skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To re-confirm Frondo's statement - just think of all the food Europe/America stores throw out because it went bad because it was never sold. That's one example of wasteful distribution. We produce more than we can consume and much of it goes to waste.
Google Developing ‘Brillo’ Software for Internet of Things
It would seem these rules apply to any registrar that gets domain names from Icann...
Manual: Every now and then I run an rsync script to backup my stuff to an external drive.

Automated: I have SpiderOak set up the auto backup select folders. I have about 1 TB of offline storage for $12/month.
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The only thing having accurate whois data did for me was get me junk snailmail. I don't have accurate whois data anymore.
I used to use BackupPC for onsite backups (which is a great product!), but wasn't comfortable with my lack of an offsite. I've since moved to Crashplan (http://www.code42.com/crashplan/), mostly because they have a Linux client as well as Windows and also allow peer to peer backups.
You make a lot of good points
Mozy for personal (non-prod) computers. it's like $60/year. Set and forget, my computer was stolen last year, was up and running a day later, most of which was spent purchasing the new computer (Macbook)

Prod is more complicated, my company works with several multi-TB data sets (MongoDB) consisting of billions of swiftly changing kilobyte-sized documents. This can't be "backed up" in the traditional sense because it's impossible, barring custom hardware/great expense, to take a consistent snapshot of a multi-TB dataset distributed across dozens of machines. So we do the usual distributed replication across datacenters, put RAID underneath, etc. I worry more about corruption due to application errors than losing a disk for this stuff, though.
The point is to ensure they can contact you. Same reason websites have email confirm links, basically.
It is indeed pretty cool, but you probably have lots of these stories.

Les Paul is probably one of the more famous stories.

Most really good music technology innovations are from musicians themselves.

EHV is a world-class player, but the only reason we're reading this kind of story is because of that virtuosity-- lots of folks mess around with their instruments like he was doing, though most aren't as dangerously bad at it.

The stories you hear about folks making new music stuff are usually because the folks are good at making stuff, so it seems more like engineers/tinkerers who happen to play music, when that description might be flipped if we looked at how folks think of themselves.
Looks like they finally got it faster than HHVM by about 5% which is rather impressive.

Sure hope that is a fair comparison against HHVM with a warm jit cache.

Oh geez, they removed mysql_* from PHP 7.

That's going to be a showstopper for hundreds of thousands of sites not being able to upgrade easily. That's a real shame.

Oh wait, all is not lost, the PECL extension in theory can be compiled into PHP7 http://pecl.php.net/package/mysql
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Seconded for BackupPC. I've been using it since I first saw a release announcement for it on Slashdot ~15 years ago. I combined it with automated weekly archival uploads to an off-site server (that I was also using for other purposes), as well as a manual monthly transfer I would make to an external hard drive (that would otherwise remain powered off, in case someone/something managed to get access to all of my live machines).
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> View the extreme values of a result set? I.e. I run a query which returns 200 results, and I want to look at the first few and the last few. (PMA: home and end. CLI: scroll?)

Well, you could do that; if you know you are interested in extremes to start with, use ORDER BY and LIMIT to just get the extremes in the first place (or, for more refined concepts of "extremes", consider the use of window functions.)
You can move the camera around and look at mountains side-on, but it still looks odd. It's probably because the view is so zoomed-out that you can see how smooth the earth really is - it's smoother than a billiard ball proportionally. http://www.curiouser.co.uk/facts/smooth_earth.htm

Edit: I just downloaded Earth and it looks like it's set to 1x by default now. I read about this a long time ago so I don't know if I had it wrong or if they changed it or what.
disclaimer: I work on a wal-related project for a TLD

Let's not throw the baby out with the bathwater.

Projects like the WAL actually do help prevent the spread of malicious sites. Some TLD registries go into great length to ensure that the identity of their registrants is valid (address, phone, email).

Valid whois data is a necessity when processing some of these cases (from a legal point of view). I see this in practice every day.

The potential burden for the majority of domain owners (those who don't plan to do anything illegal with their little piece of internet real estate) is undeniably an issue, but projects like WAL have very real merit for the internet as a whole.
That is also true of Ocaml, and probably every other ML derived language that treats accessor functions as ordinary functions (rather than using the C-style dot operator). There is a type-directed name resolution proposal that would remove this limitation in Haskell, but it would probably make the typechecker a lot more complicated.

The can't-reuse-field-names thing is annoying, but claiming that it "isn't a serious language" because they made a design choice that doesn't meet your exact expectations seems kind of closed-minded to me.
If you touch a marble at the other end, you will feel the vibration at the other end with the delay equal to the speed of sound (and also hear the vibration when it's transferred to air). The speed of sound is the propagation speed of mechanical energy in a matter.
The speed of sound is the speed at which any disturbance in the material propagates. When you push on a marble, that's a disturbance. The other end of the marble begins to move when the disturbance reaches that end. In this scenario, the disturbance is then transmitted to the next marble, and so on in that fashion, all at the speed of sound.
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Since Attic is fast and duplicating I do hourly backups via cron at work. At the end of the day I prune them all and do a daily backup via systemd on shutdown. For offsite I manually sync via usb stick and unison, merge at home where daily backups are done as well. Rarely I update a backup hd stored at my parents.
How long will it take the black holes to swallow the earth?
To that end, Google is working on technology that could run on low-powered devices, possibly with as few as 64 or 32 megabytes of random-access memory

That's really roughing it. ;) There was a recent announcement of a 16KB IoT OS from Huawei by comparison.
A mechanical impulse travels through a solid via atoms literally pushing and pulling each other. Pushing something is a mechanical impulse; sound is a series of mechanical impulses. The propagation speed is the same because they are the same thing.
This has been my go to regex testing site for years. Absolutely love it.
Show HN: Rando, a Simple Tool to Help Fight Your Filter Bubble
I've been getting very concerned by the "Filter Bubble" effect in the recent past, so I created a quick tool to fight it - for Twitter users, at least.

"Rando Cardrissian" is a Twitter bot which selects headlines from a range of sources across the political spectrum, from Tea Party to Green. I'm intending to extend him to sample other controversial topics in the future too.

Then, every 15 minutes he Tweets one of those headlines without attributing its source. A URL is included, but it's obfuscated.

The intention is to create a "white noise" on your Twitter feed that is more representative of the entire discourse in the world than your local filter bubble.

He comes in two flavors:

@rand_o_card is the US version.
@rand_o_card_uk is the UK version.

I wrote a bit more about why I'm doing this and why I think it's a problem over on my blog - there's a link to that and to the two Twitter accounts above in a comment below.

Have a look and let me know what you think!
> the retail cost of the products they produce hasn't gone down.

I disagree, with almost anything that has both a handmade and a mass-produced version, the mass-produced variant will be cheaper - t-shirts, soap, mugs, suits, etc.
https://youtu.be/5SMYognL2t4
Americans are moving to these cities in droves – and they’re not NY or SF
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Clearly you need to provide a working email address to receive the confirmation. Does anyone know the consequences of providing wrong information anywhere else?
yup....have been a firefox fan for a while. I generally use chrome for some extensions that are not available on other browsers like postman, zenmate, etc.

anyways...i have found non-chrome replacements for them.
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Around 2001 I think?
URLs:

https://www.twitter.com/rand_o_card - US version

https://www.twitter.com/rand_o_card_uk - UK version

http://www.strangecompany.org/how-to-fight-the-filter-bubble... - more explanation of what a filter bubble is and why you might care.
> Well, if I use libraries to avoid C's pitfalls, that language will be safe, too.

I'm not talking about possibilities, but about libraries that are actually available and widely used.

> You might as well say the key to using C++ is to use Python or C instead.

And that might not be a bad idea. If you don't need the power of C++ or don't want to invest time in learning it, then you are better off using a simpler language such as Python, but probably not C for the reasons I pointed out earlier.

C++ is a complicated language, so I agree with your advice of using good learning resources and code review. I don't agree that the issues you mentioned are of the same level as the ones I was talking about. Missing a copy constructor is just not as big of a problem as, say, getting a segfault caused by misuse of varargs.
...observer falling into the black hole experiences an M-H event as they cross the inner event horizon.

Too bad the observer can't share the result with anyone, and a couple of moments later s|he expires.
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> Amazon Gandi

For a moment there, you had me thinking that Amazon had purchased Gandi! But no, I see they are just partnering with them. Phew.
> You mean, run the (possibly expensive) query twice with different sort orders, and not see the middle ones at all?

Or run it once into a temporary table, and then query the temporary table however you want to get subsets of interest. Which, if you are doing data exploration on the potentially large results of a potentially expensive query, is probably what you should be doing, no matter what tool you are using. Because it lets you do a lot more than just check the top and bottom easily.
Considering they downgrade older cards with driver updates 'the best available' over the lifetime of the card is directly influenced by their poor behavior.

Sure, back when a card where more than doubling in speed every year this was less of an issue. However, now that things have slowed down your better off getting a high end AMD card than a mid-range nVidia with forced obsolescence.

PS: And I say this as someone that has been using nVidia cards for a while, but watching framerates drop when replaying older titles is simply unacceptable.
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You didn't answer my question. Most of those risks also fall on the people who are actually doing the work as well.
It's funny you mention spinning up a new email server, I've had to do that for a domain I stopped using about 5 years ago, but had used for almost a decade at one point... you'd be surprised how easy it is to miss changing an account/email address.

Of course that was within a year or so of taking down the old domain, and haven't had issue since... just the same, it's interesting how painful an option can be at times.
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Show HN: InboxSDK by Streak (YC S11) – Build Apps inside Gmail
I think he was saying it is unlikely.

"In summary: there is no SMP support in OCaml, and it is very very
unlikely that there will ever be. If you're into parallelism, better
investigate message-passing interfaces."
I can record a screencast in which I enter the right CAPTCHA and CloudFare still refuses to let me in, repeatedly, when I am using the Tor Browser. This happens to a point that I just give up because life is too short to enter right CAPTCHAs and still see CloudFlare complain.
Yandex Pushes Privacy with Beta Release of Its Minimalist Browser
The clarify - you will need to do this at key events:

* New domain registration

* Domain transfer

* Upon receipt of an NDN (bounce) in some other mailing

We'll be putting together a mini-FAQ based on questions and feedback of this.
"He did do the work"

Did he? Or did he simply "lead" the people who did the actual work?

"are you honestly going to say that I don't deserve the benefit that money brings me"

Are you honestly going to say that you deserve the benefits you get for simply having that money more than someone who's actually doing work?
Without the facial expression, this patent would clearly be prior art.
Or one could use the lisp-way – and just call the functions <record-name>-<field-name>.

This avoids those problems.
Even if it is two-factor, for the reasons you described, it's all over a single channel. There is no out of band mechanism- meaning this can easily be MITM'd. UNLOQ is poor authentication security in more ways than one.

By the way, the founders of Duo Security hold the patent on completing an authentication from a smartphone. Something to keep in mind. http://www.google.com/patents/US20110219230
I'm aware of CA splitting -- it's not been adopted yet elsewhere in the US. It's too bad that you had to experience someone who was "swerving in and out" and not the majority of riders who would split sensibly and safely.

Lane splitting is only supposed to occur below a certain speed; splitting above that number would be a violation, of course.

Take a look at Europe to see how easily splitting can be integrated, for both driver and rider. It absolutely does reduce congestion: bikes move smoothly to the front and away, freeing space.

American drivers just aren't educated to realize this because negative stereotypes about motorcycles are so prevalent in the US, and the many positive benefits of riding aren't presented as options here.
Can we link to the original article, since it has way more information?

http://www.autoblog.com/2015/05/20/general-motors-says-owns-...
I don't think that long release cycles are the solution for this, though—major x.0 releases are well-known for often being buggy themselves, after all. I think that buggy releases speak more to problems with general project management and priorities than to the release schedule used.
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If you really want to manage your Azure you'll have to go PowerShell anyway.
Austerity politics is bonkers. When there is a recession, the state is the entity that can still borrow and lend at reasonable rates. The money will still be borrowed, but with the state pulling back, it is borrowed at rates that would make a loan-shark blush.
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Thanks, that was a nice one!

If one had to explain to somebody who has absolutely no clue whatsoever what the LHC does and why, one could do worse than point them to this video. :)
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It's a good point - a plugin that logs access won't work if you can't access the WP admin! If you move up outside of the WP environment you get into the hosting/server world and the solutions become vendor specific.

I would imagine there is (or should be) a third-party backup and logging solution that keeps the data offsite but works host-independent.
From one of the authors:

http://mining4meaning.com/2015/02/13/raplyzer/
The Rust hype machine has kicked into high gear. D suddenly seems under-promoted.
Having two datatypes with the same field name in scope doesn't work well with type inference. OCaml permits it, but it requires type annotations, and in practice it seems like developers solve the problem the same way Haskell does -- separate modules.

That said, working with modules is a lot nicer in OCaml than in Haskell, so it's a less painful solution.
It seems to use different values of cutoff depending on if you are using MiB/GiB/TiB/etc. I tested with GiB and 6144 is OK, 6145 is not.
We're not talking about learning theoretical physics. We're talking about presenting arguments, usually involving relatively mundane subjects.

"If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself." - Albert Einstein
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Time Machine backup to my Synology NAS, then a time-honored offsite backup -- I clone my drive and physically leave the latest copy at my parents' house.

every time I visit I bring a newer drive and swap.

Simple, cost effective, foolproof.
Dude, you're assuming that from that same exact IP address they aren't getting a ton of other traffic that isn't spamming the hell out of them or doing completely sketchy stuff. That's what happens when you share an IP address with other people -- especially those who might be criminals or have other nefarious motives for using tor.
Ocaml and Haskell are both good languages. Haskell probably has a bigger community and more momentum at this point. I switched from Ocaml to Haskell long ago because I wanted parallelism.

The implementation philosophy of the two languages is pretty different, despite being superficially similar in terms of syntax. Ocaml is pretty predictable -- you can look at code and have a pretty good idea of what kind of code the compiler is going to generate.

Haskell is a lot more opaque. Between laziness and a more rigid type system, ghc can do some pretty crazy code transformations. In general, this is a good thing, but it can make performance questions harder to figure out.

I think that Ocaml is easier to learn, but Haskell is more fun, and I've learned more from using it.
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You're probably referring to what are known as "Whois Data Reminder Program" emails (WDRP), which is a few years old. Also mandatory to send those out, but can be safely ignored (which is what makes this program so much worse).

Even the guy who invented WDRP later admitted it as a useless program which should die. http://www.circleid.com/posts/20120719_a_confession_about_ic...

This is much much worse.
But who checks the automated backup checker?
This is an apples to oranges comparison.

I expect to see this type of comparison on a personal blog, but not from canonical itself.
The caption of her as "Force of Nature" made me laugh. Very inspiring.
Thanks, that's interesting! It seems to imply that I would need to jump into a black hole to collect my solution, which is a major drawback (I was planning this for a Bitcoin miner).
Rift support was added in version 0.9.7.2 ( http://en.spaceengine.org/forum/20-2614-1 ).
> Lodash is currently > 12k lines of code, and Underscore is 1.5k.

Never knew that before. Does Lodash have more features than Underscore? I never got too heavy into using either but I always thought of them as essentially being interchangeable libraries.
How does this compare to Celestia?
What would be the government+capital structure immune from producing a class of freeloaders?

Societies closer to communism tend to generate a large amount of kafkaesque government workers, whose goal is to complicate any process they control in order to ensure maximum benefits at minimal contribution to society.

Societies closer to socialism with healthy social nets and welfare systems tend to attract a large influx of constituents, whose plan is to game the system for maximum payout from the government, and countries with liberal immigration policies like Germany or France already have massive public issues with it to the point of political pendulum swinging to ultra-right parties.

It seems like any society has to make a rational choice about which freeloaders it's okay with, and at least try to align the incentives right. In the US we're okay with rich not working, but we gouge them via property tax, sales tax, taxes on investment income and estate taxes. It's not like having Paris Hilton working a full-time job would energize the US economy.
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Syncthing to synchronize everything between the laptops and two storage servers (one local, one remote).

Bup to snapshot the synchronized files every 5 minutes.
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Automated

Backblaze for persistent cloud backup.

Semi-Manual (I need to dock my latptop and plug in the drives)

Weekly copy to external HDs (at home) using SyncBack

Manual

I backup by hand my FileZilla profiles, Google Docs, project management web app (XML file).
Crashplan. Automatic incremental backups to local and the cloud.
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That's strange, because it's working fine in the UK.
>A good experiment is designed to disprove the hypothesis.

Statistical tests are often designed around a null hypothesis that is defined as the opposite of the hypothesis we are testing. Once we can reject that null hypothesis we have proven the hypothesis. So for the LHC you'd disprove something like "there is no particle of energy X" (the null hypothesis) by finding a definite signal at energy X, thus proving that the Higgs Boson exists (the initial hypothesis). Prove/Disprove are relative terms though as you can only have a degree of confidence X on the validity of the hypothesis.
But if all it takes is an email confirmation, how on earth does this prevent bad actors from faking their data? Or use a straw-man?

This looks exactly like security theater to me.

Disclaimer: I may or may not have a domain registered in the name of my cat.
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Sometimes 10 minutes is all you need. I feel like years of heavy partying wrecked my memory and I've been meditating for about 8 months and I can feel it returning to what it once was.
I'm guessing they will measure the increased rate of orbit decay then the sails are deployed?
Windows desktop: has script to sync a handful of directories to Linux server. Run manually. Desktop has another drive that has images of the other drives and backups of game service downloads (Steam, GOG, etc.) that aren't anywhere else, to save space.

Linux server: has script to sync data drive to encrypted external drive. Run manually because drive needs to be manually connected and password entered (probably a way to work around this, but I'm lazy). I have 3 external drives that are swapped about 1-2 weeks to work, and 1-4 months to another state.

It might seem too manual, but I have a workaround. I host a podcast[0] where I say "don't forget that today is international backup awareness day[1], so backup your stuff" to remind me.

0: http://thenexus.tv/category/cs/

1: http://blog.codinghorror.com/international-backup-awareness-...
It's cool to see this show up today, because yesterday we asked the programmers who implemented upsert in Postgres if they'd be interested in having a technical discussion about it on HN. They said yes, so here's the plan: Peter's going to write a high-level post about the design and evolution of the feature. Then he, Andres, Heikki, and anybody else who's interested will join the thread where we can all learn about how they did it and what the challenges were.

On the HN side, this is the sort of experiment we'd like to do more of, and this seemed like a great place to try it, since there's clearly unsatisfied curiosity in the community (including us!) about how upsert was implemented.