skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Github should do this for pull request comments. :)

"Your pr probably have about 5 bugs left"
In many US states, truck driver is the leading occupation. Admittedly the numbers are skewed by the way various professions are broken up, but as far as semi-skilled labour goes, driving is enormous.
We certainly hoped they'd surrender at the time.

The targets were mid-sized cities because by the time the target planning started, Kyoto was the only big one the B-29s hadn't burned to the ground (well, the important parts; I forget when, but we'd given up on Tokyo after destroying 17 square miles or so), and Secretary of War Stimson, who'd visited it and Japan in general, removed it from the list, despite Groves imploring him many times to not. That was wise, if for no other reason that it strengthened the Emperor's hand when he was finally in a position to end the war, for a long time Kyoto was the Emperor's city, Tokyo the military's.
like communism?
>This is much better approach than securing all services and system deamons run on a server.

Um, no. You should absolutely be doing both. Defense in depth is the only way to remain secure in failure of any other component. A firewall WILL NOT PROTECT YOU FROM THAT.

For example, you just put on the firewall and leave a daemon running on localhost as root. The firewall allows connections from localhost by default (as most do). An attacker finds a hole in your webserver and is able to run scripts in the httpd context. The script makes a connection to the daemon on localhost, exploits it, and now has root privileges. With root the attacker modifies the firewall rules to allow access. You are now fully exploited.

Had your daemon been secured they would have only been a takeover of httpd and daemon accounts and not a full system compromise. Privilege separation is extremely important.
The Landlord’s Game, Precussor to Monolopy
Largest act of bioterrorism on U.S. soil
Not exactly. For example, you couldn't form a government without one member each from the Army and Navy, and the Army grossly abused this power.

And as I noted elsewhere, a culture of acceptable political assassination was well established by then, so e.g. being too strongly anti-war would only get you killed.
UBI is sometimes framed as a negative income tax.

This would also benefit middle income families, by automatically lowering their taxable income. Perhaps along the lines of what you meant by progressive taxation. (I have not personally seen much meaningful opposition to UBI. It would be good to hear more meaningful criticism of the ideas.)
I've never been called by Gallup, for instance, but I do receive calls for national campaign efforts on my cell.
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>Even today a 'zero day' exploit for a major platform can be dealt with though

But they can only be dealt with once they're discovered by people with an incentive to fix it. The NSA says they weren't using Heartbleed[1], but I can't think of a single reason they wouldn't lie about it. In any case, that was a massive security flaw that could have conceivably been exploited for more than a decade. If it affects 30 percent of systems instead of 90 percent, that seems like worthwhile hedging of bets.

[1] http://www.engadget.com/2014/04/11/nsa-heartbleed/
How does this app compare to atomic.io [1], which just came out of beta and appears targeted to a similar use case?

[1]: https://atomic.io/
Infrared.
Hopefully not to stern to leave out Capt'n Crunch and frozen milk.
I'd be interested to see something like this but rather than a straight cost comparison, an analysis of what it got you in the marketplace. If you had this kind of compute power in 1976, what could you do that your competitors could not, and what was the multiplier to the business. With computing ubiquitous now the hardware doesn't always provide you with a significant competitive advantage, but I can imagine in 1976 you could own an industry that way, and $300K may have seemed like a steal.

EDIT: The post might be something like: "Why we bought a DEC for 300K and never thought twice about it"
I admire the work that went into the Imus map, but looking at the example images in the article, I actually think I prefer the NatGeo map.

My eyeballs seem to have an easier time resolving the place names, and figuring out what they refer to. I think its because NatGeo let the baselines for the text bend, while Imus insists they're all flat, making them looked "stacked"

(I actually compared the maps and decided which one looked better before reading the caption saying which was which, and was surprised the one I prefered was the one NatGeo one.)
Former President Jimmy Carter has said he's cancer-free
A Lot of Websites Are Going to Start Loading Way Faster
If the Medicare premiums are not voluntary, how is it different from a tax?
This is why I believe LIDAR is a blind alley. We will need to use stereo camera setups and clever bit of firmware (maybe even neural nets) to extract 3d directly from the picture in real time, just like the rest of us monkeys.
> .It's quite likely that Jobs could never be the Jobs we know without LSD.

It is equally likely that he might not have eschewed modern medical science in favor of woo and still be alive. <shrug>
I experience failures like this with Time Machine every couple of months. The only thing to do is wipe the previous backup and start anew. This happens on all my Macs so it's not device specific nor is it related to the underlying backup medium which is working perfectly. If you absolutely cannot take even the smallest chance of losing your data, TM is not a good choice. If you need something that runs for years on end reliably, TM is a terrible choice. It won't do that. If you can deal with the regular FUBAR'd backup and redoing it from scratch (so you have about a 24 hour period with either no backups or two separate backups) it's not a bad system. Sure is better than whatever Windows 7 offers which will never remove old data and will inevitably lead to full disks.
George Bush,and for Canada, Harper, come to mind.
I'm actually working on a service just like this, but not specifically for Netflix. Since a lot of households nowadays have multiple streaming services and I think we should't forget that people still actually buy/rent movies online a service that not only provides the consumer with great movie exploring possibilities but also the possibility to actually see where they can stream, buy or rent the movie.
The Way to Train Dog Becomes a Photogenic Dog – Infossible
What’s the Matter with Polling?
I use computers now to do work for my company, and for any side project I happen to work on. I also use them to read things, watch things, listen to things, and communicate with people.

What I would like to use them for in the future? To offload most of my brain onto/into them, and use them as tools to be more efficient and more productive.

Browsers being such a goddamned broken workflow just makes shit so much more difficult. Tabli does a lot to fix it, but Tabli can't live-sync tab states on Tabli-managed windows across browsers.

One of my largest problems is, I can't restore my ongoing task state simultaneously on other machines. If I'm doing something on my desktop, and take my laptop downstairs or outside with me, I can't just pick up where I left off anywhere but my desktop.

"Cloud" services are meant to tackle this problem set, but complex things like Office365 only allow live cloud sync via the web client, the full scale desktop client does not yet properly integrate this.

If my task involves sshing somewhere, I often tmux long lived sessions, and can ssh in from somewhere else and attach them where I am now. Not all tasks I do are in a terminal.

As for the Moov stuff, yes, I'm very very interested in computer assisted physical task tracking and less traditional interfaces, such as voice or non-touch gesturing. When I'm using my hands and trying to concentrate on something, I can't go be fucking with my laptop or phone all the time to manage the task.
Scientific Support for Mental Exercises: Battle of the Open Letters
Yes, that would be awesome however I think the main reason this one took the prize was the sheer amount of "curated", "human" touches that were not present in other automated maps. That said, perhaps somebody could throw this against an image processing / learning API and extend that to a rendering template? :)
This is just --- apologies for being coarse about it --- some rando filing a bug, right? I looked and didn't see any evidence that he's somehow associated with the Firefox project.
Linux Mint 17.3 “Rosa” Cinnamon Released
Not feasible for them, they didn't have a supply of uranium ore, nor the industrial capability to make use of it. I think if the Germans had done everything right and started in earnest soon enough (they didn't, period), they could have rode the plutonium path to a working bomb in time.

But sometimes the smallest of things derails you. The scientists' saving throw for a real program failed when the bigwigs Nazis were invited to a seminar, but the secretary sending out the invitations accidentally included in the packets the agenda for a different and very technical seminar they'd have no interest in.
When I was a child, there was the same system in place in Italy for Coca-Cola glass bottles, and maybe for other sodas as well. It then disappeared, unfortunately.
I believe installing UFW and blocking everything except what you actually use (22, 80) is the way to go.
I don't know, it think the scenario in the article is pretty common where people offset the time the property is empty with a high price. Especially when there's things like seasonality. If an apartment becomes empty in the spring the owner might have it empty to the summer, rent it out at a higher price to tourist and then instead rent it out in long-term in the autumn when there is more demand.

I don't pretend to know everything about the housing market. Just that in a time where the Internet have created opportunities to more easily work on the things you think matter with like-minded people, the housing market is going the other way in terms of flexibility. Paradoxically time and space are more important than ever. Being able to do conferences and have people hang around afterwards, as a smaller company bring some in to consult in person, even just hanging out and exchanging ideas all takes time. It's all possible now, but not only is it not equally distributed, it's somewhat getting less so.
Haven't been up on SF works outside video games. Personally, I think they did a good job with Shepard and Reaper plot on Mass Effect 1. Kind of integrated a lot of themes into the ultimate villain and ability to artificially mitigate the threat of biological evolution. Maybe it was a knock-off of someone but I thought it was clever. Reapers remain my favorite, SF villains. :)

Need to get back into the genre at some point. Anyone got recommendations on especially interesting or innovative works?
>How can you make a software intentionally insecure and then also bind to all interfaces by default?

In the last 20 years I've been working on systems, that is the default on way too much. It's only been in very recent history that things come more secured by default. In the past popularity was strongly correlated with ability to set up. 'Works by default with no security' is really easy to setup and reduces the number of complaints that "product is too hard to use, when with $x product instead".
Ask HN: How to be a great sysadmin?
I called 911 from my cell phone for a carbon monoxide detector incident and they had no idea where I was. I was transferred around multiple times and gave my address more than once. It took multiple minutes to get the call completed and it was probably at least 10 minutes before the fire department arrived.

Contrast that with my childhood neigbor pranking 911 from my home phone in the early 80s. The police knew where the call came from and showed up promptly.
A classic display of latency vs bandwidth. The DEC box wins on latency but the pi wins on bandwidth, for large enough tasks, anyway.

A 2040 was a PDP-10 with a 30 MHz KL processor running around 30 MIPS and TOPS-20 (the source of the "20" in the name) a quarter century ago.

30e6 * 60 * 24 * 365 * 25 = about 4 e 14 instructions.

I can't get a straight answer but hundreds of MIPS sounds reasonable for a pi zero.

4e14 / 500e6 / 60 / 24 / 365 = about a year and a half

So sometime in 2017 a pi zero would finally catch up to a DECSystem-2040 which had a quarter century head start. Of course the 2040 has been continuously producing intermediate results for the first 25 years of the "race" while the pi output no results at all having not being invented yet. Also after 27 or so years the pi will somewhat surpass the 2040.

Also the IO bandwidth and scalability of old mainframes usually puts newer hardware to shame. "My calculator has more power than a 1960s NASA mainframe that sent men to the moon" "Oh so you're saying you've been to Mars, then?"

On one hand, 4e14 instructions executed would have been enough to run entire civilizations, some years ago. On the other hand, its not enough to boot modern Windows, although despite the difficulty is none the less not accomplishing anything in the real world.
Swift Development Visualization (2010-2015)
You do "tech support" and are generally tech savvy? Try getting a job doing remote QA. There are online services for testing apps/software. I work for a company that employs such a service to test our stuff.

Now, your real goal, it sounds like, is not to leave your current job, it is to get paid better. You can't do that without mobility.
Extreme Gerrymandering can skew even mmp via overhang candidates.
The German system is also really great. It's a 15 cent Pfand for a plastic water bottle. Everyone recycles them. Failing that, the bottles are so thick that I just keep refilling mine. I've had the same 8 for more than a year.
Some things don't have whole answers that can be indexed in a wiki. Wisdom is extremely lossy in compression.
Hip hop is mostly white folks listening to millionaires pretending to be gangsta, no?

For real, hip hop is a great example. Have you noticed how the denser parts are always spoken, and the sung parts are always repetitive and don't say all that much if anything at all?

Did you have hip hop in mind when you said that you feel ownership of a song is trivial, though?
If I see that right, it could be the Geschäftsführer (CEO) from https://www.psw-group.de/. I saw no further Mozilla involvement in my short search either.
Were you actually successful in getting the designers to ditch the WYSIWYG tools and write code instead?

Agree strongly that designers are capable of using version control, navigate the command line, and even write scripts that make their life easier (the Sketch plugin ecosystem is a good example). However, it was my observation that to do the thing that they care most about, which is building great interfaces, they do not need to know any of these things, and they do it only for the benefit of the developers. Which is a good reason why tools like these exist. I'm curious to hear your thoughts around this. Thanks.

(I'm not at all affiliated with Figma and in fact I'm building a tool in the same space)
From the comments:

A PITRA (point-in-time readiness assessment) is sufficient to begin issuing if the formal audit follows in a timely fashion. It's not possible to have a formal audit of the issuance process unless you are issuing; requiring it to begin issuance would lead to a chicken-and-egg problem.

Gerv
Looks cool. I wonder if it generates actual code/project stuff or is a pure design tool like InVision/Sketch/etc.? I've always felt designers are well served by existing tools and know how hard it is to get them to switch.
He was alright: https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/finding-the-next-einste...
On the other hand, Whitey Bulger credited LSD experiments he volunteered for while in prison for making him more paranoid and unstable[1]. Granted, the amounts inflicted on subjects in those CIA experiments was wildly beyond what pretty much any non-Deadhead or Merry Prankster would consume, and orders of magnitude beyond any nootropic microdosing scheme.

[1] http://boston.cbslocal.com/2011/07/07/i-team-whitey-bulger-v...
That is about the same price as the VAX 11/780 we bought in 1979 (serial number 13) to run CAD/CAM software. I remember the price was around $350K, which included three RM80 drives, a vacuum column 9-track tape drive and giant battery backup. We added third party memory to bring it up to 4MB and a 40 port Emulux serial interface. It was just a few years later that a 16Mhz i386 was as fast as this system.
I find the idea scary.

Government regulation has a history of fucking things up creating problems even worse than the one meant to be solved.
NASA Considering Deep Sleep Stasis for Mars Mission
> Were you actually successful in getting the designers to ditch the WYSIWYG tools and write code instead?

No, this would be a stupid thing to do.

I suggested moving them to the WYSIWYG tool that is directly coupled with IDE instead.
The problem is that most of the 'compromises' involve agreeing to spend some money in the Congressional district.
If we have a labor surplus, how does a basic income solve the problem? The money has to come from somewhere. Moreover, the population will age, and as demography and technological advancement increases the (stipulated) surplus, there will be fewer and fewer sources of revenue to fund the basic income. It seems like magical thinking.

I often find myself thinking that invocations of "basic income" are really just excuse-making: if we could just re-engineer the entire economy, we wouldn't need to confront this tangle of systematic racism and 1950s-era civil and social engineering. But in fact, we do need to confront it, or resign ourselves to networks of large US cities that serve primarily as a poverty trap for African Americans.

It's also a way to avoid engaging with the actual article, which is what happened here.
Well it wouldn't be a very good hologram then, would it?
You're making a values judgement on how hard a nation and people should fight to defend themselves. And whatever Japan's stance at the start of the war, they were certainly defending their homeland at the end of it. I'm not saying that the calculation of lives was incorrect. All I'm saying is that the "evil culture" reasoning is designed to rationalize to the masses, and it's a distortion of reality. I don't disagree that cultural values can be problematic. I just think it was a bullshit excuse in this particular case.
How much of this just comes down to taste? I enjoyed that whole book, including the digression.
Throughout the history of innovation, eliminating jobs did not eliminate work. New jobs sprang up. This has happened over and over. If you think that the deprecation of hundreds of thousands of jobs will mean that hundreds of thousands of people can't work anymore, you are sorely mistaken. This is a fallacy intelligent people have fallen into throughout the centuries.

Automation and computers have been doing their jobs for decades now, and America is still at 5% unemployment. I'll keep betting on capitalism while others continue to think, "this time is different".
Similar situation. Came home to my house broken into, backdoor was completely smashed in, luckily the robbers were gone. When I called 911 from my cell I got an operator from a neighboring town; my house is on the border of a major US city and some small neighboring towns. While they were trying to transfer me I just went inside and used my landline and got connected before they finished transferring.
It also says:

> “Unfortunately the bags themselves can’t be recycled—they are too dirty, so they will end up in a landfill.” This holds true for all plastic items that haven’t been cleaned properly—hence, the leaflets calling for us to “rinse our recyclables.” The cleaner a plastic bottle is, the more likely it will be marked for reincarnation as something new.

That bit happens before the washing, so I think the advice to wash plastics is correct. Sounds like there may not be harm in placing all plastics into the recycling bin regardless of their cleanliness, though; sounds like they'll just end up as waste if not clean enough.
I wish every post here had a TL;DR like this. You saved my time and yet gave me a reason to get back to this article later. Thanks.
How come the graph accounts for only 97% of the people?
And ... we control the supply. If we all agree, we can set pricing however we want. Yes, it would be a monopoly/union/cartel, but OTOH, we could double or triple our take home overnight.
Modafinil comes with a litany of side effects, and is not for everyone (http://www.drugs.com/sfx/modafinil-side-effects.html). It also has 'minor' interactions with amphetamines like Adderal (http://www.drugs.com/drug-interactions/modafinil.html), a common 'card' in the 'stack' that many nootropics proponents use. Doctors come with years of training and pay a lot of money for it. Before going on possibly psychotropic drugs, talk to them, not some random dude online.

That it 'enhances' your brain is an incredibly complex statement too. Define enhance, define brain, define your brain. Is your enteric nervous system part of your brain? Will these drugs effect it too and enhance it? How do these drug's enhancements effect the nerves that control digestion, circadian rhythm (modafinil 'promotes wakefulness'), or the functions of reflexes or other autonomic processes like valve and sphincter control?

"It's good for graduate students to understand complicated math or engineering concept." Read that again. I don't know what crazy place you are in, but if you thing that taking small doses of very powerful hallucinogens is a good way to get work done, you need to find another job very quickly. Yes, it may unlock more 'science' or breakthroughs, but in doing so you put your body and more importantly you mind and sanity on the line (http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2013-08/fyi-can-acid-t...). Yes, it is a small risk, but one you don't have to take.

Yes, Steve did talk about lsd and it being powerful experience for him (https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/542554-taking-lsd-was-a-pro...). But from the quote, it seemed to be more of a 1 time experience, not a habitual thing of micro doses. Steve was going to be Steve with or without lsd, I think, though he seemed to think it helped motivate him.

All in all, eating right, sleeping well, and getting exercise are the best bang for your buck. As it has always been.
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Which thinkers did you have in mind?

The Mentat Wiki has entries on mnemonic techniques like the Major System[1], Peg System[2], and the Loci System (aka Memory Palace)[3], which are hundreds if not thousands of years old.

It's not really fair to characterize the wiki as being all about "drugs and video games".

[1] - http://www.ludism.org/mentat/MajorSystem

[2] - http://www.ludism.org/mentat/PegSystem

[3] - http://www.ludism.org/mentat/LociSystem
It's been a number of years since I was involved in e911 rollout, but at that time geolocation for 911 was very rough. We were doing this testing in Kansas (I was literally handed a map of every cell sector in the county and a script to read as I called into 911 a hundred times a day from each sector), but accuracy at best was within a block or two.

I'm sure technology has improved since then, but the apt complex I live in now in NYC has 25,000 residents over 80 acres. My guess is the closest geolocation they'd get is to a cluster of a couple buildings, which could easily be close to 500 different residences.
Your point is that you feel queasy about how brutal life was back then and you wanted to throw some shade to feel better about your obviously better moral standards, and in doing so you missed the shot in the map by thousands of miles.

Here's some reading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Legend
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