skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't know if this is still the case, but in the past, unison was extremely picky about the versions at both ends; I stopped using it when I upgraded my Ubuntu box and as a result I needed to either recompile an older version for the new box or upgrade the version on all other boxes (across windows and various distros).

I now use rsync for bidirectional mirroring (any two versions from the last 15 years or so can talk to each other), git for synchronization (getting history for the price of needing to add/commit). Can't beat the network efficiency and compatibility of these two.
Maybe they wrap the whole car in chainmail on the side of the road
It's clearly not a negative sum game as evidenced by the 6 years that miners have been mining. It's typically a very low-profit, high-stress business - but you can't argue with the numbers.
> A human cannot live without water for the length of time claimed.

This does not appear to be accurate, based on a few minutes on Google. It's unlikely but possible for humans to live more than a week with no water.
If whenever there was connectivity the reader pulled of a list of card allowed to unlock the car on that day, and with a lookahead of a few days in the future.

Then I think something like that would be fairly guaranteed to work.
It does; thank you.

I am still not entirely sure what all of those technologies do, but I read the blurbs, and have a very basic understanding.
The FCC will ban linux from being installed on devices with a radio that can be controlled via software. That's pretty bad.
Reading this and some of the contents I wonder what a galaxy scale distributed system might look like and whether speed of light would be sufficient to cope with trade that could proceed at say, 10% the speed of light.
I'm not a patent lawyer, but I don't understand how 62-year old drugs still require licenses to be manufactured? Seems like another case of patent law gone mad.
What is the original problem(s) the government started in the drug industry?
The merge commit of pull requests in Github contains the PR text. Tomato, tomahto.
That the kind of move that makes a opposing pilot go "Oh Fuck!" right before getting a face full of ordnance.

Interesting to note that the MiG-29 can apparently pull that one, even though it has no trust vectoring.
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https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/1183
Chicken and Egg. If you can modify the radio (hardware/software), you can modify the protection device.

Adding a protection device merely shifts the problem (being discussed) from the radio to the protection device.

It achieves exactly nothing.
> And we are proffessional developers

In my experience, WordPress is not built for developers or designers. It's built to be simple and extensible from the end-user's point of view. Most end-users don't expect absolute perfection and accept that it will do 90% of what they want. As long as it keeps doing that, no one will care what a "mess" the insides of it are.
I have a cousin who nearly died from a bleeding ulcer. He likes to tell the story of how he would mess with the nurses on call by ramping his heart rate when they left the room to make the alarms go off and then ramping it back down when they all came running. Could be a big fish story, but to tell you the truth until someone does good science on this the jury is out.
There is a spectrum. Obviously the evil turds at companies (mostly) don't go around murdering people like common gangsters. But the way some of them act I don't understand why they just don't quit their job and start robbing and shooting people. There are quite a few pieces of shit out there that will make anyone wonder why they are even try to pretend to follow any sort of rules or laws at all. Why go through the effort of coming to an office. Perhaps they are playing a game to see how well they can fool people.
> A human cannot live without water for the length of time claimed.

This is factually incorrect. We know of people who have survived longer without water.

> Therefore we can conclude that the yogi is a liar.

Therefore I can conclude you are a liar?
The sad thing is that it made my try to remember the biography of living persons rules to figure out whether any of those quotes could be kept if they were noteworthy and properly sourced.
This is a classic: http://www.princeton.edu/~pkrugman/interstellar.pdf
I met a few people from 21 in Potrero Hill at a coffee stand. When one of them paid, I saw a bitcoin address and it struck up a conversation. I told them I was interested in new things (and bitcoin as well), and they told me that their startup is in stealth and they couldn't divulge any information about it, but could send me a test to see if I had the right skills to continue the process.

It was a multiple-choice test on HackerRank. It was all pretty simple stuff related to general linux/bash/html/sql knowledge tons of questions about bitcoin protocol. Having spent a few hack days in the past on it, i did extremely well and went on to interview with the CEO.

It started to get funny, the CEO would only interview a candidate at 10pm on a Thursday. "pretty busy during the daytime" they said.

Despite the red flag, I did it. We talked about bitcoin for about 40 minutes straight and why I was into it. I got the impression from them that they were onto something really huge, or that they think they are onto something really huge that is going to massively flop. At the end of the call, I asked for any hint into what the product I'm interviewing for does and was told it had to do with hardware.

I feel like I got off the call pretty bewildered.

Glad this cleared things up!
In the states this is a common misconception, but in fact there is a law protecting those who give away food. John Oliver had a good segment on this.
An alternative is also http://calcfusion.com/ ( disclaimer, I work there and we just launched ). It uses xls spreadsheets and is more oriented towards business rules and computations. There are some nifty features like audit and versioning, automatic html form building etc...
Yes, I agree entirely. I think if you went backwards in history you'd hit the point where the additional overhead in implementing a higher-level language would render the resultant system either unusable, or unusable for a class of problem that could be solved with a lower-level language.

Edited: in fact, I started a project to implement a toy Lisp implementation on an 8-bit micro a few years ago. I'm almost at the point of giving up on the idea because it became quickly apparent that a less resource-hungry language would allow me to achieve more with the same hardware.
> if there are no devices left that allow you to legally (or otherwise) install your own firmware, projects like that will die a death by a thousand cuts.

There are still major manufacturers that recognize the enthusiast and tinkerer market, and they'd be missing out if they didn't sell hardware that has a radio separated from the SoC in order to comply with the proposed regulations.

Unfortunately I can count these manufacturers with only one hand. Buffalo is one of them. Hell, they even sell their hardware with DD-WRT already installed.
man, that makes me even sadder.
Oyster was something that Google Play or Amazon Kindle Unlimited will almost certainly never be. The beautiful design and focus on details was just the surface. It felt like a company run by people that are passionate about reading and surfacing great books in engaging ways. There were no competing interests--it was about the books and while they weren't perfect, that passion was evident in everything they did. I, for one, will really miss them.
I frequently joke that Gentoo (really any source based Linux distribution) promotes climate change.
Keeping a significant fraction of your investment portfolio as cash (it's typically actually very short term T-Bills), to buy up assets during a crash is actually something lots of people do.
This could use a touch more intelligence to cut down on a lot of the noise.

You could eliminate `$equal` and `$match` by looking for regex types and strings.

You could also take hints from Django and add operations to the keys to eliminate instantiating a new object for `$not`, `$gt` and `$lt`.

So, instead of:

queryl.match({
$or: {
$equal: {
foo: 'bar'
},
$and: {
$not: {
$match: {
foo: /^baz/
}
},
$gt: {
bar: 3
}
}
}, ...

...it would look like:

queryl.match({
$or: {
foo: 'bar',
$and: {
foo__not: /^baz/,
bar__gt: 3
}
}, ...

Seems like this syntax is popular; is there something about this that doesn't work when serializing, or other uses that need the pure-object approach?
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You can do that also with http://calcfusion.com ( disclaimer I work there ).
Taken without any external context, this release is nonsensical, probably because they don't bother to say why they're shutting down or what the new opportunity is.

"Looking forward, we feel this is best seized by taking on new opportunities to fully realize our vision for ebooks." By... shutting down?

I would have appreciated a bit of plain-speaking here.
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The author of this paper, Martin Kleppmann, is writing a book "Designing Data-Intensive Applications" (http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920032175.do?cmp=af-stra...). I've been reading it via the O'Reilly immediate access and I think that it's the book you are looking for.
Imgur.com exploit that allowed arbitrary JavaScript to be embedded
Apparently there was some bug on imgur.com that allowed people to upload arbitrary JavaScript appended to the images. imgur.com seems to have acknowledged the issue already[0]. The exploit found was targetting an imageboard called 8chan[1]. There are also a few threads on 4chan about this[2][3][4][5].

[0] https://twitter.com/imgur/status/646109824342593536

[1] http://pastebin.com/heYvWu5Y

[2] https://rbt.asia/g/thread/50407085

[3] https://rbt.asia/g/thread/50409306

[4] https://rbt.asia/g/thread/50410681

[5] https://rbt.asia/g/thread/50411692
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At least it isn't unprecedented any more.
Isn't PBKDF2 in the stdlib as hashlib.pbkdf2_hmac?
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re: edit: wow confirmed. That's amazing, and pretty embarrassing.
A shutdown notice with a photo of the team holding an "Oyster" flag on a boat. Does anyone else find this amusing?
I'm not familiar with pharmaceutical patents. How does a company maintain exclusive rights to market a drug for 62 years?
“When the stock is up 30% don’t feel 30% smarter”
so why duplicate the approval process?

It was the separate approval process that prevented an explosion of thalidomide babies in the US.[1]

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thalidomide#Birth_defects_crisi...
The relevant xkcd is https://xkcd.com/1235/ . The commentary here now reflects the comments in the thread at http://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1235 .
PayPal also charges a monthly fee if you want to accept credit cards (Website Payments Pro) and a fee for monthly recurring charges.

I've always told customers that PayPal is great if you are doing a store/e-commerce. If you're doing anything else, it can be absolute Hell to deal with and you're going to be better off using Stripe or Authorize.Net.
You don't understand why there are regulations around manufacturing a selling a prescription drug? Really?

I don't know about you, but I kinda like those regulations.
Historically, most projects in the United States performed by public agencies have been of the "Design-Bid-Build" variety, but there are a number of other styles. Most of which involve the owner/agency contracting to fewer entities who do more of the various types of work that need to be done (design, constructing, managing, operating, financing etc.). Traditionally, in Design-Bid-Build the owner contracts with one company to design, they perform the bidding process, and a separate entity does the building, with financing also coming from their own operating/capital budget. The alternatives shown here [1] spice up that process. DBB isn't completely evil, the wiki page does a good breakdown of it's pros and cons. [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_delivery_method

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design%E2%80%93bid%E2%80%93bui...
In other words, blame the game. From where I come from it seems very strange that medical services / prescribed medicine has free floating 'market prices' in the US. There is no such thing as a functioning market for these products - you have complete information asymmetry as well as government enforced monopoly on medication (pharmaceutical patents). Letting the providers set the price is just asking for trouble. Negotiating medical prices on government level and setting fixed prices for medical services (adjusted periodically) is absolutely necessary for a functioning general healthcare.
Google have snapped up a bunch of their staff

http://www.engadget.com/2015/09/21/oyster-shutting-down/
I applaud you sir! Rather than jumping on the hysteria bandwagon, you actually did the math.

So even if the drug was priced at $28K/patient, the company would be making zero profit. Huh...
Is it fair to Oyster's investors? According to Engadget and Recode [1], "a portion" of Oyster's staff (including its CEO and co-founders) are jumping ship for Google's Play Books division. In short, this is an indirect acquisition -- Google is snapping up the core of the company without buying all of its assets.

[1] http://www.engadget.com/2015/09/21/oyster-shutting-down/
I agree. I focus more on Passion and Flexibility. Without these two traits, it's much more difficult for someone to change and grow.
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What harm does spying on my neighbour through her window cause ?

If light travels through my telescope into my house I'm not allowed to watch it ?

Seriously just because something is "in your house" does not mean you some inherent right to it.
Or find an underserved market, such that you will not have competition that can out-market and out-sell you.
There used to be a page from the IE for UNIX porting team[0] that talked about the challenges of a direct port. Last I checked, only a copy of the content could be found on a mailing list post[1].

There's some interesting stuff in there. This one always seemed like a weird problem:

Global variables in Win32 dynamic-link libraries (DLLs) are visible across
processes, so it is important that developers are careful that these globals
do not conflict with any variables within the Unix shared libraries.

At least in the way it is presented. What does variables in DLLs being visible across processes on Windows have to do with variables in other libraries? Of course they need to be uniquely referenced.

[0] http://tech.slashdot.org/story/98/11/17/1624254/microsoft-pr...

[1] http://www.linux.cz/pipermail/linux/1999-September/051669.ht...
The general point you make is reasonable but it doesn't really apply to this specific situation. How often are people looking for behaviors like this? There are many occasions where we don't see things because we don't look for them.

Your point probably works for bigfoot, but it isn't applicable to whether some obscure meditation practice can stop the heart.
How to make chatbots seem more human
Ok cool, but where's the source code? It's been almost three months since the announcement and no ones even mentioning it anymore.
Tax code isn't really a problem for companies that have little to no profit -- which is most "small upstarts". The great fallacy of most political debate on economics is that taxes hurt small business. Extortionate rents hurt small businesses far more than taxes do.

The way the original tax code was written was to give either individuals or the small businesses they work for a break -- up to a certain point [source: https://books.google.com/books?id=ogUNAAAAYAAJ&printsec=fron...]. But to necessarily kick in at some critical point where 1 + 1 = 1. This is a theoretical stage where potential for exploitation deserves a slight downward pressure (partnerships operating as a single business unit, corporations of 1+ people subjected to a single tax bill). Tax higher incomes at higher rates ... makes sense: Try and keep disproportionate wealth all to yourself, pay more in taxes (forced payments to social welfare). Generously reward your workers, and hey -- it's theoretically possible to pay everybody decently, reward external shareholders, and to minimize tax paid to the social welfare system.

But the problem is REITs, especially private ones. And especially when VCs are the landlords; they're making money even when "they're not" making money.

Which is the core of the issue that rgarrett88 got: lobbying - yes. The NAR, especially. But that's another tangent entirely.
Ah, got it. Yeah, I hate that section of papers; "I've shown small, isolated result X. Perhaps this implies large, wildly extraordinarily speculative claim Y."
I have read in a few places that use of profanity signals affinity, and even used by some sales people to quickly build rapport with their leads. Same thing might be at play, subordinates trying to be chummy with their superiors.
I think all our current systems (democracy, laws, courts, basic trust) rely on human level attackers who can't adapt quickly enough to beat the system every time. But I think that in the future many of these assumptions will be overturned and our systems will literally be fooled by AI. Your expectations of what AI will not be able to produce via "hacking" our systems and expectations will be far surpassed. And then what do we do?

Simple short term example: how do our current political systems prevent the proliferation of rogue drones programmed by completely anonymous individuals to wreak havoc? Or computer viruses? We are just relying on the absence of a capable adversary, same as with security by obscurity.
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Greek yogurt billionaire fills his plants with refugees
I would be curious to know if you can actually state nonstrawmen arguments in support of UFO's. What is the strongest case that can be made for UFO's? Do you know what it is? If you do, can you reasonably refute it?
This is a non-sequitur. Most wealthy countries have economies that are extremely well regulated, and their effectiveness is much more conditioned to factors beyond regulation. Scandinavia has very high levels of regulation and is one of the wealthies regions in the world and the one with the highest standard of living.
>Is it fair to Oyster's investors?

The alternative is ... what?

-- Actually it looks like Google will pay back investors some or all of their investment.
With HaXe though you might be able to swing something like this. In fact something like passlib (python) would be beautiful but dangerous - imagine cross language bugs ( ie the same bug in Java, C++, Python, etc.)
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Wow. What'd they burn it on?
The only real value of 21's product is power efficient mining. I'm bewildered as to why they would focus on the buying or selling aspect.
You are make a fallacious argument. Your first point is just taking your conclusion for granted.

Your third point is just assumed, not proven.

People have survived at least 40 minutes with circulatory arrest. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_B%C3%A5genholm

EKG machines have been capable of continuous read outs since before this research was published.

It is entirely reasonable to be mildly skeptical of research. But with a clear grounding for your bayesian priors, extreme skepticism becomes inimical to the search for truth.

That said, I would like to see the EKG during the "transition" periods.
And even more importantly, who cares? An acquihire is always a risk, as much as failure. Investors should (I imagine) be building that into their risk model.
>"I don't care about X, because I never X."

You sure have spent a lot of time ITT explaining to everyone, advocating, practically that the FCC ruling is unimportant because you think that your own interests will be unaffected. Well, congratulations, but if we were all so short-sighted we'd eventually be reduced to only the hobbies and activities that a majority of us approve. We get it. You don't care, because you don't think it affects you.
That's the only interesting application of their low-power mining tech so far in my opinion - having the ability to offer innovative pricing schemes or heavily subsidize nearly any electronic good.
Your problem aren't patents. Pharmaceutical patents exist all over the world, including in countries with mandatory general public healthcare (i.e. pretty much all of the developed world except the US). The problem is the lack of oversight on prescribed medicine and medical services. Patents are a government mandated monopoly. That's fine, as long as government also mandates and/or negotiates prices as a condition bound to the patent. It seems so obvious, I kind of feel bad to spell out such a trivial interrelationship.
What is it that's working as intended? The process of buying back shares of your own company?

If you read what I wrote carefully, you should notice something that I didn't say:

AAPL has a bunch of cash and is using it to fund its stock buyback program. Thus, capitalism has failed.

In fact, I was attempting to elucidate the OP's topic. I believe a reasonable interpretation to be: why are so many startups with weak fundamentals and/or specious business models receiving so much funding via private equity?

My response to this question was to observe macro-level phenomena and speculate that the _emergence_ of this dynamic was due to a broad-based failure in matching capital with desired investment risk and return. I mentioned Apple to demonstrate what a capital hoarder has done (which is to reinvest in its own equity) in relief against private equity firms. In a global environment where demand for safe assets exceeds supply, less risk-averse firms are chasing further risk to maintain their desired level of return.

None of these points, I thought, required a race to defend attacks against capitalism; however, in the interest of demonstrating my sincerity, I'll share a couple of my own positions I believe are loosely-relevant to the broader discussion:

* Capitalism maximizes human capital: no
* Efficient markets hypothesis: wrong-headed, at best
* Moralizing capital: one of the most socially and politically toxic behaviors

It is my view that capitalism is a set of prescriptions which seek to define and regulate economic behavior. Further, it seems misguided to say simply that capitalism has succeeded or that it failed. A better alternative might be to say: given a set of expectations, a capitalist environment produced correct or incorrect results. Or, a more politically-charged example: capitalism has succeeded (or failed) in maximizing, e.g., environmental capital, human capital, social welfare or aggregate happiness.

In any case, I now regret side-tracking myself and I don't find it particularly relevant to be debating the merits of capitalism in this context.
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An acquihire is the implied alternative. I'm not sure why companies would ever acquihire when they could do this with the appropriate signing bonus.
Totally speculating here but I'd assume the company was basically out of runway and couldn't find a reasonable out so negotiated the team to google to work on something else.

Option A: company/product dies, team is scattered. Option B: company/product dies, team remains together.

Investors fucked either way but with B at least team that works well together gets to continue to do so.

In a nutshell that's what happened when I was at chumby. Sadly the company we shifted to was terrible so there was a mass exodus anyway over the following year.
Google Spreadsheets already have a native REST API. I use it to feed the charts in http://pittsburghtoday.org/
The key to getting good performance is to not put too much data into the sheets. Low thousands of rows is not a problem.