skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> they are used primarily by people trying to do very large transactions in an untraceable way

And ? I don't want my large or small transactions traced, monitored and monetized upon the untouchables called banks and I don't understand anyone who agrees with this but otherwise supports freedom and anonymity in tech.

The whole thing is just an excuse for more control.
Or OCaml, which is kind-of the original language F# was copied from.
You'd be surprised how effective simply burying something in the middle of the woods at a known location is.
The Robert Byrd Green Bank Telescope

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Bank_Telescope
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There is also SOFIA [1] (2.5m telescope on an airplane), which can do certain far-IR things (mid-IR as well iirc).
For the VLT (8m ground-based telescopes) there is also VISIR [2] which is an mid-IR imager/spectrometer (and uses the same detector chip as one of the JWST instruments iirc).

[1] https://www.sofia.usra.edu/
[2] http://www.eso.org/sci/facilities/paranal/instruments/visir....
If you draw a venn diagram for jocks, hippies and nerds, the point where the three circles intersect is where you find climbers.
Given enough free time awesome stuff will happen.
The diff is 6 lines (2 lines of code) and the source is there, you can fork it. Which is more than can be said for Intel (intentionally crippling icc on non-intel chips), Microsoft (UEFI), Apple (their entire OS), or most other companies products. Even after this the FSF is still morally better than their opponents.
Which university doesn't teach version control, requirement solicitation and design document writing in a Software Engineering class or similar?
I was linking the startac as being the original Razr :)
It's not the FSF's point to have freedom of ideas?

Freedom of ideas is supposed to be a given in a free society. The FSF certainly supports it, but they weren't created for the purpose of promoting it.

In any case, your initial statement was that "the choice you make does not need to be right or wrong by the standards of other humans", which is actually the opposite of the FSF's position, which is that some choices (like developing, distributing or even promoting proprietary software) are unethical and should be opposed. That's the definition of making a standard and holding other humans to it.

If other distributors have access and can make it available then it is very much a GNU political standard and not a side effect the technology.

I don't disagree. It's still not their platform, it's all platforms they consider ethical.

How are those platforms free if existing features have been removed due to politics? I stand by my point, 20 years ago the FSF was a foundation that wanted to make technology available to all - without having to worry about IP ownership. They have removed a feature that was technically sound due to it's status as a commercial work. How am I free to use this if I can only do so in designated zones?

I completely disagree with your portrayal of the FSF of 20 years ago. The whole point of the creation of the GPL, instead of using the existing permissive licenses, was to legally enforce the position that the Freedom of the software, not its technical superiority, is the fundamental goal. This is a markedly political position, and one which prevented the creation of many features. Being "technically sound" was never enough to be considered good software by the GNU project.
I wish we had some sort of wired equivalent privacy for wifi.
Weird, fun, wonderful, or useful automated phone numbers to call
Good to know. I'm not sprinting towards the new MBP but look forward to the next gen hardware in that form-factor, not to mention hopefully some very polished and performant usb-c docks
...and of how that intelligence/consciousness/whatever would exist on a level "above" the machine, so to speak. And that's where the confusion and arguments usually pop up: it's not that the machine (or slab of meat) is self-aware as much as there is a self-awareness running on the machine, and there's a reasonable chance that the consciousness is not understandable, even in principle, from an examination of the parts that enable it (whether physical or process).
> When we wrote go-audit, there were few, (if any?), distros that had eBPF kernel

> support. Now Ubuntu 16.04 has support, as do many others, and that is great!

This! I'm rather tired of people preaching about eBPF when in reality many of us
have to run long term supported kernels/ distros like RedHat or Ubuntu LTS
releases.
> and can assemble applications in hours or days, rather than weeks or months as is typical.

So you are building in hours and days applications that other banks are spending weeks and months on.

I'd love to see a few case studies!!
Can you give some concrete examples of the issues with using a setup.py/DSL? I've only been using python intermittently for a few years and I'm probably not exposed to these things. Am I setting myself up for a fall by using setup.py?
Thermometer Widget
What weather imaging is going to look like with the new GOES-R satellite
I guess the velocity measurement "amount of functionality loaded per second" did improve by 500%, a bit contrived though.
This is one of the themes in "I am a strange loop" by Hofstadter. If I remember correctly, the relevant chapter is titled "who pushes whom in the cranium"
Video source https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9goWgq55xL0
3 dish bins in the bathroom, one with warm water with detergent, one with hot water, one with water with bleach for disinfecting. Didn't get around to figuring that out by the time I did that list, we're going to order those things soon.
Why would you couple Rails + React in the first place?

We have a similar project and decided to just put everything React-related into "client" directory in Rails, then, once webpack builds production-ready files, it puts them into public/assets (during container build time). And that's it, I can run React without Rails, vice versa, test them independently,... etc.
I agree. I'd start with something like Joel Grus's Data Science From Scratch to get a handle on the basics in Python (or whatever the R equivalent is, I'm not familiar with R books).

I do however find myself more and more wishing I knew data science-specific Unix commands, and I think I know what book to get to solve that problem... :)
Claire Perry has been pushing this agenda for a number of years, and the 'adult' industry has spent some time discussing it. From what I heard, a lot of the proposed "if this happens" solutions are exactly that - credit card or mobile phone verification.

Regardless, there'd be some kind of 'check' that ties you to the porn you watch.
I'm pretty sure Model S can't complete even half of the Nordschliefe without going into limp mode, so the comparison is not really fair.
I believe I follow.

The way to maintain requirements.txt with single dependencies (base dependencies maybe, I'm self-taught on the lingo), is to manually add them one by one.

Pip freeze is useless because it adds a lot of things you don't need into requirements, making it cluttered and hard to follow.
“Considers” is old news—the Debian installer already merges /usr by default.

https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2016/11/msg00...
The main thing is that we don't actually have a sink, and we're using the bathroom for washing dishes. We did get a dishrack with a tray, and that's going up on one of the shelves.
I'm a taxpayer: I am paid electronically, so I must be scrupulous. My neighbour is a tradesman (americans would say 'contractor') - hence, all his invoices are cash. He has two brand new ford wildtrak's in his driveway: I can only assume he's paying little tax, and gets away with it due to being paid cash most of the time. I would welcome indian style laws here. Especially if it resulted in tax rates for honest people becoming lower due to more people were paying their share.
Frank Sacherer worked at CERN: http://www.rockandice.com/lates-news/tnb-forgotten-hero-fran...
It's worth pointing out that when iPhone 7 came out the only Mac product with USB C was the small little MacBook. It wouldn't make much sense overall to ship iPhone with a USB-C lightning cable.

I would not be surprised if the next iPhone came with a USB-C cable.
Duck and Cover?
Our company is dealing with this problem. We have implemented an API to provide enterprises address parsing & geocoding capabilities.

If you want something cheap, business-friendly and ready to go asap, I would advise you to use Here Maps. They have batch-geocoding plans that are quite affordable.

If you want an API that runs behind the firewall or some customization on parsing & geocoding, then we can help you with that.
The modus operandi (of loopholes) is nothing new, it's second nature to many businessmen. I wonder why there weren't enough checks in place when the plan was announced.
> Artificially inflated real-estate prices will come down as there is reduced black money in circulation. So a regular family will be able to afford purchase of land/house. Before this, for example, if someone is selling a property they would want more than 60% of property value in cash so the seller can avoid paying taxes on the 60% amount. No regular person will be able to pay 60% in cash, so they can't afford buying real-estate.

You're being naive. Giving bureaucracies unhindered power to create a magical wonderland has never worked, much less so in a anarchic society like India (it's also deeply against personal freedoms).

If you study history, everyone and their mother was egging on Indira Gandhi at the outset of the Emergency, using very similar arguments (Indian Express uses them now in nostalgia, but that's a different affair). What did it lead to ? The License Raj that's what.

There is nothing stopping people from switching to BTC or other crypto-currencies (XAU and BTC can be exchanged pseudo-anonymously).
The thing is, usually those foot holds are holding most of the weight - a chip for the foot is worth a jug in the hand :)
Ok, this has been a horrific morning - that first paragraph should have had ??!!!! or similar at the end. Which I hope turns it into more of a challenge than the total dick move it looks like.

I should have gone with "citation please"

Anyway, I have written up a sort of overly long comment which won't fit in 2000 chars so I can't submit it and so this is the link

http://www.mikadosoftware.com/articles/HNdisaster

I apologise for thinking this was not a slippery slope and for not reviewing my text for misunderstanding. And I apologise for putting a piece of text up there that is so blatantly... horrific. It's awful to have that in my permanent history even if I know how it was a mistake.

As it says in the article I am going to go and have some reflection time.

What a cock up.

See you in a few weeks.
Then don't put them there, or install an alternate font.
That got disabled again:

https://packages.qa.debian.org/d/debootstrap/news/20161116T0...
This is an oversimplified view of things. One counterexample is house wives with alcoholic/abusive husbands who have been saving cash secretly. Another is people who are illiterate or otherwise too intimidated to walk into a bank. It's a sixth of the world's population; there are a million such stories.
I disagree - explicit is better than implicit.

What if one intended to type "pip install pillow" but got as far as "pip install " and unintentionally hit <Return> ?

Oh but there's a requirements.txt file sitting right there and "awwww heck now pip is reading it in and installing everything in there.. all I wanted was this new package not listed in that requirements.txt file..."
Would it be so much more expensive to build a wall 1m taller?
Of course that was my point.
I think the sore point is definitely build and packaging systems.

Take zulip for example, they do use requirements but they go their own way in most other things.

Managing an application is much easier if it uses standard build system. Setup.py, requirements.txt and so forth.

Gitlab is an example of a very complex packaging for a ruby application, but it works! It's complex but solid.

People are tugging in all kinds of different directions. My bad experiences with Ruby and node usually include seeing a loooong list of dependencies being installed and then at dependency #187 it suddenly stops for some reason like one rogue commit breaking compatibility with other packages.

This is hell to someone who doesn't develop in the language regularly, it's a bad packaging system for users.

To be clear, I'm not saying Python is better. I'm just identifying the issues I've had. The only reason Python is easier for me is because I've decided to use it more than the other languages.

On the one hand you can build a complex but solid system like Gitlab has, on the other you can use more standardized systems to distribute your app that require more steps and are less automated. But they're well documented and established methods used for that language.
Where did amluto "preach" eBPF?

What is said is "If Slack really want to use syscall auditing for production, invest the effort to fix it, please. (And cc me.)", which seems totally reasonable to me.

Slack's answer is "We have worked around limitations and very definitely stress tested it in our environment. A lot. A lot lot." As I understand, this means "No, Slack will not invest any effort to fix Linux syscall auditing in upstream kernel, because we have already worked around limitations." Which is kind of sad and expected.
Eh.

It's RMS being RMS. I think he's ridiculously dogmatic and unpractical, but you can't be surprised by this - he has his ideologies to push with fervent absolutism. I doubt he's all that concerned about the market share of his text editor.
> There will be a cap on the maximum transaction that can be done using cash.

Thanks, I've been hearing rumors about this too [1]. Would be a welcome step if and when the govt. implements it.

[1]: http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/economy/policy/demo...
sure, if you like reading standing up for 90 minutes while someone breathes down your neck.

The transit system is exploding, living in the commuter belt these days is a special kind of hell for a lot of people.

And don't think you're getting seats on the underground either.
I am not angry at all - what I really am is astonished.

> ...cannot stand this whole world of bootcamp-grads making six-figures after a 3-months training.

Hmm... Why not just get rid of all these annoying CS courses at University? I mean - who needs them anyway if you could just spend 3 months to reach such a badass salary?
I really enjoyed working in HyperCard, HyperTalk 2.0 -- but never felt that way about AppleScript.

I don't know why, exactly. Perhaps it was that HyperCard defined a domain. Applying the same primitives to every app could get clumsy.

A hand-waving example: making every useful procedure a function hanging off of a single Window object. Except for the two functions that are actually in the Application object...

(I don't have specific example at the moment but this sort of thing was discouraging for me.)
Some stats on Income tax payers from India :

"Data shows only 1% of population pays income tax, over 5000 pay more than 1 crore ($145K USD)"

Only "six individuals fell in the high-end earning bracket of Rs 50-100 crore (7-14 Million USD) of salary income."

Wow ! Just 6 individuals. India's got NO shortage of millionaires & billionaires. The abysmal income tax collection clearly indicates a gaping problem with rules & their implementation.

- Source : http://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-news-india/data...
Yeah, they have been very unreliable in my experience as well. Totally not recommend.

Also the idea of willingly putting noise in the electrical grid seems sketchy to me. I used to live in a house where I could not get good noise-free audio because the line was not a pure sine wave and most consumer PSUs were crappy to let noise through.
One evening, Master Foo and Nubi attended a gathering of programmers who had met to learn from each other. One of the programmers asked Nubi to what school he and his master belonged. Upon being told they were followers of the Great Way of Unix, the programmer grew scornful.

“The command-line tools of Unix are crude and backward,” he scoffed. “Modern, properly designed operating systems do everything through a graphical user interface.”

Master Foo said nothing, but pointed at the moon. A nearby dog began to bark at the master's hand.

“I don't understand you!” said the programmer.

Master Foo remained silent, and pointed at an image of the Buddha. Then he pointed at a window.

“What are you trying to tell me?” asked the programmer.

Master Foo pointed at the programmer's head. Then he pointed at a rock.

“Why can't you make yourself clear?” demanded the programmer.

Master Foo frowned thoughtfully, tapped the programmer twice on the nose, and dropped him in a nearby trashcan.

As the programmer was attempting to extricate himself from the garbage, the dog wandered over and piddled on him.

At that moment, the programmer achieved enlightenment.

--Master Foo Discourses on the Graphical User Interface
Microservices – Edge Server Pattern
The trouble (and advantage when seen as a commodity) with Cryptocurrencies is that they can't be "created out of thin air". Yes I know FRB is seen very skeptically, but there are deep issues with the distribution of these, that are similar to gold. A country that does not have spread-out reserves of gold, can't have a gold-backed currency.
> I contend that without a spirit, no such AI will emerge.

A couple of questions seem to fall out of this:

1. If an AI would not emerge from a high-fidelity whole-brain simulation, then what, in your theory, would emerge? How would you characterise it?

2. How would you determine that what emerges is or is not intelligent? In other words, how would you determine whether or not your theory had been falsified?

3. If an AI actually had a spirit (adopting your definition), would you have a way to recognise this?
What you call "premium" is in reality just overpriced consumer gear. Ciscos enterprise access points happily sustain 5 years of thorough use without an issue, but they cost more than 300$.
I suspect the lack of religion and the sacred makes people glorify banal sensory experiences.

Also, the lack of a common culture leads to using the least common denominator, like pizza, when looking for a point of connection. This is of course very foreign to people who are still somewhat part of the organic culture of traditional America.
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It's a log scale, just not necessarily log10.

It's like lots of things in sport, actually. Imagine the progression from running a 6 minute mile to a 5 minute mile to a 4 minute mile. Now go to a 3:55 from there. It's a much smaller notch than 6:00 to 5:00, but will take you ten years of training.

So sure, you can consider it just adding more weight to the bar in a linear fashion. It still a lot harder to lift each individual pound as the weight increases.
That would have helped a lot if those really were case studies. Unfortunately, they're just marketing material for FP Complete (with statements like "In Haskell, Acme Inc. found the perfect solution!"). There's nothing wrong with marketing material, but that's not what I meant by case studies (I meant actual technical reports).
USPTO examples of patentable Abstract Ideas [pdf]
That made me wonder where the Jodrell Bank Observatory got its name from, turns out it was an archer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Jauderell
I don't understand how Americans complain about non-hidden cables, but live with crap like exposed conduits in the hallways, exposed circuit breakers in rooms, and ten layers of ugly paint over everything.
The best explanation goes from Rob Landley:

http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/busybox/2010-December/074...

Some fragment:

> When the operating system grew too big to fit on the first RK05 disk pack (their
root filesystem) they let it leak into the second one, which is where all the
user home directories lived (which is why the mount was called /usr). They
replicated all the OS directories under there (/bin, /sbin, /lib, /tmp...) and
wrote files to those new directories because their original disk was out of
space. When they got a third disk, they mounted it on /home and relocated all
the user directories to there so the OS could consume all the space on both
disks and grow to THREE WHOLE MEGABYTES (ooooh!).

> Of course they made rules about "when the system first boots, it has to come up
enough to be able to mount the second disk on /usr, so don't put things like
the mount command /usr/bin or we'll have a chicken and egg problem bringing
the system up." Fairly straightforward. Also fairly specific to v6 unix of 35
years ago.

It was discussed here few times:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3519952

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9554134
Software-Defined Security – Future of Network Security
There's also a document maintained on GitHub that gives a rating of Haskell's support for different domains:

https://github.com/Gabriel439/post-rfc/blob/master/sotu.md

Which backs up your statements; many of the sections under "Common Programming Needs" are rated immature: Databases, Debugging, IDEs...
I'm certainly not blind to the necessity of government and the need for some regulation to exist. The problem is that when regulation gets handed out like candy instead of being heavily looked at and discarded if its purpose is not clear or doesn't align with the interests of the population at large; then you have left the door open for oligarchy to come in and shit all over.
That could have been done gradually without banning notes. Introducing higher denomination make even more less sense.
> access to quality education

Indeed.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/realspin/2014/11/06/the-problem-...
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MS have listened and pushed back EOL to mid 2018. Looks like they are still trying to encourage upgrades to Win 10 though.

From https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/2458544:

> The Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit

> We have listened to customers' feedback regarding the January 27, 2017 end of life date for EMET and we are pleased to announce that the end of life date is being extended 18 months. The new end of life date is July 31, 2018. There are no plans to offer support or security patching for EMET after July 31, 2018. For improved security, we recommend that customers migrate to the latest version of Windows 10.
It's nonsense to claim that Hillary actually won the election, because by doing so you're changing the rules of the contest after the fact.

The goal was to get the most electoral votes, and Trump (for better or worse) followed a strategy that allowed him to obtain more than Hillary. Had the goal at the start of the election been to win the most votes in total, then the strategy followed by both sides would have been massively different. We really can't say one way or the other who would have won the popular vote in such a scenario.

People need to rip this band aid off already. Hillary lost, and it's her own fault.
It does takes significant investment to get to this point though. SCB have been building APIs and components in Haskell for 8 years. We can now glue these parts together very easily and can be confident it will work, thanks to strong types. With less disciplined languages and/or teams, 8 years of development can yield a codebase that most will want to throw away and start again.