skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That instant-fear reaction to common stimuli is a symptom of PTSD, and is the reason that I flat-out refused pager duty after the first ~6 months. This system should be considered a workplace hazard; it has a measurable detrimental effect on employee health, and not all employees recover afterwards, as you and I are discovering for ourselves.

Systems like pager duty should be reserved for temporary crises, and should only notify people during their work hours. If a company can't afford three emergency-ops people, then they are probably overestimating the cost of downtime. If the company expects more than one incident per year, then they have a QA problem, not an ops problem.
Part of it is probably that a decent enough chunk of places (especially bars) in the Midwest are cash only. Personally I prefer always keeping some extra cash in my wallet to throwing even more of my life onto the internet.

(I also find keeping my entertainment budget "cash only" really helps me think critically about what I want to buy)
Yes, clearly Adair Turner hasn't thought about this much. /s

Or perhaps you should consider that in a zero-sum game individual agents can produce great value, while the system as a whole does not.

This is a macroeconomics article, after all.
In SF old housing stock is rent controlled. On the rare occasion that it pops up on the market, competition is fierce. Usually it doesn't turn over, because policies intended to prevent that turnover are working.

New luxury complexes have straightforward availability and rent first-come-first-served. The leasing office will make an appointment with you pretty much whenever, and if you apply, you get the unit. They're known quantities with Yelp reviews and everything.

If you're a newcomer with not much time and not much price sensitivity, which are you going to end up with?

FWIW, Victorians in good shape rent for more than luxury skyscrapers. Rich people do prefer them and they are, in fact, more luxurious. But buildings that throw around the word "luxury" are the path of least resistance.

You'd be hard pressed to find any luxury apartment as luxurious as an average 100-year-old single family home, yet for some reason only the former is an obnoxious wealth symbol.
In Canada, we have a debit card network called Interac and can use it to send an "e-Transfer" to anyone else with a Canadian bank account using nothing more than their email address or phone number + a shared secret to claim the payment. Some number of free e-Transfers per month is typically included with bank accounts.

Interac solved the P2P payments problem for every social group that I'm in there.
I think it depends on how convoluted your splitting is. To make things easy, my friends and I tell a waitress individual checks up front, then the couples will tell the server "pay these with this card." That is much easier than saying "these 3 on this bill, these two on one, these two on antoher, and three individuals."
What about personal caches?

I know that few people likely keep locally saved Web pages in near line accessibility. But if you only build the tool, I would happily mount the nearly 5 terabytes of ULTRASCSI drives I've got in storage, which were largely Squid cache snapshots, from my office WAN proxy box.
>Here's what I think the flaw is: the more a planet heats up, the more it can radiate into space as infrared radiation.

What do you mean by that? The planet radiates exactly as much heat out as it absorbs from incoming starlight.

The only thing that change this parameter is the planet's albedo. Darker planets radiate away more heat because they absorb more heat. Even radiant forcing (from CO2 et al) doesn't change the equilibrium amount of infrared radiation escaping, just the surface temperature required to achieve radiant balance.

Note that increasing the surface temperature reduces the amount of thermodynamically useful energy (exergy) available to the biosphere, because it's like increasing the heatsink temperature of a Carnot engine.
They are not identical in attack vectors, and OpenVPN has many more capabilities to resist MITM and other attacks, and it resists network failure much more.

OpenSSH uses the SSH protocol and username/password and public keys for auth.

OpenVPN auth uses TLS key exchange, pre-shared keys, and username/password, and uses IPSec's ESP protocol for transport, with custom work to handle multiplexing connections. It can verify HMAC on all packets. It tunnels layer 2 or 3. It won't swap sensitive memory and can utilize SELinux. Since OpenVPN can use static keys and a UDP transport, it can resist network partition much better than OpenSSH.

Of course IPSec is much better than either of them. If you have to do all your tunneling in userland, OpenVPN is a more secure method, but if you don't have tun/tap device access, OpenSSH will get you by with port forwarding (which is what its SOCKS tunnel is, if you don't use its tun/tap device or pppd).
A lot of restaurants are won't split bills too many ways because it takes time and impacts table turnover. When you have a line out the door, turnover matters.

Back in Slovenia bill splitting doesn't exist. To me it's a completely American thing. The best they can do in Slovenia is charge everyone individually for their items, but that's not really bill splitting.
Most UK bank account allow you to pay using a person's phone number instead of account and sort number. Work across (all?) banks and payments are usually instant directly into the account.
(7) ISIS IS FINALLY DEFEATED BUT
I refuse to link my financial activity and things involving my physical address to Facebook, which Venmo seems to require. This is insanity to me. And I am a millennial as well.
im not so sure if js is the right choice for beginning developers. i actually would not encourage beginning developers to jump into javascript. well, im assuming we are talking full stack here and not just client side, as the state of js is in flux and the js fatigue is real. and i cant imagine letting beginning developers to go through that even when experienced devs are having trouble dealing with it.

basically nodejs is not just getting into express anymore. although optional, most likely you will soon have to get into things like react, flux, transpiling, and understanding immutable and fuctional programming, which are all IMO a bit too much for developers to jump in to. also, js is currently changing at a rapid pace, what they learned a year ago is most likely obsolete in todays standards, ie: es5/6/7/next. i have not seen a language change so many times in such a short period of time, i cant imagine how beginning developers can deal with it.

i actually had a chat with recently grad bootcampers who went through a 3months courses of rails and then nodejs/react from General Assembly in LA. their responses to rails was easy to learn and they picked it up right away. but once they got to react/nodejs their experiences were something closer to horror.

id say js indeed was a good choice for beginners 3 - 4 years ago but now there are so many baggages involved such as dealing with setting it up through webpack and its many ways to transpile such as esnext/jade/stylus/etc.

so unless you have a few years of programming experience, i would not recommend devs to go through js at this time.

basically i can teach someone rails on how to build real world applications in a few weeks. but with js, id still be explaining the internals like what is a promise, async vs synchronous function, etc. and this even before diving into the world of redux, map reducers, webpack, immutablejs, higher order functions, and ... the list goes on.

anyway you take it, its a long road ahead with js, much longer than most people will tell you.
Put simply, the things economists tried to measure when they created the GDP measurement system are no longer a proxy for what they want to measure, which is welfare.

It makes sense that this should happen. Economic growth was still a relatively new thing when economics was in its infancy. Back then it was obvious that you wanted more food. Nowadays more food is bad for you, amazingly. But we still have the baggage of the old apparatus.

What you can know is that when you look at a system that is outside of its observed parameters, there's a fair chance that it will behave differently to what you've observed. You may observe something completely new, who knows? Interpolation vs extrapolation.

The problem is a lot harder now, for the reasons he writes. Certain activities are clearly zero sum, but are measured as positive. Other things are positive, but are not measured.

There's going to need to be a lot of thinking about what we really mean by welfare in the future. There are already everyday situations where you're not better off, but the numbers think you are:

- You go into a shop, and there's 50 kinds of toothpaste. You spend time researching on the internet, coming to no conclusion about the dozens of variables. If there was just one kind left, you'd have bought it.

- You invent something, so now you need a patent lawyer, in case the other guy hires one first. That's money you can't spend on R&D. And one of you will lose his stake.
If you want to hear something else scary, I dumped the firmware on my modem a little while back and started exploring it:

https://twitter.com/joshumax/status/860712276717748225
People have been commenting for years that westerner-oriented hotels appear to have less filtering than other places in China.
> Rich people playing zero-sum games while the poor starve is the natural outcome of building an economy off of the notion that value creation is about doing what wealth-weighted-people want as opposed to what uniformly-weighted people want.

If so, the problem must go away with a sane wealth redistribution program. (What might be much more realistic than taxing marketing.)
Most everyone in my office uses it. Makes picking up lunch for the group so much easier.
Start a YouTube channel.
Either learn filmmaking or find a friend to help.

Upload a video a week. Full complete projects. Post them on reddit.
Reply to every comment. Ask for suggestions of next project.

After 3 months or 12 videos. Start posting 3 times a week of projects in progress.

After 3 months start live streaming twice a week.

At the 6 month mark start a Patreon. Even if you don't have any patrons immediately learn the platform and incorporate it into your videos. Set a goal that entices ppl to participate. Maybe one of your projects was a hit.

Hope that helps.
But, and I feel like I'm going to get a proverbial reprimand for asking the obvious, but why, in all this time, has no solution been proposed?
... which is "okay", since you can only access it (the admin web console) from within your wlan/lan (and not the internet) and ofc you can/should change it during setup
r/titlegore
Great article. I also believe that for the near term (next ten years [1]) the most significant use of AI will be systems that cooperate with human expert users.

I also agree that leaders who are creative in determining novel use of ML and who support rapid experimentation, might have more impact than technology leads.

[1] I believe that further out than ten years, general AI systems with broad knowledge and less need for labeled training data will become more valuable than AI/human teams.
the radio stuff is pretty wrong; one glaring one is that PSK is pretty much not used anymore, it's all OFDM.
Thank you, exactly. I'd rather just pick it up one time and expect that they do it sometimes as well. I don't want it to seem like I actually give a fuck about 12 dollars for the experience of hanging out and having a good time. And I don't.
Yea bud, I'm sure you're out there "resisting".
Possibly bulk pricing?
Would make for a good Hackintosh, presumably.
It does not require this. I use Venmo and do not have Facebook.
That would cause deflation, not inflation.
I mean, I just got a 10-gig router,[1] and the stock username/password was "ubnt"/"ubnt." It's always the installer's job to set up a new username/password.

[1] https://community.ubnt.com/t5/EdgeMAX-Stories/EdgeRouter-Inf...
There is a lot of Chinese language content to censor coming from Taiwan, Hong Kong and diaspora
(This Medscape article was posted on February 18, 2015. I was able to read it by searching for the title on twitter.)

Dr. Lieberman's book, Shrinks, was reviewed by Paul McHugh, M.D.:

The Doctor Isn’t In - https://www.commentarymagazine.com/articles/the-doctor-isnt-...

The practices of conventional Psychiatry have been pretty well repudiated by the Mad in America crew, led by investigative journalist Robert Whitaker. Today's essay is Has Psychiatry Gone Uniquely Astray? - https://www.madinamerica.com/2017/07/has-psychiatry-gone-uni...

edit: this essay has a interesting comment about the difference between modern science and pre-WWII science:

So where did popular ideas about science come from, that I
assert to be misleading? They came from how science used
to be, by contrast to what it is like nowadays. One would
be hard put to overemphasize the sea change in scientific
activities that is apparent when contrasting contemporary
science with science before World War II.

In a drastically oversimplified nutshell, one might
describe pre-WWII science as a cottage industry carried on
by independent intellectual entrepreneurs motivated
primarily by curiosity in seeking truths about the natural
world, not beholden to patrons and subsisting typically in
ivory towers undisturbed by social, political, commercial
interference; science was free to be its own thing.

By contrast, contemporary science is at the mercy of those
who provide the enormous resources now needed to penetrate
further into Nature’s mysteries. Modern-day science is
competitively cutthroat and subject to pervasive conflicts
of interest, beholden to the providers of resources:
governments, businesses, industries, foundations, all of
which aim to harness science to their own benefit.

These assertions are described and documented more fully
in my new book, Science Is Not What You Think—How it has
changed, Why we can’t trust it, How it can be fixed.
With the fixed supply you have three problems:

1. The value (not necessarily price) of the currency will fluctuate wildly since they money supply cannot grow and shrink along with demand for it. The fixed supply will make these swings even wilder.

2. In a currency which is constantly deflating at say 3% a year, you would never want to take a loan unless you can cover that 3% plus any other return on capital you require. You're going to be paying back BTC that is going to be more expensive every year passing. Imagine a 5 year contract for 10 BTC a year. The next year is it 10.3 BTC (deflation adjusted). And at year five you are paying back BTC worth 11.6 BTC.

3. If you are on the other side, any counter party (default) risk is also huge since you are losing an asset that you could have held on to for zero risk and still gained 3% a year.

To enter a contract you need a stable currency. It is like building a house with a yardstick that keeps getting longer and longer. And it is very difficult to figure out what the value and exchange rate of BTC will be in a year from now, much less longer.
Well, typography is often about readability. Removing the word boundary in compound nouns isn't really helpful since it removes a boundary that conveys meaning.

There were some examples of nouns where you should avoid ligatures in the TeX docs iirc. Shelfful and selffullfilling are the only ones I remember.

In German (every single fff on any page that bothers to set their own fancy-pants font) and swedish text you see it all the time, often coming from self-proclaimed typesetting/font nerds.
Also there was a time when Verizon's modem/router had generated passwords based on the SSID https://aruljohn.com/fios/
How to Prioritize Tasks with the Eisenhower Matrix Productivity System
I'm sure the Million Dollar Homepage is getting a lot of traffic right now too
Yes, that does indeed help.

I'm however frightened by the sign up form still :P
Doctor Who? Immortal Time Traveler Arrives in the 21st Century
Status update from the Reproducible Builds project
We started looking for planets that were in the life-supporting temperature range from their star, and have only recently begun looking at Earth-sized planets. There is an upper range to the gravity that we expect larger life to be able to form at, which means we have to limit the search somehow, to make a meaningful search.
perltidy for Perl 6, perhaps, should offer it as an option. It'd only show up after you saved your code (or checked it in, or built it...I usually run perltidy on my Perl 5 code in my dist.ini, so it only happens during a dzil build).

One of the golang plugin bundles for Atom runs gofmt on every file on save which is actually pretty neat. I've been tempted to do the same for all of the languages I use. It sort of habituates me to do the right thing over time, as I see the changes happen immediately and I'm always working with a file that is mostly in the "right" style.
Secure file access on the cloud/Azure
MIT's Pathway to Fusion Energy [video]
How to Make the Best Use of Your Board
I think it's because we've seen behind the curtain. Product X isn't as magical, and we've seen how it can go horribly wrong.

I wonder if mechanical engineers tend to be safer drivers...
I am currently learning with the odin project. I see most of the discussion so far focused on whether ruby is right language. I think the project is very valuable not for its choice of language but for its overall excellent content and approach. A few examples

- When doing my first lessons on ruby you are asked to read several tutorials. I thought, well I already learned that, but in every article I managed to find something new.

- It uses a multitude of other learning sources, does not even try to cover too much themselves. So you get to learn in very different ways. Reading good articles, watching some talks, downloading a repo where you need to write the code to make the test run successfully. Overall I feel, I get the best content, not because they write the best content (who could do that for all the subjects?), but it points you to great content.

- Contrary to many online tools, it forces you to work on your own system, which is a good thing.

- It often forces you to define the problem you are solving yourself. Many online courses make it too easy, you just learn coding. You don't learn to structure the problem.

- It also tries to give you a solid programming knowledge before going into web development. I really appreciate that. It's so easy to learn some angular or vue.js, then you... just need to fetch some data, ah how do I store data, oh and authentication and authorization, oh and... and quickly you get lost. I think it's is very beneficial to first get some solid programming knowledge before diving into the whole server / db / frontend stack.

So I can highly recommend this approach. BTW: even the creators are thinking of driving the course more towards JS (https://github.com/TheOdinProject/curriculum/issues/5633)

edit: formatting
I tend to agree. Ruby isn't super applicable in 2017 either. Most tech companies have moved to a microservices architecture and while they may have some legacy Ruby hanging around, it's unlikely they're building anything new with it.

Someone learning web development now has a long road ahead of them. They'll need to learn everything. Not just some backend language, but all the front-end frameworks, functional programming, Sass, build tools, typescript, etc. The list is endless.
I've found Adele Cutler's presentation on random forests to be an outstanding resource for getting intuition of tree-based algorithms.

http://www.math.usu.edu/adele/RandomForests/UofU2013.pdf

Thinking about trees as a supervised recursive partitioning algorithm or a clustering algorithm is useful for problems that may not appear to be simple classification or regression problems.
Haha, changed your mind eh? :)
The Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Reading List – BookAdvice – Medium
Falcon Heavy prepares for debut flight as Musk urges caution on expectations
Show HN: DeepArtistry: Buy art generated by neural networks
> React itself is fundamentally a reconciliation engine.

Do you know of any good articles / books / videos that talk more about this idea?
Seconded. Maybe look to AvE as an example of this.
A turbine can extract energy from the expansion of any hot gas. I suppose steam is common because of how easy it is to access liquid water and concentrate it around your heat source.
Though also worth noting that Muslims make up about 1% of the US population[1] so they are a very long way from being the largest religious institution in this country.

1: http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/01/06/a-new-estima...
You got me there!

I actually agree with you -- and personally I'd prefer having natural tissue replacement as a more ready and viable solution, I guess I really approached a response the wrong way. Rather than saying they weren't forward looking, I think I meant the vision espoused was too limited?

I do think we're closer to cybernetic/bionic options, though (as referenced in my original comment as an example).
I don't understand what the big deal is there. I can understand it in a hyperinflation situation, but when inflation is ~2%, surely this hidden tax is insignificant compared to the more visible, explicit taxes?
> do you think 13KB/s AT MOST is too much for your internet connection

You've quoted this number many times now, and it is completely incorrect. The upload bandwidth required for a full node with eight peers is an absolute minimum of 0.39mbps/mb of block size.

The things you're saying are the kind of things that people who really don't have any clue of the resources required by a node would say. In fact, it's pretty clear you don't run a node, have never run a node, and will never run a node. So your opinion as to the security requirements of bitcoin should be viewed in that context.
I don't create web pages often, but whenever I link to something, I always generate a backup PDF.
> I don't follow your logic at all. The person in this article is saying that people are being cheap by not just splitting the bill evenly.

Could be a cultural thing. I live in a small town of a rather poor country. Where I live, friends pay in turns, today I'll pay and the next time he'll pay and so forth... and not even very strict turns[1]. If could split the check in half, that's acceptable. Splitting the bill to the cent would leave you with no friends in no time.

[1]: That said, food here is cheap (dirt cheap compared to the US). If you go to the capital, it's different. I noticed that people there split the bill, but restaurants/food costs 2x or 3x up, so paying the whole thing is expensive.
There's a really interesting blog post that discusses an unusual mid 19th century use of the word "cool": http://therumpus.net/2011/06/there-is-a-head-rolling-over-th...
Brick for Haskell is really nice.
Why not generate a long password and print it on the backside? My DSL provider can do it (for my DSL router)
Grizzly Bears Can Eat 40,000 Moths in a Day
Unsupervised Politics: Clustering in machine learning
A screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/enPOmgy.png
I remember using Conjugate Gradient (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conjugate_gradient_method) for my 4th year university project, which involved finding the steady state of large and complex systems (e.g. railway signalling systems), that were expressed as sparse matrices with millions of rows/columns.
It worked really well and executed faster than other iterative methods such as Jacoby/Gauss-Seidel, but the conjugate gradient method was a bit unstable and at times I would not be able to converge toward a solution - I think it was due to the high number of multiplications involved which may cause over-/underflow (but I can't remember).

The matrices themselves are a representation of a Markov chain.
Teaching others how to tinker. My wife and kids started this business: https://makerjunior.com