skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you mean Internet web based or intranet web based?

Because tons of stuff is on-prem, e.g. Confluence, JIRA, Bitbucket.
Yes, fear this, yes, give them more power over your life.
Do you feel like this is a problem? Were you able to become financially secure following your path?
I don't know for sure why crashplan ceased but I recall reading here on HN that someone happily posted they were using like 16+ PB's on Amazon drive which is insane, I'm sure plenty more abused it but in reality that much space is quite a few average users I'm sure. Crashplan could have created some sort tiered pricing structure for those using over 5-10 TB possibly but to build up your service and brand and dump it suddenly is really un-trusting.

I wouldn't be surprised they just ran out of data center capacity and decided cutting loose low revenue consumers was cheaper than building out new space.
Because they can pay one body instead of 3-4.
I just did a Google search using the keywords "Google Enterprise" and the first result was to here:

https://enterprise.google.com/intl/en_au/chrome/chrome-brows...
I agree that they shouldn't expect to, but they shouldn't be surprised either.
There's more to putting it in the product than just the code, but the style system in Servo does already work on Android. Once 57 ships, I suspect there will be some resources to start doing the remaining product integration work for Firefox on Android.
That looks so slick! Is there any use for this if I'm using plain create-react-app? Webpack is so huge that I feel like I can't write a better webpack config than the create-react-app folks with their huge and complicated webpack configs.
imo Apple TV is superior to either Fire TV or Android TV. However the problem with Apple TV is that until this fall it didn't have enough cheap content beyond Hulu and Netflix. I don't recall iTunes having regular sales like either Amazon Prime or Vudu. Bringing in Vudu and Amazon Video solves this problem.
Are you allowed to go with the business plan without having a business? What do you put in as company name then?
You made my point better than me. Ppl go to Germany for Oktoberfest, too Vermont for foliage, to Utah for skiing - additionally, these could be reasons to not go to those places at those times.
It's almost as if the folks in charge of naming Microsoft's products got hired to name Google's
I think recos like this need the local input more than anything else, ex: see a ton of the comments below pointing out issues.

Good start though.
Ah, you mean the ambiguity that "now" could mean what it usually does? As in, "I like using Google right now..."
I can't hear you over my free banana

http://nypost.com/2017/05/23/amazon-gave-away-too-many-free-...
> You could sneakily aim a meteor strike at anywhere on Earth

Can you? Are you sure? My understanding is that it's not possible to predict the trajectory at less than the size of a continent. Much less actually control it.
> In Europe the most likely response to such a minimal accident would be two parties getting out of their car, assessing the damage - if any - filling out a form and getting on with their day after taking some pictures and shaking hands.

Also in the US. Even when whiplash and compensation for it becomes involved. Like, by far the vast majority of minor accidents go this way.

> Nobody would even think of being sued, misfortune in Europe rarely leads to some kind of civil lawsuit here

It only very rarely leads to civil lawsuits in the US, too.
You are correct, as the size of infrared waves is much too big to resolve the same level of detail that the smaller waves of visible light can.

But even beyond that, water vapor is opaque to most IR frequencies. So a cloudy day would be enough to render this system useless.

100% bullshit imho.
24/7, but for how many weeks? :)
That's great! May I ask where you're getting your data?
VW scandal wasn't so bad because all consumers knew the mileage numbers was unrealistic.

People know VW was promsing something they couldn't hold.

That certainly doesn't make it right. But it is a mitigating factor. That said, I'm super happy it got exposed so that mileage numbers might actually have meaning in the future.
Where do you typically find them? I've had very little luck with that
> The jump from sexism to racism made perfect sense to me, they're pretty analogous;

Except I wasn't being sexist. The re-phrasing of my comment as racism was offensive and demeaning, and entirely not analogous.

> Sexism is about an unfair social power dynamic

Such as men dying earlier than women? Such as 80% of homeless being men? Such as 93% of "on the job" deaths being male? Such as never-married childless women earning more than equivalent men... going back to the 1960's?

I could go on.

My point is that everyone touts the party line of "OMFG women are oppressed". Very few people look into the facts. And when all the facts are presented, it's a whole lot more nuanced than "think of the Women!"

> to say "yeah but this will always be an issue because men and women are biologically different" trivializes it and takes away from the discussion.

You're reading a whole lot more into my comment than I said. That shows rather more projection that reality-based discussion.
https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2008/03/17/martian-headsets
Hi, author here. Thanks for your opinion.

> 1. On a daily basis I work in a 200k LOC Ruby project and to me from that perspective lack of static typing is a minefield ;)

> 2. Since I have finally learned how to do proper composition (~a year ago) I haven't use the inheritance even once. Of course, you may say that my project is special, but I can't help feeling that inheritance is often overused.

> 3. Yes, I've also come across opinions that Go's channels are too low level to be used in a large commercial project. But still, as a concept I find them interesting.

> 4. True. But, you can have one goroutine that'll just "guard" that resource and communicate with it from many places using one shared channel.

> 5. TBH I've seen more flame wars about the "space vs tab" thing ;) As I mentioned in the article I don't think that's the best error handling pattern ever invented, but I just like the concept of treating errors as regular return values. IMO it's good to have it at the back of your head, regardless of the language you use.
I'm not a professor, but I started my career as an industrial engineering grad (MS, not PhD) who was writing code to build and solve a linear program for a supply chain application.

It was definitely one of those programs that does this, than that, the sometimes the other thing, and it went on forever. I had trouble understanding it myself.

I didn't end up rewriting it because, well, startups. The whole thing went kaput, and nah, didn't have much to do with the code.

I would agree with you that these programs are more understandable to someone with expertise, and that can be why it's so hard to refactor them. It's difficult to become this expert in a branch of science and also take the time to learn good software design and programming practices.

But overall, I'd say that these programs could become vastly more manageable and easier to understand through better programming practices.
If only they accepted PDFs and banks actually digitally signed the PDFs they create for you to download
The comment you're replying to is describing a regular IPO, and is not incorrect. The direct listing process is not a type of IPO; it's skipping the IPO.
Handy, since it's frequently cheaper to get an HD digital copy of a movie by buying the bundled Blu-Ray on Amazon at a deep discount then downloading on Vudu than it is to buy the file from Amazon or Apple.

With a spare higher-quality Blu-Ray as a bonus!
MTA to modify subway tiles that kinda, sorta look like the Confederate flag
It's sad I'm being downvoted for speaking about our experience using Google. I work for a major Australian company and we dove right into Google. I'm not entirely negative about it, lots of it is great, but there are still significant gaps.
I have 2 Apple TV's, 3 Rokus. I've found that I never turn on my Apple TVs. The only thing I lose is access to a few movies I bought on ITunes. The walled-garden nature of Apple's ecosystem and their unwillingness to allow other services full access is a total turnoff.
By live watching, the commenter is referring to 'watching to changes to a file'.
s/Institutions that add little to no value/Institutions that I don't understand/
Everything except that damn remote.
Interesting response with lots of "You <x>..." in there. I'm also a conservative minded person (leaning more libertarian) and thought I would add a response.

First off, the conservative/libertarian discourse is not "childish" or "uninformed." Libertarian thought has been in development for centuries beginning with classical liberalism. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertarianism#History]

Second, the commentor clearly indicated that states and localities can be involved in regulation but only when local discourse fails. The commentor only stated that "most" environmental regulations are too strict, but that doesn't mean we should not have sane ones driven by local (not nationwide cultural ebb and flow demands of the day)!

Third, apparently you are not very familiar with environmental regulation. Environmental regulations need not cross state boundaries (we can regulate water and air from entities in in our own states). Unfortunately, we do not have that capability to balance the locality's needs and the environment's. The current system leaves little if any recourse for citizens or small businesses against government. Who do we go against? Oh yes, the EPA which is nearly or more difficult to reason with than a court system.
Agile implies flexibility and strength.

If you don't have "strong" - i.e. skilled and disciplined - people, or you can't allow things to happen outside "just because ok?"-rules, it's flaccid agile.

Like jelly in a glove, it's flexible but not in a useful way.
This is targeted at the enterprise like the product name says. $50/device for a huge corporation this product is for is just a dot on the balance sheet. For Google, charging consumers for products is just a fraction of the money they make showing ads to consumers.
Yeah, you've uncovered one where the average month in Google was not reported. Generally that means few people searching. In a few cases, sadly, that may be because the hotels are all full and there's no point to searching.

As I've said elsewhere, I think the solution to this is better data on travel volume. I have a lead thanks to this thread on some better data, which is very exciting for me and exactly what I was hoping for in HN.
Cool. I had the feeling they looked similar, but I didn't think someone who does this whole low-level stuff AND works for Mozilla would also like React, which got much hate from non-FB employees lately :D
It's an amusing anecdote, but it's impossible to argue that the process they went through resulted in a better product.

I don't want to use software that's designed for people who are too oblivious to know if they're using a color display, or designed by programmers who try everything besides asking the simple question, "Are you using a color display? Y/N"

Also, as soon as participants start screwing with the process by lying to the program and/or the investigators, there is no longer any great likelihood that ordinary users will benefit.

The correct solution is, of course, to design the program to look good on both color and monochrome displays, like almost everyone who ever developed games for the Apple II had to do. It was difficult to pull this off due to the interaction of the display hardware with archaic TV color standards, but it was part of the job.
Various Reddit subs.
> Insurance is mandatory, hence the 'filling out a form'.

What's the result if the other driver is driving without insurance, despite it being mandatory? Or if they don't carry enough insurance to cover the costs of the accident (or is this not a problem)?

There are a total of 3 states that don't require insurance, and there are another 2 that have laughably low minimum coverage requirements. It's still relatively common for people to drive illegally (e.g. borrowing a family member's car).
I looked at these speakers a few months ago. They look really cool. As soon as I saw that they require phoning home, I said "lolno" and built my own speaker system with RPIs.

I love the idea of smart devices, but only as long as the software is Free and Open. I really don't understand people who think situations like this are acceptable.
Only we've seen what happens when everyone follows this: you get to the state that we're in today, where everything sucks but everyone's OK with it.
This solves a different problem... Looks good for syncing files though.
Well, maybe. I can't read whatever language that article is in, but I Google Translated it, and it appears to only talk about per year costs. If you disagree, would it be possible to give a quote from the article?
Interesting. I find it to be one of the most egregious examples of bad skeuomorphic design. It makes no sense to me to break documents up into pages when viewing them on the web, and in Firefox's print preview it looks like the "pages" won't even print properly (the last line or two gets bumped to the next page).
I had certainly heard of those (they're referenced in the books, by name and fleetingly, directly), but I had no idea of the scale. Very interesting, thank you.

Edit: how could I have forgotten John Lewis, a solidly middle class British department store and supermarket chain not a million miles away from Mondragon in structure.
Do open source analytics frameworks exist? (e.g. Google Analytics)
Do open source analytics frameworks exist? (e.g. Google Analytics) If so, what are a few good ones? If not, why not, and what can ethically-minded developers do to help?

Long-version:

This question is in response to an earlier submission here:
UK Government's Payment Infrastructure Is Now Open Source - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15070463

Every time this comes up, I think about asking this question, but I somehow forget: is there an open source analytics framework? It doesn't have to be comprehensive or easy-to-use like Google Analytics, but its very existence would be at least a start towards working on something that accomplishes the developer's/organization's goal of using user behaviour as input to iterative product design while protecting user security and privacy in accordance with government policies and/or ethical standards.

On one hand, I sympathize with people who say, "any information that anyone else collects on my with or without my consent is too much information". However, I think the user-tracking equivalent Pandora's box has sort of been unleashed upon the world, and putting all the contents back therein is effectively untenable.

Thank you all in advance for your participation in sharing both your knowledge, experience, data, and anecdotes!
You only need high-speed if you're mounting a device immediately adjacent to the road with a low-resolution light sensor.

An ordinary surveillance camera certainly can estimate speed, especially with good software, but a dedicated device would likely give a better performance to price ratio or performance to power ratio. Maybe I'm just too old, and still think that a RPi and enough resolution for a human to actually discern an image is overkill, because I'm used to computing power and image resolution being expensive.

But then again, if you're already using that setup to read license plate numbers, you're not actually starting from zero. The marginal effort to estimate speed on top of that is likely less than a purpose-built device.
> (mostly driven by the IBM PC shipping with CGA since launch in '91)

The PC was launched in 81, and the default display was monochrome text; 91 might have been the PS/2 with MCGA.

Or maybe you meant to refer to the PCjr, which was bundled with a color display (better than CGA, IIRC) at launch. That was, IIRC, 1983.
Ooops... looks like the scale on my graph somehow got thrown off. Thanks for the find! I've fixed Cuba manually but will go back through looking for the source of this problem.
The Nuclear Tech Breakthrough That Could Make Oil Obsolete
The article is a serious waste of time.

It can be summarized as "Non cryptographic PRNGs can be predicted! Look, I cracked this one! I'm not going to tell you how I did it though."

There's no exposition describing non cryptographic PRNGs, nor any evidence given for why they're not sound beyond the author's assertion that he cracked one.

To be clear, non cryptographic PRNGs are often predictable, and shouldn't be used if that's a problem, but if you're interested in learning more about that, this article isn't going to help you much.

Skip the read.
> a public auction should determine the IPO price

An IPO is (usually) for a small amount of a company (5-10%) - hence the term "initial". Once the stock is traded, the market is continuously setting prices (essentially a continuous auction) and companies are able to sell more stock if they so wish. The reason IPOs are not also auctions (or market priced) is because that model has been tried and it doesn't work.
While Vudu is a streaming service, it operates on a transaction model, rather than a subscription one. Customers pay for only what they use. Because of that, and similar to iTunes, Vudu customers get access to movies very soon after the theatrical release, as opposed to most licensed content on subscription services, which is typically years old.
As of writing, Vudu offers content with a few different business models, but none of them are based around a monthly subscription. This doesn't exist.

Instead, depending on the title, Vudu offers a short-term pay-per-view option to "Rent" and a buy-once stream-anytime option to "Own". It has other content that's accessible ad-supported for no fee.

Additionally, it's a participant in both UltraViolet and Disney's equivalent, which are services that assert DRM authorizations, so Vudu will stream content that UV or Disney asserts the user has rights for; retail discs' bonus "Digital Copy" is handled this way, and they also offer a Vudu-branded equivalent to a core UltraViolet service where you attest that you own a physical copy, and they give you DRM rights for a digital copy at a low price point.

In a way, this all sounds pretty arcane and complicated, and is a lot closer to movie studios' and TV pay-per-view providers' mid-2000s view of the world than to the landscape as envisioned by today's Netflix or Hulu -- but that also sets Vudu apart. It's more comparable to iTunes, or Google Play, or Amazon's for-purchase options, or even the Microsoft Store or the PlayStation Network, or half a dozen other players in this space; most of which have a tendency to be closely tied to a particular computing platform, often to the point of that network being unavailable on the outside.

On that metric, Vudu offers multiplatform presence and longstanding relationships with a wide range of movie studios, and seamless integration into the studios' physical-to-digital ecosystem, but is woefully underutilized by its corporate parent.
What do you think about the idea of just actualizing your own potential one step at a time, rather than comparing to other "successful" people and what they do?

I'm not disagreeing with you. I'm just curious.
I think so. The term 'Stuff' is super complicated.

I buy stuff as life enhancers. It keeps my mind stimulated or body healthy when I get a new macbook or a mountain bike.

I also try to buy durable stuff BIFL type stuff. So that the value is massive, and will possibly be passed on after I'm dead.

I think it's less about the abstract term 'stuff' and more about the idea of 'value' that 40000 hours of your life provides to yourself and your family/friends.

The goal of just accumulating 'stuff' is consumerism...the goal of accumulating 'value' in your life if a better pursuit imo.
The one on WebAssembly was also very informative, thanks!
I would love a browser that didn't take 100mb of memory per tab. Though I'm not sure how much of that is to blame on the browser/plugins or the webpage.
x0x0 not quite. $6 to $10 a month would be acceptable to me, but its now $10 a month per device, where before it was $6 a month for a "family" of up to 10 devices. That's the real cost increase problem. I'm still only one customer, with almost no support burden, but the price to go to office version is substantially different for multiple machines.
Agreed, but in this case no cadmium semiconductors == no super bacteria. They can't build semiconductors, we do, so we control the reaction. Are we really going to use up all CO2, stop photosynthesis and suffocate? I don't believe so. We also keep producing plenty of CO2.
To get these things funded, we'll need to append "using deep learning approaches" to all of the business ideas.
Following the feedback from others, a few things seem odd (for Peru):

- I tried it with Lima-Peru and it actually suggested a bad time to visit the city: https://championtraveler.com/dates/best-time-to-visit-lima-p... . The weather on winter is quite humid ( http://www.generaccion.com/noticia/imagenes/grandes/188862-2... )so its not the best time to be there, compared to the summer.
- Also, on the mountains the season to avoid is the rain season, because it really rains (jan-feb).
- Finally, as others pointed, the choice of locations is a bit odd. There are a few smaller towns but for instance Cuzco or Macchu Picchu are not there
I suspect you will hear a lot of numbers around the time of the 57 launch, and until then people will keep quiet as they try to make the numbers that get revealed as good as possible.

For old numbers, you can get some in some of my old presentations at conferences. I think the LCA 2015 one[1] has the most details in that regard.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7q9vIMXSTzc
However it's true - anti-regulation types don't care about regulation in their favour. For example, look at patents or copyright.
If you can't get AT&T in your building, then no independent provider was going to help you. Every independent ISP in Chicago in the 1990s was leasing last-mile from existing providers. I've had leases in commercial spaces in Chicago that didn't have AT&T wiring either, and gone over the price quotes to fix that. It's super expensive, and the subscriber dollars aren't there for people to do that work speculatively.

Verizon (or MFS, at the time) didn't stop leading last-mile to independent ISPs. Independent ISPs died because the economics weren't there for them: large consolidated providers offered the products 95% of consumers wanted at lower cost and drastically higher performance.

To me, this whole discussion about ISP competition is sort of bucketed in the same place my brain reserves for complaints about the fact that ISPs no longer offer shell accounts. Can you believe there was a time where the quality of the Unix shell you offered ISP customers was a major competitive differentiator? I'm sure there's a species of ISP customer that is really unhappy their ISP doesn't make it easy to run their own mail server, or have a freenix-competitive NNTP server, or offer any kind of shell account. But for the overwhelming majority of the market, Netflix matters more than any of those things, and AT&T and Verizon probably do a better job of delivering Netflix than any independent ISP would.
I was basically restating the restriction for the parallel scan. It goes from parent down so that during the scan you don't do something that causes the scan to have to restart.

I was also shooting from the hip for things I'm interested in, here. I'm not sure it matters. But, if on scanning, you pick relevant rules to apply based on the path to a node, then I could see some trickiness on having to consider both the top down and the bottom up paths to a node.

Siblings.., I don't think has this problem. Not sure why I thought it might.

And javascript is ultimately a different topic. So I wasn't worried about that here.
I'm pretty sure by definition IoT devices use the internet..