skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How is downplaying one's looks "awful" or "doing violence to yourself"? When we wear non-practical clothes (e.g. anything besides athletic wear or comfy cargo pants), the entire purpose is to cause other humans to respond to us in a way that we find favorable.

I recently purchased a slim red pants designed to convey a) that I'm a moderately creative type and b) that I have a nice ass. The net result is that I get desirable attention from women I like, but also I get undesirable attention from fat chicks and gays.

I can switch that undesirable attention off anytime I want - I just need to dress like a slob and/or be less careful about having a desirable body (i.e. eat more butter, do fewer exercises aimed at aesthetics, not carefully calibrate my beard). I choose not to because that undesirable attention is a small price to pay for the desirable attention I receive.

Similarly, consider the daily annoyance of recruiters. Who among us would trade recruiters + super hot job market for no recruiters + humanities academic-like desperation for any job at all?
Ya, I think your clarification was great but it mostly supports maxcan's point that these programs exist so that "some company's lawyers can mitigate some liability."
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From the guidelines:
"If you think a story is spam or off-topic, flag it by clicking on its "flag" link. (Not all users will see this; there is a karma threshold.)"

"Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic."
This is me. I left Vancouver for Toronto 5 years ago. What is not mentioned (that I saw) is that salaries in Vancouver are also much lower than Toronto for the same job. Montreal is even cheaper than Toronto and is probably more fun (if you are bilingual)
> b) What stops you from using this on your business?

Old school sales leaders can be slow adopters of new technology. Especially, if they don't see relevance with their target prospects demo. However, success stories sell.

Read up on Marc Benioff's Seed-and-Grow strategy. You might selectively qualify some companies for an unlimited free trial so you can build your success stories bank and tweak the product with a robust feedback loop.
There are many cases where a social site shot itself on the foot and committed suicide by taking one bad move, such as Digg. What you're suggesting sounds like it will set a new record for a bad decision. Let's say Twitter does make that mistake and actually starts charging high end users. It is extremely naive to think most of these people will stick around and pay. Some will start leaving. Some new services will arise that claim to provide the service for free. Some of these "celebrities" will join forces to create a new "free" network (because that's what Web is supposed to be). Overall their userbase will decrease. And just as it grew exponentially after it reached critical mass, the reverse also applies, and at some point it will die at an exponential pace. It will probably end up looking something like MySpace.
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iMessages, facebook, whatsapp, ... Unfortunately every messaging platform (except old school texts, but iPhones will automatically send iMessages to other iPhones) seem to have implemented this "feature"
> Until that last sentence, I had to wonder what's wrong with people. Who enjoys these games?

I've met people who enjoy these games as a source of power. They like knowing they have power over someone else and their emotions. What's perhaps most disturbing is that such games are them being themselves.
Playing games isn't new to the dating scene - among people who don't date well.

This didn't start with texting - phone calls, second dates, rules about a certain number of dates before sex. All bullshit.

People who play those games are not people who are good at dating and never have been. They seem to think everything is a power play, or a formula stat-keeping event. You can't build a functional relationship with someone you are always attempting to keep score with.
"Eventually" Looked at three houses a couple of weekends ago, all sold by Monday. Two were unlivable, one nice, but way over budget, all out in the burbs.
Try it out:

spotluck play hn-jukebox
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I'm sorry, but isn't prosecuting the criminal the right thing to do in this case?
checksums are cost efficient for detecting statistically HW errors.

It is just no modern engineers seems to care to check the checksums.
I was suggesting that this is less "mysterious" than it seems to sound, once you use a hierarchical model, where one random variable's outcome is used as the parameter for another variable.

Imagine one random variable p at the top center of a page, and then several variables under it, each connected by an arrow coming from p.

The random variables down there are the coin flips (each results in 0 or 1), and they are identically and independently distributed with a Bernoulli(p) distribution. And p itself is a random variable which has a distribution (expressing how likely each p is).

I'm just clarifying that all this fits into normal probability theory, there is no need to introduce any sort of "meta-probability theory".
thanks coach.
Could you elaborate on the semantics of "cache"? I do understand the mirror keyword, but I know next to nothing about ZFS and don't really get what "cache" means, considering bouth your and OPs comment.
No. Grow up.
LetterOne makes $200m strategic investment in Uber
I appreciate how much Pee Wee Herman was inspired by Pinky Lee. [1]

But Pinky Lee is from a different era, and his kid's show has none of that wonderful underlying creepiness and double entendres that Paul Rubens brings to the table. I love how Pinky is totally uncynical, earnest and straightforward with his manic ADHD stream of consciousness ad-libbed dialog, like when a little girl sitting in his lap interrupts him to ask about what happened to his finger:

"You know something, I told you before, I was hungry! I am! I'm starved! I didn't eat, I didn't eat breakfast or lunch. Yes honey?" "How did you hurt your finger?" "How'd I hurt my finger? Oh, about four weeks ago a monkey bit me! We had monkeys on the stage. And he liked me so much, he was jealous of the other monkey, and he bit me! See that? Oh, but it's getting well now. But you know, I'm so hungry, and I..." ring "Oh that's the telephone, 'scuse me!" [2]

He said of his work, "I was the cleanest comedian in burlesque… No violence. There are no gestures, alluding to the derriere or other parts of the anatomy. Words like 'lousy' or 'stinker' are absolutely verboten... It’s a happy, wholesome show."

He was so hyperactive, that when he collapsed on camera due to an infection, the cameraman and director presumed he'd ad-libbed the fall and it was part of his act, and the kids kept on cheering and clapping while he was writhing on the floor. [3] Which The Simpsons parodied in "Krusty Gets Busted".

Of course Pinky Lee could also do zany burlesque for an adult audience, too! [4]

[1] https://stylefordorks.com/2015/04/19/pinky-lee-pee-wee-herma...

[2] https://youtu.be/Wj2gq19hebs?t=3m40s

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinky_Lee

[4] https://youtu.be/j6e3wI2d1Hs?t=7m42s
Great job tracking down the source of that problem, too!
(Full disclosure: I run a service that blocks and intercepts malware communication using DNS! https://strongarm.io)

Blocking via your hosts file has some great benefits; it works regardless of network and is relatively easy to update. Unfortunately, it doesn't scale easily to many systems or give you any insight into whether or not you are trying to connect to blocked domains.

Blocking via DNS is a good alternative and is suggested multiple times in this thread. You can easily protect a whole network by setting your recursive resolvers and it works across any system.

If you are interested in this and don't want to operate and maintain your own DNS (as well as pulling down various domain lists) check out https://strongarm.io. We manage DNS, aggregating lists of bad domains, and (most uniquely) will alert you if you try and talk to a blocked domain.

It's free for personal use. We are a growing startup and love feedback from HN. Feel free to contact me directly as well! stephen[at]strongarm.io
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This particular rule you are referring to was introduced as a temporary fix. Satoshi himself described how to change it later on. Thus, it is in fact Maxwell and his companions who are changing the rules of the system by refusing to execute what the inventor initially planned.
>Over the last twenty years, the fund has posted annualized returns of 6.17%.

SP500 1995-2015 Annualized return
(= True CAGR): 9.44%
Considering google was paying mozilla to be the default search engine in firefox, most tech savvy folks would of seen it just as silly.
A critical distinction between democracy and Bitcoin is that Bitcoin is an opt-in system.

Let's say alternative Bitcoin software causes a hard-fork in the blockchain: you now how two currencies. The parties involved on each side of the chain might decide that it's worth it to keep two competing currencies going, or they may reconcile the fork and return to running compatible software. In the end, the voluntary choices of the parties determine where they go (informed by economic incentives, of course).

Democracy is a system in which some group of people hold coercive power over the rest of the population. If the rules change (income tax, imminent domain), there is no opt-out short of leaving your property, family, career and moving to another country. Your compliance with the new rules of the game is ensured at the end of a gun.
R programming course from John Hopkins Uni. in Coursera [1] also uses swirl.
[1] https://www.coursera.org/learn/r-programming/
Not recently, it doesn't seem. Maybe the penalty should get removed. I'm glad it's not my job to figure this stuff out.
Nothing has changed in the last 20 years. House prices are still high, and salaries are still low. There is no real industry in Vancouver except tourism.

At least the rents are somewhat affordable, tho. The gap between house prices vs rent prices is immense, compared to a place like San Francisco. You can rent a 2 bedroom in the West End for ~$1500.
They could have acknowledged the problem quickly, but without an actual plan to implement something useful in a close time frame someone would have called the bluff.

Insulting customers with empty, insincere declarations is worse than working in silence.
>Post-scarcity is a theoretical economy in which most goods can be produced in great abundance with minimal human labor needed, so that they become available to all very cheaply or even freely.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-scarcity_economy

As to how relatively miserable we are as a function of how miserable we were... I'm really much more concerned with the idea that as a socioeconomic entity, the global economy generates enough capital that we could solve hunger, base poverty, eradicate solved diseases and even wage slavery. Today. That we haven't and won't is all the indictment I require.
The problem with the encryption conversation, is that they believe people more knowledgeable than myself are dealing with it. I demonstrated its importance, and they see how necessary it is.

But when I say the kinds of changes being proposed would fundamentally undermine the security encryption provides, they think I'm wrong. Like most of the current presidential-hopefuls, they believe in a magic-bullet that will give the government access but no one else. They think someone smarter than me will implement it, and that my concerns are misplaced.

Again, I don't see this as a strange viewpoint. I think, to some degree, it's what most people believe.
Nailed it. :D
Taking a step back, and putting aside copyright, which is a no brainier, providing access to the law is not free, most courts charge to access copies, directly, or indirectly. Best solution would likely be to have three non-profits take compete to provide access; otherwise you end up with situations like this were the states outsource access it an attempt to reduce costs and make money too.
I must be misunderstanding something.

Isn't it Subuser that crams all the dependencies together, in one place (image)? So there was that proposal so images are deduplicated, in a sense shared files are automatically detected and stored only once, saving disk space. But then, isn't it that Subuser is completely unaware of any metadata a particular file may have, so it can't really tell the difference between libz and libm, or know that all those binary-different libpng16.so have the 100% compatible ABI and are interchangeable (but not all libpng12.so do)?

From what I understood, Subuser is a package manager (plus permission manager) that doesn't know a thing about what it's packaging - only the large-scale image.

Package managers have all libraries separate, that's the whole point why package managers were invented in the first place. If a package management uses some database, dependencies may lay together in the filesystem, but the're completely separate in package manager's database. If package management system uses filesystem as its database, then packages are separate in that regard, too. There's immutability as well, sometimes enforced, sometimes along the lines of storing `dpkg -l | grep '^ii' | awk '{ print $2 "=" $3 }'` output to save the exact state.
Vancouver is unique simply in the degree of unaffordability. After Hong Kong, its housing is the most unaffordable in the world.

The elephant in the room is why this happened. Everyone talks about "foreign speculation" but in fact most of it is not speculation at all. In mainland China, Vancouver is widely viewed as a nice, quiet small city, good for students and the elderly. It's not a place for "real" work. So they buy homes there to live in part-time. It is quite normal to have the mother and child live in Vancouver while the father continues to work overseas. They pay almost no Canadian tax as they have no Canadian income. With their child in school, the parents can eventually claim permanent resident status thanks to the family reunification program and they can expect to retire in Canada. It's a big win for them and they see nothing wrong with it.

To summarize: introducing vast income inequality has distorted the Vancouver housing market and drastically altered the demographics of the city, making it unaffordable for the people who actually work and pay taxes there.
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Why does it have to make money? If service such as twitter that can benefit the world in some way without making any money, why force it into a 'business model'?
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Yes. Going even further, how much does the average user of cash understand about where that piece of paper came from, and what it really represents, what it really means. They don't and they don't need to. The central banks and governments have over centuries created a wonderful abstraction over all of that complexity, and reduced cash to a completely usable and comprehensible token of value, which literally everyone can use without a moment's thought.

A lot of bitcoin's complexity is rather thinly veiled by the current generation of clients and platforms, but it's basically just a question of time (maybe a lot of time), learnings and improvements until this gets better. Whether bitcoin will survive this period of time is a separate question, but that the complexity can be successfully abstracted away from eventually is inevitable.

It's testament to the quality of the abstractions that cash and credit cards provide that we do trust them and use them without thinking, and wonder how we could ever switch to an alternative system that doesn't offer the same. But there's nothing intrinsically less complex about them, and there's no reason why bitcoin can't get to that point too. Always keep in mind, bitcoin's only been going for a few years - it's an incredibly young technology and ecosystem!
I think he might just be glossing over some details? At any rate, from what I understand ZFS has a 'zil' write cache for small log writes, and a l2arc for common reads that don't fit into memory. This is just a dev setup, but for real work I think you'd want your zil to also be mirrored so you don't lose writes if an ssd goes bad. For anyone interested this link has a few more details:
http://www.45drives.com/wiki/index.php/FreeNAS_-_What_is_ZIL...
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UK's Streetmap loses 'anticompetitive' search abuse case against Google
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I don't think our democratic society is very good for gifted/talented people.

Democracy is kinda like 1 human and 10 chimpanzees living together, with the chimpanzees insisting that everybody are equal, and threatening violent sanctions whenever anybody behaves otherwise.
zeroinstall and click are interesting. But zeroinstall doesn't do anything on the security front. Click is rather confusing, I haven't found a webpage for it yet, or any information about how to like install and use a click package on Debian(I think that this is because it's not possible/supported). However, I don't see nix or redhats various efforts(they have annoced a new universal package format every year or two for a decade now) to be very serious. The problem with these efforts is that they always want to impose some opinion on HOW things should be packaged. And I don't think that is useful as a global standard.
The difference between std::move(object.member) and std::move(object).member
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London has had an influx of foreign property investment over the past 20 years. Now you need an income in the region of $120,000 and a $150,000 deposit to buy your first home. Even our members of parliament are struggling to buy anything[1].

Foreign property investment is very bad for the long term prospects of a city.

[1] http://www.theguardian.com/housing-network/2016/feb/12/tory-...
To be pedantic, HIPAA was signed into law in 1996. Obama obviously had nothing to do with that. Technically the HITECH act was signed into law by Obama, in Feb 2009. But that was only a few weeks after he took office.

The Affortable Care Act is largely thanks to Obama. And it did add new regulations related to HIPAA and HITECH. But the core principals that you mentioned were already tehre.
I don't think that's true at all. In fact, one of the primary complaints I see all the time is that "the patriarchy" implies all men are responsible for whatever the patriarchy is accused of. This isn't actually the case, that abstraction is to avoid what you're alleging: accusing an individual who is not malicious but rather a "victim of the patriarchy."

However, even if your actions are the result of larger forces (patriarchy or otherwise), and not malice, you still need to be held personally responsible at some level. I just don't think we've found what that level is, yet.
Does TLS support transparent retransmits of corrupted packets?
I do not disagree with the final conclusion or at least statement of this article, “The ultimate solution, … is better design of products and packaging further upstream to plan better for end of life and avoid the waste issue altogether.”
What is the difference between the hospital running the lab as a for-profit subsidiary at cost and the hospital folding all lab operations into the non-profit entity? Ditto for the advertising agency? The road you are going down would make any acquisition of a for-profit entity by a non-profit entity illegal.
so that's what Accelerated Mobile Pages looks like!
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Actually the TAN list is probably more secure than SMS TAN and push TAN, which have been hacked in the past.
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Clickbait title, but it's a real issue. Having lived in China for the past 5+ years, I now speak English differently than I did back home in England. I rarely speak English with an English person. Even many Americans will find me easier to understand than they would have before I moved here.

Also "The three of us embarked on an utterly unnecessary conversation in which I deftly translated from English into English and then back again." mirrors my own experience doing the same in a series of meetings with Chinese colleagues and Indian developers, all of whom had pretty good English, but were virtually unable to communicate with each other except by email.
Thanks. I was ashamed, but I think you're right not that it's not worth abandoning an identity over. A better strategy will be to avoid participating in non-technical discussions on HN. So that's what I'll do.
Vanguard is a mutual company though, where all of the investors are owners. They're competing against for-profit investment agencies.

"Vanguard is the only investor-owned mutual fund complex in America. We are known for many things—including our low fees, our commitment to high-quality client service, and our indexing expertise—but I would say the single most defining characteristic about Vanguard is our ownership structure. The Vanguard® funds own The Vanguard Group, which in effect means that the investors in our funds own Vanguard. Unlike other fund firms, we don't have stockholders or a parent company to please. Our mutual ownership structure enables us to focus clearly on the interests of our investors, without the potential conflicts of interest that can occur at other firms."

https://www.bogleheads.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=16305
Thanks. And again, I'm sorry this whole thing happened.
It sounds more like a single guy sees a potential goldmine in whistleblowing bounties, and is investing in that goldmine.
They didn't deliver a feature, they put out the lame equivalent of a press release. It's like somebody called you on the phone, said "hello? Can you hear me?" and you waited 29 hours to reply "hello".

That's no way to run a modern web-based business for alpha geeks.
I'd like to see the law in a git repository or equivalent. Then people/lawmakers could vote to apply a patch (bill) to the law.
Why Tor should be used for the IoT [pdf]
"Hi. I need you to build me a house. It needs to have three bedrooms, two garages etc. How long will it take?"

"Well, we can definitely get you something by Christmas. It might be a bedroom, we may have just done the garages. Who knows? Can you write the cheque now please?"
The research paper is here if anyone is interested: https://peerj.com/preprints/1733.pdf
They don't like to be reminded that they are organisms. They prefer to be addressed as social constructs only.
So Roy is Victor Niederhoffer's younder brother. Victor's Education of a Speculator is must read for anyone interested in trading.
I don't put media and philanthropy in the same sentence. The media is manipulative and self-seeking. As one example, during the last federal election, my local newspaper told me who to vote for. They glossed over the candidate's policies and honed in on popularity.
It's a little worse than that, because the threat of violent sanctions is also raised for talking about status differences, as well as mentioning the violent sanctions.
I don't think so. Probably it'll just reset connection.
Without a direct quote from Satoshi Nakamoto (whom ever they are) during the launch of Bitcoin, or a direct quote from the original whitepaper I'm not going to buy what Wired says is how Bitcoin is "supposed to work". One, because either of those quotes would show some deep digging on the author's part. And two either of those quotes would actually support the premise.