skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Damn dude, that's messed up (sorry). Assuming you're a programmer, can't you make a `incremental persistent improvment` program ? Like fixing stuff 1 by 1.

Let's start: Do you train ?
> Anger is not a primary emotion. It is a secondary emotion. It cannot exist without thought. This is fact.

No, it isn't. That's just a particular framing of one kind of cycle that can happen. While it might not be typical, it is absolutely possible for anger to occur first, with the thoughts that "prompted" the anger actually occurring as a rationalization afterward. Human brains are amazingly adept at quietly generating plausible bullshit to fill in gaps that would otherwise cause dissonance.
8.1 is correct. They introduced new functionality (minor version number) to the inspector. In general Node is very very good at following semver. Even for something as seemingly small as this, it requires the minor number to increment. If you follow along their issues on Github, they always tag PR's as needing a major/minor/patch increment. That way when merged it's really easy to see how the version numbers need to increase, or if they need to wait to merge something.
How much time is $10k ?
I think all the consumer-grade backup and sync services are designed for a relatively small number of large files, such as high-res photos, songs and videos.

I have about 300K files (250GB total) in my 1TB SpiderOak account. The UI has always been atrociously slow, but backup speeds are okay when most files are static. Things get more interesting when I check out another branch in git and touch a few thousand files at a time. As for sync, well, I've all but given up on editing a file on my desktop, opening my laptop, and expecting the updated file to appear anytime soon. If I really need to sync a file immediately, I put in in my Dropbox (free account, almost empty).
It's basically a PR piece for a Japanese company. Shows a spraying drone, a drone on wheels that can show you a video of how well your asparagus is growing, and a drone collecting images of onion fields, that can be analyzed by AI for detection of a specific type of fungus, with questionable accuracy.
I didn't see anything that would justify the 30 minutes wasted watching the video.
> Meditation/music can only help when you are not at the edge point.

This sounds like a bad assumption about meditation to me. In my experience, regular meditation practice helps me keep that edge further away. Negative emotions are not useful to me or those who interact with me at work or at home.
Then don't support 8 versions. Only support latest, unless they are paying you to do otherwise. Quit giving work away for free.

But honestly, it's not that big of a deal. I've got code from v0.12.0 that still works on Node 8. People are making a really big deal out of nothing.

The longer language developers hold back changes, the less time it gives language users to upgrade. What would you rather them do? Sit on defect and security hole fixes? Just because you're uncomfortable with the rapid pace of technology change? It's the Singularity dude. It's not going to slow down. You either learn to live with it or end up in the same pile as FORTRAN programmers.
honest Q --- I'm not trolling I swear --- is Apple's iCloud any better in this regard? I know it's not cross platform... but if one is using Apple stuff exclusively, is the iCloud Documents in its current incarnation usable? Asking honestly
Very true. And the mayor of London, a self-described socialist, introduced congestion charging to that city in 2003.
Most of them don't seem to realize how nagging users scale so badly so that it gets the opposite results (eg. driving people away).
Just think if every page out there asked the user to signup to some services... this would make the Internet less usable than using pigeons. Why? because nagging users cannot scale. An user might accept to click a couple banners every dozen different servers he/she visits daily, but what if everyone employs the same practice? And if we agree that it must be kept to a minimum, who decides what site can nag the users and what cannot?
The answer is that the practice must be abandoned because it does not scale.
Android Nougat grows in market ahead of O
Layoffs of up to 1,000 jobs at the combined AOL and Yahoo are expected
How many months have you saved up ? Can't you move somehow to part-time and continue doing the app on the side ?

Why no family after next venture ? A friend of mine started creating a baby at 50.
Review OWC Thunderbolt 2 Dock
I like the style, it's a nice story but I completely missed the point of the ending :)
Ask HN: Which companies are hiring from open source contribution?
I have always worked in closed source companies, but when applying everyone asks for github profile which is empty. linkedin profile which is not updated, because I am not a linkedin savvy user.

I am looking for new job, not because I don't have one, but because I want to change things, feeling stagnation, but before applying and going through long-time consuming, uncertain decisions, I want to participate in company open source projects, if they like we are both ok, otherwise I get portfolio and experience in my github account, they get contribution which will be written to show best skills, not just throwaway code.

Any companies doing this? (Mostly interested in Golang)
It's very difficult to take Sia seriously. For one thing, Sia only has 25T of data. That's total data, in the entire global network, including parity blocks. And when I checked prices today, it was more expensive than Glacier—but I can only imagine how much the prices would swing if you suddenly bought 2.5T of storage.

Sia's decentralization is not unique. Amazon, Google, and Microsoft cloud storage are also decentralized. The idea of reselling unused bytes on disks that you already own is also not unique—again, Amazon, Google, and Microsoft already do this.
SyncPerf: Categorizing, detecting, and diagnosing synchronization performance bugs
I always wonder how are participants chosen for surveys like this?

If it's an online survey offering filling it out in exchange for a chance to win something I will almost never pay any attention to the questions and just click whatever to finish it quickly.

What's the proper process for conducting a study like this?
Because Canada's approach to universal coverage is socialized insurance, it controls costs overall with price controls and with funding big ticket medicine carefully. MRIs are very expensive to buy and operate, comparatively, so for elective use (which includes a doctor treating someone with headaches and wants one to rule out a brain tumour), you're on a waiting list that could be six months or longer. For emergency use (like my nephew who fell and hit his head) you get it right away.
"Answers to likely responses: "just use a different cloud service": on iOS, for cloud backups, there are no alternatives: it's iCloud or nothing."

That makes me unhappy with the brand experience.
> How to See Color and Paint It

Ordered a copy, thanks!
Uber an avatar of innovation and progress? [pdf]
That's actually a relatively nice, Rails-magic-style approach to solving this sort of thing. Of course, if you were building a more interactive application, you'd already have a JS framework in place that would negate these benefits – but I'm still convinced there's a nice middle-ground for server-rendered Rails apps that avoids the various problems of SPAs.

It would be nice if it worked without JavaScript though – an increasing pain-in-the-arse about the web generally. If only it were possible to have <iframe>s adjust to their content size, then we wouldn't need JavaScript at all!
"European banks are frantically trying to buy bitcoin so they can pay off ransomware, Jim Cramer says."

I'm writing a book on Bitcoin/Blockchain - and I tried tracing the 2016 flurry of press on the subject back to its source. Literally all the press traced back to a single Citrix 2016 press release. They didn't even release the survey data itself that I could find, just the press release.

https://www.citrix.com/news/announcements/jun-2016/ransomwar...

Citrix released another press release yesterday. These two PRs are the only actual sources for the claim - it makes good headlines, and you can get people to comment at length on the implications of it, but the source material is literally just two press releases.

https://www.citrix.com/blogs/2017/06/06/ransomware-in-the-uk...

I commented on the new press release on the Citrix site asking if they can detail how the sample was selected, and what the precise wording of all questions was - same as you'd expect from e.g. a political poll.

I'm not saying the claim is made up, but I am saying that I want to see the wording and how the sample was selected before allowing any great claims about British IT or that preemptively buying up bitcoins is even a non-negligible phenomenon at all.
Most installed packages, according to npm
So you don't exercise ? How about swimming ? Should also help you with the sleep, from the exhaustion. Like try swimming for 1 hour uninterrupted and you'll be ripped/slept.
See Huber Horan's full series of articles on Uber: http://horanaviation.com/Uber.html
And the idea that only individual rights matter, and that people don't have a duty to others, is also flawed and dangerous. As with pretty much everything else, the solution is somewhere in the middle that doesn't suit extremist slogans very well.
Only if you assume that the irrationality is useless, e.g. doesn't have evolutionary advantages. Which I think it does, many.
The spoofed traffic theoretically could be traced back, but at the level of internet routing it would impose a huge cooperation and monitoring requirements on a number of networks. (As we can presume the origin network that's letting spoofed traffic onto the internet isn't going to notice, and/or would be uncooperative to someone investigating the source of the traffic.)

And that monitoring would have to have been active while the traffic spoofing was ongoing. If an ISP has confidence that incoming traffic is spoofed they'll just drop the packets instead of routing. So we're now talking about storing metadata on traffic for after-the-fact analysis, which could be prohibitively expensive considering the amount of traffic transiting networks, and has privacy implications.
There's a whole Tumblr for confirm-shaming.

http://confirmshaming.tumblr.com/
There is something in Law that is the sprit of the law and if you use loopholes you clearly understand the intent of the law and decide to abuse it for you personal gain- and I think of this as theft...
How many of the Android devices are using the latest version and what's the option for the rest of them, excluding rooting? There are many advantages of Android, but this is not one of them.
I think many are broken in one way or another from experience. Do you exercise ? Any (outgoing) hobbies ?
I think this is a good news bad news announcement. Sure, losing the unlimited option isn't great, but the additional storage level is good. For light users having a cheap 100gb option is great.

I was on the unlimited plan with about 150gb and will continue with the $60/yr plan for the foreseeable future.
There is a network of artificial tunnels in Egypt called the Serapeum of Saqqara. It contains at least 24 large boxes made from single pieces of solid granite, allegedly moved there from a very interesting granite quarry several hundred miles away, then hollowed out to a mirror finish and a precision of a few ten-thousandths of an inch as tested by a precision machinist with a precision toolmaker's square who is also an engineer. After observing them, the engineer went on to ask the largest US companies in such business if they could make one. Only one responded and the answer was interesting. The place is real and the boxes, some as much as 90 tons (or the weight of more than fifty Prius cars) are not going anywhere. It's not in the books, nor is anything that explains it in the timeline but you can see it in person and test if for yourself. This place is only one of many that, by their nature and existence, question the conventional timeline of history

There is also a mathematician that, with some help from others, is doing a rigorous mathematical review of the conventional timeline of history and apparently there are some major problems with what has previously been accepted, written and taught. Does anyone know who I am referring to here?

How many people here are aware of the Serapeum mentioned above? Where does that level of precision work fit in with the timeline?
Microsoft has been moving in that direction by bundling OneDrive with Windows 10 and making Office save files to OneDrive by default.

Unfortunately, OneDrive is little more than a half-baked clone of Dropbox. The first thing I do after setting up a Windows 10 machine is uninstalling OneDrive.
At the very least, it's a very nice stopgap until a full JS frontend is in place. I intend on throwing this into my existing rails app for various optimisations while it awaits an SPA frontend.
A growing number of traders are betting Snap’s stock price will fall
Oh yes, Amazon is the king of this type of annoyance. I've bought a laptop on it once, so it kept nagging me for buying another one for few years! I don't get such logic -- if I've just bought something, what is the probability that I need the same item? That's more like the exact opposite in my line of thinking -- if I've just bought something, I definitely don't need another one, so don't even bother.
Do you exercise ?
"That said, privacy is our focus, and we have whole teams that scrutinize any requests from governments to make sure they’re legitimate."

For a company with Condoleezza Rice on the board. A person who helped pioneer warentless surveillance. This doesn't really ring true:

http://www.drop-dropbox.com
My major is Computer Science, but my professional experience is around Technical Support.

I was never given the opportunity to master a language and I have been experimenting with programming since 2003, always at an academic level.

On the other hand, as I say "what you know or think you know, has nothing to do with reality".

When you say train, you mean exercising and such? No, the only thing my body can handle is walking. When I exercise or do any other form of physical activity, I get sick easily and takes me a whole week to recover.

Now about incremental persistent improvement, I do my best to improve myself. To give you an idea, I was surrounded by negative people and decided to cut ties with nearly all of them to save myself from pessimism. I still have a long way to go, but I'm getting there.
>Human genes don't spread by pollination

Are you sure :D
There are other backup backup solutions. You can backup your camera roll to a Synology device in the background: https://www.synology.com/en-us/knowledgebase/Mobile/help/DSp...
So far, nothing, at least for me. Still plonking that money directly into index funds. Some of my friends swear by rental properties but it seems like an awful lot of work.
I guess we agree on the concept, but differ in assumption of whether ACA is unpopular due to smear or favorable in polls due to phrasing.

I'm convinced that (while it having many flaws) no one in the poorer 80% of the country would prefer the AHCA over the ACA if informed on both.

Which might seem obvious economically, but it's also clear that polling or voting doesn't turn out that way, which I take to mean that obfuscation through attack ads and aimed media is doing effective work.
>Sometimes it feels like Node moves too fast.

Huh? 99% of code written for 0.12 or 4 works still now, in 8.

It's not like they are piling up on features...
i can just say that this comment makes me angry
>> Privacy advocates and privacy caring IT specialists have repeatedly asked Apple to offer such an option, but so far Apple has decided that regular people would turn such an option on, forget their password, then ask Apple for help and would be unhappy with their brand experience if Apple could not help them out.

Were I an iCloud user, I would pay big $$$ for such a feature. But... they do have a point, and anyone who's helped their friends and relatives with IT issues can confirm that.
In this scenario though the maid is not choosing to wonder off, the homeowner is telling the maid to leave the front door open.

To extend this analogy a little bit, lets say that the homeowner told the maid that they can "give the old tv, the toaster or any other item in the garage to anyone who asks." A stranger comes and asks the maid for the golf clubs in the garage that the homeowner forgot about.

In this case, the homeowner did not explicitly expose the golf clubs to the public, but gave permission to the maid to give them out. Did the homeowner not grant public access to the golf clubs?
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What do you do and where are you from ?
Or setting up the technology so nobody at apple can even access the unencrypted data. Much more effective than policies that you expect people to follow.

I work at a fairly security conscious company, and the only data I can't access is that encrypted at the consumer's end.
My line of thought is this: inflation is ~3% a year (hasn't been that high in a while, but just wait), and market returns average 5% (aka beta) a year with some level of volatility. By definition, the alpha of an index fund is zero minus fees. I'm willing to trade a guaranteed-small negative alpha for the reduction in volatility in alpha that I would have across a portfolio across years. I've still got overall market volatility to contend with, but my time horizon is long so that gets pushed to the side.

Index funds are a perfect choice for retail investors like yourself. But retail investors are a small percentage of the market; institutional investors make up the bulk of the transaction volume that provides liquidity for the rest of the market. Because they trade stocks millions of times a day, you're never going to beat them at the stock picking game. But their activity does push prices up across the board -- because the assets the institutional investors are trading are the basis of the index funds the retail investors are buying.

So there's not really a bubble in an asset class if retail investors move to index funds, because the retail investor is buying a little bit of everything. If anything, there is a bubble on certain stocks that consumers are familiar with (i.e. AAPL, AMZN, GOOG, FB, etc.) But by buying the index, you're buying both the stocks that are overvalued and the ones that are undervalued.

Now, certain index funds may eventually become out of whack with respect to overall market return: the S&P500 is generally considered to model the overall economy well, but that might not always be the case. That's fine, if you feel one index is becoming overvalued, weight your portfolio into another index. Or if you feel equity in general is overvalued, shift your portfolio into T-bills.

And yeah, for me, the decrease in anxiety is totally worth it. The economy is either doing well, or it's not, but in either case my money is along for the ride.
It seems Anne Klein agrees with you[1]. Their new creative director has stated they want to be the go to brand for professional (women).

What I don't get in fashion, women's as well as men's, but more notably in women's is the focus on trends/fashion (at the expense of quality and rigor) rather than style + quality. I.e the product looks great from afar, but up close it's shabby construction and poor materials (in many cases).

[1]https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/at-anne-klein...
To turn the pre-entry screening argument around: Sexual harassment is illegal is this country. If you want to allow sexual harassment at your company, you should have done a better job of choosing countries to start your business in.
Funny you talk about SAS that way.

In my former team, we used SAS for a while and once I introduced the team to Pandas, they happily ditched SAS.
High Efficiency Image File Format (HEIF) Session Video
Warren Buffett's modest office inspired Google's change to Alphabet
Do you personally know a doctor (whatever type) ? They usually understand.
The first part of the article talks about Healthcare with this:
"Which is why, on the healthcare island, the conversation is about costs. Your preferences don't matter, except where they are aligned with the objectives of those on the island. Substitution doesn't matter; there are no competing services. Obscene profit margins don't invite competitors; they invite consolidation. Justifying costs to third party payers, instead of prices to patrons, is the name of the game. It's a bizarre world that doesn't make any sense to people like Goldhill when they take a critical look at it."

I haven't read the book, but it looks to me they're making the age-old argument that 'third parties' shouldn't pay for healthcare because thats why its screwed up now. But, this is far too simplistic to be true. Healthcare is not a product, its a service. That service changes depending upon the person. Its not mass-producable or competable down because of demand in many cases. And, even if it were a product, you still have the eternal problem that people cannot negotiate for their own healthcare. You can't. You physically need it, and may die without it, and there is no process by which to negotiate or even many times know what price you will be paying. That is what universal healthcare strives to solve in other countries, and does so decently.
I couldn't agree any less:

% mkvirtualenv -p `which python3` notebook
(notebook) % pip install notebook jupyter notebook scipy pandas matplotlib pdbpp ipython

(not sure if all of them are really necessary)
How may android botnets are there, and how many devices infected?

Huw many iOS?
I get why this needs to exist, but it feels more complicated than it should be and that sort of “magical” decision that’s based on ML is going to confuse both web developers and web users. It might be worth it, but I don’t think it is just yet.

On a side note though, it seems Apple is doubling down on making decisions for its users. This is one example, another is do not disturb when driving. These sort of features make a lot of assumption and use complex logic to decide for users, even when the users don’t need that. I think that’s concerning.
Ok, I'm confused, just store the PST elsewhere. The location can be changed.

Sounds like he should make a copy to dropbox, if he wants a copy backed up.

Can't backup an open file after all.

This is just how computers work.
Works for me. I've been to Tengchong twice over the last 16 years and it's a very interesting area historically: the British used to have a trading base there for Burma-China trade, and there is a lot of local geothermal activity, hot springs, lakes, old architecture, nature, etc. Relevant quotes from https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup ...

The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt. - Bertrand Russell (1950)

A smart machine is a profoundly paradoxical entity, but a paradox is not a supernatural act. A paradox is a symptom of a breakdown in two competing definitional systems. - Bruce Sterling (1995)

Once you've got some words looking back at you, you can take two or three — or throw them away and look for others. - Bernard Malamud

Writing is nature's way of letting you know how sloppy your thinking is. - Guindon

The main rule of writing is that if you do it with enough assurance and confidence, you're allowed to do whatever you like. - 'Neil Gaiman on open source', Peter Hilton

When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less. - Humpty Dumpty ("in a rather scornful tone"), 'Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There' (1871), Lewis Carroll

A rose by any other name will end up as a cabbage. - Sam Gardiner

A language is a dialect with an army and a navy. - Max Weinreich

Words build bridges in to unexplored regions. - Adolf Hitler

Furious activity is no substitute for understanding. - H. H. Williams

Blind monkey at the typewriter. - Robert Burnham Jr., Astronomer (1983)