skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
100% decentralized?

Where is my data actually being stored?
This depends on your choices. By default, your data is stored in a dedicated Microsoft Azure Blob.

Isn't that centralized?
Azure is a centralized service, but by encrypting your data, and because your private key is never exposed, Azure cannot access your data. With data replication, there is no single-point of failure and no entity has access to the content of your files.
Your corporate culture shapes use of the tool a lot more than the design of the tool, especially when that tool's essential components are identical across the entire set of competitors.

Slack doesn't have some voodoo set of features that make it more problematic than Hipchat or Teams or Stride or Mattermost or (nn programs elided).

If your org sucks, your communication within that org will suck too. Let's not burn down the concept of instant messaging in the name of sucky orgs.
Is 21 million (according to 2015 census) an insignificant number?

http://fortune.com/2016/06/23/census-bureau-race-age/
> I am very happy that "pay money" for DV SSL certs is going the way of the dinosaur, with Let's Encrypt.

> The only SSL cert you should ever pay money for...

You can still "pay" Lets Encrypt, my understanding is that as a non-profit they rely primarily on sponsorship and donations. If you are using them in production for a product making money one could at least consider throwing them a donation. If no one contributes we don't get to have nice things like LetsEncrypt!
I think you're not giving engineers enough credit here.

The world moved from C++ to Java on the enterprise side back in the late 1990's. Why? Java was arguably faster and easier to develop in, even though many thought (including me) that C++ was technically a better language.
We all have these examples. Yesterday I was merely telling a friend across the table about bridge loans. Only time I’ve verbalized the phrase in last year yet top of Instagram after was an ad for bridge loans.
Modern day big-pharma would have shelved the polio vaccine in place of a daily pill one must take for the remainder of one's life.
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I've been dreaming about a project where a full-duplex amateur satellite LEO ground station could be based around a limesdr with a daughterboard, but that'd be for 1.2G / UHF / VHF and I lack the time, energy, money, and expertise to bring it to reality. Depending on what the IC-9700 price ends up being, I think it could actually be cheaper to roll-your-own radio for this purpose than to buy something off the shelf.

However, for HF (and at this point in the solar cycle, where anything less than 50W is wasting time), it's almost certainly going to be a cheaper and better experience to pair a used 100W transceiver with something like a RSP1A [1] instead of trying to roll your own. This is what I do; I've tapped the IF on my FT-950 and pair it with a rtlsdr for the purpose of having a waterfall. Being able to "see" the bands makes a huge difference.

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Found this on ProductHunt - Looks super lightweight and a fresh take on the old ski jacket concept.
Bandcamp is pretty big nowadays, but it could still be considered a boutique retailer when it comes to pop music. It depends a lot on the genres you prefer. No matter what audiophiles claim, 320kbps MP3/AAC/Ogg/etc. files are equivalent audible quality to CDs, and that's what most online music stores sell.

Subscriptions have existed for hundreds of years, for anything from newspapers to soap. Priced correctly, subscriptions are perfectly fine. You pay a recurring fee for a service, and in return you don't have to worry about logistics or storage.

A subscription model could even work perfectly fine for cars (and does, in many cities), as long as it's correctly managed and fairly priced. Pay a set monthly fee, and you get access to a range of cars, parked in a central location near where you live. You don't have to worry about maintenance or depreciation, the car sharing company handles all of that. In return, the monthly rate is lower than what most people would pay to actually own and maintain a car of their own. It works because the costs are shared across a lot more people.

I know a lot of people prefer to own stuff, and I get it in a lot of cases, especially when you know you'll need the item in question for a long time, need to modify or otherwise do something that's outside of a normal use case. On the other hand, I think this race towards owning as much stuff as possible is driving western society to destruction.
I was actually quite low. I didn't want to put it as harshly as I explain it to people close to me, but it took me from a position of "I want to die, and probably will kill myself semi-soon." to "My shotgun is loaded, 41 steps away from me. In a flash the world could be gone, and my thoughts would vanish and I would be at peace."

The prior thought process was accompanied with self-destructive methods. Abandoning friends, work, hobbies, etc. My real emotional escape has always been video games. They keep my thoughts from wandering, and I pour everything in to them. I believe my use of them in that way accompanies my skill at them. (Top 10 PUBG 2 seasons ago, A+ ESEA, Global Elite in CS, top 50 crusader D3 S13, etc.) My accomplishments in video games really help my suicidal tendencies, but they also hamper them. My depression seems to sway between a desire for success, freedom, skill, and a general over-arching hate of the meaningless-ness of existence. On a downswing it can depress me, on an upswing it can inspire me. I don't know enough about the topic from a professional perspective to determine how common that is for people.
"Type I" and "Type II" errors are some of the stupidest and most obfuscatory academic terminology ever invented, and (as an academic) I absolutely refuse to make the effort to learn which way round they go. Just call the bloody things what they are: false positives and false negatives. (Getting seriously OT now, but Kahneman does something annoyingly similar with his talk of "System 1" and "System 2" in Thinking Fast and Slow).
I think it's a deliberate strategy. Microsoft does it as well. By blurring the line between pure consumer apps, business apps and their PaaS/IaaS services. So there sales team can say "You have G Suite? Then you're already a cloud customer! Why not add Firebase and Cloud SQL to your plan?" It gives an illusion of seamless integration.
Back when I used Slack, I was on 8? different slack(s)? And my memory usage was around 1.5-2GB on OSX.
I went the other way. I was a writer, and now I'm a developer because having a family is expensive.
> How did you figure out what features would be useful?

There are various feature engineering and feature extraction techniques. Filter methods, wrapper methods, and embedded methods. Principle component analysis, autoencoding, variance analysis, linear discriminant analysis, Gini index, genetic algorithms, etc -- the feature selection process will depend on the dataset, the problem domain, the analysis algorithm you ultimately use, etc.

> How did you figure out what algorithm(s) are appropriate?

Also depends on the problem domain. Discrete or continuous data? Categorical features, numeric features, features as bitmasks. Do you need a probabilistic outcome? Etc.

Generally you start with the easiest algorithms in your toolbox to see how viable they are. For a classification task I'll almost always start with a naive Bayes classifier (if the data allows) and/or a random forest and see how they perform. If the problem domain is highly non-linear you might start with a support vector or kernel method. Neural network is a last resort for me, as I find most classification problems can be solved to a high accuracy much more simply.

> how and why did you massage the data in a specific way?

This relates back to #1 -- you should only massage data based on what your feature engineering tells you to do. Sometimes you might want to remove outliers or clean up the training data, but only if the outliers really should be removed from consideration entirely.
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I'm disturbed that you are talking purely in terms of one's interests, as though priciples have no place.

You may disagree, but many people do have priciples that include private property rights, limited government, and flatter tax schemes.
Ripe for disruption, except that when you look at the laundry list of requirements, the thing that needs disrupting is the need for a billion different custom requirements, not a different payroll system.
My first thought was that since it's becoming popular to swap Graphite out with something like InfluxDB, someone found a new use for the Graphite metrics database by storing encrypted chunks of files in it instead.
Not if your employer disabled the IRC Gateway, like in my case.

This terminal client seems to be using Slack's public web API.
Almost! They do two things.

1. Make it illegal to have an exclusivity contract.

2. Make every concession that a union gets out of their employer apply to non-union employees. [1]

This would be like Dole getting a special deal with Whole Foods... And a "Right-to-sell" law would mandate that the terms of that agreement would also apply to me - even though I was not a party to those negotiations.

> I was under the impression that a majority of the workers of a company can unionise and then require every other worker in the company to join the union.

That would be the case in a truly free market, if the employer entered into an agreement with the union that going forward, it would only employ union people. The employer's not compelled to do that - it does so by choice.

> If you are correct then I can see why right to work laws are not so good. However, keep in mind that there are many laws preventing people from entering certain contracts. Such as laws forbidding a person to work at a company if the company doesn't want to pay minimum wage, or offering to give someone some money but requiring that they pay back a large amount in a set amount of time.

I agree. You have rights, some of which you can't sign away - for instance, it would be illegal to discriminate against someone based on race, despite the existence of a contract to the contrary. Contracts aren't entirely absolute, and this gets complicated quickly. There's also questions of monopolies, which libertarians generally do not oppose, but other people do.

[1] The obvious consequence is that the game-theory optimal strategy for everyone is to not join a union.
Interesting perspective. I guess I could agree with the change from being /passively/ suicidal to actively suicidal.
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> When a CoW filesystem writes to a block of data or metadata, it first makes a copy of it

Is this a really a precise description? I was sure that (for data) the actual copy only happens in case of a block with multiple references. If there was a single use of a block I expected it to be modified in place in most real-world filesystems. Summary from wikipedia seems to confirm that.

Am I missing something, or is that just unfortunate wording?

What they describe with the write of the data followed with write of the indexes as new elements seems more like a log filesystem.
You need to be part of a patient’s care team, using that data to further their care. Any other access is a violation.

Med students get a little grey area on this because their job is to absorb as much info as possible without necessarily providing care, but even they shouldn’t venture outside the census of their supervising physician.
That's because a surprisingly large fraction of them are right.

At any given time a person is more likely to be a student, in an entry level position, or retired, than be at the height of their career.

39% in the top 1% is still an overestimate, but it's probably not far wrong to say that 39% of people will at some point in their lives be in the top 5%.

The problem is with using "1%" as the threshold, because that just means you and your spouse are successful professionals at the height of your careers, when the real problem is the top <0.001% and, even more than that, the accumulating wealth of large corporations relative to individuals.
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It's only for g-suite (i.e. corporate) users, not personal accounts. It's up to your g-suite admin to push it. I've been using it for a few months and it's pretty good.
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Yeah. I recently wrote a book and got most of it done within a few hours of morning + coffee sessions over a few weeks and one or two airplane rides. It made like $12K in its first year and it was really easy. Thinking this was an incredibly time-efficient way for me to earn money and contribute to society, I tried to write a sequel and have stalled.

The initial book just poured out of me. I had an outline, I knew exactly what I wanted to say and I just wrote the content. In that way it was like tackling a college paper or trello board, but instead, a few hundred pages of text.

Like I've said.. no other ideas have really coalesced into something outlineable and easy-to-market.. I have one manuscript that's 80 pages and sucks, another at 40+, etc etc. Reminds me of the hobbyist programmer population here with tons of unfinished projects.

I really had something to say and felt entitled to say it.
I fail to see how those things should be part of the protocol. That's like complaining HTTP doesn't support tags for your bookmarks. It's so out of scope.

Unless, of course, you are talking about a user-friendly service offering IRC access to those who do not want to set up their own clients.

So, something like IRCCloud, which does exist, fyi.
"As a security company."

Well, their CEO's linked-in profile doesn't really sound like a security company.

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The sample size is 2000 families over 20 years. Better submarine piece here [1].

[1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424127887324662404578334...
"At their scale, that's a small fine. Barely 10% of annual net profit."

HSBC was the bank of money laundering of the mexican drug cartels. They also helped fund terrorist organisations like ISIS. They made it possible to at scale deal drugs in the US.

When they were caught doing this - they shrugged and said they'd try better. Then they got caught doing it again. And they said sorry.

Eventually the government was aiming to indict the bank. There would be criminal charges. People would go to jail.

It is a small fine compared with their conduct. They got 'let off' at the last minute arguably because of 'systemic risk'. Too big to fail. Again.

You can find all about it on Dirty Money on Netflix.
My wife uses Slack. My 68 year old parents use Slack. They have no idea what IRC even is. Slack made an accessible IRC.
To express a certain aesthetic, like the reason people buy expensive couches or clothes.
> push notifications, and offline message history, and a mobile client

https://irccloud.com has all these, done really well.

Offline message history you get also by running a server somewhere and just having an irssi in a screen/tmux.

Still my favorite protocol and I have some channels that I consider to be my favorite social network for about 10-15 years already.
IBM?! Oracle?! And you got away with only losing $780 million! Consider yourself lucky.
Just to be clear about the discussion I am referring to the value _deliver_ not the consumption/utilization of said value.
to continue the analogy When I buy an apple from safeway, I pay $1 irrespective if I eat it.
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Some will instead break faced with this reality or... even worse. Since this is not personalized, it is extremely irresponsible to run such drills.

If they really want to do this, they could choose a hand picked group to actually train in civil response instead of this dumb. Enough trained people should be able to stop an active shooter as opposed to scared bunch of kids.
log(100,000,000) is 8

log(10,000) is 4

That doesn't seem to be 4 times as happy.
Hello Dan,

Great talk ! My thinking behind the top statement was with a native implementation of react-core, the react-native story becomes more compelling with JSX(ish) UI templates / CSS Styles and multi language business logic support.

Once you have this, the browser becomes another target. I see Flexbox implementation is already native with Yoga [0].

[0] https://yogalayout.com/
This isn't premature... the algorithm and performance are understood. That said, I agree that it's not always the best use of time.
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I think we all understand that it's not the cause of death, but a facilitating component.

Had Bill known people were going to seize on the wording of one answer in a Reddit AMA, I'm sure he would have chosen his words a little more carefully.
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Yeah that does get tricky when a job says "OK, you gave the value that you ought and it only took you 6 hours? OK, then give me more value in the next 2 hours, but without additional compensation."
I confirm what you're seeing on Firefox with Vimium -- very annoying. Site designs from 20 years ago are, sadly, more usable most of the time.
Anecdotally my wife got her battery (6) replaced recently and has noticed a similar change in her phone in terms of performance and reliability.
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I know someone who uses the gateway but it was a long while before we (I) found out that he didn't receive edits or emoji reactions, which may or may not have caused significant miscommunications.
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As a casual gamer I find this aggravating. Why should the NPCs be left dumber and less human than they could be? It breaks immersion and makes the game harder for novices to enjoy.
You cant take numbers from Norway when talking about Americans incomes. Norway is way less christian and way more socialist. Precisely this kind of statistics differ between countries. I have no idea how America compares. (For example Norway has similar suicide rates for women then America, but less of them for males. That is the one on top of head.)

Also, male incarceration is much higher then female one, that is another difference that should push income the other way round. And some babies without fathers are due to incarceration and people in prison are not earning all that much.

I mean, I get argument that women are more likely to do kids work and more likely to say no in work because something kid related, but it kinda rubs me wrong when people talk about kids and female only thing. I see too many good caring fathers around me and also fathers who did made choice to spend more time with kids in expense of career. They deserve a bit of recognition too.
aka most "big data" projects

Who else has noticed that most of those graphs don't start at zero and instead only show a very filtered view of the statistics collected?
IRC solves these problems via things like bots and bouncers. Although running always connected irssi client [1] in a screen [2] on a server is probably the easiest way to achieve it.

[1] https://irssi.org/

[2] https://www.gnu.org/software/screen/