skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hubic and git-annex do the trick for me. 10TB for 5EUR/mo, from which I currently use just one. And unlike some providers, they have OpenStack API, albeit with a weird auth scheme.

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Protesters occupy Airbnb HQ ahead of housing affordability vote
"Within the past decade the ability to bypass muscles and speech between a brain and a computer has become a reality."

bypassing speech? i haven't heard about that one?

the phrase for "bypassing muscles" is "neural coding of movement intention." it's important to realize that the neural coding stuff is mostly about statistical correlation, like, "oh, here are some patterns that happen in the cortex when someone wants to move their arm in such-and-such fashion." really, really cool stuff. still, not clear how deep these results are. i guess the usual analogy to make is that hooking up an oscilloscope to some particular resistor in a radio and developing an algorithm to transform the signal across that resistor into the sounds coming out of the speaker is not the same as knowing how the radio works.

uuh, maybe that's not not the point of the article, buut, good for discussion nonetheless?
You're missing the point. My definition of terrible things may be different from your definition of terrible things. Without a legal framework in place, everyone will choose to act based on their own personal views.

Let's go back to the Starbucks example. The reason I used Starbucks is because they're very likely to be one of the companies that's indirectly supporting the deforestation happening in Indonesia as a result of demand in palm oil.

http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2015/aug/25/...

Now how responsible do you make them? One person may argue it's not Starbucks' fault, it's up to the suppliers to act responsibly. Another person would say that companies like Starbucks should be made responsible, as they're one of the companies driving demand for cheap palm oil without the environmental cost factored in.

The reason we have laws in place is to act as a way to set out acceptable behaviour, informed by consensus rather than the whim of an individual. If we abandon law we abandon the framework by which the actions of individuals can be fairly judged. If we leave it up to individuals then you're much more likely to have chaos, more exciting perhaps but more frustrating if you want to have any lasting stability.
Smoking has been around for about 5000 years,
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_smoking

It may be the impact to others that gave smoking it's stigma compared to alcohol. Smoke drifts through the air and leaves a pungent smell in clothing. For non-smokers, this can be far more impacting than alcohol when both substances are consumed in moderation.
A black man is applying for refugee status in Canada, citing police racism
The significance of an MIT drone weaving around tree branches at 30 mph
Incorrect. They removed support for encrypted SMS/MMS. You can still text normies who don't have Signal using it.
Computer, Respond to This Email
One of the problems we have when talking about diets is that most of the participants assume that people want to lose weight. They don't. They want to feel healthier and lose body fat. I would quite happily be 150 kg if I were a towering slab of raw meat. That likely feels quite a bit better than being even a 130 kg jiggly lump of suet.

Never mind that in order to maintain that weight as a meatwall, I'd have to wolf down six whole fried chickens a day and knock down hardwood trees with bare-knuckle punches. Maintaining that weight as a fatblob is as easy as eating some candy and drinking a liter or two of soda pop in front of the TV.

As a result, the conversation is too often how to turn a 150kg fatty into a 100kg fatty, rather than turning a 150kg fatty into a 150kg liftbro, and then letting the adiposity problem take care of itself.

I don't have a problem with the number on my bathroom scale. My problem is that I don't have action-hero movie-star abs. And maybe also some fear of adiposity-correlated diseases, like diabetes or atherosclerosis.

I would rather rearrange my life in such a way that becoming more unhealthy is the thing that requires the constant upkeep of unyielding willpower, rather than the other way around. That's why diets fail. The biochemical feedback loops between gut and brain make it progressively more difficult to lose more fat and not replenish it at the very first opportunity--which is always, because western society is saturated with cheap, calorie-dense foods. The hard part shouldn't be keeping it up; it should be harder to go back. And that requires changing the brain, particularly in the limbic system. Calorie restriction is, to the primitive parts of the brain back behind the prefrontal cortex, a punishment to be avoided.

Perhaps exercise equipment that dispenses gratis cocaine whenever you break a previous personal workout record? What could go wrong?~
Took me a minute to realize this is developed for use with Firefox Developer Edition. If you're using Chrome or vanilla Firefox, you're going to be a bit lost when trying to follow the tutorial.
Ah, something felt off as I wrote that. That makes more sense.
Well, the accident in question happened nearly 50 years ago. Who knows what kind of training was in place at the time or even how well understood this sort of problem was.
500 years in the 'western' world.

Imagine the first Europeans to encounter it. "What is this?" "Tobacco, sir" "What do you do with it?" "Why, roll it up, stick it in your face, and light it on fire"
Amen^2
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Thanks much for the quick reply Wes! You're the best!
It's not a protection, this law causes problems, it doesn't help anything.
So 'avenge' doesn't ring any bells with you? True justice is not about vengeance. In America, we have specific clauses forbidding 'cruel and unusual punishment'.
It's not as bad because of decreased performance (which is negligible) as it is because of increased specificity, which has bigger day-to-day implications in large apps.
Dreamweaver?

People can hate on it all day, but that is exactly what it does. There is a reason it was such a huge tool 15 years ago.
This article points to the Lyft article where they also claim that rewriting in Swift reduced their code base:

"Over the years, the original version of Lyft had ballooned to 75,000 lines of code. By the time the company was done recreating it in Swift, they had something that performed the same tasks in less than a third of that."

If you're interested in learning Swift, I have a small project where I collect all good Swift urls that I find:

http://www.h4labs.com/dev/ios/swift.html

Also, note that it's easy to start using Swift in existing Objective C code without needing to rewrite. It takes a few minutes to set up a project to use a bridging file. If you've got a lot Objective C, you can extend those classes with Swift by using extensions, then migrated a few methods at a time.

extension MyObjectiveC_Class {

func aSwiftFunc() { // Can be called from ObjC

// ....

}
}
I always feel like these naming conventions are just one big workaround for the pain of a global namespace. We should tackle it with tools like CSS Modules[0], not with something as flimsy and error-prone as a naming convention.

[0] https://github.com/css-modules/css-modules
I don't suppose so. But it was not tested on any group whatsoever. At least according to the urban legend. It was dashed off by a designer for $50 and became a worldwide phenomenon.
Why Denmark isn’t the utopian fantasy Bernie Sanders describes
It's good to know I'm not the only one here! Yep, pretty thankless sums it up.

Plus having to go through a long appraisal process at the end of every year which is essentially a test of how good you are at networking and self-promotion, rather than what you've actually acheived.

I keep thinking I'd be happier in either a startup or a corporate dev team, but I guess the grass is always greener on the other side
Right, but it wasn't the modern form of smoking a lot every day as a habit, as far as I can tell, but more of an occasional thing. That's what I tried to cover, vaguely, with "for the most part." Smoking a little bit isn't too bad, it's when you're inhaling multiple cigarettes every day that you really have trouble.
The FBI is our version of the Gestapo of Nazi Germany.
I think that your perspective on what others value deeply is a root belief that can lead to a life of substance abuse.

Others are not as cruel as you imagine them to be. You are the one holding yourself to this unkind standard. Yes there are some who are happy to join you in this belief, but that does not make it any less harmful or less your own choice.

There is no inherent command to look for reasons to continue to feel that you are not worthwhile. There are other things to discover that are equally as convincing if you give them a look.
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I mostly Bali so you are probably right, but I spent most of my time in Seminiyak, Ubud and some other towns, I didn't went there to party more to relax/surf/eat.

I was offered drugs everywhere... people would stop us in little vespas while walking, sellers inside stores, etc... it reached a point where my wife became afraid of people coming toward us.

People are great, friendly, some scammers but well that is expected in tourist places, the place is beautiful, it's dirty cheap. it's just that it looked crazy poor /unorganized, I was born in Brazil so being among really poor people is common to me(unfortunately) and I was choked when I got there.
It can be a rational options, but for most I'd bet it it's irrational. People are irrational about a lot of things, so I don't see why suicide is exempt.

For the rest of the cases I think of suicide as the ultimate result of mental illness. When someone with cancer dies, we say cancer killed them.

When someone dies of suicide, for most cases it was mental illness that killed them.
Guess it depends on how you define mental illness- humans have a very strong biological drive to survive.. there's an argument to be made that a thought pattern that contradicts that very basic need is aberrant.
No, a "reversion to the mean" is a statistical error caused by small sample sizes. For obvious reasons, you're not likely to see it when looking at death statistics for a population in the tens of millions. There's a clear hypothesis here for a real effect.
Goldman became a bank holding company so that they could access a fed emergency lending facility. Without that lending facility, they probably would have collapsed. They didn't hesitate to organize their new bank in a way that was profitable, but they didn't diversify to survive, they begged for a different legal classification so that they could get a big loan.

AIG collapsed because instead of a boring insurance company, it was a boring insurance company with a bunch of people trading crazy financial derivatives. Under Glass-Steagall, the insurance business wouldn't have been exposed to those derivatives.
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Just wanted to say thanks! (sorry if this is a repost, I didn't see it anywhere)
Software Development Dogma That Needs to Die
"Little House on the Prairie" has a scene where the father digs a well and tests the air downhole with a candle. That's awareness of the danger in a literary work more than 100 years ago. Farmers and well-diggers have been aware of the phenomenon for centuries, it's inconceivable that a fireman of the mid-20th century didn't know how to defend himself against the danger.
None of my relatives do. They eat that stuff up, because the alternative is to admit that they're a mediocre bunch that hasn't risen one iota above the wealth or social status of their predecessors, despite their derision for poor people of color for not climbing that same social ladder.
Stellar. Out of interest, how did Derek fare, Was it objectively a decent decision on his part or what? Also, looks good from the flickr img.
That is the weakest arguement I have ever heard, shame on you dude.
I run my own mail server, and would happily risk a few cents per email to not have to deal deliverability bullshit. I'm a little sad hashcash never caught on for email.
Grand Truck Simulator v1.8 Hile Mod Apk İndir
AdNauseam: clicking ads so you don't have to
Probably not because they check that against the list of people who have Signal installed so they can send encrypted messages to the people who support it. They talk more about how they try to do this privately in [0].

[0]: https://whispersystems.org/blog/contact-discovery/
Thank you: the most comprehensive (and damn near only) comment on the page that talks about the technical decision being represented here.
DSM V is not perfect by any means, but it's silly to dismiss it entirely.

One may as well dismiss diagnosis of plague during the Black Death because germ theory had not been discovered yet.
How to Transition to Product Management Session (NYC)
Replace "Chinese" with "Jews", and "Indonesia" with "Germany."

Indonesia even has its own government-led anti-Chinese genocidal massacres that killed half a million people[0]! Though of course it's not covered in state textbooks...

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indonesian_killings_of_1965–...
Yes. It isn't like an eBay type transaction though, it's not 'just swipe your credit card'.

I never did oil, but I did do other commodities. It goes something like (in my experience, a typical Alibaba experience):

1. See a supplier with OK terms. Instantly distrust them.

2. Seek some kind of sample if this is first-time contact. Smell out how close they are to actual origination (usually far, far away, most easily detected by response time for sample, if so, avoid).

3. Experience pain waiting for sample then joy getting a sample and seeing it is consistent with claims.

4. Write contact with the correct incoterms based on sample above, which hopefully has been tested by an independent 3rd party that specialise in these things (this article is about oil, how about the same scale, but sun-dried tomatoes? Specialists exist, but are costly). Always use letter of credit for anything big, as the bank will bear responsibility, unless you really trust the other party and choose not to pay a fee state of mind. Make sure the contact is aligned to the letter of credit and you interests so the bank doesn't pass the buck to you if you didn't bother to write a decent contract. The bank will not hesitate to point out that the reason the coal was soaked as it was loaded at the incorrect point, or the required seal on the jars of the tomatoes didn't have a seal to stop them from from spoiling. There are limits to this, but the contract is enforced from terms and measures deemed 'reasonable' between corresponding banks, and for those that work in LC or trade in banking, 'reasonable' is a practical, not an academic, concept.

5. Profit (or bust, depending on how the above were done).

Alibaba doesn't make money on the cut (well some, not in the above, its too politically hot to handle), it makes it from both sides as an introduction fee. Due diligence is your business, not Alibaba's, and they explicitly make no promise for this.
It's not all doom and gloom, there's still confirmation that environment and drug addiction are linked. Here's a link to the rat park experiment that touches on this topic,
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rat_Park
Making Synology NAS command line usable
Firefox Notes Version 42.0
Tarantool NginX upstream module is released
This is the first release of Tarantool NginX upstream module

Key features:

Benefit from nginx features and tarantool features over HTTP(S).
Call tarantool methods via JSON RPC.
Load Balancing with elastic configuration.
Backup and fault tolerance.
low overhead. Nice speed, CPU/Memory usage.

For details see README.md

https://github.com/tarantool/nginx_upstream_module
>> Guaranteed minimum income, reverse taxation, or merely a solid welfare program that provides solid housing, food, and medical care

The only problem with this is how this is impossible to scale to proper levels in the US.

This works great in smaller economies (like you're advocating) like Scandinavian countries where you have a much smaller population and it's easy to support a few million people. You also have to take into account the Scandinavian cultural norms as well.

When you have over 300 million? As we've seen in recent years, when you institute measures like this it actually creates more dependency and self reliance on the government - not something I would think you'd want to advocate on such a large scale.
Synthetic fiber clothes from china are low quality and hugely overpriced, and I am skeptical about the critical thought processes of anyone wearing those types of clothes.
You can throw a match into an open cup of gasoline and it will go out (yes, I've tried it). That doesn't mean I don't treat it as the highly flammable fluid that it is. That includes not storing it in the basement where the gas furnace and it's pilot light live.
Hmmm..I find that the home page is improved, but browsing comments has become pretty bad.
Five Geek Social Fallacies (2003)
Why the passive voice--who doesn't consider underpants to be an object? I think they are an object, as are most discrete solids (a rock is an object, dirt is not; underpants are an object, water in a cup is not an object, but the cup is).
Warning Signs: Is It Time to Leave Your Startup?
Amazon expands parental leave benefits for employees
The trend continues towards "everyone looks like Facebook:" http://readwrite.com/2014/06/04/social-networks-all-look-ali...
I used to, but the increasing amount of 404ing in my bookmark collection led me to stop trusting that I could get back to something with it. I think I'd prefer a "whole page snapshot" rather than a bookmark.
The Potassium Flare Stars
Sold! I have been looking for something like this for a long time. Thanks!
I think we are witnessing a massive de-centralization of economics. We seem to live in multi-tiered cellular societies that seem decoupled from one another. People living in the same city are experience vastly different trends with some are struggling, some are prospering.

Like how small startups are able to create value that usually needed large corporate structures, small trends are becoming powerful and independent. People are getting news from a large variety of sources and living in their own bubbles.

The new normal is that there is no normal. Those who are fearful and greedy are both right, but they no longer reside in the same world.
Anyone have a link to the paper? It's 404 on TFA.
I just started reading Avogadro Corp (http://www.amazon.com/Avogadro-Corp-Singularity-Closer-Appea...) this weekend, and this reminds me quite a lot of the emergent AI that figures heavily in the story (ELOPe). A quick synopsis: developers build a system to "improve" responses from emails. The system at some point is given the ability to send emails on its own, and a poorly issued directive. It's been an engaging read so far, and fairly hilarious since the corporation in the book is very obviously based on Google.
Slap huge tariffs on their palm oil to make burning the land unprofitable. Other more general sanctions would be possible as well.
It occurs in deep wells that cave divers swim into as well. They often have to swim through an H2S layer, which can numb their lips and any exposed skin. It's generally a race to get through this layer and into the caves below as fast as possible.
Exploring Emacs
My ElixirConfEU keynote gave a high-level overview of the channels design for those interested - quick jump to place in presentation:
https://youtu.be/u21S_vq5CTw?t=22m34s

I'm also happy to answer any other questions. The team is very excited about our channel and pubsub layers progress over the last year.
We're very close to launching a product that serves this exact purpose. [1]

Our primary motivation was being able to build a static website as easy as using WordPress - so we figured, why not turn WordPress into a static site generator?

As notacoward mentioned, there is a few gotchas so we decided to launch it as a SaaS in order to abstract those things away and make it fully hosted on a CDN out of the box. We still give you full access to the WP install though, so no vendor-lock in or shackles for the customer.

Happy to give anyone a demo if you're interested. You can contact me at mathias AT dotsqua.re

[1] http://spudpress.com
Because it's fun. It's usually that simple.

Sometimes people like doing it because it lowers inhibitions and allows them to be more of their real selves. In that case they are bandaiding their own repression.

But mostly, it's because it's fun.
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> "In a place where there is no government, I don't see what would be wrong with vigilante justice. If there are no authorities and no help then you have little choice but to take matters into your own hands."

The problems with vigilante justice are universal, it doesn't matter if you have little choice or not. Generally speaking the problem is that vigilante justice is much more open to the whim of individual desires and views.

Why is that bad? Let's use the 'brick through the window of Starbucks' example I've used before. If you agree that Starbucks are bad, then the brick through the window may look justified, but if you do not believe Starbucks are bad then the action may appear unjustified.

Consider that the problem some people have with government is that decisions are made on your behalf and you feel powerless to change this. However, if you consider what you have without government, you still have people making decisions on your behalf, except you now have millions more of them, and there's less chance to influence what happens as a result of their actions if you disagree with what they've done. Is that better?
Try the USENIX archive: https://www.usenix.org/legacy/event/usenix99/full_papers/pai...
Advanced Jupyter Notebook Tricks
Although I have a hard time knocking the decision to cast Benedict Cumberbatch as a genetically enhanced villain.
Wow, Godwin's Law already.
>In the recent financial meltdown, diversified financial institutions like JP Morgan survived, and less diversified institutions like AIG, WaMu, Bear Sterns and Lehman did not.

Why is this argument still around? Yes, "diversified financial institutions" (i.e., too-big-to-fail banks) survived, because they had tremendous political power as a result of their consolidation. The idea that there were too-big-to-fail institutions is not a victory, it's a defeat. These are the institutions that caused the problem in the first place! The fact that they live on is a travesty.
That's the cool tool they used to test the performance of the site:

https://performance.sucuri.net/
I think hating the tools is timeless.
How is it possible for the workers in There Will Be Blood to hack through a foot of oil to get to the vein, if a few seconds of exposure kills you?
I'm bummed. I used stars as a "save-for-later" feature. I like the idea of having the option to explicitly endorse something you like, but I will miss the bookmark functionality. Even Facebook has a "save" feature (a little hidden in a menu, but that's ok for me) and they seem to use it effectively for engagement purposes.

I think Twitter is missing an opportunity here.
A friend illustrated an interesting correlation:

http://www.modernmethod.com/send/files/military-vs-pain.png
When I first joined twitter I assumed that "favorites" were bookmarks and didn't realize that twitter notified users when you favorited a tweet.