skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Could not find full GSuite policy, hmm. The best I got is [1]. They do scan stuff, and for a long (con:) game, it is priceless. They'll have your kids school scores for example.

scan and index your data to provide you with your services and to protect your data, such as to perform spam and malware detection, to sort email for features like Priority Inbox and to return fast, powerful search results when users search for information in their accounts.

[1] support.google.com/googlecloud/answer/6056650
It seems to me kinda played out to make a title "how I learned to stop worrying and love X".
I read the whole article, and I didn't really see a convincing argument that it didn't have to die. Sure, it could have eked out a few more years... but it was living on borrowed time.

Not only do most people shop online now, most toys are also online. I imagine most parents put money into TV shows, video games, iPhone apps, etc.
Of course, please share your experiences.
Vapor is the main reason. Kitura is also used, but it seems, in my opinion, that it’s not as vibrant as it was, despite IBM backing. Vapor has a pretty active community — it feels like the early days of Rails.

I have started using Vapor to write microservices where I would have used Rails-api in the past and the performance is astounding but you still get the ease of use typical of Rails. The Vapor ORM works pretty great so you get ActiveRecord style sugar but with pretty great performance.

Perfect is another server-side framework that is popular, but Vapor won me over because I feel like it was a more approachable community.

Basically Vapor feels like circa 2006 Rails in terms of momentum.

And it’s crazy fast and the toolkit seems to be evolving quickly.
Never trusting SourceForge again. Downloaded FileZilla once and that was it.
Although this is an old article (maybe even posted here earlier), curious to know how's does pg10 or upcoming pg11 serve / address those issues mentioned....
Again, look to biology. That thing you are modeling.

Humanly "imperceptible" is a very loaded term. Human perception has billions upon billions of networks worth of filtering going before we even boil down our environment to the "interesting" stuff.

Furthermore, if you take a snapshot of that network after training, you're fit to the training data. The network has lost it's plasticity. Take a potato, put it on the ground, train the network on other potato shots. Now show it a potato shaped asteroid. Now show it a French fry. What is the potato-ness that this potato+detector is ACTUALLY homing in on? Keep in mind, this structure is trained on digital encodings of maps of light and color. The function may not be a perfect semantic detector of potato-ness. It just knows what patterns of bits MIGHT be potatoes. And when you are working on bit level encodings, one bit translates to a lot of change, even if it is imperceptible to a human looking at a rendering on a screen.

Heck, there is no guarantee that the function it's emulating is well defined outside the training data set.

Neural networks are GOING to be fickle. You're trying to coerce "reliable, repeatable. generifiable results" out of a simulation of the same stuff that drives five year olds and emotional people. Consider yourself lucky the program hasn't opened the CD tray and demanded you insert crayons.
How to defend an unpopular schedule (1996)
I’m confused. How does mypy make python slower? I thought it was “compile time” and doesn’t affect runtime.
A Gentle Introduction to Programming Language Theory
If it's worth anything, G Suite products are HIPAA and FedRAMP compliant.

https://gsuite.google.com/learn-more/security/security-white...
I think whether it's "good" is still to be determined as it evolves. There are three "maturing" Web frameworks that are fairly popular within the Server-side Swift community: Kitura, Perfect, and most popularly Vapor. There are others too. Based on my cursory explorations, I would checkout Vapor first.
What are your thoughts on Go/Rust? Node.js? Node.js with Typescript?
Ask HN: Net Promoter Score alternatives?
After checking that Toys R Us had a NPS of 47 and yet it failed spectacularly, I’d love to hear any alternatives about measuring your businesses effectively and if you still use NPS as well, given its prevalence.
thanks
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12166585

Previous discussion from 2016 ...
The one I hear is that polio was eliminated through improvements to public health, and the vaccine is just a toxic placebo.

Either way, it's not a matter of "I'd rather my child die of polio than be autistic." The autism thing is generally coupled with a belief that the vaccine doesn't prevent the disease anyway. They are woefully misinformed, but truly believe they're doing what's best for their children.
Are you sure about that price? It looks like it’s $50 per year allowing for custom domain, $30 without.
> Apple doesn't have the data that Google et al has.

Huh? Apple potentially has everything on the device, just as Microsoft does. Maybe they don't touch it, at least intentionally, out of respect (or just prudence). But if I recall correctly, they accidentally logged all Safari URLs for a while.
How are people holding up over there in general?
> Congrats, number one stupidest comment I have ever seen on HN.

Pointing out facts (which you go on to agree with) is the stupidest comment you've seen on HN?

And, you know, "people" speak out against everything so that's not really a valid point -- "unnamed people said UN sanctions against Iraq were a war crime, news at 11..."

> Just don't talk about subjects you know nothing about or speak for the Iraqi people you are not a part of.

I was just talking about my personal experience dealing with the good people of Iraq (in my previous comment not the one correcting you for "talk[ing] about subjects you know nothing about") during and after the second invasion, who's speaking for them?

But, anyway, pointless discussion...
Despite the title and the focus on the form of financing, none of the facts in the article even suggested to me that the company would be in any better shape if it had used equity financing rather than debt. It sounds, rather, like an unprofitable business that no one in their right mind would give any more money.

If someone thinks they can figure out how to make a workable business out of big box toy stores, it sounds like the name is for sale.
I agree. Other than manage its debt more effectively, the authors don't really expound on what Toys R Us could have done differently to right the ship.

Was it moving more effectively into online sales? Or alternate business lines altogether?
Swift on Linux is not at all tied to Objective-C. In fact Swift on Linux does not even include the Objective-C runtime. So, you basically get an ahead-of-time compiled language with the same Foundation library as Swift on Mac but without any Objective-C dependency.

The Objective-C interop features of Swift are there for interaction with Apple's frameworks on their platforms.
I'm not involved in automated driving software but that's how I always guessed it worked (in addition to state machines). Is that not the case? Can anyone with experience confirm or deny?
Forget about the language. What kind of systems do you want to build, or want to learn to build? If it is networked systems, Go gets the job done pretty well. If you want to build a game, or want a superior c++, go for Rust.
Backwards compatibility with Objective C hasn’t been a huge priority, though you can definitely wrap ObC with Swift pretty easily.

I definitely recommend digging into server Swift to form your own opinion. Vapor is a good, gentle starting point because the tooling to get up and running is pretty nice; it’s not a huge investment to play.
Just curious, why not Kotlin, Scala, or Clojure over Java?
From what I heard in some c++ podcasts the goal isn't creating ultimate graphic API, it doesn't need to be usable by proffesionals. It is aimed mostly at beginners and people teaching C++.
Having single interface for things like Vec2 was also consider. There are hopes it could be make mixing and switching third party graphic libraries easier by having common types.
I used to be a privacy advocate until I realized the futility of trying to thwart the data collectors. Our Information is everywhere whether we like it or not and the only way to avoid its aggregation is by not associating with the world and abandoning the convenience of modern technology. I feel like at some point we just have to accept the loss of privacy to gain better harmony within our communities.

I would recommend The Transparent Society by David Brin to anyone interested in this matter: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Transparent_Society
I still upload and maintain latest binaries for my project there:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/traccar/

I don't maintain code and description basically refers to GitHub for any issues, but there are still some people who use it, so I don't see any good reason for losing free traffic. Number of download has been falling for years though.
It's fascinating to me that he never graduated with a bachelor's degree, let alone a research degree. Even more impressive.
> https://www.livemint.com/Politics/XS6vPor5jFX3vKkaE7Ri6H/Ind....

I don't really understand.

> “Most experts will tell you the cases of NPAFP have increased because of better surveillance. This is bunkum,” said Puliyel. “As per global benchmarks, as polio incidence comes down, the rate of NPAFP should also reduce. Instead, AFP cases have been increasing steadily.”

So does that mean the polio numbers are wrong? Doctors are not diagnosing polio as polio? That would be really concerning.

Also, being certified "polio-free" doesn't mean we stop vaccinating. Just that we switch to a less harmful version of the vaccine.

After all, with the facts at hand, polio cases have come down to zero in India. Similar ailments have seen a rise in reports. Why this is happening is a mystery not solved in the article. One theory is that govt surveillance has improved. Another is that the government/doctors are faking the polio numbers, basically suppressing actual polio cases. I strongly lean towards the former as an explanation.

This also does not have any bearing on the polio-free status and the state of polio vaccination. Seems like standard sensationalist "journalism" to me.
Alternative to Google Keep: Standard Notes.

https://standardnotes.org.

Encrypted, open source, and cross platform :)
SharpKeys Saved My Coding Experience on an Alienware Laptop
In this case they called it "nonpolio accute flaccid paralysis" instead. This paper found incidence correlation with vaccination rates (more vaccines, more NPAFP):

http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/135/Supplement...

"NPAFP increased with the number of oral polio vaccine (OPV) doses used (R2 = 25.02%; P < .001). When effect of cumulative doses over the previous years was examined, the NPAFP rate in 2013 best correlated with the cumulative doses received in the previous 7 years (R2 = 57.16%), with 2012 excluded because data for this year were incomplete. This correlation was highly significant (P < .001). On multiple regression analysis, the number of OPV doses was the only factor that showed a positive correlation with the NPAFP rate."
A favorite article of mine! Paul Ford has continued to write good explainers for Bloomberg Businessweek (most recently on the Github acquisition: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-06-06/github-is...) but I've been waiting for him to write something long form again...
I think the parent means, why don't they move away from ads in general to get their revenue from paid services, like gsuite.
I could empathize with your viewpoint more if not for the fact the lack of privacy wouldn’t be symmetrical. The middle and lower class will lose all semblance of privacy while the elite will be able to buy it. Case in point Mark Zuckerberg buying up that Hawaiian island.

Not only is it unfair but when the rich are just getting richer them having privacy while no one else does just allows for so many more ways for the poor to get screwed.
Retailing seems to be dying in US irrespective of the company:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-04-17/retail-st...

Couple of years ago, one of my friends bought a store at a strip mall. The store was making a loss. And the previously owners were an elderly couple. So my friends thesis was that they weren't exactly tuned into the digital presence business and it was still entirely possible to run a store in US.

Two years later footfall in the mall has decreased a lot. And in spite of the digital strategy etc my friend's store hasn't worked well. Now he is not only in debt but he is also trying to sell the store. But there are no buyers.
The company had been paying an unsustainable $400 million a year in interest.

Normal intuition would say that maybe the company could enter bankruptcy, wipe out that debt, turn the bond holders into the new owners, have the owners issue stock for a debt free company and sell the stock to pay off a fraction of the money they owed. That would seem like a rational approach that would maximize utility for at least owners and employees.

The problem apparently was that bargaining and brinksmanship destroyed the company before such a result could be considered.
Sure. I personally wouldn't put SO down as the cause of anything in that I think it's intermediate in the kinds of causal chains I see around software popularity. I almost never hear about a new technology on SO. I'm there because I am already using it, have a question, and see a Google result.

So if I'm looking at technology adoption, SO is in a basket of factors that I think of as supporting. Does this technology have a website? Is it easy to get started? Is there a place where I can chat with people? Is there a meetup? Is there a conference? Are there good docs? Are there good videos? Are there blog posts and books? And, of course, are there good questions and answers?

All of these supporting factors can keep somebody on the road to adoption, in that once somebody has decided to try the technology, they aid the person in getting to a useful result. I don't think they're causal in the sense of initiating anything. But if I squint I could call them causal in the sense that if you invest in them, you see increased adoption. Given their substitutability, though, if I were looking at causality I'd try to find a broader metric than SO alone.

is that helpful?
> the human development index of Venezuela is in the top half of countries world wide.

The latest UN HDI data is from 2016 - things have gone /drastically/ downhill for Venezuela since then, especially in the last 6 months.
Did you even read the Wiki article you linked to? Even if we ignore your conflation of information security and privacy, the Fappening was not caused by a security breach at Apple, but rather through the use of targeted phishing attacks.
I'm often curious as to what people are doing that makes them really think they need to venture outside their chosen scripting language. I use Ruby thinking I'll 'drop to Rust/Crystal' whenever I need to do something "serious", but that need never seems to manifest. Whatever I code in Ruby seems to just do the job and I can solve perf issues with asynchronous constructs like a jobs server, or something like caching.

At this point I'm really starting to wonder if Ruby really is the One True Language and everyone's going to be using it in 100 years. Like how PG thought Arc would be the hundred-year language.

Does static typing really offer that much more over dynamic? I'm not at all convinced that it does, when you get right down to it. Once Ruby gets a built-in typing system, we'll get to answer that question.

I do believe that Ruby will eventually solve its perf problem and once it does, its pleasing syntax and semantics will just draw everyone back to it the same way it did the first time.
Hah, no, I'm in no position to be accepting apologies regarding pedantry.
There is a difference between privacy by charity and privacy by design
Well there is.
It's the first 'high level' language that replaced assembly programming. All the other languages have added even more high level features, yet none of them have made its existence obsolete. The basic compier translates from C, most other languages add a translational front end to a C compiler.
There's nothing about the brick & mortar toy space that's inherently living on borrowed time. It was Toys 'R' Us' own mismanagement that doomed it.

Toy stores can be a destination. Provide a compelling experience for parents and kids alike. It's easy to imagine a space where kids get to play with toys hands-on, and parents get to judge for themselves whether they think they're appropriate in terms of fun and quality—something you can't do online.

Make the adult experience a mixture of café and Apple store, and give the kids a safe "penned in" experience like IKEA does in their kids' section. Parents will enjoy the respite, and kids will beg to go. And of course, once they get there, they'll cajole their parents to spend more money. Never underestimate the power of a child in a store.

IKEA has nailed the brick & mortar experience, even though most of their products could easily be purchased online. Toys 'R' Us merely had to abandon their hubris and old thinking, and they could have killed it.

Instead, they languished with a chain of dirty, disorganized, depressing stores, ill-treated and unmotivated employees, and no vision.

They didn't have to die, but their leadership and strategy did.
Shortwave trading – Who is that in Bob and Sniper's blog? (names named)
I recognize that other people value privacy more than I do. I also recognize that privacy is unsustainable and unlikely to survive in the future.

I see people seeking privacy as I see technophobes. I'm sure they're genuinely concerned, but I can't help but think they're mistaken. I think it's important to change their minds, as they're otherwise making the transition to a post-privacy world very difficult.

I've asked this question many times before, and nobody managed to explain how privacy would survive through the next 100 years of technological progress. That alone makes me think privacy is not a long-term solution.

Only a handful of people have clarified their position in defense of privacy as temporary and pragmatic (as opposed to ideal). They think that privacy is bad, but they prefer it to the alternative given today's context. I can appreciate this position, and I find it a lot more reasonable than the usual "privacy is good" most people seem to blindly accept.

Ultimately, I'd like to discuss strategies to make the transition to a post-privacy world smoother. This whole pro-privacy sentiment makes it very difficult.
Learning and using multiple languages is absolutely vital to being able to choose the right tool for the job. You have time to learn both and switching is a necessary skill if you want to program professionally
Crystal looks great in many ways, but it's hard to go all-in with a new language that lacks parallel processing. Go, Elixir, and Rust all have great concurrency stories, and their adoption has a lot to do with that.

It is a gorgeous language, though, with a very easy to read syntax. I'd love using it if it had something like goroutines, which would look great with its block syntax. Good luck to the team working on it; I hope it's a contender.
I find it slightly odd that sourceforge is so highly shunned after the malware incidents, while various other large companies [eg. microsoft (dodgy behaviour in skype, etc.), facebook (spying, selling data), lenovo (superfish), etc.] have been caught doing similar dodgy things and yet it feels like the general community has forgiven or at least grudgingly overlooking them.

May or may not be true - that's just the feel I'm getting.
These are so simple & beautiful, thank you!
I hear you, and I too love Ruby, and I too have yet to actually need the performance benefits of Crystal. But man, you don't realize how awesome static typing is until you actually start using it. There are whole classes of bugs that just get nixed before the program even runs. It makes you think more about how to structure things, how you're passing arguments, how you use variables, etc.

Now maybe you're really really really good w/ Ruby and you don't make those mistakes anymore, but for an "advanced beginner" like myself, it's really helpful.
Sometimes it's interesting to hear what incredibly talented creative people think, from their perspective, because their understanding of the world likely in some way influences their work.

That doesn't mean we should accept it as factual of course (especially in cases where it is trivially untrue to people who are educated in the field) but it still has some interest to other creatives, etc. I don't think you're supposed to "take it seriously" i.e. consider it a genuine contender for an objective truth but instead think about how it may inform a creative process to believe in a world with different fundamental principles etc. Or at least that's how I interpret this kind of material.

But I tend to give everybody way too much credit and maybe this is being peddled as hack psuedoscience but hey, death of the author ;P
> An uncharitable explanation would be overprotectiveness, but I wonder if it's also simply a lack of time

“Lack of time” meaning prioritizing other uses of time, sure. To some extent this is the result of strong economic pressure, but I think part of it is not understanding child rearing.
They had to know when they bought it. Can't feel that bad for them, they knew.
Making every feature a plugin is hard -- it requires that the original implementation expose everything possible in APIs to be take advantage of by a plug-in.
Yeah, I can see that for sure. This week I came about two inches from serious injury. Some yutz was riding one of the new powered rental scooters downhill on a narrow sidewalk. He was easily doing 25kph. I was talking with a friend as we waited outside a restaurant; he brushed past me just as I was stepping back. If I had done it a second earlier, I would have been right in his path with nowhere for him to go.

Bike lanes could be a better place for them. But a lot of the riders I see are tourists or scooter novices. A busy urban bike lane is not the right place to learn a new mode of transport.
Use any database enough and you'll find weird table corruption bugs. I've seen them in MySQL and MSSQL in my professional career. Fortunately in both cases it was caught before there was an unrecoverable issue, but it happens.

I've read the article before and I do agree, Postgres wasn't really the tool for what they're doing.
There is a wonderful documentary about Ernst Haeckel's study of Radiolaria, which I highly recommend. The film is called Proteus: A 19th Century Vision (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0391407/).
Could one resolve the problem by insisting that the properties that form part of the equality be part of all items in the class hierarchy.

eg. Even though Point may not have a color instance variable, there is no reason why it can't have a default color for all "plain" Points.

Of course, extending this to a smalltalk / ruby "Objects all the way down" hierarchy if Point inherits from Object then Object needs to have a default (x,y) position and colour.

It would seem mad to give place default values for every property of any object ever on the Object base class...

However one could provide default values for Point and ColoredPoint which the equality operator uses.
In a few years strip malls will be occupied only by food businesses, pharmacies, check cashing places, and urgent care clinics.
Maybe we should replace seatbelts with roller coaster over the shoulder covers or roll bars that drop down or something. They can be controlled by the passenger except during takeoff and landing. Then they can be lifted/opened in small groups or in some ordered fashion to help control disembarking.
Sure, but that wasn't really the issue. The issue was how to store such data in an optimal way.