skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Please, please, please do not help every nerd who experiences discomfort at being called out on sexism to believe they have some undiagnosed shadow syndrome and are being oppressed because of it. Please don't do that. If only because it would be profoundly disrespectful to people with real diagnoses.
That's extremely impressive and goes along the line of experience over education.
An author can give a book to different people for proofreading, copyediting, and substantive line Editing.

Some of the "voice" of the author might indeed be lost just because good copy editing normally is about 20% of a draft , but it could be argued that what's left is better for it.

I agree though that one should try to keep the overall tone/style the same
Yes, true if speaking of a pure meritocracy. I was more imagining something close to our current society but merit based (one where people aren't just discarded for lack of certain merits).

I don't disagree that a system has to reward unproven individuals. My point in most of these comments is that we, no matter how much we say we are choosing based solely on merit or production, most often are not. We are a bundle of overt and hidden biases.
Why do diamonds cost more than water?
Is negotiating compensation the best example of something obnoxious? I don't see anything wrong with that at all.
books on UNIX and shells
It's probably something that could be deployed in the "nice to have" category: use it as a cache for your offline data to provide quick recovery of things you would previously have needed to go all the way to offline to retrieve. But if something goes wrong, you still have the offline data to recover from.
Simple battery powered light that you can use to tell your coworkers to leave you alone when you need to focus.
I got into bioinformatics as a sysadmin, and loved it. You are right on the money with your links, but what I would say is to first take the time to learn the general overview of genetics first. I would have been so lost managing the data I did if I hadn't taken the time to listen to all the latest lectures on genomics. I would also encourage a heavy emphasis on bacteria and the microbiome, it's largely an unexplored wilderness.
I once tried to interview Warren Buffett and was connected to his personal secretary, who very kindly said it was unlikely to happen. No phalanxes of PR folks, just her. Maybe she updates the site for him. :)

To respond to your spartan web page point, let's compare the page load times vs. Apple.com, which most of us might agree is beautifully done.

Berkshire Hathaway speed (Google PageSpeed): 99/100

Apple.com speed (Google PageSpeed): 62/100

Berkshire Hathaway speed (via Pingdom): 476 ms

Apple.com speed (via Pingdom): 1.68 sec

There's something to be said for a 3.4KB web page...
ran on macbook pro in chrome. tab went unresponsive for a few seconds when i hit back arrow. waited a second, hit x and a couple seconds later it closed.
Then it sounds like you should wait for the proper release, as this beta test is not for you.
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This looks like a thinly worded ad for Nginx Plus.
I think there is a problem of tooling in SQL, which means it is difficult to reuse it.

I spent the other day writing a big query, joining about 10 tables. So usually I start by joining the two main ones. Check that gives me the results I want. Add in another table or conditions, check again. Repeat until all tables are joined into the query and conditions are added.

Then I noticed the results of my GROUP_CONCAT were not as I expected. I had a couple of suspect joins that I tried removing. Same problem. In these situations, it is often easier to go through the same process from scratch of adding in one table at a time and ensure that it is working.

We need some kind of unit test equivalent for SQL.
Praise be the skeptical! It allows the courageous easy advantages. SLAs are almost worthless. And, really, has Google ever retired something like this (i.e., not an acquisition, not Google Reader, etc)?
Url changed from https://lobste.rs/s/4zroys/rowhammer_xcode_and_the_future_of..., which points to this.
Apple App Store Down for All Users
What exactly did she do? I recall she complained on Twitter, and exercised her freedom of speech to express her opinion. A number of people shared that opinion and also spoke freely about their opinion.

In the fullness of time, his employers acted like craven cowards and sacked him. Did she sack him? No.

Was he scarred for life? Ostracized? No, he found work again quickly. But what happened to her? A bunch of other people exercised their freedom of speech and shared their opinion of her choices, and she was also fired. Was she ostracized? Yes. People said things like, “She should never work in tech again.”

To anyone on the outside of that incident, it’s quite obvious that the treatment of the two persons involved was completely asymmetrical, especially considering that what she did was express an unpopular opinion.

Which is something that hackers, especially hackers here, often say is something that ought to be protected. But there’s always the weasel words that “speech has consequences,” which mean that in reality, “privilege” is being insulated from those consequences, and lack of privilege is being exposed to the maximum consequences.

Getting back to your rules, she didn’t get anyone fired. She spoke out about something that was said in a public place loudly enough for her to hear it.

I’ll gladly defend that. There is nothing remotely civilized about saying that she shouldn’t be allowed to object to anything she hears, or express her opinion about how a civilized society should respond.

White males do that all the time. Why is a black, Jewish female not afforded the same option?
OK, it might be a linux thing

I have submitted the thing to bugzilla and chrome bug thing
It's not really a pet peeve, it's a difference in thinking and perceiving the world.
(I'm the developer behind Arq) With Arq you keep control of your stuff because it's encrypted before it leaves your computer. With Backblaze you can choose your own encryption key, but to restore your files you have to give them your key; they decrypt your files and leave them (unencrypted!) on their servers for you to download, which I think makes choosing your own encryption key pointless.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8169040
https://www.backblaze.com/backup-encryption.html
I am currently ' React.addons.update ' which i find very easy to use.

I am unclear what this lib brings to the table.
Alright, let me make this argument another way.

This study from Princeton University says in its abstract:

"Multivariate analysis indicates that economic elites and organized groups representing business interests have substantial independent impacts on U.S. government policy, while average citizens and mass-based interest groups have little or no independent influence. The results provide substantial support for theories of Economic-Elite Domination and for theories of Biased Pluralism, but not for theories of Majoritarian Electoral Democracy or Majoritarian Pluralism."

http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPag...

In other words, they are arguing the people have little to no impact on the government's policies. I don't want to put words in their mouths but they're essentially showing the government is a bunch of cronies and corporate special interest groups that care not a jot about the people.

Does that merit a revolution or not yet?
There are several ways to get Bash to read the whole thing before executing.

My preferred method is to write a main() function, and call main "$@" at the very end of the script.

Another trick, useful for shorter scripts, is to just wrap the body of the script in {}, which causes the script to be a giant compound command that is parsed before any of it is executed; instead of a list of commands that is executed as read.
Look at what happened in the US, net neutrality was not an issue, just like it isn't really in the EU at this time, then services like Hulu/Netflix/Youtube appeared. In the US like in Europe most ISPs are either Cable companies or Telecoms which offer their own IPTV. Now you as a ISP have a competing service using your network, why would you just tolerate that if you don't have to?

For the same reason I'm paying much less for higher speeds than the average US household. Unlike most places in the US, there's competition in the ISP market in my country. I live in a city of less than 100K, and I have four ISPs offering me fiber.

Why not? How is the EU's common market supposed to work if we just keep implementing things like this on a country by country basis.

How is the common market hampered by this particular regulation being implemented at a national level?

Again I don't think this will be an issue, even if you allow for special cases, Netflix should never be special, and neither should probably 99% of services available today. VoIP is special (and I guess is already treated as such by ISPs) because it is a replacement for PSTN which was special and you can't have voice communication be degraded because people are watching the World Cup final or whatever.

What about real time video communication? What about real time 3D environments, when they appear? Say real time VR becomes feasible, and a school wants to implement remote education for the underclass?

And that's just an example I came up with in 30s. Thinking that all important services that can be invented have been invented already is just silly.

Let's put it this way, what would be the harm of having a common net neutrality law in Europe? Wouldn't that just mean that if you want to do business inside the EU you won't have to worry about being blackmailed by ISPs in 28 different countries?

But do you already?

Laws are important, but they impose costs. Financial, administrative, and potentially worse. It's fine for us to say "No discrimination for traffic except for VoIP!", but a law will be a 30 page document that will still leave plenty for well paid lawyers to discuss and find loopholes over.

Trying to start a small ISP? Better make sure your QoS tables are exactly like the law says, or you might get shutdown if your competitors find out - but when was the last time you saw a law that could be objectively translated into a technical spec?

And then there's the fact that a EU-wide net legislation is a great opportunity for the lobbyists of the media industry to stick their clauses into.

And finally, EU officials have made some worrying claims about censorship "for the children!" for me to trust them with such things.

No, thanks. Let's talk again if and when it becomes a problem, not before.
Windows version coming soon! (I'm the developer behind Arq)
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I do. It's called test data. I use it when I develop tools to interact with a service before it reaches maturity and before it get an SLA.

Once it has an SLA, I can use my tool to work with valuable data.
I'm able to log in to both of my iTC accounts.
CA Proposes Terrible Bill to Ban All Unlicensed Bitcoin Businesses
That's poor management technique. You flog someone in private and praise them in public.
Fascinating and insightful article. I would still consider some cases where information is useful.

(a) There are some really interesting community-based initiatives where urban dashboards add value albeit still data-driven. Instead of using Baltimore's CityStats I would consider the Neighborhood Vital Signs indicators [1] as a good example of quality of life indicators.

(b) The dashboard performs a huge role, when considering that information in city governments exist in silos. There was a time when one transport department didn't know what another was doing. It still happens (e.g. Fire agencies not knowing that the metro power was turn off for a good 40 minutes [2]).

[1]http://bniajfi.org
[2] http://mayor.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/mayormb/pub...
Why is anything so expensive?
Time Machine + SuperDuper! clone + Backblaze + Arq (to S3 Glacier). I'm ready for meteors, bring it on.
Bitcoin is more volatile than state currency. Do large institutions that accept it have some kind of hedging strategy?
Damn well said!!! Thanks ;)
I agree with you 100%, but I feel the need to point out that you can still be a "weird nerd" and have progressive values. I do not think hacker values and progressive values are mutually exclusive, but I think they are orthogonal.
Repeating the word "involved" in different contexts does not explain anything. I still don't know what you mean by "get involved" besides voting. Can you list a few actions in the real world that exemplify what you mean by "get involved"?

No offense, but the way you put it, it sounds like empty rhetoric.

Paint me a scenario where a bunch of people like you "getting involved" succeed in stopping corruption and keeping politicians from breaking the promises they made to their people.
In that very article I linked to she points out that it was his employer that fired him, apparently because loudly making rude jokes at a conference while representing them was considered the last straw.

Have you ever complained about any employee at any time for any reason? Does that make you an uncivilized beast?
I use lastpass. Never tried any other password manager. I don't mind logging into it. On my phone I can swipe my thumb. The only thing I don't like is having to type out the long random passwords on non-physical-keyboards - like setting up a roku to connect to amazon play and spending an extra 15 clicks switching case/keyboard.

How often do you have to log into it? Is it specific to a device?
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At least on OS X, Firefox is as well behaved as you might expect when forcefully triggering an infinite loop on beforeunload.
locally accessed dynamically provisioned

This is a mission critical safety system. There are some standards which are unhappy with dynamically allocating memory in that situation, let alone dynamically allocating the entire compute resource.
Backblaze seems so forward thinking with the hardware, but if you've ever tried to restore a file using their web interface, it's an exercise in frustration.

If you want to pull a single file, you'll be navigating through a windows 95'esq tree. They store snapshots, but if you want to change the snapshot, you wait a minute for each while it loads. Even going back to a snapshot you were just looking at, you wait the whole load time.

Now if you actually need to restore something. You can download a zip file. They will only let you make the zip file so big, so you have to break up your restore into multiple zip files. You will have to do that manually, there is no way to have BB auto-generate the parts for you. These are zip files and not one of the many archive formats that allow for parts.

Besides that, you will need double the amount of storage to recover this data since you'll need to store the zip and the extracted backup.

The way around this is to pay BB to put the data on a USB drive (flash up to 128GB or external up to 4TB) at $99 and $189 respectively. A 128GB external usb on Amazon, first result is $120. They actually won't give you a 4TB unless your restore needs it, but the price is still $189. Labor I guess? According to their own FAQ, you will wait 2-3 days for them to ship these drives, so hopefully you don't need that restore anytime soon.

I really liked Backblaze up to the point I needed to use it for it's real purpose. It seems like nobody at BB cares about the restore process or that it doesn't sell new subscriptions.

--

Also, maybe someone from BB can explain why the secure.backblaze restore website loads tracking pixels from googleads.g.doubleclick, a.triggit, s.adroll,facebook, ads.yahoo,x.bidswitch, ib.adnxs and idsync.rlcdn. Are you selling my need for a new harddrive or something?
Simply put, I don't want the NSA to exist at all. Does that ensure that I run in "anarchist circles" in your mind? I don't think my view is far from the mainstream on this matter - many reasonable people are for abolition.
#1 sounds like it could be solved with culture, but actually good culture works against solving it. Good culture means you hire considerate people and considerate people don't take more than their "fair share" (i.e. the median).
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No. Also, you shouldn't believe in ANY single backup solution.

Don't place all your eggs in the same basket.
I'm doing the hardware design on this project, and having a lot of fun doing it. We're excited to have the signs out there for people to start using!
i couldnot download and update apps in iphone.
It will be fascinating to see what kind of objective measurements we'll be able to get out of it in future decades--biological diversity, erosion properties, etc.
I find the work Backblaze is doing is wonderful, mostly because of how open they are with their data. Watching their numbers on certain HDD failures has really helped steer some of my recent purchasing decisions. I'm also really interested to see more details on their custom RAID replacement.

Essentially raid is dead to me, and ZFS/BTRFS, etc seem to be the only way to go forward, so I hope they gpl the code.

For anyone from BackBlaze reading this, I'm curious though, have you found that backplanes are becoming a primary bottleneck? Because that seems to be the case (Sata 6gb/s hurts after using things like fusion-io or even thunderbolt.) Any insights into the future of backplanes?
i cannot update and download new apps. wht should i need to do solve it?
Inelastic good, supply controlled by cartel.
The answer to this is really simple: the people running the space. Run you own space, have your own CoC. Done.

If you can't get enough people to stand up and say "we're running a conference for tough as nails abrasive people, make sure you come in armored clothing", that might be a description of a problem.
Reading that just pissed me off to no end. Eyeglasses are not a luxury for me - they're an absolute necessity. I kind of feel like I'm being preyed upon here by a bunch of Italian ripoff artists.
I love working in an industry where it's about what you can make or build on your own, not necessarily what your degree says.

As a past junior high teacher, I'm really excited about the new ideas around practical education.
This is similar to what people in those despicable countries are doing. In the name of "best interest for the country" people in power can do whatever they want.

"Best interest" is hardly a measurable or even agreeable term.
See https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript/issues/394 and https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript/issues/1003 for what the future may hold
I'm guessing you use Lastpass premium if you use it on your phone?
I use lastpass on all my devices. I like the phone app but I got premium for free for one year and it's about to run out. Looking for a free alternative.
No, one simply should wait for companies to offer services with guarantees for one's own data, if the data is important. Just that.
It'll be interesting to see the devices that come out of this, sort of a standardized blade server.

I'm still looking for the PoE powered version of this for a small cluster, having a single connection for power and data. Dual NICs would give you ~50W to work with, so it would need something a lot less than the 65W TDP just for the chip. It's also discouraging to see that they tried (and ruled out) the SoCs currently on the market - I'm looking for one of those as well, something that can at least compete with the performance of my 6-year-old desktop processor.

Edit: Looks like the Xeon D would do it, 45W TDP for the whole SoC - http://www.anandtech.com/show/9070/intel-xeon-d-launched-14n...
I would be shocked if any ABS systems in a car actually dynamicly shared resources with anything else.
While Jobs is famed for his scathing treatment of employees in general, from everything I have seen Bill Gates was extremely technical and known for drilling employees on the technical issues in scheduled meetings that they knew to expect and prepare for. This is entirely different. There is a good recounting of just such an instance from Joel Spolsky here.

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2006/06/16.html
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The nuances of autohold are something that's really hard to explain in terms of the PAR sheet, in my opinion.

Is the goal of autohold to provide the player with any win, or give the proper chance at the optimal win given the upcards? Those two goals aren't always in alignment given certain hands.

(ex-WMS engineer here too. Glad to see you survived.)
Russia adopts quantum computing to counter foreign spyware
What on Earth did I just read... Please tell me that this is a sarcastic comment, because otherwise I can't even begin to address the amount of hostility it advocates. Read seriously, this shows exactly the cancer that is eating tech right now, a memeplex built on signalling and lack of any honesty or civility.
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Facing obsolescence, yet here we are discussing how much we need exactly that technology that we're going to abandon. And will spend enormous resources trying to band-aid it on top of an infrastructure that was not designed to support it.

I agree with you. I just don't understand why we let technology develop on this curious path tangential to our actual needs.
Per 100 people the level in Norway at 31.3 is slightly less than Sweden (31.6) but much less than the US (90) and much more than the UK (6.6):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_of_guns_per_capita_by_co...

NB Not trying to make a point - just found your comment interesting, looked up the numbers and thought I would share them!
Toward a Wikipedia model of drug discovery
Yes. Whatever Bitcoin pay service the large institution uses usually assumes the volatility risk for a transaction fee and gives the recipient state currency.
Not sure why you got downvoted: I think your anecdote is pretty interesting to contrast cultural differences! :)
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That part was meant to show the general bias of it all through a figuratively made example. I didn't think anyone would take it literally.
> I understand what was being said. But in my experience many groups say this but in fact don't even come close to actually achieving it. Groups of white males have said this for a long time,

...right in front of our very noses at this moment is something very interesting:

me atleast I don't have a clue what gender most nicks here on HN belong to. And I don't care. The same way I don't care about the gender of our UX designer only that she did awesome work.

- well, maybe I actually loved the fact that we had a coding eclipse-wielding mother-of-three on our team.

And before "you" [1] come telling me that this just shows how I'm biased because I'm impressed by a mom coding, -No! I don't think they cannot, but every statistic tells us they don't usually code.

[1]: yeah I saw you coming, you are kind of predictable