skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> They can cry me a river. Obviously it was to their (and everyone's) disadvantage for them to become economically depending on manufacturing death. They have nobody but themselves to blame.

That's kinda bullshit. If you want to lay blame, lay it on your choice of national government/local government/the military-industrial complex for failing to provide better options/opportunities, but don't blame the little guy who took the only readily-available job so he could feed his family.
In second and third tier cities, yes. Take a look at Chicago, Cabrini Green was demo'd a luxury housing put in its placed. You can look at the gentrification of New York City, different process but similar outcome. California, despite the wild things going on in downtown SF, absolutely things have flipped. The inner city of first tier cities = huge $$$
Changing your location can also change your (car) insurance rates. Mine doubled just to to changing my address to where I currently live (from a more gentrified area).
Thanks to the developers for LibreSSL and libtls. I'm using both in an application I'm working on.

I've been meaning to post on the mailing list, but I have some requests I guess I'll try here:

- For libtls, accept custom read and write callbacks. libuv has no way to poll for writable: https://github.com/libuv/libuv/issues/517

- I wish they would provide (and maintain) the modern cyphersuite from here: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Server_Side_TLS ("secure", "legacy" and "high" are all lacking in various ways)

These are fairly minor issues and overall LibreSSL and (especially) libtls have been a huge step forward. Thanks again.
They had me at Cdim7
I, for one, applaud your license choice. Please also see my reply to SomeCallMeTim.
The price keeps rising?
1- Germany (and many, many other countries) selled weapons to middle east for decades. West Germany supported also Sadam Hussein in the Halabja chemical attack.

Managing director of West German company Karl Kolb GmbH: for people in Germany poison gas is something quite terrible, but this does not worry customers abroad (1989)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halabja_chemical_attack

2- Some years after, crazy people under the 'random name of the jour' use exactly this stuff to kill innocent people and extend the subsidiated terror. Big surprise.

3- The once named 'most generous country of the world with refugees' is totally sacked. Still sunny in Germany.

4- Germany suddently realizes that german youngs can not be bloodsucked for much more time, they are not having babies, and pensions are in danger. They need refugees to keep the economy working.

5- Politics change its discurse to the mode 'all we need is love (and cheap labourers)'. TV help to spread the new ideas. Survivors fleeing the endless war try to move to Germany (and other countries) of course.

5- Young people in Germany afraid of the future and feeling cheated. Microjobs renamed to nanojobs... but the economy improves eventually.

6- Weapon manufacturers, richer than before, start drawing plans to new wars somewhere with more resources to achieve his new objectives.

I agree that the license should be respected and is his right to do so. I can understand also that the new situation can be frustrating to him, but he is not targeting the real source of his problem probably. I wonder also, what have done those humans to deserve to be shooted, killed, bombed, burned alive with caustic chemicals, raped and looted of all their properties.
You're being very unfair to IRC. IRC is often a fantastic debate platform - Twitter is not.
30 years of computing
Mirror: http://student-debts-subprime-problem.pen.io/ (missing links/citations)
> automated testing won't catch a hardware failure, or someone tripping over the power cord

While it's never 100%, you can still test quite a lot of those conditions.

We developed a TCP proxy[0] that allows us to test such cases: Datastore X being down / timing out / being excessively slow.

[0] https://github.com/shopify/toxiproxy
Sorry. I accidentally down voted your comment when trying to up vote it on my phone! The article was very interesting.
If he chooses to 'feed his family' by building bombs to drop on a poor family on the other side of the world, I have absolutely no sympathy for him.

And I don't see any point in passing the buck to whatever government claims authority over his landmass. Yes, of course I wish that the government didn't corrupt the economy by making war seem like a viable way to "feed the family," but it's obviously not.

Nobody forced your hypothetical guy to take that job - and even if he's starving, he has no right to exact violence on strangers.
Visualizing the Similarity of Human and Chimp DNA
Good teachers are important, but they can only affect, what, 20 kids a year? The best and brightest should stick to engineering and finance where they can have a bigger impact.
Consumer+groups+ask+FCC+to+fine+Comcast
Really tired of people who work in tech acting like the way they use technology is the only way people use technology.
here is the actual speech in video form. http://t.co/9s6TZNOsJw
I'm the author of that piece. Just pointing out that I am a traffic engineer, I have seen, analyzed and criticized traffic studies. Believe me, your faith in traffic engineering is quite misplaced.

Most cities do not have the resources to do complex dynamic simulations. In Québec, the Transport Ministry has a model (EMME) supposed to take into account trip choices and modal choices, but I haven't heard any confirmation of its prediction capabilities. The big issue with such simulations is the amount of input data you would need to adequately model reality. A metropolitan area has hundreds of thousands of workers, or even millions, to have a reliable model, you would need to know where everyone lives, where they work, what is their work schedule, their income level, etc... Obviously, collecting that data is essentially impossible, after you add up the uncertainty of the inputs, you often realize that the uncertainty makes the results completely unreliable, almost no better than an educated guess.
I consider myself about average when it comes to general knowledge. I couldn't point you Burkino Faso in a map (I am not even sure if I spelled it correctly.) but that doesn't mean I can't tell you roughly about my ancestry. (:

Edit: I wish Washington Post defaulted to https. Kind of off topic but is there a reason to support https but not default to it? Browser compatibility issues? https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonkblog/wp/2013/03/17/t...
Probability's hard to teach. You can give informal statements and kind of wave your hands at the underlying theory, or you can give a rigorous well-founded treatment that's intellectually satisfying. But the rigorous foundation uses math that's a step or two beyond what undergraduate math majors learn. It's not necessarily harder than what math majors see, but it's a ton of extra material to teach, when the payoff is that you can now (after half a year) prove that the conditional probability is well-defined as

Pr(A | B) = Pr(A and B) / Pr(B)

instead of just telling it to students and drawing a few diagrams that drive the point home.

But I think it's more pragmatic than ad hoc. Any deep theory of probability that doesn't deliver

Pr(A | B) = Pr(A and B) / Pr(B)

is basically useless since that's how random phenomena seem to behave in real life. Having a deeper theory is useful because it allows you to derive other implications of that theory and makes certain calculations much easier. But if the theory disagrees with phenomena that we want to model, that can be a problem.
Site's down. Did it melt under the weight of making the HN front page?

Error 524 Ray ID: 22f55b2fa1040f2d • 2015-10-03 02:55:01 UTC
As a kid during a lot of this, in the 1990s, I felt DARE was stupid and pointless. It did nothing to discourage my peers nor myself from drugs. I did miss out on some cool helicopter tours and some military expos but other than that DARE was seen as a 'stupid meaningless waste of time' according to myself and peers.

Maybe if it wasn't a top down approach, it might've worked. Like if they had my peers dramatize drug related pressure (not watching a video of my 'peers' [they were more like tacky uncool peers, by anyones standard]). Also, not having cops 'teach' it. I didn't feel educated. I felt bad for the cop, as they struggled to convince us that drugs were bad (many of my classes were just anti-cops, so we gave each cop a difficult time, just out of spite). My peers are among the average Americans, not a rough bunch, just anti-authoritarian. :)

For balance, upon writing this post, I'd like to suggest a solution (not just criticize DARE). Have specific teachers teach about drugs. Just like sex educators aren't generalists, they focus on teaching the one subject, sex. Let's have drug educators. I know sex educators get a lot of flack but that flack is falling out of fashion because sex educators are effective. Let's do that for drugs. It could educate many people on the hard drugs that are extremely difficult to quick after one dose (crack, heroin, etc). Educating kids on what's out there, is empowering. Hopefully we can see a healthy change in our system.
I mean like this

http://storage.googleapis.com/marc-pres/boston-event-1012/im...
I think what Buge is saying is that some user X used the "find my contacts from my email" feature. Linkedin hoovered all emails (and potential conversations) and built a database of consisting of emails and conversations which looks like:

nadams sent email to moron4hire
etc..

But moron4hire does not have a linkedin account, so what linkedin will do when I sign in I'll see the ability to add that email as a connection (and thus send them an email asking them to sign up for a linkedin account?).

I'm just guessing - for all I know linkedin has a crystal ball in the backroom.
Good read. Thank you for sharing. I hope they reconnect.
This is usually my strategy, but it failed hard with TWC. No matter what I did, they would redirect me to the automated "relocation" service and ask for my new zip code. They did this even when I told them I wasn't moving, they do it just to get rid of you. I even tried saying "I just no longer want internet, I feel like it is bad for my health." and sure enough "click Please enter the zip code...."
PhonoScope.
What if the two images were taken from a camera instead, and are subject to some noise/transformation? I worked on an image algorithm on this related problem a couple years ago: http://shuklan.com/photo/difference-analyzer/
Need people to hammer on this
I'm amazed at how _hatefully_ non-violent some people can be.
Yeah, true, otherwise whales would have fusion-powered underwater cities. I think in the case of crows they have really good eyes especially compared to chipmunks, who don't seem able to resolve anything other than movement beyond a few feet.
I'm afraid that this risks sounding terribly terribly condescending and I don't want it to, but I truly intend the following to be helpful...

> that thinks too-logically about politics

There is a reason Justice Oliver Wendell Homes said "The life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience." Humans are complex and if you try to define a set of axioms (or special forms) and build up and understanding from that, it is all too easy to follow your line of thought past massively lethal flaws. In your case, there are very good reasons why we don't give the president all of the powers that are currently allocated to congress. It is very very tempting to lay out specific ones for you. Other commenters will surely do that. However, I think that would not help you learn a better way to approach thinking about human power structures and the ways that they can fail. You should start by reading (or listening to audiobooks of) more history. Read broadly, enough that you start to experience the phenomenon described here: http://squid314.livejournal.com/350090.html

If you want some easy-to-digest things to start with, this list of resources videos is pretty good, but has the flaw that it is all from one source:
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yocja_N5s1I&list=PLBDA2E52FB...
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6E9WU9TGrec&index=1&list=PL8...
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyzi9GNZFMU&index=1&list=PL8...

For understanding the law, these are a good start:
- http://lawcomic.net/guide/?page_id=5
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/

As an exercise, reading both of these and weighing them is a good one.
- http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/libertarianism.html
- http://raikoth.net/libertarian.html
- http://slatestarcodex.com/2015/03/18/book-review-the-machine...

But I really can't actually drop a list of sources on you and give you what you need to have the instinct of thinking "What are the ways that this simplified view of things could go terribly terribly wrong." I'm possibly just giving you my biases. I really do hope you go out and read more stories of where things about how humans work, both in real life and in fiction.

This applies to many human institutions beyond the federal government. https://xkcd.com/592/
ants (the bug) is an analogy for erlang workers
This is possible to do, GitHub's API provides access to the language breakdown of a given repository.

It could probably be done through some kind of ruleset file we go through that maps conditions to directories. I'll think about it, but I'm not sure there's enough demand. If you do this in fork, I'd be willing to take it.
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The first image is from Les Espaces d’Abraxas. It's a small area (600m by 600m) which combines apartment buildings, shops, restaurants, green spaces, and even a lake. It's definitely meant to be walkable.
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This exists, it's called an "advocacy service," and some employers offer access to these services as a benefit to employees. Aon Hewit operates such a service, for example. I recently received a large, surprise medical bill due to an error by the hospital, and the advocacy service did all the legwork/phone calling necessary to get it written off.
While I question the tone of the original post, it is correct.

The difference between being Turing complete and implementing rule 110 is crucial, and any discussion on the subject needs to make clear that these are not the same.

You are obfuscating the role of the driver. In the Turing machine, the driver is part of the Turing machine. In CSS, it is not, and has to be done by the user (or presumably a JS script).

As another post by Grue3 points out, almost any language can implement rule 110, including languages that are not Turing complete, and are explicitly said not to be Turing complete in the CS literature/community.

For example, Coq, Agda, Idris (with totality checking) and other languages based on Martin Lof type theory, are not Turing complete. That it why they are able to prove totality of their functions. But they can all implement rule 110 with no problem.
Absolutely. Deciding on and preparing meals is the single biggest regular struggle and unpleasant time sink of my day. I wish I could get Soylent but they're still a bit slow and aren't selling directly to my country so I'd have to go through an importer/smuggler, upping the cost.

I know some people like cooking. That's fine for them. I like coding and I do that for fun. No enjoy-cooking-people I know want to write software. Different strokes for different folks.

We need to get out of the mindset of some kinds of work being "noble". When I was growing up it was "noble" to clean dishes by hand, repair your house yourself and repair your car yourself.

Now that I'm an adult, most people I know have "failed" and are lazily hiring specialists or using machines for those once-noble tasks. And some are very successful in their lives despite that failing!
I will bite. The issue with this presentation is that it create a worst of all worlds narrative, without any space for nuance. Where everything that can go wrong goes wrong.

For every russian LGBT person worried due to acquisition of LiveJournal, there are countless in other countries who have benefitted from Social Networks, who have organized & furthered their cause. Also the state apparatus is so powerful that any additional knowledge gained from LiveJournal data is likely meagre.

These slides espouse the same kind of luddite thinking that brought us Drug Wars, where rather than sane policy making we ended up with war on drugs fueled by morality and lack of introspection. One can easily construct similar set of slides showing why "Free Speech" is evil and ought to be regulated like "Radioactivity".

Also the writer has zero training in Pharmacy or BioMedicine and is talking complete non-sense when it comes to Pharma industry. Over last three decades medicine has had significant improvement thanks to innovation in devices, surgeries and adoption of "Evidence based medicine" and no the evidence comes from "Data" collected on large scale and not randomly injecting patient with chemicals. We have made huge progress in curing some types of cancers, converted HIV-AIDS into a manageable chronic condition from a death sentence. For all the visions of doom, and cherry picked examples of poor leaders, World has been a much better place.

The growing fear is that the data-driven approach is inherently a poor fit for life science. In the world of computers, we learn to avoid certain kinds of complexity, because they make our systems impossible to reason about.

But Nature is full of self-modifying, interlocking systems, with interdependent variables you can't isolate. In these vast data spaces, directed iterative search performs better than any amount of data mining.

All these statements are complete bullshit and presented with zero evidence. This article is so spectacularly bad that I am amazed. The author majored in Russian and Studio Art, and other than some programming (seemingly very proficient) has no knowledge or background in Medicine, Healthcare or Bio-Medical Sciences.
Good post, but I think the "don't collect it", "don't store it", "don't keep it" warnings may fall on deaf ears.

The reality is that businesses:

(1) aren't sure of the value of their data. Perhaps there is a company willing to buy their data and they might need that money someday. Maybe if they had more historic data, reporting would show a clearer trend in some way that would help drive them in the right direction- if they had the resources to analyze all of it.

(2) may not fully understand the laws and regulations they may be bound to that relate to how long they need to keep data.

I think it's not a bad thing to spend the time to understand your legal obligations, clean up your data, and remove what you'd never need or never realistically be able to sell. But many companies don't have that time.
You don't eat meat and veges from the same farm and same processing plant every day. There's a wide variety.

Also, food poisoning is always a risk when eating but it's not a life-shortening or baby-deforming kind of risk like, say mercury or lead overdose can be. Farmed products can have these contaminants but not usually consistently in every meal just because they're from varied sources.
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Government information security and technology people, in my experience, are not necessarily forgiving or understanding in any way. And I mean "understanding" in both senses of that word. They neither care to understand your needs nor necessarily understand much about technology. I see so much extra work done just because the security person in charge of writing a procedure had no understanding of what the phrase "volatile memory" means. And that's just one instance from my work; I wish I could share more but it all makes me sad.

All this is a very long way of saying that some of these people may not have even understood what wget is used for, or believed it was unauthorized for use even though it is a standard tool.
I've seen a lot of speeches from Executives, Presidents, Generals. Not really sure this one is that great. Not that it's bad and it's generally well put together, but nothing particularly amazing.

The fact that this is a high water mark for high-tech executive presentations is pretty embarrassing.
Proud father comment here. Last year my son's school had a DARE essay writing contest. Knowing that I favor legalizing drugs he showed me his submission before turning it in. I should note we had a good conversation about why I think drug use is a very bad idea and the reasons why. His English teacher (8th grade) gave him 100 out of 100. The following is his submission:

D.A.R.E. is a program designed to keep kids from drugs. There are problems with D.A.R.E. though. For example, it is counter productive, gives parents a false sense of security and it wastes money.

In 1989-1996 studies done showed that kids involved in the D.A.R.E. program take 3-5% more drugs than kids not in the D.A.R.E. program. The program also shows specific interest on severe drugs such as cocaine, marijuana and meth. This can cause kids to take the drugs they learned about, making this system completely counter productive.

The D.A.R.E. program wastes money. It is funded by taxes that you pay and those funds are completely wasted on this program. D.A.R.E. shows absolutely no long-term effects on kids. The money spent on D.A.R.E. could be used for much better things than nothing.

This program gives parents a false sense of security. When parents have children in the D.A.R.E. program they think “oh, he is already learning that drugs are bad so I don’t need to teach him myself.” When this happens, kids think their parents don’t care if they are doing drugs, especially when they see other family members doing drugs without any immediate reactions they have learned about in D.A.R.E.. When this happens they think D.A.R.E. lies about what drugs do and start taking them because they believe there is no risk in it.

Some people might say D.A.R.E. helps decrease drug use in kids but there are two problems with this statement. First, it is a lie, kids who are in the dare program have been shown to take 3-5% more drugs than kids who don’t. Second, who cares if kids are taking drugs? Who says it’s a bad thing to take drugs? Yes, they do kill you, but so do doughnuts! Maybe D.A.R.E. should stand for “doughnut abuse resistance education” instead of drug abuse resistance education”. Seeing how they both kill you its just doughnuts make you fat as well as dead.

As you can see the D.A.R.E. program has some severe issues and needs to be taken care of. If we destroyed the D.A.R.E. program we could save enough money to start a new, more effective and important, program. Perhaps it could be “Doughnut Abuse Resistance Education” to warn kids of the dangers of doughnuts. For short we could even call it D.A.R.E., catchy, I know.
There is a very small gap. LinkedIn had a short run as an email address harvesting operation. Now they cost me about a second a month, between the time that one of their messages makes it through my spam filter and the time I mark it as spam. Something not called LinkedIn could probably harvest a few more addresses before becoming just as hated as LinkedIn.

(Side note: I just got an "invitation" "from" someone I met this year in a completely non-job context. I'll ask the next time I see him, but I'm pretty sure he did not explicitly ask me to whatever-the-heck in LinkedIn. More likely, he made the mistake of uploading his address book.)
And interesting ideas:

http://www.treefinder.de/ideas.html#5
This thread is about how great it is that volunteers are coming together for a good cause. Let's keep politics out of it.
Yes, incredibly true.
We outsourced law and privacy policy enforcement to private individuals. Complaining private enforcers want to be paid, particularly when they essentially take cases on spec, is ridiculous. Unless, of course, it's a backdoor way to oppose enforcement of the laws at all.