skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I use rsnapshot [1] for /home data and afio [2] for other stuff (offline databases, system, photos, ...)

With rsnapshot, I have hourly, daily, weekly and monthly backups that use hard links for the saving disk space. These backup dirs can be mounted read-only.

With afio, files above some defined size are compressed and then added to the archive, so that if some compression goes wrong, only that file may be lost, the archive is not corrupted. Can have incremental backups.

From the afio webpage:
Afio makes cpio-format archives. It deals somewhat gracefully with input data corruption, supports multi-volume archives during interactive operation, and can make compressed archives that are much safer than compressed tar or cpio archives. Afio is best used as an `archive engine' in a backup script.

[1] http://rsnapshot.org/
[2] http://members.chello.nl/k.holtman/afio.html
Duckduckgo wasn't so helpful with this one. :-(
There is parinfer which turns lisp into a white space significant language, no special commands necessary
As long as the integral of rate limiter tends to infinity, rather than something less, the storage is unlimited. It is not relevant how long it takes to get there.
I think in a lot of cases realtors aren't the necessity they used to be, because of tools like Redfin. It used to be VERY hard (or near impossible?) to pull past sale data, comps, and various other bits of info on your own.

As a buyer, a realtor is rarely a bad choice because they likely won't cost you any money, as they usually negotiate out of he seller's fees. They help out a ton when it comes to bidding, what we could likely ask for, and the personal relationship they may have with the selling realtor. Need recommendations for an inspector or mortgage broker? They likely have some good contacts.

As a buyer, I'll probably always use a realtor, likely the last realtor I used- she was so smart and tactical that she probably would be successful in any career path she chose.

We moved from Seattle to Portland about a year ago, I grew up in Portland and didn't need any help figuring out where to live- I sure did need help in figuring out how to stand out when we were consistently one of multiple offers (one house had 13 offers three hours after the open house and closed for ~25% over asking). The inspector we used was recommended by our realtor and was so good/such a bulldog he even got the construction company to repair things they initially considered 'within spec' (we bought brand new).

Counter to that, my mom sold her house for $60K (about 15%) over what some realtor estimated she could, using only Redfin. She received 5 offers on day one.
Hey, awesome. Let me know what he thinks of it.

Update:

Glad he liked it :-) Now I have 2 satisfied customers.

BTW, you can create your own custom lesson plan by clicking the Settings button. That will take you to https://seentell.me/settings.
You're describing trailer park rentals. I'm in!
Presumably the 'Commons' here is control over the government. However, the example is a trivialization of reality and that matters, in the same way that assuming all economic actors are rational matters (they aren't). It's fun when we can use simple laws of nature to make predictions accurately. Unfortunately, it doesn't work in the field of economics\politics almost ever.
Please accept donations through OpenCollective as well. I'd prefer to donate through another open source project that I have great faith in.

https://opencollective.com
Arguably, a city can avoid Detroit's fate by not relying too heavily on a single industry.
I had a superb experience with them in 2012 despite being a nightmare customer. Chose Refin because their blog was so good. I bought a 2nd house in the same neighborhood. It started out odd because part of their onboarding is asking "Where do you want the check sent?", because, you know, you save so much using them. I knew it would be fake but whatever. (It wasn't--I did indeed get the $10K check almost immediately upon closing.) Problem is that my bank thought I was a terrorist, despite the fact that I have literally 12 accounts with them (several businesses, savings, checking, etc.). I put down 20% on an $890K loan. My income is closer to $800K than $500K and my other house in the neighborhood was already paid for. The simple act of moving the $200K into an account ready to write the check spooked the bank and they literally treated me like a terrorist. Suddenly everything took infinite amounts of time to handle and resulted in triple the usual paperwork. It was excruciating.

The bank (Bank of America, of course) caused so much trouble that I finally decided to pull out and lose my $20K earnest money. (I had chosen B of A on the theory that they already knew all about me, and also because they offered a killer ARM.) The mortgage officer literally quit his job over his bank's bungled handling of my sale. Somehow they came through, by this time, 3 months after I had made the offer. I was actually paying $100/day to the sellers because at this point they had moved out and were in a hotel and weren't able to close on their own new house.

Anyway, my agent at Redfin was a champ, even when I told her I was quitting. So she had way more trouble than a full-service agent with none of the upside. The whole thing on Redfin's side was precisely as advertised.
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I learned set theory and discrete math from this guy:

http://internethalloffame.org/about/advisory-board/cl-liu

Easily my second favorite instructor, possibly my favorite. I felt pretty prepared to deal with analysis and design in statically typed languages just from that grounding in set theory and logic. Fond of saying things like, "We have a box. What's inside that box? Another box. What's inside that box? We don't care."

Now retired, he was an early proponent of distance learning, so surely some of his stuff is accessible still.
> Regardless of whether or not meritocracy exists, and particularly of the morality of the law, taking more than the system allows you to is pretty much the definition of criminality.

No, it's not. Unless by “the system” you mean only and exactly criminal law.

And, in any case, that's different than your original description, which did include the proviso that the amount the system determined was based on meritocratic considerations (“based on the skills you've developed and the effort you've put in.”) The grandparent post was correct to point out that this characterization assumed the existence of meritocracy.

Finally, asserting that disagreeing with your description is outing the grandparent poster as a criminal is is just simply uncalled for.
For Microsoft at least, most of my coworkers send their kids to public school.
Pay cash ?
Finally, a case where Betteridge's Law of Headlines might not apply! (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge's_law_of_headlines)
Is the metadata timezone adjusted - or does it include a timezone?
Evolution of Sexual Intimidation: Male Baboons Beat Up Females, Increases Mating
If there is a pattern here, I think it's definitely useful to describe it. The goal is not to fan the flames of this particular controversy, but to detect and neutralise this kind destructive behaviour when it occurs in the future (whether it's Zed doing it or someone else).
Similar experience. They spend almost zero time analyzing, explaining pros and cons. Not once did they bid less than the asking price of the home. The tour agents just stand there while we tour. They answer a few questions passively. After a few attempts, they called and said they don't want to work with me anymore, because we took too many tours. About an year later, we went for a traditional buyer broker. He explained a lot of things about the home, negotiated hard, started a bid $15k below the asking price and finally got the home for about $6000 less even with 4 other bidders.
Ask HN: When is the appropriate time to start a company
I want to work on and create a app/cloud service. Do I need to create a small company for this purpose or doing work independently should be sufficient. What would be the criteria to start a company?

Thanks
I did exactly the same last night and you don't need the echo $? hack anymore.
You are way off point. Your original statement that I responded to was:

>To be fair, it looks like all this happened in 2010—ISIS wasn't in the nation's consciousness back then:

You are suggesting that since the name "ISIS" hadn't yet become part of popular lexicon that there might a legitimate claim to ignorance.

The fact of that matter is it was known that there was a large terrorist organization controlling large swathes of Iraq at that time. And that this group was using looted antiquity to fund their activities. There is not a single expert on Mesopotamian art who disputes that. It does not matter which moniker they were using.

Everything you have written since that is really just you having an endless semantic argument.
That, and there isn’t a shortage. There is a shortage of engineers willing to work for the wage being offered. When there is a shortage of a particular type of engineer, it’s because the company wants to pay $75,000 for a position that the market demands be $95,000. Thus the “shortage” and the “need” to bring in low cost H1 workers to fill that shortage.
This isn't a situation like the North Dakota oil boom, where there's a massive spike on a small base that's clearly going to end. It would a long time to build out enough to have the potential problem, and a long time to decline enough to have it.

Detroit is overbuilt for its population now, but it got a good 50 years of use at that size.
I had the same experience, and thought it was the opposite of what the title implied. Rather than being more work up front for much easier progress, it seemed like a lot of easy typing things you don't understand and therefore making slow progress.

However, I generally prefer learning concepts first, with practical application later, so it could have just been a personal preference.
There's a nice TED book "Follow Your Gut: The Enormous Impact of Tiny Microbes" by Rob Knight
I only read two pages on homotopy so far, I cannot answer that :)
This is my personal opinion, so take it with a grain of salt.

Hotz never seemed like the guy who would do things similar to what Cruise did. Vogt had already sold two startups prior to Cruise, and he was well versed in the tactics of the startup world. Have great articles put out, polished PR touches, the whole works.

OTOH, Hotz had this 'Hacker' air to whatever he does. From the iPhone, to PlayStation, to even hacking the cars he was building the tech with, he had a very different attitude compared to the let's-be-poised-for-a-buyout vibe that many startups give. Startups like Cruise are scared of breaking rules, worrying about how it might bite them later in the day.

If you ask me, Cruise was never going to make it on its own. The major car companies have decades of supply chain process management and huge amounts of capital behind them. Cruise couldn't never do what it said it would do, and I would imagine, a buy out was always on the founders minds.

Comma.ai is a different beast. They aren't really worried about rules. That's terrible attitude for a 'startup', I agree. People here have valid arguments about thinking about the NHTSA before hand, but I think they just dared to go ahead without giving a crap. It backfired, but I wouldn't attribute his decision to failure in building a working product.
I started with LPTHW. Like literally did not know what a string was started. I remember the part of the book recommending to use 2 until 3 was as complete. I remember not caring either way.

Beginners do not care about Python versions. They're trying to figure out why their string won't print, running into bugs like: 'I'm printing a string' and being _stumped_. These people are not going to be contributing to Python3 migration, they're just not there yet.

And if people are running production grade applications are listening to Zed? Well, good luck to 'em.
Redfin does more to move in that direction than other listing websites such as Trulia. Redfin is the actual broker on your side of the sale, and they take a smaller cut than most other brokers.

The reason it's not cheaper is that few brokers compete on price.
DRM is a non-starter and is in reality defective by design.

Pirates have created markets where there were none and are an important part of every entertainment eco-system. It's been that way since the beginning.

This is just another in a long string of bad decisions that attempts to give major distribution channels far more control than they deserve or could ever manage responsibly.

If you want to make money in entertainment, the business plan is simple. 1. Get people to like you. 2. Find a way for those people to get you money. You don't need Google, Netflix, Apple, NBC, CBS, ABC, RKO, ClearChannel, or anybody else that inserts themselves between you and your customers. None of them provides enough real value to anybody who didn't already have a market before leveraging them.

The fact that this standard is coming to be is just plain silly, but it does no harm in and of itself. All of the potential problems are today's reality. A rubber stamp by W3C implementing a tag in the HTML spec and blessing a workflow change nothing.

The FSF is stirring up noise without providing links to what it's talking about. I presume it's this: https://www.w3.org/TR/encrypted-media/

The workflow isn't particularly well thought out - it's not significantly different than what RealMedia or Adobe have had put together for a generation.

The real downside is the fact that browsers will be further plagued with vague integrations. Those integrations will all carry security ramifications that nobody cares to consider until a major exploit is publicized. The fact that so many people are willing to sacrifice their security for access to a 12 year old lionsgate video is beyond me, but such is the nature of the world we live in. Like I said before though... that is a problem that browsers face today. The new "standard" doesn't change much in reality.
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If you'd like to output to an arbitrary writer, you can use the Image method.

https://godoc.org/github.com/mmcloughlin/globe#Globe.Image

This can be passed to an image encoder like

https://golang.org/pkg/image/png/#Encode
https://golang.org/pkg/image/gif/#Encode
https://golang.org/pkg/image/jpeg/#Encode

These functions take io.Writer objects. SavePNG was provided for convenience.
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I think it's more that they want consistency in rendering across devices and media.
People expect more from conversation, as opposed to sloppy thinking where the author projects their own biases out to the world and expects people will agree with them or be polite enough to be silenced. Being "polite" like that was never a good idea, and it's, happily, becoming less common, in this era when physically forcing conformity is on the wane.
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Pay cash. Don't identify yourself, unless legally required. Maybe use an alias. As much as possible, buy from local businesses. Or through informal marketplaces. If you really care, travel a few hours by car before shopping. And keep your phone off, in a Faraday bag.
Clean up your code before you start.

Maybe this exercise will make you a better programmer.
We've always been machines. Now, we're becoming machines we can program ourselves, as opposed to being programmed exclusively by society and nature.
Very neat, and gets me curious about PDFBox, but every time I see something that converts a consistent-layout PDF back to structured data, I just bemoan the fact that this would all be trivial with an API for these kinds of things.
It sounds tautological, but ads are designed for the type of people that click ads. This is a far larger portion of the population than you might think. For example, consider that the first 3 links on a search page receive over 50% of all clicks. The first 5 links receive 67% of all clicks. Only 9% of all users view the second page of search results.
If this does not get resolved within 8 hours, I will pursue other avenues. The choice is yours.
It could be at least argued that type systems aren't very effective at reducing meaningful bugs and/or aren't worth the costs they impose, but you went way beyond that argument. As I see it, the only way you can believe that "nothing suggests that type systems...can be improved to be practical at preventing bugs" is because you have willfully ignored or completely discounted every bit of evidence you've encountered that suggests otherwise.
Farming is already ridiculously automated. Seems like a battle long lost.
Famous != ethical
>Zed Shaw educates ALOT of beginners about Python. Everyone should be both glad and supportive that his education is now in the Python 3 world.

That entirely depends on the quality of the instruction.

Last time this came around, he was willfully misrepresenting the difference between "str" and "bytes" specifically to gripe about how used to python 2's broken implementation he was. That's not helping.
LOL, the private schools here are anti-vaxxer havens, when you hear about kids dying of whooping cough or similar in this state, it nearly always is at a private school. Also, its a non-union gig that pays a few grand less than SPS or the other public school districts. What your paying for with private schools in the region is to be in an upper crust social circle.

The Archdiocese of the Seattle Catholic Church needs to crack down on that, as they run the majority of the private schools in the city.
Hi John, I'm Alex Rodrigues, CEO at Embark. Thanks for your interest. Our testing is legal and we are in close communication with the DMV to ensure we stay that way. In California we restrict our system to Level 2 (like Tesla autopilot), in order to comply with regulations.
I just noticed you mentioned building more neurons - I thought I'd rea somewhere that the number of neurons was fixed at some point in teenagehood, and didn't increase beyond that?

Or am I misunderstanding that point?

(It would be pretty good if we could grow/regrow them).
Thanks! That's funny, before starting at a programming job a few years ago my soon-to-be-employer (at a tiny YC startup) said to me, "you can be like our own little Bret Victor!" I should re-watch that one though since I only have a vague recollection of it. I enjoyed his "Inventing on Principle" talk quite a bit.
It's a high risk area with no benefit to programs which don't spend a lot of time in malloc, or which recycle entire objects (dispensing with the cost of fully re-initializing recycled memory, not only the cost of malloc).

It's also not true that glibc's malloc has no arenas (which someone may interpret that way); they are just not tied to threads. For something like twenty years, glibc's malloc has had thread support roughly as follows: a thread walks a list of arenas and tries to acquire one without blocking. Then it allocates from that arena. So it's not exactly like there is one big lock around malloc. But threads don't have affinity to go to the same arena.
The fact that spotify has DRM is inconsequential to it, and those like it stomping out a ton of music piracy. It's all about the distribution model, and the DRM is just to make the rights holders happy.
If I follow, you're implying browsers that hypothetically refused to work with Netflix's DRM would wallow in obscurity.

While probably correct since the majority of users do seem to like Netflix, others ignore Netflix and get their media through, shall we say more "obscure" sources. Such an obscure browser would seem to suit their needs just fine. Tor Browser doesn't need to be popular among the masses for those who use it to find lots of value in using it, for example.
I'm a fan and investor in Tesla, but there's 3 parts to winning the ridesharing, autonomous, BEV future and the most important part is the role that Uber has right now which is the customer-ridesharing-relationship. The platform technology is going to largely escalate in multiple places simultaneously and thus be the commodity bit. It is definitely an advantage to Tesla if they manage to get the hardware\software right via Tesla Network with a 2-3 year headstart, but the capital required to expand is so high that this head-start is less substantial than say a Facebook style adoption curve. It'll be a battle. We'll see.
The category-theory window onto the world of types only appeals to a small subset of human minds.

For the average programmer you may as well be spouting gibberish because the average programmer will have no way to evaluate the claims (if any) you are making. Note, I am saying that you may as well be and not that you are. Please do not misunderstand me.

Types systems certainly are formal theoretical systems but I personally have come to believe that the majority of coders are ill-served by the mathematical leanings of type theorists.

I'm not sure I can explain myself better than that at the moment.
If your mom's house was also in Portland, I'm not that surprised by the outcome for the same reason that a house closing at 25% over doesn't seem that extraordinary: Portland's housing market is bonkers.
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Agreed. However, Widevine is Google's thing and it's plausible that they'd ship it with some non-free build of Chrome. Unless they're worried about trusting the OS, in which case my original argument is void.
He's right. The current type theory crazy is just another in a long line cargo cult programming fads. First it was pure OOP for everything, then it was pure FP for everything, and now it's types for everything. Yes they can be useful, but it's disingenuous to act like they're a cure-all. Most bugs aren't type related, and you're adding additional mental overhead with these extremely elaborate type systems.
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> By not making it a standard we'll make sure that Neflix never, ever comes to Linux.

Netflix already works on Linux, with Chrome and Firefox: https://help.netflix.com/en/node/23742

It uses EME with closed-source CDMs bundled with the browser (Chrome) or downloaded by the browser (Firefox).
> You are way off point.

One of us is, but:

> Your original statement [...]

No, the statement you quote was not mine, and not one that I have at any point agreed with or supported.

And your responses to me have neither been germane to the posts they repsonded to or to rebutting that point made by a different poster. It looks like you misread my post agreeing with and providing additional context to your response to that poster as disagreement, and responded with argument that wasnt germane either to the points I actually made or to the point someone else made that you thought I must be arguing for merely because I responded to you.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Seattle_since_1940#...

This sounds similar to the current dependency on Amazon in the city.
> The local agent that we ended up using instead ... also paid to stage the house--which Redfin would not have done.

You paid for that.