skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> fuck'em, throw them all in prison.

We've heard that before. There is a twist there though. A lot of that "tougher on drugs" legislation was pushed by the poor black community leaders because they saw what crack was doing to their children, young adults, whole families. Normally we'd all want to say it's the white man abusing their privilege in a sadistic manner but sometimes there are some subtleties involved.

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/crime/2016/0...

Another interesting thing there is that CIA was probably involved:

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

Now on paper they "weren't" but given the article from Gary Webb and reading between the lines about what their own Inspector General said "...agency officers were not required to report allegations of drug trafficking involving non-employees, defined as paid and non-paid "assets"—pilots who ferried supplies to the contras, as well as contra officials and others.[49][50]..."
Since this kind of dark pattern is going to continue unabated, I have a practical question... In states like Washington, where the law says credit freezes are free if you are a victim of identity theft but $10 per action if not:

Does the Equifax breach constitute identity theft on its own? Or does someone actually have to suffer consequences from the information theft before they qualify?
OS X has always had it, albeit a fairly limited implementation. Try it in TextEdit.
As I wrote above, I am only interested in hypotheses that are physical. Perhaps you mean less fundamental than a field? I'm open to that. This paper is very interesting, thank you. I read it as proposing a self-referential, possibly recursive, stack of attention processes and models. Sounds like Hofstadter's ideas.
Hm. Can something be philosophically false but factually correct?
So you're answer to not using a reverse proxy is to fake your own via client-side logic? It's far better to have a tested, reliable, dynamic, and scalable solution right next to the actual app servers instead.

Almost everything on the internet is behind layers of proxies, it's not a bad thing and isn't much cause for concern.
1. I haven't read the article. Why--because for myself, all the talk makes the problem worse.

2. For myself, going on generic bupenorpine, and tapering off was not that bad. I took a year to taper off. I probally could have tapeed off the opioids if I was given a chance. The problem is most Doctors just cut you off. Completely ridiculous, especially if the patient is a serious individual. (I got lucky to find a doctor to prescribe bupenorpine without driving me crazy with endless office visits. I also just happened to be given the drug for another disorder.)

3. The generic bupenopine is still pricey. I don't quite get it, other than most Dr's don't trust their patients to not abuse opioids, so there isn't a huge demand for generic Subutex? There are still some sensible people who just want to stop the original addiction. On the other hand, I wouldn't be schocked if the price of generic Subutex is the result of some shenanigans.

4. Most people will be given Suboxone, that has Naloxone in it. It makes doctors feel safe, and that's what was taught in the course they had to take in order to prescribe/treat. Crazy again. (I felt Nalaxone just raised the price of the drug, but some of you will need an opoid antagonist in your treatment, especially if street drugs are easily available, or you don't have not much self control.)

4. My point is if you Taper off, all the drama is spared. My story will never be on Lifetime.

5. It's still a pain in the ass with the Dr. visits, and getting scripts though.

6. I can offer this, if you want to stop, Taper off. Yes--I know it's just not that easy. The system we currently have makes getting off difficult. Again crazy?

7. Stay away from all the support group sites. They just scared the hell out of me, especially the ones on the internet.

8. If you are addicted to anything, most of you can successfully taper off yourself. Very few of you need the drama, and expense of a rehab. Again--the system is so rediculious, we are forced into going to the rehabs, just to get the opportunity to taper off. Again crazy.

9. We have a crisis. It's not giving addicted people the easy/cheap way to Taper off the most controlled substances. It's no wonder people turn to the streets to feed their cravings.
I guess whether it's dystopian or not depends on if you are one of the edge cases or not.
Most of those are used when riding with a club or other group who know each other.
The first people to preach secularism were practicing Christians.
If you were around back in the 1980's, you'd realize it was because crack was labelled an "epidemic" and ended up on the nightly news often. "Something had to be done"

That wasn't happening with powdered cocaine.
he does that
I like this idea, it's fascinating how willing young millennials (myself included) are to flock toward nostalgia. I used to take so much pride in my Myspace page, and even learned some basic HTML along the way.

Another idea I thought of could be to retool the site into something different from simply a social network. I'm thinking of how the name could be used in a more literal way, while also staying in touch with the social-network angle of the site.

What about a platform where you design a Space, like a room you dec' out and build to your liking, using points or currency for upgrades/additions. A bit like the Sims where you'd build your "Space" and other users can come over and hang out. The living room could have an entertainment system which plays your custom playlist. DJ's could host live sets. On the TV is a Super Smash Brothers tournament you can get in on.

You might have a neighbor whose Space is the party spot, people go there and interact/chat with other people about, well, partying, or something like r/drunk. Then you might have another neighbor whose Space is a salon of sorts, people gather there to discuss the owner's recommended reading list or art collection.

A universe of micro-communities, or Spaces, as it were. Some are open access, some are invite-only, and some charge $5/cup to get in the door.
Did that user just delete their comments or is this a new antispam/censorship feature of the forum software?
This drives me crazy. Most of the things that pop up on HN that I haven't heard of, I click the link and there's nothing there explaining what they do or what the product is.

There's a company called Deekit that was on HN recently. This is what I see when I click their product page:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxucYFiswY_vazdFTF9mUlNHb1U...

Not just no explanation... no text! (you have to scroll down). Note: they are not selling fashion or phones... turns out it's a shared whiteboard or something.
You wouldn't.

CentOS is aimed at servers which are maintained by sysadmins who know RHEL well (e.g. RHEL certified), or who just want really friggin' stable shit.

A developer usually wants someting that has a tradeoff closer to "newer" on the "stability vs upgrades" tradeoff.

For a dev laptop, absolutely use fedora over centos.
Unfair treatment is the single largest driver of turnover in tech jobs
Artificial Intelligence Uses Videogame Footage to Recreate Game Engine
Ah interesting. Not familiar with x_64 really. Mostly 16 & 32 bit experience here.
LinEUx

Wow, I feel terrible.
>That said, and I hate to be this guy (not really), but... Emacs?

I intentionally didn't include console editors, totally different beasts. Never used emacs, only learned vim and only touched the surface, mostly use it when I ssh to remote machines. The pinnacle of flexibility and responsiveness but the learning curve... it's just too much for me.

You're right though, it's a great investment and as the years pass and mouse usage takes its toll on my right hand fingers, keyboard only editors look even more appealing. Whenever though I sit down and try to code in vim I find my productivity plummeting. I know once I ride the curve things will improve but unfortunately I find it hard to persevere
Ooh I hadn't seen this before.

First impression: gimmicky and just playing with language (as in so much of modern philosophy), but I prefer it to Nagel or Searle or Chalmers, at least its fucking consistent:

>Emily sees a red apple floating in the air. However, there is no red apple in front of her. She is hallucinating. Is this a case of experience without an object? No. Emily perceives an apple that she met some time earlier in her life. For instance, she experiences the apple that had been on her table yesterday. Crucially, she perceives it, she does not re-imagine it!

Fine. That's not really how people use the word "perceive", but if that allows you to accept how our "consciousness" can be a real-world thing, then it works. Amusingly, the "spread mind" has a superficial similarity to one of Chalmers' own ideas, the "extended mind". But I prefer Spread Mind because it is physicalist and incorporates the obviously correct notion of embodiment rather than taking the step (which Manzotti correctly diagnoses as insane) of separating the cognitive and the conscious.
the concept looks cool!

but I can't think of too many cases where we need multiple versions of a same document.
Several reasons:

Perception: Linux has historically required tweaking and doesn't work straight out of the box. This requires computer skills, and the guts to actually make changes that might potentially break your installed system. For the mainstream, this is a turnoff. While things tend to work better today, the image persists; Linux is for geeks, and is too difficult for people with no interest in the computer itself.

Software: While tools such as wine, playonlinux, steam and similar alternatives make life easier for those who want windows-only applications in Linux, they are not perfect and rarely work out of the box, especially on new applications. While patches or workarounds tend to turn up, around half of the applications on appdb.winehq.org are rated silver or less, requiring tweaks to work, if at all. People want their things to work without any hassle, and aren't interested in spending time to learn how to configure wine or the rest of their system for it to work.

Hardware support: Although improving, drivers can still be a problem. Getting drivers from eg. Nvidia is fairly easy but installing them is not as easy as it is for Windows, unless you know how to add the Nvidia PPA (which requires knowledge, see above). AMD is supposedly worse, but I have still to buy a GPU from them. Getting drivers for other proprietary hardware can be a lot more difficult, depending on what it is. I've got a fairly common MB from MSI, but I still have to tweak the default Ubuntu config to get the sound to work. If it wasn't for the fact that I know how and prefer Linux over Windows, I'd just stick with Windows (where it just works).

Why bother: There is nothing Linux does so much better for most people that it's worth taking the time to switch. Most people I know (not counting colleagues) know virtually _nothing_ about their computers or how they work, let alone which version of Windows they run. I think most people are somewhat like that; the computer is a tool for them to do "stuff", as long as it works, they're happy. Or at least content. Switching to Linux doesn't help them in any way, but generally mean that they have to figure out how to get a lot of things working properly (which used to work just fine in Windows) and they have to struggle with howtos that might be outdated or just plain wrong for their situation.

A major selling point for many Linux advocates is that it's free and open source. But most people doesn't care; they might buy a new laptop every 3-5 years which comes with Windows pre-installed, along with a discount for Microsoft Office and a bunch of other stuff they think they need. So why bother having to learn something they don't see the benefit from?
> I copy my ~/.emacs.d to a server

I think if you work on servers a lot, then it's a major advantage to use something like emacs or vim, because your editing environment is 'just there'. But heaps of developers rarely, if ever, find themselves in a terminal, so the portability advantage just isn't there for them.
How's that different from bad customer service in an earlier era? "I don't know what form you need and my manager is at lunch."
Carl Hart has researched this[0]

I found his appearance on Joe Rogan's podcast (most recently #698) compelling

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Hart#Research
Great idea, now I can see how I would suck about making the right coin choices! How about also showing the buying price to make it more apparent for me? :)

Also, something to keep in mind: There are occasional errors about database being locked.
I own a lot right now that grants me an easement for access to it. The easement was established by the original developer that laid out the roads and property lines for the whole subdivision.

This easement crosses a corner of a neighbor's lot. The neighbor asked me to sell the easement back to him or enter into a contract with him that I wouldn't use it. He wanted to put his driveway there. I refused because part of the value in my purchase of the lot is the access that the easement grants to me and the neighbor wasn't willing to pay what I considered it to be worth.

My neighbor went ahead and put a very nice driveway, stone wall and garden over my easement; if I ever decide to build on my lot I expect there might be some hard feelings when the bulldozer arrives.
General application vs specifics, mostly.

But yes, a good grounding in algebra will help anyway. It’s not an exclusive set ;)
It is about your speech being dictated though, it's already been written into law in Canada. If you misgender someone you can go to jail.
As a public service I'll just leave this here:
https://dougvitale.wordpress.com/2011/12/21/deprecated-linux...
Followup: Found this: http://www.atg.wa.gov/credit-freeze-fraud-alerts

It seems that a police report is necessary in some instances, and that seems to imply that a breach is not alone enough. This is for WA - results may vary by state...
I try such distros every two years or so to see if it's gotten any better. Usually it's not worth my time from the start (fun thing is, I used to use Emacs for a year or so in uni, before turning to Vim and never looking back -- until I had to do Java, which meant Eclipse. I got back to Vim, but the last 5 years it's all ST with some sporadic attempts to like VSC).

Let's do this in realtime. I downloaded the latest Spacemacs.

1) Opening. Hmm, it's a zip not a DMG. Already losing me, but I'll stick, I'm not that shallow.

2) Hmm, it's just a bunch of source files? I guess the prominent "Download" link just gives you the configuration, not a bundled editor. I have to get Emacs from somewhere else. Grr... Lemme check their "Quickstart".

3) Yeah... the Quickstart link just gives you some BS that assumes you already know how to install this, and the "Install" button just gives a git command line to clone their repo. Back to square 1.

4) Fuck it, I'll use brew to install Emacs. Spacemacs doesn't even say which version of Emacs it works best with. I'll risk with what brew gives me.

5) Brew installation ends fine, with a caveat: "Please try the Cask for a better-supported Cocoa version". Now you tell me?

6) Anyway, I have an emacs, lemme git clone spacemacs now. OK, comes up, nice logo. Now, I have a huge emacs window -- so why is it asking me "first time" config questions in a tiny space at the bottom? And why doesn't it explain better what the various options (distro flavors) entail?

7) Let it do its install, then play around a bit. Close the window in evil mode (q!). I open emacs again, greeted with this:

Found 1 new package(s) to install...
--> refreshing package archive: gnu... [3/3]
--> installing package: evil-unimpaired@spacemacs-evil... [1/1]
An error occurred while installing evil-unimpaired (error: (wrong-type-
argument package-desc nil))

Oh, and:

Warnings:
- Cannot find any of the specified fonts (Source Code Pro)! Font settings
may not be correct.

8) I open some local source files to check. A buffer window appears on the right side with "warnings":

Error (use-package): helm :config: Symbol’s value as
variable is void: helm-bookmark-map

Yeah, fuck that. Back to ST3.
Lexical scope is a semantics concern - observable behaviour that is required for correctness. The case under discussion is an implementation concern - there's no necessity for it to leak by creating a linked list of activation records as further analysis could break the chain. The two are not related.
If it's an old laptop, you might not. But, I can't run CentOS on my laptop as a third of the hardware, including the GPU, wouldn't work. At least, I couldn't when I got it.

But, Fedora is pretty darned good about Just Working, in my experience. Because my laptop was a super new design when I got it, things were a bit shakey (I ended up using the Windows it came with for about a month because GPU drivers weren't working under Linux and running at any high res caused it to lock up frequently). But, once I was able to get all the right drivers and everything was working, I haven't had to do anything, even through a Fedora 25->26 upgrade (I have the nvidia drivers, but I got them from the rpmfusion-nonfree repo, so they update in the normal way).
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-turkey-blast/kurdish-milit...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/dec/10/bomb-outside-i...

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/12/explosions-reported-tu...
> Web Audio was designed almost entirely by a single person, Chris Rogers, an engineer with a long history of working on audio for Google, Apple and Macromedia[1].

Who at Apple beat him with a stick to get audio right? Can we get that person to design the audio API's for the Web and Android?

(Edit: I realized that this was an unfair comment born of my frustration with Audio APIs from Google.

The real issue driving this is that audio is still a dumpster fire on Android. So, if he gives web developers access to audio samples, everybody is going to expect it to work. And, on Android, it will fail miserably. So, better to isolate audio functions, give them "fuzzy" latency which you can bury in C code drivers, and hide the fact that audio on Android is a flaming pile of poo rather than piss off even more developers and get even more bugs filed against Android's shitty audio.)
I was responding to this statement:

> Everything that is desired takes resources to get

Kennedy made the good point (as others have, less eloquently) that there are many things that are desired that neither take resources to get nor are measured by conventional metrics.
That may be one element. I think of what they do and how they talk about it as invoking the spirit of Steve, but not quite knowing what his spirit stood for. (I suppose when one approaches death knowing that cancer is eating you, one struggles with clarity of mind and purpose to fittingly identify and choose one's heir to keep the revolution going.)

Their cheapest iPod is now $199. Their cheapest iPhone is $349. Their cheapest TV-streamer is $149. They've steadily eliminated the lower-price options they had, by neglecting to offer older product generations, or by eliminating the simpler models. The iPod shuffle was $49, iPod nano $149, Apple TV was $99 (often just $49).

It's as if they no longer want to participate in the lower range of the supply-demand curves. Before the iPhone you could walk into an Apple store with any price in mind from $50 on up, and you would find some decent iPod that would fit your budget every $50-step up (once you had chosen the most expensive iPod, there were headphones available to absorb further spending interest). At some point they decided the spending floor should be $200 or more, instead of wanting everybody to buy Apple products and thus participate in the personal computing revolution. Even their HomePod is absurdly priced starting at $349...
This is the whole "dammed if you do, dammed if you don't".

Situation: Crack use climbs in black communities leading to major social problems.

Option A: Create tough laws to stop crack use. WRONG, YOU ARE RACIST (for singling out the black community).

Option B: Don't create tough laws. WRONG, YOU ARE RACIST (for not caring about the black community).
I'm not speaking of the people who show up in public wearing Nazi paraphernalia and carrying Nazi flags. That's so easy any idiot can correctly identify them as that is exactly how they wish to be identified. I'm speaking of the people who show up in public with signs supporting free speech, unity, and love for all people that are then screamed at by idiots in masks labeling them as Nazis. Before they are beaten while police stand by and watch.

Simply because they have a different point of view.

Or any politician that openly disagree with certain politicians that have been in office for quite some time. It's a known tactic that has been in effect for a long time now. If you find yourself losing a debate, compare your opponent to Hitler.
It's $9.50/month. Quite a lot of money for 1GB RAM, 1 vCPU.

https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/t2/
You can have secrets or you can public policy in a democracy. This stuff isn't chump change, this is a primary debate we are currently having and the public can't see the evidence.
how did you come to know which stack, the app is using..
South San Jose (Evergreen) and the East Bay would be within your reach most likely.
Pollution taxes and land tax (following the Georgist model).
I only heard him for 30 seconds and I already hate his guts.
It's not just America's DNA. Many countries around the world base their drug policy off of US drug policy.
In short, the published science says to addict the patient to methadone or suboxone instead of whatever they are on, for a lifetime of perpetual treatment.

Actual drug users are likely to recommend using kratom to alleviate withdrawal symptoms and ibogaine (or another powerful hallucinogen) to permanently remove the addiction.

"Science" does not recommend this, because politics has made the hallucinogens--and research into their therapeutic uses--at least as illegal as the opioids that cause all the problems. As someone with an opioid addiction is likely already routinely breaking some rather serious laws, and frequently courting sudden death by overdoses or adulterants, it may be worth trying the single dose of ibogaine before choosing the lifelong maintenance therapy.
Tech bosses are globalists, not libertarians
Is what was done to Syria and the Syrian people worth the cost of "setting up democracy and liberal institutions"?

(As if that were even remotely possible to be the outcome)

So what is it then? Why are we there? It's not human liberty when the people being armed are worse than the people they are trying to overthrow.
It doesn't make sense if you are not orchestrating them heavily, really.
And thus that's the trap that has been set: if you don't follow the recommendations of black leaders, you're a racist. If you follow the recommendations of black leaders, you're a racist.

Even a poorly powered AI in 1983 figured out the only way to win is to not play the game.
Can't you see the difference here? Nobody is lining up outside stores to get a fidget spinner because you can't go two feet without seeing one for sale.
Thanks for your comments. I think that this thread can be added to the bucket of all the others that reveal the unhealthy expectation in the FOSS community, and I'm not convinced that the "variety of reasons" are compelling.

It's regrettable that our announcement today is so controversial. As much as a donation model is easy and safe, it is not a business plan. (We tried it.)
Because Russia is a domestic political issue in the US - it's been anointed as the McGuffin in the battle between the two main parties over the presidency.