skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To be fair, I can't think of another OS that directly supports the things Mininet wants to do. To make it work on other platforms, they'd first have to implement those from scratch there.

Does FreeBSD nowadays provide some form of network isolation like it is available with Linux network namespaces? Nothing relevant shows up in the likely places, so I don't think it does.
I have yet to find a better piece of hardware/software than the Edgerouter Lite / Edgerouter X for near-gigabit NAT, for the price.

Sure, I could build something x86 that uses more power and costs 2-3x the price, but it's nice to have a single box that "just works".

Every year or so I look to see if there's anything better, and for the past 2-3 years I have yet to find anything. I had been using the ERL, then bought an ERX when they came out, switched all my stuff (including ipsec VPN tunnels) over to it to "test" for a while.. and then a year later, I've not had a driving reason to switch back to the ERL yet. The ERX is flat-out amazing for ~$50.

I have a system on the "outside" (static IP, hosted server) and then all my "internal" stuff is behind the EdgeRouter's NAT. Hence, the desire to have near-gigabit for when I'm transferring stuff to the server on the "outside".

I like Ubiquiti gear; in fact today I set up a UAP-AC-LR access point to test against the performance of my Google OnHub, which is a year old and seems to be kinda flakey lately..
Ah, Digital Homocide. This sounded like them from the start.

It's been pretty entertaining watching them trying and failing to beat up on people thus far. When they're successful, it's not funny, but when they're beating up on Jim Sterling without a case, or pulling crap that gets them dropped off Steam, it's pretty hilarious. But their continued attempt at beating on Jim is downright comical at this point.

Because he's Jim Motherf#%king Sterling, Son. And the irony embedded in that catchphrase just makes it that much more delicious.
There's also a decent notmuch mode that is pretty good at reading and organizing mail. https://notmuchmail.org/notmuch-emacs/
Its Bayesian but the rhetorical trick is that I didn't tell you how much it increased my confidence. ;-)
"Myanmar’s Buddhist Bigots"

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/20/opinion/malik-myanmars-bud...

"Meet the Violent Buddhists Starting Riots in Sri Lanka"

https://news.vice.com/article/meet-the-violent-buddhists-sta...
DB Browser for SQLite (previously known as SQLite Browser) has a similar history:

http://sqlitebrowser.org

It was unmaintained on SourceForge for years. Some guys put the code on GitHub and started fixing its problems. I became involved after them (to help on the OSX side initially), then contacted the original author. He was happy to see some people continuing it's development, so he gave us admin on the SourceForge project. That let us cleanly redirect people to the new GitHub project, and it's been growing decently from there (~4,600 stars on GitHub, 3.5Mill+ downloads, etc).
Thanks, yeah I have been looking at that option. I really like the course, the content and especially the price.
I just wonder if one could simply take most of the free specialization courses on Udacity that are offered as part of that course and have the same job prospects.
> Everyone expects these values to be scoped inside the loop, but go reuses the same memory location for every iteration.

I don't see this as surprising as a C++ user. Who is 'everyone' here?
It's a great question and a comparison I try to exercise regularly against different Emacs components I use.

From someone who never touched OS X, how would you compare its system-wide software integration with Emacs?
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Part of the problem is that pro-growth- and pro-economic-stability- ("pro-jobs") policies (economic stimulus, bailouts) erode the purchasing (read: surviving) power of middle and lower class, who are massive contributors to charity in the US. They also make it more difficult for a charitable organization to continue operating by increasing program costs.

You could also make a more subtle meta-argument that these policies more dramatically bias wealth to the selfish, which decreases the giving at the top, as well.
Oh yea that's right, I forgot President Bush was a Democrat, silly me.

Get real, both parties are at fault.
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Both the ERL and ERX have hardware NAT offloading as of 1.8.5 (current firmware is 1.9.0), but the ERL also has ipsec offloading.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Ubiquiti/comments/4owurp/erl_vs_erx...
"I fail to see how one can make this assertion without any citations."

The truth shall set you free.

* http://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/Sena...

In the past, a multinational company with a
branch in Australia had a local board that
was tasked with maximizing profits. But
increasingly, Australian operations of
multinational companies are becoming agents,
shifting revenue offshore specifically to
minimize Australian profits. This was evident
throughout the inquiry.

The American headquartered technology companies
run their Australian operations as marketing and
distribution companies and shift revenue earned
in Australia to other jurisdictions. The legitimacy
of these transfers will continue to be a focus of
the inquiry.

source: "Executive Summary: Background to the interim report" ~ http://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/Sena...

and more reporting.

* http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-04-08/tech-giants-deny-austr...

* http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-04-08/google-apple-microsoft...

* http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/senate...

* http://www.sbs.com.au/news/storystream/corporate-tax-crackdo...

* http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/2015/04/07/big-business-s...

* http://taxwatch.org.au/2014/page/18/
> "At the personal level, the inferiority that seems to lie deep in the psyche makes itself known in all kinds of little ways. 'What made you come to Norway?', ask many people... certainly hoping for a positive comment on their country and culture."

Can confirm this is actually very accurate. Inferiority-complex is indeed a thing in Norway.
Can't the same sort of compression be used over VNC?

That would help.
Ever wondered how many open FTP servers there are?
Researcher Proves Viability of NAND Mirroring to Bypass iPhone [pdf]
As a LessWrong reader I agree that real-world success should be the defining metric, but want to point out that you can't just compare "LessWrong readers to non-LW readers" - if LW readers are not successful IRL, then it's entirely possible that there's some personality factor that both makes you not successful and makes you read LW.

Probably the thing to measure is LW vs. other productivity blogs with a similar audience.
Forget reason, rely only on intuition, and there will be no 'working' or 'not working'. Stop thinking and end your problems. (Tao Te Ching, chapter 20) Isn't that what we are all after, having no problems?

Is there any point in time where in reality you are more than sensory signals entering your consciousness? Is everything not a mere an illusion of your mind? Letting intuition figuring everything out is effortless, why dwell on illusions?

Thus there is no use for reason.
It's only "normal and proper" if one believes such treaties are reasonable. Clearly I do not, and just insisting it is does not form an argument.

I reject the idea that merely communicating with some place creates a legal nexus giving that place jurisdiction over you - it contradicts the general concept of freedom of speech. By such reasoning, holocaust denial is effectively criminalized in the US because such speech will reach Germany and possibly change people's minds there.
Your reaction is exactly the reason the question was constructed that way. A lot of the available information would lead you to conclude that the provided details were important and that they support a specific option being more likely.

But if you rationally consider the options, it's apparent that option B can't possibly be more likely than option A, regardless of the information presented, because option B is by definition a subset of option A. It is not possible for Linda to fit option B but not option A, so option B can't possibly be more probable.

The fact that it's a leading question designed to promote assumptions is not a flaw; it's the whole point of the experiment. Even intelligent people are supposed to be led to the wrong conclusion because they try to analyze all the available information. But rational people are supposed to recognize that the presented information is irrelevant and that they can pick the right answer even if they don't know anything about Linda.

In the interest of full disclosure, I'll mention that I had exactly the same reaction regarding the quality of the question. It was only after some consideration that I realized this may have been intentional on the part of the people conducting the experiment.
Do you think that self-driving cars get clean correct data as input?
I was considering mentioning erlang, but you probably don't want to write erlang. I've never touched elixir, but I would likely try it if I hit a problem that I would use erlang for in the olde days.
One subtle point that is being missed (from the comments I read) is the concept of sharing food with strangers. When I came to the US from India (many years ago), I used to surprised that my American friends would just open up a pack of chips and start munching away. In India, it would be expected to at least offer the chips to the people around you.
> I've never actually seen anyone validate their HTML.

You must be new to this.

Not only was it commonplace to do, we showed it off with fancy badges.

This was especially important when you weren't writing all your own markup eg: CMS's (Joomla/Drupal, etc) with a template and half a dozen different plugins/extensions outputting html soup.
Digital Suicide
The Big Short gets into why it's misplaced to blame the big banks for the crisis, and calling them "predatory and poorly run" goes several unjustified steps beyond that.
Americans are vicious. When it comes to the suffering of fellow citizens they display a unique callousness. Whether it is the death penalty, long sentences in horrific prisons, health care, guns, drugs, militarized policing or basic housing policies, the suffering of others is viewed as not an evil but rather a necessity. Everything is either the carrot or the stick. Other countries expect their governments to do more than dissuade or incentivize behavior. They expect government to actually help.
Income should keep rising after the company "peaks". By the time income actually stops rising, executives will have started pooping masonry, and the collapse will have to be acknowledged by everyone since it will be officially visible to everyone.
https://abc.xyz/investor/ May be of some help.
I'd trade places with Microsoft.

Earning $16.7 billion on $85.3 billion in the 12 months to June 2016 sounds like a pretty sweet deal.
Three More Cryptocurrencies Get Approval from Apple for iOS App Store
I was introduced to open source software in 1996 and have been a huge advocate since. About five years ago, I decided to quit my job and, shortly thereafter, went out in search of a project I could contribute to in my spare time (which was now much more abundant).

I quickly discovered that a particular piece of software I used daily wasn't really being maintained all that well, despite the fact that there were several contributors listed on its home page. A few dozen bugs reports (some even including patches!) had come in, yet only a few had even been acknowledged.

This seemed like exactly the type of project I was looking for -- something that I used every day and could help improve. I sent an e-mail to the developers stating that I was going to be devoting some time to the project, sending patches in for the bugs, etc., and asking if there was "anything I should know" before jumping in. I spent a lot of time reviewing the previous discussions on the mailing lists, examining their previous commits to see how they did things, and so on.

One of the developers finally replied -- about a week later -- and asked for my SSH key. I sent it to him and he quickly gave me commit access, thanked me for the assistance, yadda yadda.

I closed out umpteen bugs, responded to previously unanswered messages on the mailing lists, and sent patches to the developers list asking for feedback before I committed anything. Having received no responses, eventually I committed all the changes and pushed them into the master branch. Questions that I had to the other developers went unanswered, just like all the previous bug reports and user-submitted patches had.

After a while, I just quit spending any time on it. Perhaps a month after my latest fix, I look at my e-mail one day to see a flood of notification e-mails about commits. The lead developer had reverted every single commit I had made. I was looking for -- expecting -- some explanation but never received one, even after I finally directly asked, "WTF did I do wrong!?".

Nothing. No response, to this day. I eventually said "fuck it", deleted my private key, unsubscribed from the lists, and moved on. I just looked and there are still bugs open today that were open back then.

The sad part is that this piece of software is fairly widespread and a part of all of the major Linux distributions, installed by default on many of them. I think there's been one, maybe two, "releases" in the last five years.
$32k per homeless person is underspending?!
I think you're assuming that informed individuals don't ask basic questions. Or maybe you're assuming that all engineers are up to speed on the latest in mobile development. Either way, you're certainly off the mark.

Actually, I go through a similar thought process when starting a new project, even if it's something I'm completely familiar with. It's a part of validating your assumptions, so you're always working with the best tools for the task.
I graduated from CMU with a CS degree and a specialization in robotics but never seemed to be able to catch the eye of any companies. My female classmates did great, though.
Theirs a scene in Mr Robot where a junior executive at E-Corp bragged about getting a blow job from an executive recruiter on a tennis court on one of the Google campuses.

That scene resonated pretty deeply with me. All large corporations have much more in common then they do apart, including for the most part the same needs, desires, objectives, tactics, etc. They all pull from the same pool of Harvard, Stanford, Yale, whose pedigree of professors-to-influential-people would be incredibly fascinating in its own right.

That said I've longed learned it's pointless to try to predict the doom of companies. Just try not to get burned by the inevitable fall out in whatever form it may take...
> Sure, for really slow networks, e.g. in developing countries, it might matter,

#thirdworldproblems, eh? There are more third-worlders than there are visually impaired people. Do you also disregard the blind?
Where do you believe 'The Big Short' places the blame?
Judging by my experiences with IBM, within 5 years, Google will be "focusing on its core competencies" of advertising and will be cutting everything else loose.
People coming from highly dynamic languages, like python and such, most likely
They also reinvest dividends automatically, and rebalance automatically when you add new funds so you aren't over allocated in a particular class of assets.

Tax loss harvesting is limited to 3000 per year, but you can carry over until you've exhausted the losses.

Of course TLH is only good if you're in a taxable account with them.

I also don't buy it being easy- particularly with trying to avoid the pitfalls of wash sales and the paperwork to actually claim it.
I'd draw a distinction between intellect and intelligence. It's quite possible to have a powerful intellect and still make poor decisions, i.e. be stupid.

Intelligence is about making good decisions. Intellect can aid in that, but it's not the only factor, and after a certain level it wouldn't even be the primary factor.
>SF has more homeless because it generally treats them better than the rest of the US, not worse.

Thinking of the way Giuliani criminalized homelessness in NYC, you may be right.
http://mobile.nytimes.com/1999/11/20/nyregion/in-wake-of-att...
She slayed Viralism
This is really going to bother me:

Use double ("") rather than single quotation marks ('') around attribute values
> That's awesome.

That's emacs.

Seriously, emacs is pure distilled awesome. I honestly don't know why anyone uses anything else, or writes code for anything else.
How many heists have been pulled off over video games on kickstarter so far? When will the chickens come home to roost?
Whats coming post Amazon? Alibaba?
Tulip Mania
"I'm more surprised/disappointed that someone on HN wasn't aware of those initiatives."

You've made an assumption that I'm unaware of them, which is incorrect.

I just think they're very small in the grand scheme of things. The DARPA challenges are a blip on the radar of the federal budget, as it relates to highways, auto safety, fuel efficiency, and a variety of other areas where self-driving cars will have a tremendous impact.
>filling in the blank is more accurately understood as the brain making bayesian inferences or predictions or best guesses about what's missing or uncertain.

Do you have any sources, or further reading, on that?
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None that come close to it AFAIK.

How good are OS X task management tools? Can they build/export custom reports and stuff?

There is only one big thing I find is missing to Org, and that's its lack of options
for collaboration. After all any humans collaborating toward common goals would do best
to have a common plan and a common way to track each others progress.
Unlucky? No, that's just learning.

I'm black; I remember (white) people being amazed at how my hair felt before I kept it really short. A black woman I knew who lived in a wealthy Detroit suburb where they were the only black family related to me (while laughing) how the neighborhood kids were so fascinated that the color on her children's hands didn't wipe off.

This is all in the last 30 years or so in the US. People meeting different people is a good thing, don't take it negatively.
Human-powered search like https://flystein.com usually beats any automated meta-search on international flights. Human experts could apply many saving strategies while aggregators are just started to try only few and in very limited way. For example some search engines now also search in different markets/currencies or propose split ticketing ("hacker fares"), etc.
Complexity of flight search is too high to fully automate everything, and some airlines like SouthWest don't even allow meta-search to show their flights.
How would this make any sense, though? In the case of "range" I can see the confusion, but when you explicitly declare a variable and increment it for each iteration of the loop, the only way it can work is if there's one instance of the variable.
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Why/how did they do great?
You are right. It does not compute. Dozens do not die each year from badly prepared blowfish. It's on TV whenever someone does.
I'll second the recommendation of prelude. It does one thing I hate (guru-mode, but it documents how to disable it), and it is flakey about a very few things, but in the main it is golden.

I've been using spacemacs at work, and while I absolutely love its layers, I really miss prelude. Something which combined the stability and sanity of prelude with the layers of spacemacs would be just about heaven on earth.
The bit about Gowalla's Facebook "acquisition" is an important point for investors, and one I think the Crowdfunding excitement overlooks.

I've sold a couple companies and been an insider in a couple other acquisitions, and many of the knobs that get turned during the negotiations are about retention/compensation plans. It's hard --- like, it actually can be a problem when trying to close the deal --- to balance employee retention and the interests of investors. Even in the best case, every dollar you're giving to current team members is an incentive for the management of the company to accept a lower sales price.

In some egregious cases, one of them pretty infamous in the security world and the reason I've promised myself I won't spend real money to execute employee options, management and current team members got basically the normal proceeds of an acquisition and investors got zero.
This definitely seems to vary among different languages, and is something I've always been annoyed with in C++.

Scoping outside the for loop is rarely useful, but often creates bugs. The one case where I like it is for searching an array and wanting the index, but even then it's not necessarily elegant.
Yes! Those count as well. If you see our application we specifically mention courses from Coursera and EdX as well.
I don't know if you'll read this, but here is some info for you. I subscribed to Hulbert until mid 2014, and had a look at the yearly tables where he summarizes the performance of all the newsletters he tracks, with 1, 5, 10, and 15 year averages. With a bit of algebra, you can use those yearly 1, 5, 10, and 15 year averages to estimate the performance of the Prudent Speculator for single years, going back to 1992. Here's the numbers I got (percent/year):

2013	5.3

2012	17.8

2011	-2.3

2010	21.8

2009	38.4

2008	-43.0

2007	1.0

2006	14.6

2005	16.0

2004	27.1

2003	102.6

2002	-35.0

2001	11.2

2000	2.2

1999	19.1

1998	-0.1

1997	-15.5

1996	44.8

1995	56.4

1994	77.9

1993	-13.7

1992	35.6

You started in 2003, and dropped it sometime after 2008. The average for 2010 through 2013 is 10.6% per year, which is OK, but I think is in line with the broad market index.

One of the recent Hulberts has a recent semilog plot of the newsletter's returns, and by I eyeballing it can see that, while it outpaced the market from 2000 to 2007, it has pretty much tracked the market since 2008. So it hasn't beaten the index lately.

Hulbert also reports that the newsletter's author prior to 2002 (when he died) used margin to augment the returns. Since 2002 another person is picking the stocks, and they're not using margin, so that might account for the recent pedestrian returns. 10% is nice, but I agree it's not spectacular.

Looking at recent behavior dissuaded me from following it. I wanted a bit more money from my investments. But I can see how, in 2003, the previous decade made the plan look really good to you. I would have done the same thing as you.
Thanks for pointing that out, I've come to similar conclusions myself as well. As someone who lives in the city and has paid six figures in taxes last year, I also wonder if people not contributing enough to the pool is really the problem. To me it seems that the culprit is mismanagement of the funds that are generated by taxpayers every year. How much more should I be spending as a taxpayer to improve the situation?
I'm sold on Magit. If I had more interfaces that worked like Magit and were as well thought out, I'd use them, even if I had pretty OSX programs to use in their place.
There's definitely locations listed online that should not be, though as areas become less populated, best way to find secret location is visual analysis of satellite maps, or call a local social hotspot, claim to be from a major newspaper and asked if they know any; point being, it's possible to find them unless they're very careful.
He's talking about the guys who go to Syria to fight for ISIS, they are primarily 2nd and 3rd generation "immigrants" and fresh converts.
You have everything from football stars to college students dropping everything to go fight for ISIS.
> Islamic extremism has been around for decades.

Over a millennium, actually.