skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Indeed, great move.

Although, judging upon the number of comments, no-one seems to care that much.
Is there any source on this?
Redundant data is compressible data.

Random data is not compressible.

Adding redundant data to random data will make it more compressible - less random.
Why I Still Think Carly Fiorina Was a Terrible CEO
I read The Forever War several years ago and have been planning on re-reading it. It is a great book and I recommend you read it as both great fiction and for being faily much spot on given the current world situation.
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Stagefright (Remote Android code execution) does exactly that http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/07/950-million-android-...
Actually, mankind has probably not been at war for most of its existence. Homo sapiens comes into existence ~200kya. By contrast, there is no evidence of warfare for most of the Paleolithic, and the first unambiguous evidence only comes ~10-12kya. In other words, the development of warfare is only roughly contemporaneous with the development of agriculture and sedentarism.
Yeah, no. People claiming "harassment!" absent evidence is not proof of said harassment existing, doubly so when the people shouting the loudest have a profit motive for its supposed existence.

Also: It would be rather disingenuous to claim that gamergate are a bunch of harassers without acknowledging that prominent people within the movement have received things like syringes and knives in the mail... and been blackballed from the industry..

Kind of puts in perspective this "harassment", which at its worst, can be described as "people saying mean things on the internet".

http://deepfreeze.it - also all public record.
Interesting you mention that—I like Pigma Micron pens (http://www.jetpens.com/search?q=pigma+micron&v=2), and they claim to be "archival." IIRC, Pilot G2 ink is also supposed to last for a very, very long time, and it's probably among the most-used pens in the world.
> Pharmaceuticals-NAFTA

I'm not a libertarian and I'm in favor regulations when needed, but in this case I think that recognizing drug testing and quality controls between countries that have similar standards would be a great help at curbing costs. "FDA approval" in this case should mean that the FDA could recognize that if agency X from Country Y says that a generic pharmaceutical is safe, you don't need to do the same tests again.

Of course this should work both ways - I'm from the EU, and I'd like to be able to get drugs manufactured in the US when they're cheaper and just as safe.
At least the article didn't blame a "glitch"
Of course. I believe, it's because of the manufacturer's (and the consumers') changed priorities. I think when a product arrives at a certain level of quality, it's difficult to see a difference, unless you have very good knowledge of the subject matter. For example, I don't know how to tell the difference between the quality of Carl Zeiss Planar and Tessar lenses. Or when I would need to.

But as a company you need to differentiate yourself. Hence, you go digital, then you introduce all kinds of gizmos, built-in HDR processing, retouching capabilities, etc., etc. You save on the build quality to be able to claim the pole position in the megapixel race.

Understandable, but does not cover the whole market.
>Historically, to the 1930s, stocks and bonds were inversely correlated

Not true. In 1927, the correlation was around 0.18. The correlation was close to 0 in 1928 and it was 0.4 in 1929.

>Only recently has that behavior not held true (around 2008, according to the very PIMCO paper you cited).

Again, not true. From 1965 to 1995, there were only a handful of years when stocks and bonds were negatively correlated. See figure 1 in the research report from PIMCO if you want to find this.
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Again, the end result is a decrease in the number of drug therapies available to doctors. Instead of multiple options, where one can be selected that best fits an individual patient, you'd have one. If that therapy works for the patient, fine. If it doesn't, if that patient fits outside the bell curve or stops responding to it (as is very, very common across a wide number of therapies), then that patient is screwed. And often, dead.

Just look at antidepressants, where doctors have to slog through a huge number of different options (not just different classes, like SSRIs or SNRIs, but often radically different drugs within those classes) to find the right drug therapy that works for each individual patient. Choosing the right medication, and the right dose (which can have a huge effect on how the drug functions) can mean the difference between someone living a healthy, productive life and suicide.

Drug R&D is an entirely different ballgame than basic science. And there's already countless examples of how basic science funding, from appropriations to attempts by politicians to interfere with the grants process, can be screwed up. Hell, just the amount of funding necessary to replace private drug R&D would be a significant political expenditure. And here's a fun consequence: how long will it be until some arrogant politician comes along and complains about how drugs developed with American taxpayer dollars are being provided to foreign countries? I can see it now, and it's terrifying: some bullshit slogan like "American drugs for Americans" should terrify you, too.

Even under the best case scenario, public funding would mean tradeoffs: research option A or option B, but not both if there's any overlap. And that's before politicians start playing games and before budget cuts start impacting research. Maybe the solution is to have manufacturer bids be sufficient to cover those R&D costs? Congratulations, you're right back where you started, with drug costs either the same or negligibly less. And where does the money go? If it goes into the state's general funds, politicians will use that money for their own special interests and pet projects. If it goes into an earmarked fund, politicians will cut back taxpayer funding by an equal or greater amount. You can see textbook examples of each with federal infrastructure funds and education funding in states that host lotteries "for the children."

Simple idea in theory, horrible in practice. Unintended consequences are still consequences.

As for antibiotics, that's a bit of a different case. There are a lot more arguments for public funding in these sorts of circumstances, where pharmaceutical companies can't research and bring a drug to specific, niche markets. Antibiotics are a classic example, especially when you consider the broader public health risks associated with the rise in antibiotic-resistant strains.
IANAL, but I do know 2/3rds of the company existed entirely to push the papers that kept the place running above the boards, along with yearly inspections by the FDA, etc. Whether this is a problem of regulation or enforcement can't be discerned by me, but my simplistic understanding of it was

( cost of entry to market + stringent packaging requirements for these particular drugs ) / market = nobody else bothers to get in the game
Wait, big-pharma cured Hep C ? I completely missed that!

Gilead was accused of taking advantage of patients with its startling sticker shock for hep C drugs, and the company had just cured the disease without all the ugly side effects
I regret that I have but one upvote to give.
>So what happens when punishments begin to show an even stronger racial bias. For example, the argument that a white offender is safe to release because they are more likely to get a job which reduces their chance of committing a crime

That is but one possible argument of many. A judge could also make the case that locking up hugely more members of one racial group than of others destroys the social fabric of society, creates even more crime in the next generation and is ultimately worse for everyone.

So yes, you could ask many questions of that sort and you are right that giving judges room to weigh individual circumstances can go both ways. In my opinion, not having that wiggle room is cruel and relies on a completely unjustified confidence in the ability of law makers to forsee all the situations that might come up.

>Except it attached a price tag to breaking the law, which fundamentally changes how businesses approach the law. Imagine what would happen if every crime was fined a fraction of what it earned you.

Banning an auto maker for 12 months in one particular country has a price tag too. Every punishment of a corporation can be distilled down to a mere price tag. Whether or not the price tag of a ban is higher or lower than any fine depends on the amount fined.

There are many problems with outright bans. It is a very inflexible and crude tool. It does not allow for a gradual and measured punishment that fits the extent of the violation. It does not bring money into government coffers or into victims pockets. It cannot be applied equally to every company in the same way if at all. You cannot simply shut down banks, utilities or OS vendors without destroying the entire economy. We do need some degree of pragmatism that limits collateral damage.

Also, we have to acknowledge that corporations are not people after all. The corporation doesn't take the decision to violate some law. Executives do. So if you want to go beyond a price tag for certain kinds of violations then you need criminal prosecution of individual executives on top of fines.
Thank you for the advice. I kind of reckoned one would need to. I'm about to buy one and currently looking, if there are shops that do repairs, if need be.
the veep of design at Lenovo has publicly considered building a “retro” Thinkpad (with modern circuitry of course) — http://blog.lenovo.com/en/blog/retro-thinkpad-time-machine/
Max Livesey smells excrement and skunks whenever a storm is brewing
That's what I'm now doing. I duct taped a couple of ethernet cables to the back of the couch and you just stick your hand down and grab one if you need it. I terminated the cables slightly earlier and used an inline coupler so you can replace the last 1m when the plastic clip inevitably breaks off after a couple of months without having to rerun 25m of cable.

I mostly use a desktop so this is primarily for the wife and kids.
Before upgrading to the iPhone 6s Plus, consider the new Moto X
And all you have to do is sell your unicorn vulnerability to this company:

ZERODIUM customers are major corporations in defense, technology, and finance, in need of advanced zero-day protection, as well as government organizations in need of specific and tailored cybersecurity capabilities

The offer to buy RCE in PHPBB/vBulletin is a nice touch.
This deeply concerns me. There's some debate as to the future efficacy of this tactic, but it is possible to imagine a scenario in which Apple is successful at moving content into its private service. The obvious downside of this is that a single company now controls what used to be an open publishing platform. What are the chances that Apple allows you to publish controversial articles to its service, particularly those criticizing Apple? And how are users on non-Apple platforms to get access to this info? This move doesn't even really benefit Apple users since the news app will still display ads, just controlled by a different tech company. This is good for Apple, but neutral to bad for the rest of us.
A couple people have attempted re-implementations of OpenSSL's TLS functions (with API compat) in Rust. As far as I know, all of these are stalled / abandoned. It is too hard for one individual to do it, especially when that individual isn't a security pro.

Mostly Rust uses libraries that wrap OpenSSL and attempt to do some verification of "safeness" before passing to OpenSSL
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Would you happen to remember any issues your team had with Amazon's BAA that they didn't have with Rackspace's?
The post from yread makes this seem very likely...
Just in case hell doesn't exist, it would only be right that the guy will contract a painful and slowly degenerating disease that has no cure.
Air pollution is also killing people when it is within legal limits. If killing via pollution is ok when within regulatory thresholds, but not ok when outside of them, then this is about breaking rules, not about ending lives.
One of the most valuable pieces of advice I've heard is: "Don't run from problems. Run to solutions."

Perhaps if you look a little harder, you can find a solution in Columbia?

I'd like to point out that moving to San Francisco is not a solution. You state: "I'm a big dreamer. And I'm willing to leave it all to achieve my dreams."

There's a huge difference between chasing a dream, and running a business. San Francisco is a very expensive place to live. A salary that's the envy of most of the United States won't even cover basic expenses in San Francisco. It's simply too expensive to subsidize people chasing dreams; and believe me, there are a lot of people in and around San Francisco chasing their dreams.

So, IMO, learn the difference between chasing a dream and running a tech business. Solve your problems at home before you move; or if you do move, find a place that's cheap enough to let you learn how to run a business.

There are a lot of good reasons to move to San Francisco. Wait until the city offers you a tangible reason to move there; because the best place to be a dreamer is to live at home.
Step 1 is not to target Bash at all, but `sh`, which is a posix-compatible shell with dependable behaviour, thus making the script (depending on the commands it calls) portable among pretty much any *nix environment.
I'd be happy if Big Pharma had to play on the same field as us. But as it is now, they reap huge amounts of cash from NIH and other public entities for research. Of course, the profits are all privatized.

For 20+ years, they've been moving more and more of their R&D and manufacturing overseas to save on labor costs. They then get Congress to approve of anti-competitive laws that disallow citizens from importing cheaper drugs from overseas for both use and resale. Big Pharma should have to compete on the same level as labor.
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This week I will publish 3 new Cassandra articles per day to coincide with Cassandra Summit.

https://grockdoc.com/cassandra/2.1/articles

Next week I'll likely start writing/publishing articles on webpack.
In the battle of free speech now it’s France v Google
Puts this quote in a new light:

>He is one of few individuals with a deep understanding of what it means to provide a digital home for tens of millions of people for more than a decade. There is nobody more qualified than Hiroyuki to lead 4chan, and I can't think of a person better suited for the task.
There isn't anything that states that, hence the question I had. It comes from these lines in the linked article:

> Vickery has worked with the state attorney general's office to wipe the records from his hard drives and has cooperated with investigators.

> Systema Software said in a statement that initial reviews indicate Vickery was the only unauthorised user to have accessed the files.

Otherwise, why is AWS being mentioned at all...
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Yeah but in order to reach that conclusion you have to abstract too much. We can all agree that devices are and will change how we live. But now we're not talking about VR, Smart TVs, or the Internet of Things anymore. Because the truth is, we never know what form the next wave of technology will take. And that's why I'd rather experiment than prophesize.
It would be a bad idea to shut the company down totally, but if you wanted to enact a death sentence, just cease the shares and auction them off again.

The company still operates--which allows employees to keep their jobs and the economy doesn't take a huge GDP hit--but the owners pay the price.
was bigcorp using enterprise AP (aruba?) and little guy using off-the-shelf stuff (asus?)
Well in this case it is the other way around, its that people who have already bought into the device are given this special "privilege" which perhaps makes them feel special.

I think out of the set of possible Internet users, you can differentiate somewhat a group who reads their news on an iDevice. So Apple achieves a certain demographic, and they cater to them with a more curated news experience. Banking on the idea that the people involved will prefer it over the existing channel. Presumably they are already a good group to market to, after all they bought an expensive device and consume news on it, so Apple works to parlay that value into an income stream.

The alternative of having some sort of alternate version of Wired if your user-agent says "iDevice" is much more difficult to control/authenticate relative to the advertiser's expected market.

The next step would be to add blocking vs money as an option. Lets say you buy 1500 "Apple Points" and for 5 points you can "block" (in the sense of it is completely not there) an Ad from your Media. Now when a page comes up and your AdBlocker fires, it consumes 5 points. Perhaps Apple gives 2 points to the media provider to compensate them for not having an ad shown, and keeps 3 pts for itself. Once the user runs out of points and ads start reappearing they can buy more in the Apple Store.

What this does is allows people to convert over from paying with Ad clicks to paying with Apple pts. If you make the conversion rate of Apple Points to dollars fungible, then you can tune the experience to get the most value for the publisher and thus insure them of an income stream, even if all their readers/viewers/players block all of the ads. That then would become the base line value (based on user views) for a property. Robots of course would not have Apple pts and so could be more easily distinguished.

Its a clever plan, I don't know if they can pull it off but something to watch. The current Ad / AdBlocker nonsense is going to reach crisis level here pretty quickly.
Will do HTTPS.
Elixir v1.1.0-rc.0 is out
Twitter is down?
Overall, the Moto X compares very favorably to the iPhone 6s Plus Apple announced earlier this month, but it costs a little more than half the price. Here's a breakdown of how the two compare in terms of specs:
Modern Cryptography and Securing Key Management Systems
The avoidance of war was probably due to the low population numbers and the ability of groups of hunter/gatherers to avoid each other.

As the population grew and humans came into more frequent contact with each other, warfare was a natural by-product of the increased contact between groups.
Thiel: Technology Stalled in the 1970's
A Phool and His Money: On “Phishing for Phools”
Ironically that's the first thing I thought...
i have found all these utilities unsatisfying. It might make sense to write a JavaScript library that parses latex.
That's... a lot of personal preference. I won't really address how you're only allowing for Apple and Apple only but just for one thing, I would really dislike a laptop made of metal
I think what we need is a nice standard icon representing clearly that a product does NOT communicate wirelessly at all. Then let consumers decide which devices are useful to have connected as part of an IOT and which they would rather not.
The man who was a neo-Nazi, radical feminist, and violent jihadist – all at once
I wouldn't call it 'free speech'. That's what Google is marketing it as, but it's really 'privacy law'. Nothing about RTBF is about preventing people from speaking, people are still free to put whatever they want on the Internet, wherever they want to. However, stories which violate an individual's privacy which do not have relevance to the public interest are being restricted from being a permanent stain on their reputation.

(And the only potential First Amendment issue in the US, is because somehow the Citizens United decision gives our companies Constitutional rights, which is silly.)

Arguably, France's problem with Google's refusal to implement this globally is that Google doesn't prevent French users from visiting other countries' Google websites, like say, google.ca. So Google isn't really providing a good faith effort to uphold the French law, even in France.
Something Awful is also the only reason that 4chan exists in the first place. It was created as a refuge for the SA anime forum (ADTRW) after Lowtax purged the users from Raspberry Heaven (the SA DC++ hub for anime). Nearly every founding admin/mod was a permabanned SA user.
the $100 is only a place holder. You could have teams contribute $5 to be "in". The point is that everyone puts some "skin" in the game, and the winner gets a prize, and 3rd place gets probably more than their $5 back (everyone assumes they can at least make it to 3rd place :-)
Because then you don't have an audit trail to use in your study documentation.
I wasn't disputing that the poor might pay more as a fraction of income, merely that they pay more in absolute terms. It would be surprising if that weren't true, given all the people with consumption >> income.

You are probably right about lending, however. The poor tend to not pay their debts and that will drive up the cost of lending to them.
> I wonder if 4chan might start turning back to a 2ch/2chan-ish style with this.

Do you think they will change all images to ASCII art as well?
Time vs. Attention
Look past the media slant and you will find one of the last true bad lands of the internet, mired in post irony, where speech is free and each poster's opinion is as equally without value as another. Where unpopular opinions are given as much weight as popular ones (i.e. barely any). Its equal parts a utopia and a cesspool.

Without it, there would be no such thing as "internet culture".
This is possible. Do you have evidence that this occurs to any significant degree?
I like this one "Why Android Will Soon Become Apple’s Most Important Thing I’ve Ever Done."
I noticed that I got snippy with the family after I had my head stuck inside a partially disassembled dryer for a few hours over the weekend. And at the end of all that, I had to order a part, so the major problem still isn't fixed.

Attempting appliance repair was not helping me to be a better parent. All I wanted was to be left alone so I could curse at the stupid, broken machine properly, and so that it could feel bad about what it had done.

At least it's not one of the stupid low-flow toilets that require us to own one plunger per toilet, rather than one for the whole household. Nothing makes me more short-tempered than repairing a broken device around the household. Nothing. It is almost as though they are breaking themselves on purpose, just to annoy me with the need to fix or replace them.

But then I go murder creatures in a first-person action RPG for an hour or so, and I feel fine ...until the stupid cheap-ass Bluetooth dongle cuts out again, and my mouse and headphones stop working.

The worst that happens while I play is that I don't pay much attention to the spouse or kids while I'm doing it. But that's true for any solo game, and I'm not sure they would want my attention while I'm all grouchy from recent household repairs.
Exactly. It is the same with artillery or tank ammunition -- a small increase in diameter makes a huge impact.
So some research and it is easy to see the beginning of the GG movement was mainly a force to harass people like Zoe Quinn and Anita Sarkeesian.
Some people don't seem to understand that there is a ceiling on macro economic debt financing as a driver of economic growth. Once someone or some company has pulled forward all their future consumption and earnings with zirp-level interest bond issuances, credit cards and mortgage notes, there's not much more they (or the economy) can do.