skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes. Pretty much every instinct you have for selecting the highest-quality products go out the window in whiskeyworld; almost across the board, the very best offerings are from well-known giant companies, and "artisanal" vendors struggle to asymptotically approach that quality.

It's basically the polar opposite of the craft beer market.
Al Franken (D-MN) voted against the original bill; he voted to pass the bill that was signed into law here. He has a long history of fighting for privacy and the internet. Having said, if he thinks this is OK, I probably don't need to read it. (though, I did)

Original: https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20151022/10133932597/cisa-...

Votes against the bill that was signed into law: https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/114-2015/s339
I'm curious how another entity could establish quality of something better than you could yourself?
> "What I wanted to express is that, as I guess the development is followed by a community of people to which it has been said that future version of wine will fix their current compatibility problem, they may have got some feedback of said people "hey cool now whateversoft version x.y works" and gathered a list of said software, especially if it does include some big names."

I thought that's what this[1] was for.

[1] https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iI...
In addition to that, project's stages ahead-of-schedule deliveries are typically wasted, but behind-of-schedule deliveries are accumulated.

As an example:
Arriving to the airport one hour in advance doesn't allow you to actually board a flight an hour earlier.
But get to the airport one hour late — and you're flying tomorrow (or whenever the next flight is scheduled).
>Depression is something that makes you miserable even if all objective factors about your life are stable and comfortable.

...could it be that there is more to life than these "objective factors"?
I'm struggling to push the magic "launch" button.

It's a curse.
Because CTEs are not named subqueries, really. For example, CTE is only evaluated once, even if it's referenced in multiple places, and those places may have conflicting ideas of what's the best way to evaluate it.

Consider for example this:

WITH x AS (SELECT a, b FROM t)
SELECT * FROM x x1 JOIN x x2 ON (x1.a = x2.b);

Now, had this been evaluated using a merge join, the "x" CTE would have to be sorted first by "a" or "b" (for either side of the join). Well, that can't really happen.

Another issue is locking - consider this version, for example:

WITH x AS (SELECT a, b FROM t FOR UPDATE)
SELECT * FROM x x1 JOIN x x2 ON (x1.a = x2.b);

In other words, it's way more complicated than it might seem, especially if you can't break existing uses (e.g. the locking).
Terraform's model (local state files) is not something that works well, in my opinion. Since AWS doesn't know that you want some operations done "transactionally" (like with CloudFormation), you can easily end up with a half built env that needs to be cleaned up. PaaSTa is more of a CF competitor, as far as I know, not really at the same abstraction level. I think that it would be a lot easier to clean up the UX/marketing of BOSH than doing the opposite.
Safe Native Code (Midori OS)
The time it will take to complete a project is fixed but unknowable. The only thing you can control is the scope and the cost for each unit of work. Therefore the only strategy is to do the least amount of work you can possibly do for the least possible cost. If someone requires you to fix your costs you have to charge them a lot more money. Best to tell them that whatever happens, nothing could have been done to improve it and make sure they're willing to compromise heavily to get it live.
Obviously I disagree with this; the appreciation of many products take some level of experience to understand what subtilty and nuance to look for.

If you we're to use Mast Brothers chocolate as your "high quality" reference, you would be learning to identify the wrong attributes as indicators of quality.
hah.
On a serious note, wonder how long before someone converts this an app.

-edit- oops, didn't see the other comment to the parent comment.
I agree with GoDaddy. Much cheaper marketing.
>'In a twist of irony, this paper itself is not anonymous.'

How is this ironic? If anything, it might be seen as poignant.[1]

[1] http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/irony
Guffaw! Wonderful advice. Now what was I at again?
For the most part, resellers selling MGP whiskey aren't blending. MGP has a whole menu of different whiskey recipes. Moreover, the people best known for manipulating MGP products are a worst-case: Templeton, for instance, "adds value" by adding flavorants to their MGP juice.

Aging makes a much bigger different in Scotch than it does in Bourbon and Rye, neither of which are usually aged that long.

Also: the reason most artisanal vendors use MGP in the first place is that they can't wait 5-10 years to start selling product. Distillation isn't the hard part of selling whiskey; waiting for maturation is.

There's also the small-barrel effect that the "artisanal" supplies run into: you have business incentives to use small barrels to be more nimble in the market, but it turns out that small barrels also harm the maturation of the whiskey.
Is a gun that has been permanently made inoperatible considered a firearm in NJ and NY? Could you travel with something that looked like a gun by X-ray, but in fact was harmless?
in many/most parts of the world wealth is dynastic in nature

the dynastic nature of Slims wealth is relevant to Americans in that he's a major financial backer of the most respected media institution in our country

if that doesn't interest you, I guess that's your prerogative
> If the 'shills' are wrong, then the peer review should take care of them.

That's not what peer review does. Peer review isn't investigative journalism, nor is it a criminal trial, nor is it designed to figure out if the results of the study are correct or incorrect.
That's... just not really true. Maybe in some parts of extreme helicopter parenting, but it's really not a global truth. If what you say is true in US then perhaps the upper poster wasn't so wrong about the state of the country :/.
Which is DRM, right? Which is fine, but it needs to be DRM in control of the owner, not the supplying company. There's all sorts of evils in the world to worry about, so we shouldn't be too quick to get away from one that we run into the arms of another. There are, not coincidentally, parallels with terrorism and the security state.
Maybe we should listen.
Given the way Wine versioning works, I wouldn't expect any significant changes from the latest 1.7.x cycle. Wine uses the same versioning system that Linux used prior to (and perhaps after, I'm not sure) the 3.0 release. The second number represents a stable version if it's even or an unstable development version if it's odd. Odd releases are used to "build up" new features towards an even-numbered release.
Judging by his comment I have the feeling that entreprise level means huge projects with thousands of lines of bloat code and comments which need vast amount of underpaid programmers to analyse and debug just to add minor features.
For the period, or on the subject?

Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire is a massive six volume beast that covers ~1400 years. The prose is very readable and narratively engaging, but the information is pretty dense, and it's easy to get sidetracked following a citation for the full version of a particular story or anecdote. It took me eight months to read, and I am a pretty quick reader. For the breadth and depth, I don't think there's a whole lot out there that can compare.

That said, you can very seldom go wrong with the classics. There's a lot of modern works out there, and textbook-type treatments, of course, but I personally find contemporary texts the most interesting and engaging. You get a firsthand account of how people long ago lived and thought.

Caesar, as referenced upthread with The Gallic Wars, wrote a lot about his campaigns. My personal favorites have been Plutarch's Lives of Noble Greeks and Romans, which is nominally about comparing the characters of selected pairs of Greeks and Romans, but gives you windows into the historical times they lived in as well, and though not Roman, Thucydides's History of the Peloponnesian War.

For a lighter treatment, I listened to and would recommend Dan Carlin's Hardcore History podcast series after seeing it mentioned on Hacker News several times. There's two great series about Rome, Punic Nightmares and Death Throes of the Republic. Carlin does a good job of really bringing to the fore that same kind of thing, I think, that gives a real sense of how the people at the time were thinking and feeling, and he's clearly passionate about history.

What really stands out to me is how little has changed. We really are just another chapter or two. Technology has advanced, but people and culture has really changed very slowly and so clearly builds on what came before. The West in general is still very much a blend of Roman culture syncretized with the Germanic tribes. It's really fascinating to me how incredibly similar people were thousands of years ago. They had very different belief systems and values, but otherwise it's staggering how you have all these thousands of years of very, very smart people doing different things for different reasons, and seeing how that led to our times, and how we're doing the very similar things right now and laying out the future for those who will come after us and one day, hopefully, read about us.

(Little things that struck me and I thought of while writing those posts: the class warfare in Rome with e.g. the Gracchi brothers, compared to our economic problems in the past ~150 years; the political environment in Athens surrounding the Sicilian Expedition, compared to that of our Iraq War; and the incredible courage it must have taken for people to stand in an orderly line and watch people run towards them screaming with swords in hand.)
We don't instruct people on how to leave a burning building, we conduct fire drills. Skills can only be applied under stress if they are ingrained through repetitive practice, like a martial artist performing kata.

If we want people to react well in extreme situations, it's not enough to simply tell them what to do; we must give them practical experience to replace their instincts with better instincts.

Israel provides this sort of training for their citizens. The question we have to ask is whether such training would be appropriate for our societies.
Uh, no. Maybe if you use that awful flavours program that hooks into the system graphics API and swizzles all of the changes, but I patch the system files themselves (ThemePark, [S]ArtFileTool, ThemeEngine, whatever AZielenski comes up with next). In fact, the GraphiteAppearance and SystemAppearance.car files are /smaller/ than they were when I started. All you need to do is log out/back in, restart, or simply kill and restart the program for the changes to take effect. You probably need to disable that incredibly stupid rootless `feature` on 10.11 though
That's how I convince myself that the many man-months I have sunk into HN are not in fact wasted but on balance a net positive. Humans are really good at rationalizing away counter-productive behaviour. :)
How will the Chip Wars be won?
newtype HeadList a = HeadList { getHeadList :: [a] }

instance Monad HeadList where
return a = HeadList [a]
m >>= f = HeadList $ fmap (head . getHeadList . f) (getHeadList m)

This is a list instance that only keeps the head of function result, so it's basically just a map.

But you could imagine putting any function that returns one result. min max avg normalize, etc
Actually, there's a recurring theme among the non-muslim ones: Age 15-25 and taking antidepressants. The only reference I can find on a quick google is ZeroHedge ("The conspiracy site without the conspiracies"), but I've actually looked at some of the references in the past: It's not random.

[0] http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-09-17/antidepressants-sci...
Independent verification.

For example, this could have helped in [1][2][3] where toxic food products were very mislabeled.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Chinese_milk_scandal

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gutter_oil

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Taiwan_food_scandal
What percentage of drivers stop to help? I would wager it's well under 1%.

I also suspect that some people who judge me negatively for my selective stopping have never in their life stopped to help a fellow motorist of any gender.
> they can only go so well, but when they go bad, they can go really bad.

Well, they can, but usually the acceptable explanation for a project going really well is it actually was less work than estimated and the consequence is fewer resources next time. So, there is virtually no motivation left to drive a project into that area.
> So instead, they generated their own private keys and embedded them in the CSPRNGs of the VPNs they sold to customers.

Isn't it possible to still get this PRNG right by discarding the private part?

Not that mere use of such infamous algorithm isn't crazy anyway, especially since even if they did the right thing they can't prove it.
To commit a criminal offence, one needs the criminal act (actus reus) and the guilty mind (mens rea). If someone deactivated the security system (actus reus) with the intent (mens rea) of helping someone else burglarize, that would definitely be a crime. However if someone deactivated the security system and without criminal intent helped a criminal, then it would be a much murkier issue. Most countries have various offences on the books for criminal negligence to deal with this situation.

On the other hand if the homeowner or the insurer wished to SUE someone for disabling the security system and thereby facilitating the loss of property, that someone would most likely be fucked. Civil liability doesn't require the accused to be the sole cause of the damage; one can be a contributory cause and still get roasted for huge damages.
IANAL and this comment is not legal advice
Time estimation will always be needed, just to decide whether something is worth doing.
Your description sounds pretty similar to my condition. I've tried SSRIs and they, to some extent, worked. But while they allowed me to reliably function, they caused a numbness in all non-physical sensations that made life seem meaningless, so I stopped taking them. What has worked a bit lately has been meditation. I'm starting to believe that my depression is caused by my mind not switching off properly and meditation is a sort of off switch. The nice part about meditation is there's really no down side and you don't really have to summon the energy to do it. If you're catatonic in a chair, just start focusing on your breath and trying to clear your mind of other thoughts.

I don't want to be preachy...one thing I've come to realize from many online discussions with other people suffering from depression is that almost every case is unique in some way and that the mental health community's efforts to try to group together what we're feeling into a single problem with prescribed courses of treatment is probably counterproductive. People believe that because they've experienced depression, either first- or second-hand, that they understand what all depression is like...astazangasta's comment is an example of this.

I try not to be one of those people, so what I'm offering is a suggestion, not an answer. My depression is by no means fixed, but meditation has helped me. It's one datapoint in case you want to try it.
Quality is a tricky word, but in terms of the appreciation of craft goods, your ability to identify the subtleties that make more higher quality products _better_ is a learned trait.

If your references are wrong, or you miss out on the identification of a nuance, you haven't learned from the experience.

For example, individuals who say "I can't taste the difference between a $30 and $300 bottle of wine" are not _wrong_ - they just lack the formative experiences and education to appreciate the attributes that the more expensive product has.

Thus, if you decide that wine or beer or chocolate was of interest to you, it may be worthwhile to validate and trust your reference products.
It seems to be a true statement: Dual EC is used to seed a X9.31 generator with 3DES, where 8 bytes are the initial seed V, and the remaining 24 are K (cf. [1]). I don't see any other usage of Dual EC other than to self-test and to seed X9.31.

Oddly, you can disable the Dual EC seeding with the flag 'one-stage-rng'. But not the other way around.

[1] http://csrc.nist.gov/groups/STM/cavp/documents/rng/931rngext...
Perfect! Thank you for the reminder.
In the sense that the only place the "debate" had left to go was "worse".

It is not the way conference committees work that there's a whole new open public process. By the time a bill has passed both houses of Congress, the incentive is declare victory and get the thing over with. The only reason there even is a conference committee is to get the House and Senate to agree on language.

I've explained repeatedly why the legal immunity language in CISA is not only reasonable, but in fact most of the impetus for the entire bill.

I'm a little annoyed at how you're asking me to explain it again, because that once again puts me in the position of being perceived as a supporter of CISA, which I am not. I'm very tired of people --- like, respectfully, you --- equating "effort taken to understand a complicated issue" with "partisan support for one side of that issue".

The "tell" that that's what's happening here is the language you chose to use: "you're not worried at all that...?". In sales, language like that is referred to as "an assumptive close". It is literally a mind control technique. Here, you're trying to deploy it on me to put me on the wrong side of an issue being discussed on HN.

PLEASE STOP DOING THAT.
That seems more a criticism of search engines than of anonymous publishing. What you need is a search engine that can find similar work. Being written by the author is just a heuristic in a search for something different, even if probably helpful.
This is the number 11 from the clock

<div style="position: absolute; display: block; visibility: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; backface-visibility: hidden; box-sizing: border-box; transform-style: preserve-3d; overflow: hidden; outline: none; border: none; font-size: 28.44px; font-family: sans-serif; color: black; text-decoration: none; text-align: left; direction: ltr; line-height: 1.4em; white-space: nowrap; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; cursor: default; transform: translate(50.834px, 12.5738px); -webkit-user-select: none; height: 39.816px; width: 32px;">11</div>

Nope, no css here.
Not always true. My project has to be done since it will involve a whole host of hardware installations, marketing and other large expenditures. Canceling or changing my project cannot be done. Thus estimating to decide if it's worth doing is unnecessary. In this case it has to be finished regardless of estimates.
Why not both? Start your portfolio and freelance.
Have you ever saw worldwide next biggest Artist
A-Frame is based on an entity-component system. It favors composability over hierarchy. Dig deep in the docs and see that's actually quite different than standard wrapping shapes in HTML elements.
Depends on how hard it is to break. Even if it takes a while and a lot of money, for something as widespread as their firewalls, it might have been worth the effort to someone. Of course only if it is in the category of "a while and expensive", not in "impossible"?
"Barrel selection and blending" - no. That's not how MGP works. MGP Ingredients, formerly Midwest Grain Products, formerly Midwest Solvents, is in Atcheson, Kansas, and Pekin, Illinois. What comes out of MGP is plain ethanol, in railroad tank cars. Some of it goes to beverage plants, and some of it goes to refineries to be added to gasoline.[2] They do not use "barrels". They use tank farms. This is MGP's distillery in Atcheson, Kansas in StreetView.[1] It looks like a small oil refinery.

MGP is up front about this. Check out this StreetView picture of a tank in their tank farm.[4] The tank is clearly labeled "192 Proof Alcohol - 200,000 Gallon Capacity". That's usable either for powering flex-fuel cars, or as feedstock for booze makers. Check out their rail yard, with dozens of tank cars full of alcohol.[5] (The ones inside the security fence are probably full and ready to go; the ones outside are empties waiting to be loaded.) This is how it's made.

One of the big consumers of MGP ethanol is Frank-Lin Distillers' Products, which used to be in San Jose near the rail yard and is now in Fairfield, CA, where they are next door to a bottle plant and have their own railroad siding. Frank-Lin makes about two thousand different alcohol-based products.[3] Some they sell themselves; some are outsourced brands made for others. They used to make SKYY Vodka. SKYY was an entirely outsourced operation; the SKYY company itself just handled marketing and sales. (SKYY later sold out to Campari, which moved production to some Campari plant.)

Frank-Lin takes in ethanol and does some additional re-distillation. They have a water de-ionizing plant which takes in city water. They mix water, alcohol, and flavoring, then bottle, using a highly automated bottling line which can switch bottle types without a shutdown. Out of their plant come brandy, whiskey, vodka, rum, tequila, and even wine brands. "With an annual production capability of 15 million cases and on-premise tank storage capacity in excess of 1,500,000 gallons, Frank-Lin has the facilities and expertise to efficiently handle any project. Frank-Lin is a provider of contract bottling services for major national spirit brand owners."

Frank-Lin also handles distribution. They have an advantage in this - they're not a distiller. US law requires three independent tiers - distillers/brewers, distributors, and retailers. Usually, that means a distiller makes and bottles an end-user product and sells it to a distributor, who sells it to a retailer. But Frank-Lin is considered a distributor - they buy their alcohol already distilled. So they get to remove one layer of middlemen. Since they ship to almost every liquor store in the western US, it doesn't cost them much more to add brands.

That's how the booze industry really works. All else is hype.

[1] https://goo.gl/maps/dQifXrzdWMH2
[2] http://www.mgpingredients.com/alcohol/beverage/
[3] http://www.frank-lin.com/
[4] https://goo.gl/maps/c92moNiXDGx
[5] https://goo.gl/maps/h5t3AeDhZ1U2
I was foolish to expect this to link me to a Medium piece or editorial, really..
Cat herding 101: A guide to leading creative teams for unofficial project leads
yes, that's what it is for outside of the release cycle to know if a given software work. But here it's an announcement where you explain changes to the community between previous version and this version. So I was thinking that it may have been interesting to have a brief list of software from the database you've linked that have turned form garbage to bronze etc.
Swift 2: Create ASCII art from images
Surely that would be the response of someone who believes his systems have been compromised and looks to invalidate all the keys an attacker could have gained access to? Or were the previous points part of the standard?
Thanks for this information, I was thinking it was following semantic versionning and looking to the changelog I thought it was big changes.
micromanagement means managing microdetails. And microdetails you get, with all the possible paths from a root in that heap dump. As much time and attention you possess - you got it... It is either my friend who is going to listen to it on a coffee break (and we'd prefer instead to talk about Syria and new Russian stealth missiles which are extremely necessary weapon against sand people with AKs) or the micromanager. Somebody is gotta listen to my take on that heap dump :)