skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you mind sharing the domain in which your wife's company is involved in (assuming you don't want to share the name of the company)?
> Don't collect URLs, but only top-level+1 domains (e.g. images.google.com), and associate information with that.

Using "images.google.com" as an example is too convenient.

That would be great if you could also add whatever TLD+1 most people would rather keep private as another example right after "images.google.com".
It’s a question of consent.

Imagine I came to your house, and photocopied all your documents.

Don’t worry, I blanked out the name, so it’s completely anonymous, and everything is where it used to be.

Would you be okay with that?

I certainly wouldn’t.

Making this opt-in or opt-out is a question of consent, and choosing opt-out shows that you don’t give a flying fuck about me, and only want your own benefit.
I assumed this was an enterprise version of Chrome, with the main difference being it doesn't auto update, thus being more friendly to the IT departments who administer a company's computers.
> Medium to Writers: Please Clap

Readers to writers - if you want claps (and the potential pay that comes with) then you need to insist that Medium drop the dickbars (see: https://daringfireball.net/2017/06/medium_dickbars)
> Both how to deflect them (peacefully)

Curious about your parenthesized addition. How do you deflect an asteroid non-peacefully?
Batteries also aren't a problem because if the battery dies you can still use it as manual toothbrush.
Why is the top half of the page in a serif font and the rest sans-serif?
Here you go, from 1995: http://www.newsweek.com/clifford-stoll-why-web-wont-be-nirva... Note that most of his predictions did come true for a while and then were later falsified; many dotcoms learned that "being early is the same as wrong" the hard way.
But you did?

Edit: I don't think I can do much more than comment at this point.
Wow! That's perfect. Thanks for the links.
Free Software, not Open Source

If capitalists are not going to let us abolish copyright, we should abuse it, not pretend it does not exist.
Buffer - $12M annual revenue (although they did have offices originally, I believe). BuzzSumo - $5M annual revenue. CrowdTangle - before they got acquired by FB.
The value is that the course itself is hosted on the blockchain. It's distributed and decentralized. /s
In no way was the clever, difficult or value add part of this the CRC cards - persuading Sharp to buy your patent for 3 million is just one of the things I would like to know how to do :-)
FYI, the new iteration isn’t called Google Now anymore but Google Assistant. Not that that helps with your complaint.
Opt-Out vs Opt-In is a question of consent. Do you value your own benefits more than my own right to determine my own life?

If yes (and that’s what you get when you choose opt-out), then we’re done. There is no gradual change there, it’s a binary question if you value the user or your own benefit more.
He was a driver full-time for 2 years.

When the driver is not on a trip, we turn on both apps. When they are on a trip, we turn off the app not in use.
Was there any such recourse with using Google Apps or Microsoft tools?
"A world without photosynthesis", "photosynthesis would still have been impossible for an entire year"

Clearly, photosynthesis did survive in some capacity. No? Life did not re-evolve photosynthesis in the last 66 million years.
Not quite, tile based GPUs tend to be better on Z-Buffer bandwidth but not all mobile GPUs are true tile-based GPUs.

The number of tiles can definitely change, it's something Qualcomm calls out directly in one of their talks[1]. As your tile count increases so does your setup cost for your drawcalls.

[1] https://youtu.be/SeySx0TkluE?t=41
I still don't see what problem parent selectors cause. Restyling parent happens anyway without parent selectors (say, by JavaScript), so it is handled. In https://github.com/servo/servo/blob/master/components/style/..., MustCascadeChildren is returned when you... must.
Hey HN! I'm a runner and was unhappy with all of the pace calculator websites I could find—they were awkward, slow, confusing, couldn't handle arbitrary distances, or couldn't extrapolate, say, a mile pace into a 10k time. This is my attempt at something less terrible!

I'd really appreciate any feedback!
Generally speaking, there's no way to detect if you're using a VPN. They block specific IP ranges belonging to VPN providers.
Vudu sounds an awful lot like Hulu...

That's like if someone made a burger chain called McDonny... Everyone would recognize the connection immediately.
How do we determine whether the bias is caused by the employer or whether by the applicants?

Anyway, I'll agree that we need to have this conversation, and we need to work out some way of applying some rules that seem somewhat fair, and that the issues should be dealt with on all fronts.

We, in Australia anyway, already have varying rules / laws / regulations that apply to a workplace depending on the number of employees and / or revenue. So it would seem to make sense that diversity quotas would be applied in a similar fashion. I mean if we, as a society, believe that's necessary, which does appear to be the direction we're headed.

I guess I tend to recoil from the idea because I work in heavy steel fabrication and construction. The job roles in this industry tend to be very traditional with regard to gender. Women work the administrative side, men do all the dangerous / dirty / heavy / hot / long hours work. And as far as I can tell everyone is okay with that.

Until I see diversity quotas applied in the job roles that kill and injure men at work it's a little hard for me to take serious this ... squabbling ... in tech industry.

What might be best is, since this doesn't really involve me, as in: I don't work in the hotbed-tech-industry-in-a-large-city, I might just stay out of the conversation.
I just posted a long reply to your original message, without first seeing that you'd replied to this comment (made by someone else).

If this is how the 30 day policy works, it is slightly more appealing than what I thought. However, it's still not enough peace-of-mind for me. This means that recent files are vulnerable to corruption during their first month of existence (through accidental overwriting, and some kinds of viruses and ransomware). The "most recent version" that is backed up may end up being a corrupted, useless version.

I agree that retaining infinite versions of every file would be cost-prohibitive. However, you may be able to find a healthy compromise. Maybe you could retain a ton of versions of small files and fewer versions of large files. Maybe you could provide users with a space allowance for versioning and allow them to decide which versions of which files to delete (if they reach the allowance limit) or to pay more to increase the allowance.

To summarize: You need versioning in order to be an awesome backup service (and an awesome backup service is the only thing I'll happily settle for!)
> Is the cost of disk space the reason why BackBlaze expunges files deleted on a backed-up computer fromthe backup on your servers after 30 days?

The original reason was to prevent customers who owned a single 1 TByte hard drive from filling it with content, backing it up to Backblaze, writing down the date, then emptying the hard drive and filling it with DIFFERENT content, backing up to Backblaze, writing down the date, repeat 50 times.

The idea was this: if the data is not important enough for you to keep a local copy, Backblaze is not going to keep it either. You aren't allowed to go down to just "one copy in Backblaze".

We chose the 30 days as something we thought of as "reasonable". For example, we expected that within 30 days you would realize your laptop was stolen so you could request a full restore. That sort of thing.

However, and now we're all furiously debating the 30 days based on the enormous amount of feedback we are getting today. We will do an analysis and if we can afford it, we will be increasing that number.
Should you really have to pay extra for the privilege of not being locked out?
Because sports totally make sense
If you see the parent comment, I am referring to backing up relatives' machines to mine. These relatives are not local. Backup must happen over the internet.
Or folks will be so in-tune with their connected ways that a service which "allows" you to disappear is more apparent than just throwing your phone off a bridge.
AFAIK they're detecting IP addresses of major video services.
"If Mozilla starts reading a tiny bit of user data using well-researched techniques for preserving user privacy and anonymity, I'm going to ditch my browser of 12 years and switch to the competition, which is perfectly happy to grab as much personal information as they possibly can from me in order to monetize me."

(well, unless you're going to switch to Safari, since Apple also cares about privacy, though, spoiler alert, Safari's also using Differential Privacy to collect data).
To be honest I had a pretty average experience with Sonos so far. It is connected with cat6 ethernet, professional switches, with no other connectivity problems on that network (and I tested all cables). I have 3 systems (pay1, play 5 and the sonos amp), and they keep losing track of each others, I have to regroup them regularly. They also struggle with long music tracks (i.e. 1h podcasts off a synology shared drive) and often stall in the middle.

If they brick my devices, I will only be half upset.
Been keeping my eye on restic for just this reason.

https://github.com/restic/restic
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The answer is, nobody does.

They implicitly agree under duress, because their time is worth far too much to even read 10 pages of fine print for every product they use. I'm not being flippant; it bloody well is.

I'm not sure why courts consider that to hold any weight; to me it goes against the whole notion of informed consent in binding agreements. And to be fair, often the courts don't consider to hold any weight.
Do you remember which biography? I have a strange feeling I've heard this story before but I also feel I might have dreamt it up.
(Disclosure: I work for Arq Backup)

Arq encrypts the backups before transmitting them, and the encryption key you choose never leaves your computer.
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Seeds can germinate after much longer than a year: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oldest_viable_seed
Just checked and saw this:

https://github.com/JetBrains/kotlin-native

So Kotlin Native may be another good reason, once it is stable.
Maybe we can partner up :). I made http://www.averageweather.io for a very similar reason.
With the rise of all of these new streaming services I wonder if we will see a golden age of internet piracy. No one is going to want to pay hundreds of dollars a month just to get different brands of content.
Wow talk about blowing something out of proportion. The new software comes with new terms. If you don't accept the new terms you keep the existing software. Over time, it is possible that current software sill stop working with e.g. some future Pandora API, and you'll have a choice of either updating your software or foregoing that feature.

I have a Sonos in every room of my house and I've owned them since the very first generation. Sonos has been extremely good about updating the software. The current software still works on the very first hardware, with all the functionality save for a single feature, room-correcting equalization, that requires the newer DSP. This company is the gold standard of ongoing software support for consumer goods and this article is trying to spin the situation in just the perfect way to make the Internet commentariat explode.
All photosynthesizing plants could die and then re-sprout from seeds without extinction.
The Kaizen Approach to Achieving Your Biggest Goal
The same thing that determines the price when the market open on the first day of trading following an IPO: the point where sellers and buyers meet. But if liquidity is scarce and trading volumes are low, price discovery will indeed be hard.
I love that it's pw protected. :/ Simply Beautiful. Boom.
If I want a browser with telemetry, I can just as well use Chrome.

It’s Firefox without telemetry, or no Firefox at all.
Seeds can remain viable for significantly longer than a year. My guess is that as it got significantly colder for that same time period, most seeds were too cold to grow until it warmed up after the soot left the atmosphere.
IQ as the origin of collective intelligence in the performance of human groups
If you can't afford it, let me pay extra for this feature.
The sentence is if you don't pay for the product, you are the product. But Sonos isn't exactly free. It isn't exactly cheap either.
Sonos: I am altering the deal. Pray I don't alter it any further.
Four nationwise carriers? They are all colluding on territories, price, features and service! Why aren't there hundreds or thousands? That would be real competition.
(Disclosure: I work for Arq Backup)

Arq will back up files that are on your NAS, or anything else you want it to back up.
Fully distributed wireless mesh network would be the evolutive step, but as Big Telecomm controls not only the grid but also the things manufacturers are urged to make, openly wireless-to-wireless cards may take a while to emerge.
> if I delete a file will you retain it forever

No. We consider a file deletion as "the final version of the file you wish to retain". In that case you can get the deleted version for 30 days, then it is gone forever.
Agree, but lack of public key support is the only reason for me not using it
Right. They don't need to raise money.
"As of 6/22/2017 there are travel warnings for the United Kingdom; exercise a high degree of caution."

I thought this was an error at first, but the .ca travel advice is indeed to be extra careful visiting the UK.

Spain, meanwhile: "Exercise normal security precautions".

Huh.

I guess it's only as good as the data sources :)
Check out IPFS https://github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs

It's the distributed web and it's the future, there's tons of videos on youtube as well https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skMTdSEaCtA
I wish this post included some benchmarks or measurement.
However, there does seem to be a mistake in the precipitation section:

"If dry weather is what you’re after, the months with the lowest chance of precipitation in San Diego are December, February, and then January."
Algolia for search

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OpenCppCoverage an open source code coverage tool for C++ under Windows
Quicken needs to hire more people for their online book keeping platforms, horrible performance issues that have persisted for years.
>I need something that would keep watch on all the files on the system (see inotify) to avoid continuous rescans of the disks, and that would work on Linux...

What op is looking for has nothing to do with previews
bread and circuses --> food and video. these are the only consumer tech industries that will survive.

everything else will eventually pivot to business/government.
C++ Core Guidelines Checker in Visual Studio 2017
A certain irony about knowing all the tricks and using Python is that you invariably encounter people online who say "well Python was too slow so I dropped it" when the problem they encountered is covered either by one of Python's prolific extensions or by a slight reformulation of the problem.

And, having said that, I also didn't know that some optimizations were possible until later in my programming career. There's just a point where it escapes one's current level of skill.
So if Bitdefender develops the engine, what does the anti-virus vendor do? Only develop the input (definitions)?
When It’s Hard for Women to Find Male Mentors
If the units are also wifi connected (sonos mesh networking), then either only plug in one of them to ethernet, or fiddle with your switch spanning tree cost values. As I recall, sonos uses the older standard spanning tree values, and until I fiddled with my managed switch settings, the sonos were regularly bringing down my local network, and/or winning the elections so that large amounts of my lan traffic went over their wireless mesh network.

Pretty crappy default configuration on Sonos' part (using old default cost values), if you ask me.
Linux support please...
Deciduous trees would just treat it as a long winter.
> While the scientists think the new study gives a robust picture of how large injections of soot into the atmosphere can affect the climate, they also caution that the study has limitations.

> For example, the simulations were run in a model of modern-day Earth, not a model representing what Earth looked like during the Cretaceous Period, when the continents were in slightly different locations. The atmosphere 66 million years ago also contained somewhat different concentrations of gases, including higher levels of carbon dioxide.

> Additionally, the simulations did not try to account for volcanic eruptions or sulfur released from the Earth's crust at the site of the asteroid impact, which would have resulted in an increase in light-reflecting sulfate aerosols in the atmosphere.

Additionally, the "world-class computer model" in which the simulations were run may or may not have been a Minecraft server.
I would expect two diodes facing each other would just act like one diode with two connections. A transistor uses one input to control the flow through another path. So something more like a diode that is 'programmable' by another diode.
I'd be curious how any animals survived.
>This is a proposed compromise that is being floated. Don't collect URLs, but only top-level+1 domains (e.g. images.google.com), and associate information with that.

Until sites start programmatically generating a unique subdomain for each [Firefox] user.
It's kindof funny zmonx, whenever there is a challenge that I think "oh I can do this with a SAT solver", you've already shown up and solved it with Prolog.

I think you've gone for the more 'expressive' variant here. If I were writing SMTLIB directly or using an API, I'd prove the assertion that any possible parenthization is eqv by enumerating & checking them individually :)
Lots of enterprises out there with many users who need nothing more than a web browser, email, light word processing and maybe slideshow software. Active Directory integration makes the migration possible. Chrome OS provides it all in a way which dramatically reduces maintenance costs compared to Windows.

If Google starts showing some reduced TCO figures, they'll start to pull a lot of converts.
There is none. On the first day of trading there would be an opening auction as is done with every other stock listed on the NYSE. Prior to open, everyone interested in trading submits his orders. Then as many shares as can be traded are traded at the price at which the maximum number of shares can be traded. That is, the price is determined by supply and demand.

The IPO price is the price at which shares are sold by the company to the public and represents the new money invested in the company. Then on the morning on which trading opens there is an opening auction as described. Ideally this price is near the IPO price, meaning that neither the company nor the investors left money on the table.

Spotify is proposing to skip the IPO, and not raise further money. They must think that their stock is already widely held enough to support trading, and that they have no need of further money.

It will be interesting to see what happens if they go forward with this. While the mechanics are no different than any other day of trading, I suspect the type of trading will be very different. Currently all holders of Spotify stock are long-term investors, simply because there is no market. Until traders acquire enough of it, liquidity will be bad and the price will probably jump around a lot. In addition, many people will want to invest, so they will buy. Will current holders want to sell? I suspect they will want to watch trading instead of selling at the first possible moment.

I think we'll see a rapid rise in Spotify's price due to high demand and lack of supply. The current holders will undoubtedly be looking to reduce their stake. Will demand keep up as they begin selling, or will price rapidly fall as trading becomes, for lack of a better term, "normal."
Totemic cofounder here. We actually don't just detect "falls" as a moment in time, but also use patterns to figure out things along the line of someone being on the floor in a place they usually aren't and they're not able to get up.
That's a good point, there must be a way to block access from these devices to the Sonos mothership. I have seen zero software improvement in the few years I owned my Sonos set, so I can't say that I would miss much.
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> all efforts other than solving the 30 day file retention limit

Trust me, that message has come through loud and clear! :-) We are going to do some analysis to see if we can afford it, but we'll need at least a week or two to figure that out.
I've worked since fourteen. I know it's odd and rare but it's possible :) they offer me such positions often because of top companies in my country that I worked with.
The sonos subwoofer alone is about half of that price.
I don't see it. Your example is much more obvious.
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The world is not black & white. If Firefox starts collecting a small amount of data in a privacy-sensitive manner and makes it opt-out, that does not at al make it equivalent to e.g. Google collecting all the user data it can.
if you're willing to pay 50€/year, you could get a hubic[1] subscription for a 10TB cloud storage.

i haven't tested it myself though, just heard about it.

Its supposidly possible to share this account with friends, because duplicity backups are GPG encrypted.

[1] https://hubic.com/en/offers/storage-10tb
I needed to create a circle drawing algorithm for some purposes a long ways back. I was in middle school at the time.

While speed wasn't a huge issue, consistency was. Simply using sin/cos to draw the circle works, but it can lead to jagged and inconsistently placed pixels if your degree step isn't perfect. Even with my middle school level math, I realized I could just iterate over the bounding box for the circle and just use r^2 as a threshold on x^2+y^2 to determine whether a pixel should be on or off - no square root required, since it's totally redundant.

It has the bonuses of using only integer math (consistency!) and only requires slight changes to yield filled or unfilled circles. It's also almost as fast as drawing a simple filled rectangle!

The idea that the author could miss such a simple algorithm baffles me.
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I like the webpage format. They even made sure (apparently) that printing preserves the layout and page numbering.
Thanks for playing
You can generalize this to a "weakest link" issue. If you imagine splitting things into 100 expert teams instead of just 2, it becomes pretty clear that things will move as fast as the slowest team (assuming a linear chain of dependencies).

Unfortunately hit such situations quite a bit at my current workplace...
Rounding to the nearest second would be fine.
Including the pace for 400 meters would be nice
for track-oriented users.
Already years (~7+) ago AVG introduced an out of process scanning implementation that opens the file in question with system rights however transfers the handle to a lower privileged process (restricted with ACLs) that actually performs the actual scan