skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A podcast I recently heard - hosted by long-experienced Linux hands - reported that installing BSD was a nightmare. Some discussion of which distros avoid that nightmare might be helpful.
Jesus..I thought that title sounded familiar. I bought this book off Amazon for like $3 a few months back but couldn't get past the first few pages because the .mobi version is ridiculously horrible. Thanks for the link!
The key difference between places like Valve and places that have an official hierarchy is that one is official. "In-groups" exist in traditional orgs, too, and they can be just as toxic especially if they are not competent.
Ten Years Later, “The Dark Knight” and Its Vision of Guilt Still Resonate
It's a CSV file with geohashes and the iso-3 codes that those geohashes belong to
Occasionally, the developed informal structure of the group coincides with an available need that the group can fill in such a way as to give the appearance that an Unstructured group "works." That is, the group has fortuitously developed precisely the kind of structure best suited for engaging in a particular project.

Thanks for this. One of the issues I found with the Agile implementation in my current company is that there's no longer an architectural/technical leadership within the team: the manager acts as scrum master, but it doesn't guide on how things should be done. As a result, as the quoted paragraph mentions, there's progress when the team is well suited for a given set of tasks. But most of the time progress is slow, because the team doesn't want to tackle the boring ones, or challenging tasks that would require the extra mile of effort.

That extends to the leadership of the company. It seems structureless, or "democratic" organizations can only work if the will/resolve/capacity of the lowest common denominator is good enough, and there's a large pool of commonly-minded individuals.
12 US states have laws against surreptitiously recording private figures. Their media and democratic institutions seem to function about as well as the rest.

Most people believe that not all information is newsworthy. That includes most journalists, who try to balance people's rights to live their lives unmolested with the public interest. If what Jason Gargac is doing is journalism, so is "revenge porn".

Gargac also lied about his recording and hypocritically asked the Post-Dispatch to withhold his name "because privacy concerns".

What point are you trying to make about warrantless spying? The legal rationalization relies on a reductionist view of privacy similar to yours.
How is Android funded by advertising? The google services running on it are funded by advertising, but you don't have to use those.
Seems like a very misguided effort to comply with COPPA since the site content is likely geared toward teens/pre-teens.

I clicked the "enter" button without selecting a year and the URL changed to
https://www.j-14.com/?age_gate%5Bbirth_year%5D=&age_gate%5Bc...

I would assume the better way to notify users is the way other sites have an alert bar at the top or bottom with their cookie policy.
I had the same thought, while geohashes provide a computational speedup this project doesn't seem to be more than a glorified spreadsheet rather than a point-in-polygon search
Author of the post here: I think their paper would have been much better if they included the piece of code which I wrote in python to explain that the transformation they are learning is obviously trivial and the fact that it works is not in question. This would leave them a lot more space to focus on something interesting, perhaps explore the GAN's a little further, cause what they did is somewhat rudimentary. But that omission (and lack of context for previous use of such features in the literature) left a vulnerability which I have the full right to exploit in a blog post.
I used it in production along together with Linux at a startup as it was a fairly robust Xen guest circa 2008-11. I was having a ton of stability issues with CentOS and Fedora DomU on PV Xen with CentOS 5 as the dom0. For some reason NetBSD ran great as a DomU on the same Dom0 so I went with it. I liked how Postifx was the base MTA, and was able to configure a useful systems with pkgsrc pretty easy.

The strongest case today is probably for embedded use. build.sh is unlike any other OS build system, you can happily do development of a firmware on a Linux or OS X machine for instance and splat out results for a target device.

It's also one of the better choices for learning about OS development because of build.sh, small size, fairly clean codebase etc. And those skills are fairly transportable to Linux (which is a bit of a fire hose and probably not the easiest to start out on) or commercial operating systems like OS X or real time for a career path.
its garbage i cant fast forward.
Cards Against Humanity is a very popular game that people find funny these days. Some funny answers include:

Instead of coal Santa now gives the bad children... multiple stab wounds.

Step 1: Bitches.
Step 2: Date rape.
Step 3: Profit.

Step 1: Black people.
Step 2: Agriculture.
Step 3: Profit.

With enough time and pressure,... An ether-soaked rag.
will turn into...Some peace and quiet.

What brought the orgy to a grinding halt?
Child Protective Services.

What gives me uncontrollable gas? Aushwitz

Amputees. High five, bro.

What helps Obama unwind? The violation of our most basic human rights.

We never did find Grandpa's ashes, but along the way we sure learned a lot about Aushwitz.

When you get right down to it, A black male in his early 20s, last seen wearing a hoodie is just Not contributing to society in any meaningful way.

In the beginning there was African children. And the Lord said, "Let there be Ebola."

What really brings out the child in me? An abortion.

We regret to inform you that the Office of Existing has denied your request for A reason not to commit suicide.

The class field trip was completely ruined by An M16 assault rifle.

If God didn't want us to enjoy Ethnic cleansing, he wouldn't have given us Brown people.

Lifetime presents Assless chaps, the story of Kids with ass cancer.

This month's Cosmo: "Spice up your sex life by bringing Children on leashes into the bedroom"

In a world ravaged by 200 years of slavery, our only solace is Pretending to care.

If God didn't want us to enjoy A pile of squirming bodies, he wouldn't have given us September 11th, 2001.

Yep, this is what passes for humor these days.
Heroku's standard tier doesn't have auto-scaling. You have to be using the $250/month performance dynos for it. I'd suspect that's not feasible for a little hobby project.
Installing NetBSD is not for the faint of heart, but installing Arch Linux is a lot harder, if that is helpful. I would say it is a little harder than Debian, unless you want to cover exotic scenarios like a diskless workstation.
Discussed 4 days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17539465
The milkdrop is running better in the browser than it used to natively run in my old desktop.
OneNote ever heard of that? Take this garbage behind a shed and shoot it.
Blockbuster Is Closing 2 Alaska Locations, Which Means Only 1 Store Remains
I'm wondering if even Atwood knew how right he'd be.
> Handling this at the local level introdces opportunities for limiting supply in areas where it is beneficial to the local party in charge to suppress the vote.

That may be true but has nothing to do with my original point, which I perhaps didn't make clear enough originally, is that the lack of discussion around ease and cost of IDs tends to result in the tacit assumption that the only suitable IDs would be existing, state-issued ones, whereas easier, cheaper options could be mandated.

> Why? What is the benefit? Voter fraud of this kind in minimal so what justifies the added cost?

I'm making no assertion as to the underlying benefit of requiring IDs in the first place, but lighter weight documentation requirements would be easier than a state ID and presumably cheaper. Co-location with polling places would make it at least approximately as easy/available as the voting itself (far more so than a state DMV).

> you're suggesting the could need two forms of ID to vote

I'm doing no such thing, and it's an uncharitable reading of my comment to accuse me of it, considering I pointed out an added benefit. Opening a first bank account would be easier with two forms of photo ID.
This is really well done, but I caution people to bookmark it first and go to it later. Otherwise you’ll have found an hour-long hope punched in your day!

Well worth the hour, though!
Your view on this broadly aligns with mine (33-year old, live in Oakland).

We bought a cheap (for the area, about 670k) condo just off of BART. It's a pure consumption expense in that I expect to get 1-2% appreciation/year while carrying a manageable debt load. It might go up a bit but that's not the point. We're right off a train line, not paying too much in interest, and building equity. Plus it's a great place to live, lots of young people moving in and we're doing a lot to improve it (lots of deferred maintenance we're working through). Worst-case scenario, we'll rent it our or sell if we move somewhere else; there will always be demand as it's a small, convenient unit in a renter-friendly building, just off of transit.

I share your negative view of the Option 1 dystopia. I have absolutely zero interest in living somewhere on the peninsula like Belmont, Atherton, or even most of San Mateo at this point, where you're basically walled off from anyone of lower socioeconomic class who's your age. Not sure "moral ickiness" is the world I'd choose (maybe just bland? do you really want all your neighbors to have the same job as you?) but it does indeed suck.

I think people who are banking on tons of appreciation buying today in the SFBA really need a reality check. There's just not much higher these prices can go. The common perception is that everyone in tech makes like $300k, which is so far from reality to be laughable.
“No one checks the chemical composition of the colours, but our study shows that maybe they should.”

Not exactly true. Part of the process of choosing the right tattoo artist is making sure they use a quality ink, since this may significantly affect the final work. I agree most people don't really do it, and fewer care about the actual contents of the ink, but good tattoo artists will properly talk to customers about it, as to set the right expectations for colors that fade out quickly such as white or yellow, or change tone over time like old black ink.
Seriously? Just enter fake info.
"there are literally no empty parking spots (and several others are driving around the parking lot"

Apparently, it's more efficient to stop and wait for a space. If the place is as busy as that, there will be somebody leaving in a few minutes. And that space is yours to take.

Me? I usually drive around, looking. <grin>
My experience with corporate development has people in 3 buckets:

* beginner or crappy

* moderate or senior-delusional

* seniors/experts

Most of the time the actual seniors are not the people trying to prove themselves or validate their existence. They honestly know how they perform. If the current job doesn't work out they know they can get another easily enough. If anything this camp may even try to hide some of their skills to avoid getting pegged into those crappy tasks you cannot seem to hire anybody else for.

The middle group is composed of people who are honest about their station in life. These honest people are happy where they are and aren't dicking around with office politics, but they do play the game just enough to avoid rocking the boat.

Then there are the dishonest people in the middle group. Sometimes this dishonesty is intentional because they are an imposter... to the point of fraud. Usually, the dishonesty is unintentional. These people are often disillusioned into thinking they are some sort of senior level rock star but curiously wonder why their management completely disagrees. These people are easy to spot because they talk a big game and their work is hilariously out of sync with the hot air.

Warning. Dishonest people are dangerous to your career and will run you over because they are too busy looking out for themselves. If you challenge their dishonesty they may put up a fight that pits you are as the evil aggressor. If you don't challenge the stupidity you can easily get stuck cleaning up their code failure. Pick your battles wisely.

Likewise there are honest beginners who understand their station in life and are eagerly learning to improve their skills. These are the people you dream of mentoring. Then there are also really crappy developers who can't figure out why nobody wants to mentor them or why they always get the worst assignments.

In a hierarchical organization I can usually hide from this stupidity well enough. I can only imagine the horrid levels of back-stabbing that occurs in a flat organization.
Well if the compiler wraps signed numbers implicitly you have other issues.
CBD is a CB1 receptor antagonist, which means it suppresses activity in those receptors which are found in the brain and the tissues of other organs throughout the entire body. Excess CB1 activity seems to be implicated in many different disorders (most notably obesity).

Chronic CB1 receptor antagonism is associated with:

- lowered blood pressure

- increased levels of Akkermensia bacteria in the gut (associated with leanness)

- decreased lipogenesis (creation of new fat cells)

- decreased fat masss

- resistance to obesity, despite caloric surplus

- increased fatty acid oxidation

- increased adiponectin

- increased transdifferentiation of white fat into metabolically active brown fat

- increased insulin sensitivity

- reduced insulin levels

- increased leptin sensitivity

- reduced proteinurea and improved creatinine clearance in kidney disease

- smoking and cocaine cessation

- reduction in depression symptoms

- reduced anxiety

Search PubMed for "CB1 antagonist" or "chronic CB1 blockade" to see what kinds of things CB1 antagonism can do. You'll find quite a lot of research into Rimonabant (another CB1 antagonist) but unfortunately it was found to cause psychological side effects like depression and suicidal ideation; CBD does not have these effects.

There are several anecdotal reports the on /r/cbd subreddit where people start taking it for anxiety and depression, and end up losing 10-40 lbs. of excess weight without trying.

I've found that it helps me sleep deeply, helps me focus at work, and I am satiated after much smaller amounts of food than before. I also notice that I can run at a significantly higher intensity on the treadmill for much longer with CBD.

I have recommended CBD to 7 or 8 people, and each one reports a plethora of benefits: helps depression, anxiety, ADHD, sleep, weight loss, brain fog, overeating, etc.

There seems to be a good amount of variety in the quality of non-isolate CBD products. Some contain minute amounts of THC and other psychoactive cannabinoids, so they may cause you to fail a drug test if that's a concern.

CBD is one incredibly beneficial compound. I highly recommend you try it if it's available where you live.
> What irritates a lot of people is that compilers will still apply the strict aliasing rule even when it’s trivial for the compiler to prove that aliasing is occurring

I think better diagnostics for this would be a win for everyone.
I would say these days people simply find it offensive. I find it hilarious, because it is a brilliant blend of truth and nonsense, and it mocks that nonsense.

Not finding it funny is one thing. Taking it seriously is like that time China took an Onion article seriously.
As the years go by, and new stories like this come out, I find increasingly growing respect for Bill Gates.
It's not ridiculous at all. I've worked outside the Bay Area and in it the last several years. There is a huge difference in culture and approach to solving problems. Lots of startups are boring CRUD trying to look more advanced, but plenty are actually trying new things and exploring tech in ways that most other places just can't or won't support.
> Modern networking and distributed systems would be a LOT nicer today if Plan 9 had taken off in the 90s.

But it didn't take off. That's already decided. It wasn't enough. One can say well if it happened 10 years earlier maybe, it would have taken off. Or if Linux never happened. But it's speculative.

Heck, Plan 9 source is there. If so much economic benefit can be derived, why hasn't it become a dominant player. It had been around enough time, and there are enough developers around to have flocked to it and make it overtake Linux by now.

> I think the economic benefit over today's state of affairs would have been massive,

I think we already reaping enormous benefits open source licensing model in general. We live in a world where you can download production grade operating systems, databases, compilers, libraries for free and also inspect their source. That is often taken for granted and is incredible compared to who it used to be.
The one BSDish distro with an easy GUI installer and desktop friendly settings was TrueOS which is undergoing a metamorphosis at the moment.

For the most part you can just hit enter through the installer for any of them and have a working system. To set up a graphical environment you will need to do a little reading. I would generally say any of the BSDs are easier than Arch and Gentoo to set up but offer similar capabilities if you dig in. Slightly harder than Debian text installer, maybe 1:1 with slackware.
a quadrillion tons of diamonds. fix your title.
Sociopaths are precisely the sort of people who enjoy success in optimizing for whatever metrics they're measured by
Project Fuchsia is clearly their attempt at rectifying the mess they had with Android. No pesky GPLv2 licensing with the Linux kernel getting in the way, no ambiguity with Oracle... an OS completely owned by them.

Sure, it _might_ be OSS as well, but in the end, they'll be the ones to call the shots, and sure enough they won't include any of the secret sauce. Hopefully also for good by forcing providers and manufacturers to give some reasonable support to their phones and not be lazy with security patches, or better yet, completely lifting that kind of "responsibilities" off them.
Valve hasn't released a game in YEARS... What the hell is the 300 odd programmers doing over there?
How are you combining git and org-mode? Are you using magit in some way?
You only regret it because it went up. Hindsight is 20/20. You rented for a reason, you decided not to take a risk.
Lol. I don't think you understand the fallacy you're referencing at all because it doesn't apply here. The parent is claiming that if a company has managers it doesn't have a flat structure. Not only is this factually correct, it can be proven to be so as the definition of a flat company is one without managers. Of course, by that definition no company with managers is flat, which corresponds to reality.
I think self-organizing lead to more secretive hierarchical structures. People's positions are inherently insecure, and there is more pressure to organize cliques for people to secure their positions and then shut out everyone, who isn't part of the clique. I think it inherently ends up reward, whoever is best at political maneuvering.

I've seen various people organize their own hierarchy where certain people take control of the ability to push the code or access to the founder. This control is premised upon getting everyone to maintain the party line, and shunning anyone who deviates from the party line.
Aren't there already half a dozen Linus Torvalds rants on the brain-damaged stupidity of the POSIX specs? The story is long and sad because the developers thought following the spec was more important than writing usable software.
The origin of triangular footprint spaces in NYC
The few times I've tried CBD oil it turned me into an extrovert like a light switch. Normally being quite introverted, I found the experiences interesting but exhausting.

Another product which I've found has a very similar effect on me, albeit weaker, is 5-HTP supplements taken orally.

Sometimes I'd take a large 5-HTP dose then go out to used book stores, talking to everyone I encountered. It's fun to occasionally visit being that person, but it's such foreign territory I'm not particularly good at it and by the end of the day it feels like I've been working at some horrible, inane, unfamiliar job. I don't know how extroverts find the energy for all the interaction while still getting shit done.

CBD was probably having other effects on me, but the extroversion was the most prominent from what I recall.
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If we follow your logic then sneaking around a military base with a camera is not a problem, right?
Am I the only one feeling a little bit disappointed with some of the software versions listed there?

I don't use NetBSD, so perhaps I'm not in "the loop", and please forgive me if so, but;

- GCC 5.5 is only one major version higher than the oldest supported version; 6 or 7 would have been a better choice while you're banging out a whole new operating system release, 6 is still fully supported, 8 was released early this year. I understand newer compilers can sometimes introduce regressions in the build process for something as large as an entire operating system, but surely they could have tested it and gotten those bugs fixed if any?

- Similarly for Clang/LLVM 3.8.1 (Really? The oldest version of Clang that you can get on a modern Linux distro? Really?).

- OpenSSL 1.0.2 is only supported for another 17 months, 1.0.2k (the version they're shipping) is 3 versions older than the current 1.0.2o, and 1.0.2p is going to be released any day now. There are at least 4 CVEs patched between 1.0.2k and 1.0.2o; I hope they're applying those patches on top of 1.0.2k manually.
10k years from now they'll probably pull up social media archives to know everything they want to know :p
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Since the US is the most powerful nation, of course it will be the target of some of the politically motivated leaks.

With respect to Vault 7, once the secrecy of the tools was compromised they already had zero value to the US arsenal. In fact, I would not be surprised if the US Government leaked Vault 7 itself, to prevent the thief from being able to use them effectively.

Consider the value of the Vault 7 tools if they were known only by a small group of hackers with a halfway decent budget. They'd be worth many billions of dollars.

But once leaked, their value decreases substantially, since the zero days can be patched and the exploits mitigated.

Any state actor who stole Vault 7 would have no interest in releasing it to Wikileaks. Even Russia would benefit more by knowing about it and leveraging that knowledge than by leaking it in its entirety.

Also don't forget about the government hoarding zero days which put American firms at risk.

Per your last point, let's not worry too much about Assange's personality or character. The important thing to focus on is the leaked information, not the messenger.
Is there any plan to support an Android or iOS app? I've been using orgzly + Dropbox to have a personal notebook that syncs between my phone and my desktops, and losing the ability to edit the notes on my phone would be a big step back for me.

I do like that MindForger uses markdown files, as I prefer writing markdown by hand to writing org-mode files by hand.
It's right there in the webamp, as the first item in the playlist.
As someone who hasn't been following all this very closely I have a number of questions:

1 - Why does Ecuador care what Assange says about Spain?

2 - Why does Spain care what Assange says about them?

3 - Why didn't Assange just keep his mouth shut?

4 - What's likely to happen once Assange is handed over to the UK?
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