skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"I don't think you've paid much attention, but that had changed long before Windows 10."

You basically repeated everything I just said. You see... I do pay attention. Along with "lots of help from mobile OSes", Microsoft's big push into embedding spyware into a Desktop OS has completely changed the game. It has given applications - running on user local machines - license to install spyware (which is still considered illegal under the law).
Minor note: csh isn't cornshell, it's C Shell, because its syntax is somewhat c-like. Korn Shell is ksh, named after its creator, David Korn. A variant of ksh is what openbsd uses as their default user shell.
"They just launch 'as if' they were native." That's a pretty big benefit to most end-users.
Hi Toni. Thank you so much for your suggestion :) i will work on that along with more features i want to add to the site. I hope more people will be attracted in the next iteration and I will post it here again in HN :)
I know scientists have been working on this problem since decades before 2010. Have these guys really solved it?

If so, it's absolutely huge news, not the little footnote this is getting so far.
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Are "high levels of planning and general cognition" really the benchmark for deserving "moral weight?" If so, where does this leave humans with impaired cognitive abilities? Or human children?
You know you've been working with ASCII for a long time when you can automatically unescape the title... and then pause, considering whether to unescape again.

I think reading the comments on that bug is also rather enlightening; points of note include a 62-level-deep stack trace, comments to the effect of "we don't know what the bug is/how this is supposed to work", and discussions about whether escaping multiple times is the solution (absolutely not!)

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3986#section-2.4

Implementations must not percent-encode or decode the same string more than once, as decoding an already decoded string might lead to misinterpreting a percent data octet as the beginning of a percent-encoding, or vice versa in the case of percent-encoding an already percent-encoded string.

Seriously, I'm quite surprised that basic URL handling is still a problem. Making a game to bring this to the attention of a wider audience is certainly a good idea.
The hard part is communication. I feel I am very good at online communication. Most people are not.

Make sure you have a remote-oriented process using Slack or a chat-room with history, and people pay attention to and actually read/respond github issues etc.

Phone/Skype call often (daily) is much higher bandwidth and unless they are very pro at text chatting may be 100% necessary to do on a daily basis. And in those cases make sure everyone necessary is in the call.

Another thing you could try is a virtual reality workplace built on Second Life or something similar. Or a Teamspeak/Mumble type thing at least for a portion of the day that everyone gets on at that time.
It's really easy to get into a habit of working all the time. Set yourself boundaries and stick to them.
Okay, I used to actually do inspections on oil refineries and wind turbines using rope access techniques, so I think this is a good one for me to chime in on.

In rope access, we like to pride ourselves on being the technology that can get the job done faster, safer, and more flexibly than older methods (say, scaffolding or boom lifts). I kind of see drones as having the same advantages, but squared - kind of like LED light bulbs compared to CFL's, compared to incandescent.

However, this Bloomberg article doesn't mention any of the downsides of drone inspection. Last time I checked (and I've been out of the industry for about a year), there were concerns over the quality of the photos taken by drone teams, although there is room for the technology and the skills get better there fast. The real caveat here, though, is the limited usefulness of visual inspection in an oil and gas environment. Most of the work done on-rope is UT (ultrasonic testing), which requires hands-on contact with the structure, and RT (radiographic testing), which involves lethal doses of radiation aimed in specific directions. Obviously, this would be wildly dangerous from an aircraft, and will probably never happen regardless of technology.

So I see a place for drones today in visual inspection of equipment while it's online, but I can't imagine a near-term drone-based technology that would be able to carry out UT. So us rope guys will be in business for a while longer.
I am manager to a coworker who is remote. It's been said in this thread a few times but I would re-iterate:

- Have a routine, this way your manager doesn't have to guess when you're around. I know not to ping him before 9am, unless it's an emergency.

- If something comes up or your day is going to be different, it's fine -- just communicate it.

- Over-communicate. Share ideas, questions, comment on things, participate in the teams chat channel.

- Feel free to suggest voice chat for tough problems. Usually find quickly chatting about it that way leads to a more refined solution in due time.
Oh, that's great. I have just spent five minutes trying to figure out why all these comments on HN just stopped making sense.
PC-BSD is essentially a sibling of FreeBSD that is designed to be much more friendly for a desktop install. It's what a lot of FreeBSD devs even recommend for someone starting to look into the BSDs for the first time, as it has graphical installers and other friendly, useful bits that the more server-oriented FreeBSD doesn't have.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_privacy

Granted this is a complicated issue but we shouldn't be so quick to disregard privacy rights we have fought (and died) so long for. When backdoors and spyware are embedded into a person's home computer and/or personal property (from a car to a mobile OS), we have also allowed illegal search and seizure.
White-on-light-blue text is not legible. I tried highlighting it, but the highlight color is an equally illegible white-on-light-pink.
Antivirus was one of the main original reasons I left Windows and started to lean to Free Software. In one hand I had the virus, in the other I had the antivirus, both options were terrible.
How do you reconcile your view of how you think things are with how they actually are?

ie. if what you're saying were true, why are there still businesses that only give deals to people who hunt for them?
Have you seen this post on StackExchange/Mathematics? This may be a good start. I can't personally recommend any. Of course, good luck learning!

http://math.stackexchange.com/questions/967/learning-lambda-...
As long as they have the proper insurance, and necessary licensing, it should be okay.

I would want neither corps nor indivs to be able to operate unregulated. There has to be accountability in the vent of a mishap.
>But your original post went to some length trying to show that this "news story" was a fake.

Not so much fake as embellished.

>Gees - you're all over the place on logic.

I laughed when I read that.
Using the annotations could probably be done a different way, but it follows many of the popular micro-frameworks like Sinatra for Ruby, or Express for Node.js.
Well, the benefits of Electron or NW.js compared to a Web App are things like filesystem access - as well as the entire Node JS ecosystem, which has many modules, some capable of performing native operations in a variety of different platforms.
Yes, it would require unicode if I'd include the native language versions. But in this example I meant the english versions I have for personal use - so it's pure ascii markdown. Except for the greek I don't understand arabic, hebrew, sanskrit, pali or the gurmuki script.
We (Phobotic) are developing an inspection specific, long range gimbal payload (EO, IR and other sensor options).
Its a significant market, perhaps the first real place commercial drones can make actual money. Powerlines, rails, mining, oil and gas, all require good coverage and willing to pay.

Oil rigs are one thing (they are relatively small), but if you want to inspect piping over a long range there's a real challenge with getting usable data out of your sensors (without having to fly the drone within yards of the surveyed object, of course).
> Now that the prices have gone up they're having trouble getting samples to make a competing generic.

It's not hard to get samples because the pricing went up, but because they moved it to a direct sales model and actively prevent the drugs from getting in the hands of a generic maker. It seems absurd.
Stuff like going for a run or sweeping the house I can easily do while listening to an audio book. But you're right, anything more cognitively demanding than that and I have to choose one or the other.
I don't know why you're getting downvoted. I've seen studies that say 80% of users prefer apps over the mobile web. I know I've certainly seen an almost hostile attitude towards web app offerings over native app versions. And it all seems to boil down to one thing. You can get good-enough access to just about everything on the phone through an HTML5 app--certainly enough for a large proportion of apps--except for "installs through the app store".
Poudade wrote the 256 byte intro megapole which recently featured at Assembly 2015 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8Av7Sc7yGY). Lot of drama for his online personas beyond this chess competition (which I've just wasted an hour reading about) but unquestionably an excellent size coder
Exactly. It's amazing how many people don't realize that this is all you need to do. Antivirus is only for people who don't follow those two rules.

Well JS is fine as long as the browser is up to date. Normal people aren't going to be hit by zero-days.
Check out "How to read a book" by Mortimer Adler. A great process on reading to understand more. Even has a section about reading speeds too, as well as ideas on choosing a book.
I think a large market for drones is just repeated pipeline surveying with a long range imager. As you say I can't imagine drones altogether replacing human inspection on rigs and planets.
Command line interface = My own garden

Microsoft Bob'ifying software development = McDonalds

The Ying: Complex systems require the ability to automate instructions and tasks, including low level and high level tasks and without being inhibited or insulated by the glory of a gui.

The Yang: Automation promises to simplify complex systems and which sometimes results in GUIs.
I am willing to trade some efficiency/cost effectiveness for price and availability stability.
Lots of good advice here about establishing a healthy routine and communicating. I've only been working remotely for a few months, but here are some things I've learned so far:

1. Assuming you'll be calling in to a lot of meetings, a good pair of headphones with a microphone is invaluable. I have and am very happy with the AKG 551, but there are lots of good options out there.

2. For calling in to those meetings, I love using Google Voice from the Hangouts app. Using wifi instead of cellular service is the difference between a land-line quality connection and a noisy one that drops out far too frequently. This gives you the added bonus of being able to call in to a US number for free while travelling abroad if that is something you wish to do.

3. For a while I felt like my employer was doing me such a favor by letting me be remote, that I owed it to them to be glued to the computer in case a chat or email message came in. Taking breaks is important. Personally, I like cooking real meals for breakfast and lunch. I find the 30-40ish minutes it takes to make something tasty are the perfect amount of time to be away from the computer and on my feet.

3a. Being remote isn't a favor and it isn't special treatment. It is simply a different negotiated work arrangment. It has the potential for enormous productivity gains but it also has the potential for less team cohesion. Personally, I think the pros outweigh the cons, but it depends on the team.

4. Not being in an office environment means you can pace and think aloud without annoying anyone. When I'm not actively reading or typing something, I try to walk around as much as possible.

Good luck!
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Let's take this apart. I'm not an expert, not on drug creation nor on .. 'free market' theories.

1) I'm not convinced that no one is interested to create the drug. Numerous people in this very discussion list issues to create a 'replacement' drug, even if the patent is expired. If they are correct (see disclaimer above) that might be a reason why others haven't tried it - or why they haven't succeeded yet.

2) 'Right' price is ambiguous, I agree. In my world, drug prices are ethic problems and have no connection to the so-called free market. No, a working, helping, proven drug cannot cost hundreds of $currency. We can discuss about the need to offset the R&D costs and I'm fine with drugs that costs my health insurance a ~largish~ sum, as long as the end user can get instant and easy access to the drug.

Your comments about putting a price on a person's life and your opinions on drug prices - as far as I can follow! - are impossible to understand from this person's pov. The lack of empathy and the trust in random business/market theoretical stuff to find a reasonable solution for the access to drugs that might very well save lives - that just doesn't compute, doesn't make sense in my world.

I don't believe in free markets. I certainly don't believe in free markets when we're talking about the basic needs of each and every human (for the sake of the argument let's limit this to nutrition and health for now). Health care should be free. Drugs should be affordable. Changing the price of a drug that was obviously doing okay (it was on the 'free market', right?) and multiplying the price by 65, because .. why not? .. is immoral and should be illegal. There's no 'value' to 'capture'. We're talking about a product that the company obviously produced with some sort of margin for ~13.5~ and that benefits the population at large - or at least the subset of the population that requires the drug. There is _no_ reason to increase the price, especially by that ridiculous value, other than inhuman greed. But maybe (see disclaimer) that's what a 'free market' is about - I wouldn't know.
Didn't know, but i'm not suprised. The history is much more interesting in fact. They seem to have invented the fishcoin with mediterranean resources:

(2009): http://www.worldfishingtoday.com/news/default.asp?nyId=3387

(2013): http://www.huffingtonpost.com/matt-rigney/japan-bluefin-tuna...
Im guessing the play is to be purchased by Uber for ridiculous amount of money.
Jevon's paradox is really interesting:https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox
And any malware maker and his dog know to bypass it before creating his new malware. How many stories have you heard of Windows Defender stopping ransomware? That's right - ZERO.
> They were presented with an alternative, and responded in an offended/personal/emotional way.

What does that have to do with them being exposed to that argument? It's not impossible to have an impassioned response to something you've already been exposed to before. Assuming they are uneducated on the subject purely from their passion towards or against a specific stance makes no sense unless the stance is nonsensical. I would feel more confident in your ability to determine that if you had actually engaged in any way, rather than literally written off the commenter as unworthy.

> I didn't "cast" them into that.

You cast[1] them as unaware of alternatives. You've dismissed their entire position by assuming the only reason they could hold that position is through ignorance.

> Again, the person I responded to had a very clear emotional/irrational reaction to a reasonable alternative to the prevailing thought on the subject.

The person had an extreme first sentence, but went on to explain their reasoning on why they thought the proposed reasoning was the wrong decision. You could have attacked the argument presented, which has it's share of problems, such as not really addressing the points it was responding to well. Instead you tailored your response to the person. Even now you still cast the person as having an irrational reaction. If the argument doesn't make sense to you, explain why. If you can't articulate why the argument presented

The comment you responded to deserved someone calling them out for arguing too much through emotion, and the the extremely negative first sentence which also was a personal attack. But at least that comment had an actual argument.

1: As Google defines it, as a verb in the fourth meaning "arrange and present in a specified form or style." with the example "he issued statements cast in tones of reason"
Boomers will at least get social security payouts. The next generation almost surely won't.

In terms of policy, it seems like the Boomer's main investment strategy was to take it from their children via payroll taxes.
> We marvel at how most people, including many who seem less datable than us, successfully manage this simple trick — maintaining relationships — that we can’t seem to pull off.

Dead giveaway at "seem less datable than us".

It's called the option value of remaining single. People who perceive themselves as a catch often wait too long. Because, after all, almost every choice is imperfect in some way. And the more perfect the other may seem (according to "datability"), the more they too may be prone to overestimating the option value of remaining single.

So really it's self-centered melodrama.
I think the tiny house movement says something about the economy in the new era of sustainability.

The classic economy wants to grow infinitely to be happy. But a sustainable approach means people are now focusing on conservation of resources, leading to behavior that is the opposite of growth.

The real economy actually wants to shrink, in some cases literally. You see that with tiny houses. If people could wave a wand and shrink their house to reduce their cost of living and footprint, they would.

I think the focus on sustainability is great, but we need to adjust our economic and social structures to accomodate that.

Here is an idea I had related to tiny houses: http://runvnc.github.io/tinyvillage/
New York Transit Museum
It sounds like your rhetorical question answers itself, and our benchmark has been improperly calibrated. Or should we stick with, "Intelligence matters, but only if you fit the human form"? Because we're going to be judged hard in that case when machine intelligence gets here (when, not if).

"Intelligent? Please! It uses oxygen for respiration for Moore's sake!"
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It's a shame <marquee> is gone, otherwise you could've put in moving barriers ;)
> Normal people aren't going to be hit by zero-days.

Normal people still use IE. There are definitely plenty of IE zero-days out there that have hit normal people. Mozilla also announced a month ago that an exploit using a FF zero-day was running in the wild.
Platforms are the new browsers
Welcome to FreeBSD! I'm glad you like it!

By the way, you might regret mixing packages and ports unless you know what you're doing. If you're new to FreeBSD I'd recommend picking one or the other and not mixing.
It would be a lot more suspicious if you showed the reverse flow of personnel.

The above just indicates that some people might start to prefer, over time, a cushier job at a less-scrupulous corporation.
I have a hard time with the implication, "no influence".

20 years ago you had to buy nearly every component of your deployment stack, including your development tools. A SQL database license could easily run you six or seven figures.

Open source has wrecked all of that.
Morality is not a settled science, but yes. Or rather, that is what grounds my personal intuition and feelings when I try to reason about such things. As I mentioned elsewhere in these comments, I think elephants probably have levels of cognitive function at least as high as people with severe developmental deficiencies/cognitive impairment.

My conclusion, then, is that elephant poaching is akin to murder. I'd rather elevate elephants past the threshold of universal rights than push some humans out of it.
Flat as in completely amorphous teams are a management anti-pattern because (as the poster above describes) cliques will crystallize anyway and a balkanised, feudal pecking order emerges.

Flat as in shallow hierarchy, though, that can work well. My preferred team size is five, with a maximum of seven, because communication patterns grow factorially. Beyond seven, the leader is overburdened by admin.

Seven groups of five makes a 35-strong engineering team and can be stunningly agile and productive, especially if the duties of maintenance and support are rotated periodically.
I was told ports and pkg used the same database since FreeBSD 10?

I could be wrong, it was just an off-hand comment on the freenode irc channel.
First of all: Thanks for the reply.

>"However, in my comment I meant more in terms of general care, which is something that is sorely neglected in today's world where we all expect the state to foot the bill. I.e. Food, basic healthcare, education and safety."

I'm not sure I follow. Can you elaborate? Not my native language and so far I read this as 'we expect the state to provide food/healthcare/education/safety' and .. I'm not sure if you agree with that or not - and how 'general care' comes into play or what general care is, actually.

>"But we both know there is no place for us to go "across the border"."

While I understand your argument, I do think that you have options here. I'm from Europe and I do consider 'state-hopping' very seriously. I lived abroad for some time and I can imagine doing it again/elsewhere, and certainly for quality of life related reasons. Admittedly I'm already in a ~decent~ position here, and get most of the social benefits that I expect [1]. My point is: While no state is perfect, I seriously do believe that you have a choice and can switch. Especially today, especially if you speak English well/natively, especially if you happen to work in IT. But it's certainly a big leap of faith..

1: Or .. I expect all these benefits, because I was raised right here?
You can now buy a Unix computer for less than the C Programming Language
A paperback copy of The C Programming Language costs $52.34 on Amazon
http://www.amazon.com/Programming-Language-Brian-W-Kernighan/dp/0131103628/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1442792912&sr=8-1&keywords=the+c+programming+language

Amazon also sells their "Fire" tablet for $49.99, which runs a Linux-based operating system (so not strictly Unix, but close enough)
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00TSUGXKE/ref=ods_gw_d_h1_tab_frd_LG9_TagD?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=desktop-hero-kindle-A&pf_rd_r=0XVBJV6JJT07JPK2K4M3&pf_rd_t=36701&pf_rd_p=2211604862&pf_rd_i=desktop
Since individual comment threads are never that big, just store the root parent ID and query on that. Then reconstruct in code.
They can't just turn the whole plant off; but we were taught they can just be left with a trickle charge to keep them in liquid state.

The large energy cost is in driving the reaction forward.