skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Alternate Link for people who can't open the URL due to it being marked as "malicious" by some software:

https://gist.github.com/phoe/d93f968f22bbcc87070cdc583176202...
I'm not sure if you can really express it in OO. Sum types are used to represent a closed set of variants. Inheritance like that isn't closed.

In languages that have both OO and ML/Haskell-style type systems like Scala, the fact that the set is closed is denoted by the keyword 'sealed'.

example

sealed trait Color

final case object Red extends Color

final case object Green extends Color

Color can only be Red OR Green. In your example you can have an Animal, a Dog, a Cat, and other things can inherit Animal and create more variants.
I love it. Leaves him venerable to the FCC though.

However he could invest heavily into a startup competitor. Something like Bright Bart + Twitter, then delete his account and move his Tweets onto a platform his base would support and that he owns a significant percentage of.

They could either continue to develop this Alt-Right Twitter, or sell quickly back to Twitter, and no FCC regulations would have been violated.
We need a p2p backup solution. Something like what wuala used to be but open source and distributed. Give up 1TB of local space to get ~750GB offsite, or something like that.
Perhaps this is because society couldn't afford to?
Are there any plans for Servo to be a "real" browser, or will it always be more of a R&D playground for Firefox?
You can change the contract before signing it, then give it back to them and wait for them to accept it (either explicitly or implicitly).

Works in most jurisdictions since both parties have to agree to the contract.
first time i can't get whether it is sarcasm or not.
I feel like throwing API at everything is the wrong approach because developers using this tool fail to understand how expensive this is going to get vs just hiring a dedicated business development rep which you will be able to close the feedback loop to improve sales.

I feel like there are some niches where this tool will do quite well but it makes no sense other than if you are a developer to outsource a critical component of your sales machine.

Regardless, I'd like to try it out on myself and see how it works, but without pricing I won't know if it's even worth the ROI.
In my experience, CrashPlan was easy throttle to prevent network issues. Backblaze I would basically turn off during the day and reenable at night because its throttling was useless.
Apple IIe Design Guidelines (1982) [pdf]
But you can't consider just the current round of students when designing such a system, you need to consider all subsequent rounds.

In that case, allowing trades now leads to dissatisfaction in the future. So, while allowing trades now might seem to lead to a pareto-optimal scenario, it doesn't lead to a time-series-pareto-optimal scenario.
Anyone interested in reading more about Angola and the U.S.'s involvement should check out the book "In Search of Enemies" by John Stockwell who was a manager in the CIA, and involved in the Angola operations.
Front-end / back-end isn't a particularly useful distinction in my opinion. Differentiating between those 2 is just another way of creating information silos.

I'm old enough to have experienced at least 2 full thin-client-fat-client cycles and I'm certain the current one won't be the last (at least it seems to have been a recurring pattern since the beginning of modern computer science).

While the front-end / back-end paradigm might make some sense right now because the technologies used for each of those layers conceptually seem to be quite different from each other I doubt it's really that much of a benefit. On the contrary, it might even be detrimental to effective software development:

I'm not in the business of creating either front-end or back-end code. Neither is useful without the other. I'm in the business of creating value and solving problems with software. Depending on the problem at hand this can involve different tools at varying degrees.

Focusing on just one tool or layer can lead to a potentially harmful mindset. A mindset in which you just throw your part of the work over the wall thinking that it's not your problem anymore.

The arguable benefit of having specialists churn out stuff in their respective layer more quickly than a generalist would quite likely is offset by communication and interface overhead: The difficult problems in business applications nowadays mostly arise at their boundaries. Software development for the most part means communication.
I had never heard of anything like this! Thank you very much for this information.

Luckily for me I drive an old car (definitely pre-bluetooth for sure) so that part wouldn't apply to me, but the increasing use of plate readers applies to everyone, everywhere.
Karma killed Gawker. Its whole business model was evil, and sooner or later some of the many, many people they were evil to, were bound to seek revenge.
Seemed like there is some conflicting information on the support page for restoring deleted files:

https://support.code42.com/CrashPlan/4/Restoring/Retain_and_...

https://support.code42.com/CrashPlan/6/Restoring/Retain_and_...

That red icon next to Small Business on the version 6 page scared me.

Hope you're right! Indefinite retention is a killer feature for me.
That seems a tad excessive. Does any company do this, outside of high security systems?
It's great to see any company going into detail about their technical implementation, so I'm extremely hesitant to be critical, but I'm really curious who the target audience for this one particular article is.

It's a very very odd mix of language that sounds like it's directed at a very young child and standard technical speak. Not the usual for the Hacks blog.

Not to fault the article too much, but I just found the tone a bit confusing. Even veering towards condescension in some parts, though I'm certain that's entirely accidental and wasn't the author's intent at all.
30 Things I Learned at Machine Learning for Healthcare Conference
You're not far off, I think it's usually done through a mixer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcoin_mixer
Also, a woman reopened an issue with a screenshot of what the TSC decided to redact. Such behaviour is unacceptable and should be subject to banning.
Something reeks here, and it's not because Google and Apple are taking the moral high ground.

This is strictly related to money, and I am long on alt-tech platforms like Gab and Hatreon.
I think OP is asking for products/businesses who are providing an affiliate program. The word 'best' should probably be translated to: "who pays the highest commission".
> Those who create might be that, but they are notorious for also being fussy, difficult to satisfy their creative urges, and often abuse themselves, etc.

Sometimes true, but is that because of who they are or how whether they're producing?

I'd argue for creative types, not creating can just make all this worse.
This is one of those places where open sourcing the client would make good sense.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14998352
I use rsync.net with borg. Works great.
...I'm saying that depending on what opportunities look like in the 21st century, this could actually be made worse by focusing on income instead of wealth.
Disclosure: I work at Backblaze

> I wouldn't expect them to know about this coming up / have enough spare capacity.

Backblaze ALWAYS has to have extra capacity for "bumpy" customer growth. We have three types of extra capacity:

1) Deployed, spinning drives accepting customer data live but not yet filled. This "live buffer" is usually 60 days or more, right now it is about 90 days (of "normal load"). Right now Backblaze's storage is growing by about 2 Petabytes per month, so we have 6+ Petabytes spinning awaiting new customers.

2) An entire month of hard drives sitting on the "loading dock" (these can be deployed and accepting customer data in maybe 24 hours in a complete panic). This is about 2 Petabytes.

3) The "contract to purchase 3 months of drives and parts" at a pre-established price from our suppliers. Under most circumstances we can accelerate orders and get drives accepting data within two weeks. This is another 6 Petabytes.

If the burn rate approaches ANYWHERE NEAR that high we'll scramble and do better than that to accept the customers.

If it really looks like we cannot handle the load, we have a setting that says "Members Only" that no longer allows new customers to sign up, but allows all existing members to continue backing up and doing restores. Once a customer is paying Backblaze we must honor our contract with that customer.
You're under the impression the government does that sort of thing in the us (modify roads to address demand). In my experience that is largely an artifact of history now.
"Refocus on a personal project". How about we stop grinding out 40+ hour mentally and physically strenuous weeks. Programming hours on end is difficult, as is sitting at a desk and staring into a monitor. I could be happy programming for the rest of my life if I'm only doing 15 hours per week but unfortunately there's extremely little work that pays well per hour and is part-time. I'm willing to work at a discounted rate, but the offers I'm finding are either full time, or embarrassingly low hourly rates.

And this is in Canada where we have single payer government healthcare, so employers don't even have an excuse.
Did I miss it, or are there no virtual reality startups on this list?

I'm a wee bit surprised: VR is nascent and there aren't enough devices out there to build sustainable businesses shipping content, but I would have expected at least 1 or 2.
Well Society here would be the Jury that slapped their hand.
Your words are encouraging but unfortunately I don't think you understand how many diff techs converge to create a farm bot.
I don't suppose there's a Windows client?
Nope. The primary BVR use case uses the APG-63/5/70 to give guidance to the AMRAAM until it can pick up active seeker lock itself. In theory if you are close enough you can "fire and forget" but it would be a waste and put you way closer to a threat than necessary - which would defeat the purpose of the AMRAAM.
That was an unconvincing post, and I'm not going to waste my time explaining why.
B2 is not a replacement for the backup service, though possibly it could be hacked to serve as one.

How about releasing a backblaze protocol spec or the client source code? That way us Linux fans can roll our own.
Check out spideroak.
I wasted my good years working and studying for the opprotunity to have this job I now just slighly less than hate. -everyone my age
There's an old book you might find interesting called "No Place to Hide" by Robert O'Harrow. If you do read it, try to keep in mind that it was written in 2004, and then consider how much innovation is likely to have taken place since then.
The last one I tried was SpiderOak. I've got to be honest though, I wasn't a huge fan then, and it still looks like things haven't improved all that much recently: https://ctrl.blog/entry/review-spideroak
Nowadays, there are a couple of really excellent online lectures to get you started.

The list is too long to include them all. Every one of the major MOOC sites offers not only one but several good Machine Learning classes, so please check
[coursera](https://www.coursera.org/), [edX](https://www.edx.org/),
[Udacity](https://www.udacity.com/) yourself to see which ones are interesting to you.

However, there are a few that stand out, either because they're very popular
or are done by people who are famous for their work in ML. Roughly in order
from easiest to hardest, those are:

* Andrew Ng's [ML-Class at coursera](https://www.coursera.org/course/ml): Focused
on application of techniques. Easy to understand, but mathematically very shallow.
Good for beginners!

* Hasti/Tibshirani's [Elements of Statistical Learning](http://statweb.stanford.edu/~tibs/ElemStatLearn/): Also aimed at beginners and focused more on applications.

* Yaser Abu-Mostafa's [Learning From Data](https://www.edx.org/course/caltechx/caltechx-cs1156x-learnin...):
Focuses a lot more on theory, but also doable for beginners

* Geoff Hinton's [Neural Nets for Machine Learning](https://www.coursera.org/course/neuralnets):
As the title says, this is almost exclusively about Neural Networks.

* Hugo Larochelle's [Neural Net lectures](http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6Xpj9I5qXYEcOhn7TqghA...):
Again mostly on Neural Nets, with a focus on Deep Learning

* Daphne Koller's [Probabilistic Graphical Models](https://www.coursera.org/course/pgm)
Is a very challenging class, but has a lot of good material that few of the other.
Becoming a 10x Data Scientist
You'd need generics and algebraic types to implement Result/Option
> Yes I can, and I will, because they sold out

Excuse me, but did you support Mozilla with time/money?

> They sold out their principles for the sake of market share.

12% is still better than 1%, and the thing that mostly changed the landscape was the fact that mobile Internet heavily disfavors Mozilla (e.g. Android ships with Chrome, iPhone with Safari), and Google has a heavy advantage when it comes to advertising and engineering.
The issue within the call centers are poorly enforced rules. If you have several customers a day demanding something eventually they just wear the reps down. When management fails to enforce those rules, and angry customers keep pushing, eventually the reps just do it. I've unfortunately seen/heard it more times than I can count in call center environments. I believe they honestly are trained well enough to know better, they just become apathetic. Not saying its right, its just what I have witnessed. Within my call center I am looked at as a stickler because I follow documentation to the T. It's sad that this generally makes you an anomaly within a call center.
Facebook is the new Yahoo!
> I don't think it's available on linux though.

https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iI...

Yes, feels strange to think that you need to run a qt app against wine because the publisher does not support gnu/linux.

But it is available on linux via `apt install wine` and downloading the exe.
Box introduces document and image transformation services
Honestly, I think Damore was roughly handing a much bigger nerve with a far more authoritative tone and a bigger name attached to his views. The potential (or extant) harm here is much less clear to me.
Ah, hindsight is 20/20. It's easy to criticize premature optimization after the fact.
I have an account with rsync.net and I like them a lot for their Unix-friendly services. However, I unfortunately have to recommend that you NOT use rsync.net if you are on a Comcast/Xfinity cable modem.

rsync.net has some kind of problem with the "Powerboost" feature. The first 10 megabytes of a transfer are fast as hell, then it drops to ~150kB/s. Have fun backing up gigabytes at that speed. There is something wrong with their traffic shaping. After much back-and-forth their tech support basically threw up their hands and gave up.
And what about the mysterious Android OS/Android System "apps" that show up on the battery usage screen? How do I know which app is hogging resources here? Should we expect users to inspect wakelocks?
While it was written to be sensational, the idea of a retreating to a place of isolation to finish a project is a good one in my experience.

As I understand it, both Ford and Edison retreated to an obscure town in Florida to do the same. Bill Gates retreats for a while if I remember correctly.
I consider Andrew Ng's ML course -
https://www.coursera.org/learn/machine-learning the best place to start, in addition to his https://deeplearning.ai courses.
That's a good day for Tarsnap and BackBlaze.
sounds like an awesome attitude to have when blogging. good job!
Automation of 99% of vegetable production process for $2000/acre.

I am not worried at all that they will replace the farmer. I just have a dim view of certain things and people that were shiny earlier.
So, it's OK if they think as long as they think the way you want?
I was including transportation issues in capturing. There is also the storage problem.
> I don't know how they're going to transition to enterprise given their trashy desktop client but good luck.

I kinda feel that makes them perfectly suited for enterprise. I've never thought of enterprise software as having a particularly good user experience coffsharepointcoff

I'm also rather glad CrashPlan forced my hand. There were a lot of good ideas about it (the peer-to-peer features were interesting), but I really hated the Java client. And I always had to pause it's uploads if watching Netflix, because it would saturate the upload channel completely. (On a Mac here, for what it's worth.)

They've given plenty of notice though, so I'm thankful for that.
I found the clear explanations quite nice; it doesn't assume deep knowledge of CSS or Rust or the history of the various projects involved. The Stylo project has been extremely visible, being part of the latest Firefox Nightly, so it makes sense to explain it for a very broad audience.

And personally, I loved the illustrations, as well.
Seems that I can't do much about it now. Sorry!
> We will honor all of our existing agreements with consumers, but we will no longer renew any consumer subscriptions, nor will we sign up any new consumers for Crashplan for Home.

Does that mean they will honor the next month and that's it - or they're completely done?
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Over a third of millennials say they’ll pay for Disney’s streaming service
> GDS’s GA Premium account contractually prevents Google from investigating the data

What's the penalty for completely disregarding that?

Is it anywhere near large enough to justify them not disregarding it?

More to the point: Pretty much the only thing a contract can do is impose a monetary penalty. Even if it's quite large, it's still only money, and Google rakes in money by the bushel basket from selling data to advertisers. Therefore, it isn't a very convincing penalty.
Ideally it would be both; at a minimum, it should be a full browser engine, suitable for embedding (like WebKit, and unlike Gecko).
Seems like an administrative issue then, and one that the administrative processes should be able to sort out. Or is there clear and present danger to the community's reputation?
I'm in the current batch. That's wrong.
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This doesn't make any sense. It assumes there's no competition between manufacturers, and that users don't switch. If older phones were actually "better", manufacturers would just make those and steal customers from anyone making the newer devices.

The phones of today aren't "built with shorter lifespans in mind", but they are built with more tightly packed components, more energy-dense batteries (to support their power-hungry CPUs and large amount of RAM), etc. Because that's what you need to do so you're not "too underpowered to run modern software." Which is necessary to sell phones to people.

If you made a phone and said "hey, this will live as long as a Nexus S, but it's not going to run FB or Clash of Clans or VR or take very good pictures (HDR is compute intensive)".... good luck selling that.
On a USB stick. ($70) In a hand gun safe ($110), buried under a tree in the backyard ($Priceless).
> those were addressed.

source? I never saw anything addressed other than "don't worry about it, it's for your own good"
Call me cynical, but it seems most class action lawsuits end up paying $100m to a lawyer group and $5 to each individual :/
Nobody is saying that arbitration shouldn't be available, or an option. What is being ragged on is the idea that a company should be entitled to put a mandatory binding arbitration clause into a contract that isn't negotiated, that in reality, a consumer has zero power to change.
That's cool, I hadn't ever heard about Sweden's double-leap years.

I did some research on calendars a while back, and notably, the conversion to Gregorian had a lot of religious overtones. Here's what I wrote about it:

https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:xrRtua...

(edit ...and Google cache is being ornery right now.)
> Corporations have responded (also unsurprisingly) by trying to reduce their litigation costs.

No, they simply pass those costs on to the consumers.
Reading the article makes me very glad that Gawker got sued into bankruptcy. The author has no sense of introspection or empathy for others outside Gawker. It reminds me of school bullies who do mean stuff to people and then say stuff like "I was just kidding, can't you take a joke?"
> Nothing in the CoC says that it's a CoC violation to want to get rid of the CoC

Wait, they just tried to expel a guy because he was subtly criticizing the CoC on twitter.
> If we assume people pay others for doing this they value

That's a strong assumption and as a matter of fact, they don't. For example, when I go to cinema, I pay to the ticket seller. I don't pay to the people who actually produced the movie. I rely on some (unknown to me) mechanism according to which those people get paid, but I don't pay them.

> How does it deny we cooperate?

So you can see that in the above example. I don't pay individuals for doing things for me that I value. Instead, I pay to some organization which then redistributes the money. Neoclassical solution denies an existence of such organization. (Which is not quite wrong - I have no idea how to define this organization correctly for all edge cases - as I already mentioned, I don't see a solution. But it is also not correct.)

And it gets even worse! Some people cannot be paid for what valuable they are doing for me, because they are already dead. For example, I am not paying to Beethoven. There are even things that produce things of value without any human intervention; who do I pay then?

So yeah, maybe it kinda works for apples and oranges, and picking strawberries, but not in general.
This post is almost exactly a year old; should be labeled 2016.
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