skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But... But...

Okay, there are a few things here.. I'm not trying to rant at the people behind this directly, there are a number of similar agent-based tools which have similar issues, so please don't take it personally...

1) If you have the ability to roll out an agent such as this, with your conf management, then you could just manage your users that way instead....

2) Even assuming that this SAAS is un-hackable (lolz), you're now in the situation where all access to every machine in your environment can be changed with a single password on some web ui you don't control, which can be accessed from anywhere.

3) This should go without saying -- I can't put too much faith in how well it's implemented -- pwn the saas, then I immediately own every system connected to it..

4) The enterprise docs talk about sitting it next to your LDAP system... If I had an ops discipline and environment which has gotten to the point where I'm dealin with LDAP, why wouldn't I just configure PAM to read my ssh keys from that, instead of this?

I understand this is one of many such products which are coming out of the lack of desire/time/staff to handle opsy-style tasks when features could be getting written (I'm planning a talk on this...)

But.. does anyone really think that the cost of spending a day wrangling ansible to manage access to your servers is worth more than giving some random third party the ability to add users to your production databases?

I've dealt with many, many different auth mechanisms up to this point. LDAP+Pam_MkHomedir, NFS, Config Management, Shared Keys, Shared Passwords, etc etc. Each have problems, but I don't think the issues with any of those are solved by this, are they?

This must be aimed solely at small startups with no ops experience, right? No one would actually put this near real data, would they?
You are correct, no LED specifics in my link.

Edit:Adding LED to the search results in many spurious sources in 1st two pages, with a single NIH study. Again, more reading required:
http://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/122-a81/

This particular topic falls into the same category as 'phone radiation & brain cancer' news, where claims are made, proven, disproven and so on. If either proves true enough, we'll all be in the same boat together, I guess.
There is no gift tax burden (except a little paperwork) on the first $5 million of lifetime gifting. Plenty for a house down payment.
Guessing here, but I think it's just fashionable. Has been for a few years, from what I've been seeing. zato.io was one of the first I noticed - a Python ESB (Enterprise Service Bus), got to know the founder, chatted a bit. That was a few years ago. Geek chic, so to speak. Probably because of the term I/O (Input/Output) being a tech term - a signalling mechanism to other geeks, maybe - as in: I am a geek, come do biz with me. Playing psychologist here, but hey, it's fun to ...
Spoiler alert, that's still in my TOREAD list :/
Combined income of $300K, Looking at $1.7M? What are these people thinking? That's a lot of debt.
A fair point, and I was not aware they had approved as much housing as they had in San Francisco of late.
If, like most such claims I've seen lately, you're referring to No Such Agency's recommendation against adopting Suite B, the reasons behind that move seemed to me not to be about ECC being "more" QC vulnerable than RSA. They simply said, "If you haven't made this switch already, just keep using RSA while we figure this whole 'quantum' thing out."

ECC and RSA are both ultimately going to fall to practical quantum computing, and probably over a time frame short enough that it won't matter which cipher you picked.
Though beware if you've upgrade to macOS Sierra that both Squeak and Pharo's VMs seem to be broken at the moment.
In my experience foreign absentee landlords aren't even very bad, because they care mainly about parking their assets outside of China, more than maximizing or even collecting rent.
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If 8 minutes sounds like a lot... turnaround times when you work with FPGA code can be hours (and months if you're taping out an ASIC). After having to cope with that for a while, I've found that even with software I think a lot more before writing any code, and now I find myself stepping into the debugger much less often.

(My point is: debugging first in your head is yet another skill that should really be taught to everybody but isn't).
Overhead conversation in Mountain View in June:

Seller: "Who can afford to pay $1.85 million for my house?"

RE Agent: "Chinese couple. Husband works at Google, wife works at Facebook."
>The financial services sector adds value to society by providing mechanisms to diversify risk, price assets, and make capital available for productive uses.

Capital isn't an object, it's a belief system, with a strong faith-based component. So in a purely rational sense it's impossible to "make capital available."

Capital is actually an executive instantiation of social patronage. Someone says "I want to try this..." and someone else with capital - usually of higher status - says 'OK, I think that's a good idea. Here are some imaginary social credits you can swap for resources because everyone believes in them. Now that you have credits, your project looks more believable too."

Nothing real changes hands. There's simply a nod of political approval from interests who stand to gain status if the project succeeds.

The system would work just as well without the credits. The credits are really only there to hide the politics.

Risk doesn't exist at all in the market sense, because risk is only defined by loss of capital - i.e. loss of face and status - and not by any other possible losses, no matter how physical. (E.g. loss of biosphere and future carrying capacity, social opportunity costs, loss of life through profitable war, and so on.)

I doubt you can have an economy without at least some executive decision-making and planning. But the current system is so completely disconnected from true social and economic value creation that it's actively hampering real growth.
That requirement for a court order is greatly diminished by Art. 30: Verfahren bei Dringlichkeit. It establishes that the federal intelligence service can tap wires without court orders in urgent cases. And let's be honest here, if tapping a wire turns up nothing, do you really expect them to follow the protocol and actually inform the agencies (like the federal administrative court)? I don't have that level of trust in the intelligence service.
> Also, having an old surveillance database named ISIS definitely got a chuckle from me.

I think this one is worse:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CUxdvzDWoAARh_y.jpg
That's where SBCL came from?! Wow, they really did a great job with it. I've no idea how they manage to compile a dynamically-typed language so efficiently.
Of course if we give everyone $200 more rent will rise by $200 / land costs will rise by the mortgage repayments.

This is why we need land value tax.
Windows 10 Could Track Absolutely Everything, MS Patents New Tracking Tech
> It will allow the Federal Intelligence Service and other agencies to put suspects under electronic surveillance if authorised by a court, the defence ministry and the cabinet.

I think the fact it has to be authorised by three bodies is interesting, thought it is still unclear if this would just be a rubber stamp process and/or if these bodies could just approve a dragnet approach if they saw fit. Other countries like the UK want to legally enact dragnet surveillance of all citizens without the need for authorisation, I guess the Swiss needed an olive branch to let them belive there will be oversight of this power.
That's like asking what the one deciding factor for cancer is.
I do stand corrected on Sunnyvale's centrality (i'm actually looking for a place to move to, so this discussion is superb) -- but wouldn't you be 90+min away from all the SF jobs? Perhaps I'm not weighting this correctly, but the center of gravity seemed to reside somewhere between Palo Alto and SF west of PA and east of SF...thoughts? Is there a good visualization on this?

BTW, Manhattan presents something even better than single car friendly -- zero-car friendly. We only temporarily got a car once we had infants, since carrying around car-seats was a pain. Most other times, we've been just-in-time with Uber or just plain walking/subway.
If I let one of these "Windows Technical Department" guys into my Parallels Windows VM running on OS X, am I exposing myself to any danger?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12577405
You never found a super-useful question that mods had tried to kill?
Really great writeup man, and for a good cause too. I've done something remarkably similar but solely for myself, and it's great to see someone going one step further.

Best of luck, hope you make your money back and get a nice kicker in the end to fund a few late night college parties.
Is this from the email we all have received for a 10-day reminder? I guess by that they meant that you can apply with the same idea (updated content). You won't get to see your last application or update your last application, you have to start afresh (or copy paste from wherever you had backed it up last time). Good luck!
Because "trust fund kids" is something to aspire to.

Having nothing to do day-in-day-out, really messes with you. Not everyone, but on average. It's an open question if society can handle it. In the short-term it will evoke bitterness in those that work against the able-bodied that choose not to (remember the 'food-stamp surfer'?)
Do all nodes need to be up 100% of the time? If not, how long can a node be down without replicating (perhaps because a server is under maintenance).

Does BDR have rules for primary key insertion conflicts?
I have a (perhaps odd) situation where identical data is already being written to multiple servers. Currently handling with a custom replication mechanism.
Christo’s Running Fence 40 Years Later: Photos, Stories and Memories
> My own ignorance had me thinking Switzerland to generally be a more educated and progressive nation than it's neighbouring countries.

Switzerland is actually much more conservative than its european neighbours. For example, they were the last country to give women the right to vote in Europe.
When I visited some of the smaller pacific islands the question of unemployment benefits came up and the response was basically what you describe. On the island there's enough room for everyone to live and grow food and take care of themselves. Presumably with the help of others if they are incapacitated.

I'm not sure how that can work though on a global scale of 7 billion people while also allowing for the aggregation of people into cities that is so necessary for everything our modern civilization builds.

On top of this naturally you now have unfairness in the system as some peoples land will be better than others, and by virtue they will be richer than others through greater productivity.

In the end UBI works around all this and simply says - let the market sort it out, so that the best uses of capital, land, people's time can be found, but we're going give people enough to live so that if the most efficient result is that half the population sits on their hands and the other half work programming robots, then from a systems perspective we are adequately compensating those half that sit on their hands for their misfortune not to be a robot programmer.
UnGoogled Chromium: Chromium with enhanced privacy, control and transparency
I would imagine the increase non-linear. As finance takes more ever more people catch on and realise there is no point working. This removes well-educated wealth creators from wealth creation and into finance. We've seen this in the UK where biologist, physicists and mathematicians are engaged in arbitraging each other.

No point working when work doesn't pay. UK is about to implode if Brexit goes ahead and all the fake fiat from The City evaporates with the confidence.
We do ourselves a disservice by thinking about subjects as silos. What is unique to each subject is less interesting than what each has in common, especially in regard to the particular practices and mindsets of the people in each discipline.

Some people seem to get this, see how STEM morphed into STEAM (adding arts), yet it is rarely translated into practice in schools.
One problem with phage therapy is that your immune system will still seek out and destroy phages, even though they aren't capable of infecting your cells.
This is why i think it makes sense to consider the financial economy as "a discussion happening in a formal language"

Issuing credit, defaulting, borrowing - these are all primitives in the formal language. That language decides who gets ownership over what goods.

> But the current system is so completely disconnected from true social and economic value creation that it's actively hampering real growth.

Totally agree. It's like we've mistaken 'ideas about reality' for reality itself.

https://medium.com/@MarkPXuNeyer/consider-money-as-a-formal-...
Smart pointers and move semantics in modern C++
I didnt say simple was the only proxy, just that it is one. if you are at odds with that, then take it up with pretty much all the greatest minds in computer science.
This is simply a criticism of audiences for wanting to be entertained rather than enlightened. The author claims that the internet is the cause.

The downvote puzzles me. Do you not think this is a fair summary of the article?
Golden Rice isn't a failure, it just hasn't yet been deployed at a large scale. The folks working on it have been making a lot of progress, but it's been slow. (See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_rice#Golden_Rice_2)

Sadly, part of the reason why it's been delayed is due to fearmongering by groups like Greenpeace who are ideologically opposed to genetic engineering.
This is why interview code tests are... badly misguided. Most "fizzbuzz" screening is grossly artificial, denying one the feedback loops which are a critical element of productivity, and without which one is relegated to spending time manual checking what automation does almost instantly.

I rely heavily on the IDE reminding me of things, and quick compile/run cycles verifying correctness, rather than trying to think thru a myriad of special cases. Relegated to "whiteboard coding" interview questions, I'm left looking a whole lot worse than I am - not because I don't know it, but because I know enough that thoroughness is painfully slow (without leveraging tools multiplying my skills & speed).
There is, of course, plenty of evidence for the narrative of capitalism as exploitation.

There is also plenty of evidence for the narrative of capitalism as spontaneous collaboration and growth.

Denying only one or the other of these statements is indicative of one beholden to an ideology.
I said "normal people", not techies. Normal, average users don't even know these things exist. They can't agree or disagree with an update because they have no idea what a given update does and have no expectation to compare it to.

"people do realize that they're providers don't care about them"

Again, I can just suggest talking to average users. They don't even think about this sort of thing. They are annoyed if they can't get things done. If the app freezes, or drops the wifi connection etc. They don't care about permissions. They want their stuff to "just work".
A few lords with an army of domestics. That's a brilliant model of society you envision. Since it seems perfectly acceptable to you, I guess you imagine yourself in the ranks of the lords, not in those of the lackeys.
Recently, I was looking into Ada and the way its generics worked was quite eye-opening.
I have a X201, what am I missing?

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/15/ThinkPad...
Does it really make sense for property owners to receive such a large fraction of the value being created?

Well, from the right angle, sure it does. Google opens an office in town XYZ. To be close to the office to do good work, engineers move to town XYZ. They pay lots of money to the residents of the town to "buy them out", because what the residents hold (land) is now very valuable by proximity to Google. We're fine with this in many cases. Oil discovered on your land, and you hold the mineral rights? Yes, you get a big chunk of the profit.

It just seems especially bad here because SF is landlocked and heavily restricts development. But at the end of the day there is only so much land, and you & everybody else want a piece.

If I understand the LVT, applied to this scenario, instead the residents are forced out because they cannot pay the LVT. The result is perhaps the same (old residents leaving), but as a society we don't generally like actually forcing people out of their homes on grounds of, the land is getting to valuable to allow them keep it. That can still happen with today's real estate taxes, but if I understand right it would be more extreme with LVT because the potential of the land is the chief asset being valued, instead of the combination of the land and the building that stands on it.

I'm still learning about the LVT, of course.
This is a problem I'm having at the moment, 20s webpack builds with ts-loader, plus other build steps running in VS 2015. Seems I need to drop ts-loader, and build more directly. Are your build files available to look at somewhere?
He invented a $1 (paper) microscope. Sure, not everyone needs to own one, but proliferation of microscopes and proficiency in their use would be an obvious good.
The one factor: meet a need.

If you're selling something, make it something that people want at the right price and make it easy for them to buy.

If you're selling advertising (you're a decade late on that one...), give people a reason to come back to the site - make the site sticky or have network effects.

Scaling comes later (assuming your initial design isn't a complete resource hog). It literally follows the money.
Also related:

We don't charge people for the air we breath.

Why not? There's a cost to keeping it clean. There's a finite amount. Some people consume more than others.

Answer: because keeping track of those costs and assigning them to individual persons would be way more expensive than just keeping the air clean and letting people consume as much as they want.

Food should be the same way - now that we produce so much of it, it's kind of insane to expect to keep diligent tabs on how much people are consuming.

This is why i think a basic income makes perfect economic sense. People already have the ability to consume society's resources without paying (medical care or prison care still cost money) - so we might as well just give everyone a small amount 'voice' in the system and then dismantle the barriers to entry that are ostensibly in place to protect poor folks.
I gave way too much to more than one job when I was young. As I transitioned into my 30's I began to think very differently about work. It wasn't my #1 priority anymore. By the time I coasted into my 40's I was just looking for somewhere I could become a number and disappear. A good paying Corporate job or contracting.I like environments where a huge bureaucracy exists to slow things down. Ride it out to retirement. It's working out well for me. Don't have a lot of piss and vinegar left. Like to enjoy my family, my cars, travel, quiet times. I can piddle a whole day away just messing around in the garage and it feels so rewarding. I think it is the Spanish who have a saying....."It's nice to relax after a day of doing nothing".
> Risk doesn't exist at all in the market sense, because risk is only defined by loss of capital - i.e. loss of face and status - and not by any other possible losses.

Why is social status not something that has value? Almost everyone wants more social status and would trade things for it, so it seems that it has value.

You're drawing a distinction that I don't understand between things that are "real" and "not real".
I understand and agree with all your points. Just saying that amazon tames the psychological risk factor better than ebay, at least to my eyes.
> Most people don't even realize economics is a social science, not a business discipline. Business schools don't issue economic degrees, even

What point are you trying to make with this statement? Indeed research universities are the ones which offer economics degrees as it seems they should?
The site isn't aggressive against newcomers, it's aggressive against bad form questions/answers. Which is usually, it is true, done by newcomers because they don't know how to make a good form ones. This is a social problem which is very hard to solve - how to make people produce high quality content without discouraging them too much when they produce low quality. Some people would be annoyed and leave. But I think SO found a model that largely works - at least for the most of my questions, I found pretty good answers. For some, I found none, but neither did I find answers in any other place.
Who is offering this deal? sound good.
Twitter is losing its most valuable assets - those that drove the most engagement.
We're shopping for a new home in Silicon Valley and are also considering picking up. Median home price in Mountain View for a single family home is around 1.7M. This price has about doubled in the past 5 years.

The schools are variable as rated which also rules out some areas for us. We have a small child at home and need to find someplace to start him in public school.

I think we will sit tight for a while and see what prices do. Most sites I've looked at call for a leveling off on price over the next year. This would help us increase the amount for our down payment and get into a property we could afford with decent schools.

Luckily our rent is very low (<$2000 for a 2b).
Article shows a person pulling a bowl from a cubby at Eatsa. No different than an Automat; what's old is new again.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automat
I swore off SWIG years ago after being forced to use it for a very large set of C++ bindings. Recently, though, I needed to wrap a smaller C library of about 50 functions and a few structs. I tried cffi but its workflow for wrapping the complete contents of a few header files still seemed more complicated than SWIG. I ended up using SWIG again. The initial results were very easy but SWIG doesn't handle arrays very gracefully. May need to go back and put some more effort into cffi.
yes

(unless the robots are like I, Robot level androids)
> This must be aimed solely at small startups with no ops experience, right? No one would actually put this near real data, would they?

I hope so. But if I'm wrong, I'd like to hear from the actual users what do they get out of it.
Yes, fragmentation is a real problem. Can be probably solved by integrating the search indexes to some measure without integrating the sites themselves. It's not easy, but it can be done IMHO.
> That's completely comprehensible to me

OK, so then why don't you try to explain that sentence as a good rebuttal (to his assertion that the article feels like half gibberish)? You're dismissing him as much as he's dismissing the article.
I suppose if you think of this as an article, then it might be seen as unapproachable, but as far as I can tell, this is actually a paper from The Journal of Economic Issues. This being the case, I'm surprised I understood it as well as I did.

It's only natural that if you're unfamiliar with the topic (and vocabulary!), you would have difficulty understanding most papers no?