skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People are increasingly trying to crowd into a depressingly small and shrinking list of places.
Mostly megapolises like London or hubs like SF, where they then forced to live far enough that commute takes hours and their job takes the rest.
Money concentrate and people feel the need to concentrate as well.

Frankly I don't want to live that way. And I'm on my way to not to.
I agree. From my experience there is more pressure than ever for young people to own a house and a car. It's almost a prerequisite to marriage. Even in big cities where it's unreasonable to expect a young person to be able to afford these things there is still a pressure which most often falls upon the parents.
The problem with the gender gap in technology
Same reason mathematicians have symbols like: ∀, ∃, ∴, ∬, etc.

In fact now that Unicode is universal we should use all of these operators too :-)
The Libdispatch Project, (a.k.a. Grand Central Dispatch)
I'm stealing the term "crybullies". It's beautiful.
What? No browser displays a notification when a website changes its cert. It doesn't even show you a notification if it changes its key, that's the whole point of key pinning: https://wiki.mozilla.org/SecurityEngineering/Public_Key_Pinn... (A pin failure results in a non-bypassable HTTPS error: https://projects.dm.id.lv/Public-Key-Pins_test )
> I believe ISIS would agree with you whole-heartedly

I suspect ISIS would not agree with that statement, but with one that is slightly different:

"I feel very strongly that people should decide that what I think is right and fight for it."
The important practical results (e.g. many particular drugs) that we get and need are obtained not because of understanding why they work but despite that, empirical testing is a key part of current process.

We have considered and discarded a lot of candidate drugs with great potential before starting human testing. As a rule, if some molecule would cure an important disease but for whatever reason doesn't work on the popular strains of mice, then our current process would cause us to discard it.
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Whatever you write is copyright under the creator or the employer of the creator. What license you put past that is whatever you want, whenever you want.
Read It Aloud and Weep: Controversy Surrounds Kindle Text-To-Speech (2009)
The Microbes in Your Gut May Be Making You Fat (2013)
A short length is just one of the criteria used for determining fair use. In general, it is necessary but not sufficient.
I think this is one aspect. The other one that was cause for the demise was the lack of sound economics, as strange as it sounds.

At least from my and my families perspective everything was great as long as the economy was doing fine.

Why should back then anyone care about ethnicity or religion as long as everything was provided for. The society was egalitarian since the socialist government tried hard to create unity by this ideology of making everyone equal.

If you think about it it's not that different than what is depicted the Star Trek society, just with waaaay less technology.

Once the economy went downhill, which is inevitable with that kind of economic ideology people lost their belief and hope in the socialist ideology and went looking for something else. (Nationalism, Religion)

But in the end we should not loose sight of the fact that nation states are also just an idea. So are supranational states that are the current trend (EU, EEU) and who knows what tomorrow's trend may be.

What did not work in a national state might in a supranational state or some other organization form because each one comes with its own type of unifying ideology.
How did the price of a book crash by $23M overnight?
I like to look fashionable though. I already went through my $3/shirt, $35/outfit phase and it was great, but I've moved past it now.

Those prices already are cheap. That's a $40/year jacket. I mean I guess I could hunt and wait for deals but I don't have the brainpower to track yet another "thing" you know? I only spent a few hundred on clothing in the past decade with the majority of my main purchases being at the start of the decade. Shaving off $50 here and there from that would do virtually nothing for me. If you shop frequently then by all means hunt for deals but I wear the exact same thing every single day (this is where I makeup the money I lost on expensive items by not getting them on sale).

Please don't pretend like the prices that you are posting are in any way normal. Fit, quality, and style are greatly sacrificed for price. I can't even remember the last time I saw a $10 t-shirt that wasn't on sale or clearance.
In my city (in Germany, even!) the housing situation isn’t better.

"9m² apartment in a suburban house, on the attic – 150€/month, time limited offer of 3 months".

"11m² apartment subsidized by government, kitchen and bathroom shared with 30 other apartments, 350€/month"

Housing just is expensive.
Decent housing is not "consumer goods".

People nowdays can afford to buy a new smartphone every year, but they can only afford to live in a tiny capsule far far away from their work and social life.

This is not healthy.
test please ignore.

Checking to see if I'm still shadowbanned.
Which, from the workers' POV, is the same as still being in a downturn.
Sorry, I just look at it from a viewpoint of efficiency.

And, even when dressing with style, you are just burning money.
In higher level languages, loops are not about incrementing.
And to make sure the "other" gender gap is considered as well: http://www.randalolson.com/2014/06/15/the-double-edged-sword... by the same author
Yes. That sounds like a fairly middle class part of Beijing, the expensive areas (toward the center) would run 3X that, or more.
It really bothers me that the title should say "--" but instead says "–-" which consists of two distinct characters.
Hacker Leaks Customer Data After a United Arab Emirates Bank Fails to Pay Ransom
Enforce cert pinning? No. Notify when it is overridden by locally-installed roots? Yes.
Hah thanks, I knew something felt wrong about what I wrote. :P
Audiophiles are strange people. I wouldn't be too sure on them preferring digital.
Reminded me of this article about how Gaza is still just rubble after Israel bombed the crap out of it last year. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3120272/Living-rubbl...
I'm told by relatives that paper remains the easiest way to transfer medical records, either by courier or by fax, which are then scanned in. The move to electronic medical records has reduced the need to store paper records (which, interestingly, is expensive), but it hasn't done much to reduce the amount of paper consumed.
They were one of the first in the post-9/11 US to denounce government agencies getting data of library users, I remember the FBI first denying it, now after all we know about government surveillance is small potatoes.
There are two problems here. One is when the people are less than good. You get 5% jerks, and they can ruin your commune.

The second problem is when you're at least somewhat introverted. There comes a time when I no longer want to spend time with people, even if they're good.
An even older science fiction story from ancient Rome: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/True_History
We simply pass on what the artists offer, both from China, as well as creative artists in the US.
This is the critical thing - they're not simulations. They are mathematical models based on a mix of the existing economic macro-economic formula. With upwards of 200 parameters that can be tweaked. There is no particular recipe btw - if you start digging into the configuration files for these 'models', you'll find all sorts of things, with the occasional hilarious comment (my favourite -'this seems to work in Sweden').

Note that at the same time macro economists are talking about the business cycle, and the purported fit of one of these models to it, they are cheerfully ignoring the applicable Nyquist limit for whatever period cycle they believe they've identified.

Again to use Iceland - because it's a diddly little country and very easy to study. They stop the charts in 2005 because after that, there is a complete deviation from the model, which the model needless to say completely failed to predict. However, anyone who spent half an an hour looking at the Icelandic monetary statistics would have been able to identify clear warning signals from 2003 onwards, and some pretty clear analyses were being issued on that within the financial community by 2005.

Rumour has it the only use Wall Street has for DSGE models is to try and predict whatever crazy thing the central banks will do next.

http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2014-01-21/wall-street...
Soundcloud removed a track with no audio due to copyright infringement
BathRuby 2015: Here Be Dragons
It's great, but not the fastest client in/on OS X. For me, Mail is faster. YMMV.
And a lot of that criticism is warranted.

For example, she was never able to account for how much money her charity took in and where it went. And people have observed how the general upkeep of the charity's facilities would never change -- year after year, donation round after round.
Who (or what) is ESR?
It's meant to look like a painting, not a photo. That being said, we're upfront about the paintings. The gallery are actual paintings directly uploaded by the artists, from actual orders. We don't retouch the samples or anything.

You either like what you see there or you don't, and we just sell what they offer.
> I feel very strongly that people should decide what they think is right and fight for it.

> I feel no need to convince other people that my morality is superior to theirs.

Those two statements are in direct contradiction. Fighting for your morality is convincing others of its superiority. Those two things are the same thing.
With that mentality, I should just stay home in the fetal position because it's better than anything since I won't be spending a dime. Honestly, it's cheap as fuck. Have you met a regular person? Regular people go shopping every week for different shit, its unbelievable. I have friends that buy bags for $2k each, hats for $200, etc. Just because I literally only bought a few sweaters, a jacket, and boots a decade ago does not in any way make me inefficient. I am also not burning money by buying $50 sweaters.

Where do you live? There's no way you live in the modern world if you think $10/sweater is a regular price for something because that's absolutely insane. Do you only wear 90's crewnecks? I can see those being $10 at the local goodwill. If you do then why are you trying so extremely hard to find the lowest prices possible? Are you living in poverty?
On a hot-tin route
I feel stupid for asking but is this really a topic of discussion? ++ and -- were one of the first things I learned when starting to program. Its simple and quick to write.

Is this a thing some "new" programmers don't understand what is going on?

Am I taking crazy pills?
Last time I needed really fast hashing I used FNV. How does it compare to xxhash?
If x age group, social group, or "middle class" is experiencing an economic downturn - but the country as a whole is stable or upward - are they not still in an economic downturn?

This is a very common phenomenon with statistics... for example I frequently come across people citing that x time in history had early death rates - so you likely wouldn't have lived past 40 - without explaining the majority of deaths were due to infant death from disease. But if they in fact made it past early childhood then those projected maximum age numbers were not relevant.

This is why it's important to not plan based on global averages. One reason why conducting "cohort analysis" is very important in business analytics.
+100

What powerful tool is I incrementalism that the whole population has forgotten that we used to be private individuals.

The unification of the human race by the Internet now threatens the relevance of overgrown governments and banks. That's why they fight us.
So, why LibreSSL went with a 2+ year old version of that file?

The LibreSSL philosophy is to (at least initially) clean up the parts of OpenSSL that are "cruft". E.g. dropping support for long-dead computer architectures and protocols, removing homebrew malloc(). Stuff like that.

The LibreSSL guys have tried to stay away from the highly tricky crypto stuff. Messing with that could have serious security implications. They can address math and crypto later. For now there's still a lot of low hanging fruit they can pick.
Also easier to be a genius, when you have an actual genius (Wozniak) creating things the world had never seen before.
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Nice idea. Will try to add that when I have time.
Never mind - it's covered in the other reply link here. Looks like xxhash is the goto hash algorithm now.
highlighted: " The most valuable path may well be to simply invest this enormous pool of resources in the people and institutions that are already doing this work " this is exactly he conclusion that Warren Buffet arrived at some time ago, instead of creating a big ego non-profit institution to give to the specialists, he chose Gates' organization. [source: The Snowball]
Summary: novel way of breaking up natural gas into its constituent parts, hydrogen and carbon. Hydrogen can be used as fuel while carbon does not become CO2.
Not quite. C++'s references are syntactic sugar on top of pointers: a Foo& always needs a Foo to point to. But Swift's inouts are implemented as a pair of closures: a getter and a setter, which need not just modify a Foo.

Consider the much-hated vector<bool>, implemented as a packed bit array. Since you can't return a reference to a bit, operator[] must create a special wrapper class that holds a reference to the word and the bit offset, and then overload operator= and perform other tricks. It's famously leaky and gross.

In Swift, we can implement this optimization much more cleanly. inout lifetimes are always scoped, and when the scope ends, the new value is written back to the object via its setter. Our `inout boolean` is not backed by a boolean at all: it's backed by a getter and setter which can do arbitrary things, like mask and shift a word.
Perhaps a stealth advertisement for Sandstorm? :) https://sandstorm.io
I think you can create an include file with all the SSL configuration like cipher lists, Let's Encrypt support etc and just include it once for every vhost that uses SSL. Probably won't save time initially, but it should make changes like this faster in future.
I'm slowly switching from OS X 10.9.5 (Mavericks) to PC-BSD.

When Thunderbird doesn't work as expected, I might occasionally use Mulberry.

http://www.freshports.org/mail/mulberry/ – neither a maintainer nor official support but still, it's fast and powerful.
In case anyone is looking for an actual cronjob example. This works wonderfully:

#!/bin/bash
cd /srv/cert/domain.xyz
simp_le -d domain.xyz:/srv/www/domain.xyz/html \
-f key.pem -f cert.pem -f fullchain.pem \
&& service apache2 reload

And in the crontab:

43 1 * * * /srv/bin/cert-renew || true

EDIT: This is using the simp_le client (https://github.com/kuba/simp_le), not the official client. But this one is wayy easier to use.

EDIT 2: Guide here: https://blog.philippheckel.com/2015/12/04/lets-encrypt-5-min...
Anthropomorphizing inanimate things is a very human thing to do -- I can imagine that goes double when the thing is tied to your presence in a space -- like someone rearranging the paintings in your house.

I don't see either the author or the coworkers in this story as passive-aggressive, but rather familial -- people who were comfortable with a level of joking and camaraderie that allowed this sorts of comments to be understood as non-serious.
Smart people are outliers, hence their ideas are also outliers. Also, never underestimate the intelligence required to tailor a message to its audience.
Yeah, it certainly has weaknesses.
Or just buy a biosaftey glovebox they start around the 2000$ mark
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Nuaire-NU-704-300-Biological-Isolati...

And pressurize it with helium or a noble gas.
Nice job! I found LE's client irritating to use as well. Yours sounds clean and correct.

(I'm just amazed that LE decided to try modifying webserver config files automatically. There are soooo many ways for that to fail. It's going to take an immense amount of programmer effort for very little gain.)
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Software developers

Right now we're building out contract analytics tools using Scala, Java and the Play framework (later goals include hadoop, spark, cassandra). It's a very new unit (two months old), trying to add unstructured data capacity to the Risk Assurance division. We're basically a very well funded startup. There's 5 of us and we're looking to grow to 20.

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Right, but calling it an "economic downturn" confuses the issue in the same way not including infant mortality does. The important thing to realize here is that the economy is growing, i.e. more overall wealth is being generated. That enables you to ask the question -- if there's more wealth being generated but most people in society are seeing their wealth and income stagnate or decrease, what is going on, and why?
What do you propose is the alternative to capitalism? It's the only system that seems to have reasonably worked.
Universality doesn't necessarily have anything to do with morality.

If I want to kill all other people and I successfully kill everyone but myself, my preference has become universal but fulfilling that preference has not become any more moral.

Personally, I don't think morality is all that subjective, but more an emergent property of community identity. (Thus is inherently shared rather than inherently personal). I would way that Morality is, fortunately, relative.
>What we have learned over the last 25 years is the traditional laissez faire model has failed us when it comes to antibiotics.

What's the best way to quantify the failure? Like a chart showing the bacterial infection death rate for the past 100 years? Costs for the average antibiotic dose over time? Something else? Those data sets seem like they should be available, but are apparently harder for me to find than I would have thought, given the prevalence of all the information available on anti-microbial resistance that pops up for my collection of search terms.

Do you see this new work as a departure from, or a continuation of the antibiotics development of the past?
A small consolation of sorts, but if you give a generation or two nothing but positive, record-breaking "middle class" economic growth you wind up with Baby Boomers - years that followed a great war and for Americans the greatest economic surge perhaps on record. This is a generation whose parents were raised through the Great Depression and had every material childhood desire whittled down to stubs in mass poverty. Then you give this same generation an adult livelihood and independence with the mass advertising boom with call to actions revolving around "you deserve <product>" this does not promote the most selfless of actions.

Time and time again I've been hearing baby boomers complaining about how young people today aren't "working hard enough" along with them being "so entitled" and pointing to Zuckerberg and random stories about kids selling start-ups for millions as if these are all somehow available to them and that they're being turned stupid by technology instead of "hard work" (this is fairly standard rhetoric not just for conservatives of the generation but even fairly moderate folks in my own experience at least). Then they tend to talk about how hard they worked when they left high school, bought a house, and lived well while saving judiciously similar to the lifestyle choices made in the Millionaire Next Door book.

Setting up a generation with unrealistic economic expectations is perhaps one of the biggest double edged swords the US has wielded in its history. Great for positive energy and all, but perhaps it wasn't entirely a net positive across several generations.
I take that as a very strong piece of evidence that 96% of the time on a very long road trip is spent on roads with near-ideal conditions. It sounds like the trip was mostly on highways. US interstates are wide, straight, and nearly uniformly impeccably painted and signed.

4% of the time there's inclement weather, ambiguously signed construction, heavy traffic in snow that occludes the entirety of the road, cars stopped in their lane, detours into the lane normally dedicated to oncoming traffic, and all sorts of other low-frequency events that are much harder to solve than keeping a car moving forward on an interstate.

I'd argue that 96% autonomous driving time isn't even enough to say we're 50% of the way through the challenges of creating an autonomous vehicle. Think twice before accusing me of not understanding percentages.
Can Christmas tree lights really play havoc with your Wi-Fi?