skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This aligns with my experience and observations as well. The other thing is, with the evisceration of "welfare" (AFDC) and its replacement with TANF in the Clinton years,

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/04/the-end-...

... SSI disability benefits have basically become the new "welfare", for those "lucky" enough to qualify. As you rightly noted, barring a real physical injury, the most probable pathway for the largest number of people involves psychiatric and emotional issues.

I'm not one of these right-wing "just get a jerb!1" populists, nor am I alleging widespread fraud. I don't doubt for a second that most disability benefit recipients really do have psychiatric encumbrances to work. Your account just happens to be a situation to which I've been repeatedly exposed:

> They're mostly lazy and none of them live what we'd think of as awesome lives. But I wouldn't in a million years think of them as anything close to permanently disabled. If someone put foot to ass they'd be capable of supporting themselves and probably better off and happier in the long run...
> The real question is if society can handle the unfairness that is death by random software error vs. death by negligent driving.

Most people have a greater fear of flying than driving by car although statistically you're far more at risk in a car. One cause of that fear of flying is loss of control; you have to accept placing your life in someone else's hands.

With self driving cars suspect lack of control will also be a problem. Either we need to provide passengers with some vestige of control to keep them busy or we just wait a generation until people get used to it
Again, I don't have any insider knowledge here, but: you pick your battles. After the sizable Series A, the company was still going to potentially fail, and thus it may not have been worth Jeremy's time to fight it. Here, it is clearly worth his time. Spending a ton of time fighting for a small amount of nothing is clearly not worth it for anyone, and thus he may have chosen not to fight it until now, when it's clearly not worth nothing.
This is amazing. This is exactly what I needed to get through a long on-call shift.

https://m.imgur.com/N72gtoC
Unexpected Security Holes in Chips
You're talking about people who make heavily-entrenched ideologies about minor technical distinctions into an Olympic-level contest of stubbornness and scorn.
The 1 year cliff is a standard SV term that should be reconsidered IMO, because it distorts incentives significantly. A founder/employee who decides between months 6-12 to leave the company has a substantial incentive to stay on in coast mode until the cliff hits. Meanwhile the company continues to lose equity and salary to someone who is no longer committed. Standard vesting already aligns incentives well without a cliff.
To be fair, collateral damage also refers to property damage as well.
Supply and demand sorts out the details.

Maybe.

I place more weight on incentives. Design of the markets. Checks and balances. Transparency and accountability.

need 500 administrators...?

The insufferable waste I witnessed in higher ed is no different than any where else I've worked. Biggest factors are scale and bureaucracies.

As terrible as higher ed is, I'm certain I don't want it to become more business like, assembly line efficient. Whatever magic is to be found in higher ed is because its weird, chaotic, diverse.

As for the mortgage interest deduction, how wouldn't it boost housing prices?

Second order effect.
Taking your treating people equally to the logical conclusion, does that not also mean that everyone should have the same chance of success, the same opportunity to live and work in nice areas, the same pay for the job they work?

While I do think that there is room for individuality and competition, I don't think that it's logical that someone can be three orders of (base 10) magnitude better than average. Any such level of compensation / wealth is surely an irregularity that should be corrected by tax (law).
the right way to deal with that is for the government to directly stimulate demand for art history. Not to give cheap loans for students to study art history and then live the rest of their lives in debt.

I would certainly concur with that. I think we're in agreement.
From personal experience, the moment someone does any work on a project they have a claim. The state of CA is extremely worker friendly in this regard. I've made this stupid mistake twice in two different startups unrelated to Immunity Project. The first time, we had someone interview for a job and attend a few meetings. We ended up not offering them the job and they filed a complaint. We fought it and ended up spending nearly six figures on legal + more then you can possibly imagine to settle. It know this sounds insane, but its true.

The second circumstance was a co-founder who stole cash from the company and was booted. Similar end result. In both cases we had no documentation (classic startup excuse), and strongly believed in the premise that if you didn't do the work, you don't deserve to be paid. We lost in both cases. One of the primary drivers in both cases was the dreaded contingency attorney. Anytime someone is able to get an attorney to take a case on contingency with minimal out of pocket cost, they have little reason to be reasonable. And because filing is the nuclear option in the first place, they don't care about fallout. Contingency attorneys are paid a % of the resulting settlement so they will drive the case as hard as needed to extract the maximum outcome. In some cases the attorney will manipulate their client in pursuit of this outcome even if its not in their clients best interest long term. It was smart for Kyle to file first because it makes it harder for the other party to retain a contingency attorney who will cover defense in the deal. This will dramatically increase the other parties cost to litigate the case.

Lessons learned:

1. ALWAYS put stuff in writing.

2. NEVER have anyone do any "work" without some written agreement on compensation.

3. The only winners in litigation are the lawyers.

4. 3pt14159 makes a great point: ALWAYS settle early. The longer you let something drag, the more it will cost. Its always best to try to settle prior to either party filing a lawsuit. In this case it sounds like Kyle tried to settle first but was unsuccessful.
http://chainsawsuit.com/comic/2014/11/06/it-must-be-fed/
Our plan is to take a small approx 3% commission on funds raised. People will be able to advertise free of charge for volunteers for their project.
Frankly, to a representative elected by a certain set of humanity, only one set of humanity should matter.
Min has this feature, actually. Go to the view menu, and there is an option labeled "focus mode" that limits you to one tab.
I meant opportunistic in the "You knew you had no leg to stand on but are now trying anyway because the stakes are higher", sort of way,

not the "This is the right time to start a certain business" kind of way
The specific bully move is sama going public.
imgadm(1M) fetch time depends on the type and size of the image, as well as the speed of one's network connection. This is performed only once.

vmadm(1M) provisioning can take anywhere from 5 to 25 seconds.

Oracle DB provisioning with my program takes 45 minutes, as it performs a CREATE DATABASE and is constant irrespective of hardware.
As it relates to airplanes, "shit happens" still applies. I was flying into NYC one time and air traffic control mistakenly allowed the plane I was on to attempt a landing while another plane was taking off; my pilot don't even notice the other plane until we were over the runway. Later found out NYC depends in a number of cases for pilots to avoid collision by literally looking out the window for traffic in their fight path.

>> "I see that there could be some business value in more reliable cloud platforms."

Likely, though I have no idea how much Google is making with cloud services, but Amazon I believe is making tens of billions alone with its cloud services. That said, Amazon as far as I'm able to recall has had far worse issues and appears to be doing fine as a business.
I don't have a problem with forgiveness for people who are actually disabled. The problem is that in modern America, disability has become a catch-all for anyone who can't find a job they want. With the right lawyer, minor inconveniences will get you classified as disabled.

NPR did a great feature explaining the rise of disability as a catch-all welfare tool: http://apps.npr.org/unfit-for-work/
Trump plan is best. Set a tax floor of $50-$100k. Exclude millions of americans from even having to file.
Did the FBI pay for them to hack or pay for the (exclusive rights to the) exploit? The rest of the article implies the latter- but if the former, what is stopping Apple from paying the "hackers" for the exploit?
Haha! Yeah, I'd bet money that this has been found by dozens, if not hundreds of people independently over the years. The entire trick to winning the game (as my ridiculously-talented ex-roommate once taught me) is to watch carefully for subtle timing cues and use them to punch at the correct moment - if you do it right, you can win very consistently. So people have been scouring the pixels for these kind of cues since the game first came out!
Well stated.

We were involved in a fracas something like this, but on a smaller scale.

One of my key learnings was exactly this. Our lawyer (a magnificent guy who stewarded through the ugly process) said early on "you can bet that the other guy's lawyer is getting an entirely different story from what you've told me".

Much as we (especially techies) like to think of ourselves as binary,rational types, the fact is that two intelligent people can each hold conflicting, but sincerely held worldviews. Its very hard to get your head around this - the natural thing is to got full on fight instinct - he's a bastard, he's lying, he's out to screw me and my family, he'll say anything.

Add on top the fact that things often are gray - likely in this case there are two sides to the story, other guy probably has a rightful beef about this.
There are already lifetime and per-year limits on DoE loans.
I'd rather it read: "Skylake's Linux power management is dreadful you should buy now and help fix it". But, as others have commented, this appears to be Intel not doing their job as hardware manufacturer. It's sad that we're still having these type of issues after years of cross-os growth on Intel/AMD architecture (Windows NT, Linux, OS X, *BSD etc).
'“Capitalism, Peretti concluded, needs to be constantly producing identities for peoples if the system is to survive,” Matthews writes. “And ten years later, he built a factory to fill that precise need.

Matthews later reached out to Peretti to ask if he felt that Buzzfeed embodies the principles outlined in Peretti’s “Capitalism and Schizophrenia.” Peretti simply responded “lol.”'

-- http://www.critical-theory.com/buzzfeed-founder-responds-to-...
For maximum irony, if you ever do find a way, patent it and license it to the government.
That sounds like the term Xerox.
It's quite sad that we still have "Lèse-majesté" and blasphemy laws in Germany in the 21st century :(

This case has created quite a media hype in Germany though, with comedians trying to top each other in violating this law now -- not sure if that's what Erdogan intended... "Nichtlustig" for example: https://www.facebook.com/NICHTLUSTIG/photos/a.186737799993.1...
Yes, this is a desktop i7-6700. Sorry if that confused things. Yes, the addition to the top of the post is much clearer. Thanks!
Assuming that's true, why is it better simply because it's easier to empathize?
The Psychological Cost of Boring Buildings
Sean Parker’s revolutionary project to ‘solve’ cancer
The price has dropped to $800.
That would only affect the person who had a stroke or heart attack and their close vicinity. The parent is suggesting a scenario where the manual driving equivalent would be every single driver getting a stroke or heart attack at the same time.
If you look at how browserify/webpack works, you'll see that AMD is the same thing except that you're coding the module wrappers by yourself manually, when browserify & webpack does it for you.
I've renamed the project so it's clearer that the content is unofficial:

http://blog.alexellis.io/handsondocker/
Yeah. They're saying "bad stuff will still happen if we have SSL, so let's not do SSL". Hell of an argument.
it's an IRC network aimed at gamers where 98% of channels are public and free for anyone to join without any form of authentication ever.

so you'd be more accurate to say it covers 98/100 of cases, and we leave the other 2 open

the main obstacle these days is that a secure PKI deployment for a network ran by 40 different companies with no legal structure is a hard problem, not the technical challenge of putting a cert in your ircd.conf
> Most people have a greater fear of flying than driving by car although statistically you're far more at risk in a car. One cause of that fear of flying is loss of control; you have to accept placing your life in someone else's hands.

Really? That sounds counter intuitive. You'd think the reason people are afraid of flying is, because, you know, it's flying. Thirty thousand feet between you and the cold, hard ground. That's a long fall of agony to utmost certain death, and some magic turbo voodoo keeping you from it.

Would people with fear of flying really rather be the pilot?
> The default, free, option is going to win against a paid product.

I think you're really oversimplifying things. A free option is great, but a paid option can still exist and thrive as long as it provides some kind of added value.

In fact a free option can actually increase the market for a paid option as more people get frustrated by limitations of the free option and discover value in the paid option.
one of the main points of the article is that people don't check fingerprints, and that you should use encryption layered on top of IRC if you want any real privacy
We already live in this reality, as eloquently described by Mike Travers: http://omniorthogonal.blogspot.com/2013/02/hostile-ai-youre-...

I also love this quote: "Sometimes confused with a restaurant, [McDonald's] is actually a piece of licensed software 600 pages long, with a QA department, currently running around 14,000 instances in America."

http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2013/12/01/algorithmic-governance-...
Quite honestly ignorance and just did what Legalzoom recommended. Also, if you have to go to court, it is much easier to do so in the state that you live.
> However, in this instance a previously-unseen software bug was triggered, and instead of retaining the previous known good configuration, the management software instead removed all GCE IP blocks from the new configuration

> Crucially however, a second software bug in the management software did not propagate the canary step’s conclusion back to the push process

I'm sure the devil is in the details, but generally speaking, these are 2 instances of critical code that gets exercised infrequently, which is a good place for bugs to hide.
My post yesterday seems even more relevant today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11477552

It's a shame it's not easier or more common for people to create clones of (most|all) of their infrastructure for testing purposes.

Something like half of outages are caused by configuration oopsies.

If you accept that configuration is code, then you also come to the following disturbing conclusion: the usual test environment for critical network-related code in most environments is the production environment.
As C++ is the native language for the UWP, surely it would map more neatly to the platform?

And the well-known performance and memory advantages, however small, are critical for mobile devices. I don't think Microsoft should commit long-term to C# on mobile just as both Apple and supposedly Google are migrating to Swift as the future of their platforms, for good reason.

My two cents.
"Flag you" as what? It doesn't need to completely "fool" the system & make it believe there is no face. It simply has to get the system to believe that "makeup style A" and "makeup style B" applied to the same face are, in fact, two different faces. This is a pretty low bar, and one which I suspect will be achievable for quite some time.
I can predict in 10 years we will see a rise of computer psychotherapists.
IIRC, The Hammond/Stratfor case was that they had narrowed him down to a likely region. Hammond had also mentioned in chat that he had been busted for pot possession. All they had to do was look through the usual suspects, who lived within the midwestern United States, and who had recently been arrested for unlawful possession.

I like to use this case to demonstrate to people that little scraps of unimportant data can be combined to identify someone.
Pair, a Git author tool
So, instead of arresting people for murder we should attempt to audit their thoughts preemptively? That's the general problem they're pretending to tackle.

I mean at some level, how can a cop be disqualified by having private racist thoughts? They're even likely to pick up such thoughts from the job itself.

But then how do you determine whether those thoughts influenced a specific action or not? This is the ultimate problem with all attempts to police thoughtcrime - you're effectively past the demarc point, with ambiguous enforcement that just ends up eroding respect for the rule of law ("haha Joe the idiot got written up by the racism inquisitor again").

You're essentially saying "we can't arrest our way out of the murder problem". The Scandinavian approach of rehabilitation does make a lot of sense - the sheer majority of murders are prevented via societal values. But the ultimate check is still that criminals are arrested and punished. This feedback loop has been broken for police themselves, which has allowed their culture to degrade into absolute shit.
Did you know the Germans tried to develop a weaponized super-joke in WWII that would make enemy soldiers laugh to dead?
> It was smart for Kyle to file first because it makes it harder for the other party to retain a contingency attorney

Why would that change the calculus for an attorney considering a contingency agreement? (Honest question. I have 0 legal experience.)
PMCs are also generally former SoF operators, who generally got out of the military with > E4 rank. I know, I was a 96U (UAV Operator) in OIF II and worked with a lot of SoF (Seals, Spooks, Delta, Rangers, Mercs/PMCs, etc). My experience might be different than your friends/family, but I saw them as a necessary evil.
Your post is economically illiterate and no economist in their right mind would claim that school tuition spike is the result of privatization and deregulation. Car loans are privatized too. That didn't drive up the prices for cars because the "predators" control the industry.

In fact, economists show that government backed loans have driven up tuition prices[1]

[1] http://www.nber.org/chapters/c13711.pdf

"As column 4 demonstrates, the demand shocks- which consist mostly of changes in nancial aid-account for the lion's share of the higher tuition. Specifically, with demand shocks alone, equilibrium tuition rises by 102%, almost fully matching the 106% from the benchmark. By contrast, with all factors present except the demand shocks (column 7), net tuition only rises by 16%."
What kernel version/distro were you running with Linux when you experienced the panics?
Try serving people Dolphin or Chimp and you find quickly there is a line for most people.
I'm making a bit of a habit of chipping in on Atom performance complaints with a counterpoint. I've now used Atom as my primary editor for more than a year, and I have no complaints about the performance. This could be because I'm using OSX on recent hardware - I've noticed that my friends using Linux desktops seem to have more issues than I do.
> Part of the reason the tax code is so complex is the goal of a progressive tax system where wealthier people pay a higher share of their income.

This is false.

Almost none of the complexity of the tax code comes from this. The complexity comes from counting up how much income you have. After that it's a trivial calculation to determine your tax owed.
Ask HN: Best city for a career in tech in Texas? Austin, Dallas, or other?
EDIT: I'm specifically asking as someone starting out in Product looking for career advancement and exciting products, not solely startups however.
More likely than coincidence it was put in by the devs so they would have an easier time winning fights and play testing later ones.
I'm sorry but the device didn't need fixing. The shitty user experience of getting content on it and managing it needed fixing.

Until that is taken care of this is still not the device it could be.
Zika Causes Microcephaly, the CDC Confirms
> But this is unavoidable, right?

I don't think so, if you're happy to remain off social networks.
They should aim as high as they can; the price of a product is not bounded by its cost, but by what people are willing to pay.
Would you think about leaving a firm if you were getting hit on aggressively by unattractive people as often as you got recruiter spam? That's an example of what would amount to constructive dismissal (grounds for a lawsuit).
Sorry for hijacking this thread to respond to a sibling comment, but I think the original author of this article may be trying to post, but is being flagged.
I read it as a joke about the fact that the study is so old they're almost certainly dead (coming from a 21yo 40 years seems like a long time so that could be why I read it differently?)
It's possible ABC licensed it from him. There is a link in the description to license the vid.
The take-home here is: Unit-test your failure states as well, people. Not just your happy paths!

I mean, this problem was a result of MULTIPLE untested failure states.

And yes, it IS possible to unit-test this sort of thing. You can fake out network connections and responses. I haven't yet found something that's impossible to unit-test, if you just think about how to do it properly, actually.

EDIT: Why downvotes without a typewritten rebuttal? That's just not what I expect from HN (as opposed to, say, Reddit)
It comes across to me as too much "duckspeak", that is, there is more to the suburbs than just "keep white" and "crush labor", even though these are factors. For example, black people moved to the early suburbs because they found life there attractive, and then there was white flight against as a result of that.

Looking at America is 2016 it is important to separate out "innovation" from various forms of real and alleged "rent seeking" and ask questions such as:

-- are Los Angeles, San Francisco, and New York successful because they are successful or because they can control the dialog and make people think they are successful?
-- does an overconcentration of cultural production in major urban areas have harmful effects on the culture; simply speaking commercially, can they get in to the heads of "flyover state" people enough to be able to sell them goods and services?
-- could overconcentation of cultural production have something to do with the "Future Shock" rage behind Don Trump and Bernie Sanders? Since we've outsourced our dreams to Hollywood, for instance, people feel that their own personal stories are erased.
I agree with PG that Mississippi probably isn't the right place for a startup hub, but it is disappointing that he contributes to the spin that Mississippi's religious liberty bill represents intolerance. It's these sort of religious protections that allow people of differing beliefs to live together, as opposed to the enforcement of secular norms found in jurisdictions that are supposedly more tolerant.
Keep in that the XPS units often have Broadcom wifi chipsets while the developer edition units have Intel. Much better Linux driver support for the Intel cards. The Precision 15" now comes in the same chassis as the XPS and has the Intel chipset (and other goodies)