skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure what you mean, sorry.

I've seen email notifications, but to me they are just as bad as subscribing to a lot of sites by email. That's kind of what RSS is for: aggregation. So yes, it means you don't have to click through sites, I accept that, but still not a good user experience. If you mean something else, let me know, I am interested.

I don't know what you mean by splitting the user base or constructing a parallel comment system. I'm just talking about how to provide commenting, as a content publisher. RSS + on-site page by page commenting (even with email notifications) has a fraction of the engagement (in my anecdotal experience) of FB.
It feels like you believe that I only mentioned one example, from 50 years ago, that that's all the US did.

To the contrary, this article even points out "British and American intelligence agencies have eavesdropped on fiber optic cables".

Do you think the US does not now tap undersea cables? If so, when did we stop? Why aren't we calling for an international ban on the tapping and deliberate cutting of undersea cables?

What does it mean "to target" a cable for cutting? I mean, the US has certainly mapped out the cables and almost certainly visited them by sub to tap them. What more does the US need to do before we can say those cables are targeted by the US?

And why do we think Russia has gone beyond the stage where the US has been for decades?

Plus, this article gave no real reason for why Russia would want to cut the cables. It seems the best case situation for them is to "create an environment of misinformation and distrust". Look at the effects of the 2008 submarine cable disruptions - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_submarine_cable_disruptio... . They weren't all that disruptive. So the benefits of cutting the cable don't seem that high.

It's easier to think that Russia would want to tap the cables (like the US does), and therefore not want to cut the cable, because it would mean cutting off an information source.

While on the other hand, if you're in the military (sorry, "military-industrial complex"), and want to get more funding, then the best way to do it is to present the worst-case movie scenario of what a potential enemy might do.

An alternative theory: the US wants to ensure that there are no challengers to its hegemony, and by threat of military force hypocritically condemns actions which it itself has no qualms doing.

Why else did we triple the effective power of our nuclear arsenal through 'super-fuze', then turn around and complain when Russia responds with something like the Sarmat ICBM - exactly as one might predict from the MAD doctrine?
"Overcommit" is when the processes running on the system have been promised more memory than is available.

If you run an ordinary Linux program, exactly how much memory should be allocated to the stack? That question is essentially unanswered. At the ABI level, considering just the ELF binary itself, there is no limit in place. (no fixed size) This is a promise to provide unlimited memory.

It is obvious that giving unlimited memory to every running process is not possible.

If we were to eliminate overcommit and attempt to boot the system, the init process could not legitimately start. That process implicitly requests an unlimited amount of memory for the stack, which is obviously unavailable, so it can not be started.
I see.. you mean tanks that are enclosed in a wall. This supports the theory that heavy lids on unenclosed tanks help with noise suppression.

OMG I just realized that may be why the author experienced temporary hearing loss! The lids are designed to capture and reflect noise back into the tank water!!

(Sorry, a little too excited about toilet lids today.)
Tokei (時計) – A program that allows you to count your code, quickly
> Facebook and other services do not actually delete data, they just mark it as "deleted" and purge it only if they need the space.

You may be correct, but that doesn't explain why Facebook decided to include so-called deleted files in a download of user data. Clearly these deleted files are still a part of Facebook user profiles and accessible to company data mining software. Facebook has exposed their own duplicity.
It is strange to tell this long compelling story and then half way through go, "oh, and btw, he has multiple convictions for drug dealing."

While I personally would like to see all drugs legalized that does not change the fact that there are laws.

The idea that the law should be suspended for anyone who has a compelling story that can get media attention and win popular appeal is freaking insane.

If you go down that road you go from a corrupt legal system to having no rule of law at all where the legal system simply punishes people arbitrarily based on how popular and appealing they are.
I don't like articles like this. "Oh, he never really showed much of any adherence to Catholicism in his work or his public life, but he was REALLY a crypto-Catholic who had 'hidden piety.'" Meanwhile people who actually live their beliefs and try to express them explicitly in art get ignored, because Warhol was famous and they are not.

I saw this in evangelism, too. There were many artists in the 1980s trying their best to make Christian pop music, but all you could hear was endless attempts by the intelligentsia to make Bono from U2 into some neo-Christian because he was famous and his works might be intepreted in a vaguely Christian-friendly manner. This is one of the ways Christian culture stomps on its artists, and the rather naked fame-chasing disgruntled me once I realized how pervasive it was.
Either i'm blind or that is mostly jQuery

Edit: looked at it some more, seems to be 500 lines of JS using jQuery and 300 lines of css of which as far as I can tell less than 30 deals with animations and all of that just relates to the pulsing button at the end of the jQuery animations
Same as for any software: it depends on your goals and situation.

Goal is learning new technology: probably not worth it.

Goal is something people will pay for: do you have evidence anyone will pay for it? If not, probably best not to start in first place, but if you insist on continuing, you need a different form of testing, testing for viability as a business.

Then there's questions of what kind of software it is, and where each part is in development cycle. Stable parts need unit tests to stay stable. Unstable parts will be rewritten so unit tests just ensure something you know will change doesn't change, which is waste of time.

Full talk on topic here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vaq_e7qUA-4&feature=youtu.be...
A plane is much easier to navigate because there aren't things like lane-dividers floating about. That's handy, but alas it does not apply to driving a car.

Just because an in-air navigation aid that allows for essentially pilot-free navigation deserving of the name "autopilot" happens to be relatively trivial to build, does not mean any navigation aid of similar complexity for other modes of transport should be called autopilot simply because they're at least as complex. If you're not automatically piloting, the name autopilot is pretty disingenuous, is it not?

Also, planes have a bunch of other navigation aids, including collision avoidance systems and ground-based air traffic control, and pretty obvious stuff like predictable flight paths and huge safety margins between nearby aircraft. An autopilot for an airplane works in that context. I kind of doubt it would work if there were thousands of planes nearby, many of which are on paths separated by distances the vehicles in question cover in tiny fractions of a second, and some of which follow almost invisible rather unpredictable paths (that drunk guy without lights over there...). Context matters.
UX matters, that's why. And AWS, Azure, Google aren't even the incumbents. We have Rackspace, Softlayer and several others I'm forgetting.

I'd be afraid to use OVH simply because it's French. What happens if I need serious support on August 15? Is the entire company going to be on vacation?

Also, my fear of needing support on a weekend or a holiday or after 7pm on a weekday or at lunch time.

I don't know if OVH operates like a real French business, but if my experience with Orange, EDF or any other French business is any indication, it would be highly frustrating and risky to build a business around any French company. Then there's the risk of France deciding to heavily tax your business because data might cross through French territory. Suddenly, if you're a non French business but you have a datacenter in France or data transiting through France, now you're going to be subject to the whims of French politicians. Considering how France is suing Apple over the iOS developer program and how they threaten and complain about pretty much any non-EU tech company -- it wouldn't take much for the government to order OVH to shut down your servers or attempt to extort payments.

I'm more afraid of the EU than Amazon.
> We're just burying our heads in the sand about the reality of it.

A note of irony: ostriches are African fauna that are unlikely to soon go extinct, because they've become livestock.
To me, 'resigned to spend more time with his family' sounds like corp-speak for 'had a mental breakdown', or, 'succumbed to alcoholic dementia'.
How is safely accessing a mutable global from multiple threads an easy thing?

Also, the Arc isn't needed in lazy_static: just a mutex is enough for mutability, the sharing (which is what Arc controls) comes from being a static.
Modular “Parkipelago” – Floating Island Micro-Parks Can Be Combined on Demand
How and by what is content moderation applied to this?
If not at all- what does prevent the competition- from oploading content disapproved by society, and then smear the network as a host for pirated content, snuff and illegal pornography?
Is there some jury duty for everyone- so every third video, you must watch something flagged for moderation, and judge it?
It only causes heart cancer, so that's OK. Also OK for women and non-mice.
Interestingly, when I was about 16 I was at a friend's gig in a pub. I hadn't gone to many before and haven't been to many since, but on this particular occasion I was stood talking with friends near the stage with my left ear directly next to the speaker cabs. I wasn't aware of the activity behind me, but the opening band had come on to do a sound check, and being heavy metal, it was basically just a mechanical, metallic sound, 30 cm away from my ears at max volume.

Here is what is funny though, the wavelength at which my hearing "kazoos" is the wavelength at which my young son cries. So while he was a baby, and even sometimes now as a toddler, if he's upset and I'm holding him, it's gotta be my right shoulder, otherwise my left ear bugs. It's a strange feeling too, a mixture of pain and grinding and broken audio that really sets me on edge.

Peculiar.
Ask HN: Best way to collect event data coming from different sources?
I'm building a predictive analytics SaaS tool. I need to collect a massive amount of data coming from my own customers. Do you have some good advice or know any useful API product to seamlessly collect event data?
That's actually very fair, I recall that before 2014 I used their old UI and it was not that terrible (other than feeling outdated even then, but outdated is better than nearly unusable).

I found that using OpenStack's CLI utilities is sometimes better than any of their UIs. Unfortunately even then I have to switch to their UI to switch a server to monthly billing (transforming it into more of a VPS than a cloud instance). Wish they handled it the same way as Google does with the sustained usage discount.
Well, once you give permission to your data you no longer control how it's stored and shared(at least physically). To make sure you are not caught off guard you should always expect the worst.
FB is not dropbox, so "deleting" means a different thing.
You can buy a toilet with two buttons in the US as well. Home Depot's web site says they have 17 of one model of them in stock at the store near me.
It depends who you ask, but generally when we're talking about uber-famous colleges like MIT or Harvard, I think the brand would generally work in Japan too.

But not all Japanese are aware of MIT or Harvard, and not all of them are aware of how concretely hard it is to get into those. All they know is through what they heard from others, and based on how the media portrays those colleges.

For most ordinary Japanese people, if you say you went to Caltech or UIUC, etc. they will have no idea what the status is (the only credibility you will enjoy is from other academics), because there has not been a TV show or movie about UIUC and Caltech students.

Compare that to Tokyo University, 100% of Japanese people know exactly how hard it is to get in, because they all have gone through high school and they are completely aware of how many of their peers went to Tokyo University.

I'm sure in the U.S., regardless of where you live--midwest, alaska, or wherever--you probably have seen at least a few friends who went to any of the above colleges, because there are multiple of them. However in Japan, many high schools never see any of their graduates enter Tokyo University at all, which means for some people a "Tokyo University student" will almost feel like a mythical unicorn.

This is not unique to Japan and I am aware of at least a couple of other rich countries where the social structure works this way. U.S. is a special case because it's such a large country and the entire nation is built on the premise of diversity, but in many countries around the world there is a very clear and absolute pyramid structure in university "rankings".
Yes, it is. Once customers select the schedule, execution is automated.
"I am sure that the deletion of media files in services like Facebook has never meant to be absolute." This is very common, I'm sure. There should be a way to request or a right to request permanent deletion, by law, of one's data on site like Facebook. That said, once something is on the internet, anyone can and will archive it (see https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/). Closing an account, however, should imply permanent deletion. Companies are instead able to operate in a gray area through terms of service agreements that knowingly play on the ignorance of the end user. This common and widespread behavior is a detriment to the user and (arguably) society at-large.
I didn't interpret that as Facebook planning to attack China. To me, it sounded like the work they'd have to do to cooperate with the Chinese system of censorship and surveillance in order to get their product accepted there. (E.g., build a version of PRISM[1] for the Chinese government, just as they did for the NSA.)

This kind of collaboration with an authoritarian regime is something that Facebook employees who value freedom might find to be distasteful, but if it furthers the company's lofty goal of "connecting everyone in the world", then, hey, it can be justified.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM_(surveillance_program)
This is why I've never really deleted my FB account, I've just deactivated it. If I don't believe they would truly delete the data I might better have it available if I want it
Yes, they do. The value of Rust is that it makes it safe to do: if there's a reference (Rust's safe "pointer" type) to something, it can't change or move in surprising ways.
Or the tank lid slipped and hit the bowl. That's not where it's supposed to go, but gravity might take it there anyway if you fail to get it on top of the tank.
For memo, I just created a file so the list could be augmented at: https://github.com/jhadjar/Notes/blob/master/creation_proces...

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Not sure it's exactly what you're looking for, but I really liked:

- The Making of Prince of Persia - Jordan Mechner
- Masters of Doom - David Kushner.
- Founders at Work - Jessica Livingston (aggregate of stories)

Pretty cool in different ways:

- The first shows how the author documented a good chunk of the process (like solving the problem of the Prince's alter ego).

- The second by the journalistic work the author went through and access he had.

- The third by the context it gives on many things (for example, you get a glimpse on Palantir's current work by looking into Paypal's history and the work Max Levchin, CTO at the time, and his team did on fraud detection, or Hotmail's growth tactics).
HN users live in this weird Silicon Valley bubble that is divorced from the real world..
I might be still using Sierra after hearing about all the issues with High Sierra. I don't want to spend a few days configuring my Hackintosh again!
Now i wish i hadn’t used my audible credit for the month. the sample is great
Why not have a s3 bucket for the events to be uploaded to?
He should not be deported because his life will be in jeopardy in Somalia.

That’s not just an emotional appeal. I’m pretty sure that’s a legal basis for not reporting someone.
After reading the actual underlying study the article headline seems bogus.

The study simply found an association between the amount/quality of time spent with a person and closeness of the friendship. There's nothing in the study design that allows us to distinguish whether spending time together creates friendships or if spending time together is only an indicator of a friendship. Could simply mean that feeling close to someone leads people to spend more time together.
No. Not using this module. The hashes are based on an ephemeral salt so there is no way to reconstruct the hash using only the IP address.
Europeans know American adults don't have free healthcare.

If you really want to shock a European, tell them that American children don't have free heathcare either.

(I remember discovering this when I was about 14, on holiday in the US, when my younger brother caught pneumonia.)
Great to know people confirming the horrible experience (actually bittersweet). Happy to know I'm not the "odd one out".
I'm starting to actually believe I'm observing the effect of the loss of one staff member -- Jobs.

Something like this might happen once. Under Steve, it damned well wouldn't happen twice.

Also, most places, even ones with a lot of money, don't really respect and won't pay for QA. It gets outsourced; they try to get the developers to do it; etc.

In today's environment, there's no overriding incentive.

Back to Jobs; there was an incentive. You didn't want to end up on his shit list.

P.S. I never knew Steve Jobs, although he was involved with an institution I was at, back in our younger years. My impression is from what I've read about him, and how I've seen Apple changing since his death.
> I am sure that the deletion of media files in services like Facebook has never meant to be absolute. Many of my colleagues believe the same thing that I believe: Facebook and other services do not actually delete data, they just mark it as "deleted" and purge it only if they need the space.

This is a dumb conspiracy theory. Facebook has made plenty of public statements that say otherwise, and there's a whole team that works on the system that ensures every trace is erased from disks, logs, cold storage and backups when deleting content.
Ironic Google warns you of this while we have Apple moving their iCloud to GCBD in China where GCBD is managed by the China Gov.

Then they also moved the keys also to China. Then on top removed the VPN apps from the app store.

Google Gmail was getting hacked by China gov so they warned and ultimately left China.

Even Amnesty International has opened a campaign on Apple and their disregard for privacy.

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2018/03/apple-privacy...
Campaign targets Apple over privacy betrayal for Chinese iCloud ...
Google Maps' Where's Waldo? 1APR Egg (left Rail)
I use the happyears: http://www.happyears.co/
I recommend them, they're cheap, easy to clean and quite comfortable.
Sound quality is always harder to tell (and subjective, it's hard to own hardware to measure it), however they're fine if you ask me. I own pairs of ER-20 XS and pluggerz music, and the happyears are my favorite (pluggerz is quite good as well, happyears are slightly more difficult to fit in the right place. ER-20XS are just uncomfortable in my ears).
Have you ever looked at online.net?

And what's esoteric design?
iCloud Keychain is one of the features of iCloud. It uses a master password to ensure not even Apple can read your keychain secrets. All of this basic info is readily available on Apple’s site, they have very clear privacy info.
This is by far the most important point in this discussion. According to this article (https://www.greencarreports.com/news/1107109_teslas-own-numb...), Tesla's statistics are deliberately wrong, and Tesla compared its Autopilot crash rate to the overall U.S. traffic fatality rate—which includes bicyclists, pedestrians, buses, and 18-wheelers.

You could argue that Tesla should be compared to luxury vehicles (which have more safety features), but even if you just compare their crash rate against U.S. drivers of cars and light trucks, the Tesla Autopilot driver fatality rate is almost four times higher than typical passenger vehicles...
These Comply tips seems perfect to me! Now I'm thinking on fitting them on my current JBL instead of upgrading my phone.

Many thanks!
For some reason I've always looked at friendship relationships as primarily creative. I don't like to be with people unless there is chemistry for a good conversation that changes our perspectives or adds dimension, or if we are working on something. I don't like "hanging out" because that usually involves a lot of cleverness with humor (and my humor isn't clever-- what I find funny is usually when someone has made some ironic error in their thinking or behavior, and there aren't a lot of ways to communicate this socially without knowing how to set up a good story-- which I don't know how to do).

Consequently, there are a handful of people I consider "good friends" but I don't see these people very often because our relationship is implicitly understood-- I'm here if you want advice, you're there if I want advice, and they know I'll flake if I get invited to something that seems to require anything more relaxed.

I don't know why this is the case, but I can say that the friends I do have, despite barely seeing them in person, I cherish very much. The kind of people who are okay with that bond are usually beyond interesting, and I enjoy being around as they tell me about the exciting things they feel and think and experience. They all have such a way with putting their experiences and all the nuances into words that I can connect with. I don't think you can ever fully understand someone, but I understand my friends in the exact places that they understand me. Maybe that is what all friendships do, but I'm not sure. Just thought I'd share.
Absolutely.

One of my close friends is a cop in Rochester, MN. The drug problem in that city is becoming increasingly worse. Sorry, I don't have sympathy for people who take advantage of the compassion found in Western societies.
GPU Ray Tracing in One Weekend
foo, bar, and baz are all methods here, so you can use parens.
I will train the model using historical data. It'll process real-time data and then compute the prediction.

I'm on the lookout for an easy way to collect real-time data without managing an ad-hoc infrastructure.
If only this article was in the form of a metaphor, I might believe it.
You think people could organize better than against Trump ? seems unlikely
It's also of college students.
Is that actually true? What would be the limiting principle for that rule? That logic sounds far too limiting on host country sovereignty.
Sorry about that. Its just a brief article.

Heres a no-Javascript version:

curl -o 1.htm http://amp.timeinc.net/fortune/2018/03/31/facebook-employees-are-reportedly-deleting-controversial-internal-messages

sed -i '/<p>/,/<\/p>/!d' 1.htm ;

firefox file:///1.htm ;
How similar is Emgo to 'genuine' Go? The syntax looks the same. Perhaps this is a silly question, but is it garbage-collected?