skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like that it doesn't use the CLI. I've always wondered who uses code generators. My sense is that experienced developers do not. And that novice developers are better off cutting and pasting. I personally loathe code generators which is one of the reasons I've never gotten in to Rails (I know I can do it without but seemingly all the instruction uses it).
Grandparent. As in your comment is my parent comment, and your parent comment would be my grandparent, and so on.
This will lead to political dissidents being outted.
I'm a philosopher and agree. There are some philosophers who make sufficiently precise definitions and use reasonable formal method - where certainly not all formal philosophy is useful, though. They are in a small minority. I'd even give the same ad hoc figures, it's about 90% trash, 10% worth reading and then a few gems, so you have to be careful which authors you read and what topics to study in philosophy.
Probably some mixture of the fact that:

1. The bankers you probably are hoping to net had no role in "making loans".

2. "making loans that had no good faith data behind them", once translated into concrete legal terms, turns out not to be a crime.

The punishment for lending someone money they can't pay back is, historically and legally, that you don't get paid back. If I work at a bar, and I let one of my customers run up a $800 bar tab and it turns out they're not good for it, I might be an idiot, but I'm not a criminal and I'm not going to jail.
Even if no one committed fraud (which I don't buy), you agree people were stupid a greedy. Did those people at least lose money? Because ordinary people were badly hurt, and the people responsible appear largely unharmed. Is that the nature of "elites"?
The experiments by Tetlock and company (that are detailed in the book "Superforecasters") are pretty amazing.

However, the article _hugely_ mischaracterizes the way Tetlock talks about superforecasting, in particular from his book. In particular, this bit here:

"He’s a superforecaster because some strange brew of genetics and learned behavior makes his brain work differently from the way the rest of ours do."

Where on earth did this claim about genetics come from?

The book boils most of the forecasting process down to starting with an outside view, but at _no point_ is it insinuated that genetics have something to do with it. It's seemingly just reframing of thought patterns.
It's slightly different here, but effectively the same. Individuals get sold on the idea of "tax-back" from the taxation authority at the end of the year... They get bombarded by financial consultants that tell them they have to put up to 30% of their post-tax earnings into 401k-type accounts because they are "maximizing" their "tax-benefits".

A lot of them even have no idea that they will be taxed anyways when they withdraw.
Like many things, there are tradeoffs and unknowns. Would the world have been better off without colonialism at all? Or would colonialism by Russians or Ottomans or Chinese or Egyptians? And had it not happened, where would we be technologically? Would we be more advanced? Would we be behind? Would we still be suffering from infectious diseases? Where would the world pop be today? Where would strife be today? Or totally at peace? Impossible to say. Only that it would not be the same and most of us on the planet would be other people, or no one at all.
You can't compare the isolated instances of people starving in developing free market economies, e.g. the US circa 1880, to the mass starvation and economic strangulation caused by communism.

>Does the fact that Sweden adopted welfare not tell you something about the consequences of their free markets?
The free market was just so awesome that they passed welfare for all the rich Swedes who didn't need it?

People are shortsighted when voting. They are easily misled by election promises that give them short-term benefits at the expense of long-term development.
In the long run it is much better to sacrifice short-term benefits for greater long-term growth period that will maximize the rise in standard of living and life expectancy.
There are better ways to prevent violent revolution than instuting socialist policies. Three decades of 2% lower per year economic growth adds up to 80% of the base year's GDP. I imagine that at a much lower cost, you could prevent revolution.

And you're totally misunderstanding my position. I am arguing for economic development because it is the most effective means of saving and enriching human life.
Insane – Kaimana – Amiga Demo (50 FPS)
And interestingly enough, the government agrees as well. Student loan debt backed by the government is difficult to discharge through bankruptcy - http://www.usnews.com/education/blogs/student-loan-ranger/20...
Via http://jmp.no/blog/solskogen-2016-kaimana
but.. for apt archives, the integrity is provided by gpg.. TLS doesn't really add value for this.. However, it does provide confidentiality, such that an actor MITM'ing can't see what software is being downloaded.
Pointer to two projects, of a number using Haskell, by Joey Hess, as examples of self-propelled learning of Haskell while solving a problem:

[1] Propeller
[2] git-annex

[1] twenty years of free software -- part 12
propellor

http://joeyh.name/blog/entry/twenty_years_of_free_software_-...

[2] twenty years of free software -- part 7 git-annex

http://joeyh.name/blog/entry/twenty_years_of_free_software_-...
Packages currently available for FreeBSD 10: http://pkg.freebsd.org/freebsd:10:x86:64/latest/All/

See also Freshports: http://www.freshports.org
Here's a guy who used a two digit "one-plane display" like this as a "period correct" digital speedometer in his 1973 beetle.

http://thegarage.jalopnik.com/project-make-the-weirdest-peri...
Any law that punishes a voluntary action is authoritarian, whether it has a democratic mandate or not.

Not all laws punish voluntary action. For instance, a law against theft is not authoritarian.
Isn't it counterproductive to turn it into fuel to be burned? It seems like that would leave us at best at no net new carbon dioxide, when we really should be sucking CO2 out and sequestering it away. How about we turn it into bricks or something...
Awesome, keep me posted.
Really? Total private R&D budgets are greater than $100B per year. I'd say that's long term focus.
The problem is, the intent of such action is, most probably, to just fuck with the law (requiring it to solve the task it can't work on, because its from the different realm[1]), not to publish Bill's SSN.

Legal system may try to handle the issue - in this particular case, it's possible to just ignore the primary intent and decide whenever an intent to publish did exist instead - but sometimes it just fails. I think that's, for example, how PGP source code was exported, working around munitions export laws.

[1] It must be dual. In a same manner formal logic can not be always applied to the realm of legal affairs, laws may malfunction when asked to handle problems from the domains they don't really map to.
The question is also, would they be better off with a different philosophy than the one they have today? While everyone who is "Han" isn't necessarily Han, it does help in terms of social cohesion that people believe they are.
There is still a 32-bit version of Win10. When I run Win10 in a VM, I used the 32-bit version and sometimes tried NTVDM. Needless to say I quickly found out it don't work with the new console and the error message was cryptic (last time I checked).
We also don't document their alcohol consumption - only when a car is pulled over on specific suspicion (modulo checkpoints).

Perhaps a field test of some of the markers shared by alcohol and drowsiness. Maybe test for micro sleeps, concentration, etc. similarly to how the effects of insufficient sleep are measured in a lab.
cp /usr/bin/ruby ~/Desktop/ruby

lldb ~/Desktop/ruby

:-)
hmm. actually, the looping and conditionals in bobx look a bit like jstl.
And the survivors still put portraits of him in their living rooms.
Catholics (and especially Jesuits) were given the task of baptizing natives and turning them into Christians. The church often came into conflict with the ruling class over their treatment. Other Christian churches often had the same obligations.
That's like going to a book club without having read the book.

You miss all nuance.

It's becomes very quickly apparent to those who've read the article when others comment without having read beyond the title.
Flue gases with a high CO2 content are better than cheap; people will actually pay you to get rid of them. And we have a lot of them (this is kind of the problem in the first place). If you look at something like the exhaust from an oxyfuel turbine, you can get 70/30 N2/CO2 with relatively high purity.

For this reason, I'm always skeptical of atmospheric capture projects. It's just got to be more efficient to capture from a mixture with 20% (or more) CO2 than from a mixture with 0.04%.
FWIW, William Gibson's Spook Country has a protagonist who researches virtual geotagged art exhibits.
Theft is a voluntary action. The thief is taking an action of their own volition. Your definition is flawed and meaningless.
That's precisely what caused the financial crisis of 2008. The Community Reinvestment Act (passed 1977, expanded in 1992 and 2002) led to severely reduced lending standards that brought about the failure of the financial system. Legislation along the lines of what you propose leads to systemic failure. The mechanisms for providing credit to risky individuals are unsavory (collateralized - pawn shops, uncollateralized - payday loans), but they adequately compensate for the risk associated with making the loans.

A cursory search yielded http://www.businessinsider.com/the-cra-debate-a-users-guide-...
Yeah, Stalin was a sweetheart to the neighbors.
like how a tree uses solar energy to turn air (CO2) into wood?
I guess I don't quite understand the root purpose of program synthesis. It's my impression, as a programmer, that the difficult task is defining ones program logic without ambiguity. If this is indeed the case, then program synthesis already exists in the form of Coq, but it doesn't mean we've made programming easier, it means we've created a tool that reveals all possible failure points of a program, forcing us to consider all possible outcomes. It makes for a provably un-crashable program, but we pay for it in the time it takes to create the specification/implementation (which at this point have converged into one). If I can write a specification in a language that some tool can transform into a source code implementation (which can then be compiled and executed), then I wouldn't call that tool a "program synthesizer" but rather a "compiler" (and the specification language would then be a programming language).
Some tech blogs:

Benedict Evans: http://ben-evans.com/benedictevans/

Hunter Walk: https://hunterwalk.com/

Coding Horrow: https://blog.codinghorror.com/

Feld Thoughts: http://www.feld.com/

Mattermark: https://mattermark.com/

BEN THOMPSON: https://stratechery.com/

The Angel VC: http://christophjanz.blogspot.com/
If you haven't read the book "Design and implementation of the FreeBSD operating system" (https://www.amazon.com/Design-Implementation-FreeBSD-Operati...) you should. It's possibly the best "applied" OS book. It also contains some interesting code samples in the book which is surprisingly uncommon in comparable books.

FreeBSD has for years had some features that are only now reaching 'mainstream' popularity (e.g. jails, which containers are based on). This books explains all that in quite a bit of detail and manages to stay high level enough not to get boring with the details but gives you enough detail to have a pretty detailed understanding.

It's also one of the few books that talks about networking in very practical terms (and not like OSI layers and whatnot) which makes me say that it's also possibly one of the best books on networking (you learn quite a bit about networks from how OS's work with them).

It also has the hands down best file system around (the book also talks about that).

And unlike large parts of linux, the kernel source is actually pretty legible.
As long as you're willing to relicense your proprietary code as GPL
I should clarify, when I say "voluntary action", I mean mutually voluntary or consensual action, where no one's person or property is violated.

The idea of being free to act in any way other than violating the rights of others (though violence, theft, etc) is a pretty widely accepted principle of a free society.
Ever heard of concrete? ;)
2% lower growth is huge. I'm pretty sure this isn't something that would go unnoticed for decades. You're arguing that minute interventions have enormous effects that everyone is just to incompetent to measure and so wet need to appeal to beliefs rather than data.
Great but Turbolinks 5 and Action Cable (web sockets) are missing
Noteworthy that they say it can run as a xen domU, but not whether as PV or HVM. HVM is a huge performance hut.
My original post may have been incorrect if Skully was crowdfunded-- in that case FCBA does not apply
I put it in because TS added 'class' to the language
Nearly all laws are passed under the belief that someone is victimized when the behavior is but prohibited (or required).
The whole "setup your environment" phase is tricky for someone new especially if you're on Windows and probably caused a lot of people to stop reading before they even touched a line of Ruby code.
About 200 different feeds, so knowing what you're looking for would be good.

I use Brief on FireFox with Live Bookmarks. Let's me control frequency of downloads, navigate using keyboard, etc.
Maybe it's a kind of large scale Stockholm syndrome. On the other hand, it was countryside Chinese vs City or intellectual Chinese (Han, specifically) so there isn't an ethnicity vs ethnicity aspect to it, which probably makes it less troublesome in people's minds.
That was hardly a Snowden leak. The Russians have had one of the Ivy Bells listening taps on public display since 1999. The book Blind Man's Bluff details the taps and was published in 1998.

These days, tapping them isn't likely to be particularly useful. Anything sensitive transiting them is gonna be encrypted. Ivy Bells was possible because the Soviets thought it would be impossible to tap the cables - they were within Soviet waters and the tech used to finally do it was quite clever - so they didn't encrypt anything.
While I'm pleased about many open source projects, SaaS and the rise of big data seem to have shifted it from primarily benefitting the user to benefitting corporate interests significantly more often.

I still believe that open source is worthwhile, but the culture seems very different.
There is no way to easily show the electorate that the policies are responsible for 2% less growth per year. The policies that affect growth are instituted gradually over the course of many decades. It is not obvious that the growth rates would be higher if those policies were not in place and there are huge vested interests who spend considerable amounts of resources on propaganda to convince people that those policies are not responsible for slowing growth. So the electorate is not going to necessarily be motivated to repeal those policies.

>You're arguing that minute interventions have enormous effects

First of all, not all the interventions are minute. Social Security or Medicare redistribution, is not minute. But the effects take a long time to manifest themselves. Lower levels of private sector investment only manifest themselves as less growth in GDP statistics years later, and can even boost GDP statistics in the short run.

Second, thousands of minute interventions over the course of decades do have enormous effects.
Sort of a nitpick, but green always makes me think "tests passing", whereas you've got it meaning "incomplete expression" (or something along those lines, since you point out that it's not the same as syntax errors).
You can also disable just the relevant bits - `csrutil enable --without debug` would probably do the trick here.
I am slowly transitioning from Ruby/Rails web dev to Clojure web dev and the process is pretty sweet :) And I don't think there will be any less demand for Rails jobs in the near future, because books/vides like railstutorial exist, to attract the sheep ;) Just kidding, I think such books are great.
Microsoft Word does that, and indeed the default is the original format.

"%s may contain features that are not compatible with %s. Do you want to save the document in this format?

To save, click Yes.
To preserve formatting, click No. Then save a copy in the %s format."
To be fair, I never read anything about fusion being 'just around the corner'.

The most optimistic estimates I know of talk about commercial viability in a 30-50 year timeframe.
I just read the article. Burnout sucks, but, maybe I'm missing the point of open source.

To me, it's not about 'creating value'; rather, developing open-source software is part of an ideology that believes humanity's knowledge should be available for examination; that all the moving parts are laid bare to see. Open source is more about 'showing' how it's done -- the proof is in the code -- than, y'know, doing it in the first place, which is a rather nice side-effect.

And therefore, I don't subscribe to the notion that if companies take open-source software and don't contribute back, they're exploiting the developer(s). It'd be nice of them if they donated, but by not doing so, they're not being evil. They are instead building on a common bank of shared knowledge, some of which is executable code, just like every single one of us can.
Ask HN: Screening tools for devops interviews?
I've found a number of online tools to screen for certain programming challenges, however I want to screen for some ops related tasks (given a VM, install X, Y, Z, do task N, etc) and be able to check on it.

Does anyone have any recommendations for this type of testing?
Artificially setting the fed funds rate at 0.25- 0.50% is essentially giving money for almost free. That rate was even lower before last fall.
The vast majority of such justifications are hollow, and usually premised on the idea that adults are too incompetent to make correct consumer, employment, etc decisions for themselves. E.g. laws against selling dangerous products like drugs to adults. The arguments for such laws are only appealing to the sound-bite digesting 20-second-attention-span crowd. I'd argue that they'd never stand in a court of law.
Not implausible, but... uninteresting. It's like saying, if you shoot someone wearing a bulletproof vest, and the vest is able to absorb the impact and prevent serious injury, the law considers that one thing; but if the shot is too powerful for the vest and kills the person, the law considers that another; therefore the law depends on the state of armor/weapons technology. Sure, it does depend on it, but only indirectly insofar as it affects the outcome the law really cares about. In my hypothetical, that's whether you caused someone to be hurt or killed; in yours, it's whether you caused someone unauthorized to read the data to be capable of reading it.
And to answer the question, Clipbucket looks like a viable option.
That is the nature of the principal agent problem.
Well, there is nothing out there that can equal the energy density of fossil fuels, which would be essential for powering trucks, buses, airplanes, ships, tanks ....

And if we ever get batteries to be competitive, it's a long, long way of.
Wait, but aren't so many of the important US supreme court rulings so contested because they have to consider the ramifications, e.g., of whether a ruling will take power away from the state and give it to the federal government? How is that not a "what if" scenario? Isn't the Baston rule just a big loophole?
Good point. What I should have said was, "I noticed some guy a few comments down talking about 9/11, and in no way should you construe this comment as being related to that silly, silly discussion. Please. I don't care if you do or do not believe that the ghost of Nixon is in a CIA satellite reading your lips and writing down everything you say. There's another forum for that somewhere."
You might want to get the "Hacker News Enhancement Suite" extension. It's incredibly useful for cases like this, for instance I have tagged Animats (the creator of this sub thread) as "faux expert" after reading some of his crypto posts (a topic I know something about) that were written as if he was an expert, but completely and dangerously wrong.

Not knowing anything about chemistry, I would've been inclined to believe his post if it wasn't for the Hacker News extension suite, and I can read from someone who actually knows the field
> Movable houses (...)

Sounds intriguing, if skeptical about cost, material strength, coordination, labor costs, longevity, etc.

> All-robotic car fleets are an obvious first step.

This is a truly big ask.

The rest of the essay makes a point similar to homesteading, where you pick an arbitrary lot you like and move your movable house to it. It has a section about land value taxes that offers a total non-solution to the supply-and-demand problem of land.

There are some good, insightful observations, and some wishful thinking; the essay even ends with the admission that it's more of a "wistful sigh" and the author is "nearly certain that none of that will actually happen". But intellectually rigorous analysis or proposal this is not.
Rails is still a thing? Wow thought everyone moved on to Go and Node.js.
Mao is quite possibly the most murderous, irrational dictator of all time. The communists party of China has more blood on their hands than the German Nazi party.
Installing wordpress counts?
The difference in sophistication between supplying individual individual examples and supplying predicates is like that between unit testing and property-based testing. One method is brutish, being invented by and for the abstraction-challenged; the other at least tries to investigate general properties of the desired solution.
> But that might just be because I "grew up", digitally speaking, in the era of self-hosted websites and blogs, of FTP and local development pushed remotely.

That's because you're technically proficient, hardly the case for most people. For example, the blog in question seemed to be art oriented. I think that today it's very easy for anyone to host and setup a blog for a couple of bucks a month but few things can beat the convenience of just signing up on blogspot.
Are you saying the rural folk were more anti Mao than city dwellers?
> but it is nonetheless true that modern science has found the Élan vital (vital impetus) that naturalistic writers often claim doesn't exist.

Source?
I don't know. I just did a Rails backend. Feel like I couldn't have written more than 100 lines of ruby in the whole thing. Not sure its that important.
I don't get the "sly" part; talking about implications of the work is important, as well as future goals, and the sentence is extremely clear. You'd have to be an idiot to think that they're claiming to be that cost effective, and generally that type of person would not have made it through the intro paragraphs.
Stalin tried awful hard - unfortunately the Finns ended up being tenacious enough to forestall the Red invasion. The Poles and Hungarians were not so lucky...
I found most horror stories retold here are very familiar to what I heard throughout the school years way back in Taiwan.
I didn't quite have this experience in my engineering math courses. Admittedly, the other math courses were much better about this.
Counter-point: I always used to love the availability of Indian books on linguistics, philosophy and religion in Hong Kong. AFAIK this is genuinely unique in greater China as far as I know, with the possible exception of specialist stores in Taipei.
Orthogonal?
In capitalist america you listen to radio. In soviet russia, radio listens to you!

In soviet russia you rob bank. In capitalist america, bank robs you!
Databricks unveils commercial support for Apache Spark 2.0