skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A machine flag on a data record which doesn't even say SPEND_WITH_PASSWORD, but is instead a set of machine instructions, to be interpreted by a machine that nobody really fully understands, is not human-readable English, and can reasonably be set without intent to allow anyone to spend it - it's easy to mess up and make it less secure than you intended.

Therefore, it's not a contract, by definition, no matter what a subset of the population would like to think. Also - what if there's a crypto bug somewhere in Bitcoin, or a popular key/password generator? If it turned out all SPEND_WITH_PASSWORD transactions are far weaker than expected, does that mean it would be perfectly legal for anyone to steal money from all such transactions? I can't see a court saying "yes" to that, any more than they'd say that if your computer wasn't secure enough it'd be legal to access your bank account details and steal all your money from your bank. Or you could also bring up the argument that you'd get your money back if you'd sent money to the wrong person by PayPal/Faster Payments/whatever and had to take it to court, and the term "smart contract" doesn't actually change what's almost the same action.

This doesn't necessarily mean the blockchain needs to include some sort of "revoke transaction" functionality, but it is something that you can take to court if you find out who stole your money. New tech doesn't mean that courts suddenly break every rule that's been developed over hundreds of years. Courts are very used to dealing with "irrevocable" transactions.
Lost a 3d print because of windows update.

Switched to Octopi after that.
http://www.jofreeman.com/joreen/tyranny.htm

The full article. Her point seems to really boil down to this:

We cannot decide whether to have a structured or
structureless group, only whether or not to have a
formally structured one. Therefore the word will not be
used any longer except to refer to the idea it
represents. Unstructured will refer to those groups
which have not been deliberately structured in a
particular manner. Structured will refer to those which
have. A Structured group always has formal structure,
and may also have an informal, or covert, structure. It
is this informal structure, particularly in
Unstructured groups, which forms the basis for elites.

And she continues on, the next section is particularly, interesting, describing how these elites she refer to create a network of communication which others aren't party to.

I really recommend reading the whole thing. It's a pretty interesting article and, I think, gets at the problems (solvable in some or many cases) in any large organization, structureless or not.

EDIT: And do read the article. It's much more than just the snippet I included. That's just her thesis, the rest explains it better and the consequences of insisting on informal organization.
I tried Quill out a couple months ago, but dropped it after I spent days trying to get @mentions working with no luck.

Has been very difficult to find a solid js library to handle Facebook/Github style @mentions and autocompletes. Anyone able to get mention support working with Quill?

I've used at.js several times and have found it to be a buggy, ugly codebase. I wouldn't recommend it.
Cracking a well-automated CI infrastructure is equivalent to gaining root in production. :-)

My phrase is that it's the Nerve Center of the company. Don't let it get popped.
I'm confused. It cannot be a coincidence that substances exist on this earth that alter our consciousness? Why not? There are all kinds of substances found naturally that can change the way you feel, change the way your body acts, kill you, make you hallucinate, whatever.

Is it proof that there has to be a purpose behind them?

I forgot what the term is, but is this not like the fallacy of believing there must be a creator, because there is this wonderful planet for us to experience? But if we were not here to experience it, we would not know it was missing.
They are a tool. I think a good analogy is an empty notebook. The notebook provides a potential medium for personal enrichment, but you need to have a prepared mind to get anything out of it.

I would argue that psychedelics are much more powerful than a notebook, but also require greater care and preparation.

Many opt to simply have the analogous experience of "doodling in the notebook", as it requires much less effort and can be great fun. However, this does leave greater potential for a bad trip if one is not ready to face what they may encounter.
Ask HN: Any interesting conferences coming up in the fall of 2016?
> The cost of the review process in this particular two sided marketplace (which publishing is - how do you decide which journal to send your paper to?) is not just the unpaid labor of the reviewers, but rather the establishment of the credentials and authority which the journals build up over time, which basically drove down the cost of reviewing to be much smaller than if it were simply a free for all.

This is a valid point, but why should the commercial publisher reap all the benefit of this authority and brand value? The brand value was built by researchers publishing high quality work and doing high quality reviews.

Further, why couldn't just the same thing happen with non-commercial free open access journals?
How can you claim this is not a drug? It has a physiological effect when ingested.
You have a denominator problem.

15 recorded (likely underreported) cases of people dying, but how many people took it in that time frame? How many people fully knew the risks? Given the lack of quality control, how much was due to contaminates?

Millions of people take aspirin each year and the risks are well known with NSAIDs and they are produced at a very high quality.

The absolute numbers are very misleading without knowing the exposure rates. I don't take a position one way or the other on Kratom, because I don't know anything about it, but your argument is not very compelling from a statistical perspective.
Apple would issue a release saying "Don't do X. If you do X and it wipes your computer then obviously you are using your computer wrong".
Offtopic, but unfortunately broscience has extended beyond pharmaceuticals to training practice. This kind of thinking dominates the crossfit world with terms like "muscle confusion" and "failure". It's sad because I got into crossfit ten years ago because it was fun, something different every day kept me coming back. I didn't want to be a Navy SEAL, just to keep active, but the almost religious adherence to the training philosophy -- and the injuries sustained by several people I knew -- drove me away. Now I find myself sedentary and looking for something similar, but less pseudo-scientific.
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There was more Lisp influence than just the CS macros you mention here. Eric Benson was a major contributor to Lucid Emacs and many early Amazon engineers had Lisp experience. SICP was practically issued to every new software engineer--it was that popular.

The template language for Amazon's website at the time (catsubst) was a Lisp-inspired prefix notation language with a relatively small number of functions. For example, there was an add macro but not a subtract macro, so to do A-B, you had to say ${add A -B}. I might have the exact syntax wrong since it's been 20 years.
Hi,

Indeed HTTPS was not enabled on the page, it was still a work in progress. It is now enabled.

We're working on an installer that will mitigate MITM issues by having releases to be signed by multiple people.

1. We do respect scalability constrains, but we decided to monitor the network and scale when needed.
The idea that we have to focus our limited development time and funds on issues that are not yet a problem is a bit goofy. The idea for scaling is to include a tree like structure:
1
/ \
2 3
You split the data into numbers, based on the capacity of your node.
E.G. Alice has an address of stream 2. If Bob wants to send a message to Alice he encodes the stream number as metadata into the message and connects to a node of either 1 or 2. Nodes with the same number relay messages to eachother. When Bob can't find a node with number 2 he can just share it with a node of number 1. It will finds its way down (like a stream) to 2.
From the 'Applications' list on Seeed Studio:

• Video streaming from camera

Can anyone tell me how you'd hook up a camera to this device?
It might be the same, it might not.

An contrived example: let's say an unfixed Bootstrap 3 bug is that there is a formatting error when rendering "div.jumbotron > h1 > span.label > small". You could replace the last small with you own css class and be done.

Contrast that to a bug in Angular, for example, that enabled a XSS bug. You'd want to upgrade Angular, instead of manually patching or adding a workaround to all your forms.

That's what I was thinking, at least.
> The performance has gotten worse for users of a computer from 2006, but it has improved for users of ten-year old computers

I'm not sure I follow that logic.
This may have been long before the Internet was the information channel for those kinds of things that it is today.

Even if it was today and such a note was published on the Internet, do you think that people who use leaked builds--in at least semi-production settings even--would see that note, much less actively seek it out?
How do you measure fps? Is there an add-on for that?
Chromium would be great if it had a decent library of extensions like Firefox. As is, I'll stick with the latter.
> These brokers are training their model on the corrupted data of the past. They look at the racialized sentencing outcomes of the past -- the outcomes that sent young black men to prison for years for minor crack possession, while letting rich white men walk away from cocaine possession charges -- and conclude that people from poor neighborhoods, whose family members and friends have had run-ins with the law, and "predict" that this person will reoffend, and recommend long sentences to keep them away from society

This is an extremely important point to our times. Be aware that this sort of algorithm is harming society when it comes to prison sentences, and you're paying for it at multiple levels.

> Amazon carefully tracks those customers who abandon their shopping carts .. interested in knowing everything they can about "recidivism" among shoppers .. [and they seek out and talk] to their subjects -- to improve their system.

If the prison system was run like Amazon ... [it would be] oriented toward rehabilitation ...

(emphasis mine)
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> Doesn't that just have the effect that everyone now has to pay for scientific articles?

Everyone was already paying for them before. The money that used to be collected on the sale of articles has never gone to finance the scientists making the work.
You can't do the "I Just Found" trope for your own app.
I reckon the existence of scihub might have prompted this decision. In that case, the project is a success.
That's in the US though, which had only received 600 or so cases reported in 5 years. There's a point to be made about regulating it while still a fringe fad.

It also causes tachycardia and high blood pressure so while it may be providing people relief for some of their symptoms, it's a potentially dangerous substance for certain patients.
No I'm talking about the version numbers themselves, things like:
1.0.0-preview2-final
I will not take a working(and money-making) code base and migrate it to a platform where that is the version I need to use.

As for project.json. I actually liked using JSON over XML, but it's a personal preference thing, can't really make a case that it's better.
There were a bunch of different mechanisms depending on vendor. Some required a specific time interval in between the + signs, so that typing very slowly, or instantly, wouldn't trigger the escape.

Some vendors had bugs in which when +++ appeared as part of the incoming data it would also trigger the firmware escape.

And of course programmable terminals had hilarious exploits where you'd get someone to run your program, it would program the terminal to emit a macro when you hit enter, the macro would include +++ATZ, etc., etc.

My favorite modem story was when I worked for a company that shipped auto parts warehouse management systems. They would have several SCO unix boxes with serial port concentrator cards and port concentrators on those concentrators, such that you'd have 256 modems on a single box and RS-232 cables everywhere. Frequently the operators at the auto parts warehouses couldn't be bothered to do cable management, so at one facility, the entire floor of the server closet was carpeted literally 2 feet thick with a random mess of RS-232 cables, each one leading to a modem. When standing on the cables killed a modem or two, they would just string a new wire rather than try to fish out the old one. Kind of like Google's "let it sit in the rack" policy for failed servers, but writ extremely small and pathologically badly.
Finland is probably an extreme outlier, based on my own readings in any case. I've never worked in Finland, only in the United States. My anecdotal data is that _most_ U.S. management really sucks.
By a law that declares the reproduction of Scientific Articles a permitted use.
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One thing that I find worrying about this comment thread is how there is a general vibe of "antidepressants are evil". This widespread idea makes a lot of people who should be seeking treatment be reluctant to do so and as the article points out, right now under-treatment is a much bigger problem than over-treatment.

If you are feeling depressed you really should seek help from a psychiatrist. Having a face-to-face appointment with a psychiatrist will put you on a much better position to find out if you should be prescribed antidepressants or not (as well as other forms of therapy).
I suspect there is a fair amount of survivorship bias[1] in one's personal analysis of management. For me, the managers I can easily recall are the bad ones. Something about how anger makes a deeper mark in your memory than joy does.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias
"it's crazy in modern western democracies most of us spend our lives in command and control dictatorships"

I think you are confusing structure and culture. I've always worked for the past decade under a boss and retained autonomy and spiritual ownership of my work. Yes, a boss can be a micromanaging asshole but going full anarcho-syndicalism usually just means that politics will happen, structures of influence and fealty will form and the end result is still a tree of authority.
Does it really? Valve is extremely profitable because of their particular role in the video games industry. But outside of Steam, is the company really a role model for success?

Is Valve's latest "new" IP DOTA2 successful when compared to the other set of MOBAs that have come out over the past few years?

Have Valve's forays into VR and hardware been successful compared to other companies in the space? e.g. the Vive, Oculus?

Looking at Steam itself, has the service dramatically improved since launch? Certainly there have been a lot of good incremental updates, e.g. two-factor auth. But the Apple App Store has seen a lot more updates in terms of search, discoverability, etc.

I am not an expert, and may have my details wrong about Valve. But I don't think the company has been especially successful outside of being the only game in town for buying AAA video games online.
A super easy way to see this is to type cat, and then type asdf and hit ^D. It immediately echoes back what you typed. Another ^D quits cat, because it gets a 0-byte read that time.
They say "also known as the armonica", when "glass armonica" is the far more common term.
And you've got the masseur, the person who services the Foosball table, the smoothie chef, ...

;o)
I wonder if the kratom community should have gotten infront of this. If you think the DEA is going to come down with the Emergency Schedule 1 hammer, then maybe it'd be better to take action to make it become Schedule 4 or 5. First impressions are important, if your group is the first one to talk to congress then you can control the narrative.
I guess it's a matter of choice, but we see Paw as a visual tool that makes it easy to setup a request (or a set of requests) to iterate quickly when developing an API or discovering a new one. Because of that, we try to keep actions intuitive and keep scripting as a last resort (JS scripts & extensions are available in Paw too, btw).

I know from experience as an iOS developer (then Python backend guy) that when working on a given project, our mind is already full of business logic. We don't want to add another level of complexity due to the tools we use. And we're writing enough code elsewhere to not want to write code in an app.

As of scripting used for "unit" testing, we have thought about it many time for Paw. And while we will do something somewhat related in the near future, it's a slippery slope. A robust API should have unit tests written with mocks and be part of the server code, not a few assertions made in a 3rd party app. We're quite biased here: many users want this feature, but we don't want to encourage bad practices (as it may be interpreted by some as "ok let's not write proper tests, there's Paw for that").

Anyway, that was to share my point of view as a Paw guy :)
Maybe only 15 people took it and they all died. Should Schedule 1 classification be used for a drug that only 15 people want to take?
Ahg, I wish it let you scp files into your working directory too. That's be convenient.
Whilst my initial reaction is to agree with you, I thought the same about Uber and AirBnB.
"Did you pack your bags yourself?"

Be careful about what you answer. "No" is a bad answer and "yes" is OK only if 1) the content of the bag is OK and 2) you really packed it.
If this turns out to be a real problem, a better solution would be to remove the "flag" link on the front page, forcing you to visit the article's comments page to flag it. This is already how flagging works for individual comments.
I was actually just going to post a question asking if there's a write up on how this compares to Sublime and Atom. Never crossed my mind that it was an improved TinyMCE after glancing through the website.
I dont want my school hustling me down the likeliest path to become corporate cannon fodder at ABC Corp when I'm trying to build a startup. Not everyone goes to school to "get a job".
No, but why would he be? It makes the most sense to scout for bikes on one bike and when you find a score stash it as soon as possible, not ride around town leisurely on a stolen bike
How fast is VR changing? I keep hearing about new hardware / manufacturers / versions - so even though I want to pickup a headset, I'm planning to wait until the market and options settle down and a clear winner stands out.
Microsoft Power BI Enables Connectivity to Apache Impala (Incubating)
Also make sure you've got the Google services turned off in Settings/Privacy.
>>Priuses are kind of boring. (I owned one for a while so I hope I'm not too clueless on this.) They work, they're reliable, they're cheap to run, but few people come back from a Prius test drive thinking, holy shit, I'll do whatever it takes to own one of these cars.

The bumper sticker on my roommate's Prius goes...

"Hey, cool Prius!" -Nobody
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Might want to spend some time thinking about that phrase "evolutionary reasons". There's an assumption in there I'm not sure you've noticed.
> It works for Valve, but that's because there are so many good people who really, really want to make computer games

...but there's no one to do good customer service and other boring but necessary things.

Honestly, I don't know what Valve does any more, or if they have to do anything. They can just all take a year-long vacation, schedule some sales, and let people make them money by buying hats, games, or gun skins.
That's a fair argument, but it's impossible for me to compare them because there's no data on how many people use kratom. I'm not saying it's less dangerous than NSAIDs necessarily, as kratom is poorly researched at this point. What I'm trying to say is that we allow people to freely use NSAIDs in spite of the regular death that they cause, because of the benefits they provide. I don't see what makes kratom any different from that - it seems like a knee-jerk reaction in the middle of an opiate epidemic, just because it seems to be agonistic.
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Artistic QR Code in Python
I think for opioid overdose there is a medical intervention, but for these psychedelic things ... I guess there isn't much to do.

But psychological risk is real. My friend did something similar in Brazil and had 'fear' episodes for years.
Best of luck confronting the full force of the producers of caffeinated anything. Coffee, tea, soda, energy drinks. We could probably throw a handful of the pharmaceutical giants in there for good measure.

Qui bono?
Well, cheese has a physiolocial effect when ingested. In fact, chemicals in cheese are known to bind to opioid receptors in our brains. But we don't call cheese a drug, do we? I think it's safe to say that Kratom isn't properly characterized as a "drug" in the same way that the DEA is characterizing it as a "drug".
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If it doesn't make sense, then there must be big money behind it. They got away with cannabis, they will easily get away with a plant that significantly fewer number of people care about.
Their status page now shows it. I confirmed it went down for several people in SF while their status page was all green still.

Got a nasty 500 error on the app while making payments, and a 502 on their web app.
key word: under warranty

Those who expect to use their iPhones more than 12 months are getting shafted
I'm saying that the performance of today's firefox on 2006 hardware is better than the performance of 2012's firefox on 2002 hardware. I consider that to be a better measure than to compare both releases on 2006 hardware.
I would like to recommend against spazing wildly at work.

Edit: It was just a joke :(
Yes I agree. There are some things you can do for example you can have client certificates, only trusted clients can talk to your ci, and onlt trusted clients can push images. Only dev with ssh keys can push code.

Your ci and registry are locked down (a container).

All that might help.
I don't see it as subsidizing STEM at the expense of liberal arts. I see it as giving loans to people who are likely to use those loans to increase their earning power, and therefore have the ability to repay said loans. It doesn't have to be STEM specifically, there are well paying jobs outside of that as well.

What benefit does society get from having lots of graduates with $100 to $200k in student loans that they'll struggle to make payments on for the next 20 years? Education is perfectly fine, but if the goal is to encourage lots of people to study liberal arts for the sake of learning, then let's find a way to do that that doesn't cost $50k per year.