skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If they're frustrated with Sublime with practical reasons (i.e. performance, plugins, extensibility), I don't think Code or Atom would satisfy them any better. You could make the argument for vim or emacs there, but those have been around much longer than Sublime, I doubt Sublime's eating much into those users in the first place.

If they're frustrated with Sublime due to not being FOSS, nothing I guess. But again, those people would have largely switched over already.
Design and Machine Learning: How IBM Designed an Award-Winning Data Platform
If the street is long enough, what about two of these cameras with one at each end of the street?

You'd only get an average speed but that should be enough to catch the worst offenders.

Something like this[1] has been used on UK motorways for a while.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPECS_(speed_camera)
The $78-Trillion Free Lunch – If Borders Were Open
Yeah this is great - I think a course correction is going to be necessary to keep people sane. Most people aren't wired to work 12 hour days 6 days a week.

More than anything, I just think it's kind of gross that if I don't go to the after work happy hour, or don't send emails on the weekend, that I'm not perceived as being on-board. Can't stand that line of thinking.
Thanks. I am just starting our fall crop plan. Will be in touch. Regards.
I use ST3 daily and have been using the beta since it came out. I don't have problems with it. Granted I'm not a poweruser of ST but I do use at a lot.

I love it. I could have stayed with ST2 for free but I chose to pay so that the devs could get the $.

I love sublime.
I remember reading the Symbolics manuals from bitsavers and how I have been impressed by clarity and unity of the language, and how they incorporated CL into Zetalisp just by moving their own stuff into packages.

At least in the documentation everything looks wonderful. Compared to Symbolics CL looks like a mess at least from reading the books.
I think you're making a "perfect is the enemy of good" mistake. Yes, the class action mechanism has its flaws and is open to abuse. But you're trying to imply that ALL class actions are like the one in the linked article, which is not the case, and it's not exactly honest to paint all or most class actions as being like the one in your link. Or even that the problems of incentives invalidates any use of class actions.

Not to mention that the article offers data to refute this idea that only the lawyers benfit (from a study the author commissioned in 2010 while at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau):

>Opponents also claim that the rule benefits lawyers rather than consumers. In reality, lawyers collect a small portion compared with consumers, and only if they succeed. For every $10 that a company pays out for wrongdoing, we found about $8 goes to consumers and $2 goes to pay legal costs. In any event, banks choose to hire lawyers to file class-action lawsuits, and ordinary people deserve to make the same choice.

>Consumers get only a tiny fraction of what they've lost.

But the whole point is that consumers have, individually, lost very little. If you were overcharged $20 and got $10, or $5, the company in aggregate has still been forced to pay out a lot. Any individual consumer isn't going to receive significant compensation even in a 100% win.

The article again offers data to refute this idea that consumers don't get fair compensation through class actions:

>First, opponents claim that plaintiffs are better served by acting individually than by joining a group lawsuit. This claim is not supported by facts or common sense. Our study contained revealing data on the results of group lawsuits and individual actions. We found that group lawsuits get more money back to more people. In five years of group lawsuits, we tallied an average of $220 million paid to 6.8 million consumers per year. Yet in the arbitration cases we studied, on average, 16 people per year recovered less than $100,000 total.

>Companies aren't deterred--they just treat the occasional payout as the cost of doing business.

This is true of any litigation, yet we don't usually see arguments against the very concept. It still at least forces companies to consider one more bar to abuse.

Until we have better regulation, this imperfect tool is something consumers have available to them to fight abuses of a type that normally wouldn't be addressed because of their nature. Without this tool, consumers would have no recourse. As the article says:

>As one judge noted, “only a lunatic or a fanatic sues for $30.”

>When a bank charges illegal fees to millions of customers and then blocks them from suing together, a result is not millions of individual claims, but zero. So the bank gets to pocket millions in ill-gotten gains.

Arguing against class actions makes no sense until we do have legislative or regulatory alternatives.
Meta Reaches Settlement as Patent Infringement Claims Emerge
Nice no true Scotsman here.

Now define a good manager from a shareholder view.
Observability: What's in a name?
Right. 99% for $2000/acre.
But it would catch the blatant stuff like in TFA...
Use Brave. It somehow bypasses the block.
You've got a lot of it right, but you're missing the key advance described here, which--if true--is pretty wild.

Taking a step back, in 2016, this group did cover a bacterium with tiny semiconductor nanoparticles (specifically CdS) just as you say. That work is described here: http://www.pnas.org/content/113/42/11750.full In short, the semiconductors act as mini-solar cells, converting light into electrical current. The bacteria then use that electricity to convert CO2 into acetic acid. That already is pretty cool.

However, what they claim now is that they don't even need to make the semiconductor nanoparticles. They can simply grow the bacteria in an environment containing cadmium and sulfur sources and the bacterium will synthesize it's own cadmium sulfide coat, and use it for photosensitization.

This is really pretty wild. Bacteria will often incorporate various elements from their host medium, but the generally use them to make biomolecules, not semiconductors. Right now, this is just being presented at a conference, but it will be very interesting to see the details when the full paper comes out.
If you were a resident of Earth at the time where the coal deposits were formed, you'd find our current climate pretty frigid. From your point of view it would just be returning back to normal :)
What is "artificial" in your mind?
Bingo.

Very relatedly, I kind of wish TeX Live would release less frequently -- the 4-GB-of-crap song and dance is a pain, even once a year.
NFL Teams with China’s Tencent in Three-Year Streaming Deal
I don't see how "truly unlimited" and "data hoarders" can ever be the basis of a sustainable business. Each additional terabyte costs them real money to store.
This is basically the marketing that got Backblaze it's respect.

The service features and GUI experience fall short, and yes I am widely just referring to the 30 day file retention. In practice, this basically means you need yet another plan to make up for that. Once you find that other plan, it should make Backblaze unnecessary if it works in a reasonable way.
Moon's Shadow on Earth During Solar Eclipse (August 21,2017)
Can't relate. Coding on neovim in tmux on a remote machine obviously with a very slight lag.
I'll give you two little samples of what my impression is based on (besides the thousands of articles read and stories of fellow business people operating in the American market):

- when I was in New York I got hit from behind by a guy in a car doing maybe 5 mph. He got out of his car right away, ran over and started pleading with me not to sue him before he thought of asking me how I was. When I told him I'm European and he doesn't have to worry his relief was extreme.

- A customer of ww.com had viewed a scene that he considered 'shocking' (a gay couple walking around nude in their house) and that he would sue for emotional distress because of this. When he found out we were located in Canada he promptly forgot about it.
That's only possible if your business model doesn't depend on extracting "more work out of young, impressionable 20somethings who didn't know any better without paying them for this extra effort".
How Does Eye Color Affect Baseball Batters?
Red Hat adds Microsoft's .NET Core 2.0 to its Linux and cloud offerings
I just want a simple, predictable flat fee, not a pricing guide ...

https://help.backblaze.com/hc/en-us/articles/217667478-Under...
Yup. VC's are in the game to money. I felt the article was promoting himself as different and unique...
Google Fi actually has great support. When I ported a number over to them, I had several issues and each time I called, they were able to help and I was always connected to someone instantly. That was a year ago.
I'd like to see more mature solutions that store all my data in the cloud, revision it there, and just use my local hard disk as a workspace cache instead. I suspect that's one of the reasons CrashPlan is exiting too, they can't backup iCloud Document folders on Mac, and likely OneDrive either, so the writing is on the wall.
From the (at least somewhat) active projects Nuitka, a Python to C compiler seems missing here.

[1] http://nuitka.net/
As I see it $70 is a lot. VScode is free and offers me almost the same (if not more), plus it's activly develop.
>That said, relying on a fuel source that requires CO2 as
>input seems just as potentially destabilizing to the global
>carbon cycle as relying on a fuel source that produces CO2
>as byproduct.

Not really. Using CO2 to generate a fuel which then liberates CO2 when it is consumed ends up being CO2-neutral, which is exactly the way to go.
Nice. It seems gcc/clang don't know that trick. They still divide and then check that x/3 * 3 == x. https://godbolt.org/g/V4kfuu. (So do ICC17 and MSVC CL19).
They are likely mining Bitcoin Cash, a recent fork of Bitcoin. It is currently more profitable for miners to mine Bitcoin Cash, so a large number have opted to switch over until the profitability ratio flips back to Bitcoin.

There is more information about the relative hash rates for both chains at http://fork.lol.
Disclaimer: I'm biased because I work at Backblaze. I'm also one of the founders. Backblaze started in my living room in Palo Alto.

Backblaze is A LOT LESS LIKELY to exit out of providing consumer online backup anytime soon as it is our primary business.

I don't fully understand what just occurred with CrashPlan, but they had two separate "clients" - one for consumers and one for businesses. As far as I can tell, CrashPlan is discontinuing one of their two clients but doubling down on the "business client". I don't understand how they got into that situation, but Backblaze only has one backup client so we can't really abandon the one true client we have. :-)

Finally, Backblaze is profoundly different than CrashPlan in that we never really raised any bank financing or VC financing. We're 90% employee owned, and there are no deep pockets. CrashPlan raised something like $150 million which comes with "pressure to grow fast or die". Backblaze is free of any such pressure, we own our own fate.

In a final note: I have ALWAYS liked CrashPlan and I am sad to see them go. Realistically they were never a "competitor" to Backblaze. Our biggest competitor was customer apathy and customers not realizing that online backup was a good option. The more money companies like Carbonite and CrashPlan poured into advertising INCREASED Backblaze sales merely by raising awareness of online backup. CrashPlan (and Carbonite) have been absolutely wonderful to Backblaze because we didn't have the gigantic amounts of money to advertise that they had and they essentially advertise on our behalf (for free). We also know some of the CrashPlan people and I believe they are good people who want the best for their customers.
The only payoff is the IPO. Sad but true. You can work in a world changing place but you also want it to change your world.
I avg about 2 years per company. I planned on staying in my current situation for 5 yrs but the project has already changed drastically in my 2 yrs here. As a result I'll probably be leaving soon. I assumed the avg Googler would stay longer than my average duration due to the variety of things you could work on in addition to the above avg pay
Sorry, I found this kind of amusing:

> There were plenty grammatical mistakes.

Seriously though, it's nice to hear you've improved here. Indeed, I think the big takeaway here is that previously you were writing for print (where long, meandering articles are the norm and formal language is almost expected) and now you're writing for the web (where people want short, easier to understand pieces they can read in whatever free time they have available).

Good luck with your future blog posts!
A little more than a year ago I went to a conference on blockchains. [it makes my blood boil how IBM has gotten people to say "cloud", "blockchain", etc. Even people who think IBM is pants will still talk like babies when these subjects come around]

One clear thing to me was that Ethereum had no security story.

Well, it has a story for the security of the base challenge, an actually interesting story that if you have five different implementations that are evenly used, a hole in one of them won't affect the whole system (unless it reaches 50% adoption.)

However there is no security story for applications built on Ethereum. Thus the DAO hack, the ICO hacks, etc. Experience shows that you can't trust the run-of-the-mill programmer to get that kind of thing right, and you certainly can't trust bankers, traders, and fin-tech brogrammers!

There are also interesting reasons why blockchains were only developed lately. If you went to a distributed computing conference and presented a paper about a distributed system which did not improve it's ability to handle workload at all when you add more nodes, you'd get laughed out of the room.

And then there are the people who talk about "fiat currency" and who think that Bitcoin is like gold. Bitcoin is not like gold. People wanted gold 4000 years ago and they will want it 4000 years from now unless we are extinct or unless we find an asteroid which is made of solid gold. No way are people going to want Bitcoin 4000 years from now.
Sublime is a powerful text editor. I switch to it 10-15 times a day to execute random plaintext editing. If I don't need Rich Text Formating, I tend to default to using Sublime. I can see why one would use it to write and edit legislation drafts.
As someone familiar with differential privacy, and (somewhat less) with privacy generally, here are some suggestions for Mozilla:

1. Run an opt-out SHIELD study to answer the question: "how many people can find an 'opt-out' button?". That's all. You launch this at people with as much notice as you would plan on doing for RAPPOR, and see if you get a 100% response rate. If you do not, then 100% - whatever you get are going to be collateral damage should you launch DP as opt-out, and you need to own up to saying "well !@#$ them".

2. Implement RAPPOR and then do it OPT-IN. Run three levels of telemetry: (i) default: none, (ii) opt-in: RAPPOR, (iii) opt-in: full reports. Make people want to contribute, rather than trying to yank what they (quite clearly) feel is theirs to keep. Explain how their contribution helps, and that opting-in could be a great non-financial way to contribute. If you give a shit about privacy, work the carrot rather than the stick.

3. Name some technical experts you have consulted. Like, on anything about DP. The tweet stream your intern sent out had several historical and technical errors, and it would scare the shit out of me if they were the one doing this.

4. Name the lifetime epsilon you are considering. If it is 0.1, put in plain language that failing to opt out could disadvantage anyone by 10% on any future transaction in their life.

I think the better experiment that is going on here is the trial run of "we would like to take advantage of privacy tech, but we don't know how". I think there are a lot of people who might like to help you on that (not me), and I hope you have learned about how to do it better.
Very excited to launch a collaborative data challenge! This isn't just for data scientists, but we have ways for software engineers, designers, and technical writers to contribute as well.

We'd love your help building software that puts AI in the hands of clinicians!
It's pretty clear in the comments here that all efforts other than solving the 30 day file retention limit are going to be a waste of time until you address this. It simply reduces the utility of the product to the point that you need yet another product that will almost inherently render yor product unnecessary.

Until you address this, I can't reason investing time, processor performance, or the tiny monthly payment.

Complete backup plans are taken seriously by myself and other HN users and when one tries to put one together and include Backblaze, it just doesn't add up.

Maybe you could make a blog post that addresses your recommendations head on. I remain open!
Unix seems to handle it well:

$cal 9 1752

September 1752
Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa
1 2 14 15 16
17 18 19 20 21 22 23
24 25 26 27 28 29 30

there is a Bug on the man page, which has more to do with "what country are we in"
BUGS
The assignment of Julian--Gregorian switching dates to country codes is historically naive for many countries.
I'm a big fan of Dan's book, this video is worth checking out. (Although I will say his take on things is not for everyone. It can be overly harsh if you listen to it / read it without a sense of humor.
Actually, I realized I follow the "abstract recursion out of your structures" intuition but don't really realize why you chose Cofree instead of some of the other options:

import Control.Monad.Free
import Control.Comonad.Cofree
import Data.Functor.Foldable

data A f
= ANil
| ACons f
type AList a = Cofree A a
a :: AList Int
a = 1 :< ACons (2 :< ACons (3 :< ANil))

data B a f
= B a f
type BList a = Free (B a) ()
b :: BList Int
b = Free (B 1 (Free (B 2 (Free (B 3 (Pure ()))))))

data C a f
= CCons a f
| CNil
type CList a = Fix (C a)
c :: CList Int
c = Fix (CCons 1 (Fix (CCons 2 (Fix (CCons 3 (Fix CNil))))))

You wanted to ensure it's non-empty? Something about the actual Comonad (extend, etc) interface?
I don't use Gmail, although I can certainly blacklist their domain globally for myself and friends/colleagues.
Yes, but its not how much money you lose that matters, it is how much fun you have while losing the money that matters. These hackers robbed the customers of a valuable roller coaster life experience.

Sincerely,

Las Vegas Gaming Commission Marketing Manager
Introducing Kubic: a community-driven container-as-a-service platform
> and its not clear that, for example, a years traveling will make me any less dissatisfied with my work, although at least it would help me refocus my life

I think this is the crux of the matter. I know a few people who spent their 20s traveling abroad and having great life experiences, and now that they're in their 30s, they're like "Shit, I have no career, I'm working at Whole Foods / living off my parents / flat broke and I'll never be able to afford the life milestones that I took for granted like getting married, having kids, or owning a house."

I think the root of the problem is that evolutionarily, our happiness emotion didn't evolve to make us happy. Rather, it evolved to force us to take actions which increase our chance of passing on our genes. There's pretty ample evidence for this (Google [hedonic treadmill], for example), and yet we keep wishing we were happier. I guess we're fated to do this, because people who didn't wish they were happier wouldn't be driven to take actions to pass on their genes.

FWIW, I don't regret working hard (at some startups, and also one big corp) during my 20s at all. It was what I wanted to do at the time, and it's given me some cushion to do other things I want to do. Plus I got to work on some really cool projects with some great other people, and had a lot of fun doing so.
As someone who first learned how to program by implementing PRNGs but never really digging deeper into it, I found this post very interesting to read. I do have an idea about some (small portion) of the things behind it, but I have no background in cryptography.

Looking at the other posts, it seems like most PRNGs are fine for non-cryptographic applications, but what are other ways to make PRNG's though? Everything I've learned (mostly simple stuff; Linear Congruential, Midsquare, etc.) seem to need to store a state to work, because otherwise, wouldn't you just output the same thing over and over again? I know there's stuff like /dev/random (though I'm unsure how that works), but that doesn't seem like a good idea for getting a lot of numbers.
That title was pretty confusing. Thought that LA was trying to hide planes...
I would say it is a consequence of their origins fading away on the mainstream or being stuck in some university classes.

So they have to search for new grounds, instead of being stuck into a design that no longer has the attention of the industry.
Agreed.

They probably bought it on a list. It's certainly not something I've shared with them directly, or indirectly.
Normally, I would vote for opt-in only, but I think that it could be opt-out for Firefox as long as there are no dark patterns that make it difficult to opt-out. The survival of Firefox is extremely important for the future of the Web.

If it is opt-out, then Mozilla would have to be extremely open about how to opt-out and exactly what is tracked.
Just reacting to this:

> Given how extreme the American reaction to the VW scandal was I do wonder what the response would have been if that company had been GM, Ford or Chrysler

There were recalls related to GM (GM ignition switch recall - 30M cars worldwide) or Chrysler (just recently [1]) too. ..you are right, these are more dangerous things like cheating the emissions. However, I believe they are not showing favor toward US companies. There are recalls of Fiat-Chrysler cars too because of cheating on emissions [2]. However, they are not affecting millions of cars as in VW case.

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2017/07/14/fiat-chrysler-recalls-1-poin...
[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/19/business/energy-environme...
This title has zero to do with the article.

TLDR: LA suffers from "heat island" effect, so to lower the temperature at the street level they're coating streets with a sealant. The company that manufactures the sealant previously developed sealants for the military.
The US also has Qui Tam lawsuits, meaning on behalf of the king, one of the more well known versions are whistleblower cases. Though the whistleblower only receives a rather small percent (10% is common, but varies), these lawsuits are some of the largest judgments in history, in particular as related to illegal kickbacks in the healthcare and pharmaceutical industries. The common facts are the business is engaging in illegal activities, the worker raises the issue to the employer and then as you might expect the employer instead of addressing the illegal activity instead retaliates against the employee (loss of hours, loss of wages, outright firings, etc...).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qui_tam

Here's a list of some of the largest, $16.5B by Bank of America; $3B GlaxoSmithKline (illegal kickback); $2.2B Johnson&johnson (illegal kickback); pfizer $2.3B (illegal claims); Merck (illegal kickbacks); HCA has 2 of the top 10 totaling near $1.5B (illegal billing, up coding; illegal kickbacks); and on and on it goes

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.qui-tam-attorney.com/amp/10...
Thank you for spending your time to help me, Sir.
How can one be a "Free Speech Extremist"

You either support Free Speech or you do not.

If you ever say something like "I support free speech but not hate speech" or "I support free speech but..." then you are not a supporter of free speech.