skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is your idiocy also material? Maybe you should have it removed.

EDIT: Joking aside, the knowledge how to work a job is valuable, but immaterial. Undernourishment is often a matter of lack of the knowledge how to extract resources from the environment. Of course a lot of wealth is attained by theft. But what's theft of ideas, are ideas material wealth? Sure I'm talking semantics, I try to understand you. I don't assume you are totally wrong, I just tend to assume that my language faculty is sufficient to follow involved arguments. Often erroneously, but therefor I'm skeptic of others as well. I suppose the distinction between material and immaterial is largely immaterial, and the difference between abstract and concrete best hidden from conversation.
I stumbled on to the Java API a day or two after the launch and that was actually the first time I'd downloaded and run the Pokemon Go app. It was funny that writing code against the Niantic API was actually WAY more interesting than the game for me.

A week or two of playing around with it was all I needed to satiate my interest but it was a pretty neat thought excercise to avoid bans and come up with different strategies for maximizing XP gains and making the bot make better decisions and take efficient paths to high value areas.

The annoying thing was wading through slack and discord channels of people who had no clue what was going on but were pissed that their bots weren't working or that we weren't providing compiled binaries.
That's a very good point - I've always felt it was a shame that in order for a thesis to be "publishable" you have to frame it in 300 to 500 pages. The Design of Everyday Things by Don Norman is a great example. It's an awesome book, and anyone who's designing user-facing-anything should read it, but I think the story could have been told in about half as many words.
they contain a disproportionate number of "I've got mine, sod off" types of people backing them (not that the current democratic party could be seen as much better).

First you say you're not going to generalise, then you do. Then you negate your next point by saying that democrat voters are just as bad. What are you trying to say?

To your last point, people who complain about paying taxes while being the beneficiaries of government largess aren't idiots. I'd posit they're probably smarter than I am, at least financially because I only ever pay tax.
Read this:

https://medium.freecodecamp.com/being-a-developer-after-40-3...
The first thing you hear when you go to many treatment centers is that addiction is a disease. The 12 steps are posted on the wall and you are told you are "powerlessness" over it. You will hear, "It's not a problem of willpower." That idea will be driven into your skull many times.

I'm not sure I will ever understand addiction. But I know that when I accepted personal responsibility for the things that I did to myself and others in order to get drunk/high, life became a least a little easier. It's not perfect, but to use AA terminology it's not "unmanageable" anymore, at least not as much as it once was. And I am grateful to be where I am today. I guess, for me, my compulsion to drink and drug was mainly caused by my surroundings and upbringing.

Although I don't go to AA or NA anymore, if it is working for some, I hope they see it through. Whatever is getting you through to the next day as an alcoholic/addict, my advice is to keep doing it. Whether it is spiritual cleansing or acceptance or doses of naltrexone/buprenorphine.
The need to avoid Therac-25 [1] type bugs in the proprietary code that are fatal to the patient. Open source in conjunction with a bug bounty would make me far more confident than simply trusting that some large corporate has got their shit wired tight when history throws up so many counter-examples.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therac-25
Appreciate your comment, interesting! :)

Maybe I downplayed it a little bit too much, probably can't deny it, but it was in reaction to people making (imo) too big a fuss about it, while criticising a project which - with limited resources and manpower - does an extraordinary job on the whole (as many - myself and most likely you included - could agree on).

A lot of people who utilize OpenBSD like you do most likely have the skill-set to deal with it in a similar manner as you have though, or can pay for commercial support. Thanks again for the insight!
The problem is bad taste about how responsibility and customization should be divided between discrete components, and how the boundaries should be managed over time. systemd is merely another symptom.
I agree. I like your version better than mine.
Flourishing requires more than wealth. Think of all the celebrities who have struggled with addiction.

Suffering is a human universal.
The first few chapters have some really good lessons in them. It isn't really, in my opinion, a great book to read all the way through, but the little stories in the margins are well worth reading.
I always thought low-level programmers (C, C++, assembly, etc.) cared more about minimal abstractions and minimizing dependencies.

There are two types of "low-level programmers" I've encountered: there those who truly "think low-level" and enjoy it, the ones who will avoid huge amounts of abstraction and general inefficiency in favour of small, efficient and usually very simple solutions; and those who may be using a low-level language, but are actually using it from the mindset of someone who loves abstraction and libraries more than anything else. I'm in the former group.
I'd tell everyone right away. If I've figured it out then so have other people and security doesn't exist.
It also made me want to stay far far away from any trouble with the law

My jury experience taught me to not worry, the law will come to you, looking for trouble where none exists. "Not guilty, your honor."

The evidence was so poor, I later question whether the defendant was offered a deal, and he said "screw you, you know I didn't do it", and so it went to trial out of spite. Because after it was over, I felt like invoicing the prosecutor on behalf of taxpayers for wasting our money.
Except your code and her code are quite similar, so introspection has significant predictive value.
On that note, I found this talk on Moral Politics by George Lakoff[1] elsewhere on HN.

The basic idea is that people who have different political opinions to you aren't necessarily stupid or greedy or bad actors, they just have different morals and therefore a different set of rationales.

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5f9R9MtkpqM
Maybe this is an argument for the inherent complexity of the solution being (at least) an order of magnitude more than the tools themselves?

Honestly, I'm very unimpressed with tools these days solving actually useful problems BECAUSE they're so dependent on their assumptions of the simplicity of the problem space.

I don't think we're disagreeing, necessarily. Just speculating on how to put a conclusion on the end of your thought.
I walk my cat..
The analogy fails because it's different in a substantial number of ways. That's the problem with arguments by analogy in general -- they're weak.

I'm not proposing an alternative to cash and banks here, I'm just pointing out that, if you have Bitcoin and want to sell it for fiat currency, using an exchange is definitely the easiest way to do so, and a best practice for doing so is to hold your cryptocurrencies yourself and only move them to the exchange when you're selling them, rather than holding them in the exchange.
> This was accompanied by side effects such as dizziness, headaches, and a pins and needles sensation.

I've felt this sensation in my inner ear, along with hearing pops, twice in my life. Neither involved microwaves, AFAIK.

First, I had a laptop with a power supply that was badly grounded. I would use it on my lap, on a couch that had cushions that would build up a static charge and adhere to me. Every once in a while, touching the metal body of the laptop would run a shock up my body and out the back of my head, and the couch cushion fabric would relax. Sounded and felt just like that.

Second, I've walked in the distant vicinity of a high-power radio antenna before, on a cold day with extremely high humidity—the sort of day that comes before a lightning storm. I felt slight bits of static in the air discharge "through" me repeatedly, heard the pops, and also smelled increasing levels of ozone. I don't think I was anywhere near enough to the antenna tower be getting RF burns, and there was no lightning or thunder yet, so my hypothesis here was that the tower was charging air above the ground, that air was being blown around by the wind, and then the oppositely-charged clouds were sparking against it. It's like I was inside a CRT!
> and consumers for accepting android because they were so ready for anything different.

What would be the alternative for those who can't afford premium phones?
Twitter is the Yahoo of this generation.
That's why I built my own car from bauxite and iron ore. And my own computer from sand, in my own silicon-refining furnace.
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.

However I've started to come to think of addiction notice a disease onto itself, but as a symptom of some other underlying "dis-ease", clinical or otherwise.

If anything, the debate over whether addiction is a disease underscores the fact that the people having the debate have a very narrow definition of "disease". If addiction isn't disease, then what is it?
I'm not sure what the correct damages are. But one thing to consider is that the people who assaulted and threatened him probably owe damages too (and would even if the accusations were true). So the $150,000 owed by the poster of the thread is not necessarily supposed to compensate him for all the damages he suffered.
Perhaps they intentionally don't have those. I can see them being as much liabilities to a marketplace as a benefit - with significant overhead.
Don't forget YouTube.
I don't know who you think you're arguing against, but it isn't me. My point was that exchanges are useful for exchanging the cryptocurrencies that you already have for fiat currencies, and I presented a best practice that minimizes exposure to loss. That's all. I was pointing out that saying it's a pain in the ass is seriously overblown, because it's actually really simple, and a large number of common types of transactions that people never think about are actually more inconvenient.
I actually did. I bought it (accidentally) from http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19327621-summary which is a summary of the book. So glad I did - I thought it was a little long even in this format.
Y'know, back in the early 2000's and the days of Slashdot, it was quite common to find people who advocated for free software everywhere.

Now we find people who like yourself have to specify that the radical position that all software should be free is something worthy of serious consideration. That they're not joking or trying to be deliberately provocative.

What happened to us? Why did we go from boasting about installing Linux on a dead badger and talking about how all software will some day be free to being afraid to seriously consider the proposition?
I just recently read the actual 12 Steps for the first time (mostly out of curiosity) the other day, and was very surprised to find that the theme was about admitting powerlessness and giving in to God.

I also think it's mistaken to conflate "power" and "willpower." It may indeed not be a "problem of willpower", but that (at least to me) does not imply total powerlessness over a disease state in one's own body.
I feel dumb :-/ ... Could you explain why it's funnier if you know UNIX?
And now we see just how confused this discussion is. It's conflating a bunch of concepts via a historically weighted analogy, which itself has a lot of baggage at this point.

For more, see this perceptive comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12251705
People have been asking that question since forever. It turns out, the world is a lot less homogeneous than it seems. If it weren't, package managers & containerized systems wouldn't be such a big deal.

You've still got a fair number of processor architectures and instruction sets (at the very least, you've got all the x86 & x64 variants + ARM + Power + Sparq), and you've got some pretty significant variants on the OS front as well (Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, iOS... and that's not getting into the embedded platforms), and you've got all kinds of variants (still) in C runtimes, let alone differences above that level.

You might not perceive the ugly, because tools like autoconf are abstracting the problem away, and that's exactly why they are beneficial. There are much better ways to build portable software, but they require a lot more expertise, and believe it or not, autoconf means you need much less expertise to make software that runs on the broadest set of platforms.

I've got a friend, a very senior software engineer, whose full time job is a build platform that builds software designed to run on customer platforms (and this is for office environments, so a comparatively limited set of permutations)... and this isn't for a big company. That's the size of his job when he can take advantage autoconf.

There certainly are other ways to do what autoconf does, but being able to leverage a ton of work that other people have already done dealing with odd inconsistencies that come up with platforms is very hard to walk away from, even if it is done in an ugly fashion.
Not seeing this here so I wanted point it out: from my own experience and 1st hand witnessing in others, that addiction is a Symptom, not a disease.

Underlying emotional pain is what causes people to literally self medicate.

This is not to say that substance abuse doesn't create actual physiological necessities to then continually consume the substance. It does- i.g. body stops producing it's own opioids when it starts to get them from the outside.

When someone begins using, then abusing, they are trying to relieve an underlying issue. The action is a symptom of a deeper problem expressing itself (the actual dis-ease). These issues are usually severely repressed and suppressed, so much so that one cannot articulate them-- only medicate them.

Digging out and resolving the root emotional issues goes a long way to curing someone. Afterwards, physiological damage still needs to be addressed.
Fair, but it begs the question as to whether State level trials have increased proportionallly
The Next Five Years of Security Threats… or Not
I'd call the NSA and ask for them to clear my name, a winnebago, a european (+ Tahiti) vacation, a uzi-carrying girl's phone number, and peace on earth and goodwill toward men.

(see: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105435/?ref_=nv_sr_1)
That's actually what I was discussing. Walmart does have the reputation for being cheap; too cheap at the expense of everything else (parking lot safety is just one example out of many). Market research has shown time and time again that they just can't win certain high income demographics (even after making major changes), which is just another reason that Costco, Target, and Amazon thrive and why I feel that this was a good buy for Walmart.
I worked at the Dept. of Astronomy and Astrophysics at $respected_university for about 10 years, and I think your comments aren't super accurate as a description of a solution to their problems and I don't think the ending snark is accurate or necessary.

Go look at any major astro department, and you'll see there's not a lot of fat to be trimmed. I was "administration" as you probably consider it, but they do actually need sysadmins to keep things running so everyone else can focus on the science. I can assure you there weren't enough of us. There weren't any asst. deans of pencil sharpening or whatever sucking up the department's valuable funds.

To your earlier point, if they thought they were useful, I'm sure someone would have bought such an array. In fact, two of the above commenters mentioned such a project. The thing to keep in mind is that these things aren't free. You need engineers to put them together, professors to write the grants, software engineers and grad students to write the software, trips to go set them up, grad students to do the analysis, etc. Those all cost money.

None of the professors at my university (and most other universities with which we interacted) were interested in the subjects described in the articles as good candidates for amateur telescopes though, so it's kind of irrelevant. Whether that's where their interests truly lay or whether that's where the grant money is, I couldn't say. At any rate, all the visual spectrum experimentalists in the department needed big telescopes in clear places for long exposures to study their chosen subjects.

Additionally, at least in my department, the visual spectrum experimentalists were a distinct minority, maybe about 10% of the faculty. The rest were theoreticians (50% or so), microwave astronomers, radio astronomers, x-ray astronomers, etc. My university has been historically theory-heavy so that may be different elsewhere.

Would the experimentalists have liked more time on Keck, Hubble, Chandra, VLA, etc.? I'm certain they would have, but a few dozen backyard 30cm telescopes aren't going to get the job done.
> You could argue that autoconf sucks and clearly everyone should use your favorite build system

Well, in fairness, build systems often deal with a different set of problems.
Sure, I would find it hard to monetize, it'd be easier to ask the Chinese for help cash it in.
The bogus UI message showing "(null)" is a pretty obvious flag that a bug needs to be tracked down and fixed too - potentially better than a crash, because this way you'll have a pretty decent idea where to start looking for the bug before you even fire up the debugger.
I'd put the factors of all outstanding RSA numbers in an arXiv paper, cc'd to my lawyer and several trusted friends, and announce the release of the algorithm on Github in a week. If the solution was a device, then blueprints/quantum circuits/etc.

What I'd do next -- and whether I'd release it -- depends on the public reaction. My first priority would be to light a fire under as many asses as possible, but without hurting anyone.
environmental factors (e.g. bad air), learned behavioral patterns (hygiene) and economic disparities (to afford a doctor) all play a role in the course of a lung infection, even leading to death, too. I don't think it isn't a prime example of a disease.
The reverse engineering thread on Discord was one of the most exciting spontaneous collaborative coding sessions I've read. There were several talented coders using the IDA disassembler to reverse engineer the encryption scheme tacked on to Niantic's API and bypassing the new security scheme.

Niantic's (mis)handling of the PoGo launch might go down in history as a seminal case study in how to botch a black swan event: disabling the spontaneous tracking aka the 3-step bug, constant server issues, premature shutting down of pokemon map sites (that mainly arose from the aforementioned 3-step tracking being disabled), bugs in the game play, lack of perceived engagement with the community, the disparity in game experience between rural and urban players, unbalanced gym mechanics, divergence from the core Pokemon experience, etc.

The gyms of the countries that are now getting PoGo are already flooded by geo-spoofers/bots and most will never get to experience the scavenger hunt like excitement with neither the in app radar or third party maps. I truly hope that Niantic manages to recapture the initial excitement an deliver on the original promise and manage to engage third party developers and the player community.
afraid to google in case its actually a thing... :P
I would argue that adding an attachment to an email reply is still a second or third class experience on iOS. You have to figure out how to get your app containing the file to copy the file to the clipboard, which is extremely inconsistent and undiscoverable between different apps. The problem is even worse for non-technical users that struggle to distinguish between an undocumented long-press and an undocumented double tap (don't even get me started on the wording behind "share to... Clipboard"). I really can't wait for the day when they solve this problem.
"I wanna feel what code is. I know you can show me!"
> You wouldn't believe the amount of effort that goes into ensuring that critical systems behave properly.

I wouldn't either. I have seen some of it, and not that much effort goes into it. A lot of paperwork goes into saying that the effort was done, but the actual effort carried out pales in comparison.

It's more about finding someone else to blame than to make sure nothing bad happens. Organisations like the frickin' FDA who have no idea how software is developed are in charge of worldwide standards of medical software bureaucracy.
It would seem to work because it's an antecedent to the religious ceremony beer is spirited with. Strong alcohol is even called spirit.
> moody

Isn't it mysterious why exactly a cat is in the particular mood it's in? It's a puzzle. Like dating a person with Borderline Personality Disorder is a puzzle. Some people love puzzles.
I had a similar experience.

But at the same time, it was exciting to think that some of those people screaming for free technical assistance were getting their first taste of programming via running bots.
Okay, that wasn't at all clear from what you said, because you used a very bad example (sending checks--this is much easier than sending Bitcoin these days). But if your point is that Bitcoin isn't difficult in some general sense, sure.
In the business world the barrier to entry is often imposed (and for many good and bad reasons) by the IT/OPs/Security teams.

Going to the PHP example, you could pick one of a number of deploy and hosting providers and have your code running and world visible in minutes for less than a Starbucks coffee a week (specific example Laravel Forge + Digital Ocean).

The problem is that even mediocre software developers with a couple years of experience can miss critical things in any language with any framework that can leave them incredibly vulnerable to attack.

For homegrown internal systems, the barrier to entry isn't the code, it's putting it somewhere people can access. In ye olde days you could slap together some VB6 and throw it in an Excel template and have a workable product- but have you ever inherited something like that? I have, multiple times. It's AWFUL- but I also have made a lot of money on not making it awful.

As an engineer, my rapid prototype basically means I eschew some things like a cache layer or performance optimization for just getting the concept out- but at an organization with no real devs, I can see the value in someone who can hack together anything with whatever they have to prove the idea, then calling in the mercenaries like myself to make the concept a real thing. The problem (and expense) usually lies in the fact that they wait until the concept is completely untenable in its current state and everyone is in a panic.
Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future

to my college best friend as a birthday gift.