skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is nice to see... I know we have been having internal discussions about how to best implement a system health check for our APIs as we migrate into a services based architecture across several different technology groups. I hope that it gets the traction necessary and makes it into a full standard.
The only stuff I watch in the theater are Star Wars movies, and occasionally MCU stuff. I have a large screen projection system at home that rivals most theaters. It's paid for itself in both $$ saved, and sanity from not killing the inconsiderate filmviewers.
I always recommend fastmail. I’ve used them for decades with no issues. On the rare occasion they have an issue, they go all out to fix it quickly and keep the user community informed. I once asked them to trace a delivery problem through their server logs, which they did in less than an hour - they politely showed me where I screwed up! I can be logged in and making changes from multiple platforms simultaneously and everything works flawlessly. In addition, I think they are honest when they claim they don’t scan or sell my data.

Their web app is very good. (Previously, I was using Gnus.) I also use iOS Mail to access fastmail via IMAP, because the VIP “folder” feature is great for cherrypicking.
This is basically the opposite of Microsoft. I've only had to call Microsoft less than a handful of times in my career because for the most part, their stuff just works... however on those occasions when I did call them I was able to get quickly through to a person and have my issue resolved within 24 hours.

As a matter of fact, with every MSDN subscription - you get two support incidents worth $500 each and if you tell them it's an emergency, they'll stay on the phone with you until the matter is resolved.
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This report showcases a ton of tenacity and thoroughness. Not his first time as well: https://sites.google.com/site/testsitehacking/10k-host-heade.... Very impressive.

“Please stop exploring this further, as it seems you could easily break something” has got to be the best reply one can receive to a bug bounty report.
The queries are slow because the resultant dataset is of high volume and then we are acting on the data. While this can be remedied (its being worked on) - I saw some demos on the web for distributed systems and think sooner or later I need to do that. Makes senses to do now
https://www.reddit.com/r/whatisthisthing/comments/8kzx5p/som... seems to have some running updates of what's happening, which is below a stickied post.
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The problem is a lot of these world-changing technologies seem inevitable only in hindsight. Read decades of science fiction before the '90s, and nobody predicted the idea of everyone carrying a personal phone with them at all times. Much less connecting it to a global data network.

These things always look inevitable in hindsight. But it takes some real cleverness to get them in foresight.
> Wait, is that article simply ignoring that self-driving car are now commercially available in Phoenix? That’s probably a bigger revolution than the steam engine, and someone’s take on this is “That’s it?

Are you being ironic? The steam engine literally reshaped the world. I think you express exactly what the author is talking about: Acting as if just by announcing it, it has already succeeded.
> You could spend several thousand per episode, but you no longer have* to.

You don’t have to if you know how to do the work. It’s like making apps. It’s cheap to make an app and get it on the App Store if you’re an app developer. But if you need to hire somebody, suddenly you’re looking at multiple tens of thousands of dollars, at a bare minimum. The fact that there are all sorts of content creators doing video work for themselves doesn’t mean that doing video work is somehow cheap. They’re just working for themselves on spec.
Uber accounts for less than 0.1% of the total economy
you mean some kind of blockchain type solution ?
I don’t really see any interoperability difficulty at all between C# and F# on the CLR, can you please be more specific?
As far as I remember instead interoperability between Java and Scala was quite a pain because of the different data structures.
This is called "Cognitive Reframing". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_reframing
One look at the picture provided convinces me that one's chances of finding one's Double, even in a see of millions of people, is probably negligibly small. Those people are not "dead ringer"s for each other.
There is nothing complicated about this problem: Discovering that an aspect of human cells/tissue plays a role in any aspect of human health is a waste of time because we already know this is true to begin with. Nothing has been learned.

Now I am sure there is some other info in these papers that may be useful about how the nucleolus changes with age, etc but, like the OP noted, the headlines are all about "playing a role".
> Will be solved by tech making remote work viable and thus reducing demand in cities

Remote work is viable, and yet the major tech companies are focused on hiring developers in a small number of overcrowded cities (or moving developers that it hires into those cities). I expect no solution to housing or remote work from them.
As of 25 mins ago[1] it's an active bomb and there appears to be an active military lockdown.

I laughed pretty hard at the comment asking about his offsite backup strategy.

1. https://www.reddit.com/r/whatisthisthing/comments/8kzx5p/som...
For anyone else who didn’t get the reference that was sarcasm.

http://www.subzin.com/quotes/M106664b34/Erik+the+Viking/Hy-B....

On a non-sarcastic note the toy that’s barely usable by hobbyists is the early adopter segment, after the innovators. There’s a reasonable explanation at businessdictionary.

http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/early-adopters....
Sounds like a nice way to sink a competitor.
>Reading the title, I had assumed this was just going to be the digitization of the typical AA / NA creep hitting on "fellow" attendees [...]

One of my friends from high school jokingly told me they call that the thirteenth step. So it must be pretty widespread to have a name, which is sad. You go some place for help and your fellow attendees prey upon you instead.
Not sure if they are the same green balls, but I found the location of the first screenshot:

https://www.google.com/maps/@42.858905,141.7240164,913m/data...
Teen phone monitoring app leaked thousands of user passwords
A 6 year old phone is still capable of doing that I think Samsung Galaxy was at version 3 or 4 around 2012, Nokia was big before 2007, 11 years ago.
You have to keep in mind that the EU is not as integrated as the US on a political level. You need diplomatic leeway to get everyone to agree to do anything: instead of saying "this is what we'll do", it's "this is more or less what we do, everyone gets to fill in the details on their own". Without that level of flexibility and autonomy for individual countries, they would block the legal process even more than they are now.

As for the link tax: I would blame the publishers pushing for it, not the EU.
I remember a friend of mine had a later version of this game for the Game Boy. I only tried it a little bit but it seemed like a pretty good game. Years later I played FarmVille quite a bit, which I think is a quite similar game but I don't know exactly how similar since I never really played any of the Harvest Moon games more than just trying them for a little bit.
Where would one read about Forth's principles? Colour me intrigued.
That assumes you trust your government enough to operate a transit system. In Florida (or almost anywhere else in the U.S.) is not a foregone conclusion.

I think privatized systems (with appropriate incentive structures) are particularly appropriate for the U.S., because most of the country does not use transit, so there is little effective political oversight over transit systems.
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When wireless is perfectly applied the whole earth will be converted into a huge brain, which in fact it is, all things being particles of a real and rhythmic whole. We shall be able to communicate with one another instantly, irrespective of distance. Not only this, but through television and telephony we shall see and hear one another as perfectly as though we were face to face, despite intervening distances of thousands of miles; and the instruments through which we shall be able to do his will be amazingly simple compared with our present telephone. A man will be able to carry one in his vest pocket.

- Nikola Tesla, 1926.

https://kottke.org/18/04/nikola-tesla-predicted-the-smartpho...
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There are any number of better ways to fix 1, though!

2 occurred to me too, but surely that’s too cynical. It would make Macs look bad more than Excel itself.

Maybe it’s a bit of both. They needed a fix for 1, but they didn’t care about Excel performance at all so someone just spent 20 seconds doing a quick bodge job.
I think you are being a bit naive. Google, et al., are to those who are not intentionally deflecting their gaze and consciousness, revealing themselves as quite authoritarian and totalitarian in nature. It's quite amazing how the tech industry and economies in general have allowed themselves to become so captured by the equivalent of robber baron monopolists, only to a far far greater degree.

You may be fine with Google, Amazon, Facebook, and even reddit's totalitarian tendencies that are only barely kept from bursting out into the real world, but reality with these types of authoritarian and totalitarian impulses, is that they will invariably, unavoidably, and inevitably end up coming for you too the day that they run out of the main targets of control and oppression.

Today Google may be the greatest thing since sliced bread that runs your company and you may even say "we could not exist/live without google g Suite and services", but what happens when the inevitable day comes when the totalitarian and authoritarian psychopaths that lead these tech companies decide that the thing you do is no longer agreeable to them or is a competition to something they want to do or simply want to crush you in order to drive down the acquisition price ... if they don't just crush you in order to replace you without paying you altogether.

Tech has long ago made a deal with the communist authoritarian devil, and we are seeing the consequences starting to emerge; little by little, ever more, but clearly following a trajectory that only leads to outcomes that will not be comfortable for the very people who enabled them.

For anyone interested in history, governance, politics, social economy, etc.; you should note that what is going on right now in the west is EXACTLY the same process that happened in the early parts of the 20th century.
Because california is fighting the climate change by taxing her to death that would otherwise affect all those never will be born babies.
I would try to target the drone and record its activity.

If you can documentos that it is flying too much over you, you can take action.

If that fails you can learn tensorflow and target the drone camera with a (low power) laser.

Don't fry the camera justo point the laser at the objective while it is flying and voila: privacy happens.
Shouldn't the word be "ordnance?"
Why aren't you using bin stubs?
Not the same guy, but similar feelings, and well, I actually dislike it when programming languages actively declare "function", "begin", "end" or even "X references" (Visual Studio).

Because when I read words, I try to assign logical meaning to them. Whereas symbols and whitespace naturally group these logical meanings into contexts.

So, having words group the words results in me trying to assign logical meaning to these separator words, and I also just don't find them as clear in separating contexts. Having nothing in a line or just a "{" is much more distinct from actual code than "begin".
Video game soundtracks should be really good, as they often contain no vocals and are supposed to keep you focused (on the game). E.g. Deus EX Human Revolution Soundtrack [0]. Movie scores from Hans Zimmer are also really good (e.g. Inception OST)

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyG6YMLEWus
Right to be forgotten or secure erasure measures?
C# has the "using" statement, which is effectively the same construct. F# calls it "use".
nit-pick -- The name was changed after the Virginia Tech shooting, because the search results were mostly about gun deaths and porn. Not a bright happy start to my day.

Not "to emphasize" just about the benchmarks game, but more generally about cross-language comparisons -- and I had to pick a name ;-)
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> 256GB of DDR3 is less than $600 on eBay...

Wow - I see PC builders paying $150+ for 16GB. I guess ram really goes down in price once you start buying in bulk / server memory.
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Here you go! This is the location of the second arial photo in the article. https://www.google.com/maps/@33.4416085,130.6032298,3a,60y,2...
Especially since now sources are "someone familiar with their thinking". Why the media thinks that is a reputable source is beyond me and is why I've completely stopped watching television news
For the same reason the courts broke up the stranglehold robber barons had in railroads and banking back in 1900... it's monopolistic and anticompetitive.

This time, much of the anticompetition will be totally invisible, since nobody but Google knows how they bias their search results. Do they collude with Microsoft Bing? Nobody knows but the e-robber barons.
This is dense, I think there are a few threads of reason though. The exaggeration in marketing common in tech is quite tumultuous. The AI behind duplex is a staggering technical achievement, and really is a small whistle at how AI is going to start to change some fundamental aspects of society. To say AI is not going to be a fundamental change to our literal society in the very near future is naive. But I can understand how the trivialness of the use case is playing down the real achievement here.

I do think though that AI is the last "fundamental" change information technologies will bring though. From here out, the future is in the convergence of other hard sciences with advanced IT. Each "Big thing" has been a fundamental building block. By themselves small, but they get significant as they combine.
> Tapes are only good for offline storage.

> If you want online storage, you'll need one drive per tape,

No, tape libraries exist, and would be considered 'nearline' storage.

https://www.ibm.com/it-infrastructure/storage/tape/library

> and you would get huge lookup times

Yes. This is not a good system for random access.
Try becoming "born again" in an incognito tab?
I don't know the best resource, but Thinking in Forth should get you started.

http://thinking-forth.sourceforge.net
His point is most, not all, tech innovations don't really pan out. Sure there are examples of great products but there also examples of big duds. For example, according to an EPI paper sharing economy accounts for less than 0.1% of total economy:

https://www.epi.org/press/uber-drivers-earn-the-equivalent-o...

So, not a win really. At least not right now.
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Yes, this is precisely the problem.

Capitalism does not produce good quality products and services without genuine competition.
I doubt it. NASA and the US government has lost its sense of adventure and conquering spirit. Too many people in the administration (not Trump's, but rather the deep-state) are 1) afraid of deaths, 2) afraid of being seen as colonizers. That's why we don't have moon bases yet. People couldn't figure out a need, so they became timid hamsters with their Shuttle. So our magnificent men in their flying machines just "go up tiddly up up,they go down tiddly down down." [1]

1 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUTBYI6rcxs
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Sure, but now he has someone drive him around (another type of luxury). It's comparing two luxury experiences. Of course driving a beater or riding a bike would be even cheaper.
I'm not surprised since the day I got into an argument with the guardians senior tech editor and he tried to argue Foss didn't matter and Linux was a fanboy fad...

The senior editor...
Not sure where you are coming from the highest marginal rate is I believe 60% there is an odd band around £110k for a few k

An I would love for my next job to be paid in London a similar to salaries FANG pay in SV (housing costs are about the same) and pay additional rate tax as that would give me a lot more options for pension contributions could max out my ISA that's 20k pa removed from any future tax.

Also when I buy RDSB (Shell) shares the dividend and capital gain I get is in return for risking my post tax money its defiantly not unearned income from my perspective.
I'm not sure what basis you're using to suggest that exploiting addicts is somehow unique to (or uniquely bad in) the US, but you should read the histories of England, China, India, or any other industrialized nation for more context.

If you meant that this is a capitalism/free-market problem and the US is the poster child for those values, then I agree with the sentiment, if not the phrasing.
For example,

https://salsa.debian.org/benchmarksgame-team/benchmarksgame/...
"It’s years since Silicon Valley gave us a game-changer. Instead, from curing disease to colonies on Mars, we’re fed overblown promises" Come on. "We don't have a colony on Mars yet" doesn't mean there isn't crazy innovation going on with extremely tangible benefits. Any of the following is a game-changer.

1. Dec'15 SpaceX performs first ever orbital-class rocket landing on land.

2. Apr'16 SpaceX performs first ever orbital-class rocket landing on a ship.

3. Mar'17 SpaceX reuses first orbital-class rocket.

4. Feb'18 SpaceX launches Falcon Heavy, the highest payload capacity of any currently operational launch vehicle.

5. May'18 SpaceX launches Falcon 9 Block 5, set to give USA direct human access to space (in late 2018) for the first time since Mar'11.
Exactly. I don't know the use of comparing a European GT car with a badge tax versus riding in the back of someone's accord. A more useful comparison would be to use the model of the average Uber driver
Did Netscape really die, or am I using its (wonderful) offspring to post this comment?
In some years we'll begin to see actual Facebook Addiction Support Groups.
Interesting, thanks! I assumed Wakie was the one (from the name) but was confused when I couldn't find any mention of the wake-up feature.

I guess it's one of those ideas that seems fun but has way too much potential for creepiness!
Fair enough, but setting the expectation of participation and transparency is a worthwhile goal in and of itself, more important that any individual failure to actually realize it.
> crime- Is strongly correlated with poverty, which has been rapidly reduced globally thanks to technological innovation

Small scale crime might be. White collar crime is adversely correlated, strongly, with poverty. And it sinks entire nations.
Do you really think all scientists are responsible and honest? That's a dangerous dogma in and of itself.
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I should have added that there's a very good reason for making these assumptions: they let you represent the system with extremely little data! In general for a system with a continuous state space (like position) then to represent a general Bayesian prior you need to store one data point for each of the infinitely many possible states. Obviously this is impossible so you might instead discretize the space into a grid and store the probability that it is at each that point in the grid. (Think of an image where each pixel's brightness tells you how likely you are to be there - you can store any shape of probability distributions this way but it's of limited resolution). Same for the likelihood and posterior distribution - this uses a ton of memory and is slow and limits your resolution.

Instead, if you assume that the priors are Gaussian, then you can store that information as just two numbers: the mean and the variance (or a matrix of numbers for higher dimensional state spaces). And Guassian's have the remarkable property that if you start with Gaussians and perform a Bayesian update, then you end up with a Gaussian that can also be represented with this same amount of data. Assuming that the system is linear means that you can also represent it's update from one time to the next as a matrix. Moreover, both of these approximations are pretty good for a large class of real-world problems.

There are other sophisticated ways to get around the downsides of the general approach. Namely, there's particle filters which discretize your distributions by a sample of points, but unlike the grid discretization above, the points aren't at specific fixed locations. They're allowed to move around and are constantly being resampled from the distribution you have. This allows lots of the points to get very close together and accurately represent the most interesting (most likely) parts of the state space without wasting tons of memory on extremely unlikely points in the state space. It's very clever and fun to watch in practice!
Extreme disposal measures for subpoenaed classified emails on mom and pop email server?
In Sandstorm.io's case, I use an app called Davros to store files (which is even compatible with some ownCloud sync clients, actually), and Cloudron.io has a few other options you can use to work with your files, including, actually just hosting Nextcloud or ownCloud on it.

Where these sorts of platforms really excel is in the realm of other features, which Nextcloud tacks onto the existing platform, but a larger app platform can allow you to use a variety of alternatives which are more tailor-made to other specific types of web apps.
It is pretty cute, though it's slow, unreliable, and services only three neighborhoods. I live 50 ft from a stop and rarely find myself using it.
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According to The Free Dictionary, "ordnance" is a syncopated version of "ordinance".

https://www.thefreedictionary.com/ordnance

Also: https://www.etymonline.com/word/ordnance

"Ordnance" seems to be the more conventional spelling for this meaning, but I'm not sure that makes it uniquely correct. Linguistics isn't an exact science.
Which popular third-party Go slab-allocator or arena allocator was used?
Do we have good records for trade across North America? Australia?

There are "lost" tribes that still don't trade much; it doesn't seem impossible, especially if in times of famine/drought there were violent clashes over basic resources.
I can't read the website, hug of death maybe? I would like to point out that in some other countries Uber fare prices are much higher. I live in The Netherlands and I remember 1 km to equal about 2 euro's, whereas in the US it would equal to about $1.25, meaning that Uber is twice as expensive in The Netherlands. I don't know how it is now, but my point is that it is quite country dependent.