skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think calling someone a baby boomer when they actually are a baby boomer is really a personal attack.
No offence, but please write your desktop "apps" as native programs or don't write them at all, we have enough of this slow and bloated web shit on desktop already. Sorry.
Quotas and fines / property that get seized and added to the departments budget.
I have no Adblocker enabled and saw no Video in Safari in private browser mode.

But you are downplaying the reality; i've heard many CTO's and CEO's complain to me about how annoyed their secretaries are about having to step over homeless people.

Most of them are aware that there is a social cost to their wealth and would like to help out. They just don't have a good mechanism.

Reality is most of the jobs are going to be automated either by AI or by Robots in the near future. How fast it's going to happen is going to be how much money the companies can save by adopting the technologies.

Lastly most of the big companies have used our tax dollars to increase their wealth. There's millions of ways companies like Walmart do this every day.

Sad part is those are the people that people like you likely look up to; they're rich and wealthy and have not a care in the world. You want that too right?

Well we could have that; every person could have that if we had a basic income to every citizen.

Sure it puts it more on the still working citizen; but that happens today anyway. So instead of saying Not in My Backyard; try something different.
> Comparing cats torturing other animals to systematic genocide, using nuclear weapons on others, starving whole populations, and other atrocities committed by humans is what lacks perspective.

Are any of these things the 'natural' state of humanity? It looks like you only get to that after at least a few thousand years of cultural development as a whole, and two decades plus socialization to adulthood in a person.

I feel like cats certainly would commit genocide if they had the mental capacity to plan for it.

Overall, I think that it is a wrong view that morality exists as an abstract separate from the current social circumstance and any species (even humans) can be measured against that perfect ideal.
In reaction to the majority of the conversation below being centered around the swift implementation of stern retaliation, if I were at the table of this conversation, I would introduce the following idea to the multiifaceted conversation. Not to be confused with the right way but an additional one.

What was said? Why is that not part of the conversation we are having?

Cultures meeting takes time. Think world history.
Resist the urge to fight fire with fire. Cook meals on them or put them out.

Who's to say that these derogatory comments were not actually based on a documentary is about India that only highlighted the bad parts? Or who's to say that these peoples limited interactions were simply poor so far. A stern talking to is in order but not without further conversation about WHAT was said and WHY. Let these individuals walk away with a positive, personal interaction not a story about being caught.

Fix your PR problem by using this as an opportunity to put that person on the plane to India for the same price that it would cost for you to fire them and re-train someone else.

I would say in general, in America, Indian culture here is just catching on and it's going to take the persistant exploration of people's comments, and pulling them apart and not saying "all racial comments or bad or wrong" or "any comment that hurts anyone is wrong or bad" but what if we said: Can we talk about it?

Call the manager. We don't know enough about the situation to assume that those people are hateful. So far, just ignorant!

PS I am Ankit's classmate and he asked for my opinion.
Facebook employee is homeless, lives out of her car
Your language is debatable, on a case by case basis.

But even assuming it true, even that is not the standard by which anti-trust is judged. It's judged based on consumer welfare. That's where the debate should lie.

And no doubt it is a debate still. And the debate alone could shape actions and outcomes.
There's nothing stopping you from pointing it at your own server -- which is what I did when I played with this months ago.
It's simpler than even that. Regardless of whether the agency or the journalist is "unbiased", or even if Bezos didn't interfere at all, the fact that there's a conflict of interest heavily devalues the story. I mean by definition Bezos is leaning on WaPo, as WaPo is under his direct control.
This looks a lot like the old boot.kernel.org (BKO) site which was taken down a while ago. I don't remember why it was taken down but you can still find some references to it, e.g.

https://www.howtoforge.com/boot-linux-over-http-with-boot.ke...

http://git.etherboot.org/people/pravin/BKO.git/blob_plain/e6...

https://events.linuxfoundation.org/images/stories/slides/lin...
No drugs are degenerate.
during my four-year hitch in the Corps, a quick poll of the first-term enlisted jarheads in a USMC infantry battalion, asking "what are you going to do when you're hitch is up?" the most frequent answer would have been "become a cop"

and these were guys who, when off-duty, wore t-shirts with aphorisms like

"kill 'em all, let God sort 'em out"

and

"join the Marines, travel to exotic places, meet interesting people, and kill them"

----

i have a (completely untested) hypothesis, that police forces which require officers to be trained as EMTs and police officers (San Jose?) have far lower incidence of claims and proven instances of incidence of excessive force, abuse of authority, etc.
A recent study that peripherally relates to our discussion came up on my facebook feed:

https://hms.harvard.edu/news/recession-proof
Super happy that you enjoy it! :)
Advertisers are the most complicit in all this. They always have the option of using whitelists and buying properly but they (meaning the dozens of layers in the agency/vendor supply chain) always go for the cheap impressions and clicks to make their reports look good.
[the divide] separates two kinds of mathematical statements: “finitistic” ones, which can be proved without invoking the concept of infinity, and “infinitistic” ones, which rest on the assumption — not evident in nature — that infinite objects exist.
Good luck with that given current US law and the increasing number of foreign banks that want nothing to do with US citizens.
Right, and if you're lucky, they'll just steal all your money.
So you;d rather have fewer useful GUI programs? That's a very unpopular opinion. What incentive does any developer have to do as you say?
On this topic, I witnessed the "Bicycle of Education" just earlier today, which had me thoroughly impressed.

https://twitter.com/research_tim/status/737757291437527040
> Why should the web be any different?

What? Because it can - it's the biggest reason so much money is transferring to digital and away from print, because of data and accountability. An ad that was at least scrolled into view is better than one that isnt and many campaigns are now bought on that basis.

It's not perfect but it's far better than before and we're not going back.
`errcheck` ignores unhandle error value of `fmt.Println`.
I put a copy in IPFS:

https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmcgWw89GFo3Z1w9ad1H6Gom4DV4t5VRBu5zhkW...
It's more complicated than just the theoretical M-M propositions - companies should prefer to issue debt (rather than equity) because the interest payments act as a tax shield. However, increased leverage results in higher borrowing costs because of the greater risk of default.
The rat that smells here is one making ridiculous and patently absurd declarative statements about extremely recent history.
Weirdest types of moons in the Solar System
Not sure if this is an anti-drug statement with poor punctuation...Or pro-drug legalization.
The neoteny is real.
A Very Eventful Trip to Machu Picchu
This is a great article. Thank you for sharing it.
If that actually worked, the noise to signal ratio might not be infinite
In principle a statement that involves only finite sets of natural numbers can be proved by exhaustive calculation. A statement involving infinity in an essential way cannot. This means there is a gap in certitude between finite and infinite mathematics. There's many ways to describe this divide. For example, an arithmetic statement involving unbounded quantifiers. You can measure how much such a statement fails to be finite by counting the alternation of universal and existential unbounded quantifiers. This is a measurement of the naive logical complexity of a statement.

Godels incompleteness theorems can be seen as a statement about the gap between finite and infinite mathematics. Decidability, semidecidability and undecidability can be seen as the relationship between boundedly quantified arithmetic statements, statements with one unbounded existential quantifier, and statements with one unbounded universal quantifier.

Another avenue of exploring the gap between finite and infinite mathematics is via linear logic. There the thesis is that contraction, the logical reuse of variables, is where infinity creeps into logical reasoning. Indeed logic without contraction is quite tame. Logic with unlimited contraction is wild. Surprisingly there are logics with an intermediate strength of contraction: so-called light linear logics. These can classify reasoning that embodies polynomial time computation or elementary time computation. So in another sense infinity can be measured by algorithmic complexity.
> They claim 100% S3 compatibility but it fails a large number of API calls using Ceph’s s3-test. I didn’t dig into this too far but they do claim “No need to change your S3-compatible application” so changing my endpoint + credentials should have worked. To their credit - PUT, GET and DELETE did work but that is only 3 of 100’s of API’s.

Validating claims of S3 compatibility is important. The S3 API has corner cases like and misfeatures like BitTorrent hosting but sometimes vendors omit key features like multi-part upload and v4 signatures. s3-tests[1] is the best way we have to evaluate implementations yet only Ceph and S3Proxy seem to contribute to it. Users should hold vendors' feet to the fire about these these claims.

[1] https://github.com/ceph/s3-tests
I feel similarly. I think the best dividing line between Gen Y and Gen Z is "Can you remember a time before internet access was ubiquitous?"

The terminology you link to is interesting, I had not previously seen Gen Y and Gen Z combined with "Millennial" in this way.
Your argument is that it's OK to hurt someone if there's a chance that they might be hurt regardless.

If I were Chinese I'd be feeling pretty damn patronized if someone told me they were taking my iPhone away and I should be happy about it.
Heretical Things Statistics Tell Us About Fiction
Such a good way to attract pro users. The number of Apple store and their world-wide support is one of the reason I see a lot of pro users reluctant to buy something else than a MacBook.

This makes absolutely no sense since the only buyers of Surface products are as of now pretty much only "pro" users.
I just uncovered (by accident) and reported an xss vulnerability in a service once used by the Obama administration, and Obama himself, and have reported 3 other vulnerabilities I've found to other companies, one was to Google. Didn't get any money for any of them (Google sent me a Nexus 7 tablet, which was nice). :-(

Look like I might need to start using Yahoo more! Haha.

This was a great read. To others: make sure you are allowed to pentest a server before doing it.
I wrote Bootrino - an entire cross platform/cross cloud netboot over the Internet desktop application that supports AWS, Google Cloud, Digital Ocean. It did also support Rackspace but Rackspace is effectively dead as a cloud hosting platform and Bootrino also supported SoftLayer but I found after alot of work that SoftLayer is a very locked down environment that does not permit total control over what you run on your VMs.

Kinda takes this core concept and pushes it alot further and lets you boot from your own web servers - you just publish the (simple) bootrino config file plus the OS image and off you go, bootrino configures the instance and builds it from your own web infrastructure, be it internal or public.

You can see a demo of bootrino here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJhxmVlR46c

The purpose of Bootrino is that it allows you to boot ANYTHING on the cloud - i.e. Unikernels and a whole zoo of other tiny operating systems, run-in-RAM operating systems, embedded operating systems etc. You are no longer restricted to running only the operating systems permitted by the cloud vendors.

Lets you do things like make RAM only Postgres databases servers, or run your web server applications purely from RAM without any login, for speed and security.
>What now twelve months after the first chatter?

Okay, "is and has been for twelve months".

>The investigation is now in a direction which goes BEYOND the original hypotheses that it may have been as result of a leak from Harold Martin's home.

Yes, but that doesn't mean they're necessarily excluding the Russia hypothesis. It could very well mean they're just extending and updating it. Or maybe they are scrapping it - us outsiders have no way of knowing.

>"Shadow Brokers investigation is focusing on former NSA insider"
>theshadowbrokers being an 'is' not an 'are' (as in cover).

If you want to rely on a cyberscoop.com article's credibility and attention to fine detail, then I'd argue they're pointing more in the opposite direction:

>Sources tell CyberScoop that former NSA employees have been contacted by investigators in the probe to discover how a bevy of elite computer hacking tools fell into the Shadow Brokers’ possession.

>While investigators believe that a former insider is involved, the expansive probe also spans other possibilities, including the threat of a current intelligence community employee being connected to the mysterious group.

They explicitly name a real group, and don't seem to imply that the entire Shadow Brokers entity is one disgruntled leaker.

>Cover for SVR? I don't think any serious analysis ever entertained that.

No, no serious public analysis has ever made a strong accusation. But in this case, the public (and possibly even the IC) knows very little about who the true culprit is, so there is a lack of analysis on this in general. As far as I know, it's all been speculation.

Snowden did say "Circumstantial evidence and conventional wisdom indicates Russian responsibility." [1] but I obviously take his view with a huge grain of salt, given his position.

There is no strong evidence pointing to Russia being responsible for this - all I was saying is that nothing in this article is somehow suggesting the Russian theory has been thrown out by NSA's investigators.

[1] https://twitter.com/Snowden/status/765514891813945344
But anyone can buy a company in its infancy, and neuter it before it becomes a threat. This is possible even if the market is not one that would naturally give rise to monopoly, but rather one where monopoly is ensured by governmental acts or anti-competitive behavior by the most dominant company.

I prefer the more standard definition where a market that naturally tends to monopoly is one where a multi-company state is less efficient than a single company state.

In social networking, despite the power of network effects, having multiple companies is still efficient simply because people want to compartmentalize their networks of friends and interests. People want to use WhatsApp to talk to group A, and Skype to group B.

There's a tendency to assume that since phones were a monopoly, and mail is a monopoly, then all communication and social interaction aides must be naturally monopolies too, but that's not the case. Phones and mail were monopolies due to physical efficiency, not due to the desires of consumers.
There's taxes from the supply chain of Tylenol that don't get paid when it's $10 in illegal drugs that are actually sold. Much like Bitcoin, with a black market you can only tax at the egress points when the money needs to touch a regulated financial entity whereas an all-legal system can tax any time money changes hands.
"Addiction is a hideous condition, but it’s rare."

Is this a true statement for harder drugs?
hm... maybe providing something like a VC++ runtime installer? if it's about portable exes, then I'd like to know more :)
> 1) Tell me how to run it locally (docker is a good idea, if relevant) [...]

Actually no, Docker is not a good idea for an instruction on how to run the
code. First, if I don't use Docker, I have no fsckin' way to tell which
magical --switches are for Docker and which are for the program. Second, if
your program cannot be easily run without Docker, you have vastly
overcomplicated the whole thing.
Doesn't iPhone supports native VPN in Settings ? How are they going to prevent users from using that ? I mean it's not as easy as downloading a dedicated app and logging in but using the Settings app is not much of a work.
Mayan EDMS first crowdfunding
Yes.

> Proportion of users that become dependent:

> Tobacco: 32-68%

> Alcohol: 15-23%

> Cannabis: 9% (30% of users with abuse or dependence)

> Cocaine: 17-21%

> Stimulants: 11%

> Anxiolytics (includes benzodiazepines): 9%

> Analgesics i.e. pain relievers: 8%

> Psychedelics: 5%

> Heroin: 23%

> Anthony, Warner, Kessler, 1994; Lopez-Quintero, Pérez de los Cobos, Hasin, et al., 2011

http://www.rethinkpsychedelics.org/
Strange to not cite the origin of the confidential transactions scheme.

an early writeup: https://people.xiph.org/~greg/confidential_values.txt

http://diyhpl.us/wiki/transcripts/gmaxwell-confidential-tran... which is a transcript of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHPYNZ8i1cU

The actual borromean ring signature paper (compiled into pdf): http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/papers2/bitcoin/Borromean%20ring%20s...

Confidential transactions was later extended to confidential assets: https://blockstream.com/bitcoin17-final41.pdf and https://blog.chain.com/hidden-in-plain-sight-transacting-pri...
Episode 29 Live – Elon Musk Wants to Hire Me
Are we to overlook all criminal behavior because enforcement might make people less employable, or just selectively ignore some laws that you don't agree with?

Perspective! If someone is shooting up in the library, their future employability is of (at best) tertiary concern to me. The pressing matter is making sure they don't continue the behavior. We can't just stop enforcing laws because it might make lawbreakers break more laws.

The city of SF actually did adopt a policy of forcing addicts into treatment by giving them an ultimatum of jail time for accumulated minor offenses. It worked, but was stopped when some bleeding-heart sued the city. I'm a liberal, but I consider that a tragedy. You can't cure addiction by arresting people, but you sure as hell can stop enabling it on a societal scale.

And also, when I say "evict", I mean "evict them from the library". I don't care where they go to shoot up; watch porn; shit in the sink; sleep or harass people, but they can't do it in the library.
Handing users a foot-gun, or a foot-bazooka?
You're right. I should have at least included this reference: https://elementsproject.org/elements/confidential-transactio...
It's not surprising. PBS is centrist, and most people in power gravitate towards centrist positions in order to win elections.
Cheaper, more dispensable drones that can be deployed in larger numbers in dangerous environments?
On the contrary, cancellation and purchase is easier. And also middle men add visibility to a lot of small hotels.
Yea, this is way past due.

Along with these implementations, I would like to see just an AA in psychology, and require at least 12 units of law, including a course in constitutional law.

Just a high school diploma is not enough.
What's really a shame is that people aren't taking home economics classes in school, and then are exiting school saying "I don't know how to adult". All of the "adulting" skills are taught in home ec! I'm a late-20s male who can crochet, sew, cook, balance a checkbook, load a dishwasher, and tons of other basic household tasks that other millennials fail to do. It's not because my parents taught me. It's because I took home economics classes as an elective in middle school and high school.

If your school offers home ec, take it! These are valuable life skills that you absolutely need to have. You don't need an "adulting 101" book, you need home economics in school.
Everything there is factually true. But I hate the idea that we aren't allowed to do anything to improve quality of life of the non-homeless before homelessness as an issue is solved.

Another example: literally every single night, a homeless person sets up a tent with a bunch of trash in my building's fire escape. If there were a fire and we had to use it, it'd pretty much be inaccessible.

It's possible to call the city, but they don't fix it overnight, which is kind of the point. And installing a gate in the fire escape alcove is illegal, because the gate would apparently encroach onto public property.

So what's to be done? Should I just accept that I should just literally die in a fire, for the sake of a homeless person having a place to sleep? And of course it's easy to say, "well in an ideal world there'd be a bed for them!" Unfortunately the world we live in isn't ideal, but anytime anyone complains about quality of life issues, "homeless advocates" will demand that you solve a century old national problem before granting you have even the slightest right to complain.
I expect there will be some mockery of the questions if they are not careful. Imagine questions written by MSNBC & FoxNews for the same story. I can see the questions setting up an echo chamber effect.
It's interesting that even Heroin has only 23%. I always believed that one shot of Heroin would be enough. On the other hand I met someone a few years ago who had done a lot of drugs who told me he had done done heroin a few times, didn't like it and never did it again.
Clears that right up.
From the utilitarian perspective, what is the point of financial privacy (from the government)? It looks like money laundering and purchases of illegal substances seem to be the biggest "benefits". Those are benefits that aren't beneficial to the government or the people that are governed.
Almost everything is > ~10%. Maybe it's just me, but I would consider 1/10 people getting addicted (i.e. psychologically or physically dependent on the drug to the point of ruin or death) extremely high.
Isn't this a job for a mechanical system, like a rotor mounted off axis with a counterweight?
There is in fact a highly functional, proven alternative to what you're proposing.

It's the Intel approach. The US Government allowed Intel to keep its monopoly, while simultaneously restraining it enough that Intel wasn't able to truly lock out various competitors from rising up over time.

ARM, Samsung, nVidia, AMD, Taiwan Semi, etc.

It's also what ended up happening with Microsoft & Windows. Had the US Government not been involved at all, Microsoft could have trivially barred all competing search engines (bye Google) from their desktop platform, and all other browsers (bye Netscape, Chrome, Firefox), and all competing media software (bye iTunes), and so on.

Intel didn't have to be regulated as a fake natural monopoly that it in fact obviously wasn't (nor are Facebook or Google), in order to keep the lanes open to competition.