skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, I don't know. Sometimes I came up with something on my mind I would like to "post somewhere". I don't use Twitter, so Textingway could be my solution.

However, since I'm not in the US I'll not use it. Also, besides having these thoughts every day, a little later I remember that I quit Facebook because it forced me to write things I wasn't sure I wanted to write, then I decide I'm not going to post anything. I'm a peculiar case, probably.
> Where did the rest of the $42.5 million go if it only costs $500,000 to construct a CNG plant in Afghanistan?

When this question was being investigated, it turned out that the construction was managed by an agency that no longer exists (as of a year ago iirc), and that there were absolutely no records kept and no way to answer how the money was spent for this project, or for $750 million worth of other projects that they managed.
That still doesn't mean anything useful. That's just a measure of how much it changes shape per unit force in its elastic phase. It gives no indication about how far it can go changing shape in a reversible, elastic manner before it starts to yield and undergo permanent deformation.

Now a stress-strain curve on the other hand, THAT would be useful.
There is a group called Positive Money that has a youtube channel with some videos about it. I don't remember which ones are the best, but this is a playlist from them which gave an high level overview in simple terms: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyl80QTKi0gPBcb32paMv...

They have more in-depth talks on their channel, if I find some better links I'll give them to you.

I can't say this theory is 100% correct, though it does explain things like the housing bubble, the failure of the ECB policy, and eurozone deflation despite the ultra low interest rates.

So far, out of everything I've read and watched, I think their model is the one that better explains the current system of money creation, but if you have any alternative links with I'm always open to reading different things on this topic.
> might as well pay for Netflix

Strange suggestion. At least it is now available where I am but it doesn't sell anything I want.

I am sad to see YIFY go. They produced quality products.
Just one link after 10 second Google search:

Fentanyl-linked heroin deaths part of larger drug overdose trend

http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2014-02-08/news/bs-md-sun-i...
>Sure, you can see what Swift solves, based on the experience of not writing in Swift.

That's actually not true. You can see the trivial stuff it solves from the promo materials - you don't know the full extent of what's realistically possible to encode in the type system.

I had this thought yesterday writing C++ code - I was doing some re factoring and I copy pasted the same identifier twice instead of writing data to two separate buffers. The case where this mattered was not covered by unit testing because it's an edge case in a tightly coupled part - it's a major chore to test that kind of code for little gain.

My first instinct was "just put unit test there and forget about it" but on the other hand while buffer API is the same two buffers are semantically different so I could have made them two distinct types (eg. with template argument tag) and required untyped input buffer to be wrapped in a type explicitly stating data use case - this would have made the bug obvious and compiler would catch any discrepancy.

My point is there are plenty of non-obvious ways to prevent bugs trough a strong type system.
> it’s a shame Doc didn’t equip the Delorean with Tesla electric motors when he visited 2015. That would have made things easier considering the Delorean was equipped with a working Mr. Fusion generator in 1885

He put flying car parts into it. Why the hell would he want some lousy electric motors?
Swarm is a service that sits between your docker cli and your docker engines. It makes it as if you are talking to one docker engine from the cli when in fact you are talking to many. This makes it easier to manage docker engines across multiple hosts.

Compose is a tool that issues commands to docker engines and will e.g. spin up containers and link them together in the right order. It makes rote docker commands a little less painful. It can talk to a single engine or, apparently, many engines via Swarm.

When it comes to putting providing a production "service" based on containers you need to be able to add and remove docker engines, to, for example, deploy new code via rolling update. Google Container Engine (GKE) and Amazon ECS marry docker concepts with front-to-back implementations of hosted infrastructure like server instances and network load balancers. Over-simplified, each has an agent that runs on a docker engine and does work similar to Compose and Swarm against AWS and GCE. Google's daemon is called Kubernetes.
of course, people may pay for VPNs for other reasons too and just see the piracy opsec thing as a bonus.
The distinction is whether or not the user harms other people when stoned. Meth addicts become psychotically violent.
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The one linked here:

https://quip.com/MFS9AXtq5fk8

> The best resume templates are here:

> http://www.rpi.edu/dept/arc/training/latex/resumes/

> LaTeX can be edited easily online with the following tool:

> https://www.sharelatex.com/

> Example resume on ShareLaTeX:

> https://www.sharelatex.com/project/55db6ac384d1be370a7d4b9a
I assume that by saying "China still has to buy most imported commodities using dollars...like oil" you are implying that China won't have enough money to buy oil. You do realize that is a direct contradiction to a large trade surplus, right? Or are you predicting that the trade surplus will soon turn into a deficit? If RMB goes into the so called "death spiral" which direction do you think that will push China's trade position?
It was my least popular Matasano job ad on HN (I think it actually got negative points).

But I'm very happy if it's now the membership sign of my death cult.
I'm biased: use a full PaaS. I like Cloud Foundry because I've worked on it. OpenShift is another alternative.
After reading the linked document, I can only conclude that the Pentagon did not, in fact, spend $800M. Instead, it had most of $800M stolen from it by shady contractors, and buried the details to avoid embarrassment.

This has been happening to the US federal government an awful lot lately. This is rather disturbing, and appears to be specific to recent times and specific to the United States.
Because the CNG station was only one project under the $800M TFBSO program. Quoting slide 2:

"Frankly, I find it both shocking and incredible that DOD asserts that it no longer has any knowledge about TFBSO, an $800 million program that reported directly to the Office of the Secretary of Defense and only shut down a little over six months ago."
Agreed. And if your heroin costs cents instead of dollars you don't have to spend your available time trying to steal money to buy it, risking arrest and jail as well as making innocent people victims of your cash-seeking crimes.
Why not?

1. Marty leaves timeline to go to 2015
2. Marty meets Marty-F in the 2015
3. Marty returns to 1985 and grows up to be Marty-F.

Of course this means that he knew, but that's okay.
Bitcoin spikes 70% in a month; nobody knows why
Never bought one of 'em, but Rest In Peace Mr Hammond.
I bet your the sort of person that believes this as well.
http://pastebin.com/fp46QEyW
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractional-reserve_banking
"adlessness can be a luxury for those who choose to buy ad blockers so their webpages load faster."

Wait, buy ad blockers? I understand some ad blockers, mainly on iOS, are paid, but on other platforms they are generally FOSS...
The Github repo[1] says "This repository is currently offline". I've never seen this message on github before, I'm not really sure what it means. Github then refers me to the "working when Github goes down" article, but Github hasn't really gone down.. I can access every other repo I try to access. Just not this one.

[1] https://github.com/mirage/irmin
It is funny how the PC market quickly commoditized. In retrospect I think the idea of a "prebuilt" might have been a bad idea in the first place.
Dying is for fools.
> a recent covert audit of U.S. airports found layers of security were “simply missing,”

Not to mention that no one noticed a covert surveillance operation. They were essentially "casing the joint." You'd think we'd have noticed.
>Like maybe don't put a Soviet-style central committee in charge of the money supply?

The US didn't have this at the end of the 19th century and they suffered through multiple bouts of mass unemployment and deflation as a result. That's why the Federal Reserve was created.

Central planning can be done well or badly. It can't not be done at all.
Am I being overly cynical when I interpret: “We will establish a way to mass-produce the new material shortly ... We are looking to commercialize the technique within five years.” as "We have no clue how to mass-produce this but hope we can figure it out in five years if someone gives us money"?

It's hard to imagine how a gas-based "containerless processing system" will lend itself to producing the thin, uniform sheets of glass for windows or complex shapes like tableware.

It's a cool prototype, but figuring out how to produce at scale is often the hard part.
That dam failed when 1 year's worth of rain fell over 24 hours if it had not been there a lot of people would have died anyway.

On net Dams have saved far more than 170,000 lives in china alone. Flood control is more or less a necessity in the modern world adding energy generation on top of that is a minimal risk. ex: From 1998 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1998_China_floods loss of 4150 people, and 180 million people were affected.

PS: Direct deaths where ~26,000 people. The 145,000 died during subsequent epidemics and famine which where blamed on the dam, but that was a convenient excuse and far from the root cause.
"How can we provide the maximum quality of life to everyone with the minimum amount of jobs? And what level of resources can we commit to automating away the rest of jobs in this century?"
I don't think AND () or NOT affect Google search only " " and -

One unmentioned illustrious descendant of Boole is Geoff Hinton the Godfather of modern Neural Networks.
Developer edition is 2 versions behind stable, not one. (it's the old auora, rebranded).

firefox 42 is released to stable today.

nevertheless, I do see some of the new animation controls on firefox 42.
I won't comment on Kubernetes because I'm not qualified to do so.

Compose: Multi-container orchestration. You define an application stack via a compose file including links between containers (web front end links to a database). When you run docker compose up on that file, compose stands up the containers in the right order to deal with dependencies.

Swarm: Represents a cluster of Docker Hosts as a single entity. Will orchestrate the placement of containers on the hosts based on different criteria and constraints. You interact with the swarm the same way you would any single docker host. You can plug in different discovery services (Consul, Etcd, Zookeeper) as well as different schedulers (Mesos, K8s, etc).

Tutum: SaaS-based graphical front end for Docker Machine, Swarm, and Compose (although it's Stackfiles not Compose files w/ Tutum). The stuff described above is handled via Web GUI

You didn't ask but Machine is automated provisioning of Docker hosts across different platforms (AWS, GCE, Digital Ocean, vSphere, Fusion, etc).
Ask HN: How to choose a certain GNU/Linux distro?
I have been using different flavors of Linux since the past 5 or 6 years.

I tried switching between Ubuntu, Mint, Debian, Arch, Manjaro, etc.. while keeping the same Desktop Environment for familiarity reasons.

I have yet to find a reason to get attached to one flavor over the others.

As a laptop user how do you choose which distribution to use (beside out-of-the-box hardware compatibility) ?
How do I do what you do? What skills should I bring to the table?
> The solution was provided by Sujith Ravi, whose team developed a great machine learning system for mapping natural language responses to semantic intents. This was instrumental in several phases of the project, and was critical to solving the "response diversity problem": by knowing how semantically similar two responses are, we can suggest responses that are different not only in wording, but in their underlying meaning.

Does anyone know where I can find out more about this? A paper or something maybe?
Can it create unprivileged containers yet?
If certain individuals can launder money in such a way, what's stopping them lining their own pockets? Almost by definition they have no oversight...
You are right our default transports (WS/LongPoll) are not well suited for FPS requirements, but just to be clear transports are adapter based and you can implement your own today for your own esoteric protocol or serialization format. Outlined here:
http://hexdocs.pm/phoenix/Phoenix.Socket.Transport.html

The backend channel code remains the same and the transport takes care of the underlying communication details.
I always thought an overdose of sleeping pills would be the way to go.
> The US government has hidden a backdoor inside one of the Fedora23 packages.

It's on the Internet so obviously it's true!
Oh, I have recently written a (very) short story on the subject:

https://medium.com/@rayalez/the-best-way-to-die-b6118acb34c7

Seriously, though, I don't want to die at all, I hate death, but if I had to choose it would be morphine overdose. Also I hope I'll have the balls to commit suicide before I'm a bed-ridden piece of meat. Once my body and brain are bad enough to prevent me form writing/programming/creating things - it's time to go. I don't understand people who spend years suffering for no reason just to let random mindless natural causes to decide when it's over.

Also, there's a horrifying article on how people actually end up dying in modern medical system:

http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/07/17/who-by-very-slow-decay/

(I strongly suggest you read it, is amazing)
Oooh that sounds kind of cool. Can I join?
> This is rather disturbing, and appears to be specific to recent times and specific to the United States.

Rest assured that as a French, I can confirm this is not specific at all to the US.
The words 'soviet style' in this comment are an insult to anyone who's ever read a history book.
Well, 13 years ago the Pentagon mentioned it had lost track of $2.3 trillion, so $800 million seems like an improvement.
I have fond memories of OS/2 and would still love to use it on the one hand. But I've become radicalized as an Open Source / Free Software ideologue over the years, and now I wouldn't really want to use it as it's a proprietary product. :-( Not to say I wouldn't like to install it and play around for a while just to indulge some nostalgia, but I couldn't see making a wholesale switch.

On the other hand, if osFree[1] ever manages to get a complete, working OS out the door...

[1]: http://www.osfree.org/
I have a strong fear of flying, which is unfortunate since I have to fly to my company's HQ once a month or so. One of my coping mechanisms is that, at worst, my death would be swift and with enough luck, painless. Above all else, it better be quick.
The military is responsible for shocking amounts of fraud. And because most civilians have zero experience with the military, the most we can do is say "thank you for your service." I bet the perpetrators of this embarrassment still hears that every time they go through an airport.

This article is a good overview of how this disconnect has to come to pass:

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/01/the-trag...
Nitpick: Can we stick to ",000,000", "M", "e6", or even "kk" if really needed? "mm" are millimeters, or two "m"s - it really doesn't make sense for "million".
Spot on. Unfortunately, academic economists are incentivized to produce models that justify existing power structures which leads many to go off the deep end reality-wise.

That's how stupid assumptions like "natural rate of unemployment" or "perfect competition" in particular get baked in.

Those assumptions are concealing sources of profit. Which is a feature, not a bug.
As a person that never gets offended, I wonder whether I should get my head checked. There are so many things I could get offended by!
Any manufacturer found guilty of cheating emissions tests should face steep financial sanctions, with those directly responsible facing criminal charges and civil financial penalties.
Node-webkit is renamed NW.js
Bravo, it's on line. Now, how close is it to, say, the King James New Testament? Why is it different?
R Consortium funds first community project, accepting proposals for more
I agree, this article is disappointingly light on details. CO2 is specifically regulated in Europe, separately from fuel consumption, so this could pertain to that.

Fuel consumption would be a very accurate proxy for CO2 production, unlike NOx, which strongly affected by vehicle processing, so it is really unclear what the cheat could possibly be.
>cocaine are probably the only outstandingly dangerous ones due to immediate bodily effects

Is that true about ? I "know" that heroin ends up causing a physical addiction + all the risks with the way it's used but I was under the impression that cocaine was in the same category as speed/extasy in terms of downsides.
Pick one that works for you* and plays nice with your hardware. Make sure it has a very good package manager.

I like Debian with mate myself (never tried arch, but i use their tutorials a lot). Apt-get works, has almost everything I need and there is a large user base.

Ubuntu peevs me off trying to be so flashy. But I tap into the know how of their user base often.

* works for you means that you don't spend your days trying to figure stupid things out, or you battle buggy GUIs. Whatever it is you do on a computer the district/environment is a tool, not the end goal.
I don't think the title is accurate. The report seems to know exactly where the the money went. They just don't know why stuff was so expensive.

"Nobody works here anymore" is a classic excuse used in information requests like this.

These letters the DoD sent back sound exactly like the letters I read every day as a civil litigator during discovery for cases. The DoD is basically telling this inspector to fuck off and stop bothering us.

That's not to say the Pentagon has no idea where the money went. They are just not cooperating with the investigation. The DoD is saying "we fired those guys, you go find them yourself."

And it sounds like the Special Inspector General has a pretty good idea why the natural gas station was so expensive. The organization in charge didn't do a feasibility study. Then spent millions of dollars building a station when it wasn't a good idea.

Nobody stole the money. They just squandered it on a gas station to nowhere.

Edit: Unsurprisingly both the inspector general and the DoD Deputy Under Secretary are both trained lawyers. The inspector general was even a civil litigator up until a few years ago.
There's your profile right there. There's the update button...
The article you're thinking of was "Snow Fall".

http://www.nytimes.com/projects/2012/snow-fall/
Engineering Manager Leslie Miley Leaves Twitter Because of Diversity Issues
It's a common and widely accepted abbreviation: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Million
Yes.

Catherine Austin Fitts lays it out right here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0mimIp8mr8
The Docker command is used for working with one image.

When working with multiple images, coordinating ports, volumes, environment variables, links, and other things gets very troublesome very quickly as you get into using a mish-mash of deployment and management scripts.

Compose aims to solve this problem by declaratively defining ports, volumes, links, and other things.

Compose does allow you to scale up and down easily but it doesn't do auto-scaling, load balancing, or automated crash recovery -- this is where Swarm comes in.

Kubernetes does what both compose and swarm do, but in a single product.

Both Swarm and Kubernetes are designed to accommodate provisioning of resources across multiple hosts and automatically deciding which containers go where.

Compose, Swarm, and Kubernetes are all things you can install yourself.

Tutum is far bigger and the scope of its usage falls well outside of what Kubernetes and the other's do, but suffice to say that it's more of a PaaS than anything else.

Someone please correct me if I'm wrong, I'm not very familiar with Swarm, Kubernetes, or Tutum.
This seems so backwards. Amazon lead on cheap prices. But this retail store only displays book/listed price. Which are higher. The only way to get the real price is to manually scan each one. Why? What am I missing?
The Federal Reserve having an opinion about the economy that is different from yours has nothing to do with Bill Gross being factually incorrect in every prediction he has made about the economy since the recession, and performing badly.

You don't get to distribute wrongness equally between supply-side and demand-side people; that's not how reason works.
> Competition and capitalism are to some degree antonyms (this is the Peter Thiel thesis). The first goal of most companies is to build a monopoly and keep competitors out. This is covered in depth in microeconomics, but is largely ignored in macroeconomics.

I sometimes wonder how much people delude themselves. For instance this observation about capitalism, competition and monopoly is something that should be obvious to anyone who thinks about the issue for more than 30 seconds. It's the fundamental mechanic. And yet people don't notice. I've noticed, observing various people I know who are very vocal about politics and economy, that educated people are at bigger risk - many end up papering their concerns over with sophisticated explanations of their favourite ideology.
I really wish Khan Academy would put something together for these.
The infamous "toilet seats" were actually what people would usually think of as a whole toilet without the plumbing parts. And they were specialized pieces that had to fit in a very specific place on a combat aircraft and meet lots of exacting specifications.

Saying the military paid $640 for the same kind of toilet seat you might put on your toilet at home is more than a little misleading.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toilet_seat#US_Navy.27s_.22.24...
Absolutely nothing, and it's been happening since the CIA was founded. An example of profiting off secret doings: http://www.slate.com/articles/business/the_dismal_science/20...

That's not a direct "money laundering" caper, but it's still an example that "high minded public servants" and other deep state folks can see their way clear to making a profit from a coup.
What is that a reference to?
How (not) to write Factorial in Java. (2011)
I'm saying that China needs dollars to run its economy, not having dollars anymore can make it harder to run.

> If RMB goes into the so called "death spiral" which direction do you think that will push China's trade position?

China can't continue being the world's cheap factory. It is horrible for the environment, and it doesn't do as much for normal people as it used to. Say stuff from China is cheaper...so what? Americans and the west win, because China continues to subsidize their wasteful lifestyles, but what does China win? More trade isn't the answer anymore, eventually people actually want to buy things and not just sell them.

And honestly, I'm not a trade position.