skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I live in a Cox area. They offer fine service, but they are monopolistic and keep increasing prices.
How Harvey Karp Turned Baby Sleep into Big Business
For small scale, use Dropbox or Google Drive, or whatever, because for small scale the most important part of backup is actually reliably having it done. If you rely on manual process, you're doomed. :)

For large scale in house things: Ceph regurarly does scrubbing of the data. (Compares checksums.) and DreamHost has DreamObjects.

Thanks for mentioning borg/restic, I have never heard of them. (rsnapshot [rsync] works well, but it's not so shiny) Deduplication sounds nice. (rsnapshot uses hardlinks.)

That made me look for something btrfs based, and here's this https://github.com/digint/btrbk seems useful (send btrfs snapshots to a remote somewhere, also can be encrypted), could be useful for small setups.
What is your main complaint with implicits?

If you don't like them, why don't you add "Use of implicits forbidden" to your coding style guidelines, and check in code-reviews, and add a "grep implicit" check to your CI setup that refuses to commit Scala code with implicits?

Let me paraphrase M. Odersky's PLDI 2017 keynote:

The essence of Scala is implicits

You can find it at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=br6035SKu-0
Does ESL stand for English as a secondary language ?

Is that in common usage ? I have never seen it used to designate a group of people.
So say you put money into an index fund, but something unexpected happens. If you need to liquidate your savings while being a student, the government will slap your fingers for trying to think long-term.

Not really much of a concern, as you would have to be wealthy enough to have spare money to put into an index fund while retaining enough liquid assets to cover your living expenses.

By making yourself the sole owner of the company, you can get around all these problems, as juridically the LLC is a separate entity from you doing all the trading. This kind of setting is legal, but practically off limits for many.

Not even remotely true. SMLLCs are disregarded entities for tax purposes, so their transactions are taxed directly to their owners. And legally, the concept of veil-piercing applies to SMLLCs generally, and especially to undercapitalized SMLLCs (meaning any LLC without sufficient independent assets to pay off all liabilities against it).
Should Quantum Anomalies Make Us Rethink Reality?
I thought I was in new and not the front page. You're telling me that as a demonstration of perf gains, in a graphics context I win back .8 ms in exchange for another dependency and unnecessary cognitive load?
You'd have to ask the guy who wrote the code in the first place.

I think he saw "'best' compression" and stopped looking there.
Comcast and Countrywide were in the running for the Consumerists 2008 worst company of the year. Countrywide won but had to help nuke the economy. Comcast had a real shot at winning for being such a malignant organization.

The rebrand to Xfinity is a joke.
Vivint published a Go package a while back that does both Reed Solomon and Forward Error Correction: https://innovation.vivint.com/introduction-to-reed-solomon-b...
New quantum method develops really random numbers
That and the bookmarklet work for me, but only if I open an incognito window first.
So basically, the training set is under the GDPR if it includes PI, but the resulting model is not (unless you can extract PI from it), and you need user permission to use PI for training in most cases, right?

(Also IANAL, and also trying to understand)
You cannot go elsewhere for digital exclusives or very new releases; unless by elsewhere you mean to violate copyright.
Pizza is food. People need food to survive. They don't need cryptocurrency...for anything.
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Unfortunately, the massive restructuring you're referring to would likely need to be in the form of deregulation. It's unfortunate because deregulating something is typically a non-discussion. Our banking regulations make almost no distinction between massive, "too big to fail" banks and small community banks. Like most regulation, it's the massive companies that can foot the bill for complying with regulation, creating barriers to entry into the market.
Debugging microservices on Kubernetes with the Conduit service mesh 0.4 release
It's not as much as the fine was expected to be worse, just that the situation is now resolved. WFC can put this behind them, and move on. AFAICR, this is the last of the scandals that have rocked the bank. As soon as the cap on their assets is lifted (likely before the end of the quarter), there's nothing left in the queue holding the price back. As such, the company will be able to take advantage of the higher interest rate environment we're moving into, and the stock (already undervalued compared to its peers) will benefit as a result.

Or, markets are irrational.

Take your pick.
A general point of the GDPR is that when you collect data, consent is given for a business purpose. The user has the ability to opt-in to different business use-cases if they so choose. Data collected cannot be used for a business case that was not consented to by the user.

This area is one that gets more legal-y than other parts of the GDPR, because in some cases you can use data without consent if it's legitimately required to provide the service the user asked for, and as far as I can tell there's not a lot of guidance on what counts as being a different business use. But yeah, personalization is usually not a strictly necessary feature of most platforms, so you're gonna need the user to opt-in to using their data that way.

This guidance is kinda spread out over the GPDR, but one area of relevance:

https://gdpr-info.eu/art-13-gdpr/

Pay attention specifically to (3), but also (1)(c) and (2). Part (3) quoted below:

Where the controller intends to further process the
personal data for a purpose other than that for which
the personal data were collected, the controller shall
provide the data subject prior to that further
processing with information on that other purpose and
with any relevant further information as referred to in
paragraph 2.
i'm not sure how you arrived at the "surgeon model" being the "standard MBA solution".

my mba program emphasized that (1) effective teams can be built from a diverse variety of people and organized in many different ways, and (2) the effectiveness of the team rests on trust and honest communication between team members (technical skill is rarely the limiting factor of a team).
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I had a similar breaking point with Wells Fargo.

I was about 20. Needed to get something notarized, someone mentioned that banks could do it. I googled and confirmed WF could do it for their customers so I went over to my nearest branch.

Asked the front desk if I could get something notarized. They said sure and referred me to a banker at a desk. I walked over and sat down and told him I was looking to get something notarized.

He said sure, but first can I ask if you've considered upgrading your bank account? I said I didn't think I was interested, but he decided it was worth a few minutes of my time to pull out a pamphlet and talk me through the benefits. I thought I was through it. But then he started asking me if I had considered opening an investment account. I told him that with my current earnings and burn rate it didn't make much sense. But he decided to walk me through the benefits. Then I thought surely, he must be ready to help me notarize my document. Nope. He wants to talk about - I don't remember - small business loans, life insurance? Something that made no sense to offer a 20 year old. Sat through that presentation. I'll make an aside - I was much less experienced with deflecting sales pitches at that age, today I'd have stopped it all much sooner.

But I digress. After 10-20 minutes of pitches for products I never expressed interest in, he finally gave up and asked me what I needed notarized. I honestly don't remember what it was, but he turned around and instantly told me that they weren't able to do that type of notarization. Despite wasting so much of my time, they didn't even have the courtesy to make sure they'd be able to help me out afterwards before launching into their pitch.

A few months later walked by a branch and on a whim decided it was a good time to close my account. Walked in, ask to close it, they said I had to wait, I said oh OK that's alright I'll just withdraw all of it. Good riddance.
EE Staff Told to Stop Exploiting Customers Ignorance
So the way you see it, the people who have the power to fix things do actually fix everything they know how to fix. So then over time the situation stabilizes around people who have the power to fix, but everything that remains is beyond their insight. Anyone who has the insight is a relatively powerless newcomer.
It smells like a negotiated co-promotion.
http://archive.is/gHfHq
IIRC WeChat started from the ground up with a custom protocol designed for compatibility/efficiency with low bandwidth mobile networks for maximum reach, IMHO a great example of thinking outside the box of "let's use XMPP since it works".
How Google AMP Is Designed to Kill Your Conversion Rate
Or probably the end of uncertainty about the investigation is itself a signal. (People who dropped it from their portfolios because they were risky now put it back.)
It sure raises some questions about the typical advice to get a degree. Much more so if you get a degree in something nearly useless like English Literature.

I dropped out of Computer Science at my university, but I've done better than my friends who stayed and graduated with honors. My take away is there's no one best formula in life, rather there are more paths to success (and more ways to define success) than we have imagination to think of.
It's not Dilbert-style because there's no conclusive evidence of incompetence. When you are new, you should be giving people the benefit of the doubt, and tread lightly. Raise these concerns privately and gauge the situation. After a few months it will become apparent if the place is truly dysfunctional, in which case you would need to have left on your own.
Yes and no.

JVM languages can usually use other JVM libraries, but they often aren't idiomatic to that language.
Scala can use JVM libraries, but it often feels wrong or cumbersome, e.g. Java is full of mutable builder classes, which I've never once encountered in "native" Scala.

The other way around, in Scala you have to be careful if you want your library to be usable from other JVM languages. There's certain Scala features you just cannot use.

This is a problem that Kotlin actively markets itself with, they promise 100% Java compatibility all the time, going as far as encouriging to mix Kotlin and Java code in a single project.
I think this is a fascinating subject. Time is something we all experience and intuitively feel exists, yet is remains so elusive to actually nail down and study.

The Youtube channel PBS Spacetime did some of the best explorations of ideas in this area that I've heard:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GguAN1_JouQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHRqibyNMpw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5l1KxgHH2Ek
Yes, look at how it deals with type param variance for example. It doesn't.
And the part where you are a dumb fuck for continuing to play along anyway. [0]

[0] http://gawker.com/5636765/facebook-ceo-admits-to-calling-use...
> Does it get divvied up amongst the people affected by WF's wrongdoing?

Are you crazy? The fines usually get distributed around different politicians to spend on their favorite things. Like this https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/editorials/2014/07/14...

Which is why these fines will continue. Everyone hates the banks so the regulators can just keep fining them for everything indefinitely, when they run out of ideas they find some new problems with the 2008 mortgages again.
Seems very similar to moving the goalpost, basically.
Allocating less in idle situations sounds dangerous. What do you do when there is a real world event and everyone rushes to their device, pulling them out of idle?

(I'm assuming this problem is already considered. Genuinely asking, in case someone has a good link to read on it.)
Facebook's Privacy Policy, Terms, and Principles are actually written in very clear, plain language. I've read them. They're easy to understand.

I was frustrated by Senator Graham's remarks because he absolutely could understand them, if he bothered to read them. (He said that he didn't understand them.)

The problem though, isn't the Terms. It doesn't matter how plainly written they are. People won't read them.

What matters is designing your product with correct privacy affordances. Put yourself on the shoes of the user, and make sure your app isn't sharing information in a way that would be jarring or unexpected.

For example, Facebook made a mistake with its posting dialogue experience pre 2016. You could say that a post should only be shared "with friends" in a choice box next to your post. However, that post would also be shared with any apps your friend has installed. That's probably not what the posting user would have expected, so it's a poor experience.

If you have inadequate privacy affordances, you shouldn't just hide behind your terms. That's the point.

Edit: I don't understand why I'm being downvoted. If you disagree with something, please let me know. I'm designing our own privacy affordances in our app following the above thinking, after all...
Right. Your collection of infinitely reproducible picture files is comparable to the first truly decentralized value transfer and storage system.

It's clear you have no intention of understanding what makes Bitcoin interesting or valuable.
Problems that are clearly evident :

- Ridiculously redundant number of tests : AIEEE, BITSAT, IITJEE, AIIMS MBBS, JIPMER MBBS, EAMCET/KCET/KEAM/TNEA (state level entrance tests in south india).

- Lack of common syllabus, common books : When every student's ultimate goal is to become a good engineer or a doctor , why so much disparity in the syllabus being taught in various high schools.

Sheer stupidity !
I thought the point of "Long Term Evolution (LTE)" was not to have this "next generation" thing all over again!
Disclaimer: I have almost no understanding of how machine learning works under the hood.

Couldn't this potentially assist in their facial recognition software improving?
Swedish DJ Avicii dies at 28
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Pity there wasn't a free house but I shouldn't be surprised. Thank you for sharing both stories.

That Argakov one is particularly spooky with the viable death fear. From the first hit I could find: “Our lawyers don’t think [Agarkov] will get 24 million rubles, but four years in prison for fraud. Now it’s a matter of principle for @tcsbank,” Tinkov added. ( from https://www.rt.com/business/tinkoff-bank-agarkov-credit-299/ )(empasis mine)

Oh boy. When the fight become principled it's time to fire the client xxxxx refer the client out to someone else
> Investors do not make fortunes based off the opinions of junior programmers nor on their understanding of the nuances of codebases.

Investors can lose money on bad code bases. Technical due diligence is a real thing. And getting a third-party opinion on "if your CTO dies, does your business also die?" is EXACTLY the sort of thing that comes up in those conversations. E.g., https://dave.moskovitz.co.nz/2016/08/29/technical-due-dilige...

If a technical audit comes back with "the CTO is the only person who can maintain this code base", and if the code base itself is a major asset the buyer is interested in, that can kill or substantially modify the terms of a deal.

> Demonstrating such a lack of awareness and understanding does explain why you are a junior programmer and not an investor.

(e: removed silly speculation)

> ...go and buy some stocks, etfs, mutual funds

This provides zero insight into what technical due diligence looks like or how that plays into the overall decision to purchase or invest in a company?
Good point; I've mused before that dynamic languages will always be a ~generation ahead of static languages, due to what you point out, that type systems are hard, and very few people start working on a new type system as their hobby project (vs. hacking out a new syntax with an interpreter).

But I hadn't appreciated the difference in difficulty between an unsound type system like TS and Scala's type system...

I guess I've taken the formalism that underlies Scala's type system (e.g. the academic research behind dotty) as a given/for granted, but you're likely right, that TS can move faster because it doesn't need/have that level of rigor.

Thanks!
Prepack, https://prepack.io, is also in the same realm of an optimizing Javascript compiler.
“In general” this would be something Zuck’s team can look at.
> Amazon Glacier runs on BDXL disc libraries ...

This has been a rumor I've heard for quite a while (probably since shortly after Glacier was announced) but has it ever been confirmed?
Google has a culture where rewards and power go to the people who release products, not managers who maintain business lines. It means that they create great products but often don't support them well.
Calling this a strategy is a stretch.
Very well put. It's like how hard/right decisions are "difficult" decisions to make. If the right decision is easy, everyone makes it without too much consideration. If the decision is hard and wrong, no one would opt for it.
> functional programming people now gravitate more towards either F# (for .NET ecosystem) or OCaml/Reason (for the more unixy world). And the academic/research/learning crowd seems to like Haskell more

What if you want functional programming without having to go to MS stack and stay on JVM. You only have have two real options clojure and scala.
Tricks for debugging nondeterministic tests in Ruby
When everyone else appears to be the issue, perhaps it's worth considering one other possibility...

There's something about the writing style on that page too. Hard to describe.
I see where you are coming from. I would assume the pricing/exclusivity of items are optimized so that they can push their profits the highest they can go without alienating too many people. I guess this goes to show how important consumer behavioral data is.
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I think rsync/rsnapshot aren't really appropiate for backups:

(1) They need full support for all FS oddities (xattrs, rforks, acls etc.) wherever you move the data

(2) They don't checksum the data at all.

The newer tools don't have either problem that much: For (1) they pack/unpack these in their own format which doesn't need anything special, so if you move your data twice in a circle you won't lose any (but their support for strange things might not be as polished as e.g. rsync's or GNU coreutils). And for deduplication they have to do (2) with cryptographic hashes.

However (as an ex-dev of one of these) they all have one or the other problem/limitations that won't go away. (Borg has its cache and weak encryption, restic iirc has difficult-to-avoid performance problems with large trees etc.)

Something that nowadays might also need to be discussed is if and how vulnerable your on-line backup is against BREACH-like attacks. E.g. .tar.gz is pretty bad there.
It can be. I've so far had only good experiences. My service is fast and reliable, and the other day when I called them up to activate a new modem, they cut my cost to $35/month as a customer appreciation move with barely any strings attached (only that I commit to staying with them a year ... I've been with them for 6 already and there is no viable competitor here).

There are plenty of horror stories, however. I may just be lucky so far.
Avicii died aged 28
Is this a standard you would like to be subjected to from someone who is responsible for your money? For example, if your bank, through an accidental, non-fraudulent error, allowed a criminal to extract your account’s entire value as cash, do you think they ought to be able to defend themselves by saying they did not commit fraud?
> Is it actually unsound if you perform no casting?

Yeah, it is. At the very least, I know that function parameters are bivariant, which isn't sound:

function foo(callback: (obj: Object) => void) {
callback("not a bool");
}

function main() {
foo(function (bool: Boolean) {
if (bool) window.console.log("!");
});
}

This compiles without a type error but ends up assigning a string to a parameter of type bool.
It's not true. Wireless spectrum can only be used once. Wires and fiber optics can use the same spectrum over and over and over.

Additionally, wireless telcos have already gotten used to not providing real internet access to their customers. Instead they provide a proxied, nat'd, no-ports, almost web only service.
Prepack is rather nice. It allows you to execute part of your code at compile time, like a macro.
Turning IPTables into a TCP load balancer for fun and profit
Because GSM is everywhere whereas IP connectivity is spotty?
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It's not made up at all, and data isn't hard to find.

There are two kinds of demand:

The kind I wrote to here is backed by available, liquid dollars. Amazon, and others, paying people effectively less than it costs them to exist and work, very sharply impacts this kind of demand. An easy example can be seen with entertainment. For most people, entertainment dollars are largely fixed. That fixed amount is very low, when few dollars are available, not dedicated to basic needs.

The other kind of demand is not backed by liquid dollars, and it's out there, growing, but not a meaningful part of any markets available to service it. That kind of demand is growing in the USA, with a clear majority of people now experiencing it.

There aren't any free lunches here. When we don't pay people enough to fund reasonable, modest lives, we are basically requiring everyone else to subsidize their labor, and that cost gets distributed nationwide.

If those people were businesses, they would have shut down by now. Since they are people, that would mean dying basically, and we prevent that with some safety net type spending and assistance.

Should those programs be a part of Amazon and others business model?

I feel they should not as that was never the intent. Those using them that way are doing all of us more harm than good too.
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Right. OP was providing leadership. Sometimes that means stepping on others' toes, and how they react is key. That team was a problem anyways.
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I am ashamed of my country (America) that we as a nation, federally speaking, don't provide the funding needed to empower everyone in rural areas with high speed internet as a right. The Internet powers so many important things today and if we're talking about "thousands of dollars per household" it is totally doable.