are games), and the OS speedup/memory gain should be limited and mostly applicable to when you're actually launching 32b applications.
Startups that could have been?
"we are special" can be a great tool for convincing people to act against their own best interests, and for yours. If you convince yourself that "our way is best" is a tautology, you also have no reason to learn much about other approaches. It's a difficult mindset to shift.
Why is this news? Nothing to see here to be honest, minor update.
You say:

> All problems in NP cannot be reduced to NP-Complete.

I'm interested into what has led you to believe this to be the case. The word "Complete" here means this: Given any problem C in NPC, and any problem R in NP, any instance of R can be converted to an instance of C with only polynomial extra work. That includes converting the instance over, and then bringing the solution back.

> All problems in NP-Complete can be converted between each other.

That is a simple consequence of the first bit, since problems in NPC are also in NP.

That matches what the article says.

So, what led you to believe the article to be wrong?
Financial aid packages often assume a parental contribution before loans and grants are considered. When there is none, it's on the student to cough up the difference or withdraw. There might be more room to help prospective students than you think. (Speaking from personal experience.)
Sure, everybody tries to minimize tillage because it uses a lot of expensive diesel, destroys mulch and internal organic matter, causes erosion, et cetera. It's just that conventional farmers have "more tools in their toolbox" that makes it far easier for them to avoid tillage.

As far as seeding without a tilth, that's very common practice over here in Canada. For example: https://www.deere.com/en_US/products/equipment/planting_and_...
When speaking of public vs. private in the government vs. not-government sense, the CEO of GE would definitely fall into the private category. That's what's under discussion here. In what sense do you mean private?
Law states that the person can legally carry their instrument aboard if there's room at the time of boarding, regardless of size of the instrument case. Since she didn't board, I'm hoping this goes to court to strengthen this law as a musician.
There may be cities where this is the case, but this surely isn't standard. I'm European but I never saw something like that nor could I recall having read such an offer for an apartement.
Sadly, Hong Kong can be way worse than these already super-cramped one-room apartments.

The apartments in your link are either tiny 1960s social housing, or subdivided apartments. With the ever-increasing rent, some of these have since then been subdivided further into single beds (a.k.a 'cages' or 'coffins', depending on how they're sealed):

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/gallery/2017/jun/07/boxed...
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If you were affected by some of the bugs you'd be much happier that they did push this fix out instead of waiting just to make it feel like some people aren't getting "left behind".
Some make good calls, then sometimes they make bad calls. Very few over a long period actually beat the index.
In varying length architectures it will constrain opcode optimization, making your binaries larger (requiring more cache). It's not as big a problem as in fixed length instruction machines, but adding named registers is never free.
The downside is increased governance costs due to duplication of bureaucracy, increased complexity of legal systems, and more confusing everyday laws (as fewer people = less documentation and support services).

Which all means "vote-with-your-feet" is actually far harder to do, as all your everyday legal knowledge is useless in other states.
Didn't Venezuela do that? Enjoy the collapse while watching your family starve and fighting the army with sticks and rocks. No thanks.
Theres probably some kind of quantifiable tendency to centralize over time that arises from some aspect of our system. Addressing that would help better effect federalism.
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I use Backblaze but haven't had to do a restore yet. It appears their current limits are 500gb per zip file. They also have a "BackBlaze Downloader" utility (Mac & Windows) that has the ability to resume interrupted downloads.

https://help.backblaze.com/hc/en-us/articles/217665888-How-t...
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Is Apple storing everyone's data in China / do these 'bad apples' in China have access to every iCloud customers or is it just a local Chinese concern?
> Hell, if they were relevant ads to the website

I had to watch youtube without an adblocker recently for the first time pretty much ever.

The ads were not only extremely irrelevant. They were extremely sexist, strongly offensive and discriminating. Without exception (note I'm not in the US, so these probably aren't the same you're seeing!).
I was incredibly surprised that most of the population watching youtube was exposed to this daily but not completely outrage.
Ask HN: What happened to hn.algolia.com? UPD: problem was on my side now fixed
https://hn.algolia.com/ times out since yesterday. What's going on? Is there an alternative?

UPD: that was just a local routing problem at my ISP, now works ok.
No ones saying that in the law of the jungle that isnt the case. It's different rules there for sure. But thats why we have progressed to where we are today.

Since We live in a western democratic civilization, and there are laws against that very thing, I'm not sure what you are trying to say.
> Mandatory voting just results in on-average less informed voters, doesn't it? If someone can't be bothered to go to the polls, what makes you think they'll be bothered to inform themselves of the issues and candidates?

Apathy can be driven from a feeling of helplessness as well as simply not really caring or knowing what's happening.

Additionally, if people had to vote, would they try and engage more?

I guess the key question would be, would the ill-informed that don't vote cause enough of an issue to outweigh the benefits of having higher participation from those who feel simply more left out?

I would love to see other propositions as well, currently a candidate/party has two main actions that are beneficial for them:

1. Make more people vote for them
2. Make fewer people vote for the other side

So weirdly our politicians are rewarded for lowering participation in groups that don't vote their way.

What if we could link the control with the total turnout? Perhaps at least with some things, like to force a bill past the Lords requires enough MPs to represent more than X% of the country itself. Maybe this would be a terrible idea, but I'd love to know what other alternatives we could consider.
As a server side dev I feel the same way about everything javascript related.

Handlebar and knockout were all the rage, I blinked and now it's all React.

Actually React may be dead and it's Vue.js that cool kids are using.

I just can't keep up :) Long live jquery.
Works for me ...

Edit: Where are you? What happens when you try to ping it?
Hoping comments can resist the urge to turn this into an apple bashing thread.

Having someone purposefully steal your data from the inside doesn't mean you don't care about privacy.

They likely won't reveal anything but I'm curious how they could get the info out of Apple systems. Most companies of Apple's size lock down work stations to the point of slowing down workers efficiency to keep customer data safe. Especially with their over seas operations.
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All toothed birds are extinct. Some birds today have serrations on their beaks that might look like teeth, but they're not really teeth in an anatomical sense.
It's not Apple's policy to sell information. This is employees engaging in criminal behavior. Still not good for Apple, but it's correctable (firing and pressing charges as appropriate; institute stronger internal policies on both hiring and information access). Facebook and Google can't stop selling our information without going out of business (or a major pivot).
It's hard not to see hubris in western societies relationship to tech. People would destroy so much just to have some new device produced. It's pleasure in ignorance.
Dropbox is unusable for me due to it pegging my CPU at 100%. And yes, I've opened mutiple supports tickets over the year.

The problem is I put my Outlook .pst in my Dropbox folder. When I have Outlook open, which is nearly the entire day, Outlook puts a lock on the .pst file.

Instead of Dropbox ignoring that file and coming back to it later - it's just gets stuck in some kind of infinitely loop trying to synch the locked file and can't. Resulting in 100% CPU usage.
> We are all choosing our beliefs based on what information we have.

So why do religious people stay religious when there is often a great deal of evidence against it. Its not as if the information is hidden from them.
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My personal answer is that I'm a Christian and the teachings of the Bible directly address these issues.

Some of it involves a different worldview. Changing the world becomes both less important and more possible. It becomes easier to prioritize important things in life like caring for loved ones or for others who need help. The conflict of the day, whether political, personal, or work related, doesn't endanger the purpose of my life. The worth of my life is no longer defined by "success", power, happiness, or winning.

All this ties back, of course, to the Christ of the bible and His teachings. Ecclesiastes is also a powerful book when I'm feeling cynical. I honestly feel both Christ and Ecclesiastes are at time cynical and curmudgeonly; the positive examples are helpful to me. Reading and praying (about the reading, about life) probably serve the same purposes as the meditation techniques espoused in this thread, but it is more than just body hacking.

> Talk to people helps. But one person can only bear with you for so much. Even though it is a good friend/love you very much.

Talking to my church family and to a much greater extent God doesn't have the same issue. A healthy church family is a bigger group, all of whom are dedicated to your health in every way. And God has more than enough attention and patience for me.

In general people don't appreciate talk about religion, but people are advocating cycling, meditation, yoga, and major career changes. I hope a suggestion to read a bit of the Bible, say a few prayers, and trying something new Sunday morning isn't far off base.

For what it's worth, I've prayed for you Steve, that you can find emotional health and success in your life.
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Per the article, it's not clear at this point which user (Chinese or non-Chinese or both) they were able to obtain.
Sure, but the same exact ad running in the right rail will preform vastly differently if it's in a modal popup.
Because in badly managed projects, the managers have no idea what the project is about. They don't know how anything works. They can't distinguish good work from bad work.

Instead, they rely on rote rules and checklists to "prove" they've done their job. This happens in both public and private sectors.

For example, a friend's employer got bought by a large multinational. The multinational imposed all kinds of processes, checkpoints, checklists, etc. to "ensure product quality". They then got upset that the bids were triple the cost they were previously, and took twice as long.

And that's of course coupled with the fact that no one from the parent company paid any attention to the day to day activities of the (now) division. Instead, they relied on paperwork.

Well, paperwork is no substitute for feet on the ground.

One of my favorite books is "On the psychology of military incompetence". It uses military examples to show how organizations are run (bad vs good), and what quantitative differences there are between bad leaders and good leaders.

Paying attention to details, and ignoring superficial forms is a major differentiator between good leaders and bad leaders.

This is echoed in the story. The city didn't pay attention to the project, while the developer did.
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> magical budget cuts make it harder to vote in areas that tend to vote democratic

Once and again the divisiveness of the US politics keeps astonishing me. This would never fly in my home country, even reading this here is repulsive in its unfairness. Sure the parties push their own ideologies, but luckily a fair election still seems to be a sacred concept.
Building and using tools is not an exclusively human activity.
Large discussion from a couple of days ago:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14500184