skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
ChefConf was great for me. First one this July, and I intend on going back in '18. (I do automation development, primarily in Chef.)
"Not interested" sadly send like a point block rather than having any kind of semantic intelligence behind it.
Then you don't have to worry, because they also plan to give away their wealth.
This really depends on how thick or thin the data are.

If any given option only gets a small handful of votes, then you might see a strong bias (favourable or otherwise) where neutral would be appropriate.

In Likert scale design (where favourability options >2), there's a strong debate over even or odd choices -- should someone be able to give a "meh" rating, or do you want to force a positive or negative, if even slight.

Hence, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7 point (typically) scales.
Yes, what Java gives you for immutable objects is a guarantee of safe publication. In both languages, once you have the object published, you can freely share it between threads.
I presumed this wouldn't apply, but article 19 does look interesting.

"""

Article 19

Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes
freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart
information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.

"""

There may actually be a case for the US needing to change their laws to extend free-speech protections to things that happen on the internet. But that's a whole separate issue. Maybe something the EFF would be interested in?
United Nations disagrees with you, look at article 26 for example:

Article 26.

(1) Everyone has the right to education. Education shall be free, at least in the elementary and fundamental stages. Elementary education shall be compulsory. Technical and professional education shall be made generally available and higher education shall be equally accessible to all on the basis of merit.
SaltStack as an Alternative to Terraform for AWS Orchestration
We're developing a library[1] for this use-case. The goal is to have the same simple API for multiple browsers. Right now it supports both Headless Chrome and PhantomJS.

We think we'll begin work on Firefox headless soon. PRs welcome :)

[1] https://github.com/phantombuster/nickjs
I didn't have any trouble choosing not to buy Echo/Alexis/whatever.
Care to go through each headline and explain your issues with each? I don't see any extreme or unreasonable views in the list you've posted.
Institutional Racism Unraveled at Dimension Data
Yes, that you can't see a partially constructed String is what the edit is saying, but I probably could've been more explicit.
I don't see him doing a taxable transaction on his main holdings

How so? Either he passes it on to his heirs or he uses it (selling the stock and realizing gains), both of which are taxable events. Since he has called for an increase on both the capital gains tax and on the estate tax, he'd be affected in any case.
> Oversimplifying the cause is that you go from having to manage people and problems relatively directly to managing through layers of indirection.

So, that's the self-similar model where you're a manager of managers...

But isn't there another model—the partnership model—where at the top is just multiple partners, each of whom manage their own part of the business and report directly to the board?

Like, at a law firm there's not a CEO right? Or the CEO role isn't about delegating tasks to the partners, it's more literally an operations role, and partners have reports that are largely outside of the CEO's delegation?

I'm kind of obsessed with partnerships lately, or as I like to call them: "Worker Owned Co-ops for Republicans".
Normalising a given rater's stars, or asssigning costs to higher / lower ratings, is another option. Essentially you have a "ratings budget" you can spend, up or down, on your assessments.

Stack Exchange has this to an extent, where negative ratings cost the rater points -- you have to really want to assign a negative.
I suspect one factor for why Go is so popular within Google is that (due to complex path hacks as mentioned here as well as a network file system) Python startup is so slow.

On an app I worked on the unit tests took >10 seconds to boot on each run. Among the languages available to Google developers, Go ends up being the lightest weight, despite there being plenty of other lighter languages available outside. (This is not the place to start an argument about language plurality.)
I want to set up a private CDN pointed to some kind of hostname / reverse proxy and caching a hostname. Almost all of my users are on metered connections so p2p might not be the best.

I have existing infrastructure and unused bandwidth. What are my choices for easy deploy?
Proposed responses to supposed man-made climate change are not free.

For example, if you're a rich American, you simply hop on the bandwagon and pay more for stuff. Buy a Tesla, live in the city, pay some extra taxes, etc.

If you're not rich, you have to think carefully.
EnsoData (YC F1) Is Hiring a Full-Stack Engineer to Improve 100M Patient Lives
I think not being hacked is a major plus in the space of crypto currencies. Which exchange (with a solid API, US law compliant) would you suggest instead?
Something that leaves your hands free and does AR is obviously the eventual form factor for our personal device, but hololens is way too bulky to be that thing. Maybe if they actually get it down to the size of a pair of lenses ... but that will take half a century.
Not the author, but I think the proposal would be for browsers to not display scary warning pages HTTPS requests using self-signed certificates where the hostname is an RFC1918 IP address.

The argument is that self-signed certificates on internal-only IPs aren't any less secure than plain HTTP.
The developer subscription isn’t just 99$. You need to pay with a credit card, the cheapest credit card available in Germany has an annual fee of 39.99€, unless you move > $1300 a year via a CC. (I don’t have a CC, neither do 90.1% of Germans)

So, you have $150 annual fee just for the developer account. Plus an additional massive cost every I time I need to replace the device.

The starting costs are significantly higher; maybe not 3k, maybe just 2k, but that’s the same anyway: Completely unaffordable.

And running costs are massively worse, too.
It's cheap to comment. You and I just did it now (max time 5-10 min), just like it's cheap to participate in mail-in vote ballots as a citizen
> This does not mean anyone should "work for free", states and other administrations are supposed to guarantee human rights and they can pay for that work.

What about in a country in crisis like Venezuela with no money to afford human rights?

In a time of crisis, do farmers and doctors need to work for free to guarantee the human rights of others? How about Amazon warehouse workers?
Germline genetic manipulation is unlikely to extend beyond the super rich in the short or medium term due to cost. Plain IVF is not accessible to most due to cost and its not likely to get more so any time soon. Hence, IVF + genetic manipulation will take quite a bit longer to get to a cost where it could be widespread.

Also, its not clear to me how many therapeutic paths this opens up versus simply screening preimplantation embryos.
Some years back I designed a multi-point rating system for a social media site.

I used it precisely as you describe.

Ended up in a discussion/argument with one of the users (not aware of my role) over whether or not that constituted "abuse" of the system.

It was pointed out (by others) what my relationship to the system design was. I remain amused by the episode.
Existing securities laws didn't develop in a vacuum - they were a response to real problems in capital markets. Receiving something tradeable presupposes a counter party to trade with. Those likely will be in short supply once you've bought a lemon.

A secondary market which eschews many of the practices of the established markets vis a vis investor protections, and relies on information discovery and reputation, eventually will develop so much friction related to those costs as to stop being viable.
Is there anyone in the semiconductor industry that _doesn't_ have an axe to grind with Intel?
you are right, I should learn to read.
The real evil is people willing to pivot any discussion to whatever topic they think is more important, destroying a platform for open discourse.
According to idiots who don't know that rights are.
I used to think the same thing until I realized the most accurate and consistent ratings I use on a regular basis is rotten tomatoes. And they're based on strict thumbs up/ down.

It ensures votes hold equal weight and that "extreme polar" voters don't skew things. It also avoids the opposite problem of "everything is neutral" vote unless horrible/incredible.

RT also handles high brow and low brow well. You get less voting of "eh I didn't love it, but it's sophisticated so I'll give it an extra star."

I'm sold on simple up/down.
Okay, take it from a long-time infantry combat veteran: "MilSim" / airsoft / whatever-you-want-to-call-it isn't the same thing as actual warfare anymore than playing Call of Duty is the same thing as actual warfare. These two things are completely different creatures, and no amount of "but if you do it right" is going to simulate actual combat, sorry.
Why specifically the GIF format internally? I haven't seen a GIF come out of a digital camera in ... ever, actually.
I think their interest is clear enough, and not long term...

“After each closing, funds tendered by investors will be available to the company and, after the company has sold $7,000,000 worth of Common Stock, selling securityholders will be permitted to sell up to $3,000,000 worth of Common Stock.
>far more likely to involve some sort of trade off or side effects

http://slatestarcodex.com/2016/05/04/myers-race-car-versus-t...

>People with high IQ tend to live longer. For example, a person with IQ 115 (85th percentile) is 20% more likely to survive to age 76 than an average person with IQ 100. [...] People with high IQ tend to be taller. This is interesting since height is often used as a measure of health and fitness during childhood, and since taller people get a bunch of advantages including being rated as more attractive and earning higher income. [...] People with high IQ may be more attractive. This is the conclusion of a meta-analysis that finds a positive correlation between intelligence and body symmetry, usually used as a proxy for attractiveness unaffected by things like hairstyle and cosmetics [...] People with high IQ commit much less crime [...] People with high IQ tend to be more physically fit. [...] People with high IQ have lower rates of heart disease, stroke, circulatory diseases, and diabetes.

Doesn't look like there's much in the way of a tradeoff between high IQ and biological fitness.
Moving "import" statements into dynamically-controlled blocks goes a long way in my experience, despite being flagged by tools like "pylint".

Buried imports free the interpreter from doing something until it is actually required; really nice if you just want to run "--help" and not wait 4 seconds for utterly unrelated modules to be found. It also creates this interesting situation where a script can technically be broken (e.g. module not found) but you don't care as long as the part you're using is OK.

Grouped imports are undoubtedly nice for purity and easily seeing dependencies but they may not be smart in a dynamic language. It is still pretty easy to "grep" to find imports if you're trying to track dependencies.
I'd make it a bit more specific - human rights are things that you have in the absence of society, as they are universally applicable, but they don't encompass all rights. A citizen can have a right to something provided by their society.
wait wait, you fly these things via a VR headset?
Absolutely stupid, should we be holding the governments of poor countries who can't afford to host infrastructure in contempt?

A human right should be a right that could be held throughout any time in any place. If the internet is a human right, were people 1000 years ago being denied of this human right? The overuse of the term "human right" will only devalue the meaning of "human right".
That's not a design problem though: that's a you're-not-really-the-customer-problem.

It is, however, exacerbated by designers who think they are creating fashion magazines. In addition to being co-opted by bad marketing, usability and function has, ironically, also been subordinated to immediate visual appeal.

However, you can't deny that we've some way since AOL, mirabilis and geocities.
Which, in turn, flies in the face of the original, Lockeian definition of "natural rights".

I'm not saying this article is alone in diluting the meaning of a "right", it's been going on for years all around the world. That dilution, though, has made it basically useless as a concept.
Climate Apartheid
Let's do a mental exercise: the US government decides to nationalize those 3 companies.

1) Buying them would require at least 30% over their market caps, so let's say $1.3T for Google, and $1.3T for Amazon and FB combined, which is about 2/3 of the entire US Gov budget, so there's no way the government is paying fair market price for this

2) Since the government isn't paying fair market price, it essentially needs to seize the shares by force and then go through the courts for years to fight it off. Millions loose hundreds of billions of dollars in their ETFs, and their retirement savings take a massive hit

3) Even if the government seizes the shares by force, there are very few actual assets owned by those 3 companies, most of the value is in data, systems, growth expectations, employees, etc.

4) With the government forcibly taking control of those companies, countries around the world would take action and either take control of the local subsidiaries or just detach them from the US company, everything starts breaking down

5) Employees quit em masse, there's nobody able to run the systems, the government either has to arrest employees and force them to work, or simply let all the systems go down one by one. Hiring new people won't make a difference, as the learning curve is massive, and you wouldn't even have access to the systems

6) The products offered by those companies quickly fail, and the former employees open new companies that offer similar products, the government wiped out trillions of dollars from the global economy, a massive economic colapse ensues

7) As the global economy crumbles, the author blames the companies and the employees for not being willing to work for a shitty government job in a gulag with no opportunity for innovation, and refuses to take responsability for his/her stupid idea.

It doesn't take a lot to understand how stupid this idea is. I usually don't like to call things stupid, but whoever came up with this idea put so little critical thinking behind it, that it isn't just bad, it's stupid.
Gigster offers fixed price projects, based on $100-150/hr rate.

If you manage to get things done faster, which can happen pretty often, you end up with rate even better.

And yes, it's possible to make that amount of $ on gigster
Private information about my mental health is much more personal and sensitive than the wear of my car's engine. Handling that data to an untrained student intent on publishing a paper can cause plenty of harm.

I agree, though, that this study could have been done more easily by accessing the patients' records post-facto. But it's not the IRB's fault that the experiment could have been designed better.
In a time of crisis, do farmers and doctors need to work for free to guarantee the human rights of others? How about Amazon warehouse workers?

Yes, as they have always done. It's called paying taxes.

In my country, the media even underlines that every year by calculating how many days the average worker does "for free" (ie, to pay the various taxes), and on that day, counting from January 1st, they announce it on TV and such.
None of what you're describing really has anything to do with net neutrality. And getting rid of net neutrality would only weaken alternative outlets.

I'm thinking the problem you had with these services might have been your own fault, judging by your approach here.
About KeeWeb vs KeePass:

KeeWeb is a drop in replacement for KeePass, it uses the same format, so you can use the same Android clients to open the same file. IMHO It's a lot better than KeePass, especially if you are in Linux.

KeeWeb is written in JS with desktop apps using Electron. I moved away from KeePass to KeeWeb because, although KeePass was first, it is old now, it was written for Windows and then ported using Mono to Linux.

As it uses Mono for Linux, that generates some issues. For example, I couldn't copy a password from the interface and paste it in a Terminal (I'm not sure if it was because I use Tmux all the time). It handles the clipboard in weird ways. I had to paste it somewhere else, like the browser and then copy it from the browser to paste it in the Terminal. With KeeWeb it works normally.

Recently they added support for a plug-in that creates a local server compatible with the one created by plug-ins in KeePass. It can then be used by Chrome extensions like: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/chromeipass/ompiai...

That last part is what made me finally decide to go for KeeWeb instead of KeePass. It gives you "LastPass" like functionality in the browser while you keep being the one that handles your encrypted DB. And then you can store that file in Dropbox, so that you have access to it everywhere.
As with your sibling comment:

> I'm not saying this article is alone in diluting the meaning of a "right", it's been going on for years all around the world. That dilution, though, has made it basically useless as a concept.
Hey, hi! Thanks a tons for your feedbacks.
Makes a lot of sense...
Yes, your understanding is correct, that's exactly how it works :)
I agree with your last comment; I do believe that it needs to be taken one step further to reach the MSP stage. If I had the time, I think I would add crypto to the sauce.

I expect bidders to see the same kind of opportunity.
Wait & See!
In a democracy it depends on what the people prefer.

This article claims that without some kind of vivid lottery capitalism that makes people think "I'm not being screwed, I'm a temporarily embarrassed millionaire" people might become jaded regarding a US-style economy and choose a more socialized system that produces, for example, Germany-like income distribution rather than US-like income distribution.

Economies produce what they are designed to produce. The design and implementation of the US economy has been captured by capital, and produces results optimized toward the advantage of capital. That's a brittle situation, and a "gold rush" is a cynical response.
Making internet access a human right doesn't necessarily mean that someone has to pay for every home to have a computer and a connection.

You can give free internet access to everyone by e.g. setting up computers with access in public libraries. That can be done in practically any society, except those so impoverished that they already fail to guarantee other human rights in the first place. So I don't think the idea of making Internet access a human right is as far-fetched as some comments here are making it sound.
The article is an argument over who ought to own and run the circus. The article is also a distraction, on its own, and thus part of a circus.

Granted, I'd completely accept a quote from The Dude as a legitimate response: "Yeah, well you know... that's just, like, your opinion, man."

It is.
Ontario's cocaine supply may have just gotten more dangerous
They have an active mailing list: https://www.lua.org/lua-l.html

And they are welcoming towards patches, though they don't copy them all in verbatim: https://www.lua.org/faq.html#1.9

> 1.9 – Do you accept patches?

> We encourage discussions based on tested code solutions for problems and enhancements, but we never incorporate third-party code verbatim. We always try to understand the issue and the proposed solution and then, if we choose to address the issue, we provide our own code. All code in Lua is written by us. See also the previous question [On the lack of a public, official VCS].

Few large projects accept all outside contribution. And Lua would not be as versatile, as portable, or as small as it is if it did.
Add this to the story about Nike funding and now deploying robots as well, and the economic impact could be really huge. It may help the West though...
> But what purpose is having a review board made up of people who can think for themselves if their behavior is going to be indistinguishable from a program running through a checklist without any care whatsoever for whether or not the checklist makes sense in that context?

In general, most IRBs are there to help out, not to get in the way. It may feel like getting in the way, at the time, but they mostly are there to help.

For example: the wordings of your consent forms. FDA says that they need to be at an 8th grade level, +/- 0.2 grade levels. You can game MS word to get that to an 8.2 grade level but have it be 140+ pages, and a lot of researchers do that. This is especially prevalent in clinical drug trials where many Pharam companies try to make the consent form a contract filled with legalese. That egregious example is non typical, but highlights the issues with consent forms being readable and an actual consent form a person. This is where a decent IRB would help out and tell you that you need to re-write the consent form to be an something that is not gibberish. (Side-note: Most newspapers are written at a 6th grade level it turns out).

Another example is International research. There was a case I heard of where a group was going to go collect HIV data in Tanzania. They were just going to go out and collect blood samples and sexual health questions alongside. The part of Tanzania they were collecting from is rural and believes in very strange medical practices like eating albino people or having sex with virgins to cure HIV, though I forget exactly what. Balancing the local beliefs with data collection can be tricky in that case. Typically, you would like a local IRB in that region, but there was none. So the US based IRB decided that the researchers needed to go out to the religious and government centers in that part of Tanzania and ask them what to do and what questions they could ask, etc. This added a lot of time and expenses to the study to spend in country before data collection, but the US IRB held firm on that. This was a good idea, as the local peoples had a lot of reservations and wanted to see all the data themselves before it was sent out of country, so as to go off and then kill women that were HIV positive. If the US researchers had found this out beforehand, a lot of deaths may have occurred. They subsequently then left off a lot of questions and data gathering.

Researchers are human too and we forget things all the time and have a lot of pressures on us as well. IRBs should be there to help out and not be a road-block. If the IRB you are working with does turn out to be that, talk to other researchers and find if they have the same issues. If you all do, go to the IRB and explain to them that they are unreasonable, most of them do want to know that they are holding things up unnecessarily. If it persists, go to the hospital/university admin as a group and make the case. These advancements need to be triple checked, but they still need to go through to begin with. IRBs are not evil, sclerotic maybe, but not evil. Work hard to get them to be better, we are all in this together.
Probably not exactly the same way, but there is undoubtedly a positive correlation for most people.