skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If the EU doesn't like that Ireland gave a special deal, then the EU needs to work on becoming competitive, instead of trying to throw it's weight around.

You're making no sense whatsoever, this isn't about "EU becoming competitive" it's about competitive environment between companies operating in the common market. If one specific company gets a sweetheart corporate tax deal the market is distorted, because every other company has to pay the posted tax rate and doesn't get to keep an additional 10% of their income.

And the EU is not "throwing its weight around", the rule on state aid dates back to the foundational EEC treaty (the Treaty of Rome, back in '57), it predates both the modern EU and Ireland's accession to the EEC.
1) The main difference is in their approach to security. OpenBSD's primary focus is a complete, open source, BSD system with a focus on security. The way they attempt to and often succeed at achieving that goal is through "code correctness" and emphasizing the use of integrated cryptography. That isn't to say FreeBSD is insecure, it just isn't their primary focus.

2) I'll let Theo answer that...
http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=132788027403910&w=2

3) Not "big issues". But since OpenBSD doesn't sign NDAs to get firmware or drivers, and since they like to rework any software that isn't up to their standards, they do lag behind in hardware support. A good way to check if what you have is supported is to read their release notes. For example https://www.openbsd.org/60.html has a list under "improved hardware support".
It absolutely is, I don't understand how someone gets so brainwashed to not understand such a simple concept. A nation has a finite set of costs, those costs are paid by taxes. If I pay less, someone else needs to pick up my slack.
Don't sell your domain until you've done a search for "to:*@example.com" :)
Amazon's edge isn't in shipping. It's in fulfillment.

Fulfillment By Amazon (FBA) is a boon for many businesses, as it combines warehousing, packing/labelling, and shipping into a single interface at an attractive price. Let's not forget that they also bring customers and handle the entire billing operation, too.

If Amazon does harm FedEx/UPS, it won't be by starving them of packages directly, but rather by sidestepping their business, attracting companies to FBA, so that they never enter the "shipping" business sector.

I don't expect to see Amazon enter the point-to-point shipping business anytime soon.
If you feel like being disheartened, please consult this list:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-pattern#Examples
As recently as 2009, Nokia was estimated by Interbrand to be one of the top 5 global brands [1]. Interbrand's guesstimate at the monetary value rated "Nokia" as being worth over two times as much as "Apple".

Just four years later, in 2013, Nokia had lost 80% of its value and Apple's brand was estimated to be worth about 13 times more.

Such a tremendous collapse for a global brand seems unprecedented. (And no, it wasn't Elop's fault because the landslide started before him.)

[1] http://interbrand.com/best-brands/best-global-brands/previou...
Great write up. I used Hadoop a lot for two consulting customers, and Google's map reduce as a contractor. I found map reduce to be a natural way to process data. That said, Spark is a huge leap forward. I like both the developer workflow using a repl and the machine learning library mllib is excellent.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket just exploded at Cape Canaveral
that's a pretty poor excuse. why is privacy only available by submitting to a poor experience? privacy should be default, not a punishment
That's not because of the Ruby community, but because of Endoh, a world champion of IOCCC.
> The "talk about furniture arrangements while there is a hole on the roof" parent mentions

The version I've heard is: "rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic" :)
I expect it. A family member has worked for FedEx ground since it was RPS, and has been telling me for years how Amazon kept hiring away their execs. And the company is your typical sclerotic old-style megacorporation mired in bureaucracy so it moves very slowly on everything.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket just exploded
For those of you who are looking at a reason to play around with openBSD, there might be some progress at getting it to run at the Raspberry pi 2 and 3: http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=147059203101111&w=2

Probably not going to happen, but it runs on some other ARM7 SBCs. Mine is running FreeBSD currently, but where is the geek cred in that?
I will look into this and fix it,

Thank you.
That is why packages can be so slow to filter through from upstream.
It's good that they have their priorities straight. No more Linux binaries support (who need compatibility anyways?), but instead you get 5 songs sung by the project leader.
SpaceX Falcon has exploded
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The rocket is currently in flames. Staffers at the facility are telling me. Plumes of smoke rising from Launch Complex.
Let's recap:

A bunch of people were complaining about Penny's not naming names. I pointed out that she didn't do it for a reason. For her to do so could be very costly. I said that if people really wanted her to talk, they should offer to share in the costs by putting together a legal defense fund.

You then responded by saying I couldn't be serious, and talking about "this person" (presumably kelukelugames) and whether I thought they had "no rights to know" more.

Assuming you were serious, I expanded on what an actual "right to know" would mean, showing that the idea has significant implementation problems. If you meant something else, you could have cleared that up by saying what you did mean.

> What offends you so much that some stranger on the internet said that it was right

The reason I objected is that when people take a gift and are immediately critical that the gift was not larger, it discourages the giving of gifts. If we want more whistleblowers, we must make sure their experience of whistleblowing is a positive one. If all they hear is, "Y U NO GIVE MOAR", that is not a positive experience.

I think it's particularly important here because this instant entitlement is a perennial problem for open source project maintainers.

Does that make my motivations clearer?

> Are you just completely desperate to argue with a stranger

Pal, you are the one who responded to me, and you did it with a lot of attitude. The person I was responding to thought my point was reasonable. You appear to be the only one excited for an argument here.
Looks like this may have been the Falcon 9 getting ready to launch AMOS-6 on 9/3. Not a previously flown rocket.
From the twitter feed: http://imgur.com/6b6MfNQ
I think of it at a higher level: My job is not writing code, it's clarifying ideas. Even though my boss / client talks to me in their natural language, I still need to have a conversation with them to clarify what they mean, what do we do in such and such corner case, etc. Also, people usually don't know what they want until they see it, which gave rise to the whole field of Agile development. I don't think that higher and higher levels of translations between human language and machine language will free us from clarifying our ideas.
India's newest telco enters the market with disruptive, 4G focused, plans
European equity funds see record withdrawals
Problem is, your "incorrect IP reputation" concept is fundamentally flawed. As an example, I noticed that most VPN exit nodes have "incorrect IP reputation", which means if I want to browse the internet without my government spying on me, I have to wade through all your CAPTCHAs.
The website was a bit slow to load... Like the last time, I guess? Hug of death :P

I love how simple it is. Really good job at breaking complex behaviour down into smaller interactions. I think this looks even better than Asana. Dependencies on a "parent task" planned?
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/4fby47/reali... is one I recall. But really if you want a good proper book review, go here:

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/sep/11/sapiens-brief-...
blum.c by Carsten Haiztler (rasterman):

#include <stdio.h>
#define blowjob sex
#define sex int
#define joint char
#define reefer joint
#define froob(y) sizeof(y)
#define smoke printf
#define on_the_beach main
#define suckitin(puff) {sex l;l=strlen(puff);memfrob(puff,l);}
#define bacon 0xf
#define eggs 0x3
#define frubfrub(x) scanf("%i",&x)
sex on_the_beach(sex everywhere, joint **is_good){sex *blum;joint *blimblim,
*vendu, buttox;joint ganja[]="c\012BK\\O\012\017C\012H_^^ER\012DE]\040\000";
reefer pot[]="bE]\012GKDS\012H_^^ER\012NE\012SE_\012BK\\O\012\040\000";
suckitin(pot);smoke(pot);frubfrub(pot);suckitin(ganja);blimblim=(joint *)
&buttox;blimblim+=froob(sex);vendu=blimblim;blimblim-=vendu-(joint *)
&buttox;*(vendu-froob(sex))+=(((buttox<<1)|bacon))&eggs;blum=(sex *)blimblim;
smoke(ganja,(*blum)&eggs);}
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Wild-ass speculation in the absence of more information than a tweet and a photo of a pad fire:

SpaceX test-fire the first stage motors before each launch. If this was a test firing that went spectacularly wrong, it's embarrassing -- but there won't have been any human beings within blast range and it's better to fail in test than to fail in flight with a payload on top.

(If it was a catastrophic failure during fueling/de-fueling ops, that's another matter entirely, and far more serious -- and an explosive test failure is serious enough as it is.)
In case you're confused, new non-business dropbox accounts haven't had the ability to create a "public" folder since 2012.
http://superuser.com/questions/764641/how-to-serve-html-off-...
Why wouldn't AMZN just acquire FedEx?
Stoic movie review: Imperium
> People are surely not running websites on commodity hardware.

That actually is such a growing trend that one of the more popular NoSQL databases is called...

Cluster Of Unrealiable Commodity Hardware Database,

aka CouchDB.
You appear to believe that Penny Kim should have named names. That would have increased her risk of a lawsuit. Lawsuits are expensive. Ergo, if you argue for her naming names, you believe she should be willing to spend a lot of money on what you want.
> occasionally there will be a huge boost in traffic

Ha, that appears to be the case now as I can't load the page. :)
Apple has a big pile of cash from not paying taxes and they don't know what to do with it anyway. That's why their stock didn't move much because large pile of cash(tax shelter cash) - 15B still equals large pile of cash doing nothing for investors.
Not huge, but a pretty big mistake would be Target's venture to, and disastrous failure in, Canada.

Almost everything that could go wrong did, and the whole story involves a lot of arrogance and inexperience.

It will definitely be a business school case study, at least here.
I couldn't get through all of the paper. It seemed to be simply a new, not especially useful, notation for certain boolean operators.

The concept of universal boolean operators, in the sense of functional completeness (see [1]) isn't that deep. A binary boolean operator (function) has four possible combinations of inputs: TT, TF, FT, and FF. For example, the and operation is defined by (T and T) == T, (T and F) == F, (F and T) == F, and (F and F) = F. The familiar truth table [2] is a clearer way to write this out:

A | B | A and B
===============
T T T
T F F
F T F
F F F

Other boolean operators can be defined by truth tables too. How many unique boolean operators are there? Since there are four possible binary outputs there are 16 possible boolean operators. They are mostly very familiar, but mathematicians use various notations for them.

Again, truth tables make them obvious:

A B | 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16
====================================================
T T T T T T T T T T F F F F F F F F
T F T T T T F F F F T T T T F F F F
F T T T F F T T F F T T F F T T F F
F F T F T F T F T F T F T F T F T F

the 16 possible operators are thus:

1: true, sometimes indicated by the "top" character in math, it
looks like a capital T

2: or

3: if, (A if B) means B implies A, written <==

4: A, just the value of the first argument

5: onlyif, (A onlyif B) is sometimes written ==>

6: B, the value of the second argument

7: iff, same as ==

8: and

9: nand, not and

10: xor

11: !B, the negation of second argument

12: notonlyif, i.e. not(A ==> B)

13: !A, the negation of the first argument

14: notif, i.e. not(A <== B)

15: nor, not or

16: false, sometimes written in math with the bottom symbol which looks like an upside down capital T

We don't normally use all of these operators in predicate logic or programming or digital circuits because a few familiar ones will do. In fact, if we allow ourselves the negation operator (i.e. not or ! in some programming languages) then all binary boolean operations can be obtain from only and and not or from or and not. For example the operator numbered 5 above is the implication operator (A ==> B), but this is simply (not A or B).

The sign of illation in the original article is simply operation 5 above, A ==> B.

Interestingly, two of the binary boolean operators are universal or functionally complete by themselves, nand and nor. Any stateless boolean circuit can be constructed out of only nand gates or only nor gates. A programming language could get by with only one boolean operator, the binary nand (or the binary nor). For example ((not A) and B) could be rewritten using only nand:

((not A) and B) == (A nand A) and B
== not ( (A nand A) nand B )
== ((A nand A) nand B) nand ((A nand A) nand B)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_completeness

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truth_table
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To me, the real work of a consultancy in any field, not just software, is finding good clients (by which I mean those that pay and pay reasonably well and on time). Doing the actual technical work is pretty much the easier part.

This means that a full 'rollodex' might be more valuable than broad technical competence. But in any event the way to pick up good clients is to go out and do sales and marketing and lead generation and prospect qualification.

The alternative bid-for-work market tends to be bi-modal. At the end with high paying consulting gigs, all the sales process is necessary to be invited to bid (or conversely specialized paperwork for government contracts). At the low end of the bid for work market, it's a race to the bottom.

Anyway, short of good fortune, developing clients tends to be hard work.

Good luck.
What are some of his failure stories (not the breakdown in 2008)? His success stories are very inspirational, but the failure ones can help us relate and act on the inspiration. We know the superhuman Elon Musk, we need to know the human Elon Musk. I think that will really help the inspiration spread into action all around.
OpenBSD supports encrypted user mounts and full disk encryption
> A tree is still more complex than strings, because it has rules: one parent per node and no cycles. Those need to be validated.

Hmm, I'm not convinced that this is sufficient to show that strings are simpler.

After all, a string has rules too: a cell in the string is either at the beginning, or the end, or the middle, and it has neighbours left, right or not at all depending on those conditions, and at most one such neighbour in each direction. Even appeal to the physical world doesn't help. If I have a physical piece of DNA, how do I know it hasn't mutated so that two different strands branch off it and it becomes, essentially, a degenerate tree?

I do think that the thrust of your argument is correct but it's not as clear cut (at least not yet) as you seem to be making out.

> What is absoutely clear is that System F and TM are essentially, qualitatively and objectively very different

Absolutely agreed! If they weren't, I'd be happy writing my day-to-day code in Turing Machines.
What can you guess are their criteria for approval? I applied as well.
You're looking at it purely from the user side. Look at it from the admin side. Tor is basically a massive open proxy, and by blocking it or throwing up human checks like captchas, you eliminate a significant source of spam and abuse.

There's not much to be done about this otherwise - a Tor user is sharing a network with a significantly higher than usual amount of the bad elements of the internet.
I suppose I was hopeful that it was silicon based life :)
Cash Squeeze at Tesla, SolarCity
this is currently being worked on as I type this reply :)
On the phone with my host right now to try to fix the slowness of the site. I honestly wasn't expecting to hit the front page again.
Effectively they argue that, in EU countries and India and Africa, the profit happens in Ireland. This is done through transfer pricing.

In Ireland, they argue that the profits happen at a "head office" which was not based in any country and did not have any employees or own premises.

(The ruling: http://ec.europa.eu/competition/state_aid/cases/253200/25320... linked from http://ec.europa.eu/competition/elojade/isef/case_details.cf...) - search for "AOI"
404 for me.
I sure you would see ads form them against any kind of law lake that too.
>Same day you tip them.

I'm quite annoyed about this in the UK. They're basically trying to fabricate a price-obscuring tipping culture just so they can advertise "free same day delivery".

I would be totally happy to pay £2 for the service when I need it, but I don't appreciate being charity mugged at the checkout.
OpenBSD's website is kept this way explicitly out of spite for people who whinge about it.
Here's some info on this from TC: https://techcrunch.com/2016/09/01/a-spacex-falcon-9-rocket-j...
I too would love to know the logo font.
You check hashes (from the web site) after you copy the files to media you trust, and then any tampering is really interesting . . .
I think there was a time when it was once considered a vaguely normal blogging platform.
Bank of America's decision to buy Countrywide during the financial crisis. BofA inherited some $50 billion of legal liability: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/business/banking/artic...
I enjoyed receiving the CD package and the associated artwork.
Test fire for the launch of a commercial satellite (AMOS-6), which had been scheduled for a few days hence (and now presumably delayed, along with the rest of their launch schedule, pending further investigation). It might conceivably have been during fueling/de-fueling around the test. It's not yet clear from public reports whether the payload was attached at the time of the test-fire; sometimes they are, sometimes they aren't.

(Note that fueling operations for Falcon 9 got a whole lot trickier when they switched to use of super-cooled fuel and oxidizer, to increase density -- if that stuff gets warmer, its volume increases to more than that of the tank, but it's still liquid, so you can't just vent it off.)
Were the mental effects of the allergy medicine mentioned in the package leaflet? I worry that modern medicine doesn't look closely enough for mental side effects. It would reassure me to know that the effects were mentioned. It would help me to know how it was phrased, so that I can understand the information if I run across it.
Using a massively shared IP space of any kind is only available by submitting to a poor experience.

Nobody is saying "hey this guy has privacy, lets make this experience a pain in the arse". They're saying "Man this set of specific IPs are really hammering my system looking for WordPress exploits and we're not even running that".

To treat Tor better than regular traffic would be to discriminate against Tor, which would invite more abuse of Tor.
I can't tell if this is a joke.
Thanks for the link! How did you happen upon it? Out of curiosity, do you think you could venture a semi-brief response? :)
Fascinating. For being the same, we really are soooo different, aren't we? :)
If only there were some kind of HUB that people could use for their FOSS projects that provided free hosting on giant piles of bandwidth!

It would be nice if it used GIT too!

Man, that would be pretty sweet.
If you're running OpenBSD, likely you're running it for the features it provides (security and code correctness)

If you want to run Linux apps, run them on your Linux box and use your OpenBSD machine to firewall it off
Not loading at all for me unfortunately. Have you got a link to the GitHub/Lab project page for it? What's it written in?
In case you were looking for confirmation – yes, "under the bleachers" is exactly right, although it's a somewhat dated term at this point. Not sure what the modern equivalent is but at least when I was in highschool (~2010) there really was no way for anyone to spend any time under there except at sporting events, which were very poorly attended.
http://www.broadcastify.com/listen/feed/705/web

Has audio from the local police, who seem to be evacuating the various nearby beaches, due to the danger from the plume.
I wonder how much the current 'marijuana is good for you' attitude resembles the 'smoking is good for you' attitude in the past?

NB: I think all drugs should be legalised so this isn't an anti-drugs post.
For anyone that may be interested, you can currently get a very good amyloid plaque reducing drug over-the-counter. [1] It is generally recognized as safe beyond a mild stimulatory effect, but don't take it while trying to get pregnant or pregnant.

It seems like these types of drugs are best used for prevention rather than a cure, so I've been taking it for a year or so now even though I'm not even 30, and plan to continue for the rest of my life. I've lost quite a few relatives to Alzheimer's/dementia, so it is pretty cheap "insurance" to me, even if it turns out it just makes expensive pee.

1. https://examine.com/supplements/centrophenoxine/
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-KY6bmYW5xXE/V8guijPQh7I/A...

http://i.imgur.com/6b6MfNQr.jpg
Careful, though... then you might start a meta-argument about whether or not the topic is really important or not. "If we just paint the bikeshed the right color, customers will flock to us!"
Nah, that's for Lua :) https://love2d.org/
The main reason why we migrated our servers from Hetzner to OVH is Hetzner's hard drive policy. Basically, if one of your drives fails, they will swap it for… another failing drive. You will keep getting various refurbished or re-tested drives. Basically, if it passes their test, it is considered a good drive, even if SMART shows a history of errors.

Obviously, these drives do not last very long, so you end up with hardware that fails more and more often as time passes. Makes you look bad in front of customers.

I guess it's a matter of pricing — Hetzner is relatively cheap, and you get what you pay for. But you should know what you're getting.
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Correction: Reliance is not India's newest telco. Jio, their new brand, just launched with these plans. :)
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Instagram account lockout and redemption process requires my face?
I thought it was cringey because the phrase is overused[1] and sort of a joke by now? I would never cringe at someone loving to program for fun.

[1] I've seen too many website footers that say "Handcrafted with love in (San Francisco | New York | Portland)".
Honestly, that kind of spite isn't encouraging if one is deciding on an OS to use.
Were they calling because they were having trouble finding your address, or because they were lazy?
Explosion reported during SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket test
it is not a joke.
http://www.openbsd.org/lyrics.html#60f
It's not open source, so no Git page for it.
Build and Run Android from AOSP Source Code to a Nexus 7
SpaceX's Falcon 9 explodes on Florida launch pad
The last academic institute I worked for (in Spain) was started by people from a French institute. Mix of nationalities and they all spoke English well.