skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The major reason for me is their Linux support. I don't think any mainstream provider offers linux support. I also feel their sync is better than both One drive and GDrive. They probably sync the deltas most affectively. Given that this is their only important product, it s bound to have the attention of their best engineers. You can't say the same about Google or MSFT.
Never gonna be a priority unless they release a new enterprise platform. Use Box for this.
I'd rather buy my storage from a storage company than an ad company.
> doesn't mean I'm just a dumb pleb churning out junk

I do not see how what I wrote would support this claim

The actual underlying theme was: if you really need a medium to express yourself(or in this case, your thoughts), Lisp is great. The comparison to clay was because: it is mold-able, it is not easy to work with, most people do not want to get their hands dirty with it, they may not even be interested on it. And what most people will make with clay will not look good. This is not a limitation on their part, they may not even be interested.

I am one of those churning out prefabs and gluing stuff together. This is what I get paid for.
Have you seen their VPN yet? Offers you "more secure facebook" while facebook tracks every site you visit instead of just facebook.
Cool, and as to whether basic security will keep my server safe?
> why should Citi be forced to "wealth re-distribute" these funds from one set of customers to another set?

Nothing leads me to believe that the second set is different from the first. In fact, the word “refund” suggests they’re the same.
I use Google Drive, but I'd switch to Dropbox in a flash if they offered 100GB pricing package. Mainly because I find the Dropbox app more reliable and syncs quicker than GD. I've had Google Drive or "Backup and Sync" or whatever they call it now crash a few times as well.

But I'm sticking with Google Drive for the time being, I really cannot justify paying £6.59 a month for 1TB of storage, when I'm prettty certain I'd use less than 10% of that.
They raised $7.5mm towards the end of last year, so maybe there's more ad spending going? https://digiday.com/media/atlas-obscura-ceo-david-plotz-vide...
Maybe I'm just missing something but where is the name of the package? How do I install this? Is it an `apt-get install cockpit`? I don't see that written anywhere obvious.
> Fussy Kids: people who appeasing fussy kids (yeah yeah yeah... the hardos without kids will say you should just force them to eat it. Life isn't so straightforward.)

My friends with children basically fall into two camps: one camp that agrees with you and blames their kids, and the other camp that just feeds their kids healthy food because, like your pet dog or cat, can't drive to the grocery store when it refuses to eat its croquetas.

Spending time with the families of my friends, the real issue seems to be with the adults either giving in to their children because they don't want to bother, feeding their children boxed food because they don't have the energy, or feeding their children bad food because they themselves don't eat much healthy food.
As my profile says, qbasic has a special place in my heart. I spent many, many middle school hours and late nights in it before learning c++ in high school.
What can't React do?
Google isn't neglecting the Chinese. Chinese is just brutal for literally everything. It's hard for humans, it's hard for machines, it's hard for humans designing for machines for use by humans. It's hard to read, write, hear, speak, represent.

Voice UX for English, where linguists and AI and money are being thrown, is still very much in its infancy. Let's give them a little time.
I'm not surprised to see net neutrality mentioned as a risk factor.

Our platform depends on the quality of our users’ access to the internet. Certain features of our platform require significant bandwidth and fidelity to work effectively. Internet access is frequently provided by companies that have significant market power that could take actions that degrade, disrupt or increase the cost of user access to our platform, which would negatively impact our business.

I wonder if you could make an argument that public SAAS companies have a fiduciary duty to their shareholders to support net neutrality policy.
Points 1 through 3 are all correct, but I would like to know why you believe 4 is wholly speculative?
Give us the dirt on this one!
> If you are working on difficult problems where you actually have to devise non-trivial algorithms, then Lisp is a good choice.

Been hearing this nugget of Lisp elitism for 20 years.

> Turns out most people want Legos. Real artists are fewer in number, but those will want clay instead.

Oh, ffs. Spare me.
If keybase can do half of what it looks like they're going to do they will scratch that itch for you. I use kbfs as my dropbox now and have for a while.
> Someone using an encrypted messenger for example, strikes me as being quite connected.

To the network of people using a compatible encrypted messenger, not to people using "the internet" in some generic sense. Network effects definitely apply to each of the options at the level that they have their own network (e.g., "email" is a network, to the extent that it is interoperable; "Facebook" and any particular encrypted messaging system are each their own networks. The utility of each is determined largely by how many and which other people are using them and what those other people are using them for.)
You don’t have to clap.
Is it? Since Facebook knows which browser you used to login, it would be reasonable to expect one scan for each computer you sign in.

I guess you could copy the entire browser profile so it thinks it's the same machine, but that's even harder for your regular user.

"Yes, father. VirtualBox.org... Yes, .org, not .com... Without spaces, yes... Remind me, do you have Windows 32bit or 64bit?"
"Keep editing"

It's tricky online to find the right place in between "having opinions" and "never contributing". I have opinions about the Lisp world that aren't that nice but weren't represented in the comment section, so I wanted to throw them in. The opinions are dismissive, so they had to sound a bit dismissive. My first pass was overly dismissive so I edited it but I don't think I want to go more "o please teach me!" than I did because then I'm lying about how I (and I think other people!) feel. Which is, basically, frustrated.
"Facebook's Mandatory Anti-Malware Scan" is something I expected to read only by 2026 or so, as the company, falling to hard times, would resort to dotcom bubble-era techniques.
I heard about this several years ago. I've spent much time thinking about it since and I don't have a clue how we could go about fixing this.

It seems to me that concentrated benefits and diffuse costs seems to skew US laws towards, say, tyranny. We just don't realize it until it's prosecuted like we are conditioned to think tyranny presents itself. I imagine there are plenty of people in the US that already feel it as if living under the US legal system is already tyranny.

BTW - is "tyranny" even the right word for this? I feel like when federal prosecutors only have to actually present their case in 2% of charges to juries by using/abusing the plea bargain system to scare the defendant into submission with a ridiculous opening bid, it feels like something odious.
How well does this fair over several frames?
The User Journey for Firefox Extensions Discovery
Bitmain, the largest mining hardware company, made around $4B last year
I don't mind regulations. Actually, business just regulation.

We have way too many municipal codes that just seem to harass the poor, and homeless.

In California, there's only one place I know of that person could legally camp for free. It's located in Imperial County. It's just a small patch of desert land, that's ownder by a teachers union? Supposedly, they don't mind squatters.

My point is when you have no back-up, and life becomes very grey; a cop shouldn't have so many municipal codes to throw at you.

Hell, if Jesus Christ reappeared, he would probally be in some jail in a few weeks. Sleeping in a park. Fishing without a license. Donkey in city limits. Lady saw him naked whike baptizing someone in the creek--indecent exposure. Add on something lewd--because she was with her kids. Oh yea, that creek was a federally protected creek. Write up another citation. "Oh yea, let's 51-50 him. He claims to be the Son of God."

I would like to tie fees/fines to income though.

So many large companies, wealthy business owners, love regulations/requirements. It just prevents competition.
Audible and Sensory Phenomena in Havana, Cuba
> Saying the USA has more homicdes than other countries is a laughable statement.

No. It is a trivially verifiable fact. Which you don't deny, so why is it "laughable". Is 3+4 = 7 also "laughable"?

> Of course we do, we have more guns. This is ENTIRELY to be expected.

Again, you seem to be violently agreeing with me: more guns → more deaths.

> We have a drug problem not a gun problem.

That's an interesting non-sequitur, especially considering your statements above "of course we do [have more homicides], we have more guns". Guns and homicides are casually and statistically related.

> banning something makes it go away

So few words, so many mistakes:

- most of these countries do not "ban" guns. They just highly regulate them.

- no-one is trying to make guns "go away" or ban them entirely

- not all things are the same. Drugs are not the same as guns

- Australia, for example, changed their gun policy to be much more highly regulated and homicides dropped and mass shootings (previously ~1/year) disappeared
I really want to file this as a bug report in the English language.

ENG-21238: Contraction for "it is" easily confused with possessive form of "it"
I posted this comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15923695) about the microbiome about 2 months that is related, of course I was down voted into oblivion.

But essentially my point was that human genes are not determinative and work hand in hand with the microbiome, where an analogy I used (though not my original thought) is that the human (genes) are like a piano and the microbiome is like the player.

One of the more interesting studies I have read included identical twins in Africa, where obviously genes are identical, so is environment and diet, yet one twin would be healthy while the other was malnourished. The conclusion was it was the difference in the twins microbiome that was determinative and the cause.
According to Mozilla's legal filing, they are claiming it violates the Communications Act of 1934 and the Telecommunications Act of 1996 because the FCC's decision was...wait for it..."arbitrary, capricious, and an abuse of discretion".

Sounds like they are basically throwing a temper tantrum and grasping at straws. Their argument essentially amounts to "We believe this ruling is so bad that it can't possibly be allowed to go through. This is a clear violation of their statutory mandate."

I find arguments like this truly astounding because no one was claiming they were violating federal law before they implemented the net neutrality regulations. To me, this is eerily similar to the recent DACA ruling where the federal judge required that DACA must be kept in force for the time being while everything is being sorted out. But the reason the judge gave was pretty telling - "The question before the court is thus not whether defendants could end the DACA program, but whether they offered legally adequate reasons for doing so." That sounds pretty much exactly like the argument we are seeing here. In fact, the author of the CNN article I grabbed that judge's quote from also uses the same language about Trump's move on DACA being "arbitrary and capricious".

Searching these phrases online you will find this all relates to the Administrative Procedure Act of 1946. There are two types of judicial review under this act - the arbitrary and capricious review and the substantial evidence review. Obviously, based on these filings, this would fall under the former. That does require a reasonable explanation for the decision. However, given the nature of this topic the justification is obvious - that a huge portion of the country supports the elimination of DACA. That a judge would ignore this is unconscionable. The only other option under this law is to go after the decision as a violation of the separation of powers. However, if it is ruled as such, that also means that Obama's 2012 creation of the DACA program was also a violation of the separation of powers and thus the DACA program would need to be shut down.

Whether you are in favor of net neutrality or against it - in favor of DACA or not, the law needs to be the law. All of this judicial nonsense reeks of political games. And every time judges uphold stuff like this based on these ridiculous, spurious arguments, the Rule of Law continues to degrade and our nation suffers.
The above is discussed in Thomas Sowell's Migrations and Cultures.

An overarching theme in Thomas Sowell's books: The world is ruled by human capital, that is: cultures and people's ideas of how the world is and should be. Thinkers like Jordan Peterson would add that the world is also ruled by various forces working below the level of consciousness, for which humans have developed religion and art to try and deal with -- which also fall under the rubric of culture.

I think it's Culture which is the dominant factor, and this is a great foundation of hope. It means that all of the greatest accomplishments of human civilizations are available to all peoples, given enough effort to transform one's understanding and way of life. Such is the power of culture, that this effort may take generations to accomplish. History bears this out. If the descendants of Irish peasants (who, during the potato famine could start out 1/2 to 1/4th as wealthy as the average US slave) could arrive at their current place in modern society, then there's basically nothing that cultural transmission can't accomplish, given enough resources and time.
Why infrastructure costs in Snapchat ? Doesn't look special ?
What would be the best advice for a healthy diet when it comes to the (aging) brain?

It's easy to find a lot of advice by searching, e.g. [1], but how do we know which advice is solid?

Also, there are many dietary-supplements (e.g. resveratrol, phosphatidylcholine, etc), but which really work?

Finally, does it make sense to do genetic testing (e.g. 23andme), and support your "weak" genes (SNPs) through diet? Or is that approach a health-fad, unlikely to work in practice?

[1] http://www.lifeextension.com/Magazine/2016/4/How-to-Delay-Br...
Indeed. I meant really optional, not something like automatic semicolon insertion, where they are there, they are required by the grammar, but you are allowed to omit them in some cases.
>Healthy food tends to spoil, and if you're not able to go shopping multiple times a week and have unpredictable availability for meal preparation, you're going to see a lot of spoilage. If 30% of your fresh produce ultimately spoils, your actual cost is 43% higher.

That's not at all true. I eat healthy, lots of vegetables, beans, lean meat,and so on, and I go shopping only once every two weeks. Apples keep for weeks, ditto cauliflower in the refrigerator, kale, cabbage, tomatoes, and so on. Meat you can freeze. Dry beans keep forever, and plus there is canned goods.Plus flavorings like salsa in a jar. I waste virtually nothing.

And it is cheaper than living off of processed foods, unless you are living off of pure starches like macaroni and cookies.

You do know have to know how to cook. Nothing fancy, just the basics like boiling beans, chopping vegetables, mixing together a bunch of things to get something that tastes reasonably good. And it does take time.
For mobile devices the standby current is very important. Is any kind of sleep mode implemented? The low cost SoCs always seem to omit this.
Really? How many people own more than 10% of the company?
> It's really that simple.

Everything you list is simple, but nearly impossible for most people to stick with for life. It's not a matter of education, it's the fact that implementing that plan is physically and emotionally painful and wears most people down inside of a week or two.
BazaarVoice Acquires AddStructure
One could probably make the argument it deserves the opposite of applause.
Algol syntax is weird.

Tell me, what does this mean?

x = x + 5

Obviously, it's a null statement. It's nonsense. x cannot equal x + 5 because that means 0 = 5 and, therefore, 0 = 1 and, therefore, all mathematics is broken. However, most Algols are completely happy to accept that statement, something we learned was nonsensical way back in our childhoods, as not only valid but as the only way of doing things.

My point is, there is no such thing as a natural syntax. They're all weird. They all have to be learned. Some provide more benefits than others after they've been learned.

(Also: You're only a newbie once. Optimizing for that one-time thing is a bit odd, when you'll spend far more of your life as an experienced programmer.)
> I'm italian and I visited united states a couple of months ago. In my opinion the biggest problem is that you don't have decent food at affordable prices. Healthy food has nonsensical high prices and if you want something at a human price you don't have much choice except fast food. What a shame.

We recently just spent a week in Spain. We went to the grocery store and bought a whole cart full of food for like 20 euros. I was blown away. The equivalent amount of food in the US would have easily been like 100 dollars, probably more.
That comment is my personal favorite HN naysayer comment of all time:

> you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem

Yes, absolutely trivial. Even a child could do it. /s
As I understand it, the idea that people are "naturally" overweight and cannot change that is a complete myth with no scientific backing.

In some cases, certain diseases/medications can cause a very small weight gain but nothing significant.
I've thought about it for https://keygen.sh a lot this year, though I doubt my numbers are "there" yet to be considered--but either way, I think I'm going to push that decision back another year. I've found larger B2B sales tough, but I've been slowly improving that so I figured I'll stick to bootstrapping for now.
Structured Interview Playbook
The Dropbox IPO filing is here
Either they lived in a city with multiple food stands and stores within walking distance, or they lived on a farm and grew it themselves.
This is also generally true. Human beings are wicked smart in a global, trans-species context.
Trademarks are quite different to the other two -- they protect consumers as much as they protect producers.
Didn't read - I've had enough run ins with people that I don't need any help spotting them. Maybe will glance over if its short.

Part of what I was trying to argue, if I didn't word it well - is that if you're we can't distinctly tie the list of characteristics we've contrived as being psychopathy to something like a malformed amygdala, and we instead refer to it nebulously as this genetic aberration, we might as well go back to calling people witches as well (which, I suppose our species tends to enjoy looking for).
When you take investment money, it comes with the expectation that there will be a liquidity event. (going public, selling to another corporation) Being private is not a bad thing at all, in fact I would expect most entrepreneurs would prefer that their companies remain private. However you've accepted a faustian bargain once you take money from someone else. Going public is seen as the most desirable liquidity event, since the company still controls its own agency and you maximize choice if/when you want to sell your stake in ownership.
The museum of Jurassic technology, in LA, has a collection of these objects, amongst many other wonderful things. If you’re in LA and are a science/history/sociology/museum nerd in any proportions, you have to check out that place. By far my favorite venue I have ever visited in LA.
I wouldn't be surprised if the enterprise discount is in fact <$5/u/mo. Seems like a simple conversation, "Why am I paying more per person even though I'm a large client?"

Digging deeper into Dropbox's finances is astounding too. They've added about $150m in additional revenue each year, while cutting their net losses by $100m each year.
Same here, I was chasing asian street food for breakfast. From my touristy experience US breakfasts consist of no vegetables and all sorts of sweets.
There's no other practical means, other than to create a separate account. Facebook in theory will kill your account if somehow it came to their attention that you operate a non-personal account for that purpose. If you kill off your personal account, set up a new account and link it fresh from day one to new advertising & pages, are they likely to ever know? Coin toss. It'll be suspicious to their systems that you don't have any friends, so it might get flagged as a fake account or similar at some point.

The first time I get a Facebook demand to scan my computer, while locking me out of the account, is the last time I use my Facebook account.
I have an account with no friends and that is an admin of one page, which I buy ads for. It’s not my real name, but obviously has my real CC info in there.

Interestingly, a friend showed me his contact list entry for me (I believe created through a 3rd party OSX app), and in the Facebook field it had the name used on the admin/ads account I have. Given I don’t use my real email address on the Facebook account I am amazed (but not particularly surprised) that the connection was made.
Tip: Never pay for Dropbox at $99/year. It's repeatedly discounted throughout the year at Dell's website for $60, and often also comes with a $25 Dell gift card. So effectively, its value is $35/year, and you can buy multiple codes, redeem them, so you'd be effectively paying in advance for as long as you want, at 1/3rd of the price.
OT: Does this have ANYTHING to do w/ Trump Russia Collusion?

Separate OT: Do we know any political party that colluded, in primaries? Or that received foreign $? Or used 'bots' to make it seem like they have support? Or that had it's operatives use state instruments to disrupt the opposing party?
The article fully explains it; using Facebook doesn't really provide any additional insight. Facebook has decided to lock people out of accounts if their undisclosed mechanisms of detecting a potentially compromised client machine is tripped, and will continue to lock them out until they run a Facebook supplied (but apparently sourced from one or more of a shifting set of partners) malware scanning application is installed on the users machine and run, with all the intrusive level of access that antivirus type of applications tend to have.
Show HN: Hypnosis app to increase productivity
The alphazero paper mentions that go has especially simple rules and that chess and shogi are more complicated. But the rules are still pretty clear. To some extend, they must have at least hard coded in the training data who won a particular game; or the game rules have to be hard coded. Something has to be hard coded. That is far from "nothing" prior!

But the paper is cryptic to me, overall ("Mastering Chess and Shogi by Self-Play with a
General Reinforcement Learning Algorithm").

Also, the parent comment is paradox. Data is information and that is something, so learning from data is learning from something.
The most expensive chocolate I've bought were $2 truffles. I like chocolate, but personally paying <$5 for a chocolate bar I can still get chocolate that, to me, seems really good.

I guess I'm not the target demographic.