skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The king divides his land up amongst his lords and promises them that they might become kings themselves if they produce enough wealth and capture enough lands for the crown. Then the lords take that land and make the same promise to the serfs: if you farm it well enough and produce enough strong warrior children, maybe you'll end up as a favorite of your lord.

This is feudalism, and it's not hard to see how the steady-state result of this system is everyone running to endless war, as there is ruthless competition at every level of the hierarchy. This is also how most corporations are run, and the promises of glory and wealth are largely as empty now as they were when feudalism was common.

Unemployment is not a problem. It is the goal.

>However the interesting thing about software - ( something that paul graham pointed out ) - is its almost no-cost to copy it. Its the great equalizer - what would take a factory and a lot of workers to build - will just take a piece of software to create.

My employment contract states that any patents I file are to be held by my employer, and that I may not participate in open-source software without their approval, and a good deal of other terms that protect me from economic freedom. Software hasn't equalized much in that regard.

>I think there is a strong incentive of 'not dying' in all of us. If you pushed people far [enough] they would innovate. You can build a robot from sticks and stones if the alternative is to starve.

They would die. You can't not die just because you want to. If the alternative is to starve, many many people will starve. It is callous to suggest otherwise.
Recipe: Docker Logs → Google Stackdriver Logging
Even after signing up (with a throwaway email since the site doesn't indicate much about what it is):

a) the typing-then-erasing effect gets very boring (though admittedly it does kinda give the impression that there's a real person on the other side)

b) There are typos all over (heh, starting with the name of the service) -- doesn't give a very good impression.

c) Service by email only? Seriously? Why did I need to sign up on the site again?

d) For the hell of it, I then emailed the given address with "Blood pressure", and got what seems to be a verbatim copy of the content here: https://www.zocdoc.com/answers/12061/how-do-you-get-rid-of-h...

Just, uh, no.
PAM is not portable.
I used OS/2 for years, including as a development machine (win 3.1 buildds) while at Netscape.

I just liked it's stability and network stack as compared to Windows at the time. For me, it was a more stable DOS type environment with a decent GUI in Workplace Shell.

I kept a machine running it for years (still have a vm somewhere) since I really enjoyed the original Galaxtic Civilizations from Stardock.
HuffPost Deletes Hillary Clinton to Be Indicted on Federal Racketeering Charges
to encourage you to follow your own gut
Android notifications do not require any app to be running in order for them to be displayed.

lockin still exists because you are the whim of centrally managed for-profit messaging backends

Given that 99.99% of people will never run their own servers, this is irrelevant: someone will be managing the infrastructure and those people will be motivated by profit. Welcome to capitalism: it works better than the alternatives despite its flaws.

Things like WhatsApp or GChat do not simply replace XML with JSON. They tend to use binary protocols designed for low power consumption and ease of parsing. Arguably, if any protocol gets it wrong, it's XMPP ... I used to like it back when it was called Jabber, heck, I even hung out with a few Jabber developers back in the day. But Jabber's design goal was instant messaging and it's no longer useful for that. It just couldn't adapt to even quite small changes in circumstances.
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To be fair, reading comments on the internet is also a waste of time.
Imagine you alone can control robots and grow animals(including humans) in a lab. You could use robots for specific tasks and use humans as sexual slaves or worker slaves. This could happen if there are 'designer babies', where you could create very beautiful women and have them as your slaves. Or you could create a race of slave super-humans(merge humans with mechanoids), which would fulfill certain tasks you gave them. Do you think in that case you would need some consumers buying from your companies? Of course not.

Now imagine few thousand people like you. Lets say those on Forbes list. Now, instead of one guy being in control, you have few thousand of them each specializing in certain area. One could make sexual slaves. Another one could have an army working to make video games. Third one would have slaves making clothing, houses or vehicles and so on... Those few thousand people could create a B2B economy with few thousand oligarchs trading among themselves. What about the rest? They could be eliminated very easily by certain viruses or through some other means. Humans could still exist, but they would be 'designed' or genetically modified to fit specific purposes.

Just remember genocides, slavery, nukes, wars etc. Nothing is off the table. The stakes are very high. Those few oligarchs would live like trillionaires, so they would probably be ready to do anything. I mean people today kill each other for $1k, imagine what could be done when stakes are this high. Contrary to popular belief, history doesn't follow the direction of progress of any animal species. It's fun until it's not (dinosaurs and many other extinct species).
This situation could trigger wars and genocides we haven't seen before. I don't think it's going to be cupcakes and rainbows. People in 19th century were very optimistic about the future, imagining all kinds of utopias, but what was 20th century? Huge wars, mass genocides, diseases etc. I am not optimistic and don't think there is some kind of an ark of human progress where people will reach utopia. It will be change, but no progress/regress.
AOL worked actively to stop third-party AIM clients in the same ways as mentioned above from icq through WhatsApp -- changing protocols and central auth mechanisms.

http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9909/06/aol.vsms.idg/index...

http://articles.latimes.com/1999/jul/24/business/fi-59086
I just use DenyHosts. A few rattling attempts, and the IP won't be able to make another auth attempt again.
"Please avoid introducing classic flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say about them."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11794723 and marked it off-topic.
Its because even though most personal computers have a GUI, most of the development and configuration of the internet happens via text.
They were outliers
Basically it's django-compressor[1] for Flask. That means automatic detection of static assets from your template files.

Flask-Assets makes you list every static file in a giant config, aka registering your assets in bundles. There is no need for that mess.

[1] https://django-compressor.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
> The original method used to determine the number of kcals in a given food directly measured the energy it produced.The food was placed in a sealed container surrounded by water--an apparatus known as a bomb calorimeter. The food was completely burned and the resulting rise in water temperature was measured.

I don't think the article addresses the following point. I may be totally wrong but I suspect the residues of the combustion still contain organic molecules that could possibly be broken down furthermore by some other process and release more energy (I believe it's the case with fuel, I remember a chemistry teacher telling us that burning fuel was terribly inefficient).

Would it be possible that the digestion mechanism is somehow more efficient at breaking down this molecules and produce more energy than combustion?
The toxic butterfly effect of school maths
> Systemd is not a platform. And not every Linux runs systemd.

For now...
The idea is that you can fairly easily, with current hardware, make experiences that don't induce sickness. It's mostly about ensuring the framerate stays high and never moving the viewport for the user.

Unfortunately Oculus and HTC/Valve can't stop developers from doing the obvious things that make everyone sick. Dumb developers can and will.

Some people get sick simply looking at motion on a 2D monitor. So there will always be people getting sick in these experiences.
Couldn't agree more re: product names. What people would call Sushi, IBM would specifically call "dead raw cold fish on white rice".
I wish I had the knowledge to understand more, dark matter is so fascinating. I have a feeling that once we figure out what it is a lot of stuff in quantum physics is going to be easier to figure out.
This wording, which appears frequently in defense of whatever changes systemd forces on the Linux ecosystem as a whole, implies that systemd is some kind of savior providing features that are neither offered nor considered anywhere else.

As a sysadmin for over 20 years, systemd offers nothing significantly new or different in the areas of process management than any of the other methods to do so, most of which are less intrusive.

A single tool providing a building block for an isolated, specific project says nothing about the general applicability or desirablity of that tool to the wider ecosystem.
That'll only delay the inevitable. Hair. Height. Walking patterns. Stride Length. Each added Criteria helps improve the odds. Oh this masked person waked out of building but they know of 28 people identified in building. So even without identifing your face they only need to build Confidence among a very small subset. Even if you go from building to city or country. They could likely narrow it to high confidence especially if they can actively ID the locations of all others with similar characteristics as you.
I have a gear, and it's irritated my eyes if I spend too much time on it (the lower resolution doesn't help), but I've never experienced nausea.
Well, it's the first thing you want to read about the first time you visit the project. The rest of the time it's probably the last thing you are interested in.
> How would people get buying power if they are "drafted"?

Obviously, you get paid for your service - really, there is a long history in America of favoring 'payment for service' over social programs. Reagan gutted the civilian welfare state, while extending benefits for those who had served the military.

To be clear, I'm not saying I oppose a generous pension for those who have served in the military, really, for a lot of reasons, or even that it's unfair, because most government jobs pay pretty poorly, at least the government jobs I could get pay terribly compared to the private sector jobs I could get, at least if you don't count the pensions. I'm just pointing out that the military does function an awful lot like some sort of socialist state. Yes, yes, there are still hierarchies, with privilege accorded to rank, but the difference between the top and the bottom, at least if you count in money and not power, and believe there to be a difference between the two, is nothing compared to what you see in the private sector.

But, the main idea here is that in the USA, there is massive resistance to the idea of redistributing money to the "undeserving" - some people argue that it's mostly a race thing that defines 'undeserving' and I don't know if that's true or not, but I can say that I observe a lot more hatred for the "welfare queen" than of the banker, and that this resistance is quite often overcome by making it so that our social safety net is a reward for your service.

During the great depression, we really had the problem you all are talking about here.. there really were simply not enough jobs to go around. Something had to be done; even fairly conservative folks recognized that something must be done.

What was done? well, world war two, but before that, the WPA. To be clear, that wasn't involuntary, like a draft but the point being that the government can and did create jobs for people.

There's a lot of complaints about the WPA just digging holes and filling them back up again, and there's some truth in that, but there is also a lot of infrastructure still standing today that was built by the WPA.

Personally, I don't really have a horse in this race, but my observation of Americans is that there's going to be a lot of resistance to "healthy young bucks" as Reagan put it, collecting the dole.
>I am an anglo who speaks french (like an anglo) and don't think I have amused my Quebecois friends more than when I used 'tabernouche' in a conversation

This makes sense to me. A summer job I once had featured a very clever Polish émigré who was still basically learning English. At one point, he was furiously angry (after having dropped a heavy and expensive yet eminently breakable object on his foot) and shouted "GULL DANGIT" in the manner of actually swearing.
This was the Civilian Conservation Corps, Rennesr Valley Authority, "workfare", government jobs (TSA!), etc
I'd recommend not going into your local magic shop and saying that. You would be very impressed on what you can buy.
Seriously. My education was nothing like the grandparent describes.
This seems to be a good example of the Systemd team disregarding user-space developers, if anything.

tmux dev asks:

> If it has to be done differently then - glibc has the daemon() function, and tmux uses it on Linux. Shouldn't this code be part of glibc instead of tmux?

Which is a perfectly sensible question. After all, what value is there in the systemd team being so resistant to maintaining user space contracts? What technical gain is there in pushing low-level systemd dependencies high up into user space? Wouldn't sane engineering be to encapsulate this kind of low-level platform detail behind libc interfaces like daemon(3), which exist precisely to abstract away this platform-specific knowledge? If the daemon(3) infinite lifetime semantics aren't desirable in all cases, why not add a second call, say user_daemon(3), to address those cases without breaking everyone else?

Zero response from the systemd devs, and 5 years later they change the default to break everyone without following up on these obvious critiques of their design.
Pwned Tools – Multi-Email Checker
So a site I've come across on Twitter endorsed by Troy Hunt called 'Pwned Tools' has a multiple email address checker on it. It's built on the use of the 'Have I been pwned?' API and allows more than one email address, caught up in a data breach/leak, to be checked with what seems like quite a good break down of each breach the email addresses have been caught up in. It gives an overview for each address.

Whilst yes it does offer partially the same as the HIBP site, it also offers a tad more. Anyone who wants to give it a try, the site is currently in BETA at https://pwnedtools.com/sandbox/ and guessing the guy or guys that built it are going to be adding more to it as time goes on I should imagine.
I know some smaller brands estimate using the USDA Food Composition Database (https://ndb.nal.usda.gov/), which in turn gets its data under the National Food and Nutrient Analysis Program (http://www.ars.usda.gov/News/docs.htm?docid=9446).

This is what I could find about their data:

"Data have been compiled from published and unpublished sources. Published data sources include the scientific literature. Unpublished data include those obtained from
the food industry, other government agencies, and research conducted under contracts initiated by USDA’s Agricultural Research Service (ARS)." (http://www.ars.usda.gov/sp2UserFiles/Place/80400525/Data/SR/... <- page 2)
> we have no clear understanding of what bullshit is

Information asymmetry. Bullshit is applied game theory.
Larry Summers needs a helicopter. The bridge he is talking about is a state/local problem, and while there are problems of trust and efficiency in all the government bodies that touch that bridge, none are readily applicable to "Why don't Americans trust government?" He would not have written this rant if he had a helicopter.
How can any intelligent person be so oblivious about being trolled by his own kind?

Had the author been alive during the American Revolution, he would have blamed the Boston Tea Party on Native Americans, too.
After going through DOS, WIN3x, WIN9x, AQUA, ... I'm very fond of the early 90s model. WIN3, IRIX. I had deep lispiness before leading me to seek fully metacircular UIs with code as interface and interface as code (lisp machines, self, ST, node based Houdini/Shake) but nowadays, with a little more abstraction power grown by the years I really like the tiny GUIs I listed above.

Todays GUIs are stuck in some uncandy valley, too much css, not enough value.
Check this out: http://www.alive.com/health/fit-for-human-consumption/

Animals that are sick or unhealthy are separated from the herd and slaughtered independently, then sold for pet food and livestock feed. This was partly what fostered the mad cow issue.

There is higher risk for illness with non-human grade food. If you don't want higher risk for your pet than child, you shouldn't feed the off-the-shelf non-human grade food.
Also, the owning_ref crate can help.
Frankly i think they are more worried about Oracle than they are about Canonical.

While RH and Oracle has a long history of cooperation, Oracle now have their own distro thats a fork of RHEL.

This fork prompted RH to end some policies that made life easy for CentOS (who now happens to be sponsored by RH), regarding the packaging of various patches.
Industrial "accidents" already have a long history, especially in modern Asian manufacturing.
Uh, no thanks!

I'd like to avoid solutions that facilliate an implicit assent to the collection of biometric data.

The plan you've outlined still has large organizations building massive libraries of immutable identity data. (they'll still have the fingerprints, however mixed and matched and re-ordered, and they'll still have the scanned faces)

At the end of the day, we'd still be letting them, asking them, begging them to store our finger prints and recognize our faces. Putting bald data in the hands of amoral, faceless, collective entities like corporations and governments.
warrior tribes?
The Death of Object-Oriented Programming [video]
I don't trust government because it is made out of people.
On News and Kindness
Recommended watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ImvlS8PLIo
Thank you for linking that course. I've always been interested in formal methods and verification of correctness.
new school mario is even better. I bet you saw this http://www.dorkly.com/post/73379/this-guy-makes-a-good-case-...

in case you haven't enjoy the ride.
Frankly i see Canonical being a lesser issue. They are doing basically the same that gave us the various BSD flavors.

They are not tying together originally independent projects so that others has to conform or else. They build their own thing to their own needs, and if you find you have the same needs then your free to help out.
Toyota may be buyer for Boston Dynamics
Mine education was like that: We're evil for taking the land away from native Americans and also go around screwing up the rest of the world with military interventionism. Oh the founding fathers were fucking hypocrites for allowing slavery. This was in a DC suburb ironically.

Over time I grew to find the mindset counterproductive. Free thinking is good to a point. But it's institutions, not individuals, that get us to the moon. It's bad when the pendulum swings too far in the other direction and we give up on our institutions.
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Letters between John W Backus and Edsger W Dijkstra, 1979
Right, BART is somewhat famous for the timed-transfers on other parts of the network, but they don't do it for the direction-changing transfer at San Bruno, if I understand correctly. You wait 20 minutes at SFO, then wait 20 minutes at San Bruno, and then you're in Millbrae where you get to wait an hour for Caltrain ;)
> insult to the tmux developers in particular

Not just tmux, every opensource project that used established nohup practices. For example, now all of my virtualbox instances are killed when I logout of Gnome on rawhide. This was a feature of virtualbox that’s worked perfectly for years now.
That's a great article ... I was heavily involved with terrestrial fiber systems in the '90s and, while speeds and the isolation of DWDM channels have both improved, it's amazing to me how familiar it all feels. When they talk about sub-sea amplifiers (and many of the terrestrial ones), they're not talking about a device that amplifies the signal electronically. An Erbium-Doped Fiber Amplifier (EDFA) uses a laser to optically amplify a signal. This is why there's not a lot of latency added in the sub-sea cable. If you take the same optical signal, convert it to electrons, amplify it and convert it back to an optical signal you'll see the latency added as discussed in the article.

One small nit ... dark fiber represents unused capacity. There are several places where the article says something like "dark fibre signals" which is incorrect. Dark fiber has no signal, while lit fiber does.

The last thing I'll mention is that these systems are obviously single-mode fiber. The laser powers feeding each channel are probably around 12dBm in the 1550nm spectrum (per channel). If you look into the end of one of these fibers that's lit from the other end, you'll end up with burned spots on your retina. Wiggle it around a bit and you'll have squiggle shaped burns. So if you're ever around fiber equipment, don't look directly at the ends (or into the connectors). You can get laser safety glasses cheaply ... save your sight!
They scuttled the DoD contract robotics
I use my own CMS. Basically I reads content from a parse-server (MongoDB), builds the html and uploads to AWS S3. All assets are also uploaded to S3. I also coded the themes from scratch but if responsive nice-looking themes is what drags you to use WP, Joomla or Drupal, I have tested getting the html version of the theme and using it with my CMS. It does require some manual tweaking but it works.

Keep in mind that I explicity said move a small box. I am sure there will always be a need for a dynamic CMS, for the sites that have tons of content and periodic updates (require workflow approval, multi-user, etc). But in reality, how many of these big sites exist vs a gazillion small websites that become targets of attacks b/c they are developed with a dynamic CMS and never again patched?

I recently had a case of a WP site hacked for ransomware. This was a tiny 10-pages site (obviously a non-patched WP version). That particular server runs 20+ sites only one left published with WP, the hacked one. All other sites are static (in these cases I did not use AWS but just Bitbucket, git pull and the site is published).

If I tell my clients (the ones that require the small boxes): hey, pay me x hours/month so I can keep things patched, they'll cry. If I tell them: I will just turn your site into good ol' static and whenever you need an update I'll quote and charge, they're happy.

In any case, a quick google search will give you plenty of toolchains.
Well, as a commercial endeavor, I would really have to wonder if there's enough of a market to sustain a business. I'm sure there's the odd OS/2 system still running here and there but nobody today is interested in expanding that footprint. At best you'll sell upgrades to people who are still using it -- a customer base that will only shrink over time.

If it were an open-source project, yeah "why not" is a fine answer.
I'm pretty sure the study controls for that. It's too obvious an important factor. They probably control for parental education level too.