skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Moreover, no plant or animal has threatened the entire Earth moreso than nuclear armed States"

Cyanobacteria have accomplished far more than we have on that front: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Oxygenation_Event
Tech Leaders Respond to Equifax Breach
Didn't like the song but enjoyed the creativity of it!
It's also strongly recommended to not use SMS for 2FA considering how easy it is to spoof/intercept.
That's right, I'm sorry if I worded it ambiguously in my previous posts. ECC RAM is considerably slower than non-ECC RAM, but nowadays it's mostly because of looser timings and lower frequencies. I'm well aware that there are people who claim that frequencies beyond the ECC standard are liable to cause data loss (for reasons usually left unspecified), but I've never seen any reliable data to support that claim, as long as the frequencies and timings tested by the manufacturer are maintained (not to be confused with people who overclock RAM way beyond its tested specification and experience instability).

On a further note, while the implementation of ECC itself is very fast for modern RAM, the same is not true of VRAM on GPUs. At least as implemented in NVidia Tesla GPUs, enabling ECC has a huge performance penalty by itself. [1]

[1] http://geoceano.fr/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/cpu-gpu-lbm-in...
Deep Learning and Multiparty Computation
I have used editors that aren't as polished but handler file I/O better.
One obvious exception is physical comedy. Buster Keaton is timeless, and in just one Three Stooges short, the contrast in how physical and other kinds of comedy age is apparent.
One data point, my wife's channel has averaged $1.14 per 1000 views in 2017.
Yes.

See this from earlier research results http://www.mdmaptsd.org/research-category.html

> A long-term follow-up of patients who received MDMA-assisted psychotherapy revealed that overall benefits were maintained an average of 3.8 years later.
This seems really neat. Haven't really dug in yet, but a couple things I'd be curious to see if it facilitated would be facilitating GPU-accelerated deep learning work (either training or inference) on non-nvidia GPUs, which seem poorly supported natively with most current frameworks, via the OpenCL backend, and also facilitating ease of deployment for inference on environments where having large, complex dependencies is a pain, like Lambda.
Ok should be fixed, I think.
Safety played absolutely no role in these decisions. If that we’re the case, only personal consumption or distribution would be banned, not basic research itself including research that didn’t even administer the drugs to humans.
“Life Expectancy” – What does this actually mean?
How close to invisible can a mirror be?
> There are issues with this, but on the latter point: why are the GNU and OSI models an unquestionable religion?

The FSF Free Software and OSI Open Source definitions are the products of significant consideration of the logical impacts and experience of the practical impacts of software licensing (the former more heavily on the abstract, the latter on he practical, but interestingly they end up essentially identical.)

As such, deviations from those models that assert that they are both retaining the benefits and curing problems inherent to the models, while certainly not implausible, do call for careful examination.
> How is this even the least bit surprising to anyone?

We are told or taught that the US is a land of opportunity and meritocracy. One of our great myths is that bloodline doesn't matter. It goes back to our founders and the fact that we fought against a bloodline royalty. This is what I was taught from kindergarten onwards. That america was special and exceptional. We didn't have royalty. Doesn't matter who your father was, we are all "kings" and equal.

But you leave school and join the real world and you realize all of that was nonsense. Your success in life has more to do with who your parents are than anything else.

George Bush with a C average is far better off than the valedictorian.

Ultimately, we aren't as special or different than any other nation.

I think this fact is surprising to most americans because we are taught something entirely different from the first day of school.
Not sure why you got a downvote, because those are excellent points. However, I'm assuming the hopeful case where we can think of something valuable, in which case the capital cost of equipment and operational cost of connectivity would be an easy sell.

For example, would you accept this woman as a remote personal digital assistance, willing to pay for her phone, internet, and an extra $100/mo to do stuff for you? What is the quality of the work you might expect? What sorts of work would she do? Answer the phone? Argue with your credit card company? Keep an eye on your projects? Are people that capable really hiding in the countryside?
I mean, we can daily see how much effort is wasted on projects beholden to stockholders and business interests. In my experience, open source software is the only software that can stand the test of time; everything else will be pivoted, sunset, or bought out eventually. The problem is that it's so hard to make money doing it.

(Not that this is necessarily a good solution, mind you.)
Nice catch! And fixed.

It's a Mustache templating error, fixed on master in the submodule, but apparently not in the current deploy. I moved from {{template vars with HTML escaping}} to {{{raw template vars}}} sometime back. Bad merge, perhaps. There have been quite a few changes, in response to feedback!
There is a big difference between language idioms and design patterns.
That's the thing that always terrifies me about Backblaze. I really want to like it, the pricing is good and they are so open about how their business and technology operates, yet you constantly hear of people on HN getting bitten by corner cases where they lose their data :(
1. Makes an HTTP call, waits for it to complete, and prints the result;
2. *Then* makes other two parallel HTTP calls;
3. Wait for both to complete, *then* print their result.

"For such a simple example, we ended up with 2 nested then callbacks ..."

I've slightly rewritten the third point above to state my point.

Which is that I appreciate how promises reflect the actual situation. When describing the requirement, you'll use the word 'then' twice, and the code with promises ends up having two 'then's in it. It might be somewhat trivial, but I like it. It seems fitting to me that I describe "do this then that" and the code will be `doThis().then(that)`

One thing about the promise example that's somewhat unfair to the promise side, there is a double nesting of the callbacks. That's not necessary.

rp('http://example.com/')
.then((resp)=>{
console.log(resp)
return Promise.all([rp('http://example.com/'), rp('http://example.com/')])
})
.then(resp=>{
console.log(resp[0])
console.log(resp[1])
})
When Security Features Collide
This is Shelia Fredrick, a flight attendant.She noticed a girl accompanied by an
On this theme, now is a good time to re-read the incredible letter Steve Albini wrote to Nirvana about potentially producing In Utero, which includes his perspective on royalties, etc. https://consequenceofsound.net/2013/09/read-steve-albinis-pr...
No, it's like saying that when you buy your favorite brand of ice cream at the store the grocery store keeps most of the profit because without the store the ice cream manufacturer wouldn't have a place to sell to the masses.

If said artist is in such high demand, then he or she can go make their own streaming platform, charge $10/month, and keep 100%. Obviously that isn't the case, so they must get some utility out of using the Spotify platform.
It's a shame, really, as AIM could have easily evolved into Slack for family/friends connections all along a spectrum of casual to intimate.

It's like how Flickr couldn't make a mobile app and Instagram happened, or how Digg fumbled so badly Reddit came out of nowhere.

First mover advantage is only important in the initial cycle. Once the market matures it's a huge liability.
Disrupting the Conservative Platform
"I'm going to start explaining to people, when you have an area that just isn't working like upper New York state, where people are getting very badly hurt, and then you'll have another area 500 miles away where you can't get people, I'm going to explain, you can leave. It's OK. Don't worry about your house."

http://www.timesunion.com/7day-business/article/Trump-says-u...
Is "acceptance of immigrants" really a progressive social issue, or is it a pro-business economic issue with excellent marketing? In my opinion it's sort of ironic to promote that and socialism in the same sentence. Bernie Sanders in particular has been opposed to increased immigration in the past. I imagine he's not as vocal about that anymore because it's no longer politically viable.
I love this book and it certainly deserves some attention, but is there anything new that is newsworthy? Has a new edition been released? Just wondering if I missed something.
Not really. All browsers have extension to enable vim key binding, so you don't need a mouse to navigate the internet.
I'm actually a big fan of myBatis [0] for this very reason. You still write all the SQL, including stored procedures. All it does is map objects to input parameters, and map result sets to objects. Which is awesome, because that's the part of database processing that is actually tedious and sucks. Writing SQL is not.

I think StackExchange's Dapper [1] works similarly in the .NET world.

[0] https://github.com/mybatis/mybatis-3

[1] https://github.com/StackExchange/Dapper
There's still a bit of an acid test going on in that you understand the person has a) bothered to learn how to communicate business value and b) whether they are putting value-add to your organisation in front of their ego.
It seems to lag on Firefox. Multiple times I've gotten notifications from Firefox Dev that Bitwarden is causing my page to not render (which was true).

Can't change hotkey for auto-fill login form in Firefox.

No Support for standard notes (yet I guess).

UI renders very slowly on FF and has tons of strange inconsistencies.

It definitely has the FEEL of a somewhat younger open source project while LastPass was much more refined.

I'm debating if I should bother learning C# for the sole purpose of trying to fix some of these issues, because it is maddening enough where I actually use Chrome when i do things that require logins.
And me.
I also still laugh about all the silly jokes in Sam'n'Max and You don't know Jack.
good idea, not so good implementation
I really enjoyed the book. An awesome intro to lisp!
So, I am part of the 1%! Gosh, I didn't even know...
Since the licensing costs are often zero it's made products possible that were previously impossible if they needed to license QNX, Windows CE or something proprietary.

Open-source reduces friction. This is good in some areas and bad in others.
Brilliant - I haven't really read the article yet but....

I was discussing this last weekend with a mate. Neither of us have actually played the game but it was around when we were about 10. We were trying to imagine how bad this game could possibly have been that it was taboo, and yet it was around in his (and my friends) fathers collections. We speculated that it would probably be pretty horrific sexist geek humour.

I did a bit of Wikipedia research and it seemed like it pretty interesting game. Probably terrible, but ground breaking at least (though the wiki article and related material didn't make it sound terrible). Interestingly, apparently it sold well even though nobody wanted to admit to having it, due to the lewd nature.
Ugh, yeah that's awful.
SignalForm: Charts as Code with SignalFx and Terraform
For some stats to back this up, the Brookings Institute report shows that mobility is much higher in Canada and the Scandinavian social democracies than it is in the U.S. or the U.K.

https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/02_econ...

Many other reports corroborate these findings.
You just assume that AIM would be better as a "social network".. but not everyone wants that, some people just want simple chat.

In fact many people think google's failure with gchat was trying to force people to use things they didn't want when all they really wanted was simple chat.
> ...you just probably spend too much time on websites that overhype ioT garbage.

Buying a "dumb" TV these days is an exercise in frustration.
seems like a lot of us did this. my version let you write little JavaScript modules to extract data from a page (which had been parsed by jsdom already), and then the change tracking picked things up.
I entered a search term for a programming language and got a bunch of lines to "copy" that seemed to be for accounting or sales, not tech.

So, either that's the secret to getting placed in good development positions -- to show that actually you are something else -- or, this site is Doing it Wrong.
When enabling the study sites it's not immediately clear the credentials should be for an account you create on that site. Safari just happily autofills them with login pair to dnslearning itself. Perhaps "create account here" link to signup pages (where possible) would be helpful.
If you want to release open source, don't expect to get a payday - period. If you want a payday, use a commercial EULA. Simple as that. Trying to limit the usage of open source violates the open source definition and CAN'T be considered open source.
Sizing database files
It might be because there are people who have experienced otherwise and you seem to be speaking in generalizations instead of experience. This is anecdotal, but taking MDMA once, recreationally and not in a theraputic sessions, helped me with social anxiety.

The best analogy I can give is like you're playing a NES game, and it's glitching all over parts of the screen. You're still able to play, but there's interference that you just eventually learn to ignore, even though it is wearing on your experience. MDMA is like hitting the reset button and the glitches are gone. You realize there's a beauty that you've been missing this entire time, because you grew to view life through this filter.

Again, this isn't true of everyone's experience but studies are starting to show it's able to help certain people that can use it.
> abolishing money

Communes have been tried, voluntary ones and forcible ones, over and over. They never work out. People just aren't wired up that way.

> Star Trek

is an imaginary utopia. You can always make things work when writing a script.
This book comes up in #lisp on freenode every so often, and the channel is generally split on whether or not to recommend it. I generally do.

It's fun and lighthearted. Using games as a medium to teach the language is something some people enjoy, and is a lot less dry than most programming books.

It avoids taking sides on the editor war, by just ignoring it altogether and teaching Lisp. This is refreshing compared to most books, which hit you with the Emacs cinderblock to the face right in the preface.

It also stays away from ASDF and Quicklisp and even the entire package system in general, which is a lot of extra complexity that can be overwhelming to beginners at first (though they'll eventually need to learn about this if they want to continue using Common Lisp).

The main issue people have with the book is that it uses CLISP-specific code in a few places. CLISP's last release was seven years ago, and because it hasn't really been maintained it's beginning to bitrot. Folks in #lisp generally don't recommend using CLISP these days, instead recommending actively-maintained implementations like SBCL, CCL, ECL, ABCL, etc.

Using CLISP-specific code does allow the book to sidestep the issue of the library ecosystem, which is a plus. But a revamped version (or even a collection of errata) that ported the CLISP bits to a maintained implementation would make it a lot easier to recommend these days.
To your last point, it's not quite like that. What happens is the
Andre Lindalls of the world re cord demos. The artists listen To the demos and more or less "bid" on them. Top tier artists get top tier songs. Or rather they get songs they think will be hits.

So there is a hierarchy among songwriters even for pop stars, it's definitely not a vast ZMP pool.
But this isn't unique to country bumpkins. I could rattle off dozens of people I know personally in Los Angeles county that think that LA is what life looks like elsewhere.

edit/ My point is simply that being sheltered isn't a unique experience based on where you live or the population center you're living in.
This may be of interest
https://books.google.com/books?id=Jj8EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA101#v=on...
>Economically speaking, you can imagine if Spotify had 100 users paying 10 GBP each; 99 listened exclusively to Justin Bieber, and 1 to 'Band.' _All users listen to music in equal frequency._ [emphasis mine]

Well obviously not all users listen to music at the same frequency (which i know you are likely well aware). What is the reason that they don't just take each users $10 then dole that out only according to the songs that person listened to. So if the user listened to one artist the entire month, then that one artist get's the full portion of the $10 that is given to artists.

That will help with the situation where:
1. Someone else listens to bieber on repeat 24/7 (why should that affect where another's $10 goes) skewing the sample massively towards that artist.

2. In terms of free users, segment them off and pool the ad revenue again boxed on a per user basis.
I'll read the papers on MAPs and get back to you.
That's cool, though FWIW the idea of using a random UID isn't original; it's how some well-written daemons achieve privilege separation, preventing unprivileged slaves from being able to interact with each other without having to resort to unportable (and often non-existent) capability extensions. You don't need init to do this for you; you can literally just do setuid(arc4random_uniform(5000) + 60000), perhaps after doing the common startup tasks that often require privileges. (The problem with the systemd approach is that you're already unprivileged when you're invoked, which can be a major hurdle for non-trivial services which require unnecessarily complex workarounds--e.g. resorting to D-Bus machinations for otherwise simple privileged operations that you only needed in the first 30 lines of main().)

And a far simpler solution than bind mounts for achieving persistent files is to use the traditional setgid bit on the shared directory with a persistent group[1]. For example,

mkdir /var/foo
chown root:somegroup /var/foo
chmod u=rwx,g=rwxs,o=rx /var/foo

You then either make that group the service process's GID or its supplementary GID if want to randomize the GID. And make sure process umasks are set correctly so newly created files are group writeable.

Altogether this is like three or four lines of code: 1) setgid or setgid + setgroup, 2) setuid, and 3) umask.

You can do all of this, today, on any Unix, with any init system. You end up with files owned by random UIDs, but systemd has no better solution than just periodically chown'ing them.

[1] If you want persistent files then there's really no burden in having a persistent group. It just makes sense.
Hey, that kind of describes Washington state, Oregon, and even California.
No... you're missing the point entirely The store is Spotify. The brands are artists.

If I buy brand A, the store gets a cut, and brand A gets a cut. Brand B gets nothing.

With Spotify, if I listen to Repartee, Justin Bieber is still getting some of my money.
>The problem is that many times the data collected is not objective at all

I don’t think that has anything to do with it. If it were the case the demands would be for better data, not no data.

And yes, some in Congress advocate against collecting data full stop on certain issues.

I would agree it’s always been true thst data will sometimes be flawed and biased, and always will be.

The question is what do you do about it? Stop science, or improve standards in good faith?
Over the past month or so we've be hearing this meme on HN that due to its business model not depending on advertising, Apple is the one company that can be trusted to have the incentives to protect their users privacy.

Oops.
This types of concerns are very much part of the remit.
Yet, from the articles writing, that isn't what they were aquiring, Bor was there a mention of that.

I argue that the author of the piece is either being dishonest(if they were regularly digging up ginseng or similar), not performing enough research or just plain not actually researching for his article.

(Although there was a part about how much the root purchaser had spent that day, and it does seem as if they had either purchased massively under market value(for ginseng), or the roots were all low value.

Also planting for sale is different than planting for consumption, a few dozen fast growing consumption based plants would have a much better outcome if you were concerned about health and saving money. It does take effort and planning though.
You are making a semantic argument. I apologize for not being more precise with my language.

Going out on the street to sell your music is hardly meaningful distribution at all compared to putting up a Bandcamp with your music for sale. One has the upside of maybe a few hundred people in a day, the other has billions of Internet-connected consumers.

In the past, the distribution channels were owned by radio conglomerates and retail conglomerates and distributors/publishers/marketing/etc. Basically the music industrial complex. And it was very hard to penetrate that complex with your art and have anyone consume it, much less pay for it. And they picked winners and losers capriciously.

Now you can put your music on YouTube, Spotify, Bandcamp, iTunes, etc. If one of those won't take you, there are others that will. And you can promote a song on Reddit and it can go to the front page and you can have millions of people listening to your music tomorrow. That's what I mean by distribution.
"For big backups, storage is (slightly less than) twice as expensive as S3, but unlike S3, there are no bandwidth costs."

Just to clarify ... we (rsync.net) support "borg backup" now (with borg deployed on the server side ...) which is the "holy grail" of efficient, zero knowledge, remote backups:

https://www.stavros.io/posts/holy-grail-backups/

... and if you are willing to give up our ZFS snapshots on the account (you manage retention yourself with borg) and you are willing to handle your own technical support of borg, we offer a 3 cents rate. This is about the same price as S3:

http://rsync.net/products/attic.html
Heh, in Ohio milk is currently 1$/gal.