skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I actually have 3 Crashplan for Families under my hands.

My mom and dads iMacs is one of them. This is literally easy money for Crashplan. But the price would double to move them to the new Small Business plan.

What I liked about Crashplan, besides the unlimited space was that if files would get deleted, and you would find out about it 3 months later, you could recover them.

With Backblaze, which is mentioned here, you wouldn't. Which, for me beats the whole purpose of doing backups at all.

See here:

https://help.backblaze.com/hc/en-us/articles/217666688-What-...

This makes no sense to me: so if a malicious hacker, virus, Trojan or your kid deletes a folder... by the time you find out, Backblaze might already have stopped taking backups of it, itself.
NoooooooOOoooo!!!

Crashplan is my favorite backup engine, and I have recommended it to so many people! Don't leave me!!
The writeup is inspiring. I found it very clear and yet reasonably in depth. It helps me to understand how much work modern browsers are doing.

Also, excellent use of Rust.
Why not judge merit directly, yourself?

As far as I can tell there is no merit to the complaints. If 4 members stepped down, that suggests Node TSC has a serious problem with people who are wildly extreme.

Here's what appears to have happened based on the original complaint:

1. This guy tweets an article that discusses campus speech codes, university politics and so on. It doesn't attack anyone and is a fairly long-winded but reasonable contribution to the discussion about free speech. His tweet implies he does see CoCs as having downsides and that he finds this article to be persuasive.

2. In response, someone tweets that "I hope I meet you at a place without a CoC so I can take a dump on your laptop". Rod points out that this isn't a very nice response and is not a mature contribution to the conversation, "Hey here's an interesting discussion to be had vs ... <tweet screenshot>".

Now let's look at the complaints. They assert:

1. Rod tweeted an "inflammatory article"

2. When he highlighted the immature response, this "suggests pleasure at having upset members of the JavaScript community and others".

3. Some woman complained and said she wouldn't contribute anymore. That woman asserted that "some people said he was bad but what can you do". This was "a reason for some to avoid project participation"

4. And "it is evidence to others that Node.js may not be serious about its commitment to community and inclusivity", citing a tweet that says the Quillette essay is "hot garbage" written by a "known MRA" (what the heck does MRA stand for?).

I find this rationale extreme, absurd and scary. These people ARE in fact "warriors" by any definition of the term. I strongly disagree with the complaint because:

* The article is not inflammatory.

* After being subject to outright abuse and highlighting it, something that women do every day on Twitter, somehow this was turned into Rod being a bad person. This is pure doublethink. Rod was clearly annoyed and trying to point out that such responses are not acceptable.

* A woman proceeded to do some serious shit-stirring and trolling, claiming that lots of anonymous people disliked Rod behind his back, but of course, was unwilling to say who. This is not acceptable behaviour.

* Another woman dismissed the article with a straight ad-hominem on the author.

The bad and abusive behaviour here is very clear and it's all by people who were objecting to Rod's tweet. Yet somehow this turned into some sort of trial.

Fortunately, Node TSC rejected this transparent attempt to get rid of someone for having the temerity to tweet about politics. If there are other members who couldn't handle this and quit as a result, that can only be healthy for the project.
I find the "facebookmail.com" stuff to be super annoying — not just because it facilitates them sending more spam, but also because it becomes more difficult to know for sure if an email is legitimate.

Should I assume that [company] owns not just "company.com", but also "companyemail.com", "companyhelp.com", etc? Or are these domains registered (perhaps with the unicode trick) by savvy phishers?
In a prior job I worked as a C programmer, and once I tried to rewrite a few heavily used utility function in assembly.

I measured, but it did not run any faster. Damnit, this is assembly, I said, it has to be faster. So I looked at the assembly code generated by the compiler: Turned out it was pretty much identical to the code I had written. At that point, I felt brief surge of pride (because I was as clever as the compiler) and then disappointment (because I was not more clever than the compiler), and I figured trying to be smarter than the compiler was a waste of my time.
Probably around the same time they realize they don't have unlimited time and become aware that their life clock is ticking away.
Please define "sexism" then.
Actually, all printing in Chrome goes through the PDF generator as an intermediate step.
Where are you getting this from? Their feature comparison [0] lists both "keep deleted files" and "multiple file versions" as "forever"

[0] https://www.crashplan.com/en-us/business/compare/
I will be happy to do so, once consumers and content creators (and specifically the companies they sell rights to) are on a level playing field in terms of legal protections and lobbying powers.
RDJ is a poor example of this. Do you have someone who is not wealthy, or famous for other reasons? Justine Sacco will forever carry the burden of her awful tweet, and in the foreseeable future she's just a Google away from having to relive and be shamed all over again.
Hey! I'm building something that's pretty much exactly this, and I'm curious if your neighbourhood has some kind of community watchgroup that would want to try prototype something like this?
> I'd say it's more like a police officer sharing an article that's in favor of marijuana legalization, and being upset when his coworkers attack him over it.

... but sharing such an article would not be wrong ...

Is the disconnect really this large between ideologies?
Business Insider loves posting articles with out of context stats copied directly from glassdoor.
Right? I do have a Ph.D. from MIT, even.

I'd advise them to incorporate their PDF, and perhaps lesson taker's info, into a blockchain.
Tesla Model X beat Lamborghini in a drag race, may have set an SUV speed record
no one can predict the future.
I'm in a similar situation to you. Last time I tried to verify my identity, two of the companies refused to do so because I don't have a full driving license, only provisional; and the other two didn't require a driving license but refused to accept that I exist, naturally without telling me what I should do about it.

The concerning part was what happened when I tried to cancel the process. The companies told me that they would delete all the data I had submitted to them, but when I tried again a year later, I was invited to resume my application, and all my data was still in their systems!

[edit] Just tried to go through the process again to see if anything has changed. I picked Royal Mail as an identity provider but was unable to finish because I had to upload a scan of a phone contract, which I don't have since I use pay as you go! Bloody waste of time!
Show HN: 33 RPM – track and share your Apple Music listening history
“We are working on getting Sublime Text 3.0 final ready to launch”
Looking up IBM's Metronome led me to the Jikes RVM (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jikes_RVM), which sounds so cool that I wonder why it isn't being used everywhere?

The PowerPC (or ppc) and IA-32 (or Intel x86, 32-bit) instruction set architectures are supported by Jikes RVM.

Ah, no ARM and no x64, that'd be it.

What's keeping this kind of GC technology back from the mainstream?
Sorry for the uneducated question here, but I've wondered how those who steal crypto-currency "launder?" their ill-gotten coin. More specifically, how do they not get caught since the blockchain records everything? Take it out really quickly? Move little bits around to obscure ownership in some kind of shell game? Am I just totally off-base with my understanding?
Yes, that is my point
You just seemed to be arguing that _any_ amount of risk would be too much

Unfortunately that's exactly the kind of thing I was talking about, extending arguments to ridiculous extremes.

I have never said any amount of risk would be too much. In this particular instance, I think the risk and the unknowns are clearly too much.
Understanding Moscow: The Mysteries of the Russian Mindset
It can do what HTML can do. You can have a TOC with internal links. Those links should continue to work inside the PDF.
If you try to fix the broken system people who take advantage of the bad parts may fight you and/or sneak worse loopholes in (they tend to have the money to lobby hard).

If the AI makes it expensive to take advantage of the problem then they'll simply stop doing so.

Of course the race will be on to be the first person to work out how to trick the AI, that person could make a boat load before it is fixed or self-corrects.
Just put one gallon in an old oil well for every gallon we burn.
Fortran story time:

As an undergrad, I had a good friend who was doing his PhD in Atmospheric Physics. It turns out, most of that field works in Fortran '88. This is not a very useful language, seeing as it uses GOTO statements to function as a loop. Fortunately, it does have comments. My friend managed to sweet-talk an older PI into giving him the old code for use in nuclear blast atmospherics (Exp: say you nuked all of France, what happens to Greenland's ice). At about 3 am before a project was due in the morning, he was pulling through the spaghetti that was the code, tired, jittery, and over-caffeinated. In this mess of logic diagrams he had to draw out by hand, he finally got to somewhere he thought was going to really cement all the code together for him. He follows a GOTO statement, and there was only a set of another GOTO statements. This went on for about 30 (my recollection of his words) GOTO statements, all 'nested'. Eventually, he gets to one that only has a comment line: 'HAHA MADE YOU LOOK'.

His laptop was defenestrated and he had to buy a new one with me about a week later.
Guessing Backblaze is getting a lot of hits right now, their site is slow for me.
50 years anniversary of Simula, the first object-oriented programming language
People are chiding you for your bitterness, but apart from an idea and technical prowess, there is a third (very important) pillar that you have to offer. Sales. Can you gather 50 other farmers that have the same need for automation, cheques in hand? Most other non-technical founders have said the same.

If you can you'll have (good) technical talent lining up around the block and subsequently interest from YC.
Speak for yourself. I'm certain there are people working on hard problems on HN.
But how is this different to how the road system has developed from the start? People choose the popular routes by driving on them, then these are the roads that are repaired/upgraded.

I don't know if it's cheaper per vehicle mile to drive on a large road or a small road, but I couldn't see it being very significant, but maybe it is?
> 4. Paint the different boxes.

Is this really what happens under the hood?

1. If I overlap 52 html <div>s like a deck of cards, does the browser really paint all 52 div rectangles before compositing them?

2. If I overlap 52 <g>s like a deck of cards, does the browser really paint all 52 <g>s before compositing them?

3. In Qt, if I overlap 52 QML rectangles like a deck of cards, does the renderer only paint the parts of the rectangles that will be visible in the viewport? I was under the impression that this was the case, but I may be misunderstanding how the Qt QML scenegraph (or whatever it is called) works in practice.

edit: typo
Almost every medium lets you throw mud, sans substantiation, to great effect.

Limiting mud-throwing to 140 characters isn't effective anymore than allowing more than 140 characters of mud conveyance.

The problem may be that people need to be convinced (one way or the other) now in less than 140 characters, in which case we're all doomed, as very few stories worth telling can be told in <140 characters.

Drawn out - or reasoned, moderate, thoughtful, civil, researched exchanges - are almost a thing of the past. No one has time for that kind of luxury anymore.
Well, you can say that Scheme continues in the general spirit of MACLISP, yet we separate them.
Serverless applications on kubernetes clusters
The key drawback for Backblaze for me is their lack of decent external HDD support. If you don't connect your external drive for 30 days then the files are marked for deletion.

I usually keep my photo library on external HDD and archive every few months from my laptop. I'd be anxious about not remembering to plug back in to keep the files backed up to the cloud.

If Backblaze sorted this out and extended the time to a year then I'd happily sign up again.
Already submitted a link to the original paper. Actually, Andrew Straw is for the last two years in Freiburg, Germany. A portion of his work was done also here, not only in Vienna, as the article cites.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15072896
"sexually assault women, have this all highlighted on national TV, and still end up president. "

You mean Bill Clinton? I think you're misinterpreting societal shame. Far east countries, as you call them, do have heavy shame and saving-face issues, but society as a whole recognizes that shame. In America, the shame is never-ending, and it's used as a weapon. It becomes less about a societal tool to punish bad behavior, than as a sick and twisted mechanism for one person, totally unrelated, to exact some harmful retribution.
I’m currently taking ML course from Andrew Ng, it’s a bit weak in math, but gives you a pretty good understanding how those ML algorithms work.
> Inheritance is not a way to express sum types, it's a form of subtyping.

A distinction without a difference. This is probably most visible in languages like Scala and Kotlin, which implement algebraic data types by way of inheritance.

That inheritance creates a subtyping relationship is irrelevant; there's a similar subtyping relationship between variants (or groups of variants) and the overarching type using a traditional sum type notation as in Haskell or ML. This is most clearly visible in OCaml's polymorphic variants [1, 2].

[1] http://caml.inria.fr/pub/docs/manual-ocaml-400/manual006.htm...

[2] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16773384/why-does-ocaml-...
> Build something in your PhD, get a postdoc where you can add some more of your own things to it, and get funding for follow on work in which you get your own PhD's to work on it.

Dear God how do you manage to do this?!
I see how it could be advantageous. It just doesn't seem worth it.

For just about any fundamental right, you can come up with scenarios where it would be advantageous in that scenario to be able to sign them away. But we generally don't allow this, because those fundamental rights are more important than whatever advantage might come from signing them away.

I don't see that the "binding" in "binding arbitration" is necessarily in conflict with the ability to sue. Contracts themselves are considered to be "binding," yet we can still sue over them. If binding arbitration were similar to that, then you could still sue over the result, and the court's job would be to look at the result of arbitration and decide whether it was correct or not. If the arbitration is truly beneficial to both parties then neither one will sue.
Back to the Future: Hooking Retro Machines Up to the Internet
Gathering and exploiting in-depth knowledge of a CPU's internals has become more difficult over time, too, I think.

At least for x86/amd64 - with out-of-order-exection, branch prediction and whatnot one not only has to know the architecture, but one has to know the specific implementation the code will run on. And knowledge on the deep internals of CPUs made by Intel or AMD (or Via? are they still around?) is not easy to come by.
I'm a cryptocurrency skeptic, but money works if people accept it as a medium of exchange. People are willing to trade goods and services for bitcoin, so it's money.

Now, without a nation-state backing it, it's going to potentially have problems with stability, regulation, etc, but that doesn't mean it's not acting as money now.
Time scales are essential here.
Ford Offers U.K. Drivers Cash to Scrap Dirty Diesel Engines
The mistakes I did in my blog posts
It doesn't track who is driving in your neighbourhood, it tracks who owns the car driving in your neighbourhood. A not so subtle difference.

I don't want mob delivered justice based on bad data.
I also would never purchase an HOA property. They wield far too much power over what you can and cannot do with what you own and you can never leave the HOA as it is linked to the deed.
"If you are single and earn less than $25,000,...
you will not owe any income tax."

In 2016, if you were single and made $25,000 your tax was $3290. The standard deduction for singles is $6300. Is there a trick here?
It's just one of those things where everyone on every side is an asshole. The post outing Thiel (among others) was pretty disgusting, but I also don't think we're in a better place for Gawker having been taken down.
There is no valid reason why a company should require someone to sign away their rights, and it absolutely should not be allowed. Otherwise individuals might as well not have those rights at all.
I'm not very aware of the field, and the care involved in working with people who have these conditions to such an extreme.

Is this a new take on an existing concept, or is it something that's lacking in that general space?

What inspired you to create this app?

Sincerely curious. It seems like something that could be of noteworthy help to a lot of people.
Understanding Exit Rate – The Key for Higher Visitor Retention on Your Website
Mysteries of turbulence unravelled
It's so useful I embedded it in a library module called 'dda' (for digital differential analyzer), and then used that module in all kinds of applications. It's one of those Swiss army knife subroutines, you end up using it in places not even remotely related to rendering bitmaps.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_differential_analyzer_...

I have two-D and three-D versions of it.
Nice, glad to hear it's a sane format and not some drudgery back handed punishment sort of thing like an obscure binary dump.
More like $250 at the lower consumer end.
The Power of Social Ratings and our addiction of 'being liked'
No the problem there is actually transporting that. It's no use to build a solar farm there and then stretch a long copper powerline back to wherever it is needed because of the losses involved.
b2 and backblaze are wholly separate products and services - I'm explicitly not looking for a replacement for S3, I'm looking for unlimited backup for a fixed fee for personal amounts
> It's not even designed to deal with repeat situation, incentives and strategizing. It just looks at the outcome and says: is this optimal?

That's exactly what I'm saying:

> And pareto-optimal makes no sense when you're looking at future rounds with different students.

And that's why I talked about a time-series analogy of pareto-optimality:

> But you could create a pareto-optimal analogy: allowing two students now to trade place in a seemingly pareto-optimal way would actually harm other students when you look at the future rounds, so the trade actually isn't pareto-optimal.

In that sense, you don't just look at the students selecting now, but at the future students as well. 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.
A Stronger Foundation for Computer Science and P=NP (PDF, 2017)
In academic US legal theory, litigation is frequently portrayed as an efficient substitute for regulation, particularly from a libertarian perspective. Our political narratives also tend to reject regulation as government overreach or unconstitutional when carried out at the federal level. So we ended up with a highly litigious system, which (unsurprisingly) resulted in high litigation costs. Corporations have responded (also unsurprisingly) by trying to reduce their litigation costs. Our childishly uninformed political discourse has prevented the libertarian/conservative elements of American society from having to confront this contradiction. It's idiotic. If litigation was efficient it would be cheap. Or at least as cheap as it can be and cheaper than the alternative. It's pretty clear that that isn't true.
> At a government training, I once had a harassment trainer explain it very similarly. If you would not say it to your grandmother, mother, sister or daughter, do not say it

And this is the crux of the problem. Let's pretend that I do not have any issue having this kind of a discussion ( in passing, as a single comment or even at length ) with grandmother, mother, sister or daughter?
Society didn't really do it. When you mess with people with power often enough, eventually they will find a way to take you down.
Agreed, it's a bit annoying. Wish they would fix it, or at least extend the limit. (Also, I can't seem to get one of my USB sticks to reset even when plugged in. Do they get queued up if there's a longer backup in progress?)
I don't get it. He's not taking pleasure, he's providing evidence of how people are harassing him when he is trying to have a calm discussion.
Well, shit. I just switch da wife to Crashplan, touting its several advantages over Carbonite (which she was happy with). Now I'll have to eat crow and switch her back. :(
can confirm
The US has the FTC.
Most security issues are handled by security updates, which don't require a letter update. They're issued as patches, so OEMs can issue them for an older device without updating it to a new release.
https://www.android.com/security-center/monthly-security-upd...
It's very consumer friendly, but generally speaking it's also not that bad for corporations since they don't have to fear frivolous lawsuits in Europe.

European consumer law is full of mandatory rules (rules that you cannot derogate from in contracts or in your terms of service). Half of the clauses in your standard American terms would be tossed out by a European court.

European consumer law is far from perfect but I wouldn't trade it for the US system (and I represent corporations).
Read it again till it sinks in, also find "You and your research" and read.

BTW, don't forget this

"There is another trait that took me many years to notice, and that is the ability to tolerate ambiguity. Most people want to believe what they learn is the truth: there are a few people who doubt everything. If you believe too much then you are not likely to find the essentially new view that transforms a field, and if you doubt too much you will not be able to do much at all. It is a fine balance between believing what you learn and at the same time doubting things. Great steps forward usually involve a change of viewpoint to outside the standard ones in the field. "

I suspect you are suffering from this. The only place I look for absolute truth is mathematics. When people write, you must pull out and find your own truth. Don't be upset about it if it doesn't fit your thinking. It's entirely possible to disagree with all of it and yet find it incredible useful.
> If 4 of your 12 peers resign because you weren't removed, there is almost certainly some merit to these complaints.

If 6 of them vote against removing the "accused" party, and 2 of them abstain, there's certainly little merit to these complaints.
China 'Strongly Dissatisfied' with US Trade Investigation
It wasn't until I noticed the two guys in camouflage and looked closer that I realised the first image on that blog post wasn't a photo. The mountains in particular are very realistic. The state of the art in games graphics these days is really quite impressive.