skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You can create rewritable snapshots and create new snapshots based on those.

You can do this with ZFS as well.

First, there is no such thing as a "rewritable snapshot"; the term is an oxymoron. Please do not use it and please do not promulgate it. The term "snapshot" should be reserved for read-only states of a (file) system at a particular point of time:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snapshot_(computer_storage)

Second, ZFS does have this feature: its called cloning. You create a (read-only) snapshot, and then run the "clone" command to make it read-write:

* https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/zfs-zfs.html#zfs-zfs-cl...
* http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19253-01/819-5461/gbcxz/index.htm...

As long as the clone exists though, the snapshot cannot be deleted. However you can "promote" the clone, after which the snapshot can be removed. This feature has been around since at least 2010:

* https://www.freebsddiary.org/zfs-promote.php

Please use the word "clone" for a read-write copy of an original data set, as it is already fairly accepted nomenclature:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disk_cloning
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloning_(programming)
> Society decides, by paying for it.

This works nicely, in theory, in the absence of market distortions and coercive forces. In practice, both of those things do exist, and so markets don't work entirely like theory predicts. Classical economics doesn't adjust itself for things like regulatory capture, corruption, bundling of services, and a host of other factors that are likely at play in investment banking.

It shows far too much faith in the workings of the system to claim that society is deeming investment banking of high social value because it pays a lot.
You need to cater to eyeballs so that people keeps buying the merchandise. Disney, together with Coca Cola, are the world leaders of creating a brand that feels like an essential part of your life; and it all depends on keeping the core product relevant.
Or OpenSolaris+ZFS, if that project hadn't died.
Google will ask: 'Are you depressed?'
How is this not an appeal to authority hidden behind a strawman? Of course many people have wild beliefs about people wanting to harm them; many times they are wrong, sometimes they are right. It is the nature of fear to overcompensate.

Does that mean we should go to the opposite end of the spectrum and condemn all those who have read of the countless proven conspiracies in history and are concerned with holding authorities accountable where little to no accountability exists?
That may explain why Disney put so much high-value content on Netflix recently ... and then announced they're going to yank it all to a new & devoted streaming service. Bait viewers to the near-free content, then tell them "it moved over there" where it can be far better monetized.
Uber Wants You to Know It’s Not Collapsing
Not sure I understand the usage attributed to Netflix? Sounds like the writer is saying that front end is node, but that can't be right?

Can someone who knows what they're using node for go into a little more detail?
That holds for all theories, not just conspiracy ones.
My favorite part is that the runtime runs on device. I moved back to Android, but persistently one thing Apple does that I like is they don't move things to the internet as often as Google does. On Android, you get degraded TTS if the internet is shoddy.
k-anonymity, the parent of all privacy definitions
On balance, even if "they" are out to get someone, chances are you're not someone worth getting.
The car allergic to ice cream story is an example of disproving a ridiculous theory, not confirming it.

A conspiracy theory is someone who holds to a belief that their car is allergic to ice cream despite the fact that someone explained in detail that it's impossible and there must be some other explanation.
As a society, we also have to decide if being able to file a class action suit is a fundamental right or merely a non-fundamental optional mechanism for vindicating other rights, fundamental and otherwise.
What a depressing idea. I don't take JavaScript seriously at all.
Show HN: Pipe – Add video recording to your website or app
https://www.stellar.org/
Brand New: New Logo for Medium
H3H3 Productions wins legal battle
Speech recognition is still nowhere near human levels of comprehension. I have no speech impediments and speak US English with a neutral accent, yet Android speech recognition makes so many mistakes that it's usually faster to just type.
The problem with conspiracy theorists isn't that they consider forbidden ideas. It's that they dismiss better ones. For example, the idea that the Pentagon was hit by a cruise missile on 9/11 is worth brief consideration. But when you dig into it, there's no support, while there's plenty of support for the airliner.

To use your debugging analogy, it's like speculating that the bug happens because this particular variable holds 2 when it's supposed to hold 1. Then you check and it actually holds 1. But instead of moving on to the next idea, you decide that the CIA modified your debugger to lie about the value and proceed under the assumption that it really is 2.
Waymo should just get training data in India.
Uncontent
If you have an identity, a credit card number, or a SSN, then you're a target.
Plenty of people talk about, issue is people are so locked into their profit motives that they reject dissenting statements like a hot poker to the skin.
what do people mean by 'a fast Python' in this context, when the language syntax and features look nothing like Python?
Well, according to Fowler, ThoughtWorks is staffed by only the best: "high ability intellectuals" working at Roy's grand "social experiment."

Then you look at their careers page for tech and see exactly what you're describing: mundane dev roles that can be done very well with high quality by people who are very average developers.
Netflix uses Node.JS in the build process for their frontend. They also use React.JS inside of one of their TV applications, using a custom renderer (that isn't backed by HTML.) They are definitely heavy users of JS.

When people say they use Node for frontend, it generally means for things like Webpack or Gulp, not something running on the end user's computer.
What about cold rice? By cold I mean it was grown in my lab, no fart was released in the process. Would you buy cold rice from me ?
"How Node.js Powers the Many User Interfaces of Netflix" https://thenewstack.io/netflix-uses-node-js-power-user-inter...
* Bushcraft 101 [1]

* Be Expert With Map and Compass [2]

* Lots of notebooks with pens

* An Almanac

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Bushcraft-101-Field-Wilderness-Surviv...

[2] https://www.amazon.com/Expert-Map-Compass-Bjorn-Kjellstrom/d...
Librem 5 – A Security and Privacy Focused Phone
My 'quick and dirty' attempt to show that minimalism should extend beyond just visuals - The same graphic as PNG which is about 60% smaller: http://imgur.com/mLdDj04 (admittedly I don't know the exact original font but the point stands).

Also, what are visually impaired people meant to do? A minimalist site should be much easier to keep screen-reader friendly. Pictures of text are not recommended.
I'm disappointed the article wasn't a bit more skeptical of some of the claims. Certainly the simulation-based testing is a good thing, but stats about how many billions of simulated miles have been driven can create a self-reinforcing delusion if everyone involved isn't careful to remember that the simulations can only work with well-known and expected situations. It sounds like Waymo realizes this and is building a huge library of scenarios to evaluate, but one million simulated miles are not worth a hundred real miles in terms of confidence in the system, and that is not the message this article portrays.

Overall this article does give hints though that autonomous vehicles are truly much further away than anyone wants to admit. The story about being flummoxed by multilane roundabouts is depressing. If they didn't know such things existed then they were incredibly sloppy in their data gathering. If they truly thought scaling from a simple roundabout to a multilane one would be trivial then their staff don't have the right mindset for this problem space.

Also note that all the testing is happening in flat, desert landscapes where there are no weather or lighting challenges. Their pictured model residential street only has stubs of driveways. No houses, no trees. I'm sure they know these are gaps but I worry they underestimate the challenges of adapting to entirely different driving environments. Especially when machine learning is involved and you're simulating 99% of your mileage...

Looking forward to checking back in 2040 though.
First tanker crosses northern sea route without ice breaker
You're claiming that literally every identifiable person in the world is a "target," but that's a nonsensical claim.

A target of whom, and of what?
This is specifically about hcreate/hsearch, which are utterly useless, since you only get one hash table at a time. The reason you don't want crap like this is just that: it's crap.

The _r versions look perfectly sensible.
Why isn't the current argument valuable unto it self? We don't need to equate it to anything in order to measure it's worth (or lack there of). It's a valid statement that can be discussed. If you want to do the same for other data, go for it, but in another conversation.
> It's likely that the investment banking industry adds a lot more value than you think it does, else where does the money come from?

The same place Mobutu and Ferdinand Marcos's billions come from. The logical leap you're attempting here is profoundly unsound.
Do the WeChat TOS explicitly allow third-party clients ?
So you insist Russians left of Urals are European, and right of it are Asian?
One of my favorite tech writing tips came from an email exchange with Owen Linzmayer, the author of Apple Confidential (No Starch Press):

"The most important thing to remember about technical writing is that the goal is not necessarily to be understood, but rather to avoid misunderstanding. As such, consistency and clarity are paramount, and you should never assume your reader has the knowledge you possess.

"I try to make sure to tell readers not only how to do something, but why. That way they are not just following instructions and learning by rote, but rather, they're building their understanding of the system you're explaining, and perhaps can devise solutions to problems you haven't
covered."
Right, in RHode Island the highest paid state employee is the URI basketball coach. However, only like 3 percent or something is actually paid by the state.
BitCoin is md5.
Timestamp for duck part https://youtu.be/Uj-rK8V-rik?t=26m11s
قناة اليمن اليوم
$10 a month can build up an impressive DVD collection in short order. And then you own them and can stop paying to access that content.

Not saying it's the better option, but a lot of folks forget that it is an option.
i appreciate that, I admit that I had the same thought before about if the image adds value to the blog post, and I keep it because I think the yellow circle represent the heaviness of that question and adds more focus.
thank you
I think a few aspects of the language contribute to this:

1. It is relatively easy to comprehend and pick up and play around with.

2. With the advent of node.js, and later electron, it is incredibly relevant whether you're developing web apps, servers, or now, even desktop apps.

3. Some of the newer features, such as arrow functions actually make writing javascript a lot of fun!

JS has come a long way. I do think there are negatives to its popularity but I think it has also probably done wonders in terms of lowering the barrier of entry to get into programming. It's honestly a great language to start out with these days imo. It's easy enough to learn the basics (excusing the quirks of the language that do remain), easy to practice it developing whatever project you want to work on, and, even though it has problems of its own, node is a solid and, again, easy to use (I think it might be becoming clear what aspect here I think is key to JS popularity) tooling system for the language.

It still has its detractors, but all in all I'd say JS is pretty great.

Now, does that mean so many companies should jump to using it right away? No, of course not. But you can see why they are tempted. Because JS code is typically easy to use, comprehend, and manage, and because of its ubiquity it makes sense to use it so that as the composition of a team shifts and changes it's fairly easy to pass work along or pick up where someone else left off.
Maintenance is likely to be a lot higher. You are in a car without a driver. What is to stop you spilling crap all over the seats and not cleaning up? A good deal of Taxi use comes through people drinking and not being allowed to drive.There are other benefits to having someone physically drive the car.

(I think this applies even more to Amazon's automated deliveries via robot / drone - whats to stop the stuff getting stolen?)
Newest development: https://github.com/nodejs/board/issues/67

"We don't like the outcome, so we have to change the rules."
Please note that @ag_dubs that started the shit stirring after Rod's post sits on that board and was part of that decision.
Still we don't know what Rod did to her in the first place.
Yes, it does. The figures are out there. Bitcoin is absolutely tiny on the scale of global finance, so the denominator is extremely small. Not having employees doesn't save it.
I believe the author is referring to using node.js for the backend part in the backend for frontend pattern => http://samnewman.io/patterns/architectural/bff/
"Song of the South" being a prime example. Pirated discs are prolific in the region the story is set in, consistently fetching >$20 a copy.
Netflix is behind and uses Falcor(1) for data fetching as an alternative to REST. The backend for this is in Nodejs(2). (There could be other backends in Java too though)

1. https://github.com/Netflix/falcor
2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WL54eYbTJUw
Seems like you got a pretty good starting point.

I wouldn't give up...
Kay is fairly explicit in crediting Simula as an influence, even though he coined the term OO during the Parc era.

One thing that's important to keep in mind is that Smalltalk was designed specifically with personal computing in mind, while Simula wasn't. The real shame here is that the academic and scientific languages won out over the more holistic Smalltalk-like experience when it came to personal computing. Consequentially, we now have these incredibly powerful laptops that emulate PDPs and time sharing machines from four decades ago, that run WYSIWYG text editors just as well as or even more slowly than they did two decades ago, and that make it impossible to reason about the system in any meaningful way. There are programmers and then there are users, and the division is strict. Ain't nothing "personal" about it, really.
It Turns Out That Knowing More About Science Doesn't Correct Misbelief
Except those are all good things, more demand in this space will drive more competition and force manufacturers to push the energy saving capabilities of chips further in order to stay competitive. Raw materials can be recycled, we're not dealing with finite resources here.

Then again it could all just be a bubble, in which case yes there will be a lot of waste but the market will correct itself. The problem is cryptocurrency has real value, it takes real computing power to process and once it's processed it's very secure (therein lies the value) so I don't think cryptocurrency is going away
Summary: "Javascript is eating the world because 5 huge companies use NodeJS"

Not sure I buy the argument.
I just tell myself it's because the sales pitch is so appealing: learn, and use, one programming language on the front end and back end of your web site.

I've never written anything on node.js, but that's the only argument that's ever given me pause.
Show HN: Spotify Video – musicvideos for Spotify
Haplogroups as evolutionary markers of cognitive ability [pdf]
Those distinctions exist because of the perceived impact on the tastes and textures of meat. Not because of anything such as ethical preferences to old/young animals.
Having grown up in the area I remember the days when the finger was pointed at Boeing for the cause of traffic. Someone has to be the scapegoat :)
How can demoscene productions be so small?
Javascript as a language and ecosystem has evolved quite dramatically during the last years. Its not perfect though: it lacks features and ecosystem is still not in the level of maturity of other platforms, but is definitely going in the right direction. Regarding the single threaded server, its an architecture used before JS exists, and used by many other platforms/systems. Just to give you an example, Nginx workers are single threaded.
Yeah, they do seem to be opening up a bit. They posted their first article on this ML blog a few weeks ago.
Couldn't that cheap renewable electricity be transmitted and used elsewhere if the miners weren't using it?

The disparity in energy use is so large that even if Bitcoin mining emitted only 1% of the CO2 per kWh that normal energy users do, it would still be far ahead.
One question I had was legal perspective. Can't you get in trouble with the SEC for "selling" stock? Esp. if US non-accredited investors.
Would love to chat further about these ideas and get some feedback: aaron.kent <at> isomorf.io
the solution is self-regulating: if bitcoin ceases being profitable to mine, people will stop mining as much it and electricity usage will also fall
Node.js Board Statement on TSC Action
Book Recommendations by Malcolm Gladwell
Take away the web platform, would you still use JS for anything ?
"The Manhattan Project began modestly in 1939, but grew to employ more than 130,000 people and cost nearly US $2 billion (about $27 billion in 2016 dollars). Over 90% of the cost was for building factories and to produce fissile material, with less than 10% for development and production of the weapons."

Just to play devil's advocate, isn't this an example of tens of thousands of people employed in a massive conspiracy?
Afaik the problem is that XFS trusts the hardware to do the right thing during a power loss aka stop inflight requests before the brownout turns you disks and their controllers into heavily biased random number generators. Lots of x86(-64) hardware lacks a proper power loss interrupt triggered early enough to stop the all I/O in time. The ext3 journaling hides that problem to some extend by journaling more than just the minimal metadata required.
You just ask Google for things like "seven-year bs/md program" or "seven-year program". It's interesting to see that Google's autocomplete offers up suggestions like "seven-year program ranking". It makes sense, they are becoming popular.
Woof. It's frightening how quickly these crypto threads get toxic with foam mouthed, wide eyed cultists.
I'm having a nightmarish vision of a fleet of self driving cars trained to ceaselessly honk and drive on the sidewalks.
The other day I managed to freeze my computer -- such that I did not even have access to the SysReq key, by stupidly running

while (true) { var d = new Date; e.textContent = d.toLocaleString(); }

I immediately realised my stupidity, and closed the tab. Shortly after, my mouse froze up, then my keyboard access, and eventually my entire access. Rather than just freezing Xorg as I had initially suspected, it froze my entire computer access. No SysReq, no switching to a tty, nothing.

I was an idiot, but at the same time, an unprivileged process should not be able to consume resources like that without a dæmon coming in and pausing/killing it. And the Javascript should not have been allowed to execute once I had closed the window.

Truly, Javascript is eating the world.
Exactly. We got cancer on one major organ, why spread it ?
"have"? Quite optimistic. All that may just change with new owners.
India has 22 official languages of which English is the one that works across the country.
Fun fact its also the largest warehouse in the world from what I was told when I visited the factory

Its one of the coolest places I've ever been too

Also, Amazon owns about a dozen large office complexes in Seattle from what I understand and I got a backtour of the newest building last year which was cool
How Programmatic Advertising Can Change Your Content Marketing Strategy?
Or you have them on a physical private network, each bound to a separate IP, but yes.
Social Capital has invented nothing new here: http://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/spac.asp

^ SPACs have been a thing for a long time. Chamath is trying to hype something that he has no experience doing as the new new thing.

https://www.recode.net/2016/2/9/11587720/social-capitals-cha...
Reluctant Tech Unicorns: Bring the IPO to Them – Social Capital Launching a SPAC
the problem with mining is the high initial cost outlay for hardware , which becomes obsolete rather quickly
It was found to be flawed.

One of the intermediate assertions was shown to have a corollary that is demonstrably false; consequentially the whole chain of argument was invalidated.
Maybe the grandparent is a Haruki Murakami character and the porn king shared some deep insight into a gnawing uneasy feeling that originated from a terrible event that happened in an alternate reality.

Really smart guy.
Most of these examples aren't "moving off Java to Node" as the post tries to conclude, it's simply breaking out the view layer to "a right" tool for views. If anything, it's simply adding a supplement to existing systems.

In many large orgs devs still use a homogenous tool for the existing systems (e.g. my guess is at Netflix all new business logic services are still Java based to plug into the Spring+NetflixOSS stack).
Someone rigs a Lottery.... gets 25 years.. Someone crashes the stock exchange and causes a global financial meltdown.. Crickets....
did the situation change since 2008?
So, I should accept your millions of sick people generality supported with a CDC link as a useful information. Why wouldn't you accept the cold hard numbers given by the same organization ?

> Cultured meat is grown in sterile environments and is typically cooked. These differences mean that it will almost certainly have a lower disease risk than any natural food.

Maybe, or maybe we'll discover in 10 years that eating lab grown meat gives you some form of cancer. Until it is used on a large scale for a number of years (as in decades) we have no idea what the effect of consuming lab grown meat has on ones health.
Building blocks for a native tracking experience
"And self-driving taxis mean you can use them for those journeys"

No.

You will have to call the taxi and wait for it to arrive, and (inevitably) you're going to have to wait a lot longer at peak times.

That is not the same as going any time you want.
Mirror Mirror in the Code
And this type of tech is self-accelerating.

The improvements in techniques make new discovery faster and news discovery create better techniques.

Interesting times...
> energy per transaction

The lightning network may address this specific concern. I.e. bitcoin may become primarily a settlement mechanism for a much less resource hungry payment handling protocol/layer.