skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It has some pretty severe microclimates. After a good rain, I have seen some pretty miserable homeless people. They are wet, and cold. They don't have the right camping equipment.

In my little city, we lost three people this winter--that I know of. They died from hypothermia to pneumonia. I kinda knew one guy. He didn't like to tell people he was homeless. He was actually a former Programmer. He was instrumental in the developement of Word Star, but only got a wage, and a footnote in the program's history.

When he did let his guard down, he would always say one thing over the years. "I just don't want to die on the streets, over a chest infection." I didn't see him for awhile. I thought he might have moved.

I found out, one night, at Starbucks, he died on the streets in front of the police station, of a pneumonia. No service. Nothing. He was a only child. He's just gone. No drug use. No health problems prior to being homeless.
In California, one of the most generous states with welfare, here's what it looks like for a single person with no children:

WORK REQUIREMENT
Non-assistance CalFresh recipient over age 17 and under age 50 must satisfy the ABAWD work requirement as a condition of eligibility unless they meet specified exemption criteria or live in an area where the ABAWD work requirement is waived. ABAWDs cannot receive CalFresh (food stamps) for more than three months in a 36-month period unless they meet this requirement or are excused from it. The ABAWD work requirement is met by performing one of the following:

Working at least 20 hours per week in paid or volunteer employment;
Participating at least 20 hours per week in an allowable work activity such as vocational training or basic education programs; or
Participating in workfare (i.e., community service). The number of hours of participation in workfare is determined by dividing the CalFresh allotment by the higher of the state or federal minimum wage.

Max benefit: $174 a month(!)

Compare Germany:

If a worker is not eligible for the full unemployment benefits or after receiving the full unemployment benefit for the maximum of 12 months, he is able to apply for benefits from the so-called Arbeitslosengeld II (Hartz IV) programme, an open-ended welfare programme which, unlike the US system, ensures people do not fall into penury. A person receiving Hartz IV benefits is paid 404 EUR (2016) a month for living expenses plus the cost of adequate housing (including heating) and health care. Couples can receive benefits for each partner. Germany does not have an EBT (electronic benefits transfer) card system in place and, instead, disburses welfare in cash or via direct deposit onto the recipient's bank account.
Sky sued them over sky drive
You're right. I should clarify that by "we" I mean "the people doing stuff".
This over-confidence in your ability to change an industry is a good trait IMO. It powers entrepreneurial activity. While his hypothesis might be wrong in full implementation, it's possible there is some partial innovation here that could come out of testing out this idea. It's possible the constraints faced by large wind mills are not the same for smaller ones, for example.

It's easier to dismiss radical thinking than to continually pursue them in the face of pervasive dismissiveness.
These systems are of such a scale that the materials/power/real estate costs dwarf the engineering people costs.

The tradeoff, it depends on your business and your team, your risk tolerance, time scales. But a rule of thumb might be if you don't have more than 10PB or so, you probably shouldn't bother.
Yes live mesh was amazing. I had to switch to Dropbox which now holds a live mesh folder
"Live Mesh", thank you. That was driving me nuts. And yes, it worked well enough that I used it for a while. Then, as you point out, came the "improvements" and the name changes (six, by my count).
Dang I thought it would be the one that changed the characters into a line drawing of a map.
My A4000T is also still working fine (last time I checked), but of course the HD died. One of these days I will get a CF or even SSD in there, maybe get a nice mouse and indulge myself to bits. http://aminet.net/ is still here and nice things still get made, after all :)

What miss most is using tools like ExoticRipper to grab music modules from memory after reset, to then play them at leisure and examine/change them with a tracker. Or playing around with the "Action Replay" modules I-III, that blew my mind too. Making a pause toggle by connect the mass of the case to a specific pin of the extension slot, haha, I was so scared doing it and so shocked it actually worked. I may not have learned so much I ended up still using (except today I prefer Renoise to all other DAW), but I sure learned a lot about learning, that is, wildly poking around to figure things out.
They call it hopelessness and with relatives in this same situation, I think that's an excellent name for it.
Are you thinking of Live Mesh? It was originally its own service, but the transition out of beta saw its storage unified with what was then SkyDrive, now OneDrive.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Live_Mesh
I've been unable to find the dialogue alone

without all of the editorialising

The article is fascinating, and I was unaware of this debate but I find it difficult to reason along with this article's diction

I'd love to read the original debate, if anyone had a link

Preferably an English translation, but the French would be fine too

EDIT : lstamour found it https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11646664
Wow, I didn't realize it came out in 1992, I thought it came out a few years later. Now I'm really starting to feel old.

In 1992, I was still using the Hayes command set to connect to the broader world.

+++

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It could certainly spell doom for future UBI proposals if the first prominent implementation goes badly, and it could be that it went badly due to factors that are simply not as prevalent in the West.
Where can a Ph.D take you? Back to school, usually [by JFK's granddaughter]
I don't like this attitude. In fact, some whistleblower protection laws already exist (whistleblower protection act).

I'm sure there are forces that act on politicians other than loyalty to their constituents, but there's no reason in the American democracy we couldn't (theoretically) get to a point where we elect representatives who understand the importance of whistleblower protection and care more about their constituents than other influences.
Creating and Applying Custom Monitoring Templates in Oracle EM
> You say you are open to suggestions. I'm sorry, but it seems more like you are open to suggestions that agree with your views.

Doesn't everybody? :-)

Jokes apart, being open to suggestions means that I can entertain an idea without accepting it or dismissing it completely. So here you go: Your approach might work in a country like Switzerland, North Korea, China, etc. where people are prone to order fearfully (N.Korea, China) or otherwise (Switzerland). But I have strong doubts it would work in other countries (US, UK, Portugal, Spain, Germany, Italy, Greece, Croatia, Turkey, etc.), I strongly believe that will have the exact opposite effect, so yes I still consider your approach rather naive: If a legislation could solve something like this, so easily without creating havoc, it would have been applied long time ago in pseudo-puritan societies like the US IMHO.
Ahh... figured out my miscalculation... RENTERS insurance for earthquake is very inexpensive, I didn't factor in that you'd need OWNER (ie: structure) insurance.

The estimates for contracting work (seismic reinforcement) seem ludicrously low to me, but I don't have any basis for that opinion as I've not had to work with contractors here in the Bay Area.

I just find it hard to believe that doing major structural reinforcements to your home would be in the $20k range.
How often are the recommendations on cipherli.st updated?
Except that it's not even a trend. Which companies hack back? Every major internet firm publicly disavows hacking back (much less launching offensive attacks) specifically because of the massive liabilities it could expose them to.
State and future of Heka
Well, ones mans history is another mens present.
Returned from climbing to find that my android phone in the locker was hot like a brick from the furnace, every little bit of energy spend communicating through the em-cage that is the locker with the gyms- wifi-spot - for a upgrade.

Also most prog-tech goes into not doing anything at all, if we can not avoid it. Send it to the server, sleep over it, reuse allready constructed objects of the same type- there is a whole world dancing to this tune.
Yup, as @jamwt says we directly manage the block device.

That said, up until somewhat recently our data really was written into 1GB extents stored as files on an XFS filesystem. This mostly worked fine but we switched away from this so that we could directly manage disk layout for SMR storage (a new type of hard drive that has bad random write performance), along with some performance improvements, increases in storage density, and some minor reliability improvements from avoiding the filesystem.

It takes a lot more operational tooling to directly manage a block device since you obviously can't use all the standard filesystem tools.
Why? I really wonder why.

I doubt that 15GB vs 5GB really matter from point of view of costs.

I'm concern that is solution to "solve" some scalability problems with their design or infrastructure. This reminds me when Evernote issued ridiculous API throttling - that point of time was beginning of the end of Evernote.

This could be also that they are hoping that people will upgrade OneDrive storage - but I doubt that 15GB matters: 15GB today is 5GB in one year.
I expected this to be about how tech has replaced law as the recommended "just learn this and you'll have a good job" career path for today's students.

This is something we as a community should probably have a conversation about. Too many people went to law school, and now they can't find jobs. Meanwhile, the "tech" (read: software) zeitgeist has enthusiastically taken up the mantle by proclaiming that everyone should learn to code and start making $100k. We're only devaluing our own work and setting unrealistic expectations by doing this.
I don't know how much worse East Africa is compared to other parts of sub-Saharan Africa, but Namibia has enacted basic income before with positive results.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_income_around_the_world#...

But then again, it was the country's own government, not some outside NGO.
Having a voice is what makes the author distinct in these kinds of stories - he can speak and therefore act for himself. Thus we believe that any charity provided would have result. A good concept for this is "subaltern" which refers to being "rendered without agency by social status". The author is not subaltern and therefore we have hope for him, he is not completely outside the social system we inhabit ourselves. So you could send him $100 and realistically have the expectation that this will have value, as opposed to giving $100 to a man on the street and having the expectation that it will only be a temporary reprieve, or even worsen the situation through short-term spending choices.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subaltern_(postcolonialism)
I was expecting to see an article which predict hackers will develop AI which obsoletes many lawyers.
It turns out an article predicting crackers becoming military force by acquiring secret information of competitors.

A company who don't spend their effort on R&D and just cloning competitors technologies cannot dominate the market.
A company which doesn't seriously concerns security deserve to die.

No worries at all.
I'm not such a huge supporter of the invisible hand deciding "who gets what and why" (funnily enough there is a good book about markets by that name), rather I think freedom of association is important, especially when it comes to hosting someone in your home. However, if you're doing it all the time (running a business), you just won't do as well as the next guy who doesn't discriminate. By the time the next guy has an opportunity to use the capital he made to buy you out, it might be decades away, so imo on a long time scale, the problem is self correcting.

And I do agree with you that sometimes the market does select against justice. At the same time, prices are still the best indicators for a long of things that don't involve life or death situations.
Streamlining Distributed Stream Processing with SuperChief
Really I don't. I do "the old way" unless I happen to spot a nice pattern.

(in this case the pattern involves knowing that 17 times 2 is 34 and that 17 times 3 is 51)

My speed and reliability allowed me to focus on understanding higher-level math. With little effort, I easily blew past my peers for years afterward.

Using pflat's method, my reliability would drop. There are too many extra numbers to account for.
Docker Networking Design Philosophy – Docker Blog
More like a Pepsi can with a bloody big brick in the bottom 9*470 kg merlins).
Main threat to stability would seem to be wind, but doesn't seem to be the case in practice
Git seems to be included with the xcode command line tools, make sure that's up to date.
Feedbot: Instant Feedback for Slack Bots
Hi all, myself and a few buddies of mine just built a tool for collecting feedback on our bots. It is called Feedbot. We'd love some feedback, as what we have built thus far is still pretty basic. It is super simple: underneath each bot response, there is a small thumbs up or thumbs down.

Link to documentation here: https://github.com/feedbot/code-samples
> Otherwise, how would the interpreter (or whatever execution environment is relevant) deduce what binary data was what?

Via runtime tags, which are not the same as types.
i think it's the other way around - if you're using rust, now you have a collision library you can use without having to go back to c++.
usr/bin/git is still vulnerable and is much more difficult than it appears to be to remove, homebrews git binary is stored in usr/local/bin/git
We don't choose the buzzwords - the market (or marketing people) do so. The word has already been chosen - "serverless". I agree there could have been a better word that didn't clash with our knowledge that there are still servers involved.
These are nuclear, but not weapons. Nature doesn't have an enemy.
Sneakers came out before I was even born but now I feel compelled to watch this old, and perhaps cringe-worthy hacker movie. Hope it does not disappoint.
Apple's developer responsible for maintaining Git wrote that the fixed version didn't make it into Xcode 7.3, because the vulnerability was announced later than they released it [1][2]. It took some time to release 7.3.1, indeed, and maybe even Rachel's original post made them release it faster. It's sad that they can't do it more quickly, but let's hope they'll improve release process.

[1] https://twitter.com/jeremyhu/status/722272350272512000

[2] https://twitter.com/jeremyhu/status/722482144082157568
Hmm, interesting. It was still down (everything just timing out) an hour ago from work, but it's fine and snappy now from home. Maybe the corp firewall is blocking it for some reason.
Good work! Very helpful!
Looks painful, but VR is the future for gaming and even education. Gaming has to be done on a threadmill type of device, or the games have to be made in scenes where moving forward and backward is a click, or you move by controlling a vehicle (plane with a joystick/your exoskeleton/etc...).
VARs don't even know how SQL Server licensing works. It's not hard when you take the time to read about it but it's convoluted and no one should have to waste their time doing it. Basically it comes down to this:

if ($number_of_clients * $client_license) > ($number_of_processors * $processor_license) buy per-proc, else buy client licenses.

Per-processor licensing is somewhere in the neighborhood of 30K (per CPU). Standby servers and processors aren't counted toward that total. Clients are any machines or users that directly or indirectly (like via a web app) use the database. That last point is important because sales reps at vendors who's software requires SQL Server will sometimes be ignorant of it or will lie and when you get audited you're the one left holding the bill.
Looks like a support structure innovation is needed
"circuit-board-green shirts"
Did you try to follow up ref. 1 from the article?
Math Stumps Your Doctor, Too
Thanks for your link, checking it out now.

How do you get by these days? How can we help?
> The brokers reaching out to the students doesn't mean entrapment

Especially since the brokers are the ones being charged with the crime.

The students aren't be charged with a crime (they are, however, being subject to non-criminal immigration proceedings, but "entrapment" is a criminal defense.)
Sesame St. Makes TV Sticky–My Woodchipper Makes People Sticky -Malcolm Gladwell
Service of process is regulated at the state, and sometimes local, level. For you to assert that email is a generally valid method requires some evidence.
There is a saying in my culture, which describes those, who give a present and later take it back, as "dog eating what he threw up".

I'm migrating 40 GB of photos from OneDrive to AWS since days.
I made the mistake of using a GoDaddy VPS costing around 600$ a year, recently found a VPS in my country for 60$ a year.
And their podcast is still available and can be heard on WBAI in NYC and probably streamed from there as well.

I came to 2600 late in life so I can't get nostalgic about it, but I look forward to picking up new issues at B&N and do so in order to encourage them continue stocking the store. I discovered 2600 by randomly browsing at a comic book shop and wouldn't have had that experience if it were digital or subscription only.
Indeed; at one point iPod production was consuming over half the world's flash memory. What happened? They built more factories. Prices of flash continued to drop aka "a functioning market".
Live mesh was so great, that's exactly what I wanted from a file backup solution.
Apple hasn't fared much better with iTools / .mac / MobileME / iCloud. They gave 5GB of free space and expected everyone to pay for more. After so many nag screens, people who don't want to pay basically just lose out on even the 5GB storage. It could have been an awesome way to just save the DATA from apps, so you wouldn't be up a creek without backups if you lost or damaged your device.
Darpa Wants the Perfect Encryption App, and They Want You to Build It
This was much needed. I feel a bit disgusted to look at the attributes naming though. I dont work a lot with XML but why should an attribute be
"layout_alignSelf"

and not

"layoutAlignSelf"
or
"layout_align_self" ?

This is a general rant and nothing specific to Flexbox.
> an endless supply of money (we know it's not truly endless, but a large influx of cash) allows commerce to occur and people can buy/sell more than commodities

I'm not an economist either, but I think the concepts you want to look up are 'money supply' and 'velocity of money'.
> The reason they've already cut the price of launch by about 80% vs. (say) the Space Shuttle is because they optimised the whole system

No, it's because their system is much less capable and benefits from having a starting point of 50 years of accumulated knowledge.

Take Musk & the Space-X team and plop them in 1980 and you would not get the same Falcon 9 that exists today. You wouldn't get anything close.

Comparing the space shuttle to the Falcon is idiotic, anyway. The shuttle had capabilities that no other launch system has had or will have anytime soon (for better or worse).
Tilt Brush: Painting from a new perspective
>Giving food tends to act as “dumping” and weaken the agricultural industry.

What the fuck? Are you not aware of the MASSIVE subsidies that are given all throughout agriculture to give away basically billions of tons of food to animals?

Why not do the same for ensuring that the food is consumed by people...
Druggies could be a problem - there are stories of booby-traps and tripwires laid by the growers to protect their crops. So you certainly don't want to stumble across one.

The only BLM land I personally know of is in Nevada/Arizona/New Mexico, and you can't really grow anything on it (it's desert). Looks like there's also land in eastern Oregon, Idaho, Utah, etc. so if you can tolerate cold winters...

http://www.blm.gov/or/about/images/landsmap-large.gif

Even on BLM land, someone is eventually going to stop by and pay a visit to see what you're up to.
It is a poor craftsman who blames his tools.
Enough already. This society can provide Walden (by Henry David Thoreau) sized accommodations for all that need it. There is no reason for anyone to be homeless.

People need work and healthcare. These are rights not a privileges.
Simultaneity plays an important role in the brain too, and there it is difficult to say who may be right.
Specifically, I removed the text "Seriously?"
Microsoft caves pretty heavily when it comes to any naming dispute. It's interesting the stark contrast between them and Apple in this regard (iPhone, iOS, etc).

Microsoft needs to grow a backbone.
Todo: buy any IP for "Earth" and start suing people. Heh, I guess this is more or less the patent troll business model.
Basic universal income and let machines do the menial work.
Housing policy, formal and informal, just drives me crazy. I despair that the future everywhere will look like third world countries, where only relatively wealthy people can afford to live in legal housing. Everyone else, maybe me too, will live in 'favelas'.

Here's a great post about this by a blogger I really like on this topic:

- [Spring In The Silicon Favela – Granola Shotgun](https://granolashotgun.com/2016/02/08/spring-in-the-silicon-...)

But on the plus side, there's a lot of cool stuff you can do once you stop playing by the rules!
"Right, so no evidence that Snowden's leaks hurt American ops."

The ops are classified so it's a bogus point anyway. You're requiring them to commit a felony to prove specific damage. Further, you've already dismissed anything coming from spy agencies as a lie. You've set that line of questioning up to be a fail no matter what they show you. The only exception I'm seeing is a 3rd party or foreign nation detects their ops, then reports on it. Kaspersky already did with Equation Group plus used Snowden leaks to show it was probably NSA.

Anyway, we don't need them to publish anything. Just answer quick question: do you believe that the Snowden leaks improved people's ability to resist NSA surveillance and increase privacy through technological responses? Does that include foreign businesses or governments? If so, then you are already admitting that it reduced NSA surveillance and impacted their operations. One follows the other logically. Either Snowden leaks had no effect on NSA spying, making him a fail outside of legal reform, or they did negatively impact NSA by disrupting their operations.

"even if some small percentage of what Snowden leaked did harm US operations somehow... I'd argue that it was justified in light of the big picture,"

He wasn't justified because he didn't have to leak it. That simple. He could've just leaked the ones that targeted Americans or showed gross abuse rather than a lot of what we already, as Americans, allowed NSA to do. Instead, he turned over everything to many foreign media.

Btw, do you remember why he did that? Did you ever read the reason? He gave two actually. One sheds a lot of light on whether he had to do this and just how heroic he really is.
Wow, that's a pretty nice domain name you got there.