skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The boat is for sale, now that the expedition has ended.

(photo: http://www.planetsolar.org/kcfinder/upload/images/Photoblog/... )
You would stop all WiFi experimentation just to decrease slightly the odds of inference with a radar that _might_ help prevent a crash? We don't live in a society focused entirely on safety. Safety is important, but it's not trump card that automatically beats all other concerns. When a proposed policy reduces risks only slightly but has large costs, we shouldn't enact that policy.

Now, who decides what "slightly" and "large" mean in this context? You didn't provide any numbers. Given that 87,000 [1] flights take off and land safely in the US each day and that there have been 20 reported TDWR inference incidents ever, we cannot justify the harm this policy would do to the technology community.

[1] http://sos.noaa.gov/Datasets/dataset.php?id=44
The article states that the costs are for a California Employee.

In California employers must supply 3 days of sick leave, so therefore its a mandated expense.

The number of vacation days isn't mandated California state by law (yet). Some jobs get no vacation allocation (e.g. fast food, retail) Another example where vacation is offered as a benefit is tech. Tech jobs only offer vacation as a benefit because it would be difficult to recruit any decent employee without it.
That's an editorialised title (not that I don't agree with it) and this was posted yesterday :)
For random niche communities, twitter is great.
For instance, I can tweet any SQL Server question to #sqlhelp, and frequently see some of the best consultants in the industry take a look and help.

IMO This mainly occurred because some people who were interested in providing free help and working towards community building had a nice incentive to do so (getting paid via other mediums/getting mind-share.) Nonetheless, still a hashtag I follow.
Why would anyone care about being "closer" to their data? Photo uploads are already so fast as to be without considering. And by all indications, nobody materially gives a damn about Facebook picking and choosing what to show you. And Americans obviously don't care about privacy, either.

I think you're asserting a demand without any indications of its existence.
I feel that as you are plugging away on what many might consider "boring" programming tasks, you become inspired to write your code more cleanly, efficiently, faster as well as automate things and improve your process. If you are focused on one little mundane thing, you have time to really think it over and explore all of the possibilities. I find that creative people will find a way to be creative no matter the task, so nothing is ever really boring.

As you do this with more and more little, boring things, before you know it you will have developed a mastery of your craft.
JavaScript (lodash-fp):

_.flow(_.range(0,10), _.map(_.add(2)), _.sum)();

//With slightly more magic
let {flow, range, map, add, sum} = _;
flow(range(0), map(add(2)), sum)(10);
The one made too by FCC regulations.

Companies would do lots of things if they could get away with it, as someone commented on here a while back (and I wish I could find it) "It's a corporation of course you can expect it to shit on the kitchen floor"
It's not quite the same as the gameboy. There have never been any instances of electronics interfering with avionics, but there have been quite a few instances of wifi interfering with weather radar. Also the weather radar was there first, and the issues were known right from the start.
Depending on the breakage (e.g. if your initrd got borked), you'll probably need the rescue disk anyway in order to have access to the necessary tools to activate RAID arrays, decrypt disks, activate LVM VGs, etc.

Even without, IIRC, Ubuntu (one of the few systems that actually gets root passwords right by defaulting to it being randomly-generated garbage that nobody knows) will prompt for the credentials of a sudo-capable user even for single-user mode.
I have no idea what's going on with this programming language. At all.
Oth hand no way in hell would I consider putting a Google device in the most important spot on my network, My distrust of them grows by the day.
It's funny, based on the title, I was expecting to read an essay about remembering that other people don't have the same advantages you have and can't do what you do, even if it seems easy to you. It seems like the author hasn't had that insight yet?
Better late then then never!
> Conversation is the key: the problem with “academic” literary analysis is that too often it sounds like talking at the reader or, worse, talking down to him or her. And the style is all too frequently that of the monologue.

You don't say...
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Why am i not able to downvote this. You are wrong on so many levels I don't even know where to start.

I'll just say that a good general knowledge of various topics will greatly help in life in a variety of situations. What you get taught in high school after all is the basics of the basics. If you don't know what a gerund is... sorry, you're an ignorant, and I don't care how many stars your JavaScript library has on github.
Mmm... there are some large areas that have no pickups in April: http://i.imgur.com/FRnH4zM.jpg
> It's a numbers game for them. You get hit on by 5-10 guys a day, one per week is guaranteed to be handsome/funny/rich/whatever they are looking for.

I'd wager it's way more than 5-10 per day, and I'd wager that it takes a fairly long time to ascertain which one is actually a rich guy.

It's like saying you're fine with getting pelted by a dozen rocks a day, because probably one a week is going to be a golden nugget.
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You can break into a safe with sufficient physical force. You can't break into a LUKS-encrypted hard drive with that physical force ().

() Unless you either turn that force into the energy required to brute-force the passphrase/keyfile or use it in a way that invokes xkcd #538.
ZFS was originally named the Zettabyte File System. Not sure why Sun changed it. The acronym doesn't mean anything now.
> *And I actually use initialism for these passwords so I don't have to pull out the piece of paper often, only when I forget. In this example, the Etrade password might be derived from "In 1999 I bought my first stock as a young man. I wish I bought more of it."

Ideally, you'd just set "In 1999 I bought my first stock as a young man. I wish I bought more of it." as your actual password :)
what?? how is that possible?
The brilliance of AM is that who, realising it's even more of a scam than they suspected, is going to complain to friends, colleagues, partners or authorities that they were trying to have an affair and got ripped off?

Someone should take it to the next level, create a similar site but give people a cut of the revenue for leading men on past the paywall. Outsource the staff, essentially.
Am I the only one that finds it ironic that everyone refuses to vote for anyone but the lesser of two evils, and then people are shocked and appalled that an evil of any kind got elected?
Good point. Airbnb, Uber, etc. certainly didn't go out of their way to be "nice" to taxi commissioners, hotel lobbyists, etc. The new guys felt they had a better way of doing business and rushed it into new markets as fast as they could, tolerating lawsuits and injunctions along the way.
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That was pretty much my reaction too...the basic tutorial seems a little lacking in actual instructions.

Could anyone who understands it shed some light on what's going on?
140 character format seems very poorly suited to technical database questions. It's barely enough to name which version of the database you're using. I'm surprised this is a thing.
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Very misleading title.

Exemption from licensing requirements. The following Persons are exempt from the licensing
requirements otherwise applicable under this Part:

(1)
Persons that are chartered under the New York Banking Law and are approved by the superintendent
to engage in Virtual Currency Business Activity; and

(2)
merchants and consumers that utilize Virtual Currency solely for the purchase or sale of goods or
services or for investment purposes.

EDIT: Also its not a law but a regulation created by the NYS financial regulatory agency under existing state statutes.
What Social Good and Smart City projects could you produce with a dump of all of Uber's trip data in a given city?

I think it's fair to say we (Uber) didn't intend for this data to be made public, but it was produced under a Freedom of Information Law (FOIL) Request, and now it is out.

So I'm curious how we at Uber could help improve cities and society with anonymized dumps of this kind of data - if this was a formalized thing.

Let me know your thoughts here or directly (benm at the domain of uber)
Would that work for tools like busybox? I guess it'll work as long as it's set only once, but doesn't busybox has a mode where one command can call internally another, and then it'll have to set tame() again, or maybe even restore it?
Or default to that being disabled unless "debug" is passed in the kernel boot parameters.
“Unix and Windows are very, very similar and they should be bashed in unison”
IIRC D has a GC that you can opt-out of but in practice it's difficult to use its standard library when you do.

I'm just repeating a critique that I read, I haven't evaluated them against one another.

Having a GC excludes you from some programming domains -- well controlled latency, bootstrapping/operating systems.
Hey I've made some revisions to my code and now you can try again :)
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Who does it apply to then?
It's a fascinating essay, but being "nice" isn't exactly the same as under-pricing your product early on to gain traction. In the enterprise space, being cheap may not win you much love at all. Being faster/better/easier is the key.

Even early customers will pay more if you've got a genuinely better solution to their problem. Nice may translate into A+ customer service or features. But saying "I'm cheaper" is often seen as the hallmark of the weaker product, masking later costs and inefficiencies down the road.
Maybe this scenario would work better if it included a significant minority of the workers who took night school machine class, and then took jobs as machinist for a significant raise, leaving a shortage of workers willing to accept sweatshop salaries.

The Yvain example only works when there is an unlimited supply of untrained labor, who can't be replaced with more productive but higher trained workers, or automation.
So, if you mine bitcoins you need a license?
So what does that leave? Do you need the licence to mine?
Sounds like this only applies to exchangers then, because #2 covers 99% of use cases.

Still, $5k license, jeez. What a ripoff.
I don't remember where I originally picked this up, but I recall reading that generally, for warm-blooded mammals, there is a pretty strong correlation between resting heart rate and lifespan. Except that humans are a huge outlier.

Ah, here's the graph, possibly not from the most reputable source, but it's what the googles found me first
http://www.runnersworld.com/sweat-science/how-many-heart-bea...

I do sometimes wonder if the delaying of child-rearing has some effect on lifespan. Historically, it's not uncommon to find mothers and fathers in their mid teens, and adulthood was commonly understood to start at something like 16 or 18. In western countries, we're deferring child-rearing into the late twenties, early thirties, and full adulthood keeps creeping upwards as well.
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Hi! Co-founder here...

KATIA plugs into a normal wall jack (120/240v single-phase), so you don't need to be wired for 360v three-phase power like you would with other industrial robots.

We also don't use any steppers or hobby servos like you would find on a toy arm. When we say the performance of an industrial arm, we mean it. We've built highly integrated, custom permanent magnet synchronous motors with 14-bit absolute rotary position sensors built into each joint.

Furthermore, the arm has been designed from the ground up for zero-backlash operation, and the rigidity is insane -- we're gettting less than one hundreth of a millimeter of transient deflection during our worst-case stress testing.

And it is made out of carbon fiber, because that's just how we roll.
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What activities are running to get some more infrastructure support for D. I keep tryimg to bring up a workflow on it, but get hit by a lack of support for things like editors/ide's and package managers.

Will the foundatiom be sponsoring development of plugins for popular ide's like atom, netbeans, intelij, eclipse etc.
I believe Lawsky made statements to the effect that you do not. However I don't think there's anything in the regulation itself that explicitly addresses mining.
Ideally, you wouldn't even have a dedicated swap partition. No data is always more secure than even the most perfectly-encrypted data.

If you do have swap, though, then the encryption probably won't matter much compared to the fact that your machine is swapping in the first place.
"big God" emphasizes a figure head, and then reflects that figurehead in less spiritual realms recursively until you get to the bottom of a hierarchy. Christianity the social structure (as opposed to the abstract religion) is very tied up in a patriarchal view of the world. Indeed, God's at the top, then it used to be the kings, the pope, the priests, etc., and slowly it descends until you get to the household, headed of course by a father. Everyone below that level was hardly a person at all, historically, traditionally.

Jesus's messages may have been egalitarian, communal, and all that, but Christianity the social structure was very much not. The God/believer relationship was a model for human relationships, which, of course, put a man in the position of God, and a man with lesser status or someone with no status, below him.

That statement you cited, of course, does not fall into that paradigm. That's a modern idea which incidentally became more and more prominent as the "big God" paradigm became less and less important. Of course, the truth historically and even in the present day is much muckier than that: the ideologies and their attendant power structures are very intertwined. But it's clear that bourgeoise liberalism won out a while ago and religious hierarchies like Christianity have been sliding since.

I should have made it clear that what I'm criticizing is the common root of all hierarchical ideologies, not just the ones investigated in this article.
If by "quite a few", you mean "20" - which is insignificant compared to the ~80K flights happening in this country every year.
Isn't Uber a bad example? Their drivers have zero leverage because they require very little training and there is a high probability they'll be replaced in 5 years with self driving cars.

But take the IT industry. I just saw a startup offering unlimited Amazon books, unlimited Starbucks coffee, half day Fridays, zero cost health care, and remote work, all in an attempt to attract employees.

I'm not saying the Uber drivers should all go into IT, but there is a shortage of business administrators, educators, and health care workers in this country (and I'm sure lots of other fields).
I mean, if anyone knows about computer security, it'd be them. Nice of them to share.
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You could probably argue that falls under "for investment purposes".
It's all supply and demand.

If you are a top grad at a top program in CS, there tends to be enough faculty spots. Some day far in the future when funding dries up and the field gets older, I assume there will be fewer open spots vs. recent PhDs, so more and more grads will have to do extended postdocs to prove themselves worthy of a faculty position.
This seems to be intended to apply to people operating exchanges like Mt.Gox, not lay consumers and merchants. Of course, it's possible they've drafted it, but this part of page 6 seems pretty clear:

Section 200.3 License...
(c) Exemption from licensing requirements. The following Persons are exempt from the licensing requirements otherwise applicable under this Part:
(1) Persons that are chartered under the New York Banking Law and are approved by the superintendent to engage in Virtual Currency Business Activity; and
(2) merchants and consumers that utilize Virtual Currency solely for the purchase or sale of goods or services or for investment purposes.

We should get an actual lawyer to evaluate this, which I am not.
How is it not possible?
I think the distinction is important.

There is a pernicious lie we tell, culturally, about success as if it were a matter of worth and effort. The truth is most success has a strong element of luck, and many failures as well.
Using Google Fusion Tables can be a little misleading for this since you can't accurately illustrate density.
Tim Sweeney (Epic Games) gave a great presentation about programming languages and game development, with examples from the Unreal Engine (e.g. "90% of integer variables in Unreal exist to index into arrays.").

https://www.st.cs.uni-saarland.de/edu/seminare/2005/advanced...
Historical reasons aside, some operating systems (like OpenBSD) are designed to be able to implement different security policies by filesystem. For example, you could mark a given filesystem as executable or non-executable, adding yet another layer of security (at least policy-wise) to a system. And really, with things like LVM and btrfs, there's little reason why this is a bad idea anymore, since expanding subvolumes/LVs is generally trivial.
But that is just regular determinism; everything is determined by the prior state of the system, including the operation of the number generator and the experimenter's movements. As far as physics models go, I cannot see anything absurd about it.
The GC situation is getting better:

- The language has the @nogc attribute to ensure at compile time that the GC is not used in a function or an entire module.

- The number of standard library functions that have the @nogc attribute is increasing by the minute. :)

- There is some effort to port Sociomantic's proprietary multi-threaded GC to D (theirs was written for D1).
While I agree with your reasoning, it's still best to make it easy for users to find what they need to locate.

On your site, changing the login and forgot password links to white helps them stand out better against the background.

Example:
https://imgur.com/ATcpp8k
Laughable, but not surprising. This is just the kind of thing the Bitcoin community has predicted governments would do in an attempt to stifle/delay/prevent any potential financial revolution; to protect their fiat money printing monopolies.
Congratulations! ECL is very mature, and this release seems to further solidify that aspect of the project. We've been using it heavily at our startup with no problems, embedded with c++. I think it's a very well done implementation.
If you're thinking of trying ECL out but emacs/slime is too much to have to learn, rlwrap, is a readline wrapper that makes the REPL very friendly. To integrate with c++, the ECL manual [1] is a decent reference.

[1] https://common-lisp.net/project/ecl/manual/
You don't have to negotiate because they typically don't give a rat's ass.

I haven't done it a whole lot, but I have negotiated a few development contracts on the client side. The very last thing on my list was how the supplier was going to bill us. I had a budget I couldn't exceed and the primary thing on my mind is "can these guys do the job on time and to the quality we need?"

The last time I did this I went with the supplier who was 3x the cost of the low bidder because I was more confident that they could do it on time. I have no incentive to save money (it's already budgeted for) and a great deal of incentive to not look like a fuckup.
Aside from exchanges and sites that hold other people's bitcoins that's a good question.

It seems like it all depends on how they interpret "for investment purposes". A broad interpretation would seem to cover most uses, such as trading on localbitcoins.com. However localbitcoins.com decided on its own to disallow use by NYS residents after this regulation came out.
In real life, the "regular government" is Germany itself, so, there's no conflict. The victim has no recourse except to try to get his family out of the country and seek asylum. (This is really happening to Christians in Germany, by the way, I didn't make it up.) I'm just asking for what sort of thing you envision a digital citizenship/NGO/union would do. Hold a protest? Threaten a strike? And how do you enforce solidarity among the ranks if a lot of your German members share the government's attitude about Christians, for example?
More time is better than more money
We updated the title from “New York passes law requiring people to get $5k license to use Bitcoins”.
That's an exemption from the license.
A new Debian Stable comes out when it is ready - after a long freeze.

Originally (from memory) Debian stable was only supported until the next stable release which could be anywhere from 18-36 months later (release timeframes seem more consistent these days).

Then they started supporting an oldstable (the previous stable release) for an extra 1yr timeframe.

Debian LTS is a newer initiative, but it doesn't quite have the same security service level as say Debian Stable. Not all patches make it to LTS, and those that do arrive noticeably later. Debian is trying to find ways to improve this though.
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Here is more information:

http://www.coindesk.com/ny-bitcoin-business-45-days-bitlicen...

https://act.eff.org/action/stop-the-bitlicense
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No, I won't!
I would advice you to learn them both instead, they are on such opposite sides, than knowing both will expand your knowledge in a very fulfilling way.
Thanks for the info. Also, why was it bumped off the front page so rapidly?
It depends on your perspective, which can depend on how the topic was presented. One approach (perhaps the mathematical one) is F_0 = F_1 = 1, F_n = F_{n-1} + F_{n-2}, so you generate the series 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, ... That is, at the time you want F_n, you have already generated the series up to that point, and so you just add 2 numbers you already have.

On the other hand, if I ask you to compute F_1000, it might appear very recursive. You know you could make F_1000 from F_999 and F_998. And you get F_999 from... But it wouldn't be impossible to answer this question with the same approach as the first. It's not a priori obvious that "I'll calculate F_0 ... F_999" is an efficient way to calculate F_1000, but of course that turns out to be much more efficient than the naive recursive solution.

But I think Fibonacci is not the best introduction because of this. I think something like GCD calculation would be a better problem to define recursively, because there really isn't an obvious "forwards" approach to oppose the "backwards" Euclidean algorithm.
Better yet: it's a workstation. There's a pretty solid chance you don't actually need sshd to be even running.

(Granted, this guide specifies that it's meant for sysadmins managing groups of workstations, in which case SSH access might be necessary for remote administration, but for most users, SSHing into a workstation is unnecessary.)
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