skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not inclined to jump on this nickle and dimed to death for access to numerous platforms/services, model.

For backups and to avoid social media, some of my family and friends have switched to using some tools we're building together.

We're doing backups by syncing to a local to us Samba share (using Time Machine, conveniently everyone uses Macs), and Syncthing'ing in a federated style. The backups at rest on remote disk are in encrypted containers.

We can "share" messages and pictures with each other as well. Basically we just copy content outside the encrypted container to a public folder. There's a simple HTML/CSS/light JS frontend, everyone has a bookmark to http://localserver/public

I'm from a tech savvy family, engineers, old IBM mainframers, physicists, coders, and my mom the hairdresser. My friends involved are web/frontend devs. So you know, YMMV.

One could conceivably use Dropbox or something, to avoid Samba setup, but that will cost more.

No one has spent more than a couple hundred on hardware in the last 2 years. Internet and electricity costs are negligible.

Don't build habits around other people's platforms. Isn't that what they keep saying about Google, MS, etc? Seems reasonable enough to be a general life-pro-tip.
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That anecdote on user testing is a real screamer (p16). Who would have thunk the most difficult UX issue would be asking users if they're using a color monitor.
Running WordPress in a Kubernetes Cluster
> I can't think of any particular features the text editor feels like it's missing.

It can't even print. I'm a paying user but that one still blows my mind.
I've been using duplicacy and it supports a bunch of different remote endpoints. https://duplicacy.com/
Which means that they can't do a 51% attack, which was what the comment above me was implying.

They can't generate infinite bitcoin units anyway but if they controlled 70% of the mining power they could conceivably execute double spends, although even this would be unlikely.

In any event the post above mine asked a yes or no question and the answer is no.

The article implies that providing mining cpus is much more of a problem than it is since they don't actually control that much mining hash power.
I'm not saying anything has no flaws, just that if it has, it would be nice if you would inform Mozilla about them.
Thank you for athenapdf and for rescuing me from the pains of wkhtmltopdf - I am a happy user. :)

My only small problem with it was the somewhat complex setup for using athenapdf-service with a new project (especially since I use docker-machine) but I have now mostly automated the whole thing.

Just out of interest - do you consider asynchronous an advantage (being a Node developer I generally love async very much)? Not that it matters to me - my needs are trivial for the service to handle.

Edit: actually I can see how it async would make my life much more complicated for my simple use case - I would have to write something to track requests and responses rather than just looping through a bunch of URL's that need converting.
"AoE4 is being developed by Relic Entertainment, which previously worked on the Company of Heroes and Dawn of War serie"

Exactly. Relic has no track record of RTS games. Real a Time Strategy (RTS) is completely different to Real Time Tactic games, the later Relic has experience with. The Halo 2 game was a casual one with even card game elements and dumbed down gameplay (no free base building, etc). Not on Steam - not gonna playing it. Sorry but no thanks to UWP Store. The last AoE is III, from the awesome Ensemble Studio.
>we might consider what we lost [...] its proudly independent sensibility and critical autonomy remain rare in today’s corporate media sphere.

Um, what? The Gawkers/Buzzfeeds/etc. are one of the many reasons general discourse has deteriorated so much. They've effectively forced "today's corporate media spheres" to become Gawker-lites because that horeshit is the only thing people read.

>All that’s really left to say is that Gawker is gone and that Donald Trump is president.

Gawker stayed in business because of people like Trump. He's in the White House because of independent outlets like Gawker.

I can't believe a supposed professor of journalism wrote this turgid shit.
"I also think that statement scales down in the sense that unit tests rarely make sense for code written and maintained by one or two people."

I am maintaining several end user critical projects related to data transform and transport, mostly by myself. I have no idea how I could develop them as efficiently without unit tests to verify my changes don't brake some corner case as new features are added.

The cadence for changes can be fairly low - I might return to some component after doing something else for six months, and I probably need to add some feature without breaking something in the process.

Sure, we have integration testing and smoke testing, but the further a bug travels the release pipeline from the developer the more expensive it is to fix. This cost cascade is quite easy to visualize - the work of whomever caught the bug is stopped, and depending where they are located in the product ecosystem their stall can cause lots of work for other people. If they are a tester they need to file a report. If they are a customer, their work is interrupted, they contact local sales, who then contact global helpdesk, who then identify and log the bug.

Much simpler and easier if there is a unit test to catch the bug in the first place.

Now, there can be domain specific flavors to this. My domain is computational geometry and transport of 3D modeling data between domains. But in my domain anyone not securing their code with unit tests is wasting their employers money and setting their end users at risk by increasing the likelihood of bugs.

There is lot of cargo cult nonsense in software engineering. Unit testing is not one of them. It saves time and effort by catching a range of bugs not caught by e.g. compiler for statically typed language and it secures the program logic for future changes.
This is the second Gawker apologist link to reach the front page today. Is there some kind of coordinated campaign PR campaign to reboot the Gawker model? I certainly hope not. Journalists should be impartial, unbiased, nonpartisan, and report facts that is actual news, not gossip. I'm not saying a person is not entitled to their opinion just because they're a journalist, but don't try to pass off your personal opinion as news simply because you're a journalist.
I don't understand what that google link is supposed to demonstrate. Is there something in the results showing that people's insurance doesn't protect them?
(3) has to make you wonder how many employee accidents must have occurred handling liquid at temps this hot in a high-speed food service environment.
As I understand it, there's no difference on HN. "Shadowbanned" is another term for the same behavior.
This. The frequent updates for vscode. I used both Sublime and vscode for a while. I switched to vscode overnight when it got hot exit support.
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My apologies if I gave you this impression. I only tried to clarify what was in Matt's post. I didn't think I was making any positive claims myself, but apparently I gave that impression. I'm sorry to have posted in this conversation and I wish I could delete my comment. I feel very sensitive to receiving downvotes.
Sorry, I assumed most people would know the back story.

The account was reinstated with no explanations to the public.
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What Is Log Aggregation and How Does It Help You?
I like /r/netsettelr's comments in reddit.

https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/6u1jq2/the_har...
I don't wish to store my families data in the cloud for a fee. Crashplan allowed me to use my own (spare) storage space to provide this for them.
It's not just convenience for anycast addresses, with multiple pathes and anycast if your round robin packets across different routes, you may end up receiving them in two different locations (ok for UDP, but TCP broken completely).
Anycast is widely deployed now and imho ECMP support is now considered "standard".
I'm not sure what are other alternative solution to ECMP that don't require looking into TCP headers.
I went from Crash Plan (much too long to back up my files) to BlackBlaze (every time it would hit the end of uploading, my backups would disappear and I would have to re-upload 3 terabytes of data, BB support couldn't figure anything out) to finally just rolling my own external hard drive backups for media and using Dropbox (which I had been using anyway and love) and a hard drive for my files and pictures. I am going to upload just pictures to a cloud service in the future. Between Dropbox file restore and the external HD my files and pictures don't disappear. I don't care about my music and I have found that my media backups simply need to be made and then checked every couple of months. Turns out, TV shows, audiobooks, sporting events, and other static media are wonderful for just tossing onto a hard drive, labeling the hard drive with either a reference to a text file showing what is on it or labeling the drive itself. For example one of the HDs I have is literally labeled:

- 2014 FIFA World Cup - Brasil

- 2015-16 Penguins Stanley Cup

- 2016-17 Penguins Stanley Cup

- 2015-16 Los Angeles Lakers (Kobe's Final Season)

Every so often I go in and check that a game from each of these is playable at the start and end of a half, period, or quarter.

The TV shows and movies I have on Blu-Ray/DVD I don't even check. This is more "I'm too lazy to re-rip, but if I have to, I will" backups.

Ebooks are really the only media that I have to remember to backup, and that library is so small (and relatively static) that I just drag it to a USB stick every couple of months.
I've never used it but the reasons for me are, open source and price.
* Do they have a Linux client? -No

* Do they allow you to recover deleted files? -No (I have used this a few times, it saved some of the digitized family photos which I blew away with an rsync --delete flag)

* Do they offer secondary products that relate to their primary offering? Ok, I can read that as they are stretching too thin not focusing on backups enough. Will they announce they are dropping out of consumer backups and moving on to B2 as their main product?

* Is their software well-built/designed, or is it annoying and bloated? - Currently is doesn't run at all on my systems.
No. https://www.sublimetext.com/buy?v=3
At Last, a Big, Successful Trial of Probiotics
Heroku Webhooks: Powering New Integrations and Real-Time Notifications
I wonder, would it be better to have something like an LLVM frontend for Clojure, rather than another new Scheme? Or, would we still have a long startup time, regardless of the platform? I know Clojure's startup time isn't to be blamed on the JVM, but since Clojurescript does not suffer from that issue, I'm not really sure where the problem is.

Looks like that's actually a work in progress: https://github.com/drmeister/clasp
> Grouper for groups and events

...I'm pretty sure that's just normal grouper

EDIT: I can't believe I didn't notice this is satire. This comment stands as a symbol of my ignorance.
Sometimes this works for me if I end up in consumer hell. Be short, professional, to the point, and give all factual evidence. Make it easy for them to work with you, and you will get a response. Also the Office Of The Controller of Currency always responds to my overdraft charges from Wells Fargo. I make sure that it is extremely expensive to screw me over.
Yeah should've clarified. I don't approve of the chiding, just giving more constructive advice. Domain experts like you are critical to start-ups in complex domains like farming.
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No it's just the only meaningful way to get a raise is to switch jobs
That deserves a place on the CS bad names gallery, just right of "strong type system". There isn't anything even critical about it, just exclusive.

The usage on the context of optimization is much more deserved, although I never heard anybody calling it "section" before, just critical code, critical loop, or stuff like that.
tl;dr - This article is from Feb 2017 and is about TRAPPIST-1
In my country it's illegal since communism was overthrown. I'm not discussing the current legal status though. People should not be tracked on public property - property built from their own money.
Probably Electron. Even on VS Code (which is a fantastic Electron program), the Electron framework has it's limits.

One huge irk I have with Electron is the amount of bloat it gives to even the most well written programs. With the VS Code example from before, no matter how well it performs, I always feel like I'm eating a stuffed crust pizza when I use it. Electron gives it much more cruft than needed.

I am currently debating on whether or not to switch back to Sublime since I'm getting sick of people using Electron as an easy way of building "quality" software.
Relic is know for Real Time Tactic, not Real Time Strategy (RTS) games. Guess what AoE series was - RTS. Base building and mass of units are part of AoE RTS gameplay. Relic with it's Halo 2 casual game, no free base building and it card trading elements is NOT a good record.
That's difficult to do when your cell provider presents the contract on an LCD screen, or via a web page.

On the other hand, the car dealership refused to allow me to redline their contract. I was fortunate that I could -- and did -- walk away, and I was able to find another dealer that didn't yet have a MBA clause.
You're correct in that it is not linear. The damage increases sigmoidally with weight and is impacted by the number of axles.

The cost differences are huge. A primary road will have been constructed to tolerate the weight and frequency. It's much more expensive to maintain such a road.

In some cases, yes. Maintaining and improving roads will be paid out of different budgets. Federal, State, (sometimes) County, Local Municipality. Tertiary roads are almost certainly out of the local budget.

If it's not expressly prohibited, there's bound to be heavier traffic on these tertiary streets. The heavier vehicles do far more damage.

(There's also safety to be concerned with.)

It's okay to route traffic through these areas when it's an emergency. Occasional use is not going to be a significant impactor. However, with regular use, it's going to result in rapid deterioration.

If you really want to dig into this, here's a link to a study:

https://www.lrrb.org/pdf/201432.pdf

There are many, many more. If you're curious about the weight issue, it's known as ESAL and this page is pretty easy to digest:

http://www.pavementinteractive.org/loads/
> Excuse me, but did you support Mozilla with time/money?

Yes, I have done. Thank you for the snark.
TIL Pagedown is Stack Overflow's markdown editor - https://github.com/StackExchange/pagedown
Regardless, an economy running on say $100b of cryptocurrency is more cost efficient than one running on cash, is it not?

I mean, as a matter of principle, the transaction fees of a bitcoin transaction are always cheaper than any credit card swipe, ATM withdrawal, or wire transfer.
>>>The free speech right guarded by the First Amendment in the US is not absolute; there are categories that don't meet the criteria (such as the "falsely shouting fire in a crowded theater" example, Schenck v. United States, 1919).

Except for the fact that I am not talking about, nor ever used a reference to the 1st amendment to the US Constitution

I am talking about Free Speech, not Constitutional law. Those are different issues

Further, I am extremely tired of people using "Yell Fire" as a excuse for censorship

Schenck was a TERRIBLE precedent and has been largely over turned by other rulings

https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2012/11/its-tim...

https://www.popehat.com/2012/09/19/three-generations-of-a-ha...

"Bear all of that in mind the next time someone name-drops Holmes and cites Schenck as part of a broad endorsement of censorship. The problem isn't that they're incorrectly citing Holmes. The problem is that they are citing him exactly right, for the vague, censorious, and fortunately long-departed "standard" he articulated. Justice Holmes, three generations of hearing your sound-bite are enough." -- Ken White
Your second snippet will just zero rdx - don't confuse the registers (rbx is in the mix in the original :)
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From the page which the top comment from two years [1] ago linked to:
"This statement is based upon a terrible misunderstand of Postel's robustness principle. I knew Jon Postel. He was quite unhappy with how his robustness principle was abused to cover up non-compliant behavior, and to criticize compliant software.

Jon's principle could perhaps be more accurately stated as 'In general, only a subset of a protocol is actually used in real life. So, you should be conservative and only generate that subset. However, you should also be liberal and accept everything that the protocol permits, even if it appears that nobody will ever use it.'"

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9827669
For full folder backups, duplicity [1] has been great for me, does incremental backups, and has quite a few backends. You control rotation policies, full-snapshot frequency, etc, and bring your own storage (works with s3, rsync, etc.). Full-folder recovery is also pretty easy in my experience.

The downside is that it's all on you to configure providers, pay for storage, and I'm not aware of any indexing or ability to retrieve single files. Also, it's CLI-based, so it might not be very intuitive for desktop use. Still, a free solution with lots of utility. :-)

[1] http://duplicity.nongnu.org/
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We have a good understanding of what will provide the best driver experience based on a huge amount of user feedback.

There is also the potential to use the data we have to optimize driver revenue even further.
An SPA won't have filesystem access?
I have to say, that seems like exactly the right approach and it's seriously impressive to see what you're doing.

I remember the original Mozilla, how it started out as a total rewrite of Navigator. It took years to reach feature parity and Navigator lost all of its market share in that time.

Being able to do refactorings like this, and introduce a whole new language at the same time, is seriously impressive engineering. Bravo.
Big data analytics platform Databricks raises $140M Series D round
Back in the days of the Apple IIe color monitors were extremely expensive. The first one I bought (A Sony KX14CP1) cost me almost as much as the computer it was connected to.
Before then I used a small monochrome monitor (composite video).

Color really wasn't something you could assume people had. late 80's is roughly when color started to be 'normal' (mostly driven by the IBM PC shipping with CGA since launch in '91) and people looked at you strangely if you still had monochrome.

And even then, if you wanted high resolution chances were that you'd be looking at a monochrome display.
> Frequent high-quality updates, lots of communication

Genuine question: does this really make a difference in your day to day usage? I feel like once I've learnt the ~20% of features that are useful to me on a regular basis everything on top is marginal gains. Im really not that bothered by loads of new features.
> Gold has been used as a currency for thousands of years.

But not supporting a robust market economy until it (and other metals) were reduced primarily to accounting units for many transactions, so the real “currency” was, in substantial parts, debt instruments, not actual gold. I mean, this is true even in emergent pre-capitalist market economies, which were fueled by (and fueled, in a positive feedback loop) the development of banking.

There is a huge difference between a commodity currency like gold and a commodity-backed currency like gold-denominated debt instruments.
You don't even need the whole web platform to build these sort of UIs -- in theory, you could use the WebRender engine to render CSS-box-like UIs. You could avoid some of the weaknesses of the web platform like the memory-heavy DOM.
I think this would be an excellent target for a React Native-like framework for desktop, as it would support the full generality of CSS with excellent performance.
Interesting! That is definitely different from how the maxim is commonly understood.

Edit: actually, some of the replies in the thread you linked disagree with this remembrance, and state that it really did mean what we take it to mean today.
The funniest thing is no editor had delivered the whole package.

1) emacs is crazily extensible but hard to use. Uses hacks to get the performance
2) vi(m) is extensible, fast but also hard to use
3) ST is easy to use, fast but not that extensible as emacs/atom
4)atom/vscode is extensible,easy to use but slow
Thanks! I agree on the search functionality. Right now this is just a WordPress search, but it would probably be wise to use Google's location API to help find the right place or the closest place to it. I have no experience here, but I can work on adding it.

Will have to think about the community option as well. I'm not sure what the best implementation would be, but it's a good idea. Thanks for the positive response and constructive feedback!
I'd like to use git in order to ensure a good reconciliation between edits made on multiple devices.
Handwriting is not really the goal for my application, since it's a markdown editor.

As far as the web viewer is concerned would you like most a web editor or a static site generator (with hosting included). The web editor is more useful for personal use, but the static site allows everyone to access (I'm thinking about implementing both)
They don't seem like they need to. They have software that's stable enough to live on for 4-5 years between major releases. That, in itself, is huge value.

What else could they really add in besides a version bump?
It's a good question, But the employees would have no right to sue McDonald's for any damages in civil court (negligence for example), and they would be limited to workers compensation claims/benefits.
TLDR: Skip forward to penultimate paragraph, read, and consider effort of trying to parse the rest of the piece.
What do they mean, enlighten me
Servo has their argument from power saving as well; do the work across many cores and go back to cpu power saving modes faster.
Congrats to them. What's the value prop for databricks for orgs that already have data/infra engineers? I ask because in our org of ~40 engineers, our entire data warehouse (Spark on Mesos, Jupyter notebooks for analysis) is managed by 2 people, but it did take a year to build. Is it cutting down the time to getting a data warehouse MVP? Have users found that it significantly reduces ops overhead down the line?
Not a registered Medium user. I assume you mean a reader gets 50 claps to give out, right (not "can clap" something 50x)?
No Berlin isnt Cologne is.
I use IDrive for this. It runs right on my Synology NAS, doing scheduled backups of the data it contains. The pricing is pretty reasonable, too.
"Always use a cryptographic PSUEDO-RNG for important code!"

Just because it's "cryptographic" doesn't mean it's not pseudo-random.
I get that, and that's exactly what the Hacks blog is for (it has always done this masterfully). The recent posts on Hacks and Mozilla Tech on Medium have done this really well I think.

I don't think the tone here necessarily does anything for generating interest though. This is highly subjective, but at least for me it made for a jarring read and I lost interest pretty quickly. As I said above, I respect the intent behind the article, but I just found it very odd.
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I am a very heavy Evernote user but it has nothing like this.