skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're confusing strictness with centralization. The rules are strict, but there is no centralized control. The way you get decentralization is by having rules.

Consider Bitcoin for example. The rules are incredibly strict. You basically have no choice but to obey all of the rules in order to participate. They will not budge, and they were devised by one person, which calls to mind "central" and "control" but is just the opposite. Those rules are carefully constructed to allow the system to be completely decentralized. No permission is needed to participate. No one has the power to veto or alter your contributions. Simply obey the rules and no one else can have power over you.

The distinction you are making about federal vs municipal control isn't about centralization vs decentralization, it's just about the scale of centralization. Municipalities are small, but they still have a single bottleneck at the mayor/city council.

The reason this matters is that a rule-based decentralized system provides a structure that you can rely on. You can make a plan for compliance, and be reasonably assured that it will work. With centralized planning, even at if the central office is only governing something as small as an HOA, then there is no plan you can make which has an assurance of success. You are at the whim of the planners who have veto power.

This turns planning into a stochastic game where your plans need to have redundancy at every level in order to have high probability of success, which increases cost and slows the pace of development substantially.
Twenty years later, sure. At the time, it was a huge deal. Lots has changed since then. People really want to work... Previously any type of income was forbidden for folks on most forms of assistance.

Unemployment and underemployment have nothing to do with welfare policy, it has to do with the wholesale shift of any low/moderate skill job that pays well to China and other places. There are only so many hospital aide and waitress jobs to go around.
2. Bazaars pop back up seconds after they blow away. http://youtu.be/MENjFkEAj9g
Might be worth suing?
$100,000 is too much to scale up without serious funding. I'd guess most of that was wasted on a scientific camera that is priced for low volume sales. Mr. McKeon captured useful images here on a ~$3000 telescope and a $230 1.2Mpix camera. A spectacular system could be put together with mostly off the shelf parts using a 4K CCD camera, alt-azimuth mount, coupling optics and filters, and data handling for $20K. Put 5 telescopes at 20 sites and you have up to 100 nightly video streams to comb through for scientific data. All for $2M. Less than what many coaches make in a year.
No one can downvote articles.
> This is a good point, I never thought of it this way before. Then again, that doesn't necessarily mean it isn't a disease.

One could argue, all that means is that "it" is addiction that one can't manage on one's own.
I didn't say lack of wealth, I said lack of stimulus at work. I don't actually believe that wealth makes you flourish.
If you haven't been paying much attention to the drama, No Man's Sky had been struggling to contain fears that it wouldn't live up to the hype. Then last week someone managed to score an erroneously sold copy for $2000 [1] and livestreamed his completion of the game. His impressions seemed to throw cold water on NMS's promises, but this patch makes so many additions that it sounds like a totally different game. Pretty amazing for a first-day patch.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/4v8pnp/guy_who_got_n...
I love this article. My first reaction is "no way!", but when you think about it it's obvious that it must be so.

The hologram of a single point of light is a "zone plate": concentric rings. Move a sharp point in concentric circles on a surface and the scratches will form a zone plate which focuses light to a point. An abrading object is just an array of sharp points, so the scratches formed by moving the object in concentric circles will focus light to an array of points, corresponding to the shape of the object: an image of the object. Simple! (but not initially obvious.)
I question the ability of average people to evaluate arguments and think critically.
There's no positive statement, there's a not in there. I do believe this makes a difference.
Hypothesis: this whole article ignores the selection effect of getting from "people with pets" to "people who talk about their pets on Facebook." Maybe dog-owning men, and cat-owning women, just don't think their pets need a social-media presence?
I saw a talk about medical device security (or lack thereof) at the Eleventh Hope a few weekends ago. Very scary. They started off with a story about patients in a hospital who became horribly addicted to morphine because they were able to hack the machine from resources found online (http://www.massdevice.com/hospital-patient-hacks-his-own-mor...). Go on Shodan and search for medical devices and terminology (e.g. "radiology") and you'll see the state of things. Sensitive machinery exposed on the open internet. A lot of medical devices have hardcoded passwords that are used for remote operations by technicians.

Open sourcing this code would do a lot to mitigate these issues.
I worked 106 hours a week for 2 years (three jobs) due to a
lot of personal factors. It got so tiring I fell asleep
standing up at a urinal, head resting on the water trap.
I don't believe it is possible to do 130 a week for any
continuous stretch of time. If that's how you "succeed",
count me out.
NIST has a log of logins. Check for hacking the login.

It's not hacked.

You think I found a login and got a password?
> 1. Christianity, the group who builds Cathedrals, is probably the most profitable organization in the history of mankind.

I don't need to be the richest organization ever. I'd be happy for 1000th place and those billions rather than overreaching for number one and the risk that entails.
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I second the question of their ability to evacuate arguments :)
Using TF-IDF to Annotate to a Trump Speech
As a reluctant admin for a half dozen odd home and work systems, and having just dealt with a few clean reinstalls, the /etc/motd issue bit me too. It also reminded me a bit of the horror that grub configuration has become.

When I started years ago there was LILO. It had quirks and was a pain to configure. Then grub came along and it had some great new features -- edit the easy-to-understand config file, and changes would automatically take effect. Easy background images. Easy menu building in the config file. Grub understood enough of the filesystem to avoid the LILO cruft.

Now there seems to be about 5 layers of indirection, autodetection, probing, and shell scripting hacks to generate scripts that will eventually spit out a mess of obfuscated grub config files, and god forbid you touch any of this mess because any changes you make will be overwritten (a) next boot, (b) next time the scripts decide to update the config, (c) next system update, or (d) just whenever. All of this dynamic stuff to configure something that, for many systems, needs a config change about zero times per year.
Suburbs count as city, though, not rural. And to me, that's a dog's niche: the detached-home-plus-yard. Dogs don't fit in apartments, but they don't really "earn their keep" on farms, either (on ranches or pastures, sure, but not farms.) Meanwhile, it's traditional to have a barn-cat to keep away vermin, even if you've also got traps.
I think so too. I remember the day when it become less relevant to me as a developer - when they locked their api down.
Yet again, my take away is that most psychology experiments are mostly bullshit. If there were 12 attempts to replicate, with the same setup, and 10 of them failed succeeded, we might actually be able to say something...
You didn't read the paper.
The Big Book, as it is called, is pretty clear that, in the writers' opinions, that only through a Higher Power does one become sober. The meaning of powerlessness I think they intended is that without help an alcoholic will not break the cycle. AA teaches that your sobriety depends on your connection to that power. According to them, no amount of self-knowledge or desire to stop will enable one to actually make an alcoholic/addict to put the stuff down.
I guess that's how I was intending to describe their version of powerlessness.
For me, I believe that was not the answer. I credit my sobriety to that I realize things could be much worse. I am grateful to be where I am and know that, on average, most people that have lived this life would not have made it through or had a chance to even do so.

I honestly don't know if addiction is a disease. Certainly, anybody that has had the dts or benzo/opiate withdrawal will admit that there is a physical component to continued alcohol/drug abuse. I know many addicts (and myself was one) that continued using longer than wanted out of here of withdrawal.

But I didn't need to completely "give in" or submit to the disease, at least I think (others may be able to judge that better though). I wanted and still want so bad to never have to go through some of the things an active addict has to go through again that I am completely terrified to go out again. But at an AA meeting they would probably say that that time will come if I do not develop a spiritual connection to something greater than myself
I'm not sure which linuxes you use but sans Adobe support I haven't had any of those issues for at least 7 or 8 years. In fact Debian just works with both my printer and my graphics card while Windows 10 refuses to print or display a resolution above 1024x768.
Regular chat capabilities + easy sharing of current browser views, of course. I use it regularly, e.g. when deciding to buy a ticket with my friends.
I'm honestly surprised that the US hasn't gotten involved yet. It's now at the point where it is a humanitarian crisis.
Deploying a Static Site on AWS, with S3 and CloudFront
The jury isn't there to interpret the law - plenty of people in the room doing that already. Juries are there to inject mercy. That's why they must be a 'jury of peers' - so they understand why and can intervene with mercy if necessary.
To put it succinctly, convolution just is a fancy term for a weighted average, and a kernel is the name for a set of weights.
When reading the Mythical Man Month I got the impression that their idea of a "chief architect" is more like today's "product manager", not today's "chief architect".
Reddit is back up again.
It does sound kind of weird that the three paths (whatever that means) were added after the game went gold.
That still sounds like a Cathedral. The whole point of a Bazaar is that there is nobody to impose big changes. Also, in the original essay the Cathedral wasn't Microsoft, it was GNU.
A.K.A. "Don't Seem Evil."
The current tech boom started around 2011-2012, and a lot of companies signed multi-year leases around that time. My company leased an office for 5 years in 2012, and our lease will expire in early 2017. We expect the price to increase substantially, and we are considering moving the office to save some money.

I suspect a lot of 5-year leases are going to be ending this year, and a lot of companies will be looking for new space. If Twitter might as well get a piece of the action, if they aren't using that part of their building.
This might be a bit of an exaggeration. It has potential, but it's still just too messy and complicated for most users. If that doesn't change, they're going to die a long, slow death. If they do get their act together though, with such an enormous user base, they could come back to life in dramatic fashion very quickly.
I don't suffer from addiction, but I can say that a key challenge with almost any "disorder" is recognizing that the disorder is causing leading to consequences in your life that you don't want, yet continue to occur. It's the key distinction between a disorder and a "personality quirk".

Acknowledging that you don't have that kind of control is a huge psychological cliff to get over... it has been likened to mourning. In the end, it is quite freeing, because as you pointed out, it opens up a lot of options (power) to deal with your problem in a different way than you normally would (particularly: acknowledging that you need help).

So, while you are write that "powerlessness" probably is far too sweeping a word to use... it's helpful for getting people over that mental cliff and into a place where they can, ironically, exert some degree of power over their problems.
This is interesting, and confirms what I understand about heroin addiction. This is why harm reduction is such a good policy - addicts aren't sitting around waiting for something external to appear and help them quit heroin, if they want to quit they will generally go ahead and seek out the means to do so. Until then, making sure there is a supply of clean needles etc. is the best option, while making sure facilities and medication is available to help those who have decided to fix the problem.
I think its a bad sign. But then again, prices are still way up in the East Bay.
I definitely understood the distinction when I previously read the article. I just didn't reload enough of it into mental cache to remember.
Tor: Pluggable Transports
Would that not just be the inverse matrix?

http://mathworld.wolfram.com/MatrixInverse.html
What is not mentioned here is that many of the welfare recipients moved to SSDI (Social Security Disability Income). SSDI is paid for by the Federal government, so the states were incentivized to encourage this move. In fact, there are companies that specialize in applying for SSDI for welfare recipients, and charge per successful application.

There's the feel-good story, and then there's the harsh reality. The reality is, SSDI enrollment has gone up by a factor of 3X since this "welfare reform" thing passed.

I have a neighbor who is reasonably fit (he can move 100lb+ stones in his side gig as a landscaper), but he is on SSDI and collects a cool $3K/mo for doing nothing. Once you are on SSDI, it's very difficult to kick you off.
Heh, it seems like he published a book back in 2009 https://www.amazon.com/Dream-Learned-Rewards-Entrepreneurshi...
This extends to more than just planets, too. The University of Maryland Observatory runs a summer program for amateur astronomers that I signed up for this year, and we're learning how to do exoplanet transit detection. There are databases to look up candidates and ways to submit data to reinforce findings. It's doable with typical telescopes available to amateurs, and the observatory has a few larger scopes we're learning to use. One of the professors at UMD has written up guides on how to do it: http://www.astrodennis.com/

Other efforts like this include:
- American Association of Variable Star Observers https://www.aavso.org/public
- Center for Backyard Astrophysics http://cbastro.org/

and I'm sure there are others I don't know about.
Project Data Export to HTML and Performance Improved While Creating Tasks in .NET
We are proud to announce the new release of Aspose.Tasks for .NET 9.5.0. This month’s release includes minor enhancements related to API functionality of exporting project data. It also includes performance improvement while creating large number of tasks. In addition, a number of reported bugs have been fixed in this month’s release that further improves the overall stability and functionality of the API. Exporting project data to HTML included document header in output Title as well as page header. This month’s release provides control to avoid exporting this information to output HTML file if not required. The IncludeProjectNameInTitle and IncludeProjectNameInPageHeader properties can be used to achieve this. These properties are set to true by default. This month’s release brings performance improvement while creating large number of tasks using the API. The automatic calculation mode of the API calculates each and every field of a task upon adding new tasks. This can be taken care of by using the Manual Calculation mode of the API. We have further improved the manual calculation mode so that it takes less time while creating large number of tasks such as up to 10,000.
Facebook has locked down their API as well, but they haven't been hurt by it. Even when users give permission to access their friends list, apps can only access their list of friends that are already users of the app. Since in most cases the number of friends already using the app will be 0, the Facebook API is arguably even less useful than Twitter's.
...except "method doesn't work" really just means, "generally doesn't work for people who are classified as having the same problem as you", and when all the other approaches that are classified as working for that group are, you start to consider the possibility that you are an outlier and some of these other options might work. It's a desperate move, but given the high failure rates and low understanding we have of the problem, I wouldn't categorically say there is "no point in following it".
In general, you do not submit source code for review - just all your procedures and results for testing.

In normal auditing, they will not inspect your source code - they may inspect everything around your source code (what you procedures for changes are, how you do your testing, etc etc).

However, I believe there's a general understanding that if you fuck up, your source code will be open to inspection - along with everything else. Cause you'll either voluntarily surrender it in hopes of getting on the FDA's good side, or cause they'll subpoena cause you killed someone.
Is the U.S. Due for Radically Raising Taxes for the Rich?
I'm with you except that I never understood grub, not even when it was new and innocent.

It's not even fair to say LILO was "a pain to configure". `lilo.conf` was pretty clear and straightforward.

It's just that boot-loading is arcane and dangerous. This makes it possible to make your LILO screw-ups really simple and obvious. Which is much better than the kind of screw-ups you can make with GRUB.
> and is not actually the truth

Is there any "truth" about such things? Maybe I get sociopathic when I get philosophical, but it seems to me that my opinion of people is entirely due to who I'm around at the time, and "the person by themselves" is just one such group. There's no "there" there, under the set of masks; I don't really have any opinion on people when I'm on my own.
Ask HN: When you are programming, do you go the extra 10%?
When you are programming do you go the extra 10% to polish it up and make it "awesome" instead of just "working"?
>At least in the US, the proportion of land needed to produce food is steadily declining.

As an aside, I wonder how much more vulnerable this makes the food supply to shocks, coupled with the increased supply chain length and how many additional points of failure that introduces.

Not necessarily in terms of the frequency of those shocks increasing, rather the compounded impact of those shocks given the number of people being supported by smaller agricultural bases.
According to the Ars Technica article http://arstechnica.com/business/2016/08/data-center-disaster... a fire broke out in their main datacenter. Assuming that was true, employees were most likely evacuated and at the very least would have been distracted. Their disaster recovery plan may have assumed that there would be admins onsite to run a manual switch, may have assumed a complete failure instead of a partial failure or may have had per application disaster recovery plans. Disaster recovery is a difficult and stressful process in normal times, much more so when your regular workstation(s) are unavailable and you're faced with a disaster-level distraction like a fire.
Again, for a simple story where everything is known, sure. But some stories are all about figuring out how and what. The actual doing may be simple. The Scrum process fails.
Nailed it.

Thanks. I wasn't familiar with that piece. It'd save me a lot of talking/typing.
To be fair to them, they were hella good C++ programmers and used Shockwave to prototype and lock down the business requirements. You can do an amazing amount of specification like that. It was basically CRC cards put to animation as people and things interacting.

They provided quite a bit of short and long term value by being better at giving clients an understanding of what they were actually getting. They cared about the internals and making sure their clients understood the logic the internals would use.

If I was skilled in some animation tool like they were I would do the same.
God Eater 2 Rage Burst System Requirements
I identify heavily with this statement. Then again, executive function disorder.
Why should State trials increase if Federal trial decrease? They are two separate jurisdictions, with different prosecutors, crimes, etc. They are not that closely linked.
What If High School Were More Like Kindergarten?
wow that's interesting! I haven't used the FB api in a few years now (using it was how I bought my house). That totally sucks.
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ESR agrees with the criticism of Autotools: http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=1877

"Autotools must die"
That fraud exists (in the Valley and elsewhere) shouldn't have been a lesson of Theranos. It should have been a lesson of Enron, or Madoff, or Worldcom, or Mt. Gox...

The real lesson in my view, which is briefly alluded to in the article, is the deliberate failure of technology "journalists" to ask any meaningful questions of companies at any time for years on end. Instead they serve as corporate cheerleaders for VCs, essentially appendages of internal PR machines. (The main exception would be Gawker, which is now bankrupt, and hasn't focused on the Valley for some time.)

It should make one wonder, which other companies are conning us now? Or with the stock market at an all-time high (again), are there any companies left that aren't?
I am imagining that young folks have Library Anxiety, and old folks have "Google Anxiety".

Ask any question and you will find an answer. Any question you have, no matter how banal or left-field. What is the weather? Is my grandson a lesbian? How do I eat pizza in Italy?

Where is the biography section? How do I understand the Dewey Decimal System? What is in the Special Collections, and what are the hours -- and do I need an appointment? The computers are down... is there a way I can search for books offline without randomly roaming the stacks?
The jury isn't there to interpret the law - plenty of people in the room doing that already. Juries are there to inject mercy.

I don't buy that they will inject mercy, especially if they thought about irrelevant factors to determine guilt or innocence.

Juries are unpredictable. Does that mean that they made good judgement or that they are swayed by good-sounding arguments?
Sorry, not familiar with the acronym AEM. But you do give me an opportunity to modify my statement - it seems that the larger and more strategic the acquisition seems, the more likely it is to fail. And even when it doesn't fail, the synergies never seem to gel - what news of Zappos lately?
There's really good School of Life video on addiction that talks about society and environment and doesn't touch the "d-word."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ao8L-0nSYzg
When I was child my grand father sometimes took me to a restaurant he said didn't get a star because the parking lot wasn't big enough. So I believe they rate restaurant no just on the food, or at least they used to.

I'm right now eating at a takoyaki place in Osaka which is referenced in the guide (no star thought) so I guess criterions were somewhat adapted to deal with foreign food culture.
Most apps have an option to mail the file along with a lot of other sharing options. Why go into mail to mail the thing you have in front of you?
I hear what your saying and agree. But in GP's defense the developer did talk about a linux release but then went quite.