skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is why I generally look down upon the valley and its "leadership." There's a very good chance she's a contractor which means it's an easy excuse for Facebook to pay her less and not give her benefits.

These "leaders" donate money to causes, yet ignore the people right in front of them. They could lobby the cities in and around the bay area to allow for more affordable housing (or to building more housing period, I'm looking at you SF). Instead they're more concerned with the marginal increase on their property value than the well being of those around them.

For so much money in that area to have anyone willing to work, and try hard, not live well is quite frankly: fucking disgusting.
It seems to me the standard argument for legalizing cannabis is tax revenue. It reminds me of when Kansas was considering abolishing capital pinishment. It wasn't due to any ethical or moral reasoning, but because of the economics of housing death row inmates.
I agree that systemd is great.

What I find a bit sad is the governance model for the contributing side [1], [2], [3] (which are linked in the article anyway).

Why so much harshness on something which makes sense (CVE)?

[1]: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/6237

[2]: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/5998

[3]: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/6225
One way to label is by expectation. If the outcome is what you expected, then it gets one label. If it didn't it gets another label. Deepmind has had some success with this approach.
There is an important distinction between someone who doesn't misbehave for fear of being watched, and someone who wishes to be watched in fear of the perception of misbehavior.

There is no substitute for someone who's intent is to try and get away with things, and someone who's intent is to serve a cause, be of service, and not get away with anything.

So really, we should build a system where the intent of transparency is paramount, not just transparency itself.

Two things immediately come to mind.

1. Super-incentivize snitching. Reward whistle-blowers to the point where it becomes an easy decision. Not only monetary, but with honor and with medals. Make it the new "right thing to do" in public service. Fight corruption. Easy sell.

2. Super-disincentivize ulterior motives and their actions. Treat crimes by officers as far more severe and malicious than of non-officers. And they are. So if a police officer murders a civilian, punishment should be 10x or 100x. Same with stealing a slice of pizza or ignoring a stop sign.

The point isn't that we should punish officers more. The point is we should all raise them to higher standards, and the officers themselves should willingly accept that higher burden of responsibility.

It should be their responsibility to not profile or discriminate based on appearances of anyone or their car. It should be their responsibility to preserve life at all costs, even at a higher risk to themselves.

And this will deter crookedness and incompetence. If an officer cannot do their job, they shouldn't. And if an officer thinks they can get away with anything, they shouldn't. Being a cop or even buying a cop like in the movies should not pose any criminal opportunities.
One minor difference with Bitcoin is that there are no serial numbers. Every bitcoin is identical to every other bitcoin. The blockchain tracks transaction source, destination, and amount, but there's no way to identify a specific bitcoin. Such a concept is actually meaningless, there are no bitcoins, just transactions.

This means that when a mixer or exchange wallet gets the bitcoins they can't be individually tracked anymore. This doesn't really matter in practice since all transactions are public.
I honestly don't mind when I see a homeless person riding the bike. I guarantee they are getting far more utility out of it than any Google employee is, property rights be damned.
Because they want the first word to be Windows, their brand. They do the same thing with Server for NFS.
Her LinkedIn profile

https://www.linkedin.com/in/unique-parsha-64833361/

She has a degree in Sociology and her listed experience is customer service.

Other articles mention she is a contractor.

As a contractor, she might not even be working for Facebook (might be a temp agency).

ETA: People living in the area are competing for housing with some of the highest paid people in the country. Probably the employers in the area aren't going to solve this problem. Perhaps FB should be setting up these jobs in an area of the country which has lower living expenses. Then solve local labor issues through automation (like Japan is looking to do due to an aging workforce).
"Is it a boy or a girl?", mathematician replies "Yes" ?
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You can state that categorically? All full and part time employees and contractors deserve a ‘livable wage’ regardless of their role or the value they add to the company?
The idea that police should be conscripted is crazy when you consider that the vast majority of the population just doesn't have the nerves to stop that person in the sketchy car or dark side of the sidewalk, knowing there's a probability they will try to murder you, whether because they hate cops or to avoid arrest, while yourself carrying a lethal weapon. (A lot of police don't even have the nerves for it.) More innocent people would get shot, without question.
If google adds tracking devices to the bikes then people are going to complain about privacy.
Yes, but I don't have to worry about something like unintentionally spelling it differently on different lines, and in the case where I'm controlling both ends it is truly taken care of for me.
I find myself periodically fantasizing about building a skoolie, or buying a sailboat and going live-aboard.
How climate change will affect the quality of our water
In just the last five years my anecdotal experience is traffic in my local South Bay neighborhood has skyrocketed on weekdays. I imagine that translates to a much longer car commute than what you remembered.
For those that didn't pick it up, this is sarcasm - playing on someone giving pithy reasons for stock tips.
Buyers make the world go round. Salespeople make commissions.
Like it or not, the lack of KYC/AML is in itself a crime. Maybe you should rephrase "Nothing which I would consider a crime happened"
There's a difference between being homeless and being homeless. Living on the streets or at the mercy of others is one thing when you have to, but couchsurfing or choosing to live out of your car (emphasis on choosing) is something different.

I've never been homeless, but I've worked with the homeless. That's something no one in their right mind would ever choose. However, I have chosen to live with friends, live out of my car, and at one point, live in a tent longer-term. It was my choice and I made the decision with a lot of planning ahead of time and figuring out where I would shower, how to store food, etc.

Being homeless isn't a life hack, but finding alternative living arrangements certainly is, especially when you're talking about the Bay Area.
Can Ethereum Keep You Safe from the Government?
Poettering does mention that the tests do not cover LUKS boots, and I would hope they will be adding some in the near future, but I also understand that the priority would be fix first, automated tests second (hopefully), since this is already out in the wild and in need of a fix.

Agreed, though, that full-disk encryption is common (and important) enough that it should merit good automated regression testing, especially simple "does it still boot?" tests.
IIRC, except the old ones, they have a plaque in the basket indicating they're private property.

And the campus isn't exactly in the middle of downtown either; it's not like on your walk to the grocery store you cross the Googleplex and take one thinking it's public.
Is that a style decision? I haven't seen that before. Seems confusing.
Yea, I wouldn't mind living in a large fancy RV. There are apartments which feel more cramped.
This isn't exactly new, but I think is becoming a larger market. It's something that "camgirls" have been doing for quite some time, but I've never heard of anyone doing it with this kind of production value. Probably the biggest place these days for this is clips4sale, but there are a lot of smaller sites.

Stick to a reputable exchange that you can be comfortable enforces 2257 age records keeping requirements. It's possible to find ads on /r/SexSells and such but this is a terrible idea.
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I'm sure they do, but given a) the current approach isn't working well for anyone and b) this approach of decriminalization is working for some, I'm not sure it matters to me if some irresponsible people are spared the punishment they deserve for being irresponsible if we can stop punishing the undeserving.

And who knows, maybe the willfully irresponsible will also be helped by this approach, and the state will be saved the greater expense of imprisioning then.
http://oglaf.com/shhh/

http://oglaf.com/overbite/

http://oglaf.com/fully-fleshed/

http://oglaf.com/croutons/
Yeah, some jobs need sociopaths. All strengths are weaknesses from another perspective.
The graphicness depends on the customer's request, but can of course be very explicit. A common euphemism in the community is colors such as "yellow", "red" and "brown", which I'm sure you can figure out what they correspond to.
redirecting to https://www.reddit.com/r/Drugs/ ...
Yeah, those are not numbers that would indicate "rare" for any other medical condition.
I live in WC and worked for a while in Palo Alto - and THAT took two hours on a good (week)day.
You want a Ford F-150 or a Tacoma. You can spray the inside of those down with a hose, and range is definitely not an issue.

This is a midsized sedan.
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His entire post basically boils down to:

"It's like Java" and
"It's got one hell of an IDE"

Um, okay. I guess?

There are other languages that are "like Java", and they don't count?

So, basically all it takes to get a language adopted is a snazzy IDE? Wow. I guess we need to remember to design new languages to optimize for IDE integration rather than actual programming.
I agree with you that bitcoin is a terrific innovation, with many use cases.

But at the moment moving $10m through bitcoin is not one of them.

For one, I don't need to be an op-sec expert to ensure that my money doesn't just vanish because I made a mistake or something was hacked somewhere.
The thing is War on Drugs is doing more harm than good.
Google is fighting tooth-and-nail to build 10,000 housing units:

http://www.siliconbeat.com/2017/06/26/mountain-view-google-c...

Facebook isn't Google, but they have the same incentives: Zuckerberg's wealth is not in his house, so he shouldn't care if his property values sink a bit. It'd be far more useful to him to have 10,000 extra employees.

Housing is something every potential employee would ask about, so I'm surprised you think the company doesn't care about it.
two months ago on HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14450945
Why think in either-or terms? Yes, something should be done about the thieves. But imagine leaving a car unlocked and ready to go. How would you feel about the situation then?

Personally, as a Dutchman I find the idea of not having at least two locks on your bikes (preferably different brands, our thieves tend to specialise) absurd.
Electron is designed to be bundled into your app, I'm not aware of any distros/package tools that allow Electron apps to share a runtime.

The JVM (and apparently qbrt) is designed to be shared, apps are expected to use the installed system version of the VM, though if the packager wants they can include a specific version to use.

I wish it were easy/possible to get Electron apps to share things, it bothers me that Chrome, Discord, and Slack almost certainly could share most of their hundreds of megabytes.
Weren't the people arrested (with the planted evidence) likely named in media coverage and the local blotter, etc long before conviction?

If so, why not name the cops involved here?
> a refuge for people working hard and trying to excel in life, not a place for people who have given up on life

What an interesting take.
> Not true. Java and Kotlin can be used on the same project and Kotlin also has seamless Java interop. If you don't want to write Kotlin you don't have to. It is also easy to read for other devs so readibility is not an issue.

Until you have to trace a bug through both codebases.

Dual interop codebases never work. A computer language simply takes up too much mental space to know even one language well and stay up-to-date on it.

Yes, I know there are exceptions, but I have yet to actually meet and work with one.
But it is. Pleasure and pain are hardwired.
I have moved USD across international borders hundreds of times for free. Every international bank supports it.

The same is probably true of EUR but I have no experience with it.

You have mixed transferring a currency with converting one currency into another. You meant transferring $10m of USD to EUR isn't free. Which is true. But neither is converting $10m of Bitcoin to Ethereum.
US corp taxes in general
What's the standard response of this argument to the problem of addiction? Why should we allow large corporations to market drugs which are so addictive that on balance we expect legalizing them to take people's cognitive liberty? What about children who are easier to deceive and more likely to get addicted?
Hackers at a competition break into US voting machines in minutes
> The electorate would benefit less from total financial privacy than it does from the ability to enforce taxes and civil judgements.

I'm not so sure about that.
Well the low level details are over my head but the discussion is certainly interesting and enlightening and I do want to play with this.
I had to do that with a mag tape once, but it was just a case of monkeying around with JCL parameters and DDing a few hundred bytes into files one by one until I figured out where the surviving data was, then just use the right JCL to make it transparent to the program. I couldn't figure out why I couldn't get BLP to work, though (NL did the trick).
Didn't realize they got rid of card catalogs - I learned that, too!
I go to the public library for the extensive DVD collection and quiet air conditioned space to work in away from the office/home. I live in Santa Clara County so a lot of older apartments/homes don't have air conditioning. They have a different selection than Netflix DVD or streaming.
Were any charges filed for planting evidence during their investigation? Probably not. Probably 'administrative leave' or 'reassignment'.
If I read it correctly, they're actually trying to contrast it to the previous example, so it's an example of a good infographic. The website is not exactly clear about this though (ironically).
WaPo shouldn't cover Bezos or Amazon at all.
I would suggest the biggest harm in drugs today is their illegality.

I personally think what we are doing today is far worse than had we never done anything about drugs in the first place.
Wow. Presence of mind in dangerous situations was what I was going for, but sure, let's not think and throw out the crude 'sociopath' label.
"At most once" has the implication of "you may never get it" (if the one and only attempt failed anywhere along the way)

"Effectively once" implies "you got the same thing 1000 times but ignored 999 of them because you already got it."

With an "exactly once" guarantee, I could send you a stream of integers (1,2,3,4,5) and you could blindly/naively/simplistically add them with no special concern and be confident that your answer of 15 was correct.

With "effectively once," you'd have to keep track of what you've seen before so you know not to add 4 an extra 6 times and come up with the wrong sum of 39.

With "at most once" you may be sitting around with a sum of 0 and think that's correct.
For the first two examples I gave I remember seeing an early adopter do exactly what I described and it was instant comprehension for me. Again-- it doesn't mean I knew those technologies would take off, that they'd be important, or even that I was excited about them. But it did mean I at least understood one glaringly obvious potential if they happened to take off.

Also, the third example does not yet exist as a common vehicle so I cannot have hindsight bias. But again, glaringly obvious that reading a book instead of staring at the road for an hour would be an enormous gain in productivity and agency for lots of people.

Or even take a failed futurism-- If I had a jet pack I could quickly fly on a whim to the beach and have a picnic. Instant comprehension.

What's the cool thing I get to do that I currently cannot if my household appliances all send streams of sensor data to a third party?
One way and another, starting in my senior year in college, I spent a year or so in that dark basement.

The most intense time was in a course in axiomatic set theory in an NSF summer math program at Vanderbilt.

The next fall, I was in a course in real analysis, and the prof started with foundations. After the first test he wanted to "see me". The exercises on the test were all trivial except one, and I got it only in the last minute or so so wrote quickly. I used little omega for the ordinal of the natural numbers without defining it. I told him that from the course I'd taken the previous summer I thought that that was standard notation. Apparently he didn't know that. After my explanation, he saw that my solution was correct and one step shorter than his. Then I asked him what he wanted to "see me" about, and he said "Now, nothing.". Gads. I got my Ph.D. later from a better program at another university.

Occasionally later I touched on that material.

That was all.

No way did I spend or want to spend 10 years in that basement. And no way did I want to do original research with that material.

Some of the pure math I studied I liked and still like a lot, and some of it is a crucial pillar of the crucial applied math core of my startup.
Looks like one of the people on the thread is using Gentoo, which is one of the few distributions that offers a choice between systemd and openrc.

I currently use LUKS for full disk encryption (including /boot) on Gentoo (openrc) with Grub doing the luks unlocking (my initrd has to unlock the encrypted partition too/again, but I just have a key saved within the initrd so I don't have to type the password twice).
Interesting. About 3 years ago I had a similar project - see http://stani.sh/walter/pfcts/original/ and http://stani.sh/walter/cims/ - but ex-employer decided they wanted to keep IP, so I haven't been able to open source it.
I'm served by the Santa Clara County library system and I believe any thing of which they have physical possession (DVD/book/tape/etc) can be transferred between any branch for your convenience. Where exactly are you?
It's only money laundering if the source of coins is illicit. You can legally tumble clean coins all day long.
When you use a VPN can your OS update request be used to de anonymize you? I would think that Microsoft or Apple would get a request saying "the OS running on this machine with activation token 0xfe875c56a788d0 is checking for an OS update" regularly, so that the government could subpoena for the activation token held by the device that had IP 164.21.13.112 at 7pm on March 25, and then for all other IPs that this token has ever requested OS updates from.
First-order arithmetic with bounded quantification is decidable, but so is arithmetic with unbounded quantification but no multiplication (just addition). So is the elementary theory of real numbers, and elementary geometry. Meanwhile, there are plenty of small, finitary theories that are undecidable.

The key to decidability or undecidability is whether diagonalization is possible, not whether or not there are disguised references to infinity somewhere.
> wouldn't it be better you told [your relative] so that he can either get a burglar proof safe if that's what he wants or get a new fireproof safe that he then doesn't destroy by drilling through it?

Fair comment. But I guessed that all he wanted was something that would stop a burglar from bashing it open in 5 minutes. It's probably fine for that purpose. But I might say something to him next time.
Was that before tape catalogs and volume labels? That was well before my time.

In the OS/MVS environment I was in in the 80s, the job's JCL would identify a data set and a relative version number (+1 when creating, 0 for current, -1 for its predecessor, etc.), then the tape catalog would look up the volume number, which was written on the tape case itself (and usually correct). If the operator mounted a wrong tape (either wrong dataset or version), the tape would be kicked off and you'd be prompted again ("you dummy humans can't even handle unpacked decimal?!")

It was typical that backup copies be made via an additional DD pass.
Thanks for the clarification. The writer should have been more clear like you - or maybe I was too literal into thinking what was written was everything.
I'm a huge fan of Washington State's ban on public smoking, and I wish they would ban tobacco outright.

Why then should I support proliferation of even more addictive and harmful substances? Tobacco smoke is bad enough, but used hypodermic needles laying on the ground is another issue entirely. The trouble with addictive drugs is that a person's free agency is overruled by dependancy on the substance: addicts want to quit but can't. We keep other far less harmful products off the market through regulation, and I don't see how this is any different.
When I saw he wrote his own Assembly language for it...I was then all chips in!
I'm guessing it's because the economy of paying people to make titillating videos of somehow-not-actually-sex is far more puzzling (and interesting in a non-prurient way) than the economy of paying people to make titillating videos of sex
Yes, precisely like Facebook "Internet" is worse than nothing. Things like these will bite us in the ass in the future, better to stop it as soon as possible.
It sounds from the thread like Arch gives you a choice between systemd handling cryptsetup and using the older cryptsetup implementation (using shell scripts?).

If I remember correctly, systemd's native support for cryptsetup is relatively new and largely modeled on Debian's extensive integration, which worked well with systemd before the native support showed up.
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> Fourth, PornHub is owned by MindGeek which also owns Brazzers, Mofos, DigitalPlayground, Twistys, RealityKings, and has many relationships with other producers. You see a lot of full length movies on Pornhub...

You really know your porn...
It appears both electron and nw.js can be installed through npm (though the electron one is more up-to-date than the nw.js one:

https://www.npmjs.com/package/nwjs

and electron:

https://github.com/electron-userland/electron-prebuilt
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> i.e. psychologically or physically dependent on the drug to the point of ruin or death

That's not what dependence means. That could be an outcome. And each of those drugs has a different potential outcome from long term use.

Take for example the difference between marijuana and cigarettes. Cigarettes are much more addictive, and have clear evidence of causing lung cancer. It would seem logical that marijuana would also cause lung cancer, but there is not enough evidence to say for certain that it does.

So dependence on cigarettes can definitively kill you. Dependence on marijuana might make you less employable, but it's not certain that it might kill you.
Wit.ai launches built- in NLP for Messenger and shuts down Bot Engine
Curious to see this making the front page of HN - what's so special about this bug?