skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you're probably just underestimating how popular it is. Tagging activity tripled from 2012 to 2017. They had 10 million monthly active users in February when Firefox bought them.
Time to visit Australia is all year long, but what I hear the best is November or February.
It sure does have its convenience going for it.

But like the hipster with their vinyl; I still yearn for that electric glow of vacuum tubes. It doesn't make sense - it doesn't have to - the tactility of it all is an experience in its own. Like a manual toothbrush.
I have looked into Duplicati, but I'm not so keen on running an SSH server on my machine and/or SFTP in order to let others back up to it. A lot of extra admin work would be involved in protecting that set up and creating the necessary port-forwards and firewalls. Whereas crashplan just works.

I'm certainly not going to go through the steps of setting up CLI tasks on my families machine members either.
I understand the "broken benchmarks" problem and I acknowledge that there are some cases that are so demanding and have such low security sensitivity that it makes sense to have an LCG in the standard library.

But I stand by my argument that the default platform RNG should be a CSPRNG, and that developers should reach for a CSPRNG by default.

Which makes all the attention we've been giving to stuff like xoroshiro128+ and PCG pretty confusing to me. It feels like people arguing very earnestly about non-problems, while ignoring a huge problem in our standard libraries.
THAT is your use case? And this just CAN NOT be done from opt-in? Makes no sense.

If mozilla can't see how utterly insane this is then there is no hope left.
Oh, I'm not questioning if Pai is/will continue to be a shill. Let's call him that for being a spineless shill, not because he worked at Verizon once. Sorry if I'm nitpicking, but it's an important distinction to me.
Ask HN: Is there a more free version of the interwebs being worked on?
Recently with all the news about cracking down on unpopular speech, I think there will be more interest in another version of the internet (if there isn't already great interest) where there is free speech for all and perhaps less corporatism in platforms (although of course there almost necessarily must (and probably should) be business on all forms of interwebs).

Is there already something like this people are working on that you can be a part of? I don't want to join anything illegal, and my content is pretty tame, but I want to join what I suspect will probably be more of the future of interwebs, which will be one with more freedom of speech etc.
"But that other phone looks and works exactly the same and is $100 cheaper!"
Steven Mnuchin's wife makes fun of followers for not being as rich as she is
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There are at least two gears:

1. Code you have worked on before and can extend and maintain in your sleep.

2. Deep spaghetti WTF code that someone else wrote 5 years ago, makes no sense, the code IS the documentation, and you need to extend.

#2 might require some silence.
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Besides a computer. In chronological order, probably NES/SNES tossup, Walkman/Discman, Nikon DSLR, iPhone. I would say those were most influential in my life, for better or worse.
this link is very nsfw
Just look at the liveness of the expression x+1. post-increment means expression has to be alive before whatever uses '++x' whereas pre-increment can delay until next usage of x.
> And just like I said, I'm sure all the neckbeards from the 70's and 80's felt the same way about the Internet and shit like Geocities and pets.com.

But they weren't wrong. Geocities and Pets.com died without making very much money.

The giants of the Internet were Search Engines, Online Shopping, Video Sharing, and Social Networks. The giants of "Blockchain" probably either in awful, primodial form (ie: Pets.com was online shopping, but a terrible experience. Geocities was also a social network... albeit a bad one by today's standards).

So today's coins probably will fail to some new coin made 3 or 4 years from now which really figures out the "killer app" of Blockchain.

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I think its fair to say that "Blockchain" as a technology will exist in the future. Back in the 90s, one could reasonably expect that "Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web" was going to be the primary methodology of looking for new websites... before the Search Engine was perfected.

So many people lost their life savings chasing after fad technologies of the 90s, Webvan being one of the most notable. Billions of dollars invested and lost into just... awful ideas that no one understood.

Frankly, the neckbeards of the 80s were right. The vast majority of 90s webpages were utter crap without a business model.
Through Diaspora of course.

http://imgur.com/a/szhmi
This problem is the responsibility of the OS scheduler. One of the most important goals of any scheduler should be to give foreground UI processes that spend a lot of time sleeping in event loops priority. So if your OS scheduler is properly designed (as the ones in all major OS's are) a threaded browser shouldn't interfere with the system's responsiveness.
are you on android? works perfectly on my iphone.
I wish browsers provided a setting to prefer internal system fonts over web fonts (or even option to disable web fonts completely).
Readability is still important - not everyone has a >200 ppi display.
Fonts distributed with the operating system are usually well optimized (hinted) for on-screen usage. Proper hinting is critical to readability at lower resolutions / small font sizes. Unfortunately it is a painstaking manual (and therefore expensive) process [1]. That's why virtually all web fonts are simply print fonts, unsuitable for on-screen usage, except at large point sizes (e.g. for headings).

[1] https://www.typotheque.com/articles/hinting
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The technical details don't matter, all that's important is that coin X can't be spent on product Y without going through an exchange and paying conversion costs. It's plainly inconvenient and dumb. There's a reason why all real-world shops accept the local currency and not their own made up one.
Sounds good. I'll just work on making things crash faster then.
Yes, but that's source code. You can't run a partially-compiled program, so of course an error anywhere stops everything.

But HTML isn't a programming language, it's a markup language, and you absolutely can render a partially-correct page.

This might be more obvious if you consider a different markup language instead. Let's say you're using Markdown, and you start an italic block with an asterisk and forget to terminate it. Should the whole comment fail to render, or should it just fall back to showing a partially-correct comment?
What is modern about it? How does it compare to SCons that is more than
a decade old?
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I do use compiled languages, but there's many different tools for the job. Interpreted languages offer a number of features over compiled, and that makes it an attractive option in many situations.

In the case of JS, the biggest draw is probably platform portability and the amount of existing code to utilize. That and speed, as already mentioned.
Brave sounded interesting until I saw this at the bottom of the landing page:

"Brave makes money by taking 5% of any donations and -- after it is fully implemented -- a small cut of advertising that is placed. Brave even shares some revenue with you -- at least as much as we receive."

Then there's this:

https://brave.com/about-ad-replacement/

If they are planning to inject ads into the browser and somehow pay their users a kickback, how do they expect to maintain a reputation as a privacy focused project? Even if they offer to pay in cryptocurrency, they are still tying browsing habits and targeted advertisements to a trackable user. No thanks.

I had switched from Chromium back to Firefox after Google was caught injecting binary blobs into Chromium at build time[1], and so last year when I decided to drop all Google products from my life, I already had a great (if slow) browser making it less of a hurdle. Now, though, I think I'll stick with Safari on my phone and Mac, and find a way to sync bookmarks from Safari to Midori on my other systems.

[1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=786909
Resources are finite. I don't know what your point is? That they should simply give up and do nothing?

>That carriers needs to do testing is a lie perpetuated to allow for customer-hostile business-practices. Stop repeating it.

Other than your opinion, what evidence do you have that this is a lie?
I think around 6
What determines the initial listing price if this approach is taken? (Sorry I am not well versed on IPO's and moving to a public company.)
That problem is small enough to just brute force. There are only 1612800 calculations to do.
Definitely getting the first few paying customers. Luckily I have a vast network of potential users from previous jobs, but asking them to pay feels weird when it's an MVP (mostly).
Yep. I am using syncthing since around 3 years now and never had a problem, upgrades are flawlass, really not that much CPU/RAM (<1 % and 50 MB for 18000 Files ~ 70GB). Setup is like this:

1. syncthing on PC -> syncthing on Synology NAS.

2. NAS -> Internal backup from 3-Disk RAID to additional 4th disk

3. I am thinking about additionally uploading it to Amazon Glacier or Backblaze
I've done this. Cost me like $15 to get all my data back in 2 days :D
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I chose pCloud as my provider of choice. It's not unlimited, but it's $10/mo for 2 TB of storage and 2 TB of traffic. That is more than enough for most users, and you can increase the size in 2 TB increments at additional cost. pCloud has pretty much all the bells and whistles one would need. I certainly consider it rich in features. I also like that it can be used as a sync storage or just as a "hard drive in the cloud" where I don't have to keep the data or folder structure on my machine if I don't want to.

The only downside is that the integrated encryption is an additional charge. To get around that, I decided to go with Boxcryptor, which I already had. The average user can use the free version of Boxcryptor. It is awesome and I highly recommend it. Both pCloud and Boxcryptor show up as physical drives on your computer, which I find convenient. So I have my primary source drive synced with the Boxcryptor drive/location and Boxcryptor is set up on my machine to encrypt the data on the fly as it is copied (surprisingly, this is not the default setting). Then, I have a separate process that syncs the raw Boxcryptor directory where the files show in their encrypted format (the "drive" version shows them unencrypted because everything is done on the fly both ways) to my pCloud storage. In the end, I have 3 versions - the unencrypted source, the encrypted Boxcryptor copy, and the pCloud backup which contains the encrypted copy.
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> The speed was 24mph

No way. It was 24 km/second.
I've used the Radeon control panel. I also use the Slack and Spotify apps all the time with no complaints.

The Radeon interface does not fit in at all with Windows (nor macOS or any Linux DE I've ever seen, for that matter) and is almost always glitchy for me.
How can they detect the video if it's over ssl? Are they just detecting big streams of data and throttling it? If so that's bad because it will certainly have false positives and throttle those.
This is cool, where do you get the data? I see its from NOAA, but what kind of data files do you get from them?
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Brian from Backblaze here.

> Backblaze ... none of the 3rd party integrations with B2 seems to support live watching of files

I'm not exactly sure what you are going for, but you can "preview" files through the web interface on BOTH the Backblaze online backup and also B2.

If you are specifically asking about movies, just stay tuned. The first step was allowing preview of simple images, next we want to support previewing of movies.

Also, a feature we added a week ago in Backblaze Online Backup is the ability to "Share Files" (any file in your backup) with other people. For the first release we limited the file size (just so our servers did not tip over) but we plan to support the ability to share all files less than 10 GBytes.
Ditto, though it does explain why they push it in the Walmart app.

(For the uninitiated: if you buy a Blu Ray from Walmart that comes with a copy through Vudu, you get notified if you use Walmart Pay to redeem it immediately.)
That's separate from the issue. For example, what do I mean if I say:

I like using google now to check the weather

Whether it sounds like a persons name isn't the issue.
Expending the effort on designing formal, hard system boundaries (within the same organization) tends to work less well in practice than it does in theory. The 'full-stack' trend serves to compensate for this deficiency by making individual devs feel ownership of a higher proportion of the overall product up and down the stack. As a related effect, it allows the firm to shuffle the devs where they're needed the most, theoretically not limited by their specialization in a particular area.

This is a less cynical take than a popular post of mine a year back [1], in which I say:

> The 'full-stack' trend is a reflection of rising, dare-I-say unrealistic expectations, one which the author supports by their recommendations in their blog post. By perpetuating the notion that the only 'true way' to be a good developer is to structure their lifestyle around understanding implementation details behind all the layers of a modern tech stack, they place an unnatural reverence on the mythos of hackerdom while ignoring that software development is not solely a creative pursuit.

> As it stands now, 'full-stack developer' is a euphemism, which in hip new places means 'we want you to live and breathe code, because you will be given vague requirements and expected to deliver the entirety of the solution from the bits moving across the wire to the UI espousing the latest visual design language in less than a month', and in established places means 'we want an infusion of new blood to bring sanity to some legacy code and we're counting on you to debug and fix everything by yourself'.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12168195
> but its an upward curve vs. Apple/MS's downward spiral when it comes to UI

It's upward because it's trying to catch up with Windows and macOS...

As much as I would love to love Linux, besides elementary OS the trend is still to ignore looks and concentrate on code. Some apps are so poorly thought out in terms of UI that they're almost impossible to use.
It was going to happen regardless, but it makes me deeply cynical to see this infrastructure going up in the folksy tone of "neighborhood safety." I guess to justify erecting yet another component of the massive surveillance apparatus, you have to have a startup-ey landing page and cool logo. I would prefer to see this announced on a dingy government website, or even signs on every corner stating "all movement is tracked" installed by bureaucratic decree. At least then we'd be honest with what we're creating.
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Can you explain what you mean by "watching", and why it's important to you?
Exactly. For all the winners there are losers. For every one of these crypto millionaires there are dozens of people who lost a lot of money, some of them substantial amounts of their savings, many several paychecks they decided to gamble with.
What type of crime is your main target? Do you store video in addition to plate numbers? How accurate are your speed estimates at oblique angles?

I think you are getting some pushback because a lot of neighborhood watch groups have a reputation for looking out for "wrong looking people." The Trayvon Martin case surely didn't help, either.

Also, crime in the US is an all time low, but perception of crime is at an all time high. This is good for your product, but not for our society.
No. iCloud backups don't contain keychains, where the Google authenticator stores its seeds.
You could take a look at https://getcook.org/docs/features/ or the examples provided at https://github.com/jachris/cook/tree/master/examples to know more.
Each side of the political spectrum has a spectrum of biased news. For example, Huffington Post and The Young Turks are liberal news sources which are very partisan. The Economist is a fiscally conservative magazine which is less partisan, Uncommon Knowledge is an interview show with a conservative viewpoint, but also an educated and intellectual viewpoint.

If you're a liberal minded person, your exposure to conservative sources of news is likely excerpts of their most grievous offenses. Hence, the liberal bias suggests that conservatives get all their news from Tucker Carlson making funny faces at people, or Alex Jones identifying gay amphibians. The result is the belief that liberals are reasonable intellectuals and conservatives stupid fools.
This is very cool. Long shot but any chance you can blog about the algorithm used? Or open source the same?
> Moreover, the engine runs unsandboxed and as NT Authority\SYSTEM.

Is there an antivirus that _doesn't_ parse untrusted input in a process with full system privileges? What a joke.
Just googling "inotify linux backup," I found my way to this post about inotify not being recursive [0], doesn't that limit its usefulness for triggering backups of an entire drive?

For Linux and the relatively small amount of storage you require, you're very likely going to be looking for client software independent of backup storage medium, not a service that provides a client. 130GB would be about $3/month on AWS S3.

[0] https://www.quora.com/Linux-Kernel/Inotify-monitoring-of-dir...
Pulse Secure, Cisco, F5, Palo Alto and SonicWALL provide VPN clients for Chrome OS. The Cisco AnyConnect client will also work with the open source openconnect vpn server although doing so is a violation of the client's license. L2TP/IPsec VPNs are supported out of the box.
Free to in that if they did so, you would have no recourse according to this document.
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Of course, but it might be better for everyone involved if I paid for it per GB.
We have a bunch of the top influencers in the on-demand space helping promote.

We've thought about pitching in the car but the cost doesn't work out.
You can choose any kinds of destinations for Duplicati. Even a local place.

I personally use it with Google Drive.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jun/20/theres...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_blocking_in_the_United_Kin...
I'm also a Crashplan user. Don't have great suggestions, but in terms of Google Drive on Linux, Insync (https://www.insynchq.com/) seems to work well enough.

Wish Google would just release the Linux client they use internally.
Just an example.

Nothing more simple than flesh and strings. That's what it's all about, really.
I like this idea a lot, but there is also on thing to consider, Crowds. The best weather also draws the biggest crowds. This drives up food and hotel prices. If you could somehow factor in the crowds and peak season, you could have a really useful tool.
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Wait, if I delete a file you will keep the latest version forever?
I'm keen to hear a few viewpoints from the HN community:
1.) how technology might ameliorate typical problems
2.) Lagos-based startups that are pursuing the same
I don't think anyone on HN thinks those are competitive markets, they're all oligopolies
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Dinosaur is a specific class of animal. Theee were rodents back then, which we evolved from, but they weren't dinosaurs.
There's no need need to sue unless you've somehow been damaged. Dropping service and keeping your 600 dollar phone or returning it used is more than damaging enough for them.
Agreed, but:

> If we did not have Postel's Maxim, I think the Internet would have just remained the domain of geeks and not have become what it is today.

That would have been a huge benefit as well.
>>Provided this feature doesn't compromise anyone's privacy even _if_ its enabled, what's wrong with having it be opt-out?

The only Anonymous Data is data that is never collected. If they collect data it is a violation of privacy.
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Well, it's trivial to throttle VPNs for someone like Verizon.
This is specious reasoning. Company B is not doing "the same thing" at all. Company B is collecting data, but not only is it far more limited (e.g. collecting domains instead of URLs), it's done in a way that protects privacy. You can't just throw up your hands and say "well, they're collecting some data, therefore we may as well just throw away all privacy protections and use the browser by the company whose business model is based on collecting all the personal information they possibly can".

Privacy is not a boolean.
Ability to take photos on a mobile, mark them up (with a pen), and have full-text search of the contents of the photos and the notes.
Immediately after pageload (without interaction), I get the following on Chrome 64 bit (60.0.3112) on Ubuntu 16.10:

An unexpected error occurred. If you continue to receive this error please contact your Tableau Server Administrator.

Session ID: 7EBED2C1927841ED9575329CE40EB6F7-0:0

Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property 'refreshImages' of null
> My co-founder got the idea for Mystro while completing over 10,000 trips as an Uber/Lyft driver.

Wow that's nuts! Over what span of time was the 10K rides?

At 20 minutes per ride and 8 hours of non-stop driving per day, 7 days a week, that's almost a year and half. Add in any breaks between rides, weekends, or dead time between rides and its even longer.

> We automate switching multiple on-demand apps on and off. This ensures that drivers are available on all services to get the maximum number of rides but never get penalized for not accepting a ride because they are already on a trip

Had to read this a few times to parse it. So do you guys repeatedly cycle through the apps so the driver is on/off repeatedly? Or is it permanently off and you turn it on when you detect that there's a ride to accept? (Which I don't understand how you'd do if it's off)
Hey, this is really useful! I'll bookmark it and probably use it.

A few bugs/glitches, though:

- The Celsius temperature graph for Barcelona ( https://championtraveler.com/dates/best-time-to-visit-barcel... ) doesn't show temperatures above 25ºC, so every temperature above that gets cropped to 25. The scale should probably be adapted to the data.

- "The busiest month for tourism in Barcelona, Spain is May, followed by March and March." March and March?

- Maybe this is a problem with your dataset and not the app, but just in case, check the snow graph/data for A Coruña: https://championtraveler.com/dates/best-time-to-visit-a-coru... - 108 cm of snow in April? I can guarantee the real average is close to zero :)

- Also in little known tourist destinations (e.g. A Coruña, from the last link) tourism in all seasons is reported as "slow or unreported". Which is true, of course (in the best month in A Coruña you will see much fewer tourists than in a really bad month in Barcelona). But maybe relative data (tourism related to the average in that city) could make sense?

Keep up the good work!
I agree 100% on the last statement, refocus your efforts on a personal project. I think more people in a corporate job should consider doing this sooner in life. It is a great way to build additional skills, especially in situations where no training is offered.
Yep. This works even better for me when hand writing something as opposed to typing. Obviously useless for programming though :)
California has a climate problem, and its name is cars