skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anarcho-capitalists advocate private courts and private enforcement, but that is impossible (at least for cases like this one) to put into practice when an existing government has already established a monopoly on this. Unless the government is abolished, using its facilities is a perfectly reasonable way to settle conflicts. Not only that, in some cases, using government facilities becomes mandatory, whatever your political beliefs. For example, if someone gets murdered in his house, and he is the sole witness, he is bound by law to report it. (At least, this is how I understand the law.)
You can't have a probability lower than zero, but you're still able to obtain negative infinity points. Why is there an upper bound but not a lower bound?
A write-up:

http://www.billboard.com/biz/articles/news/digital-and-mobil...
Let's look at it the other way. Launching a movie cost a ton of money. So to keep a diverse culture ( we all agreee diversity is great isn't it?) and diverse way to think, you need to help less mainstream way to think.

You spend years elaborating complex way to let mainstream exists and makes money, without disturbing it too much, but still keep a working amount of culture disruptor and new ideas growing. And you even create way for the mainstream to do that, enabling cross pollination.

Then suddenly, a group that know nothing about your rules and believe that "all rules are bad anyway" come and control the main way to consume mainstream culture, rendering all your organisation void, cutting the money and support for the smallest groups.

Woops, you have to rebuild everything. Except that this time around, you have no grasp on that "mainstream" to get cooperation and build a working ecosystem.

The "market" is well and all. But an ecosystem need rulers and law enforcement. Too much rules is not good and i may agree that France and Europe was a bit too much (is a bit too much) coercive right now. But there is probably a middle ground that can be found.

Well now, i still believe lawmakers and rulers are decade behind the need of today technology. But it is not just "regulating consumption". It is also about future and keeping an healthy pool of new and fresh ideas.
> I find it ironic that Theil of all people, a libertarian who claims we more or less don't need government end up kind of illustrating exactly why we do.

I also find his actions ironic, but maybe for the opposite reason. In funding this lawsuit, Thiel appears to be funding the initiation of force -- bringing the power of government to bear against a private organization which hasn't used force or the threat of force (as far as I know). I would have assumed that as a libertarian, Thiel would be against this sort of thing, as you say, but apparently the temptation to use the State to crush someone he didn't like was too great.

I would disagree with you that his actions illustrate that more of this is exactly what we need, though.
> Yes, but a simulated universe would have bounds much lower than that.

No, it wouldn't. A simulated universe would have exactly the limits of the laws of the simulation, which would be exactly the physical laws of the universe as seen from within.

> Because the laws of physics aren't actually being simulated, any more than a video game simulates every particle and photon of light. It's just an approximation

The approximation (of some idealized laws of physics conceived in the external realiy) being simulated would be exactly the laws of physics observed in the internal reality of the simulation.
The merchandising is awesome too. I see kids with creeper backpacks and I wish I had things like that when I was that age.
"Buzzword," perhaps. A hackneyed term that gets in the way of communication rather than providing enlightenment.
What could possibly be the reasoning behind this?
> The US government forces American tech companies to spy on users, so US companies are to blame?

It's not so important who is to blame from a moral perspective, it's still a serious issue.

> These services are so useful and well-liked ... Companies like this don't come out of Europe for a reason.

Some do but mostly you are correct. French authorities in particular are very backwards and Socialist.
Zero is actually a bit more reasonable(~$10k):
http://www.zeromotorcycles.com/
To be honest most of my exposure to RethinkDB is from Aphyr's article on it. We already run basically every alternative he mentions as superior for particular use cases. For example we run Zookeeper / replicated SQL for inter-key consistent actions and Cassandra for an AP store. When we need document semantics we have a pretty robust Elasticsearch setup. It didn't seem like RethinkDB would do all of those things better than those special purpose databases so I didn't really look into it too much.

Replacing Cassandra at Yelp would be a lot of effort, so we'd have to be sure that it's worth it. That being said, RethinkDB definitely looks interesting and I'll make sure it's on my list of datastores to evaluate.
I often wonder why the community's response to issues with an open/free/community package is to give the maintainers a strong argument to discontinue it in favour of a commercial one, or just abandon it altogether.
Fixed. Thanks for pointing out.
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Gawker Media is a Cayman Island corporation founded by a foreign national. It does not engage in journalism. It is a blog designed to shift the Overton Window for Jon Stewart's fanbase into normalizing extreme political agendas.

Are there any cases that show foreign companies that exist 100% as a tax shelter, founded by a foreign national, have first amendment rights?
Why fail a student for making one specific mistake once?
What's more suspicious: Bad hashes or bad signatures? What would an attacker choose if their goal was to get as many people as possible to force install?
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I think this is a combination of chains which are dependent on eachother, especially when you use Travis CI: 1st) apt-get not flexible enough to ignore that error on apt-get update 2nd) Travis CI having so much external stuff installed, it's a big big image which has more failure points 3rd) Docker repo failed.
Why don't you "do devops"?
Contest: Hack our security, win a MacBook
Well well. Who knows where twitter would have been now if it wasn't for Jack Dorsey.

With a product so boring (IMO) that the only two interesting things about it (again IMO) are the massive hype and the resulting massive scale, just keeping the hype machine running is quite a feat IMO ;-)

(Yeah, when I first saw it I saw massive potential: kind of a giant global event/message bus with a mix of more or less personal text messages, machine2machine communications etc etc. I thought the first thing they would do would be adding channels so you could separate various topics, paid subscriptions for internal company discussions etc etc. Instead they doubled down on efficient distribution of spam and drivel :-/)
If you want to rely on backups, you have to test them periodically and not overwrite older ones with newer ones. It sounds like the backups had probably never worked, or there was some necessary component that was not backed up.
Didn't Osama bin Laden write a declaration about culture invasion from the West?
On the other hand, that specific thing is the entire reason for the fork existing, its drive and motivation.

It could be anything. "We feel own-cloud isn't libre enough", "We don't feel this direction is profitable", "We feel owncloud was too open", "I personally disliked one of the people there any wanted to sink the ship", etc etc (note: I am being a bit tongue in cheek here)

If its a reason I agree with, then migration makes sense, if its a reason I don't agree with, then obviously migration might not be a good idea. But no one knows what the driving motivation of nextcloud is! So its a bit more worry-causing then reassuring
Ahh, gotcha. That makes more sense. The Lego comparison was confusing because of the existing marketplace.
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Agreed, doing all that crap myself has been my biggest complaint about AWS Lambda so far. I can't understand why Amazon doesn't offer something like this as part of their CLI tools.
> How is it not problematic when American tech form an oligopoly on internet services?

They are the best so they won. I have no problem with that and I don't think anyone should have as long as there's no abuse of power.

> Especially when these services need to bend to the whims of American government.

This is what I have a problem with.
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I really agree with you
It's not just playing Minecraft either - it's watching videos of other people playing Minecraft EG:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/the-filter/10980512/Stampylon...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Garrett
Terry's scheme punishes well educated people who are conservative in their claims of confidence
>> "Unless you're arguing with someone that will take any missing confidence as sign that you're completely wrong."

This is 90% of people.
This has been explored in the press recently and apparently the margins are very high. The sales experience is also poor as you'll see an ad for a $599 bed and when you visit the store you'll get an aggressive upsell. Worse, if you fight the upsell, the $599 bed is magically out of stock or will require 4-6 weeks delivery while the other more expensive items can be delivered tomorrow.

My last two beds have been from either Costco or Sam's Club. No high pressure sales, less bullshit, and better pricing. The one time my wife and I went to a mattress store, we paid probably 30% more than the warehouse club prices and the bed's springs went bad years earlier than expected.

I highly recommend avoiding mattress stores.
Sometimes I think that is a shame like now when we are having an interesting discussion instead of the usual g+ bashing :-|
To out pedantic you: the problem only involved Amazon.com not Amazon.ca ;)
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Asteroid mining will pay off better if launch costs stay high. Anything produced in space has a huge cost advantage over something launched from the ground at a cost of thousands of dollars per kilogram. A kilogram of water or iron is literally worth more that its weight in gold once its in space.
I suppose if you combine this approach with the theory that nothing is 100% certain you end up with a test that is impossible to get 100% on (which I guess makes perfect sense as nothing is 100% certain). But back to reality, if you set students tests where a 100% confident answer being wrong instantly meant they fail, it feels like you are no longer testing the student on the subject matter in question and instead are testing their ability to play the probability meta-test game.

The task itself of working out how 'confident' you feel about an answer also feels like an impossible task (almost like a non-technical project manager asking a developer how long a task will take). I guess it would be fun to see the results of tests taken using this approach and then compare the scores with the new system, the old system and ultimately what they get as their final grade in the subject.
IANAL and I'm no expert in the US justice system.

"Gawker is very likely to win on appeal"

Sounds to me like a flaw in the justice system, if one side hands out high amounts of punishment, then the appeal system systematically reduces the payment. Not something the person who sues or supports the legal action is responsible for.
To me, the most interesting and fun thing about Twitter is its "Trending Hashtags". Always good for a laugh.

Yet, in the last year, it's become more and more difficult to find the damn list of trending hashtags. Currently, one has to click on the magnifying glass to find it. It should be front and center, and have a top-level tab of its own (next to Home and Moments). Personally, I'd prefer it if every time I opened Twitter, the first thing it showed me was the trending hashtags.
It's impossible to force install the packages when they have bad hashes (hence the severe breakage here), and it is possible to install the packages when they have bad signatures if you didn't import the gpg key or don't run with signature checking.

So I'd guess a rational attacker would choose a bad signature. But attackers can be irrational; it doesn't prove it's not an attack. Just not my intuition.
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I've never been able to figure out who Ariana Huffington is or why I should care what she thinks.
This moves the problem to a quiz of introspection, not a quiz of the material
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for example, floating point numbers can only hold a specific amount of decimal points, so very small numbers would end up becomming zero, leading to tons of divisions by zero or NAN's ect.

In order to avoid these glitches we need to clamp these numbers to values that are very close to zero and basically stop simulating the objects concerned until we detect that these objects move again.

Although this is an example, an imperfect process would have an upper and lower limit of numerical representation, requiring patches to limit glitches.

patches would be detectable in a simulation.
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you have to be pretty naive to think robots wont be in fast food places either way.
> "rendering all your organisation void, cutting the money and support for the smallest groups."

How does Netflix not offering enough French TV shows do that? Did the government just stop giving them money once Netflix showed up?

Also, encouraging Netflix to take on more local content is one thing. I'm sure they'd love to. Forcing them to fund the creation of local content is another thing completely. These governments are looking to require that a foreign company fund domestic businesses to be able to access their markets. Seems like something that would run afoul of the WTO, or similar body.
One of my responsibilities at Amazon is "call leader". It's a rotation of long-time Amazon folks who facilitate the recovery process whenever there are outage events; call leaders run the conference call (there's always a conference call) and help people focus on the right things in the moment as well as making sure we gather everything we'll need for a rigorous post mortem.

The first and most important principle that every call leader promotes is "stay calm". It would be natural for folks to freak out and get stressed when the clock is ticking on an outage. There's an innate human sense that our emotional state has to match the urgency of a problem. But this would only lead to a kind frenetic energy that isn't helpful.

Instead, maintaining a collected composure quickly cools everything down so that actions can be thought through and communicated more clearly. Many people are surprised that when they join a call, especially with an experienced team, that it is so calm. If you listen to the audio of Michael Schumacher as an F1 driver, or to fighter pilots performing complex maneuvers, it can also be striking just how calm they are. It's very effective and a great lesson for teams under pressure.
She was a popular newspaper pundit before she founded huffpo and newspapers died.
While this won't solve your problem, I find that good foam earplugs improve my quality of sleep immensely. They are reusable, washable and cost next to nothing (eg https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00374LCFS). Also I have this mask for sleeping when it is light outside and it's worth every penny (https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00939UXCY/).
>because of increased productivity due to sleeping well.

I imagine not being distracted by office life, office politics, needless meetings, two commutes, etc has more to do here than just sleep.
The article fails to mention some of the most significant events that have happened in this space: Google news fights.

Multiple countries have tried to force Google to pay to continue operation of Google News. Google was willing to simply stop operating Google News in those countries, rather than paying for the privilege. It turned out that the media companies needed Google more than Google needed them, and they worked quickly to get back to the prior situation (which is what Google wanted).
Reddit plans to host videos on its site
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>Who gives a shit and why?

You know, I'll never understand the immediate and swift "who cares" response when people are discussing a subject as some sort of "Excuse me but...". If there's a disagreement you wish to voice, voice it-let's not act like people aren't interested in it because of your disagreement.

And as I've said, I've only read two articles on this whole thing and the entire ordeal seems sordid to me. I'm not a lawyer, so I wont even begin to pretend like I know what someone should or should not have done in the interests of their own defense, but the "backroom dealer" feel of the whole thing-personally speaking-reeks and doesn't quite sit well with me. I don't have all the answers to this, and I do plan to get more informed.

And further, yes-I suppose if one were to argue using that Obi Wan "from a certain point of view" type of analysis-Gawker's wrongness is Germane so maybe this even falls to me to be more precise in my speaking:

Gawker being in the wrong or Gawker being in the right doesn't change much of the strange sensation I feel when someone ostensibly brings sacks of money to the table in a lawsuit with the intent to win not on the merits of the case but by exhausting legal resources of their legal opponent.
Who ever told you that was incorrect. Amazon's root cause analysis process focuses on understanding the failure and implementing corrective actions. A process with a human in the critical path is a broken process.
Invasion implies use of force and against the will of someone.

Nobody forces you to use Google services, eat hamburgers or listen to US music.
Attic shouldn't be used anymore! [1]

You should either switch to Borg, which is a not-backwards-compatible fork of Attic:

https://borgbackup.readthedocs.io/en/stable/

Or you should switch to Obnam, which seems to have a cleaner implementation than Attic/Borg, and most importantly, a well-documented archive format:

http://obnam.org/

Note that both have an archive format which is incompatible to Attic. Also note that some years ago Obnam had poor performance compared to Attic, but as far as I know, it became much faster since then.

[1] A serious bug which may cause data-loss has never been fixed, so Attic was removed from some distros such as Debian: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=802619
Hotbot was my favorite. I even had an email address with them.

When they were bought out, I remember thinking "Damn, now I have to find a new search engine to use".
The irony here is this is one of the problems docker solves, ie packaging your dependencies with your application ahead of time.
What I'm saying is that those that want to spend time aren't the ones looking for a device to allow it. Those that want to arrange their schedule so they can, just like everyone does for things they want to do.

Well, out side of those that work multiple low paying jobs to provide for their family. There are other forces at work there.
That's not just a funny coincidence -- the American left has for decades been slowly allying themselves against the West.

That's why no one on the left batted an eye when Google chose Yuri Kochiyama for their Google Doodle, despite that she said in 2003:

"...I consider Osama bin Laden as one of the people that I admire. To me, he is in the category of Malcolm X, Che Guevara, Patrice Lumumba, Fidel Castro.... I thank Islam for bin Laden. America's greed, aggressiveness, and self-righteous arrogance must be stopped."
How to write a README that rocks
In big enterprises, core production infrastructure frequently has NO access to internet, ever.

Most places I've ever worked in will have local repositories, procedures and timelines for anything from Microsoft and OS updates, to development stacks and libraries.

Neither workstations nor servers get updated directly from external/vendor/open repositories - it is all managed in-house.

Slower, yes; more work, yes; but that's exactly the type of issue it's meant to prevent :)
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It would be a pretty simple exercise to develop very lightweight fairings for this frame. Clearly it wasn't a consideration in this proof-of-concept design, so it doesn't make sense to consider this as anything more than a sign as to where things are going. It looks like they used topological optimization with some set of load cases analyzed through typical Finite Element Analysis codes. If they had wanted to, they could also have factored in aerodynamics in their optimization procedure, with either a shell type of approach if they wanted to make the whole thing 3D-printed metal, or with a separate fairing.
I never do. Going to their homepage is like seeing the dog's breakfast. It is a complete mess of whatever passed an a/b test of increasing sales. It is like they reached a local maxima but it is on St Crappy's Peak.

If I go to Amazon.com I just go to the search bar and refine from there. So I guess I use their "navigation" in the form of their groupings of features on the left side.
Does Academia disproportionately celebrate success?
Do you back up the unencrypted data though? Regardless of the viability of the raid 5 system, the raid 5 wasn't what failed. It was the encryption.

It wouldn't have even been possible to backup the encrypted data without getting all my family members passwords too.