skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> In most of Greece one cannot dig to plant a turnip without striking some relic of the ancient times.

It's a problem of geology and ecosystems. The past civilization in Greece built with stone. Stone never really goes away. I live in the pacific northwest, which had a massive native population for thousands of years covering the same periods. It was (/is) a thriving culture with all the trappings. But they built out of wood. Their relics didn't last.

I'd be interested to hear from a geologist as to whether this may have been because the granite of the pacific northwest was harder. Was it that the Greeks and Romans lived atop rock that was a little easier to quarry?
Becoming an Artist?
Shameful to see @intel.com in the signed-off-by on this spam train
RIP Donella Meadows, a great thinker.

The interested reader may also like this slideshare overview of Thinking in Systems ch. 1-3: http://www.slideshare.net/sandhyajohnson/thinking-in-systems...

Another of her well-known works is Leverage Points, which is also great and goes into more detail on some of that which is summarized in OP's linked article. http://donellameadows.org/archives/leverage-points-places-to... , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twelve_leverage_points

Having worked in automated systems analysis and optimization across several fields, I think Meadows' thinking is very instructive. Some of her notions which stand out in particular to me:

* The importance of the effect of feedback loops in complex system. When unexpected or counterintuitive behavior occurs, a hidden or misunderstood reinforcement feedback loop is often at root.

* The requirement that systems that seek to automate or optimize complex interactive systems be constantly-adaptive because the system itself will interact with the observation/analysis/optimization acts. This can seem like crazy voodoo at first, but it is undeniable when you start to experience it in action.

* Understanding of cost externalities vs benefit rewards for system actors and how they relate to system sources/sinks (or "stocks and flows"). This drives so much of our economy, as well as the subsystems which feed it and she has some illuminating thoughts and analyses on addressing these issues broadly.

This all of course goes well beyond the more basic material on oversimplification vs complexity in simulation or interventions, limits of rationality in system-actors, nonlinearity vs linear thinking, boundary conditions/non-boundary conditions, etc.
"Notwithstanding questions about its accounting practices and the extent to which the utility might be
leveraging its monopoly electric service to support its telecom division, EPB continues to report
relatively strong financial health of its fiber system.

In 2014, the GON increased its revenues from $80.7
million to $99.9 million.53

Revenue from Internet access sales in particular saw a net increase of about
$17 million,54 much of which was due to residential customer growth.55 Overall, residential services
accounted for two-thirds of EPB Fiber’s revenues in 2014.56 Expenses and transfers to the city of
Chattanooga totaled $84.7 million.57"

This sounds OK to me, what am I missing?

Why is it important that their electricity monopoly subsidized anything? How is that any different than any other new enterprise that has gotten funding from a VC? You don't hear anybody criticize that some star up is only possible because they got money from an investor. How is the source of funding relevant?
You're right, of course. The coworker was probably quite young, and the outcomes you describe loomed larger for her than the actual outcome. This sort of thing really ought to be addressed in high school, but unfortunately all we get is, "drugs're bad, mmm-kay?"
FYI, I just installed 4.6.2 Dev, started a new project, made some sample code that I hoped would exhibit improvements to the NRE messaging, but it seems that the messaging is the same. For example, if you have the following:

// the following is on ln:30
thing.NestedThing.NestedOtherThing.Property.NestedProperty

And you get a NRE on ln:30, you'll only get "NRE on line 30". Reading between the lines, the release notes imply that the support for additional context has been provided in the debugger APIs, but may not yet be consumed by Visual Studio. This is also supported by the fact that I didn't need a Visual Studio update to target 4.6.2.

Does anyone have any more context for this?
I've played with this problem on and off over the last few years. ShareDB[1] is powered by JSON OT[2], in which each change describes the meaning behind what you're trying to do. (For example, 'increment counter' is different from 'change counter from 2 to 3'. They look the same, but behave differently in the case of conflicts). Just knowing what changed often isn't enough to do proper resolution.

I've spent years on and off playing with a better, faster, stronger version of the JSON OT code[1] which also supports arbitrary object reparenting. You run into problems where you really want conflicts as well. For example, given {x:{}, y:{}} user A moves x into y, and user B moves y into x. There's no good solution to resolving this without more information or conflict markers & humans.

Doing this in a P2P setting is hard & interesting. Very cool stuff though!

[1] https://github.com/share/sharedb
[2] https://github.com/ottypes/json0
[3] https://github.com/josephg/json1
The curse of the Otaku is spreading....
They are very different domains though, reading the whole sentence mentioning SSHD is probably enough to determine which one of the two is talked about...
RethinkDB and Faye and Vue.js
Someone could play a video
Why are you trying to play it on the man? you must know better than that, my generation heard and made many great tunes...
You are a wage slave. Your boss cares about your happiness, but only insofar as you are willing to work for your current wage.

The truth is, your boss pays you to do your job and I highly doubt "worrying about the output of your coworkers" is in your work contract. Therefore, you are admitting to spending time thinking about something that you simply should not be thinking about if you're doing your job correctly.

I'm sorry man, but this is the reality of the working world. The only way out of it is to be your own boss.

Good luck!
Kino – Tinder for Fashion lets you shop with celebrities
It looks like it got turned into one commit per file. Which is pretty atrocious.
In many parts of Europe cursive is the standard form of handwriting. Kids learn to write in cursive first and later they learn "print" letters. Books intended for children who are learning to read are printed in cursive too.
Most of what little handwriting skill I have left has obvious traits from the mechanical drawing class I took in junior high school. And in comparison to my peers, I'd say my handwriting is pretty darned good. I mostly can't even write cursive letter forms anymore, let alone use cursive for writing.
> Which are ...?

I'm not an expert, but I wonder if this means you could restrict GPU access to the master process only (for the sake of hardware-accelerated compositing) without needing to expose it to the website-facing process (due to the security vulnerabilities in GPU drivers).
By customer, i meant users. By users, I mean the people who spend time on the app and are the reason there are advertisers and/or a business in the first place.

Regardless of what the post says to you, people have it and are already posting a LOT. Vogue already has anna wintour in multiple posts on their IG story. Brands already are posting. A lot of the vine/snapchat "stars" are already 20-30+ posts deep. I see fashion bloggers, tech writers, etc. A lot of people are already using it.
> Pay should equate to value, not some silly ladder climb

I agree with this statement, but that's a tough thing to get large companies to agree with

I think it's in the interest of the industry-at-large to not ask this question, because it incentivizes hopping jobs every 1-2 years.

But, that's all fine and good and everybody might agree with what I said, but individual companies still profit by 'defecting' (asking how much you made before and offering you that * 1.05).
It is good advice not to invest more in anything than you can comfortably lose.
Has Verizon actually had any happy content customers? Every time a carrier tries to go into content creation they try to do it on the cheap and force their monolithic soul-sucking corporate culture onto creative types and it never has worked.

People don't want to work for Verizon, or Comcast, or other such companies. They treat their employees like dirt, and are generally unconcerned with user experience, doing things the right way, and view customer service as a cost center.

All of their products have been developed in a centrifuge of "just good enough" with an eye toward minimizing effort and maximizing profits. Its entirely a cultural thing set by the leadership of these companies and will not change until there is a fundamental (albeit unlikely) shift in leadership at the top.
>It was really intrusive

Imagine how painful it is to be an entrepreneur with a very weak signal about how much you can pay people to remain happy to work with you without going broke and still retaining good enough talent.
It would be nice if they just used SIP in the first place so that other systems could interoperate with FaceTime. Typical Apple.
Nostalgia
I wish I could, but I don't have the cash. Maybe I can save some, by working a few years as an aforementioned employee monkey, but I'll be 30+ by then.
If you're interested in typewriters and spa I craft, read up on The Gunman Project at NSA.
> Salary is nowhere near close to the value an engineer adds to the company, so most likely there is no shortage.

I think it is more likely that the marginal value added by an engineer to a company is much less than you think it is.

If Google currently earns an average of ~$2m per engineer that does not imply that they will earn an additional $2m upon hiring another engineer. In fact I'm confident they could fire at least 500 engineers tomorrow without negatively impacting their profit at all.
Learning from the enemy: The GUNMAN project (NSA) [pdf]
Even if nothing else (sorry, UWP), Xamarin uses WPF as its view language and MSFTs recent critical acquisition I think keeps WPF alive for at least another 5 years.
I think this is the first time I've seen "on the gripping hand" show up in an article. I wonder how many readers actually understand that?
read without any purpose is more valuable, sometime.
Without valuable, you can meet some interesting valuable things in unexceptional way. Somethings like other world view, life view...
A lot of Stephen King's best writing, he was pretty much out of his mind the whole time on PBR and cocaine. For instance, not really having any recollection of penning Cujo[1].

His later stuff feels much more planned, in that it kind of all ties into his big meta-project of the Dark Tower, even the early stand-alone stuff, that he more or less retcons into that universe.

[1] http://stephenking.com/xf/index.php?threads/king-forgets-cuj...
Surely you would generate a new key to put in the safe if you had to worry about that.

And anyway, robbing safes is easy. But try emptying a bitcoin wallet encrypted with a good password, it's very easy to make impossible.
Your comment deserve a longer response, but i have to leave the office shortly.

My short reply is... I agree that staying within the app is a win. The overall mood seems to be "yes, one less app i have to use now..."

I don't keep apps I dont need or use, and a lot of people feel the same way. I dont want YET ANOTHER social networking app. This app feels like snapchat and IG merged, except in reality, IG just stole a lot of Snapchats thunder/users.
This probably isn't a direct response - but I've been thinking about it for a while. In my mind there are a few major reasons that Firefox is loosing market share to Google Chrome.

1) Performance

These might be select regressions (Google Maps, Slack - so I'll skip the bugzilla references), but every-time a user has to open Slack or Google Maps or Google Docs in Chrome, they are that much more likely to switch from Firefox (ultimately due to Sync issues: bookmarks, history) it just makes so much sense to use a single browser.

2) Developer Tools

I don't know how it is now, but half a year ago when I tried to switch to Firefox Developer tools (again for the Nth time) it would take 2-4 seconds for the console to open. Comparatively Chrome Dev tools opened < .5. As a result even trying to use Firefox for everything else, I still end up in Chromium almost daily.

3) Sync/Mobile

Using Google Chrome has distinct advantages when syncing with an Android device and other Google services (performance issues aside) - most of the things that I considered to be an advantage in Firefox mobile (the top button with <number-of-tabs> for tab switching) Chrome has actually copied.

Minor point - I'm almost sure there is some somewhat underhanded user-memory choice (it's just too smart and annoying to be a bug) - because as someone that is often in foreign countries my Firefox (where I am signed into Gmail btw) always tends to give search results in the native language search, while Chromium (where I'm not signed into anything displays English ones).

Over all I really think Mozilla should focus on getting an advantage on 3) -- I don't think Google and definitely not pocket (which I wish they would unbundle from Firefox) provide a good service for syncing information / personal links / knowledge. There was a browser concept that floated by HN some-time ago allowing users to organize their tabs into sessions / subjects - that could be great! (e.g. check a button to sync only my places/people/events window to my phone and leave my work stuff out).
Sounds like you don't get it. And I'm not being facetious.

Well, maybe a little.

Just because something can be done doesn't necessarily mean it should be done, does it? This is not a commentary on the iPhone as a computer, but about products in general.

Lots of things have general purpose computer parts, but serve a very specific purpose. What did Steve Jobs pitch the iPhone as again? A phone, an iPod, and an internet communicator? I don't remember "personal computer" being one of those things.

So yes, this is the thing that Apple wants to make. And I don't think there's anything wrong with that.
Has it been verified that BitGo's key was not simply compromised? As unlikely as it may be that both online keys could be compromised, it certainly seems that it could have happened (perhaps while it was not internal to bitfinex, it could have been internal to BitGo?)
Java breaks:

groovy -e "new URL('http://localhost:8000::people')"
Caught: java.net.MalformedURLException

Python breaks:

>>> urlparse('http://localhost:8000::people')
ParseResult(scheme='http', netloc='localhost:8000::people', path='', params='', query='', fragment='')
> "I don't want to see _any_ of these patches being applied."
That's a sizeable chunk of the 21m BTC total that can ever be in existence...!

Are the destination wallet addresses for the heist visible in any block chain explorers? Would it even be possible to mix those coins or will they be impossible to spend as tainted?
>iphone users want it to be an open general-purpose computer

Which ones?
> He is saying it will be wiser for the community at large to choose user freedom over poorly implemented security policies.

To be honest, he ignores the elephant in the room. Despite his criticism of MS, all his talks assume Windows and MS everywhere. To promote user freedom, he should do more for people to ditch MS for good and to switch to Linux for example. While UE is one of the best engines that support Linux today, it's done as an afterthought, more by contribution of UE community, not so much as a big focus by Epic.

Using Windows and complaining that MS can mess things up at any time is somewhat incoherent. Because MS indeed can do it. Make something to reduce relying on MS, that's a fix for it.
If it turns out that BitGo did not properly enforce limits (as opposed to being hacked or ???), would they be liable for the losses?
Or when the user agent doesn't have images (screen reader, console-mode browsers, text-only archives in the future).
The ABCs of Alphabet-Magnet Synesthesia
baolex.ni AT intel is also who fired off this patch bomb.
I noticed that HP (now HPE) began locking access to server UEFI updates soon after http://lkml.org/lkml/2013/11/11/653 was posted.
Not quite true.

If you're talking physical cash, a person would have to get to the physical location to take it (as opposed to being available to everyone in the world with an internet connection).

If you're talking digital cash in a bank, most banks have a form of insurance that will cover your losses (for example, most US banks are FDIC insured and cover up to $250,000 USD in losses).

Stock assets may be the closest comparison, as brokerage firms aren't backed by an independent agency, and losses that occur from cyber-theft would only be reimbursed if the firm wanted to.
If BitGo was compromised, 1 of the 2 remaining keys still must be used to sign the transaction. BitGo has no access without either of the 2 keys that Bitfinex controls.
I don't think Sonic has ever advertised a guaranteed bandwidth for their DSL offering. It's always "up to", which greatly depends on a lot of things with DSL. It's too bad you had such a terrible experience with customer service, I've been with them for almost 10 years and all my experiences have been good.

But in your situation, it sounds like you were likely extremely far from the central office, and probably had lousy indoor wiring as well. 20Mbit/s is basically the "I can see the phone company office from my window" speeds (less than 1000 wire-feet, give or take).
Microsoft ditching Win32 wouldn't just be sawing it's foot off it would be sawing it's head off.
This is how modern heist look like. You do not need guns anymore. Get keyboard, access to internet, learn, learn, learn and then get ~60 mil euros in one evening without going out of home stealing somebodies bitcoins.
I like this style of analysis, but I disagree with your conclusion. There's a few intermediate levels I'd also put in there, each of them a filter in their own way.

There's whatever fueled the Cambrian explosion of diverse animal lifeforms (some say "multicellular life" but I'm not sure about that as multicellularity has evolved independently "at least 46 times" according to Wiki) - this took billions of years so we can classify that as "hard".

Then there's "intelligent enough to solve problems and be self-aware" - dog level intelligence. This is relatively common on Earth, so we can call that "easy".

Then, as you say, there's "culture and language" (language implying at least a certain level of abstract thought), which are not unique to humans (other primates, corvids, orcas, and elephants spring to mind) but is quite rare. Still, it's evolved several times independently (and there were pack hunters even among dinosaurs that may have qualified), so perhaps we can file that under "not numerically common, but inevitable given time".

Then, at last, there's "technological" - it's not at all clear what the qualitative adaptation is there, though I would suspect some sort of runaway sexual selection fixated on abstract thought beyond what is strictly required for survival. That's kind of a freak event, but on the other hand sexual selection as a whole isn't that rare and it fixates on all kinds of things. And of course, it happened a few hundred million years after the Cambrian explosion, and maybe only a few tens of millions of years after evolution got far enough to give us culture and language etc. So maybe this is also a "give it time" kind of thing. A plausible stat would be 1% of cultured, language-using species ending up technological. Not super common, but neither a unicorn event. We just happen to be the first.

Now bearing in mind that the lifespan of a star like ours is roughly 10 billion years, it seems to me like overwhelmingly the hardest thing in all this is making the jump from just slime growing on everything, to little animals running around eating each other, before the star dies. That jump took billions of years for us, and everything after that has happened stupendously quickly by comparison.

My personal opinion for the "great filter"? A combination of "life-bearing planets are rare", "animals are rare", and "technological civilizations don't make it to space for reasons unknown" (either lack of will or more likely self destruction).
I agree and would point to the same book. It can offer an interesting way to explore characters and ideas, however. Flesh out the world, for instance, if the book is less based on the RPG but happens to exist in the same world. An opportunity to explore different areas that may impact others. Or just play and don't base the book on it in a literal sense. Make a scenario to see what the characters might do and discuss what they should actually be like, then use that to inform their story decisions in other scenarios.

Also a benefit of the lightweight systems for this as they usually don't have a notion of classes. Maybe an idea of competency in some fields instead.
Found the original post that explains the algorithm better: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=665250

It is hard if the book has an incomplete index or poorly named chapters forcing you to skim around.
>the alternative is so comfortable and risk free

I've seen people with a decade of experience on the job "disappeared" and there's little more than an email to the staff telling us they are gone, effective immediately. I don't consider that comfortable or risk free. Especially true if one is in charge of systems, because of stories about loose cannons like

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12179637

>Maybe its better to try and fail than never to have tried at all.

I hear this sentiment mostly from upper middle class people who can fall back on family if they fail. I don't meet a lot of people who have experienced true financial ruin, recovered, and are willing to risk going back. A lot of us are as hungry as any entrepreneur. We simply don't have the safety nets. I don't know your case. Maybe you're as "financially independent" as I am, but advice like that sounds condescending in such a context. Of course they'll walk the tightrope. They've got a net.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10979926
This Robot Runs Entirely Off a Neural Network
Nothing is impossible in the digital realm. And the bad guys are ALWAYS better than the good guys.
I'd be curious to see a graph of the load average on vger.kernel.org today. I can imagine a huge spike lasting several hours.
Does anyone that has used Terraform have any major complaints about it, or conversely any specific praises for something it does well compared to other tools in that space?
1. Have a cold wallet on an airgapped computer with 99% of your funds.

2. Have a warm wallet on a computer with a firewall that only connects to 3, with 1% of your funds

3. Have a web-facing server that sends back commands to 2 when it needs to send money.

2 alerts someone when it needs more money, who then goes to the cold wallet and transfers some, creating the transaction offline and using a new USB key to transfer it to a computer with internet.

The last step can also require multiple people if desired.
Reach in and touch objects in videos with 'Interactive Dynamic Video'
How does one determine a qualified third party?

Obviously you can't go with "You can trust us, we know what we're doing"

You could find a party that is endorsed by someone going "You can trust them, They know what they are doing, Trust us on this, we know what we're doing"

But that just moves the point of concern.

Is there yet any "You can trust them, if we are wrong about that we will cover your losses" insurance. (even then how can you be certain they will follow through)