skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Spotify ended up spending the same amount of money on expensive middle men:

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2018-01-16/spotif...

To me it just seems like a form of fancy marketing.
I think we're talking about the opposite where the SSD could take over some functionality from the OS.
Oh, I agree that even Google isn't immune to "sunsetting" useful products. But I'd still rate files on my Google Drive as being a lot more likely to be still usable in 5 years time than a service from someone with a few million dollars in Series A funding to get big or die trying.
> You couldn't do that exact workaround in the US because of the Constitution, but I'm sure a creative work around can be invented.

The "workaround" in the United States is similar. When you apply for a driver's license, you agree to submit blood/breath/urine upon demand or lose said license automatically.
Ugh you reminded me why I never went all-in with Notion. Having to remember what email I signed up with every time I need to log in is super annoying (as it doesn't seem to trigger my browser's autofill dialogue).
They do. I'm a PH&E customer living in a woodsy area, and they trim our trees regularly.
Police are absolutely allowed to lie during an interrogation. I’ve seen it done multiple times. The most disturbing interrogation I’ve ever seen was actually the one where a teenager murdered his own father while under the influence of magic mushrooms. He was taken into the interrogation room shortly after the murder but enough time had elapsed that he was sober and just starting to understand the gravity of what he had done. The police sent in a soft-voiced female who spoke in a very caring and patient way. 99/100 people who watch that interrogation video would say that the woman was a therapist or councilor of some kind. Everything she asked and stated appeared to concern the wellbeing of this kid and the resolution of the terrible even that had taken place. In reality, everything she did was a cunning ploy with some kind of hidden goal. The entire interaction was calculated to extract information from him, very specific information, to be used against him in court. Every tangent of questioning she went on, seemingly random to the untrained eye, was highly specific in its value in a legal context.

An interrogation like this is not an example of outright lying, which is legal and commonly practiced, but it is much more sinister. It is an example of an interrogator assuming another identity and drawing the suspect into a false sense of warmth and security in order to make the suspect incriminate himself. To me, it is the same as having a conversation with your mother after a traumatic event, only to see her rip her own face off, a mask, to reveal the grotesque face of a police interrogator, and then going to jail for what you disclosed. Absolutely terrifying and dystopian. You absolutely must be proactive and protect yourself in this world. Even in “free” countries like the USA. https://youtu.be/rBpDHJIwcUk?t=1495

TLDR: the police are allowed to lie to you https://youtu.be/_WnhP91NJeU?t=1600
Probably async
> There are no games, no leisure programs, only business.

Back in the late 90s, for some reason I had to attend work the last week of the year. There was barely anything to do, so I entertained myself doing an AS/400 Reversi game. It had a rudimentary AI inspired by the way the CPU played the same game on my cheap Ericsson phone: most squares had a value (3 for corners, 2 for notable squares and 1 for everything else), and it just summed up the values of the squares that would be captured with each possible move.

I was sure more games had to exist out there, but in retrospective, AS/400 were expensive to run, and I guess nobody wanted to be caught using it to make or play games.
Mining crypto is naughty, but not serious crime. Someone maybe just didn't want police to be after them.
At the SSD level, the drives are actually doing block management, not file management. You still need a filesystem to store metadata, manage the layout of the data, etc.

An example of something that a SSD's controller does that the operating system/filesystem doesn't have to worry about is managing bad blocks. If the SSD detects a bad block, it will replace it with a working block and update the data used by its flash translation layer to move the blocks around. This is completely opaque to the operating system; as far as it knows its underlying storage works exactly the same (until there are so many bad blocks that the drive can't keep up this convenient deception).

An example of something a filesystem does that the SSD doesn't provide is storing operating system-specific file metadata, such as permissions, creation times, multiple data streams, directory layouts, etc. SSDs deal only in blocks of data, not arbitrarily-sized units, nor metadata.

The reason that this behavior isn't more tightly-integrated is because some of the details of managing the underlying flash blocks tend to be specific to type of flash, or even different models of flash. For example, the article mentions QLC flash becoming mainstream - we're finally getting to this point because previously, QLC was so difficult to manage that your filesystem had to be aware that it was writing to QLC flash to use it effectively. There are a few filesystems designed for direct flash management like yaffs[0], but this isn't quite as efficient as a SSD's dedicated processor and software stack.

[0]: https://yaffs.net/
I'm pretty much bald, and have been tending that way since my mid twenties. Early thirties now. I'm plenty happy.

If you feel like your happiness is dependent on your having hair, then you should probably really ask yourself why.

If you feel like having less hair makes you less attractive, then I can tell you I've had loads of hair and now none of it, and I've met women that love or hate both.

Own it.
Would buying a smart-tv and never connecting it to Wifi work?

Or would it be constantly scanning and looking for an open access point, and get online once a neighbor leaves his open for a few minutes?
It's a fun and interesting idea. Would definitely like to see how it'll evolve further.
"If I were running a major job board today I would make it a priority to provide value for my customers…both seeker and recruiter. I would build tools and publish information that helped them get a job faster or connect with more quality candidates. I would educate them, I would make them want to come back to the site each day to get what they need."

by "crisr2"

http://www.jobboardsecrets.com/2017/09/05/the-lack-of-innova...

Education for job seekers and employers has been a goal in the back of my head when I've considered this project before. There's a lot of information out there already, but it's food for thought. I know that content-marketing is a thing and could be done with educational articles, but as I stated above, I'm not trying to profit off of this, directly. Good educational resources (maybe even outside the realm of articles) would be good marketing, nonetheless, and useful for the audience.

One feature that I've been working on, is the "stats" page. I want that information to be clear and available. The page will have things like "Current User Count", "Company Count", "Most Viewed Postings" and so on...hopefully to give job posters an idea on what's "working" and what's not.

I'm still considering how filtering will work. It won't be "hard" but I want to get it right. Design-wise, it's hard for me because I've been working on back-end API's most of my career and I've barely touched an interface, besides small fixes/additions. The right interface will make or break filtering.

Along those terms, I want job seekers to be able to get updates effectively when they want them. A job seeker in "Atlanta, Georgia" who wants to find work there, should get relevant updates emailed and/or texted to them. It's pretty straight forward and it's been done a thousand times but I haven't personally written a system like that before. It should be fun.

Innovation is what is lacking but I'm sure it will come. I plan on releasing "early and often" and keeping track of my progress through Medium articles.
Redox looks awesome, my impression is that this is more about learning by implementing from scratch. I could imagine feeling more comfortable contributing to something like Redox after working with this course.
Most people learn by doing rather than reading (myself included) so just pick a project and start building.

This is the journey I took:

- Setup a Hadoop cluster from scratch (start with 4 nodes on virtualbox)
- Write software to crawl and store data on every single torrent. (I dont know why I picked torrents, it was just interesting at the time), but pick a single topic, and then scale it as far as you can.

(Can I store 100,000 torrent files? Can I crawl 200 websites every 5 minutes? Can I index every single file inside the torrent - whoops I have 500,000,000 rows now, can I distribute that across a cluster, can I upgrade the cluster without downtime? Can I swap Hadoop and HBase out for Cassandra? Can I do that with no downtime?) Why aren't all these CPU's being utilised? How can I use redis as a distributed cache? Now the whole system is running, can I scale it 2x, 5x, 10x? What happens if I randomly kill a node?

Just pick a single project - Astronomy Data, Weather Data, Planes in the air, open IoT sensors, IRC chat, Free Satellite Data, Twitter streams, pick a datasource that interests you and then your exercise is to scale it as far as you can - this is an exercise in engineering, not data science, not pure research, the goal is scale.

As you build this you'll do research and discover which technologies are better at scaling for reads, writes, difference consistency guarantees, different querying abilities.

Sure you could read all of this, but unless you apply it, much of it wont stick
In situations like this I think we would have to ask that considering that CA in general has high fire risk compared to other regions of the country, are the right people and entities bearing the risk and shouldering the costs of development there appropriately? I should think a lot of people have a vested interest in blaming PG&E, but if a completely ordinary event like a spark from a flat tire can cause a massive fire in the area that impacts a lot of human settlement directly, then someone is not assessing the risk of building and living there appropriately.
An app that has been force quit can still receive remote notifications just fine. I don't think the average users knowledge is so nuanced that they understand the distinction between a remotely-sent notification that always appears and a locally generated one that's the result of a background process that doesn't.
Timing is important here. Yes, it's a tinderbox, but it doesn't have to burn at the worst possible time to cause a massive scale firestorm. If a wildfire forms when the weather is not very windy, or colder, or moister, they do not spread as far, or as fast, or cause as much damage.

Exactly one of those is a non-anthropogenic source, lightning strike. Those tend not to occur during dry, windy conditions because of shear and needing to have enough moisture for cloud formation. Exception: when there already is a fire, pyrocumulus lightning strikes can add more ignition locations.

So far as the anthropogenic sources, we're in control of those by definition. We should try to prevent those as much as possible outside of prescribed burns. Everything burns sooner or later, but it doesn't have to go up all at once.

Much of the ecosystem depends on fire, but wildfires that do not do as much damage as the fires California has seen recently. But hey, the fires in Paradise shouldn't really be seen as a forest management problem, but rather as an intense urban conflagration. In much of Paradise, the trees survived, but fires jumped from house to house by wind-borne sparks. That was a disaster of urban planning, where evacuation routes had been made narrower in the past 10 years as population increased.

So we can't blame PG&E for all of that. But we can blame them for crappy maintenance in an area that regularly sees 100mph winds.
Maybe, but then they lose the terrible game and all status that comes with playing along. The point is the game is the tyranny.
Except that Weak DH only needs one prime - not two. It sounds like the author conflated RSA with DH somehow. It's very rare for real in-the-wild RSA keys to share factors (barring stupid errors like Debian's randomization fail).
Wouldn't this take longer to type out than `sudo !!` ?
Beyond public rights of way, the right to roam is limited to defined areas. They are mostly moorland, or steep downland hillsides that are not cropped. It is quite limited in lowland areas and you are not allowed to camp, or use bikes.
I shot some of my favorite images with a digital I purchased for a few dollars. The poor camera quality, vigineting, and surprise due to not having an LCD combined to make some artistic images that I loved.

Unfortunately, the camera also used DRAM and would lose all your images if the batteries got bounced loose.
Nope, that's a great point!

Here's the Namibian copyright act from 1994

https://laws.parliament.na/cms_documents/copyright-and-neigh...

which does include an exclusive right to "perform in public" a copyrighted work, and doesn't seem to further define or clarify this concept.
I got the Awareness stage wrong
I didn't necessarily mean better clients for Slack. I meant in general, which is why I said open servers.

We've got things like Mattermost and Matrix now, we might see others coming forth, and perhaps one day there'll be extensions to IRC to support some of these niceties.

And yes, there'll always be the lovely Slack-like web frontends, and someone will inevitably package those up as native apps with React Native or Electron or whatever. But there's also room for good, high-quality, optimised clients for those platforms as well.
Ok, it encourages magic. That's what I wanted to know.
You try to mix psychological concepts with pure biological ones. Those values are burnt so deep in our DNA that something we comprehend with our mind like "gender" has nowhere near the same magnitude of impact.
Same here.

To be honest, I was quite surprised to read about the "death" of RSS in Motherboard, I would have hoped they would rather write about how alive it still is despite uncountable attempts by tech and press Goliaths to get rid of it...

Being forced to choose to visit each website or to basically surrender to Facebook's or Google's interpretation of "what I should focus my attention to" seems surreal to me.

I understand that I'm surrounded by people who enjoy these choices being taken for them, but for me, RSS feeds are still my gateway between the web and my time.
Does someone who uses Notion has a working pipeline to automatically import notes from Kindle Highligths?
Fair points :)

Do you have any examples of using a KDF that jives with the bitlength requirements of a given cipher?
Here you go: https://www.facebook.com/careers/life/moving-from-finance-to...
Right, if everyone is relaxed, it’s not clear that someone who is high intensity has an advantage in personal interaction.
The problem is that nothing is self-evident. An app that sends remote notifications to notify you of an e-mail looks exactly the same as one that locally generates a notification as a result of background processing. But the former will work after being swiped away from the app switcher and the latter won't.

I just don't think it's reasonable to expect the average use to "get" that.
I think there's a high degree of ignorance in this area nowadays. Companies (well old-fashioned managers) think of remote work as a way of slacking off work, hence not encouraging it or even offering it in the first place. It's only the people who do work remotely and know how to do so understand the productivity impact and the freedom it brings from being tied to an office all day every day in this day and age.
That research quantum network has a different purpose. Quantum key distribution (QKD) as mentioned in the article has been commercially available for a number of years now (for example by ID Quantique [1]). These products rely on having a direct connection, i.e. a single fibre line without repeaters or other ‘interruptions’. This limits their range to about 100km (20dB attenuation).

The research network in The Netherlands is more ambitious than that. The researchers’ goal is to build a true quantum internet, with ‘quantum repeaters’ that allow connections over longer distances [2]. These quantum repeaters work on the principe of quantum entanglement generation and purification to achieve quantum teleportation of qubits to allow end to end communication [3].

If you’re interested in learning more about this, I can highly recommend the free edX course by TU Delft and Caltech on quantum cryptography [4].

[1]: https://www.idquantique.com/quantum-safe-security/overview/q...
[2]: https://qutech.nl/roadmap/quantum-internet/
[3]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_network#Quantum_repe...
[4]: https://www.edx.org/course/quantum-cryptography-0
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PBKDF2

Again, I'm not a cryptographer, and PBKDF2 is just an example. I would try to consult someone with a heavier background in the field. I've used PBKDF2 and Scrypt before, Argon2 is the newest, but also therefor least battle-tested.

https://godoc.org/golang.org/x/crypto/pbkdf2

https://godoc.org/golang.org/x/crypto/argon2

https://godoc.org/golang.org/x/crypto/scrypt
Thus far most ICOs have been _actual_ scams, so ironically, it's topical and accurate insofar as highlighting why IPOs are a lengthy and costly measure...
I admin a few of iSeries, one large LPAR with half a dozen others. We have zSeries and pSeries around too and nothing small.

With regards to iSeries we have developers who have put in place more than a few REST services both with IBM code and Profound Logic code. IBM provides both custom web service programs (think collection of DLLs) and other simpler interfaces. The key is you can reuse a lot of existing code by putting a good web interface on the front of it and your customers would never know.

The number of large companies using the platform is quite high and includes many big names people would not expect as well as a certain major league sport. Overseas it seems more accepted to say you are on one.

Good names for iSeries development are Jon Paris and Scott Klement. See Scott's page at https://www.scottklement.com/

the standard language for coding, RPGLE has morphed through the years to where it is as free form as any other language while being 100% backwards compatible, the confusing part is you can mixed fixed format and free form stuff all at once. With ILE programming you can bind in C and JAVA too.

For the most part these hang on and get new deployment because of a combination of code that works every day and that business math while simple has to be sure. Throw in that the system is in effect a DB2 database with full support for SQL and more and its easy to see its longevity. Now if someone can convince IBM to not keep renaming it.
Would they be considered witnesses though? I'm honestly not sure whether the legal classification overlaps or not. I suppose that one doesn't necessarily have to be a witness to "take the witness stand" even if not, though.
edit: i cannot arithmetic today, or sanity check my arithmetic. sorry.

sigh.
What the difference between a guards and a plain if ? I never understood it.
I've heard it said that Javascript and C are both good languages to compile to -- the language itself is very "fast" in basic operations (V8 is hyper-optimized, C is relatively close to the metal), but an ugly language with lots of gotchas and warts that make it hard for a human to use effectively, but which don't pose a problem for a well-designed compiler.
If you're giving up on the future already, might as well travel all you want while you can. Why care if we're doomed anyway.

If you're NOT giving up on the future just yet, you'd be much better off maximizing your impact on public policy (from municipal to federal levels) instead of trying to become an inert object.

You can be part of the solution without needless self-imposed extremism.
A NeoCon-Backed “Fact Checker” Plans to Wage War on Independent Media
What Statistics Can't Tell Us in the Fight Over Affirmative Action at Harvard
This is the US American way, and we're all fine with it.
I find it very ironic that we as the dominant species being capable of feats like space travel, worldwide real time communications, eradication of diseases, DNA engineering, nuclear energy and more cannot find another form of nutrition than that of a bear or a baboon.
Voluntary is the sense of someone(s) in a position of authority or power asking if you're willing to submit to a voluntary procedure.

I've be interviewed by police twice after being charged with crimes that carry potential prison sentences. The interviews are voluntary in the sense you're not required to answer any of the questions, and I could have chosen to wait in a cell for my lawyer to turn up days later ... but I volunteered to respond to each question by making a mockery of their questions and processes.

These people in authority, they are not there to help you, with their badges and their guns and their attitude problems, and I don't believe it's possible for someone to "volunteer" when such a power imbalance exists.

It's an absurd use of the word. You can't "volunteer" when the other person is carrying a gun.
The portable data "tapes" are similar to the much-later 3.5" diskettes.
It's not their sexuality that causes the risk, it is unsafe sexual practices and increased prevalence of disease in that subpopulation. Which is to said AIDs and homosexuality correlate but homosexuality doesn't cause AIDs. Obesity causes, not just correlates, a whole slew of morbidities.
Technically speaking when you turn a laser's power down far enough, you start adjusting the probability that the laser will emit a photon. Many pulses will generate zero photons, some will generate one, and a few might generate two or more. The two or more case is the scary one where an attacker could siphon off a photon to measure.
Why is something as vital as ENERGY managed by a private company with profit motives?

Not trying to be NATIONALIZE EVERYTHING or whatever, but we decided its worthwhile for water... why not power?
I've always wondered how much OS code gets audited or if everyone just assumes someone else will do it (bystander effect)
Two interesting updates based on what's been announced so far in 2019:

PCIe 4.0 will be arriving in the consumer market this year, with a new generation of AMD Ryzen CPUs providing host support, and at least one or two consumer-class NVMe SSD controllers supporting PCIe 4.0 should be ready to start shipping in retail products by the end of the year. (The enterprise/datacenter storage market's transition is already well underway.)

Seagate became the first vendor I'm aware of to start marketing a SSD to the prosumer/SMB market for NAS usage. It's a rebadge of one of their recent enterprise SATA drives and isn't even using QLC NAND so it's probably going to be pretty pricey, but the idea of a solid-state NAS is no longer completely laughable.
Circle of 5ths is fundamental to song structure, probability is largely based on that
Cal Newport has an answer for digital burnout (podcast)
+1 for everything you wrote. I'm still using quiterss and heavily relying on the filter actions on a daily basis.
My only experience with an online self hosted client was tiny tiny, which I didn't like. Thanks for sharing the freshrss alternative, I guess I'll give it a try!
Three from my Casio QV10a taken in 1998.

https://rjp.is/qv10a/1998/
I think of it more like a productivity tool rather being a `perk`, but gotta explain that to who's in charge.