skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're totally misunderstanding the whistleblowing system. It exists to uncover activity that is illegal under US law, not for people to make moral statements about what the law should be. What the law should be is a matter for our elected representatives.

I'm not sure what your point about contempt of court is. Yes, of course you can be held indefinitely until you comply with a court order. Otherwise, a court order wouldn't mean anything.
What they are actually eliminating is work, which is very admirable. After that it becomes a question of income redistribution. Ideally the income should be only partly eliminated (in a way that balances welfare with motivation to find a new job). But that's a societal choice the US would have to make.
Fine.

In which case every nation on earth is authoritarian, and the word has no more useful meaning when discussing governments than the observation that governments attempt to maintain a monopoly on use of force. Both are universal. Doesn't matter if you're suppressing fraud in a balls-out capital-dominated economy or offering healthcare in more mild social democracies, someone disagrees and the jackboots come out.

So now we've established that capitalism (the real thing, mostly practiced by large cartels), "capitalism" (the U.S. mixed economy), socialism (I'm not stepping in that one) and "socialism" (the mixed economies of western Europe) are all authoritarian. Can we move past this boring, useless debate point, please?
I used to do this with strings (now you don't have to), but this is great advice!
This does seem incredibly useful for service oriented architectures. As I understand, it's basically a per application, per machine monitoring library for quickly detecting problems up and down the network stack.

However it also does load balancing. But doesn't that defeat the purpose a little bit? If your monitoring tool is the same as your load balancing tool, then who's monitoring the load balancer? :) I might be misunderstanding the architecture here.
You'd have to be careful not to encourage excessive retaliation. If someone isn't physically capable of overthrowing a bully (or thinks that they aren't) you don't want them resorting to weapons when they "snap".
A counter-anecdote: where I grew up, when you start to fight back you end up in the hospital when the kid's friends show up after dark one day. Violence in retribution is not always a great solution.
Airbnb needs to provide an easier way to differentiate between a host company and a host person.

I still prefer staying at airbnb, even when its more of a company than an individual. Its still much better than a typical hotel.
In the past, Q-learning has led to models that perform at a superhuman level, so I wouldn't be surprised to see something similar.
You could say this for literally every single feature that got implemented in a language. Eventually a language needs to change and get better and it does it through small incremental changes as ES is doing. Future developers will only use await/async and they will look at old syntax/semantics and have the same attitude towards it that you have now towards async/await.
I wonder if this is actually just some sort of statistical effect. Suppose intelligence is normally distributed in a high intelligence population and also in a low intelligence population but with two different medians. The guy at +2 sigma in the latter may be at 0 in the former. He may then reasonably conclude that he is extremely intelligent. If, on top of this, he doesn't then get the chance to mix with where the HI population resides (can't get into university, chooses to live outside of HI population centres), he's never going to be disabused of the fact that he's not really incredibly smart.

It's like being the best basketball player in your school. If you never go to the summer training classes, you'll never discover that there are thousands like you, and that the guys who didn't make the cut at a different school are way better than you are.
Perpetual Motion Machines
There is often more than one reasonable approach to a problem.
In practice, people who don't own a car, but can afford to rent one on a semi-regular basis, also don't really want to drive much.
DHCPLB: An open source load balancer
"Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live." - Jim Rohn
This is bad history. The Nazis who emerged in power had no ties to socialism. By this logic, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea is a purely democratically run country.
Heh - like you, I did a very sneaky immediate edit regarding timezones (I'm on a VPN, you're in EST). Challenges remain.
Do you need to pay rent to Point for that 10%?
Before you go through Point's laborious quote process, check this list of requirements (which should be front and center, IMO, but whatever):

http://help.point.com/article/15-how-do-homeowners-qualify-f...

(They want minimum 20% down, for example.)

Suggestion to Point: Allow potential customers to fiddle with quote parameters without redoing the entire form. And make it clear when a parameter will immediately disqualify them.
Different sensors may have different responses. A separate collection would likely avoid any particular biases that Google picked up, as well.
Sure, but that isn't simonh's point. Those simulations aren't very good. There's nobody living in those simulations that thinks that they're alive, let alone that is capable of creating a working computer out of the material in that simulation.
Sure, it's Caffeine Citrate: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caffeine_citrate it's now being sold under the brand Peyona, by a company called Chiesi.

If you feel like learning Danish: http://www.dr.dk/nyheder/indland/fra-en-20er-til-800-kroner-...

Basically the price has jumped from 3.33USD to 121USD.
The Heritage Foundation published its Index of Economic Freedom[1], which tracks various factors for many nations. While not a direct analog to personal liberty, economic freedom certainly is something to strive for.

Take a look for yourself and see if their rankings make sense.

[1]: http://www.heritage.org/index/
This page is what I was looking for. Thanks
hah, mostly very good points

IDK, for one I'm not even sure a major exchange is as deadly as here supposed (much depends on who else joins the party I guess); sure lots of land on some continents at least is badly irradiated, but a majority is not quite as bad, and most of radiation degrades quickly, some simple measures help, and besides not everyone needs to survive every year After Launch anyhow, and non-extreme radiation doses kill only statistically. Much depends on - as you say, on how much of state command structure is able to survive and organize the remains, and that could easily vary from state to state on the planet.

I lived through a minor war in my youth, with the frontline maybe 2km at its closest approach and regular shelling for IDK couple of years. It was a remarkably well-ordered affair, considering. Fact half the GDP evaporated and rest was put under direct government command for war and other logistical purposes didn't really constitute a panic collapse of societal order or anything like that, and return to some kind of (low budget) normality quite quick. Kinda remarkable in retrospect, in how badly we react to small upsets, like a high-single digit GDP loss in a recession, yet tolerate such major disasters...

If the number of people directly killed is on the order of a few hundered million, thats not a substantial part of the humankind, so it may not be too different -- to people living in places too boring to have been hit by a nuke and not too close downwind from something interesting, ofc.

Guess it becomes worse if all the players hit all the other players, and no further advances in reducing nuclear inventories are made before it hits etc.

But again, yeah, a societal collapse is certainly a kill-myself kind of event for me too, because as you say - we're never gonna rebuild if we fall to that point. I'm just more sanguine about nukes being lobbed about not necessarily causing this I guess.
But the philosophical worry that we could be in a dream our entire waking lives is based on the fact that we wake up from dreams, and can therefore distinguish being awake from being in a dream.
Agreed, there are situations where it's super useful and I never want to go back to the old way.

I did read up on the paper that explains how the compiler rewrites the code before being comfortable using await.
Yes, you're right, roasting and bean have a strong influence. Illy and other specialty coffee vendors also blend beans to optimize the espresso outcome.
I was able to get in on the beta and the framework and methodology these guys have in place is pretty comprehensive. TLDR; they provide a guide for starting a new company, and have a very comprehensive checklist for all the steps along the way, from the initial idea, to legal and tax and various logistics, to marketing, to launch. It's pretty interesting and I would recommend taking a look -- they also have a coaching service where you can ask questions to "coaches" who are VC's.
While that may not be using autonomous cars outside of Pittsburgh yet I wouldn't be surprised if they are driving some cars around other cities to digitally map them in preparation.
> Now if only they would put it away for me.

Sounds like an opportunity for a startup!

</joke> ... or so I thought.
"Please also note that Point will share in any increase in property value due to remodeling changes you might make."

And they don't contribute to any property maintenance costs.

Nice. So they get to take part in full asset appreciation without having to pay to maintain the asset.
I don't understand why someone having trouble supporting their family would buy a new car at all. A nice used car is not that different and significantly cheaper.
"We’re exploring a flagship project on scaling up DNS filtering: what better way of providing automated defences at scale than by the major private providers effectively blocking their customers from coming into contact with known malware and bad addresses?"

Because this definitely isn't a step towards state censorship, no siree!
That was fun, we had a similar sort of discussion with our kids as they were growing up. My eldest was especially anxious to get to the level 'adult' and start her life. It wasn't everything she hoped it would be.

I think its easy to pick apart the specific numbers but it is also a good way to think about how you want to spend your time vs how you do by default. And that will let you make decisions about optimizations and time/money trade offs. For example you can just eat Soylent and not cook at all (not a good tradeoff in my opinion) or automate bill paying and bill management. Living in a place without lawn care requirements vs living with some amount of garden.

It also points out why married people (and people in committed relationships) have "more" free time as many of these jobs can be done for 2 people in the domicile in the same time as 1 person. So you can split them up and complete them in parallel, freeing up time.
It's base64 for posting purposes. I can assure you it's not random junk. The small size is due to the 2000 byte limit. I would be pleased to provide a larger file to work with.
Anyone here know of any "real" programs and projects using Guile? Would be curious to hear of any blazing success-stories.
That is really great for you. Maybe you should also get a radio so you can become a good listener too.
and we create the simulations with the rules of the "real world" that we know. So we can study also the interactions of the rules that we know. But not what we don't know of out universe.
Whenever anyone from the US is involved, there is invariably some confusion between socialism as defined by Marxists and Leninists, and socialism as defined by social democrats. Most people in Europe mean social democracy when they talk about socialism, except when they talk historically, say, about the GDR.

You must always assume that a US citizen does not know that social democracy existed before communism was even invented, and that liberalism has right-wing and left-wing branches.

It is possible to roughly translate between the jargons, though:

US progressive leftists ~ EU democratic socialists

US libertarians ~ EU right wing nutcases, confused anarchists (ardent US libertarians) or slightly confused liberals (moderate US libertarians)

US liberals ~ EU anti-capitalist scum (it's what it means translated, but nobody says that in the EU, of course)

I could go on but prefer to stop here, because there will always be some smartass who thinks he knows better and doesn't realize that words are just words and it's the concepts that count anyway. I'm prepared to get downvoted by butthurt Americans.
It's always been this way (at least since the 80s). Hit him hard where it hurts, then man up and deal with the fallout.

What I learned in kindergarten is this: Don't back down. Not to bullies, not to teachers, not even to the principal. It's served me well throughout my life.

Hell, even Tom Petty gets it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvlTJrNJ5lA
How I (Almost) Killed My Startup
If you get a chance, try the new(ish) A350.

The 787 is quieter than the A380 from the outside (fewer engines, less thrust), but a little louder on the inside (thinner fuselage, engines closer to fuselage).

The A350 is the best of both worlds and is on par (or slightly quieter) than the A380 on the inside.

For the best experience, try the A350 on Singapore or Qatar in business class.
How Twilio's distributed team solves developer evangelism
Control-Flow Integrity: An Introduction
Asking users is terrible. Famously, MS asked users for features they'd like in Word and got a list that was 80% features which already existed. And that's for stuff they'd like to talk about.
Are simulations just as real? Or are they only culturally real? A simulation of the weather only makes sense when you have humans around to interpret the output from displays. Inside the machine, it's just a lot of 1s and 0s. It's not even really that. It's a lot of electrons moving about. A bunch of electrons aren't a simplification of the weather. It's only because human culture has computing devices that simulations make any sort of sense.

Physical systems aren't about anything, and don't represent anything on their own. It's the entire problem of intentionality.
I have a washer and dryer in one unit, I use its quick wash-dry cycle and if I dont overload I just take it out ans fold it, haven't ironed anything in about 6 months!
Beyond Offline: Other Interesting Use Cases with Service Workers
And I'm saying that there are people not inside your car that cares about how you're driving. Most of Uber's rides are in densely populated areas with plenty of other drivers, cyclists and pedestrians.
There are a small number of whistle blowers and a small % of the population get's prosecuted. If public whistle blowers in the intelligence community are over represented in the second group there is likely a connection.

Note: Selective prosecution means this holds up even if they really did the other thing.
Cellphone monitoring device use should be transparent and limited, researchers say
I've disabled GPS on my Android device, but there is no way to turn off all location tracking on a cell-based device. Google may still have a strong indication of location information based on IP data and cell tower geocoding databases, particularly in conjunction with known WiFi location maps.

But on the other side: you cannot turn off requests for location information to be requested repeatedly on browsers or devices. Firefox (my primary mobile browser) surfaces dialogs for this information repeatedly. Every last fucking update of Google Maps, until I deleted and disabled the application in frustration, demanded location information.

So you'll still be bombarded with requests, and you've only got to fuck up once for the direct link to be re-enabled.

And despite that, you can be tracked to within a fraction of a km, and often to within meters, by other means.
Realize that it is a skill that can be trained. The current environment does encourages short attention spans. Working on your attention span needs to be deliberately. First understand your current ability. What is the longest show you can watch without feeling the need to engage in a different activity? How many pages you can read in a book before becoming distracted?

Work on engaging in those activities a little bit longer then you currently can, and slowly increase the duration. Use a timer to set a limit. This would need to be done with regularity and focus.
In Brazil I took some buses out in the countryside where they had an additional employee to collect the fare from passengers entering, sitting just behind the driver who did nothing while the bus was stopped.
Exactly. And that is something we human beings adapt to without noticing it. Telephone operators, newspaper boys, lumberjacks, meter readers have all disapeared. There were thousands of people who earned their life with it but eventually switched to new careers.

This will happen sooner or later and for sure there will be companies and individuals that will be affected by the change, but that is not enough reason to stop the development. And this is not Uber specific topic either. If not Uber, some other company will one day work on this.
$atellite Hacking for Fun and Pr0fit (2010) [video]
I know GDB uses it for plugins.
Integration with Domino's Pizza is a real win. If you're eating two to three deliveries a day, those few minutes of friction are costing you hours a year, never mind the overhead of the mental context switch. Buying this product is, in effect, adding quality years to your lifespan.
> everybody thinks it's "me vs you", rather than trying to understand anything in depth.

The discussion is courteous. You're free to clarify your thoughts if you think you were misunderstood.
It sounded to me like $100 for a thirty-day supply.
I'm curious, why would a pilot working for a commercial airline care about the maintenance cost or difficulty?
Plotino in the Enneadi say that our life is a teatral rappresentations, and we (we as "souls") are actors that interpreting a role in the show of live. And we are worry for our role more that for our soul. the role is the mask and the soul is our reality.
Most DNS resolvers come with a 'root zone hints file', which includes a list of the root nameservers and static IPs for each one.

When you look up google.com, these root nameservers are queried for com, and they return the results (name and IP) for the nameservers for .com

These nameservers for com are then queried for google.com, which then return the results for the nameservers for google.com.

Google's nameservers are then queried for google.com, and an IP is returned.

So yes, given how DNS works, all .com and .net domains would stop resolving if the Verisign nameservers for .com and .net were to go down. Most people go through caching nameservers, which would retain the values for google.com, and continue to return them, up until the time to live on those records expired, at which point they too would stop returning any values if the upstream servers hadn't returned before then.
Even the US seperates stalking from taking a picture of random people in the background of a landscape picture.

The difference between "public and indexed" and "public but obscure" is huge.

It’s also the same difference as "taking a photo of outside" vs. "permanent video surveillance of everywhere".
There's still a ton of light coming out of it no matter what color the panel thinks it is displaying. If it was OLED that would be one thing but it's not. I find driving in my Tesla at night to be very disturbing. I know I'm not in the majority any more since I see so many people driving down the freeway at night with a huge phablet mounted front and center on their windshield, but those people are universally crazy.

At night your car's instruments should be very gently illuminated by red or amber lights or LEDs, the way baby Jesus meant for things to be when he invented the BMW E30.

http://i.imgur.com/Yt4n7.jpg?4661
I think it is safe to say that by 2020 the Internet as we know it today will not exists. All we will have is a bunch of walled gardens, under full surveillance from both the government and corporations. And most people will not even notice or care.
Tobacco killed 100 million. Sugary drinks alone are linked to 180000 deaths/year. (And of course big sugar lied to us http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/13/well/eat/how-the-sugar-ind...).

So, yes. Anything in the name of profit.
I don't think swift has borrowed much from Rust.

Rather, both are borrowing from older functional languages. These features are relatively new for procedural languages so it seems like Swift borrowed from Rust, but both have borrowed these features from other languages.

Rust did borrow `if let` from Swift (might have existed in other languages, but Swift is where the idea came from). I'm sure there are a few features swift has borrowed from Rust, but not many.

And it's not a bad thing to borrow! (As a Rustacean) I'm happy that Swift is similar to Rust. One of the problems with Rust is the learning curve for folks coming from other languages. With more languages similar to Rust, this is less of an issue. Swift in particular is set up to be used a lot since Apple is pushing it in its ecosystem, which is great.
> The nespresso capsule machines do an OK job

You sound like an expert, but I was very surprised to read this. I bought a Nespresso on Amazon and ended up returning it because the liquid it put out tasted, to me anyway, to be anything but espresso. I tried all the capsules in the sampler pack and disliked all of them quite strongly. I think the biggest turn-off was the fake crema which the machine whipped into existence somehow, but wasn't actually anything like real crema, and ruined the shot in my opinion. There was a front-page post yesterday about the science behind crema, possibly what prompted this post.

I encountered my favorite machine in a house I rented for a couple years which had a built-in/plumbed-in Miele CVA6401, and it consistently produced the best single-touch espresso I've had, with no maintenance except descaling. It didn't compare to a very good coffee shop, but for at home espresso, I'm saving up to get one in my kitchen.
Nicely done! Quite impressed since my company also has had similar problems with a fine-grained service oriented architecture. Envoy seems to cover almost of them, kudos.

However, I couldn't find a performance benchmark test or something compared to alternatives such as haproxy, nginx, etc. So I'm going to make my hands dirty now. ;)
I'm also happy with normal callbacks, and have no plans on adopting promises or async/await.
the flow control library "async" provides all the tools to keep code readable.
Gabriel Synnaeve was already working on this long before joining FB.

http://emotion.inrialpes.fr/people/synnaeve/
Vodafone does this in Portugal.
> only the app was designed around dependencies being available first before other code is run

I'm not sure I follow – isn't that the definition of 'dependency'?

> If you have 100 dependencies that means you have 100 HTTP requests, which is really a poor design decision

Agree – and it turns out that's still the case with HTTP2. But bundling doesn't solve the problem of await blocking your app, unfortunately.
Good on them. Now can their stupid, over-zealous designers stop messing with the product by removing actually useful features such as "Most Played" filtering of your library, etc etc.
Yeah, I don't get it either. What happen to living below your means?

I make 6 figures, drive a 16yo car (2000 accord FTW!), take public transpiration to work, brown bag lunch. My partner works part-time to take care of our child. My home is the right size for what we need.

Why does this guy have to live in a Bay Area? No one is going to weep for you, buddy. You made bad life decisions and you need to deal with them.

EDIT: spelling
Chaos: A Poem