skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Kafka doesn't persist things forever. AFAIK it's totally OK if you have say 14d retention and then the data is deleted from Kafka too

(it was deleted from everywhere else already because there was an event/request to do so)
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For prescription drugs, no way will they co-mingle third party sellers.

It's reasonable to expect that they won't even allow other pharmacies on the platform.
While the current formulation details of the pilot wave theory doesn't allow for new predictions, a better formulated one will. I strongly believe we'll see the breakthrough in the coming 10-15 years. Quantum mechanics are statistic predictions and it's about time we treat them as such.
https://donate.torproject.org/pdr is how you can fix it!
So how does the US improve its healthcare system?

More interestingly, can the US political system ever enable an evidence-based debate around it?

From the other side of the pond, it feels like debates end up being emotional rather than scientific.

(I’m a Brit and love the NHS with a passion but would not claim that it’s without flaw. Neither would I claim that we necessarily have more reasoned debates about issues here...)
Has anyone here used DataTables, specifically the Editor?

https://www.datatables.net/

https://editor.datatables.net/

https://github.com/DataTables

I have a license for the Editor and have to say it works very well. They have an online Generator that makes it easy to get started very quickly.
Fire TV is garbage. The only reason to buy one is to flash something else on to it. It doesn't support casting and good luck finding something good to watch.
Smells like EEStor 2.0
The styling of the nav and pages here looks strangely refreshing, props.
At least here "highly illegal" can be read as "highly illegal according to the US"
Google has a website full of garbage, knockoffs, fraud and spam too, that they make ludicrous amounts of money advertising and shield with fake customer support and email loops. It's an anomaly that these companies are allowed to keep the profit without tax or liability.
Not so much the case today that it is significantly cheaper because the Swiss Franc weak-end 7-8% in the last year to the Euro. Also, the German food is not comparable to Swiss food in quality. Example: Swiss meat is more expensive but then again it is from Switzerland and not form Poland (which can happen in Germany but not in Switzerland because of the tariffs on foreign meat).
If it's a simple CRUD app, whatever stack you already know.

For a simple CRUD app the stack is irrelevant. You'll want to get to market as quickly as you can and that will be with the stuff you already know.
That's ridiculous. It's on you to provide evidence for your position. Absent that, it's free for other scientists to criticise you on that ground.
Interesting. Got a link to an example of where this is happening? Because its a form of irrationality I'm not accustomed to with Linus, and I'd like to see for myself if he might have reasons for behaving this way beyond just stubborn pig-headedness. I know he can be stubborn, but in the case of management of Kernel development, he has very fine reasons... the scope of the kernel is far greater than the scope for some user space software, and so this is indeed an intriguing opportunity to gain some insight into his thought processes.
I am extremely disinterested in sports, but still found this a fun and intellectually gratifying read. It's good to broaden your horizons and think about the science behind changes in life.
Any news on kOS? I'd love to build a barebones high performance computer with K running on bare metal.
A cool article, laid out to be readily understandable for everyone.

Missing from the discussion, though, is a description of the change in the moment of inertia. If the ball's mass distribution has shifted radially, the moment of inertia can change significantly.

Spin matters very much to the aerodynamics of baseballs. A change in the moment of inertia could have a substantial impact (positive or negative) on the flight characteristics as the ball reaches the batter, the mechanics of the ball/bat interaction (particularly as relates to the spin of the ball leaving the bat), and the outbound trajectory. A lower-moment ball will spin faster initially, but slow its rotation rate more quickly, making any prediction of the overall effect of a change in moment of inertia difficult indeed.
It is worth mentioning that "the plow that broke the plains" is thought to have been in part responsible for the Dust Bowl.
Note that the actual link is https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/vsoservice/?p=16295 but I am hesitant to call out the current link at https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/bharry/2018/03/02/a-good-in... as blogspam.
This is completely irrelevant to the website.
Malema is not the leader of the opposition, his party has won less than 10% typically. The official opposition is the DA, which governs Cape Town and the Western Cape Province.
Sorry if I wasn't clear--What's in there? You've mentioned 'each sentence' and a 'multi-dimensional cartesian space', what _constitutes_ the 'space'? Each sentence from where? What determines a set of words is a sentence?

Is it a WordNet space? Is it a sampling from a corpus? A neural network trained on what? the internet?

One tree? What's the forest? Old growth? Jungle? Alpine above the tree line?!
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Heh, I think we're talking about different scenarios. In the case of event sourcing, we often set the retention period to 'forever', because the events in Kafka are our source of truth. Then we just build a materialising layer on top of Kafka, with the possibility to rehydrate based on _every_ event in the Kafka topics. In this case we would have to do some really weird compaction to delete singular events.
I didn't realize it until reading this post, but certain very popular technologies break GDPR in a deep way.

Bitcoin, for instance, contains a wealth of personal information, which by design are both public, persisted forever, and immutable.

Are blockchain products all going to need a full rewrite or a complicated hard fork?

What about the Wayback Machine? Will they need to have an endpoint that every company will need to call for every “right to be forgotten” request worldwide?
Start with what you know, don't spend months figuring out a certain database tech for example when MySQL/mariaDB is just as good for 99% of the use cases.

I know there's a lot of bias out there against PHP. But I would still use it over the alternatives, there's a large community. With excellent frameworks who do the heavy lifting for you. (Symfony, Laravel). Great support and tooling, a large recruiting base and easy to pick up.

I personally love using Drupal 8 (which is built with Symfony), it has an excellent database abstraction layer, you can easily swap MySQL out for Postgres for example. There's a lot of functionality built in, and very developer minded (compared to WP) with many extra 3rd party addons. It also has a proven track record with deployments from small SMB to large enterprise users. It can also easily be extended with any Symfony packages.

For front end, I swear by Ember.js it is a framework which makes a lot of important decisions for you. You don't loose time setting up your tooling, deployments, state management, ... A great community, many excellent add-ons. A proven track record (LinkedIn, Twitch, Apple Music, ...)
And on top of that, it has been around for 6 years, and is still actively developed with regular releases, with a excellent deprecation support so you can easily upgrade to new versions.
No they wouldn’t and if they were they wouldn’t be significantly lower for me to care.
I think the most important thing is that if criticism and threats of punishment aren't going to change a person's behavior then you shouldn't use them.
Do you want web search, or logistics, or OS development, or air transport, or social media to be government controlled? (I disagree that any of those are monopolies, but people occasionally bellyache about those as possibly uncompetitive markets.)

When I think about my experiences with other government services, I’m not hopeful that they’d do a job I’d be interested in having done.
Unless they do commingled inventory, then you may be getting a counterfeit even when purchasing from the name brand store. The discussion about that comes up regularly enough on here, so it’s not hard to find references.
> But today's requirements in terms of UX / dynamism (is that a word?) require you to end up building things differently, so even if you get up and running fast with a rails app, you'd end up having to build up a pretty hefty JS stack in the end, so you'd basically be delaying the inevitable.

I'm starting to wonder to what degree this is actually true.

Most people I know, all along the spectrum of 'computer literacy', complain about the slowness and brokenness of many sites and web apps. On the other hand I've never heard anyone complain about a lack of 'dynamism'.

To be clear, some degree of interactivity is often useful. But I can't help but feel that it's quite often not at all necessary to move things like routing, validation, and (almost) complete page changes to the client side, at least not as long as it increases complexity to such a degree.
Ask HN: Which blogs/newsletters would you be willing to pay $5/month for?
A lot of people are happy to pay $10/month for https://www.stratechery.com. Interested to see who else out there has loyal readerships willing to pay them!
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The USA is mostly the gov't with the reach to monitor TOR that thoroughly, but other countries might be doing enough, too. Also, the USA is well known to share intel. If you're annoying Iran, Saudi Arabia, Russia, Israel, China, Germany, or any Five Eyes country, at least, TOR is helpful, but not sufficient. And probably several more countries.
This isn't secret and isn't news. Who keeps posting this garbage?
It is a numerical problem underneath. Word vectors are numerical vectors.
Ah, I hadn't seen the visual of the product (Amazon requires JavaScript to load product images).
I'm a child of the early eighties. I cannot recall a time that there was not a functioning 1200 baud (or faster) modem in our house.
That brings up another big Amazon issue. Reviews for related but not identical products hey thrown in together. It's supposedly the same product in this case, but different vendors. So the product reviews aren't the right place in this case. Sometimes these get grouped in the same listing and you can see vendor ratings under purchase options (clicking "new & used"). I feel I've seen this not frequently with books though.
Talking about books. Here Amazon throws all versions together. Kindle version has typos from bad OCR? That review is now going to be for all versions. A foreign language book has multiple translations? All get the same review. I recently wanted to buy a particular translation of The Brothers Kamazorov. That was a incredibly frustrating experience. Several versions available didn't list the translator in the description. One I found the right one and clicked on Kindle version I'm surprised to see a totally different translation. On top of that the bulk of the reviews are talking about how a particular translation is bad. It's just a giant cluster fuck.
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I follow HN pretty regularly and I had no idea. I thought Tor was the best bet for privacy. How is this garbage?
Google blocks guns. Amazon blocks Chromecast. Freedom. Found a counterfeit? Report it. It's up to you, the shopper, to do that. Buyer beware, after all.
Because my favorite hobby is modifying my liver so that the biopsy picture confuses the cancer detection algorithm. :)
Nothing I’ve seen recently. Seemed to be tied to K5, and there’s been at least one re-write since then.
The title is plain wrong. Oles from OVH posted a screenshot on Twitter around the same time with a DDoS attack that was even bigger:

https://twitter.com/olesovhcom/status/969328679410110466
And yet, at quick glance, Chromium THREE TIMES more CVEs than the Java JRE...so it might be more secure than before, but lets not celebrate just yet!
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The comment you replied to was literally a copy and paste of almost all of the first paragraph.
> You can’t find someone who is good at everything, so what do you really need? What does your organization need?

It’s amazing how rarely this question is asked outside the context of specific technology skills.
This concise article describes K2 (version 2 of the K language), and, at the level it describes, little has changed, so it is still a good introduction to the language 12 years later.

However, beyond the basics, a lot has changed since (current commercial version is K4, current dev is K6 AFAIK): Dictionaries have become better integrated in the language, the database layer was rolled into the language, the integrated (bare bones and milspec-looking but ultra effective) electric GUI was dropped, http and web (as both client and server) were added to the core, 64-bit integers, nanosecond timestamps, GUIDs were added as core types, and probably a few more things I forgot.

If you find this article interesting, you may want to experiment with JohnEarnest's ok [0], which provides graphical playground (implemented in JS and runs everywhere) and also read Q for mortals[1] - Q is a syntactic-sugar version of K4, though still the same language underneath.

[0] https://github.com/JohnEarnest/ok

[1] http://code.kx.com/q4m3/
I must be missing something, that looks about the same in severity.
I'm sorry you're blind.
This question gets rehashed a lot, and I like some of the answers posted. Personally, I mostly go with "It depends." But the one thing I hold to is what a senior engineer is NOT. An amazing coder who doesn't help the team, doesn't step up at crunch time, and/or chooses their own path to the detriment of the needs of the business... is not a senior engineer.
For those of you saying WordPress...could you elaborate a bit more? I'm willing to shelve my pride in favor of speed, but it seems like there are very few guides to building a web app in WP.

HelloBar from 2012 seems to still be one of the top results.

Could you elaborate on your approach to setting up a WP CRUD app? What are your go-to tools?
It's not like they seem to be facing any consequences for selling shoddy or even dangerous goods.
Now that I think of it, I seem to remember the plant parts as having a waxy feel to them compared to the regular bricks, consistent with PE, so maybe the only thing they changed was the feedstock.
> But yes, you can find a few exercises where humans still outperform Google Translate. They're mostly unfair (humans outperform the AI because they have side-channel information available, e.g. what events happened outside of the content of the actual translation. A good test would exclude that and then humans are 100% left behind, but in the press ...)

That's an very reductionist view on translation. I'm of opposite opinion that it requires human-level intelligence to translation anything but the simple and dry texts. Translators of literary texts are no less authors than the actual writers.

> Poker - humans beat.

AIs beat humans only in simplest variant of poker - heads-up (two players). In the more complex ones, AIs are nowhere near humans.
I would argue that retail world has counterfeits in similar fashion as online. Also if not amazon, you will find as many other big name sites and stand alone sites selling these fake things. It’s an existential problem of selling goods that no one has much solutions yet. People think it’s easy to fix, but these guys will find cracks and th solution usually has side effects and other unintended side effects that these big retailers are not willing to take. I’m sure they have something in development but they are testing the heck out of it, which I think would involve AI. Just give it sometime
They already sell things that could get people killed. There are horror stories of children getting lead poisoning from Amazon toys.
It's funny, because based off the header image on that page [0], that's what I expected the discussion to be about. The center of gravity in those four samples is hugely off.

[0]: https://espnfivethirtyeight.files.wordpress.com/2018/03/juic...
Geez. Could have they have found any other t-shirt designs that don't immediately scream "this guy is a cybercriminal"?

It looks like the kind of cloths snake-oil security companies would use to dress-up their terrorist-looking cyber-criminal in presentations to law enforcement or other government agencies.
Check out the box it comes in. It's hilariously knocked-off. https://i.imgur.com/YQRFwdf.jpg
What a strange comment, given that he's obviously right. You're not a scientist, are you?
People and human brains are the issue

Yes and no. As a human you have certain behaviours or reflexes or instincts that have been programmed into you by evolution. They operate without conscious thought, because they have to. They mostly are about the tribe or the pack if you will; straying too far from that tribe would compromise your survivability, being ostracised by the tribe meant certain death. Those instincts have been weaponised by Twitter and Facebook, they carefully set things up to push the buttons that trigger the urge to form a mob, or the terror of being left out or pushed out. They trigger the serotonin rewards of feeling like one of the tribe when you do what they want (engagement) and they keep you in line with threat of punishment if you don’t participate, retweet this, like that.

We’ve been hacked in other words.
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Takealot, which is the biggest online store in SA accepts Bitcoin since summer of 2014, so nowdays it shouldn't be that hard to buy a computer
I've done exactly what you are talking about, so I think I have some insight that might be helpful.

For me, the biggest aid was finding good books, ones with exercises and that explained the material very well. Then it was just a matter of reading, actually doing all the exercises, and struggling with the material until I could fully understand it; then I moved on to the next chapter/book/etc.

I've worked through a lot of books by now but here's the short list of ones that I think are great for getting started(especially, if you do what I described above), also when these have solutions manuals I would advise getting them as well so you can ensure you understand how every problem works.

1. Calculus 4th ed. by Smith and Minton

2. Introduction to Linear Algebra (Gilbert Strang)

3. Introduction to Probability Theory (Hoel, Port, Stone)

4. Discrete Mathematics and its applications (Rosen)

5. Introduction to Automata Theory, Languages, and Computation (Hopcroft)

6. Introduction to Algorithms (Cormen, Leiserson, Rivest, Stein)

It will take you at least a year if not two to work through all these in your spare time, but the advantage is that after that you'll have the skills to be able to approach just about any topic in computer science (even highly theoretical ones) and not have much difficulty understanding them (at least that was my experience).
.NET (C#) for the back end and Mithril.js for the front end.
I believe the intention of the feature is for private clusters; why slow things down by doing auth if everyone in that cluster is approved?

The huge mistake was letting UDP be enabled-by-default
Pryor was an all time master. Period.
Good point. What would you call them?
It really depends on what you're doing. If you're doing something where the people you're storing data about don't need to interact with each other, you can actually store each user's events in a separate event log.

This can be fed to more transient event queues which do not have an indefinite retention period where interaction is required.

Not sure about how well-geared Kafka is to this scenario though.
Because these tools follow the unix philosophy of building single use tools. There are a wide variety of authentication measures that can be composed with databases to secure them. There is really no need to build the authentication into the database itself and it fact doing so would violate a don't repeat yourself ethos.
I think that scenario is adressed on this confulent blog post

> Deleting a message from a compacted topic is as simple as writing a new message to the topic with the key you want to delete and a null value. When compaction runs the message will be deleted forever.

Handling GDPR with Apache Kafka: How does a log forget?

https://www.confluent.io/blog/handling-gdpr-log-forget/
I agree - and also to your initial comments on the actual benefits & limitations of word vectors, that I can 100% subscribe to.
I love Memrise. It helps me learning French and Japanese. I am a subscriber. Keep up the good work!
PHP and CRUD is match made in heaven.

Use a framework like symphony or laravel and you only need to worry about business logic. The rest is taken care of by the framework.
I’m very curious. If this is “blatantly racist”, where do you draw the line on “mildly racist”?

Is eating Indian food racist?
I hope this message reaches you over all the noise here.

GTX Corp. may be a corporation whose securities are traded publicly.

However, they ARE NOT legitimate.

They are pure scum on another level beyond what they are doing to you.

They have had their stock promoted. Pump & Dump.

Have a look over these articles on Seeking Alpha for more.

https://seekingalpha.com/symbol/GTXO/analysis-and-news

I'm not sure how I would go about handling these guys if they came after me for something. I don't think I would be so polite.
well one issue is that the counterfeit gear is pushing out legit items. it is a bizarre day when I resort to buying from Ebay sellers to get what I want.

now I have not see the issue in food products, I tend to buy certain condiments and garnish type items via Amazon as they are not locally available but given time and Amazon's looking the other way with the marketplace I expect it
I think the right to be forgotten is a serious flaw in what otherwise is a major step forward in Data handling law.

Data today has been compared by Schneier to pollution in the industrial revolution. The GDPR is probably the first anti-pollution law with real bite and with a real grasp of just how far this all goes (the extra-territoriality etc)

This does not make this perfect solution. I honestly don't think that "being forgotten" actually makes sense as a right - it seems to have sprung from some unusual
case law in ECJ and could much more easily be dealt with by a "do not further process".

But we genuinely can always find ways to
implement new laws - the most obvious is to encrypt user data, and then lose the key, but beyond that i think the best outcome of all
this is to stop moving data around so much. moving data from
system to system is a smell in my view - and one that a eu law is going to help
architects the world over realise they are doing wrong
Disinterested means impartial, you are uninterested.
Good point, hadn't thought of people listening to music at work :)
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I came to say something similar, it’s easy in tech to see something could be “better” but from the outside most people just want something that works and is easy to use (pretty is bonus).

Secondly I’d argue that if “dynamicism” matters, choosing rails or Django doesn’t hinder that ability as a lot of that is simply presentation layer concerns.
Why remove the GUI stuff?
It is.

The US government wants you to be able to oppose the governments of countries X, Y and Z. A long list. So it pays for Tor. Other branches of the same government want to spy on you, in much the same way as the governments of X, Y and Z.