skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The AA model of embracing helplessness needs to die in a fire. I've never seen such a depressing pseudoreligion, denying people agency in their own lives, promoting a bizarre sort of monasticism (if you actually do the stepwork as fanatically as you're supposed to).
If someone else is controlling the device, then they de facto own it and should be liable for any damage it causes. The user cannot both be liable for something and be unable to manage/fix it.

In the case of a pacemaker or other medical devices, this liability could even include manslaughter.
Why PostgreSQL for Analytics Infrastructure (DW)?
It's not even wanting it to be different: it's wanting complete control of the processes. I am positive that the more complicated motd is vulnerable in some way the basic motd is not.
Yes, they are down
No. My safety is more important than my ego.
Yep, being open and sharing this information via a paper or papers, slide decks and videos would help the science, engineering and technology fields advance faster than anyone thought possible.

Though, the full details would more then likely need to be delayed until higher end security improvements could be created. Maybe having the top in mathematics, especially cryptography, quantum mechanics work on creating more secure algorithms to be used.
Read the article: recipients (and people who formerly received assistance) are not happy. The opposite of what you write is true--they have to deal with more onerous requirements and aren't getting good jobs.
The article isn't about classifying addiction as disease or "choice." The debate is between disease and "not disease."
Medical device software is subject to a level of rigor in development process that little else is.

Exactly what patient need do you believe open source would meet that is not being met by the current closed-source development process?
How do you go about getting contracts for remote work?
Hey I like making apps and stuff! How do you guys go about getting well-paying remote-work contracts so I can travel around and still contribute to a greater work? Hope this "ain't too vague" but it's sincerely where my life is at the moment.
Rent is monthly.
Judges should have the right to look at any plea deal they suspect may be questionable, and bring it to trial with the plea deal overriding only the sentencing portion but not the fact-determining portion of the trial. I suspect that any judge who did that would find factually innocent defendants and uncover major abuses of power.

Is there anything stopping a judge (other than time/resource availability) from doing this unilaterally?
> There is no argument for what this type of lifestyle is doing to this current generation. They are basically incapable of socially interacting and dating.

I'm not downvoting you, but it seems this comes off as a sweeping generalization without any support. If you could at least back up your point with some basis for your statement (ie a reference to something), it would probably help to clarify what you're talking about.
Hope you all downloaded the file when it was available. The file has been taken offline due to a DMCA takedown.

magnet:?xt=urn:btih:31059585e68123d095871d3169899cd900b77213&dn=AM2R%20v1.0
Scott Alexander wrote something short but sweet on these kinds of questions: http://lesswrong.com/lw/2as/diseased_thinking_dissolving_que...
Libscore scans the top 1M sites on the web to collect stats on JavaScript library usage
18F – How we built analytics.usa.gov
Well, you can specify extra packages using $GUIX_PACKAGE_PATH, and I've seen a few custom repos, such as this:

https://github.com/genenetwork/guix-bioinformatics

and

https://github.com/Ecogenomics/ace-guix

I'm not sure how easy it is to maintain a system with extra packages like this, but it'd be nice to be able to use an "overlay" repo as you can in Gentoo for personal/custom packages.

Would love to ping davexunit to see if he can elaborate, because I don't see any specific way to add repositories from the documentation.
I am deeply opposed to cat ownership on ecological grounds. They cause massive damage when introduced to a country like Australia. Most cat owners are very irresponsible and allow their animals to roam but strenuously resist any moves to regulate their fluffy little predators.

Dog owners are required to tag and register their animals and face fines if their animals roam which is reasonable for the protection of stock or people from wild dogs. My takeaway is that dog owners are more reasonable and less selfish. I blame it on toxoplasmosis.
Astronomy has a long and proud history of contributions from amateurs. Amateurs are probably best known (at least to me) for discovering supernovae. I mentioned in another comment to this article that a friend of mine from grad school worked on a project called ASAS-SN, which uses a network of small, cheap telescopes to monitor the entire night sky every few days. Their stated goal was to use this network to discover supernovas (hence the SN in the name), but, of course, they have discovered a bunch of other interesting things as well. It was only a year or two ago that they discovered more supernovae than amateur astronomers. Prior to that, amateurs consistently discovered far more supernovae than professional astronomers. Interestingly, the most prolific discoverers were in Japan, because they could discover all the supernovae that went off over the Pacific Ocean that had already set for observers on the West Coast of the US.

Another field that involves lots of work from amateurs is microlensing. In a microlensing event, one star passes in front of another, and its gravity lenses the light from the star behind it. This produces a characteristic increase and decrease in the brightness of the background star over the course of a day or so. If the lensing star (the star in the middle) has a planet, this will distort the brightness curve. These sorts of observations are extremely time-sensitive, and its critical that data is collected during certain, very narrow bands of time. Weather or other observing priorities sometimes prevent professional astronomers from observing these events, so it's not uncommon that data in some of the crucial times are provided by amateurs.

And there are lots of other areas that amateurs have contributed enormously to! Asteroid discovery, monitoring variable stars (https://www.aavso.org/), and even exoplanet discovery! In many ways the term "amateur" does a disservice to amateur astronomers because their setups can be quite sophisticated --- the only thing "amateur" about them is that they don't get paid for all the great work they do!
The traffic pattern would be more specific to the playback device than the content. There might be more spread in duration, but even so, television networks like shows to go for specific times for ease of programming. As for encoding rates, it is quite possible they use CBR. Even if they use VBR they may choose different playout sources depending on the consuming devices and network conditions.

On the whole I doubt you would have a high probability of identifying any specific show. Even if you are able to cull 75% of the possibilities (i.e. 4 bits of entropy) that still leaves lots of shows (total ~1000 tv series and ~5000 movies by one source), plus all the noise of people pausing/switching, skipping credits, etc.
A few points just for fun:

1. Christianity, the group who builds Cathedrals, is probably the most profitable organization in the history of mankind.

2. Bazaars blow away when the wind picks up. If too many people show up, things start falling down. Cathedrals, and their close cousins, castles, last centuries.

3. I think Bazaars have their place, when you really need to ramp up something to show. We used to call that prototyping. If it gets past that, you gotta build it right eventually.
Which is funny because, nonetheless, she had to replace the code built over millions of years by code created in a few years.
https://medium.com/free-stuff

I'm using Medium, it has limited features, but it's the best out there if you're just looking for something simple. Quality of posts in Medium as a community is better than MOST blogging platforms out there.
Kids learning to code will save the world.
These prices are being quoted per year.

"San Francisco office landlords are now asking for higher rents than ever before, juicing prices this quarter past the dot-com-era high of $66 a square foot annually, according to brokerage Cushman & Wakefield."
I'm not buying the argument. I often hit [npm install] 20 times a day, and sometimes you get distracted, or just sloppy at the end of a long week. A nice feature of this, is in vim I'd have a dict of common modules, and then have the autocomplete autocomplete their names for me. That way you get in a routine where if the library isn't in the autocomplete, you need to take a second and think about it. So nothing wrong with the tool, it's just a tool. Use a flamethrower carelessly, you're going to have a bad time.
https://github.com/babel/babel/blob/master/packages/babel-co...
I think you have a blind spot for just how much shantytown style software development goes on in tools like MS Excel, MS Access and Oracle APEX.
I can't recommend this talk enough. If you have the time, it is one the best keynotes I've ever been privileged enough to watch.

Ever since then, I've been very interested in all the paperwork sent to my grand father about his pacemaker + defib implant. Recently they mentioned to him that they will send out a remote monitoring device and Karens talk immediately jumped to mind.

Initially the documentation talked about how the remote monitoring device needed to be held close to the heart for a few seconds in order to download the relevant data. This gave me a modicum of hope that at the very least it was some sort of NFC type communication. This would at least make it harder to physically exploit.

However, they continued to say that if you want it to monitor you every night, just put it within three metres of your bed while you sleep. I had a search online and there does not seem to be a lot of people particularly interested in this area, although repos such as https://github.com/openaps/decocare give me hope in the ability of the community to reverse the relevant protocols and investigate these devices.
> This is super cool but it's unfortunate that it clamps negative result values to black.

Curious: What would a negative pixel look like? What use would that have?
Capitalism has failed spectacularly before, and socialism is succeeding in many places right now. And beyond that, I can't think of any pure example of either that has succeeded. Somewhere in the middle is usually what ends up working the best.
No, I am not forcing all n of any size to a constant, I'm saying that we can bottom out inductively for small n.

This is a very old discussion. Read Knuth's rationale. Then read the similar sections in Segwick et all or whatever other basic competence textbook on algorithms you like. Compare them, think about which contexts each approach is most useful in.

In other words, no, you have not somehow cleverly invalidated all of complexity analysis.
Yes, I'd publish either right away or after a short delay to allow especially important websites to revoke RSA certificates. (I'd ask some better-informed cryptographers which is best.)

Perhaps you're thinking that you could make huge $$$ breaking into computers with it. Not really. There are already ways of breaking into many webservers and stealing info and crooks already do this, so we know how profitable / risky it is: not very / very.
Well, in all fairness, that's a 30+ year old codebase. There have been a lot of fingers in there and a lot of hard deadlines.
Might seem like a silly question to a lot of people around here but, any tips for identifying niche markets to target?
>ctrl+f "rat park"

Not found!? Well, I'm just the motile conglomeration of vermin for the job! "Rat Park", a utopia for rats, is (IMO) a critical component of the pushback against the disease model of addiction. An illustrated summary can be found in this lovely comic [0], while more interested parties can peruse the works of Dr Bruce Alexander, in the form of a blog-retrospective [1], or a slightly more technical presentation to the Canadian Senate [2], or his excellent book, The Globalization of Addiction: A Study of Poverty of the Spirit [3].

A layman-readable synthesis goes something like this: folk wisdom holds that some drugs are insanely addictive, as an inherent property of the drug. But this has generally [4] been borne out by introspective interviews of inveterate drug abusers and highly technical experimentation on lab animals (mostly social animals, like primates and rats). Introspection, for most domains of psychological study, is never used and treated as hearsay (it's not a contentious claim in psychology that people aren't good at examining their own mental states in a scientifically useful way). The methods of the experiments on social animals like rats and primates often dictate cramped, isolated and impoverished conditions. The "Rat Park" study took normal lab rats and placed them in an enormous array filled with nesting-boxes, large open areas, wheels and toys. The control rats, by contrast, were treated in every way identically to a standard addiction study -- tiny cage, no comforts, no stimulation but for a human changing their litter tray. Various experiments ensued, but even with different experimental treatments, the researchers couldn't induce addiction in the rats of Rat Park, while even fiercely bitter, heavily-diluted morphine-water was the choice of the isolated, imprisoned rat.

The orthodoxy of invincible permanent addiction was vanquished in these animals (and the minds of the researchers), by providing a more stimulating, spatious environment filled with fellow rats with whom to interact. This might say something important about the nature of addiction in other social animals, like humans.

[0] http://www.stuartmcmillen.com/comics_en/rat-park/

[1] http://www.brucekalexander.com/articles-speeches/rat-park/14...

[2] http://www.parl.gc.ca/content/sen/committee/371/ille/present...

[3] https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=The+Globalisation+of+Ad...

[4] It IS true that you can see pretty drastic rewiring in the ventral tegmental area (which covers, generally, reward systems, drug addiction, strong emotions) with things like nicotine and cocaine, so the picture is probably more complicated than 'it's purely a social problem', but the ascendancy of the dogma of the disease model of addiction functionally prevents further study. Note that the Rat Park paper was very difficult to publish and received no attention for years.
Hacky vs beautiful is diferent from The Right Thing vs. Worse is Better.

Worse is Better is a very specific philosophy (at least, as it is described in Lisp: The Good News, The Bad News, And How to Win Big)

The Right Thing philsophy is, in essence, that simplicity of interface is the most important thing: every interface is an abstraction, abstractions shouldn't leak. Have a simple interface, be correct, be consistant, be complete. If the implementation is complex, so be it.

By contrast, the worse is better philosophy prioritizes simplicity of implementation: Be simple, be as complete, correct, and consistant as possible, but between having a simple design, and being slightly wrong, a little inconsistant, and not as complete, and having a complex design that is all of those things, take simplicity: 90% now is better than 100% never.

Over time, Unix has adoped some Right Thing ideas (plan9 took this to 11), and Lisp has adopted some New Jerseyisms (Scheme's dynamic-wind is definitely this).
Not really. `pam` is where you look.
You make it sound like we deliberately make our code hard to work with. That's absurd. Code being hard to work with is the natural state, unless you work really hard to avoid it.
A lot of formerly beneficial adaptations have become "diseases" in the modern world (sugar cravings for instance).
That is true, but I'm seeing that spreading into the non-Apple world as well. It's as if the industry realized that people just don't do many hardware upgrades to laptops.

Desktop space is a whole different story, though. Although the resale value on the Apple stuff seems to hold up a bit. I've had friends upgrade to a newer machine for the price they would have paid for a PC just by selling the old Mac. I suspect that too will slowly change as time goes on.

(Was just looking at eBay for example - I could sell the Mac Mini that I have and only had about a $100 loss on it. I bought it almost two years ago now.)
"all these"?
can we still get "abortions"?
Most addicts quit on their own:

https://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/200405/the-surprisi...

The reason that addiction treatment programs find it so hard to treat 'addicts' is that they're dealing with the small subset of people who, for one reason or another, can't quit on their own. It's sort of the opposite of survivorship bias.
I wouldn't say 6% is prime real estate. Using a simple example: in my area of the US, $300-500/mo gets a freelancer a one-person office. That freelancer must make $60k-$100k/year to get rent under 6% of revenue. In CA, that $300/mo would be quite a bit more. Larger offices might be able to pack in more people per square foot, but even a modest office starts to need more room for common areas (conference rooms, kitchens, bathrooms, etc.)

The 'why' is just that the 6% is a market average where some firms are leasing dirt cheap cubicles, others are leasing to impress, and some (like ours) are near the middle.
I thought Windows 32 bit supports PAE?
Ask HN: Physical InfoSec tools/habits
I'm looking in securing my life, and while there as tons of privacy and security software tools around, I haven't found a good list of physical tools people use and how they use them for a more secure existence.

For example, putting my cell phone in a Faraday bag when traveling, storing my private keys on a USB key that wipes itself after 10 failed unlocking attempts, and so on.
There's another whole level to this question of control, which is do you want someone else's algorithm, written in the past, to control your device, or do you want them to have realtime access to change your device's behaviour whenever they want? The latter is becoming more and more common and, I think, is far more disturbing than the former.

(As an aside, the suggestion that a software developer writing firmware for pacemakers "probably doesn't have your well-being anywhere in their list of priorities" seems unfair. You wouldn't believe the amount of effort that goes into ensuring that critical systems behave properly.)
Subtle elitism is the best kind of elitism.
Huh? The judges quoted in the article seem to be concerned about the impact on the fairness of the justice system.

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> “It’s a loss,” Judge Kaplan said, “because when one thinks of the American system of justice, one thinks of justice being administered by juries of our peers. And to the extent that there’s a decline in criminal jury trials, that is happening less frequently.”

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> “It’s hugely disappointing,” said Judge Jed S. Rakoff, a 20-year veteran of the Manhattan federal bench. “A trial is the one place where the system really gets tested. Everything else is done behind closed doors.”

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> Judge Gleeson wrote that because most pleas are negotiated before a prosecutor prepares a case for trial, the “thin presentation” of evidence needed for indictment “is hardly ever subjected to closer scrutiny by prosecutors, defense counsel, judges or juries.” “The entire system loses an edge,” he added, “and I have no doubt that the quality of justice in our courthouses has suffered as a result.”

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The "my kids didn't go to camp" quote is from a stenographer and was probably chosen by the reporter just to add another angle to the story.
I have been to AA, it was not for me for the reasons you mention, also I received thinly veiled threats when they found out I was an atheist (making it clear I was not welcome if my personal "God" wasn't literally the Christian God).

However, that doesn't mean AA doesn't work for some people.

I have read somewhere it has a 10% success rate, so we can't ignore that for some people, as flawed as it might seem to some, it does work.
You could argue that autoconf sucks and clearly everyone should use your favorite build system, but you need something to do the job. Not even two systems running the same release of the same distribution are going to have all the same packages installed. I might have put a newer version of X in /usr/local. I might want to cross-compile. Even considering all Linuxes the same, I might want to build for x86, x86_64, MIPS (routers), ARM, PowerPC, or some more esoteric chip. Android has its own special problems, including a different libc. I might want to ship on BSD (which one?), OS X, iOS, cygwin, mingw, or that newfangled Windows subsystem.
TinyBeacon – GPS-disciplined VHF/UHF compact beacons
So because tablet makers don't want to spend a few extra dollars on a dedicated flash chip for recovery, 32 bit is still a thing?
Can the mods change the link to https://backchannel.com/our-medical-data-must-become-free-f6..., since this is the full version of the story?
Socibd is the first integrated social network SaaS platform
They should just kill it already if they do not want to work around this forever, since CSS will only grow.
What happens in closed source development model if pacemaker company ceases to develop one or goes belly up?
John Oliver's recent show on "Journalism" included references to the Spotlight movie: https://youtube.com/watch?v=bq2_wSsDwkQ
You use a lot of words. Insane? It is actually quite the opposite, pam is where the author should have started. Not knowing about pam and refusing to learn about it, as a server administrator: if I ever would call something insane..
Diary of a Death March: Terry's Story
I'm pretty sure you'd just need to contribute an updated definition to http://schemastore.org/json/ then.
Ahah it's Facebook, what did you expect?
They already sell your data and the new features like: Like/Love/HaHa
Or tagging posts are just ways for them to know you better and show you relevant advertising or selling the data they have on you.
NeXt. Paypal. iTunes. Maybe Skype
But you could at least give advance warning. Let people in the right places know things are fundamentally broken, have them, as someone else said, revoke certificates, and other similar ways to prevent it from being absurdly catastrophic while we try to replace it.

If you found out, someone else almost certainly will as well.
Commercial property's list by annual rates.

Sanity check 66 * 12 * 151 feet per employee = 120k in rent per office worker. That's just not happening.
Nice. Just in the last week or so I've been considering building a new, proper desktop/workstation (I work at home and a rMBP and Thinkpad are my primary "workstations" now) for my primary use. I'll have to look into more but a pair of these and a motherboard they'll fit in (that'll support a ton of RAM) might be a good starting point. Thanks.
Is this maybe a "sell high" scenario for twitter? Sounds like the article is suggesting that, while demand is still strong, the supply of available office space is rising.

Perhaps their thinking is to get the asset under lease while the price is still at it's current rate and then spend on expansion later if it's necessary (at theoretically lower prices based on the supply trend?).
Fastmail was previously bought out by Opera, then a few years later the original owners bought themselves back.

So now they are independent again I expect they are a bit more averse to being bought out.

That's my hope :-)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12252071
Well, if the code built over millions of years is error prone, then surely the code created in the last few years is packed with errors.

She found out what happens when one of them gets triggered.
You are right. I wrote that too quickly before thinking about it. I removed that part of the post.