skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I personally feel you underestimate how much money there is to be made DURING the race to the bottom. Sure 5 years from now you may not be able to charge a $10 delivery fee. But that's 5 years where you can, grow a company, pivot when the time is right and new market trends emerge.

I think your sentiment towards the growing side is spot on though. Large players with experience growing produce and other plants will swoop in and dominate.
I was just hoping to make the website look nice, is all.
Unfortunately, due to abortion, I wonder if more babies die than before...
This is a great marketing move, because users have absolutely no control over the flow that their email takes... except to tell the other user to start using Gmail.
Currently? Yes. If this case gets decided such that non-criminal assets can be frozen? No.

I'm explaining that law firms won't simply cease to exist if this case gets decided a certain way, which is what folks here seem to be implying. It's not an insurmountable hurdle.

Bill collection will adjust if it has to. Are you suggesting it won't?
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Github recipes are the "works on my machine!" of the new millennium. Just like pecking in programs from computer magazines in the 1980s, only better!

I like the ones that are hardcoded to a specific name in a home directory best. Especially when it doesn't match the github name of the "creator."
Hi, author here, let me know if you have any questions. I'll be checking in throughout the day
The syntax is what scares people off, though.
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One possible response to this information is to try to educate all users of the web not to copy paste from a web site into a terminal.

Another possible response -- the one I prefer -- is to change the web browsers so that the copy operation only ever copies selected text visible to the user. That is how the copy operation works in my text editor and how it used to work in web browsers in the 1990s.

Copying and pasting are useful. The fact that some are trying to persuade all web users to stop doing it -- or to stop doing one common kind of it -- is a sign that there is something wrong with current web browsers.

Yes, I know that Unicode contains glyphs that look so much like common ASCII glyphs that a user can be fooled into, e.g., curling from a site controlled by an attacker when he thinks he is curling from github.com or some other trusted site. Maybe that means that the browser warns the user whenever the copied extent of text contains non-ascii characters; maybe the browser simply refuses to copy the non-ascii characters. Regardless of how we deal with malicious use of obscure Unicode characters, I think my previous paragraph holds up.

(Users of languages other than English should replace "non-ascii" above with "characters not commonly used by writers of the languages that the user usually uses".)
I agree, tests have their uses. Like any kind of constraint, they can be used to diminish the search space to increase the desired yield. When devised and administered fairly, they can go a long way toward leveling a playing field (or excluding the crazies).

For example, if we want to exclude congress(wo)men who are powermad egomaniacs, we start by asking knowledgable sources to rank candidates by lust, greed, and vanity, then exclude from random selection all those who fall below a certain threshold. Voila, no more psychos (golddiggers) joining the the Washington Elite.

The lovely part of Sortition is that with a large number of fair & knowledgable 'rankers' (or 'standardized tests') it's basically impossible to game the system.

So I vote 'yea' for Sortition.
Dr. Pamela Gay wrote an article about the difficult state of non-tenure jobs in research and academia: http://www.starstryder.com/2015/11/12/dreaming-of-success-in...

It's the same problem for software devs, postdocs, research assistants, adjunct professors - basically everyone except tenured university professors. We're not rewarding the right things.
OK, i've replied with this elsewhere in the thread but will repeat it here for those who miss it. If you're on the command line and want to drop into your editor to paste, or just write a long command, and then have the command(s) executed after exiting the editor:

CTRL-X CTRL-E

If using zsh: http://nuclearsquid.com/writings/edit-long-commands/
It isn't possible to do a "full" reset without antibiotics (and even then it isn't 100% complete). The next best thing you can do is fasting. Fasting greatly restricts the food supply to the microbes in your gut (gut mucus production still feeds them to a degree), causing a fairly large die-off and shift in bacterial equilibrium. Anywhere between 4 and 7 days is a good target, and it doesn't have to be a strict fast, a little fruit juice or tea is fine.
If this really is the case (and I'm highly skeptical), switching from 4096 bit to megabit or gigabit keys would buy us atleast a few years.

But all previously encrypted messages would effectively become plain text to anyone with the foresight to save them.
How do they claim, "zero carbon footprint"? They don't say how they are powering their power-hungry process.

For that matter, what are they using in lieu of carbon in the diamonds in the first place? Imitation carbon?
If you invested in the early rounds of any of these unicorns, you probably returned the whole fund with that one investment, even given their devaluing.
Semantics: snark provides no value, where satire illuminates it. The above is satire.
An AMI id is region-specific, the original poster should probably have mentioned what region he created the AMI in.
My lab (US Gov.) is the same, except there are is also no title change for the top level. I've been a 'Research Structural Engineer' for two years, and work with people who have been a 'Research Structural Engineer' for 40 years. They get paid a bit more, and have generally put in some time with a 'Group Leader' title, but they don't get saluted in the halls.

The consensus is that this promotes a more egalitarian culture, and prevents people from being locked in to roles they don't prefer. Senior staff are free to spend a few years managing a large project or in a leadership role, then back off to get back into the research.
Just remember to emphasize that "legitimately earned."

There are two kinds of corrupt societies: ones where people get rich and then seize power, and ones where people seize power and then get rich; and while both are bad, it's _much_ more dangerous to be the second kind (power leads to money) than the first (money leads to power).
I wish people would stop thinking DuckDuckGo cares about your privacy. It's all marketing BS. The founder sold his old startup in 2006 to classmates.com, an incredibly scummy company.
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By asking this question, you're essentially making a huge assumption. Firstly, Do humans drive to work to only connect their senses? When you say we "primarily drive to connect our senses anyways", you're diluting the purpose of the entire exercise of "working" to "connecting our senses". Which is false.

Consider the profession of driving. There will always be a need for "drivers", not just humans, for transporting goods, services etc. Is driving an exercise of just connecting our senses? No. It also involves performing actions based on inputs from these senses. Why would anyone want to create VR based drivers? It makes no sense, because self driving cars are already possible. Self driving cars have already won the competition in this case. This is the one scenario where VR and self driving cars compete.

Now consider the profession of software development. Here, let's say VR made it such that you wouldn't have a need to drive to work. Then, you wouldn't drive to work, but you'd still need to get places - for which a car (maybe self driving) is still required. In this case, again, self driving cars and VR are not competing. One has made removed the need for the other for a very specific purpose. This is not competition.

I think your question is asked with a very narrow minded view of "working". You're probably a software engineer. AMIRITE?
What would stop the MiTM from verifying Gmail's cert? Say, the email is sent in plain text, it is intercepted by the bad guy, then the bad guy sends it on to gmail encrypted, with cert checking and everything.

I am failing to see what your proposal would help.
Any chance you have pointers for public trace files? Its interesting to see the behaviors under different workload patterns.

Adding a cost model (GDSF, et al) is too specialized that I haven't spent time looking in that domain. From your hints that sounds like the unexplored area that your work successfully optimized.
> spam detection, access, standardization and inter-operability

Spam detection works on a higher level than transport security, it is independent from transport (although a spam classifier might favor mails from SMTP servers sent with SSL and a client certificate signed by a CA for its domain name).

Access... well, that's IMAP/POP3's job, both support SSL for ages.

Standardization/interop, uh we already have SMTPS. The standard is there, what's lacking is support for inter-server encryption.
Monolaurin is a natural antibiotic. It's on the GRAS (generally regarded as safe) list. My doctor suggested it to me. It won't impact healthy bacteria. It's found in coconuts (oil being the best source) and human breast milk... in other words it's one of the first things we have all consumed. It's OTC.

Ordinary probiotics such as the powdery capsules that is so prevalent aren't the most effective. They don't get retained as well. Liquid ones will stick to the small intestinal walls more easily. I implemented my own hack by eating something that is mucilaginous which sticks to the intestines. Then I take a capsule shortly afterwards. Seems to work well... for me.

This protocol worked for me after I hosed my gut microbiome which caused me to lose 80 lbs in 2 months. Take of it as you will.

Exercise is critically important, when you digestion is in turmoil as peristalsis likely gets impacted, at least it did for me. Peristalsis is the undulation of the esophagus, stomach, and intestines which pushes food forward. Exercise restarts this if it isn't functioning correctly.

It's important for keeping the healthy bacteria in the large intestines out of the small intestines. You don't want to cross the streams in this case as it can be very painful and even debilitating.

That's my recipe for a holistic reset and restoration of floral balance.
Don't beat a dead horse
The critical parameters here are the probability of a malicious/non-malicious actor (or competent/non-competent, etc) accepting the job (let's call it Pma, Pna), and the probability of selecting a malicious/non-malicious actor (let's call em Pm, Pn). What you want is that the probability of selecting times the probability of acceptance be greater for non-malicious:

Pn Pan >> Pm Pam

If we assume we can't do better than random screening for malicious, we have a fixed Pn, Pm. So the crucial thing is to find incentives so that non-malicious actors are the least likely to take the job.

A good pre-screening (if possible) would have to raise the RHS or lower the RHS. For example, if the major incentive for malice is monetary, sampling from wealthy citizens could lower Pm, but it might also sightly lower Pan, so you may have to spend more resources to guarantee Pan=Pam=1.
> I wrote the majority of the analysis code for one of the chapters of the IPCC 5th Assessment and yet was told my name couldn't be put anywhere as I wasn't a 'scientist'.

Can you be more specific about the nature of your contributions? Writing code would seem analogous to performing experiments, which alone is insufficient to warrant authorship (but should get an acknowledgment).
Keep in mind that if the paste buffer includes a newline, everything preceding that newline will be executed. Pasting into an intermediate buffer, like a text editor, would be advisable.
There's a free tier, but it's not free beyond that. Otherwise folks would be mining bitcoins using BigQuery UDFs :)
Totally agree on Facebook, but Twitter is much more valuable than the ephemeral tweets.

I think the difference between the two comes from the nature of user relationships. While on Facebook it had to be reciprocal (following was added later and it's not used much), on Twitter the user relationships can be one way. That makes all the difference. This is why on Facebook the user relationships are just replicas of real-life relationships, which was great for user acquisition but it's also a huge limitation that Facebook can't get past. On Twitter on the other hand anyone can follow anyone and while user acquisition is more difficult, it opens up the world and gives a lot of opportunity for new user relationships. Because of this Twitter is the best social network we have so far.
It's amazing how the logic behind "sharing the pain" is applicable in so many situations.

BigCo database admins need to protect the integrity and availability of their data, so they don't mind creating more bureaucracy for programmers. Bureaucrats in general want to cover their butts and simplify their workflows, so they push complexity onto their "customers."

I'm sure others can think of many more examples.
With both binaries and curl|sh, trust in the source is a major factor in whether or not you do it. But copying an innocuous-looking terminal command (like `ps | grep`) doesn't seem like it would require trust.

I'll absolutely grab a binary or `curl | sh` from slack.com. I won't do it from a forum. But I would copy a terminal command that didn't look like it was doing anything fishy from a forum.
Some would argue that no OO use is a good thing (assuming you are referring to object oriented programming).

Expanding on this, writing research code is quite a bit different than writing production code. In particular, requirements can change quickly and drastically. This means that very open designs where you don't hide data (e.g. as is common in OO programming) are often the best designs.
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> I think the key bit with this news is that they're doubling down on "the employees snuck this by us. We had no idea. Absolutely no clue whatsoever. Pinkie swear."

> They may even be able to "find" an employee who has some kind of plausible story.

Maybe! But then they are just claiming to be incompetent as an auto engineering organization, rather than malicious. An interesting choice.
HN wouldn't let me reply to your most recent response, so I'm replying here:

All it takes is 2 people to conspire, whether they are co-workers or not. It fits very well with your first definition: 1. make secret plans jointly to commit an unlawful or harmful act
You mean without PGP right?
Eat fibre.

> I've developed a lot of food allergies

Really?

EDIT: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/fiber-famished-gut...

>Your gut is the site of constant turf wars. Hundreds of bacterial species—along with fungi, archaea and viruses—do battle daily, competing for resources. Some companies advocate for consuming more probiotics, live beneficial bacteria, to improve microbial communities in our gut, but more and more research supports the idea that the most powerful approach might be to better feed the good bacteria we already harbor. Their meal of choice? Fiber.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/06/120628131358.ht...

> A University of Illinois study shows that dietary fiber promotes a shift in the gut toward different types of beneficial bacteria. And the microbes that live in the gut, scientists now believe, can support a healthy gastrointestinal tract as well as affect our susceptibility to conditions as varied as type 2 diabetes, obesity, inflammatory bowel disease, colon cancer, and autoimmune disorders such as rheumatoid arthritis.

> As these microbes ferment fiber in the intestine, short-chain fatty acids and other metabolites are produced, resulting in many health benefits for the host, said Kelly Swanson, a U of I professor of animal sciences.

http://press.psprings.co.uk/gut/june/gut308778.pdf

http://time.com/3936636/diet-gut-bacteria/

> The good news is that your initial Akkermansia levels are not your fate. People who started out with lower stores of Akkermansia had more after they followed the fiber-rich calorie-restricted diet. You can increase these bacterial populations by eating fiber, Cani’s research suggests, which acts as a prebiotic in the gut and has a beneficial effect on some bacteria.
I think you underestimate the opportunity. Just because the businesses won't be completely new (and who knows what people will come up with) doesn't mean there isn't an economic opportunity. McDonalds and Walmart aren't inventing entirely new products (though their systems are pretty impressive) but they still make billions of dollars.
I think you're partly right, but I think another aspect of it is how new all this technology is. We completely dropped the "old" way of doing things (carefully take photo, get it developed, store it in an album) and replaced it with the current way (take lots of photos, upload them all to some service, share with friends) in a decade or less. Most people simply haven't accumulated all that much history on these services yet. It'll be interesting to see what our personal histories look like once this technology has been around for a few more decades. Things like the Facebook timeline may become increasingly important, or we may all abandon curated histories because (as you say) information is so easily retrieved now.
Not Trident.
Tobacco and junk food are primarily harmful to people who voluntarily consume them, while guns are statistically never more dangerous than when wielded by one's own government/military/police forces. (There are exceptions -- such as present-day life in America -- but they are historically anomalous and probably temporary.)
I had a huge page that was killing Firefox with an out of memory exception (that was a few years ago). Googled for 64 bit Firefox and got Waterfox, which solved that problem. So that's another selling point.
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Of course, the members of the appointed/hired bureaucracy could be chosen using Sortition too. Same for the group that appoints/hires them too.

Gotta love recursion.
Yes, I have. :(

I believe that they may be improving, but in general I have seen far fewer functionality problems from NVIDIA than AMD. Generation after generation, it seems to replay itself.
LOL.

~  yaourt -Ss waterfox

(err)  ~ 
The map of Providence looks very off to someone who knows the city blindfolded. I'm curious as to who he talked to.
Honestly, I don't think probiotic yogurt really contains as much of the bacteria as you would need to affect your system. I bought two 4-packs of that stuff and ate them over the course of a week as a replacement for the over the counter stuff, just to see if it would help. No effect whatsoever. Went back to the over the counter stuff (Udo's Choice, which is expensive, refrigerated stuff from Whole Foods) and I was right again. Though I have to say, probiotic with 102 billion cells might be pushing it for most. Flora-wise, I felt like I had a whole rainforest coming out of my ass, but it wasn't really a bad experience. It fixed my burning diarrhea after my run of antibiotics.
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I don't copy paste from anything to a terminal really. I was dealing with an enterprise client once who had an 'IT guy' who insisted for months that the Git repo was broken because the URL I had provided was invalid. dude was copy-pasting directly from the PDF guide I'd sent them (and copying incorrect characters), which actually specifically sates never to copy-paste any commands into the terminal as a basic security guideline.

hah.
Even in that case though, nobody is going to be happy with less money than they thought they had. If Bill Gates woke up tomorrow with half of his money gone, he'd be livid, even though he'd still have more money than he knows what to do with.
"What makes Waterfox so fast? It's built with Intel's C++ compiler. One of the most powerful compilers out there. This enables us to make the fastest possible web browser for all the code changes we make."

This is a huge claim to make with no evidence to back it up.

It's also a shallow comment. For one program, a compiler could compile faster code than another. Pick another another program and you may get the reverse result.

Plus I imagine the code is going to trail behind Firefox a bit. Is that worth probably a few milliseconds here and there?

I like your website though.
Back in the 1970s somebody wrote a novel, Acapulco Gold, about roughly this situation. I suppose that it is long out of print, but it shouldn't be hard to find on Amazon.

Edit: Actually, I think it was about Big Tobacco disrupting the cannabis business, not vice-versa.
Really? You're surprised? Third party advertisers are a plague to good engineers.. Same as turning on adblock, everything runs so much cleaner.
I think saying that antibiotics "mess up" your gut microbiome is making a lot of assumptions. Your biome changes if your diet changes. Saying that "any change" is "messing things up" is something I don't think has been proven.

Of course, there are risks of using antibiotic like C. difficile infections, but saying more than that is stretching the truth.
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I would hope that with all the resources they command that the NSA would not resort to methods involving such co-operation by their intended victims. Though anything goes I guess and why bother doing something intricate certain if something dumb and chancy works just as well.
I used to work on the Site Integrity team at Facebook. It's really challenging to fight spam at scale. We've accidentally blocked many top domains in the past -- mistakes happen and we work to fix them as quickly as we can.
>? It used to be you could easily get to a directory listing of Firefox builds. Apparently it's harder to find now, and Firefox just starts an auto-download for your OS and architecture based on your user agent, and if you search for how to install on Linux, they make it clear that may not be the best way to install ("Use the method that works best for your distro", which may be through the distro package manager).

Utter bullshit.

Google: "Download Firefox". Click first link. Click "Systems & Languages".
Who does this sort of work? People who want to make more money than the basic income, were I to guess.

These jobs (insofar as they need to be done, and some certainly do) will always be difficult, dangerous, and/or repulsive; but with basic income, they'd have to offer enough money and prestige to attract people who are now free to walk away.
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Never really saw Skype as a text messenger, only as a videoconferencing tool.
The actual reason is you're an Apple hipster. On a proper desktop PC, Chrome doesn't get hot and hungry. Ever.
Fecal transplants for the win, with my friend's mother-in-law. She had one a few weeks ago after suffering with digestive issues for a while and she's been great ever since.
source? PitchBook?