skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Addiction is more complicated than "a lack of self control." Addicts generally don't kick the habit and then start to reintegrate into society; it's the other way around. If stability is introduced into their lives, they become less dependent the escape offered by the drug. In fact, when their drug use is not criminalized, the vast majority of addicts are able to lead normal lives. This has been shown multiple times in multiple places, even in America as the drug war was gearing up. Moreover, even the drugs with bad reputations (heroin, cocaine) do not result in addiction for most people who try them. Those who become addicts largely do so because they have issues that they are using the drug to cope with. This is evidenced by the lower rates of addiction and petty crime in places where drugs are legalized rather than the sharp increase one would expect if drugs are as dangerously addictive as we are led to believe.

There's also no need for a nanny state solution for purity testing. There are already mobile chem labs at festivals which will test your substance for you and tell you exactly what's in it, and such services exist elsewhere also. Furthermore, if drugs were legalized, there would be far fewer instances of adulterated sales to begin with. It's done by unscrupulous dealers--already profiting from the inflated prices that a black market brings--who take advantage of the buyer's inability to go to law enforcement to report fraud. It's also done by addicts themselves who need to make money to get their next fix: it's easier to cut some of your stuff with baby powder and sell it than it is to steal money or property. Return to doctors the ability to prescribe narcotics to addicts and this problem virtually disappears.

The biggest cause of most (if not all) of the problems that the drug war is supposed to combat is the drug war itself. It's been that way since the beginning.
And the authors of the article acknowledge as much in the intro paragraph with multiple references, what's your point?

I like the authors opening point "Therefore, an important
challenge for the growing field of quantum effects in
biomolecules is to clearly identify which quantum features with no classical counterpart may manifest in these systems and how they may influence the process of interest."

What's going to be really fun to find is biological systems which naturally exploit efficient quantum processes (tunneling, coherence, or otherwise) to help cells do their thing. This is a nice step on that road.
It's psychology. How is this surprising or even news at all?
http://gizmodo.com/almost-none-of-the-women-in-the-ashley-ma...
That gets tough without giving a third-party direct access to everything for auditing. You can lie about numbers just as easily as you can imply they're not an issue.
Assuming that they actually plugged the hole. No way of knowing if the original hackers no longer have access / the ability to access.
I, for one, won't be freaking out until we start seeing an upswing of flamethrower-related crimes. And I'm not going to hold my breath waiting for that to happen.

This really isn't a self-defense issue, nor a 2nd Amendment issue. It's more of a boys-with-cool-toys thing. As much as I agree with some of the other posters about an armed populace as a deterrent to a hostile & unaccountable government, a flamethrower isn't going to do much. A 25-foot range isn't a threat to anybody with a rifle, or even many individuals with a pistol.
I think this proposal is a brilliant move for Burger King from a PR perspective. Puts the ball firmly in McDonald's court. Now both brands get a goodwill boost for going through with it, but if McDonald's passes they end up looking lame, and BK comes out smelling like roses.

So for the HN angle, this feels like absolutely superb marketing.
So you're saying that the programmers like you and me, but who are cheering this decision on HN, are just coincidentally championing a trend that gets us more highly paid work and puts more of these people out of work?

You can't say we suffer from false consciousness WRT to that working class!
That's great, thanks for posting it. And I love Khan academy, thanks for the great work. My son is 3 and I'm chomping at the bit to introduce him to Khan academy.
Oh and post-AV anti-malware game: AV sucks and doesn't really do much to protect you against decent malware. Post-AV anti-malware systems do better.
So during moments of high volatility orders got cancelled, but that may happen regardless of whether the orders had been sitting around for a month or a second. Certainly doesn't seem to be related to leaving orders sitting around 'showing one's hand'.
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Lanyrd was developed while the founders (Simon Willison and Natalie Downe) were on honeymoon, and was subsequently accepted into YC (Jan 2011) and has since been acquired by Eventbrite.

The story of the site is well worth a read - http://blog.natbat.net/post/61658401806/lanyrd-from-idea-to-...
AirBnb is great, but it's not clear that they would have reached escape velocity without YC. Yes, anyone can start a company and get a couple of customers but that MVP is often not sufficient to build a business. Founders need to be able to eat and live and talent is extremely expensive. Access to capital, exposure, credibility, these are the most valuable aspects of YC.
BTW Mordechai and Queen Esther were cousins. In contrast to what the blog says, he was not her uncle.
Looking for strings inside inflation
Hmm I had read in several places it was in 2009. Well there goes that point then.
Yup, but RedHat commit to backporting security fixes for the duration of the release (so 30/11/2020 for RHEL6)... Not sure that this is the case for software available via any of the collections.

edit: SCL's aren't supported by RedHat
It is true that this can apply to Linux as well. There are plenty of distros available that package as little as possible or provide choice during initial installation.

That is where I know that Linux wins over everything else. A huge number of applications, where there is always at least 1 good alternative. Microsoft and Apple can't compete on choice.
If your business model is fundamentally predicated on dishonesty, I think all bets are off regarding the value system that people will use to evaluate it.
It shows acting upon intent. Are you saying attempted murder shouldn't be a crime?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attempt
In theory anything could be in ram could also end up in swap. So yes, it is important. And yes, there is overhead, but it isn't too bad if your system isn't RAM constrained, and your CPU supports AES-NI or similar.
I've been testing gRPC a bit. It's promising, but the tools are clearly alpha quality, so if you're going to build apps on top of it, you're in for some early-adopter hurt.

For example, you need the latest Protobuf 3.0 beta release, which no current OS distro currently has, and build gRPC from source. The language-specific packages (Ruby, Node, etc.) have releases that lag behind gRPC itself, so you'll probably have to build those from source, too (linking directly to HEAD from a Gemfile or package.json doesn't work, last I checked). Performance also seems decidedly lackluster, though it's been a few months since I did some casual benchmarking.

As for the API and feel of the library, it's similar to Thrift, and much like CORBA without the OO and attempts at location transparency. With the current generators, you'll get some low-level and not very friendly wrappers generated from the Protobuf declarations that don't attempt to hide the fact that you're writing RPC requests and responses as Protobuf structs.

One disappointing aspect of gRPC at this point is the lack of discoverability. Clients have to connect to a specific host and port, and you have to build your own glue based on ZooKeeper/etcd/Consul/DNS/whatever. Since no fault tolerance is built in, things like retries and load balancing is left as an exercise for the reader.
I am wondering myselves too.

The new module parameter "remote_dma" (default = N, enable
unfiltered remote DMA = Y) replaces the former build-time
option CONFIG_FIREWIRE_OHCI_REMOTE_DMA. (This kernel
configuration option was located in the "Kernel hacking"
menu, item "Remote debugging over FireWire with firewire-
ohci".) It is therefore now possible to switch on RDMA at
runtime on all kernels with firewire-ohci loaded or built-in,
for example for remote debugging, without the need for a
custom build option.

from: https://ieee1394.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Release_Notes#Lin...

I am not an expert in these matters, but could it be that OP is wrong with regarding to firewire? From what I am reading here is that dma is off by default, and can only be activated at runtime.

If the OP is right about the need to disable firewire, I hope someone could explain why so…
One of the things that bother me about the news, say, npr, is that they often cite studies to bolster their positions, but they never mention the confidence in the studies nor alternate theories which may explain some of the undesired state. No, it's always in terms of things which will whet their middle brow supporters and pander to their pet agendas. Be it water rationing, gentrification, organics, immigration issues, taxation, etc.

I mention npr because I listen to them but I'm assured by others it's the same case with news on the right and abortion, religion, guns and the like.

Is there a way to escape the echo chambers?
More like a spike in sales of sprouts after a food scandal because people only become aware of the offer through the press coverage
It's probably quite a bit of fake accounts. We did a report on the ad fraud going on and our stats were very high for FB with bots. See Digital Ad Fraud report here. http://oxford-biochron.com/over-88-of-digital-ad-clicks-deem...
Here you have what they have open sourced: http://www.ycombinator.com/resources/#documents
Good, so I got 5/5. What do I win?
The world's longest tunnel is almost finished
There is a profound problem with the scientific process that I have been worrying about that rarely gets mentioned:

The appeal and power of science is that you propose a model and then test it with evidence. With strong evidence you can validate the predictive efficacy of your model.

However, the model is not "true", it is only predictive. Furthermore, it's only predictive to the extent that the evidence backs it up.

The problem with this process is that it hangs entirely on the evidence. The models themselves do NOT emerge from the scientific process; they emerge from whatever - prejudice, confabulation, logic, supposition, etc. In other words, the original conjecture of a scientific model is merely a product of the pre-existing beliefs of the investigator.

Coupling poor evidence to this sort of conjecture produces "science" that is simply supposition or bias with a veneer of credibility. Given the widespread abuse of methodology (p-hacking, poor understanding of statistics, small or unrepresentative sample sizes, not reporting negative experiments, bad experimental design) this means a lot of "science" is merely varnished prejudice.
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So that you can ssh to it?
> It's rather difficult to come back to life after you've been murdered.
I can't recall the last time I heard about words murdering someone. Incited murder/suicide? Perhaps, but at that point you're just shifting blame around to try and make a point.

In the case of suicide, the "victim" would have had any number of chances to disconnect from the source of the speech that was hurting them.

> they probably will incite people to actually break their bones
In the case of murder/assault, well, last time I checked that's already a punishable crime.

Your argument does not further a case for the repression of free speech.
I've been hearing quantum superposition and tunneling as a factor in enzyme mechanisms at least since I was a grad student (circa 1988ish). It was all the rage that perhaps it was the main enzymatic mechanism; but, it grew a little less popular as more 'conventional' explanations seemed to provide acceptable kinetic models. "sources"? too many to list, but just search for quantum effects and enzymes and set your last date to something like 1990ish, like here:
https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=enzyme+mechanism+quantu...
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That's true, I forgot about that. Thankfully, most of the sites I use that have FB login are just for entertainment, not communication or anything serious. But that's true.
Imperative code is more explicit, but higher-level loop abstractions like map and filter are more restrictive and thus both easier to reason about and less error prone. When you program with functional patterns you remove whole classes of possible mistakes (or, when reading code, overlooked subtleties) surrounding the explicit mutation of index variables.

The APL family eschews explicit "for" loops entirely in favor of functional forms and assigns special symbols to each of them. This results in extremely dense code, but at the same time code which often has fewer "moving parts" and is less likely to be subtly incorrect.

In JavaScript I could write

var sum=0; for(var x=0; x<100; x++) { sum += x; }

or I could write

var sum=range(100).reduce(function(a,b) { return a+b; });

(provided an appropriate definition of `range()`)

In K I would write

+/!100

The sum (+) over (/) the range 0 up to but not including (!) 100.

In the first example, I have to worry about all sorts of boundary conditions and typos. The second example is easier to reason about, but it's fairly wordy. The third is so simple and concise it is "obviously correct". These examples are contrived, but I think they provide some food for thought.
Just guessing... First they will check if it was worth to try it again once the first batch finishes. I'm sure it will be soon after the normal winter batch if the move on with the new Fellowship program.
Unless there's a reason to believe that (your gender) is more likely to have been scared off by the data release than (opposite gender), I'm not sure there's a reason to think lowered competition will help you.
I tried virtualbox a while back and the reason I eventually moved back to vmware is because vbox requires you to hit some API's in order to run a vm detached, which I do for a few of my VM's. VMWare you can do it by setting a preference and closing the window.

It's not a big thing, but I was already established with vmware so I decided it wasn't worth the effort to work around it.

I've also read that vmware is more performant than virtualbox both in general and in terms of hardware accelerated gpu. All 3 of those just pushed me to staying with vmware.

However, I will say, I vastly preferred the UI for virtualbox. I've seen internet fights about it, but for me, virtualbox most definitely has the better UI.
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...no? That's a pithy statement but I can't see how it is true. If it is widely known that Ashley Madison has no women on it, men won't use it.
I fixed a bug in Flint; do you have an equivalent of the Knuth $2.56 check?

On a serious note... what do you think you will miss the most about Facebook?
That work is highly speculative (I've studied, but not as my primary work, enzyme kinetics and reaction mechanisms). Finding holes in transition state theory isn't hard and I don't see that it's necessary to invoke tunneling protons to come up with better theories. Even the physical experiments cited in the Ball article, are pretty speculative, and aren't accepted by the mainstream.

I find it pretty amusing, because I proposed tunneling protons in a journal club once, but got laughed down by all the physicists who said "that's silly, proton mass is too high, so probability of proton tunneling is basically zero" (they were being overconfident).

The only real work in this area, which is to say, work that is heavily backed up with data, is the work on quantum mechanisms in photosynthesis: http://newscenter.lbl.gov/2010/05/10/untangling-quantum-enta...
This work, since it has a huge amount of high quality experimental work, is considered pretty solid.
This is cute. I'm going to write a Known plugin and test it out on withknown.com.
"That gets tough without giving a third-party direct access to everything for auditing."

That's kind of the entire idea behind an auditor.
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One pitfall I often fall into with map, filter, etc. is that I chain them together, forgetting each of them takes another pass through the sequence. With an explicit loop, it's often easier to reduce multiple passes into a single pass.
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Can't Access be used for web applications?
The Deja-Dup front end for duplicity is built in to Ubuntu. It does encryption, and knows how to store in all sorts of places, including locally and on multiple cloud providers.
It's reasonably good - I tested it for Polish swearwords, it misses some no-nos, such as "alfons" (which stands for "pimp"), I actually submitted this :)

It reminded me of this major company https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osram whose name happens to be "future tense conjugation of verb >to shit<" (a spot-on match, and the website correctly detects it) :)

It was founded in 1919 when the website didn't exist yet
Software Collections aren't "supported" in the same fashion that core RedHat packages are (i.e timely security fixes, backported if needs be, for the lifetime of the OS release).

From the ruby193 SCL page you linked to:

"Community Project: Maintained by upstream communities of developers. The software is cared for, but the developers make no commitments to update the repositories in a timely manner."
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> You are saying around 60% of sysadmins using Amazon instances are wrong.

Yet, 100% of EC2 is built with RHEL/CentOS + Xen.[1][2]

Ubuntu was the default VM when they launched EC2, so most users naturally just used the default. But even in Amazon's eyes, when doing "serious" server work, reach for a purpose-built server distro -- not a jack-of-all-trades.

[1] http://www.zdnet.com/article/amazon-ec2-cloud-is-made-up-of-...

[2] http://bleikertz.com/blog/amazon_ec2_underlying_architecture...
Yes, I think the work that was published in this area was mostly speculative. I want links to mainstream stuff that I can put a little more trust in, like the work done at LBL on photosynthesis and entanglement.
What would it take to save EdTech?
I do not intend to be negative but you could use your app to make a better contact page rather than opening email client. This could be a good example on how you can use your app.
There are American companies out there who do not have to worry about H1-Bs because their whole business is being run from other countries. They just shift the workload altogether, with mid managers etc, leaving only the highest of the hierarchy in the US. As a low level tech, I have been through several offshoring where I have seen the whole local departments disappear, only to reemerge in another country with new sets of people. I managed to survive for some time because they could not offshore due to some government regulations. The truth is, American companies will offshore as much as they can. They have and they will. It is a simple case of increased profits due to cost-saving.
> Anyone that buys the argument that we need back doors for encryption to stop crime is an idiot. Crimes were solved before cell phones even existed, proving that backdoors into software are not needed to solve crimes.

I don't support requiring back-doors, but it's pretty ironic that you call people idiots then immediately follow that with a totally fallacious assertion. Law enforcement didn't have back-doors into cell phones before those existed, but criminals also didn't have secure ways to communicate over distance in real time. We can't conclude anything from the fact that crimes were still solved before cell phones existed.

The other way to look at it is to ask: out of the universe of ways for people to communicate, what can the government get at with a warrant? Historically, the answer was: nearly everything. For most of the last century, there was no way to communicate over distance that the government couldn't intercept. The only real-time way to communicate over distance was phone, and they've always had a "back door" to the PSTN through wire taps. Think about it: why do mob bosses in old movies take the risk of meeting at shady restaurants, instead of just dialing into a conference number? Because their phones are all tapped!

Law enforcement's position is that back doors just maintain that long-standing status quo. It may be a bad idea because security should outweigh the needs of law enforcement, but it's not an irrational argument.
How is this not considered fraud?
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1: Unless Wal-Mart sells literally everything (health insurance, higher education, etc), then proprietors of other kinds of businesses will be hurt because average incomes have gone down. Milk may be cheaper but getting a contractor to tile my roof isn't.

2: Go to, say, Ravenna, Italy, and try to get a drink after midnight and on a weekday. You can't. The people there would rather all be on the same schedule (espresso for breakfast, big lunch with the family, work till evening, late dinner, then a stroll around town) instead of having their friendships and families be separated by the graveyard shift. As a hungry American at 2AM it was an inconvenience, but overall it works and people are happy.

If you're still unconvinced, ask a European what they think of paid parental leave, month-long vacations (inb4 productivity argument, Germany offers much longer vacations than America and has higher productivity per worker), national single-payer health care...I could go on. If Americans really, really cared about these things, we would have them by now.
I saw a comic a while back, which I can't now locate, that was "science through the eyes of laymen" vs "science through the eyes of scientists".

The "laymen" side was filled with experiments that worked perfectly; the "scientists" side was filled with things like "this data doesn't make any sense" and "I've run this experiment 5 times, and gotten 5 completely different results".

The punchline is the laymen flipping out about something fairly well established (probably vaccines and autism), and the scientists eventually making something that works.

That's where the difficulty lies -- science is a very messy, very human process that's not nearly so clean or accurate as most people expect. But it also occasionally generates useful results, which are then studied in more detail and lead to things like "planes fly" or "we can detect this type of cancer earlier, and operate before it metastasizes". The results of one study in science are of little value, but the results of the long process of science are often tremendously valuable.
You misunderstood me, but it looks like you're not the only one who did so I probably could have worded it better.

> If I get to choose I'll run arch linux, but inside vmware it's ubuntu hands down.

What I mean is the distro I reach for first is Arch Linux unless it has to run in vmware, then the choice for me is Ubuntu, hands down.

I was making no comment about it being the best vmware distro "hands down". The entire post was just a quick note that I choose to run Ubuntu for reasons other than the environment reasons cited by the poster I was responding to.

Having said that, this will be the last time I respond to you. You've obviously got some strange personal stake in what I consider to be a good linux distro and I have better things to do than argue with you about it.