skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah, this one again!

At the specific level, I don't consider this strongly useful information being presented: the examples are generally more useful when represented in math in the usual abstractions.

At the meta level, I remain of the belief that this class of activity privileges the concrete over the abstract, and the instance over the general. Having specific examples is useful, but they remain specific.

I remain persuaded that symbolic analysis via mathematics and the written word beat all other forms of communication in ability to express complex concepts.
Google Developing “Brillo” Internet of Things OS Based on Android
Scroll to the bottom for the most awesome patent illustration of all time.
Basically, parsing the percentages, using compressed data in RAM is ~1 order of magnitude slower to get into memory, and less than 1 order of magnitude slower to read from RAM. That is still around 2 (or more depending on setup) orders of magnitude faster than the hit to go to SSD / SSD RAID.

Useful knowledge on latency:
https://gist.github.com/jboner/2841832
How Twitter can save itself
The email you received was a "friendly reminder" to make sure your registrant contact information is accurate. It is officially called a Whois Data Reminder Policy email.

If it was accurate, GoDaddy is correct - there is nothing further for you to do.

If, on the other hand, the email they sent you would've bounced back as undelivered then you would've ended up into the next phase. "Click this within 15 days or else."
I'm currently on Heroku so my code is all in git and Heroku provides free automated backups for Postgres. I'm eventually moving everything over to Digital Ocean though. In which case I'll probably have a bash script that runs on cron job to just rotate backups. Something like https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Automated_Backup_on_Linux

I don't have massive amounts of important data to manage though so a simple solution like this is all I need.
No. Science is about answering interesting questions, not justifomying desired answers.
Scientists should be invested in he question, not a preferred answer. Leave the answer preferences to engineers and inventors and businesses.
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It's June 23rd because that's when EasyDNS renews its accreditation. It would be different for other registrars.

OVH also just sends an email that you can ignore if the information is accurate.
Automated:

Mac:

- Arq (Highly recommended) to Google Drive (Unlimited) and Amazon Glacier

- TimeMachine to two disks and a QNAP NAS

Servers:

- Tarsnap

- duplicity (https://blog.notmyhostna.me/automated-and-encrypted-backups-...)
An Introduction to Global Navigation Satellite Systems
on servers i run a couple of homebrew shell scripts to do backups. on some i use the backup-gem (https://github.com/backup/backup)

on my workstation/notebook (both apple computers) i use time machine with different external harddrives i rotate weekly.

all setups run automated, but sometimes i trigger them manually (usually right before and/or after some major change in configuration, or when lots of new data are on the drives (eg: i copy all the holliday photos onto my laptop)

i run regular checks on server backups, e.g. check if they "are there" and if i could restore them properly if needed.
The Meanings of Life
Photons and other elementary particles have no identity, so the distinction doesn't really exist. We can talk about the "same" photon as a useful shortcut, that's all.
Yes, there are many, many papers about this in the civil engineering literature, going back to the 1950s. Cellular automata models, fluid flow models, you name it. If you're really interested to learn more, search google scholar for "traffic flow," "traffic wave" or similar.

Even the wikipedia article on "Traffic flow" is quite comprehensive. [0]

It really annoys me when people come up with a "theory" and write a blog post about it without doing a shred of actual research on the subject.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic_flow
That last paragraph is spot on.
The Disappearing Colorado River
Oh wow, OK thanks for the tidbit - I will be in the lookout for my clients - many of whom barely know where they registered t heir domain, let alone the accuracy of their WHOIS contact data.
Shopify Mobile Buy SDK
I have started playing with Rust and have used OCaml on and off, but recently really diving hard into it building a REST-based application from top to bottom in OCaml, including all the infrastructure bits. We are slowly making our stuff open source as it becomes useable: https://github.com/afiniate

In short, OCaml is a mature language that has been used for decades in commercial applications. I feel OCaml is the next progression for the people that got excited about distributed systems via the Erlang path and want more of the safety and reasoning that comes from a strongly/statically-typed language like OCaml. Rust may or may not take off, but I am confident OCaml will remain viable for the foreseeable future, and probably gain slow, but steady popularity as engineers see all the cool things you can do like MirageOS: http://openmirage.org/
If your backups are automated, you need an automated backup checker in order to ensure your backups are reliable and will work the very day you'll need them https://github.com/backupchecker/backupchecker
Bribery Attacks on Bitcoin Consensus [pdf]
Just a note - not sure if it is the case but the downvotes are likely due to your use of 'retarded'. Outside of the US, using it in a negative context as you have here is considered offensive.
GMO Scientists Could Save the World from Hunger, If We Let Them
And the pricing is almost equivalent to Digital Ocean at this point, so long as you're not looking to spin instances up and down for periods less than a month.
I'm in the same place sort of, and Golang and Julia seem like the obvious higher-performance transitions from Python. What about Rust makes you consider it so highly?
There are a few mental tools that show up from watching arguments get torn apart on a regular basis.

The failure points of Bayesian probability is a great example of this. Suppose I start drawing cards from a 52 card deck of cards and I ask you to estimate the odds that the next card will be a 6H. You work though the math and everything looks fine. I draw AH, JC, 2S, 6H, and all is well with the world, except the next card is another JD. Now what? What if the next card is a picture of an Apple followed by a 2S?

PS: The failure point being you need a probability that your prior probability estimate is right, and then a probability that that prior estimate is right recursively.
How to Avoid a Software Outsourcing Disaster
It's interesting to read Xavier's annual statement on why there will never be multi core support in OCaml: http://mirror.ocamlcore.org/caml.inria.fr/pub/ml-archives/ca...
Is that because GEarth perspective is from above, not from the foot of the mountain?
Show HN: Easily create, edit and share SVG designs online with Inline
Sure, for a subset of the language. But the point is, a hand-wavy complaint about PL semantics (which can be precisely defined) doesn't make sense when comparing languages in this context.
I disagree, Bitcoin will not go below $150 at any time in 2015-2017. The upside is a lot more murky and harder to put an estimate on.

Can you also supply a concrete estimate? Without a concrete estimate, your skepticism is too vague to be meaningful.
The same points, in the same order, in the same hour.
Great analysis. Is there even a theory of what causes randomness? Where does it come from? Why should we believe it is discrete from "unpredictability?" Even in random number generators, the game is about pulling from widely unpredictable sources to generate entropy - the word "random" should maybe be a misnomer.
I've never believed in anything besides unpredictability in various scopes of systems. By scopes of systems, I mean, in some contexts of analysis it makes sense to deem a system temporarily closed to analyze certain parts of it. For example, the earth is not a closed system, but for some discussions and analysis it makes sense to simply treat it like one.

I don't know why it is so hard for this description - or paradigm - to proliferate to the masses and various pop writers. Writers so often are tying human consciousness to QM experimentation as if it were something special. The fact of the matter is: in each QM experiment the only things really interacting with the experiment are the atoms of the measurement apparatuses, sensors, and whatnot. In the case of the double slit experiment, we could have them "interpreted" automatically - and say, kill a cat if an interference pattern is created and not kill it if one is not made. Making the discussion about consciousness is a distraction from the core issues.
would love to feature GanttPro at startuptabs.com! Please submit.
Don't forget the .NET OCaml, F#!
Interesting. That's very subtle behavior. (Especially since it sometimes fools one into thinking /g option is not enabled when in reality, it's a CR+LF issue.)

I'm not saying your site's interpretation of Windows CR+LF is "wrong" but the other 5 online[1] regex testers don't behave that way on Windows Chrome browser. I also tested the regex and target text on desktop JGSoft RegexBuddy[2]. None of those required "\s\s" instead of "\s".

Debuggex at the least, is very idiosyncratic since the majority of the other testers don't treat CR+LF that way.

[1]regex testers tried with "([A-Z])\w+\s\w(\d.\d)" on Windows:

http://regexr.com/3b22q

http://regviz.org/

http://www.rexv.org/

https://regex101.com/r/eB5jY1/1

https://www.debuggex.com/r/mci3WLNmHGTEatf6

[2]http://i.imgur.com/t2L04mO.png

(http://www.regexbuddy.com/)
Steve Jobs on Coding and Law School
The fascinating part will be the emergence of a larger black market for labor.
I think the best way would be to attend a graduate school and then live/work in US.
Trying to learn physics solely through experimentation instead of a from a book of the accumulated efforts and failures of generations of people, would be a phenomenal waste of time. Philosophy isn't any different in that regard.
Personally, I use Macrium Reflect incremental backups on my Windows machines, Time Machine on my MacBook and tar scripts on linux. These are copied to a NAS which is further synced with Dropbox.
Automated Portion: Every morning at 7:30am, a cron job runs to rsync my main computer's /home directory to my NAS that is sitting in a closet. The NAS has two drives that are mirrored to guard against hard drive failure. Every Saturday morning, a homebrewed script will separately check to make sure all my backups are current and will email me to advise me that everything is current and OK. If there is a problem, it will tell me which days are missing.

Manual Portion: Once every couple months, I backup the portion of my /home directory that is not heavy media like video to a large USB stick, which I keep at my office.

I don't love this setup, particularly because (1) an offsite backup does not happen automatically, (2) my video is not backed up offsite, and (3) it is not resilient to natural disasters in my area, since both my home and office are within a half-mile of each other in downtown New York City.

Moreover, because I keep my NAS mounted even when no backup is in progress, my backups are vulnerable to malicious code executed even at the non-superuser level. For example, a while back there was a bug in some gaming software (Steam?) where a script executed that would rm -rf /* because of a badly written shell script. If that had happened to me, it would wipe my /home directory and my NAS backup.

Eventually, I'd like to set up a Raspberry Pi running in another area of the country and have rsync push daily backups over ssh to that offsite computer.
I'm going to start off by saying that my initial comment on rich people not doing anything and being freeriders was mainly an angry comment directed at people like the author of this article. My mistake for not making that clear. There are certainly many rich people who work hard. Despite that, this does not mean that hard working rich people deserve their wealth... Onward:

>But when you look at modern American billionaires like Steve Jobs or Bill Gates, they made their fortune by working intensely hard and smart in very competitive markets, and inventing or making available to the mass-market products that created billions of dollars in value. It can definitely be argued that a single individual can create billions of dollars of new wealth, and not on the "back" of others - there's a lot of very wealthy early Microsoft and Apple employees out there, and billions of dollars of value created for its customers over the last couple decades.

I disagree. Those innovative mass market products may be created under the leadership of one hard working man, but it is fundamentally impossible for a complex product like the iphone to be entirely the work of one man. The iphone, the boeing 747, and many other complex projects can only be built with the expertise and labor of multitudes of people. Steve Jobs and Bill Gates cannot build such wealth without exploiting the labor of their corporate empires.
Show HN: The Paper Experience
Automated.

Macs:
Time Machine to a NAS, plus Backblaze.

Windows:
Genie (which sort of sucks performance-wise but all of the backup solutions on Windows seem to be terrible. I miss the built-in one from Windows 7.) to NAS, plus Backblaze.

Linux:
rdiff-backup to NAS.

Servers:
Linode backup.
I think you have a very narrow view of academic philosophy. Certainly there are many who obfuscate intentionally, or invent myriads of terms where it isn't really necessary. But there are plenty of writers, particularly in the "analytic" tradition, who write very clearly and succinctly.

Try Hume (An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding -- short and high-impact), Russell, Rousseau, Searle, Putnam, or Dennett.
Is Social+Capital's Chamath Palihapitiya the future of venture capital?
Google Compute Engine. Their Cloud Security team is staffed with rock stars in the industry.
I use BackupPC (http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/) on an always-on 8-watt Fit-PC2 (http://www.fit-pc.com/web/products/fit-pc2/). BackupPC grabs twice-daily backups of my servers and once-daily backups of my personal machine, and emails me if there's any trouble. The backups aren't dependent on any third-party service, I don't have to worry about who else has access to the files and data on my personal system, and I habitually check its web interface for extra peace of mind.

I think it's hands-down the best cross-platform backup system currently available, but for some reason it's not a popular approach.
Hunger is not a problem of food production, it's a problem of food distribution. We already produce enough calories per capita per day to make every single person morbidly obese; we just do a really lousy job sharing that food among all people.
One of my favorite things along these lines is this 1951 video of Les Paul explaining how he uses multitrack recording to produce his records. The first part of the video is great, mocking the idea of some sort of computer that generates the music itself.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rITJyZVTfy4
Linkin Park: Rock band by night, venture capitalists by day
I use a shell script which I call with a keyboard shortcut at the end of the day and does the following:

- rsync-based backup of a sub-home directory where I keep sources, documents, and other things I want to be saved in case of disaster

- backup of all Trello cards via a custom python script

- machine shutdown
Easy Unified Identity
Backblaze: backs up main hard drive automatically

Arq: backs up photo library to S3 Glacier automatically

Carbon Copy Cloner: clones main hard drive to external once every two weeks and photo library to external (stored at parents' house) once every month
To OCaml in particular, and you're right that immutability does make it much easier, but OCaml has mutable variables, which is precisely why it's hard.
I would really like to understand their side of it, or at least better understand the bureaucratic negotiation nightmare which birthed this policy.

I have to guess than ICANN is filled with some very smart people. So their must be some reasoning here.
Private bus startup Leap is temporarily off the roads
Google will launch its software for Internet of Things
There may be a counterargument for the reason for such a process, but the implementation is just dangerous.
You regularly use 20 or 50 end-user applications that use openssl?

I'm not talking the low-level OS applications here... I'm talking end-user applications and major exposed services.

For that matter, each of those applications needs to be updated, vetted and packaged... it's a matter of the level and completeness of packages.
I never said capitalists, we're all capitalists. What I meant was excessively rich people can't just achieve wealth off of their own work alone. It is physically impossible for any individual to have the physical or mental power to generate that capital out of thin air. People must aggregate their labor in order to produce complex products like the iphone, the airbus or the great wall of china. Thus for rich people to be as rich as they are must have exploited or "free rided" from the labor of others.
Performance Insight into PHP7 (faster than HHVM 3.7)
Reminds me of a dumb bumper sticker once seen on a ratty old pickup truck that said... "Don't steal! The government hates competition".
Looks like it supports mods/addons. Would like a mod that adds Star Wars planets. Maybe other fictional planets like the Game of Thrones planet.
https://www.backblaze.com/ when I was mostly using Windows. $5/mo or $50/year per computer with no limit on filesize! Seriously, I've had multiple terabytes on there and it never complained. And the upload speeds keep getting faster.

One limitation of Backblaze is a limited file history. If a file gets modified and you don't notice, the old version will eventually disappear. So I have my "important" stuff in a Dropbox account with "packrat" enabled for infinite history.

My Linux-based data is on a RAID-1 which is not backup. But I can't find a cheap enough service to hold another 7.5TB of data.

(Also I'm going to plug Archive Team's backup of the Internet Archive. http://archiveteam.org/index.php?title=INTERNETARCHIVE.BAK/g... If you have a Mac or Linux box, put your spare hard disk space to good use.)
Slack Overflow
The Camp, Google’s Sicilian Davos, Returns for a Second Year
> If it weren't for health insurance this would seem like a much more reasonable option.

If health insurance (or childcare or disability insurance, etc.) weren't tied to employment, this would be a much more reasonable option.

The first step towards more flexible work arrangements is to eliminate gap in taxes between self-purchased benefits and employer-provided benefits. This goes for everything from snacks to health insurance. It's silly and really an fairness issue (should the little guy needs a big employer to take care of him?).
this is one of the first things i ever programmed! cool to see it is seeing the light of day again.
It will gradually catch all registrars as they renew their ICANN accreditation.
Developers Read Bad Recruiting Emails
or helping ensure that each story gets some play in the media vs. one period of outrage and then back to business as usual.
Asynchronous ReactJS Component Loading with Webpack
They try and appear to be very open about the whole thing, but no mention as to why they need to be accredited in the first place? Can they just choose not to get the accreditation and still give out .com domains?
Never fear, it works with a rotating black hole: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malament%E2%80%93Hogarth_spacet...
On the modern web, ISPs are one of your threats
When was the latest iteration of post from? The page displays date as NaN...

Edit: I think I found it [1] That iteration was from 2002. I'd be curious to see if his opinion has evolved in 12 years.

Also, interesting to see game developer Chris Hecker [2] in that thread.

[1] http://caml.inria.fr/pub/ml-archives/caml-list/2002/11/threa... search for "Why systhreads?" and "Xavier Leroy". Also, damn their website's broken.

Better link, I wish GMane had better Googlejuice:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.caml.general/16381/f...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Hecker
Index Ventures Hires Dropbox Exec Ilya Fushman as General Partner
Before core, there was tape. Tape used to be backup medium, then disk became the new tape. Bubble memory begat SSD, so memory has in some sense become the new disk.

RAM is the new disk: now for some, later for others.
I do understand that, but I want a tool that works with me, not just with an API.
Didn't realize it was hidden! You might want to make it more pronounced, I spent quite a while hunting (even with your directions) and almost gave up.

Great job again!
The society still needs a homo sapiens to intervene when the machine flashes "Unknown item in the bagging area", though.

Also, define "we". There used to be an entire substrata of people whose job was to pull the elevator to the right floor when requested by the customers entering the elevator. It looks like those guys are all finally relaxing somewhere on the beach now that we've invented automated elevators eith buttons.
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Hahahahahahah I got CERN labs in Switzerland. I'm pretty excited about that actually.

@bartozone
Mapbox launches mobile location analytics and free plan
I think it's easy to make an argument for having accurate whois data. But even if you believe in that goal, this is not a great way to achieve it.
can someone please change the title to indicate this is a deep link to a patent? I clicked through on a work computer.
Neat project! However, in reality I'd probably just use Backbone if I wanted this kind of architecture because of the wealth of knowledge and support for it on the web.

What is the main advantage of this over Backbone?
Yes, I did know that someone did it in 5 mins, so that helped :)

I think it took me 9-10 mins in total, including testing on the provided inputs. I think I could have done it in a few mins faster 15 years ago when I competed (never made it to the Finals though). Also typically: one of the team members would immediately start coding up the first problem while others are working on the next problems, with the assumption that the first one is quite simple.
What is HIPAA? [Infographic]
For my workloads, R has always choked on its single thread long before it choked on memory. And the parallelism options are terrible hacks.
Subway Education – How I Read 5 Books in 3 Weeks Riding the NYC Metro
Thanks for sharing this code !
Unfortunately, it seems like short release cycles can also lead to buggier released; after all, who cares, it'll all be fixed in eight weeks or whatever, right? It's not like people will be using the broken thing for a year.

Of course, the next release will then have a _different_ minor bug. Then the pattern repeats.
>You could argue that they don't contribute anything personally (though I disagree, but let's go with your assumption).

That's a mistake on my part. My comment was directed more towards people like the author of the OP who are rich and do no work. That being said rich people cannot contribute anything more to the economy other than what they can produce with their own physical and mental labor. This is a fundamental limit, that is set by the laws of the physical world. Yet, paradoxically, the wealth of the super rich skyrockets past this limit.

This is because the capital they deploy into the world isn't generated by them. It's generated by the labor of the corporations they own. A corporation is composed of employees and this is the true origin of capital. The money rich people deploy and churn into the economy is capital "owned" by rich people the same way landlords "own", "redeploy" and charge rent on land; If you disagree, note that in the english language land and corporations are both referred to as capital.