skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's also a simple scheduling issue. Learning takes a while, and often the problem you're trying to solve is urgent.
> Anarchists are really the political equivalent of pacifists. No force or coercion is ever acceptable in any circumstance is the basic foundation of anarchism, everything must be voluntary.

Most of the anarchist groups I used to know a couple of years back where full of force, coercion and exploitation. They just used psychological tricks and peer-pressure instead of physical force.

These things can happen. The victims within the anarchist groups just had the problem, that whenever they were trying to defend themselves, the (inofficial) leaders were able to use political rhetorics to declare them wrong and keep them in line.

It was always the power-hungry egoists shaping these groups. Some were ok, but some weren't better than sects. All-in-all I haven't seen less free people in my life.
SELinux is great, and it somewhat mitigates this CVE, which is what defence in depth is indeed supposed to do. There is a big difference between "Docker 0-day stopped cold by SELinux" and "Runc CVE mitigated by SELinux" which is what a factual headline would be, as it is not a 0-day, and affects the majority of container runtimes (it was derived from an lxc CVE originally). You should always use defence in depth to make exploits harder, but you should always have the humility to understand that security is hard, and is an ongoing task to make every part of the system more secure, while keeping is usable.
"Why would it make any sense to leave a property in the bay area empty if you can add rent to the benefits of your investment?"

A lot of these people are really rich. They don't think like us poor people.

For many of them, the houses they buy and leave empty aren't investments. They already did their investing and made money. This is a key difference in the thinking; for many poor people, houses are considered an investment. These rich people aren't investing; they're spending or parking some of the money they made elsewhere. Buying a single apartment to rent out as an investment? How quaint. How small.

For some, this is something they buy to park their money in such a way that it can't be simply taken away (bank accounts can be frozen, gold or other such small items can be confiscated, but it's awfully difficult to simply take someone's house when that house is in a foreign country with strong property laws) and is unlikely to vanish overnight.

Secondly, it's my house, for me to live in if I feel like being in the area for a while. It's just nice to have my own place with my own personal belongings that I can leave there, and drop in or let family and friends use whenever I want. Sometimes, hotels just feel impersonal, and they're more public than I'd like, and I'd have to bring with me everything I needed.

What they are not doing is getting into the landlord business. As a very wealthy person with houses all over the world, I wouldn't want strangers living in my house. I wouldn't be able to keep my things there. I wouldn't be able to just use it or offer it to friends whenever I wanted. I could make a tiny bit of extra income by being a landlord? That extra income is worth less to me than having the house empty, available for me to use or dispose of however and whenever I feel like it.
The problem is, Ubuntu is completely unsuitable for a mobile phone or tablet.

I bought one last year and had to return it because it was functionally unusable - https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2016/05/the-ubuntu-tablet-a-review-...

The OS doesn't support modern features like multi-touch, many apps require a physical keyboard, it can't connect reliably to Bluetooth devices, app switching doesn't work - even icons are missing from certain apps!

There's no app store to speak of, just a small collection of apps which haven't received even rudimentary testing. That's before we even get to the lack of "killer" apps like Angry Birds, Dropbox, Spotify.

> Carriers are also interested in this flexibility.

No, they aren't. I've just finished 10 years in European telcos - they don't care about flexibility. They care about profit margin and making sure that people don't ring call centres to complain about broken hardware.

My old employer (O2) sells a bunch of Cyanogen based Android devices - because the cost is right and the services are good enough. Ubuntu isn't even close to competing with that yet.

> Some they may provide themselves and some by well known providers; but by not being able to select options for those base services they have less flexibility on what they can do.

This is factually incorrect. Providers (in the UK at least) are able to bundle services and apps with iPhones, Android, Windows Phone. I've worked with handset manufacturers to add DropBox, replace DropBox with something else, have apps preinstalled, remove bloatware - and everything in-between.

> So that effectively makes it difficult for the carriers as well as alternate service providers (e.g. Dropbox, Spotify, etc) to compete.

Again, that's not really true. Dropbox has a multi-million dollar marketing budget. If your new service can pay an operator €10 per customer - guess what - they'll push you to the front of the user's home screen.

> I think that Ubuntu Phone has the fundamental DNA to win in this race.

I don't. I've installed Ubuntu on my MacBooks, my laptops, my servers, and my TV's media box. It's a brilliant OS. But it doesn't work on touchscreens. It cannot meet the efficiency demands of small battery devices. It has no alternative services which even come close to what's on the market.

I love Ubuntu - but I wouldn't let it near any of my phones.
No, that would not work any better. Who is going to be that god-like genius to disentangle cause and effect of an individual person's actions anyway, and now even in the long run? In an environment where no experiments or tests are possible, because the chosen path is the only path we will ever know.
Would you consider publishing the script somewhere? I can't speak for others, but I would personally be inclined to use it as I'm looking for a YouTube client alternative.
You need to install `gvim` which provides `vim` with that feature.
> The idea is that letting algorithms decide will result in better/more productive allocation of resources

Is it? I thought the idea behind HFT was to make a shedload of money for the firms with the most effective algorithms. To be clear, I have no problem with that, and I'm not close to the industry. But it would surprise me to hear that those in it conceive of themselves as optimizing social resource allocation, rather than, say, setting themselves up to retire at thirty with all the money they'll ever need.
I tried fish and found it had some interesting new features but not worth switching from zsh, good news is others thought the same so I just had to spend 2 minutes and add 3 lines to my zsh configuration to get those fish features. tada !

https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-syntax-highlighting

https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-history-substring-search

https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions
Great post & thread, a tl;dr:

Ctrl-r search history
- then Ctrl-r again to show next match
- then Tab to show all options
Ctrl-p previous command or arrow up
Ctrl-n next command or arrow down
export HISTCONTROL=ignoreboth:erasedups
Add to .bashrc to avoid duplicate entries

Ctrl-a to beginning of line
Ctrl-e to end of line
Alt-b one word back
Alt-f one word forward
Ctrl-k delete to end of line
Ctrl-u delete to beginning of line
Alt-d delete to end of word
Ctrl-w delete to beginning of word
Alt-Backspc same

cd - change to last dir
pushd <dir> mark current dir and go to <dir>
popd go to marked dir
z fuzzy cd, install from https://github.com/rupa/z
j fuzzy cd and more, install via autojump

Ctrl-z to background & suspend
bg recent background app continue running
fg bring recent background app to front
disown -h remove recent background app from current tty
fg %n bring nth app to front, e.g.: fg %2 for second

less better than cat, doesn't flood screen, same keys
find find files, e.g. find / -name <filename>

ag install via the_silver_searcher, faster grep

tree shows dir like a GUI app, install
!! last command, e.g. sudo !!
fish bash alternative with more sensible defaults

man bash read more about bash
The inference I made was that it had a second meaning to do with water flowing downhill, since the context is how people will always take the easiest path & can be relied on to ignore any safeguards that aren't strictly required
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-fourth_Amendment_to_the...
Yeah, I don't usually watch that many YouTube videos. In addition, I only follow a handful of content creators, and they don't post that frequently, e.g. Primitive Technology.
Do you have a link to the AMA on Reddit?
Visit the website.

Project No.1 is a set of sneakers constructed in Italy.

Then please click on our floating illusions - our vision.
It doesn't seem that way to me. Decoherence is understood pretty well; although not every detail is completely worked out it explains our experience and the subjective appearance of collapse. It's just approximate though and hence we get quantum interference.

The reason you think it's incomprehensible is that a lot of smart people have trouble accepting what we called reality is only one of many classical "worlds". It's a philosophical concern; technically there are no major issues and it's not that hard to understand.

The reality of QM won't be commonly accepted until we find a way for people to accept that the universe isn't what they expected or we change their expectations.
If both notification and confirmation are optional and enabled, it is secure.

And I don't think WhatsApp is secure for anyone with its permanently disabled confirmation. Maybe it prevents mass surveillance, but it is still vulnerable to targeted attack. Surely it may cost facebook reputation and the attack will be detected in the end, but it is still possible.
Personally, aside from something passive like a zoo, I don't care for anything that relies on animal performance for entertainment. That includes dog racing, horse racing, and things like circuses and even Seaworld.

I know many people don't care but it bothers me.
Western European? I don't know - there are many languages in that part of the world which use some non-standard characters. Germany (not sure if it's still the case), France, Austria, Italy, Spain... Anyway, I always thought UNICODE ignorance is strictly an anglo-sphere thing - most of the rest of the world is very aware.
Badly written SQL generation often prompts single quotes being forbidden in input. "Having single quotes there breaks my queries," one sometimes hears said. "I don't know why."

This is a great opportunity to mentor one's juniors. An injection attack is trivial to demonstrate in the local dev environment, and the result strongly motivates anyone worth working with to learn how not to do that again.
If one thinks about it, one realizes that there's a difference between tutorials/guides and reference doco, and the world is happy to have both.
I doubt there's a gift shop in the prison proper, but the prison is situated on a US naval base which I would assume to have one, as many such bases do.
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacteriophage

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phage_therapy
You can't trust the network anyway. So as long as your proprietary baseband modulue can't get control of your application processor you are probably as good as you can get.
Boston cops rethink social snoop tech
> You're only likely to find proper hardware acceleration for the top codecs like h.264, not much else.

Intel, Nvidia, AMD, and ARM all support VP9 acceleration:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Quick_Sync_Video

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/intel-7th-gen-core-kaby-...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nvidia_PureVideo

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_Video_Decoder

http://www.anandtech.com/show/10428/arm-announces-mali-egil-...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VP9#Hardware_encoding.2Fdecodi...
>I find it almost impossible to take any article seriously that uses the term "superbug".

see: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=superbug
It is – and similar things have been for the last decades– a waste of a generations' brightest minds in a high-stakes, zero-sum game with no benefit whatsoever for society.

It's a distinctively American quality to feel dirty for having these doubts and associating them with the Soviet system. Free markets often create perverse incentives, races to the bottom etc. and it's the genuine role of governments to counteract these: Outlaw it, tax it, or – what may be enough in these cases – make absolutely sure those standing to profit from these activities also bear the full brunt of their failures.
There's a number of excellent resources suggested in this post by others already so I wont repeat them.

One unique thing about becoming a PHP expert is the contempt you'll occasionally run into from others in the technology world.

Remember engineers get paid to solve problems for the business and success has very little to do with what the current flavour of "cool" is.
Makes you wish companies weren't able to abuse the H1B program and the nature of the independent contractor/employer relationship.
by Nassim Taleb

"4. Do not let someone making an “incentive” bonus manage a nuclear plant – or your financial risks. Odds are he would cut every corner on safety to show “profits” while claiming to be “conservative”. Bonuses do not accommodate the hidden risks of blow-ups. It is the asymmetry of the bonus system that got us here. No incentives without disincentives: capitalism is about rewards and punishments, not just rewards.
"

from: "Ten principles for a Black Swan-proof world (2009)"

https://www.ft.com/content/5d5aa24e-23a4-11de-996a-00144feab...
And yet, this chart is a quintessential story of data representation manipulation, worthy of being included in textbooks (if there are any on this topic).

1) Lines for years with low ice area are marked bold, when high-ice years (e.g. 2013 or 2015) are shown with thin lines.

2) Color scheme is deliberately confusing, with some colors are almost identical (1993 vs 2015, anyone?)

3) The data set is started with 1978, one of the colder years. If it would have been 1979 or 1974, the story would have been less immediately visible.

While I am not saying there isn't a trend, and 2016 is clearly an anomalous year (but what about this year _was_ normal?), visible manipulations like these quickly destroy any remaining trust in climate science, advancing the other side's cause.
'Will I really feel loved and desired and truly adored at last?' I laughed at this sentence because no married man I know feels this way. Many of them are just belittled and controlled and disrespected. Most of the romance I see around is pleasing the wife at the expense of the husband. An old friend of mine – a math Phd – was persuaded by wife's family to give up all his dreams and an ambitious career so that she could keep teaching in the local middle/high schools. He's going to be a work drone in dilbert hell for the rest of his life. He's mostly treated like a butler. It's just sad and depressing.
Original: http://www.scifipolicy.com/blog/2016/12/18/rogue-one-an-engi...

[Currently: https://boingboing.net/2016/12/19/rogue-one-an-engineering-e...]
Are Apple and Samsung phones cheaper in Europe?
11 of the Best Gift Blogs in 2017
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Pagan Kennedy on how people find, invent, and see opportunities nobody else sees
In Python I've seen the convention "user facing string" vs. 'internal string'. It doesn't behave differently of course and there's no type checking, but it can be useful for showing intent.
There isn't just one argument. The liquidity argument is focused on why would we allow HFT, instead of limiting transactions to traditional investors only.

The algorithms talked about here are not HFT algorithms, but investment algorithms. Things like "if it's down for 3 days in a row, allocate 5% in the stock" type programs, written using machine learning. They generally will not change orders rapidly. They are about more efficient/effective investment, and the argument I gave is more focused on what the function of a stock market and investing is.

Because these algorithms are much more like traditional investors than HFT.
How are "taxes theft" but landownership is not? Why does someone get to claim exclusive ownership over some land and another person does not (just because the first persons ancestors reached the land first (in some cases, only if you conveniently ignore the native population))?
This article presents a very inaccurate view of the realist approach. The universe does not "split" when you make a measurement.

The measurement problem is a solved problem. The solution is that measurement and entanglement are the same physical phenomenon. Measurement is just entanglement extended to a macroscopic system through a process called "decoherence". The net result is that, when you do the math, you recover classical behavior by taking "slices" of the wave function (the mathematical operation is called a "trace"). This has been known for decades now, and provides a coherent and easy-to-understand picture of what is "really" going on. It is astonishing to me that the physics community still bifurcates into two camps: those who think this is common knowledge, and those who are completely unaware of it (or think it's a crazy idea).

References:

http://www.flownet.com/ron/QM.pdf

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEaecUuEqfc (The same content in a video)

http://blog.rongarret.info/2014/09/are-parallel-universes-re...

http://blog.rongarret.info/2014/10/parallel-universes-and-ar...
I've started doing the same by making renaming my list titles on Taskcade into actionables instead of a broader goal. Have done wonders for me.
This is good news.

There's no reason to treat animals like they do, in 2017. Do a VR one.
The most logical thing for Ubuntu Phone to do would be to start out with making some kind of ROM that people could sideload onto their existing Android. The people who first started out using Ubuntu were interested enough and wanted an alternative to Windows badly enough that they didn't mind installing it as a replacement. Why can't Ubuntu Phone start out as a replacement to Android? The only "problem" being that Android has not really messed up too badly yet, other than in making everything go through the Google Play Services and shutting out AOSP and leaving it stuck in 2009.

And yes there is a ROM out there but it's not available on enough devices to create enough of a stir. This is the mistake Canonical is making, and they might regret leaving the job of porting to popular devices up to the 'community' (read: volunteers) instead of paying a team of developers to just get the ROM working to a point where it is a half-decent alternative to even Cyanogenmod. Microsoft made that same mistake before the iPhone and never really recovered.
Also you can just accept that marriage and monogamy is just one way to live and it doesn't have to fit you.
They also have more than 60 million lines of COBOL in production.

Cite: http://oig.ssa.gov/sites/default/files/audit/full/pdf/A-14-1...
as a noob interested in rust, what is its primary application? why do people use rust vs another language?
This drama is a bid... odd in tone to me. It feels as if theres a huge confrontation looming, where right now all Docker came out and said was "SE Linux only barely helped us, our software was actually so terrible that even with the best effort of SE Linux, it still was vulnerable".

This makes Docker look worse.

The only way SE Linux can look bad is if you were on the fence about its efficacy, and are only now hearing it can't even stop Docker's problems.
No.

The straw man: "to tell everyone else all these static type checks are useless."

The actual (from Uncle Bob's article):

"Now I don’t want you to think that I’m opposed to statically typed languages. I’m not. There are definite advantages to both dynamic and static languages; and I happily use both kinds"

"useless" vs. "definite advantages"

Reading helps.

Oh, and obligatory reference to The Refactoring Browser[1] for the common fallacy repeated in the linked article that static typing is necessary for refactoring:

"We originally thought that the lack of static type-checking would make it hard to build a refactoring browser for Smalltalk. Lack of type information is a disadvantage, but the advantages of Smalltalk made it a lot easier to make a refactoring browser for Smalltalk than it would have have been for C++ or Java."

The first automated refactoring tool was created in a language without static type information, and it certainly was and maybe still is the gold standard for such tools.

Knowing your history also helps.

[1] http://wiki.c2.com/?RefactoringBrowser
Putting the “intelligent” machine in its place
Well, that's sort of the problem with bash scripting - its range of capabilities, combined with its atrocious syntax and various limitations, makes it something of an attractive nuisance, where you end up in a rabbit hole of "how do I do this in bash" while doing it in anything else would be more productive.

Maybe the most important thing to learn about shell scripting is when not to use it. Alas, if the book that teaches that skill has been written, I have yet to run across it.
By your logic Android still ushered nothing in - the LG Prada did.
I live right next to Auschwitz and can confirm that indeed, it has a gift shop. It only sells books and dvds about the camp though, so it's not your traditional gift shop selling all sorts of tat.
Why do you have the right to ownership of things? I personally don't see the difference between the right of taxation, and the right of ownership. Both are constructs created by our laws, I believe.

There are societies with neither taxation, or the idea of individual ownership of belongings.
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"It instructs the team to sell when losses become sizable, regardless of what its mathematical models say, according to a person with direct knowledge of the matter."

Hard to blame the robots then.
I was also a kid 30 years ago, and I definitely went to the circus more than once and in more than one part of the U.S. And there were always a lot of people there.

Even as recently as 10 years ago when living in NYC, the circus would come to town and people were always talking about it being in the area. Adults, mind you. So I don't think there was anything passé about it, at least not as you suggest.
> If your account is locked out after 3 failed login attempts, if they limit to one attempt per second,

The point of effective passwords isn't that someone is going to guess it on login - it's that if the database gets dumped all the passwords aren't recoverable from the hashes.
Japan firm considers 3-day weekends as nation rethink culture of long work hours
Nintendo Switch will launch March 3rd for $300
Conversely: I have the Z shell on all of the systems that I SSH into, ranging from OpenBSD to Debian Linux. I even have it on Interix on Windows as well. Many of them also have the Almquist shell and various flavours of the Korn shell available. A few even have the Thompson shell. (-:
DOW Chemical wants farmers to keep using a pesticide linked to autism and ADHD
People do true to other drugs, but opiates are better at numbing pain, including emotional pain, than cannabis or alcohol.