skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Been using z for a couple of months now and I really recommend people to try it out!
What do you mean by "the open"?

Mine are on Github, but in a private repo. They're nothing special at all - there are better examples for others to learn from.

As a backup, or for a refresh/new machine - what easier way than to clone my own repo? I guess I could them on another disk, a USB drive say, but will I really remember to plug it in to push changes? It would certainly be easier just to use Github.
Well, yes, of course you're right. Reality doesn't give a damn; reality doesn't even notice, because there's nothing there to do any noticing. You don't need a lot of imagination to see the horror in that. What you need a lot of imagination for, and a particular kind of imagination besides, is not seeing it. Not everyone can do that, which is why people who could do it invented gods, for the use of those who couldn't. And now we've outgrown gods, or think we have, because we've grown up to a point where we can do things which in the past only gods would dare imagine, and where's the place for gods in that?

But it could all still go wrong for us, because reality doesn't give a damn, and if our descendants find themselves surrounded on every side by the bones of fallen dreams and a world that doesn't care, then people with the right kind of imagination will give them gods again. Because in times like those, gods are what people need, and there's no reason in the world why people shouldn't have what they need. And where's the place for Eastern philosophers in that?

There's such a thing as too much navel-gazing, and the point at which it becomes too much is the one where you fall in and stop being of any use to anyone. Of course, some of them climb back out again and set about helping other people, and those, called bodhisattva, are the only ones worth the trouble. The others there's no point to, because what good does it do to go around telling people that reality doesn't give a damn and there's no meaning to existence and everyone lives and dies in a universe that might well casually wipe out the whole lot of us without even noticing, only it hasn't happened to happen yet? Going around doing that is rather missing the point, because, like Martin Amis, you haven't thought it all the way through.
These two paragraphs highlight the findings the the hypothesis explaining the 50%+ change:

"During the 2000s, highly educated women had higher fertility rates than women with intermediate levels of education. Importantly, this is a result of a substantial increase in fertility among women with advanced degrees who increased their fertility by 0.7 children, or by more than 50%"

"What can explain the rise of fertility among highly educated women during the period that saw the largest increase in the labour supply of highly educated women? We argue that the growing income inequality over the past three decades created both a group of women who can afford to buy services that help them raise their children and run their homes, and a group who is willing to supply these services cheaply."

They don't mention anything about birth control, which I found interesting.
Actually, she built and staffed a nursery at her office, which is certainly a luxury not available to the average worker. Her statement on the matter doesn't acknowledge the fact that she has resources that are unique to her, which I find somewhat disingenuous.
Traditional marriage is one the cheapest and most resilient contract. I have weirdos in my family who make a living of going after other family members' inheritances, and found that getting married was the simplest, strongest and in fact cheapest way to protect my spouse and children.

Unfortunately this only apply if you intend to have a traditional marriage, heterosexual, a couple, and no intention to brake it. Marriage was invented by religious people back when they were the custodians of the laws. Because of this a lot of people are very strongly attached to that notion. Secular societies should invent a new word, and new contracts more suited for modern society.
History never repeats itself, but sometimes it rhymes -- Mark Twain
Handwriting Generation Demo in TensorFlow
Everybody using md5sums (or equivalent) and assuming they don't clash is using probabilistic algorithms.

There is nothing wrong with this if the probability of failing is smaller than the chance of an asteroid landing on your head.
As others have said, I lost a little confidence in Gwern, who was a co-author of the the Wired piece and who I, until now, viewed as more skeptical. Especially given his history at LessWrong.
Nothing is stopping entrepreneurs from stockpiling tanks of syrup in good seasons to sell at a profit in bad seasons.

If the extremes are like you say, it would be good business and would help stabilize prices somewhat.

No insane cartel required.
There was a brutal bug in Vista on some machines where it would peg the CPU for hours during update check on start-up. Users learned to never fully reset unless it was critical. I saw it personally in multiple machines, and I'm a dev not an admin - I only use a handful of computers.
You say it like he's wrong now.
Office Thinner – Empty 3.7G Space on Office 2006 for Mac with hardlink
> What kind of society would force someone to travel from Paris to New York to Sioux Falls, where they have to take up residence for 90 days, so they can maintain their own love life?

I'll counter with a different question: what kind of society would destroy families on the slightest pretext, or without any pretext at all? And why is 'maintaining [one's] own love life' worth destroying a family?

> The toll it takes on a family is often irrevocable.

Which is why it used to be so rare: because folks realised how terrible divorce really is.

The only good thing I can see about no-fault divorce is that it's reduced the number of spousal murders.

I agree with you that the marriage laws no longer make any sort of rational sense, and that civil marriage should be a civil contract, although from a different angle: the sacrament which united my parents together has absolutely no resemblance to the legal fiction abused by, say, Kim Kardashian.

> stating clearly what's expected of both parties and how the relationship is fairly dissolved

Seems to me that 'til death do us part' is a pretty big item in most marriage ceremonies…
Yep. Either go with: a free market approach - facing the full force of globalisation and international politics, where one year you could be producing at a loss and another year a good profit; or be protected by a nationalised system that's predictable and, well, mediocre. No in between, as that will undermine either system.
[Code repo] badges for badges' sake
Some feedback: "In the delta of your current understanding and the reality of the cloud, lies cost savings and insight." This sentence was a little confusing. Maybe:

Cloudcraft make it easy and clear where your could is and where it could go.

Something a little simpler and more direct.
Both Kind and the government are wrong because they assume implicitly and without justification that human body works the same way for everybody. This is not true. Everyone is different, what is healthy for me may not be healthy for you.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-11-20/diets-should-be-tailor...

In fact, salmon is one of the most allergenic foods in existence. This also shows why it is wrong to classify a food as "healthy" or not.
Onics – Packet manipulation with shell pipelines
wow, thanks for sharing that story.
Transforming Hashes: A Refactoring Story
Not intending a flamewar, so I changed the title!
The thing is though, they don't realize that they see the constitution as a hindrance.
That person who is not neurotypical might be the type of person who works 80 hours a week with the net result of creating more work for everyone else. I've seen plenty of those.
> 'People who say that our practices are totalitarian should go see what happens in China, North Korea, or Africa.'

'We're not as bad as North Korea!' is hardly compelling.

Why not set up a system of maple syrup futures, rather than sending in police and raiding people's homes?
The Quebec government passed laws enabling it in 1990. It was modelled after the Canadian Wheat Board.

The relevant legislation is called "Loi sur la mise en marché des produits agricoles, alimentaires et de la pêche" but it's all in french.
Please don't propagate this crap. The stories came out only after the guy publicly paraded himself as Nakamoto.

Quite possibly we would have gotten articles published even if Wright didn't "out" himself, but I highly doubt that gwern would have given his name in that case, and Wright did out himself after all.
Things you didn't know about satanists
How many people regularly use Tor for things other than stuff you want to truly keep private? When was the last time you fired up Tor just to browse the web?

I think all of us that want things like Tor to exist need to start making sure we're users of Tor to do legitimate things on a regular basis. When people are asking for "privacy" on public wifi for basic web browsing, maybe we should be pointing them at the Tor Browser Bundle instead of a commercial VPN service, Hotspot Shield or the like.

I think there is a lot of talk around Tor's legitimate uses, but I think a lot more of us should put our actions where our mouth is and make sure we use Tor on a regular basis. Tor has a lot of uses that aren't underscored by its team or the usual privacy message:

1. Tor's great at getting around firewalls and web filters. Have a bad ISP that proxies everything? Torify. Stuck in a school in which you can't view materials you need for research? Torify.

2. Tor is cheaper than coffee-shop/public Wifi VPNs and is likely fine* for browsing the internet privately (note I did not say anonymously, since you will likely log into services from the Tor exit that will give up your anonymity.)

3. Tor hidden services are an easy way to set up a very secure connection to a remote service; the anonymity is just an extra feature. Do you live with five roommates in a house connected to someone else's NAT box, and he/she won't give you admin access? Tor hidden services are great NAT traversal tools. Run sshd behind a hidden service and you can shell into your own computer from anywhere for free.

The greater the critical mass of Tor exit IPs being used by legitimate people, also the less people will be inconvenienced by them places. I often use Tor to log in here to Hacker News, and I have to fill out captchas every now and then. If 10,000 people were using Tor to visit Hacker News, it's likely these would get easier or go away.

If we want these tools to be legitimate, we have to make them legitimate, not just say "hey, there are legitimate uses for it!" Run the browser bundle. If you have extra resources, run a bridge or a relay; you can even run a middle relay from your house with likely no ill effect according to the EFF. If you really have power and are willing to deal with abuse requests, running an exit helps everyone.

* Note I said likely fine because I wouldn't log into anything particularly sensitive from Tor. I personally believe a far greater proportion of the Tor exits are malicious to the network than the project wishes to believe, whether that means they are run by nation-state surveillance or people good at setting up transparent proxies.
Static resources go right in the garbage!
Regardless of whether Craig Wright is Nakamoto, there's an interesting story here, and I'm looking forward to it coming out. Someone has spent a fair amount of time and effort forging documents and setting up an elaborate paper trail to lead some journalists to this conclusion. Why?

It's easy to compare this to the Dorian Nakamoto thing, but this is quite different. Nobody had a vested interest in making Dorian look like Satoshi, it was just sloppy journalism. This is something else (although it might be sloppy journalism too...)
A couple coworkers of mine and I have devised a perfect strategy to combat the anti-encryption/ anti-privacy movement. Since logic and reason do not work, start asking people who work against encryption / privacy and the people who also have those views, "Why do you hate America? Why do you hate freedom and the bald eagle?" This will surely gather people on the correct side.
That's why I prefer a republic to a democracy. Some things shouldn't be allowed even if a majority want them.
I did VI for over 10 years, and now I tried IntelliJ Python integration, and my rate of making stupid errors and wasting valuable time has gone down dramatically. Lightning-fast navigation across files, actually working autocomplete, live code style analysis. To be fair, I tried it before and was unimpressed, but in come cases, modern IDE's are becoming superior. And note that it's out of the box - setting up and trying different plugins just seems annoying in the least.
I've done that and it works well, with the limitations you noted - it is static, so there can be no dynamic content (e.g. no comments - a Good Thing^TM - random user's comments are nothing but trouble). Blogs are not a problem, but you have to (manually) refresh the static site after each blog entry. For a business site (what I set up) with essentially static content, that is fine.

I no longer have access to the site, so I'm writing this from memory... I used a standard plugin that generated a static site out of the dynamic content. The plugin was for supporting static site serving on the local server, not a separate server. Being the more paranoid type, I used a Wordpress "authoring" server that was not publically accessible and a separate publically accessible "static" site server. I either had the plugin suboptimally/mis-configured or it had limitations, so I had to run a sed script on the output to change the web server host name from the internal authoring host to the static publically accessible host name (the link paths were fixed up properly). I then rsync'ed the result to the public host (with --delete to clean up obsolete files) using ssh keys for authentication, not passwords. I put this in a shell script, which made it simple and convenient for a sysadmin (me) to use but it was not user friendly for the Wordpress (not really computer literate) users. Not a problem, perhaps even a Good Thing^TM.
I am a bit surprised, however, that you have brought up formal reasoning in this thread which discusses the philosophy of science. You surely know that regardless of how formal your methods are, short of logical inconsistencies, the results of your efforts largely depend on your axioms, which is what philosophy is (also) concerned with.

This is why good philosophers clearly state their axioms and then follow the logic to the bitter end.

But I'm sure that comparing me to a child will fool everyone here into thinking that you actually did state a clearly defined axiom somewhere.
Why is it free? Are you planning to monetize it in the future?
> "predict where the this drone should strike next"

If there aren't military contractors or in house teams using machine learning for exactly that purpose I'll eat my hat. In fact they were probably doing it 10 years ago (for units, not drones), with tech we're only seeing the beginnings of now
It's supposed to be a S3 Bucket, but I can see how it looks like a trashcan ;)
Author of the talk here - glad you liked it!

Replying to pretty much everyone: what Bjarne and others were strongly against was the first static_if proposal, which was a glorified #ifdef and broke scope rules.

The newest constexpr_if proposal does basically what I have shown in my talk (normal scope rules, no unexpected behavior), but with a nicer and cleaner syntax.
I agree with you in principle, but in practice putting your config on GitHub is asking to be pwned. If you put your personal config on a public server, the odds are good that you'll eventually leak some information you shouldn't have. If you're lucky, Amazon's bot will find the API key and disable it, and you'll waste a bit of time getting a new one. If you're less lucky, you'll pay for someone's bitcoin miner. If you're unlucky, someone will quietly pwn you bit by bit, it will take you months or years to discover it, and you may never figure how how they did it.

When "scp" and "rsync" exist, and git is a distributed version control system, it's hard to justify unnecessarily exposing data on the web.
This is the thing that amazed me most when switching from Windows to Mac, no more endless updating and rebooting. Updates seem less frequent and also less time consuming.

I noticed the same thing you describe on Windows 7 by the way.
Using Drones to Train Falcons
what would be super cool if given AWS credentials, it'll auto draw the diagram for you?

The tool is awesome, btw! Thank you VERY MUCH.
Québec is only receiving equalization because of the money AB and SK are (were) making off oil. Given that even Ontario is receiving equalization, and that Quebec's payment is about half (per capita) than NB and PEI's payment, I'm still not sure I understand why language has anything to do with it. If that was even your argument.
The Myths of Women Can’t Be Sushi Chefs – Infossible
They do, although that doesn't include tar. Powershell does all of that.
I never managed to get it working in vim, but you can get pretty decent auto Go completion (with Go oracle) in Emacs.
Show HN: A convenient, no registration, Secret Santa generator
The linked Github repository is no longer actively maintained per it's README.md
What has any of those things to do with someone's choice of editor?
https://superuser.com/questions/890038/why-is-checking-windo...
This is very nice. It would be great to have vCloud Director support at some point.
It tells you how it's compressed and how to decompress it if it knows how. OpenBSD's tar doesn't support xz so it can't help there, but does support gzip so it suggests using -z.

Not letting untrusted input automatically increase the attack surface it's exposed to is a feature.
Fisher-Price Logic Levels for the Atari 8-bit Family
z is cool because it is just a bash script with no dependencies and because it is simple -- just one command. Most of the time it guesses the right directory. When it doesn't, it can be slightly cumbersome though to make it jump to the right directory.
Why do you believe a person who cares more about his job than you do is not "emotionally healthy" and therefore less productive? Is it so wildly implausible that people might have different desires and emotional makeup than you?
Thinking the same thing, I use vi for short scripts all the time but can't imagine doing anything more complex than that without the power of an IDE to assist with or even do the grunt work for me.
Check Out the Free Software Foundation Ethical Tech Giving Guide
That's a great point. Harry Saunders et al. showed this effect clearly a few years ago with their work on economics of lighting. The thing that screws up green economics is the indirect energy that goes into products like efficient LEDs. [1]

(Which I installed in abundance in my house, incidentally. It decreased our electric bills as theory predicted but we also bought more lights and replaced a number of switches and transformers.)

[1] http://thebreakthrough.org/archive/why_energy_efficiency_doe...
I manage Macs for myself and my family, as well having used many through my employer over the years. I have never seen what you describe.
Maybe there's a problem somewhere, because I've seen reports of other people being affected on various forums in October and November. I am currently trying to update a W7 SP1 VM, but it just keeps looking for updates, even after installing two updates for the update client itself.

It's extremely annoying and not related to Vista particularly, nor specific types of hardware as far as I can tell.
> Mine are on Github, but in a private repo.

The fact that Amazon has paid engineers to write a bot that scans for API keys suggests that most people aren't that careful, or willing to spend $7/mo so they can use private repos. It sounds like you're doing it right, but most people seem to be doing it wrong.
I agree. Regardless of the outcome, I'm grabbing the popcorn. I'm half-waiting for another P2P foundation signed post discrediting him, too.

Even if Craig Wright is (wholly or part of) Nakamoto, I'm confused as to why it is he thinks it is a good idea to advertise the fact that he is some years later; whose benefit does it serve other than that of his own ego? This type of work could easily be the ramblings of a mad scientist who feels perpetually underappreciated, and is trying to latch onto this because he thinks he will finally get the worldwide recognition he feels he deserves.

The easiest way for Wright or another to prove he is who he says he is is to simply sign a message using Nakamoto's keys. Since we still have no mathematical evidence, I personally will believe this is a hoax.
Gwern has a sterling reputation at LessWrong - or do you just mean having an association with LessWrong is bad in itself. One Satoshi candidate, Hal Finney, was a LessWronger, too.

I, too, am surprised he believes this, but I'm not about to write him off. He could still be right and if he's wrong so what.
tl;dr: xz compresses better but is significantly slower. This isn't the deepest analysis of potential tradeoffs you might be able to find.

A few reasons why gzip is still useful to have around:

* Speed is critical for many applications, and so size can take a backseat when performance is critical or resources are low.

* gzip is basically guaranteed to be available everywhere in utility and library forms.

* Download speeds vary and so the faster your pipe, the less the archive size factor will matter, and the faster-worse compression might win out in other comparisons.

* xz doesn't compress every type of data this much better than gzip. I've dealt with scenarios where the difference is consistently less than 2%, and the extra time xz spends is actually a tremendous waste.

Sure, for package downloads where xz files will be significantly smaller it makes sense to save the bandwidth, time and storage space. But it's not 100% cut and dry.
My definition of a patent troll would be a patent holder holding a patent while not using it and stopping others from using it.

The patent would make an idea I have profitable but if every other company could just implement it then my idea would not able to be profitable.
Thank you, as a non-native English speaker this is extremely valuable feedback. I'll rework the text.

One idea is that could literally run a infrastructure diff of your architecture and your live environment, for example after a deployment or between two points in time: You may have resources left over by accident, or not captured in the design.
This is starting to sound like the OSAF that tried to build a cross-platform open-source email/calendar/notes application for the betterment of the world - in competition with Microsoft and whatever other large corporations were doing PIMs at the time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Source_Applications_Found...
So others don't have to click through to this:

"Windows 7 uses Component-Based Servicing [1], which means Windows Update has to work ridiculously hard to determine file and component dependencies/inter-dependencies, maintain side-by-side versions of older files/components, while still making it possible to uninstall individual updates/components but without breaking any other updates/components, all the while taking into account supercedence and god knows what else. The code that does all this must be hellishly complex."

[1] https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc756291(v=ws.10...
Admittedly, this parallel is based mostly off reading the biography of the project: Dreaming in Code.
Clearly anyone who thinks differently from me is a sociopath, insane, and must be completely incompetent. Diversity of thought is the most harmful force in the universe; everyone must learn to think like me.