skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Low domain-intelligence - probably bet put as low domain-knowledge - in other words does this make sense to people who don't know the jargon and fashions of web developers.
From what I remember about Crucial Conversations, the kind of apology you're suggesting works best in certain circumstances (usually one-time offenses). That type of apology loses meaning, though, when your behavior is the problem rather than a specific action. For example, if you're late to work for the 10th time in a row, apologizing and asking for forgiveness is probably going to be more irritating than helpful. The intention to change is what becomes more important.
So...you're claiming that because something is certification heavy I can't be self-taught!?!?!?! Jungian psychology, freudian psychology, alchemical symbolism; ALL disciplines of personal understanding and understanding inter-personal relationships that have spanned hundreds of books on my bookshelf and years worth of self-application to become a happier more effective human being. I guess none of that was worth it because I don't know what I'm talking about!

Oy I might as well stop reading books then because claiming I'm self-taught in anything will make me look bad! No offense, but your comment made you look like you don't know what you are talking about. How can you seriously say to someone they shouldn't call themselves self-taught/educated in anything based on your criteria?

What the fuck would you call self-education then if reading books, becoming more intelligent, applying it to your life, and improving quality of said life isn't self-education? Self-education is something everyone does, even people that have been through a formal education. The difference is that they are choosing their subjects of study instead of having them chosen.

By the way, your analogy would be stronger if I laid claim to "psychiatry" rather than "psychology" - psychiatry is more akin to being a doctor; I do not ever claim to practice what I know on other people just as people that love studying physiology and medical text-books don't practice on people!

Oh, also, I was not bragging, I was qualifying myself for the commenter as someone who is self-taught so I wouldn't appear to be someone that doesn't know what they are talking about.
I am really not too worried about this because - I know that corruption and incompetence will ensure this system never comes into place effectively.

On the few occasions that the government has tried to ban certain URLs - its almost always been simple DNS filters that can be bypassed by using Google DNS.
All retail faces this problem. B&N got their first, despite having diagnosed the problem early and made a try at a solution. They didn't execute that solution very well, which is why they still face the problem.

The problem is: It's better to get almost anything delivered to you than to spend time and gas going to the store. On top of that the selection is better online.

The pity is that bookstores have obvious attractions other than being a place to buy the fat end of the the very long tail of books. Nobodying is going to go to Sears to meet the washing machine designer, but they will go to B&N to meet an author. Nobody wants live music at the Home depot but at B&N, maybe. Nobody would go to a LAN party or board game night at the hardware store, but B&N?

These might all fail, but B&N could have put up more of a fight: Kindle LAN party? Did they even try?
minimalism in itself is not the key, but being small, consistent and good-enough is.
Not sure what is being implied here, but TJ puts out some of the most polished code around.
I love these, can see them instantly. You can make them yourself with just a text editor. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII_stereogram
Here's a good example:
http://farm1.staticflickr.com/95/261226567_2ed2262f54.jpg
> When very bad outbreaks start to occur because antibiotics' effectiveness starts dropping precipitously, I think there will be progress.

Hospital acquired infection is a significant cause of death.

> In the United States, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimated roughly 1.7 million hospital-associated infections, from all types of microorganisms, including bacteria, combined, cause or contribute to 99,000 deaths each year.

> In Europe, where hospital surveys have been conducted, the category of Gram-negative infections are estimated to account for two-thirds of the 25,000 deaths each year.

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hospital-acquired_infection)

These are just nosocomial (hospital acquired) and not necessarily antibiotic resistant.
We're not subsidizing the employers, we're subsidizing the employees who have families their current earning potential can't match. Plenty of people can and do survive on £6.19 an hour without government subsidies and have plenty of unemployed people waiting to take their places. Those who work full-time for minimum wage and still need another £8k per annum from the government to feed their family and keep them housed in London aren't going to get it voluntarily from their employer. One could always propose pushing the national minimum wage up to the ~75% of current median income some subsidy recipients need, but that's not exactly a measure that's likely to be free from side effects on consumer prices and job availability.
PHP.net beta site a new look
As far as I can figure out NASA's original solution to space food WAS a Soylent-like product. Astronauts responded by smuggling a corned beef sandwich into space. [1]

The point of Soylent is to separate the pleasure from eating. Rather than being a emotional, sensory activity, treat eating with has all the excitement of popping a pill - insert nutrients into body. What do I eat? Soylent. How much? The amount it tells me to. The questions of "Do I eat the broccoli or the ice cream?" or "Do I have seconds?" are taken off the table.

I wss in the hospital for the better part of a week a year ago. They had me on the "nothing by mouth" diet for a couple days - simply an IV drip for nutrition, then a liquid diet for two more. When my friends came to visit, the first thing I said was something along the lines of "As soon as I get out of here we're getting the best cheeseburger in this city." Could that desire be trained away? I'm not sure.

[1]: http://history.nasa.gov/Apollo204/zorn/grissom.htm
Retail stores plan elaborate ways to track you
Vagrant sandbox with Parallels
You don't have to spend any money to benefit from being wealthy.
Have a Look at Evil, really good vim bindings for emacs
"enhancing the immune system"

Note that one possible flip side of this is auto-immune diseases.

"immune response is bad at all times when there's no active threatening infection to fight"

I don't think that's at all true. Our immune systems tend to work wonderfully most of the time given that we're constantly bathed in potentially pathogenic bacteria. In this discussion scythe says of "the ESKAPE pathogens, which are the primary superbugs" that "in every case except S aureus, infection is basically unheard of when an individual has a functioning immune system; they are all opportunistic pathogens". I take that to mean that for a lot people, temporary immune system dysfunction, e.g. due to other insults to the body, are a big factor.

I noticed on Wikipedia that one of the ESKAPE bacteria, Acinetobacter baumannii (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acinetobacter_baumannii), "Colloquially, A. baumannii is referred to as 'Iraqibacter' due to its seemingly sudden emergence in military treatment facilities during the Iraq War. It has continued to be an issue for veterans and soldiers who serve in Iraq and Afghanistan. Multidrug resistant (MDR) A. baumannii has spread to civilian hospitals in part due to the transport of infected soldiers through multiple medical facilities."

That I assume is largely due to gross trauma (and lots more soldiers surviving because of much better body armor (even helps in non-comat accidents I've read) and ever better treatment) ... and e.g. car crashes in the US tell us we're not soon going to be rid of that problem....
Huh, how about that.
Very good point. This is definitely not for repeat offenses.

Without going into details, at a job once, once I was threatened to be put on a PIP [1], I dramatically changed my behavior. At that point, as you mentioned, you are way past apologies and into the realm of 'oh sh_t, I may get fired" and very, very unambiguous communication (from your boss). Only someone is really, really stupid would ask for forgiveness at the point - because the tone is very measured and corporate and grim reaper serious.

[1] http://www.tlnt.com/2012/06/01/weekly-wrap-the-dirty-little-...
What open source implementations are those? I spent some time recently learning APL, and the only one I could find was NARS2000 which is Windows-only, very buggy and has practically no documentation available.

If you know of any others, please let me know. I certainly haven't found anything.
Responding to myself, in case anyone runs across this. Kerr briefly acknowledges this point in his article against the mosaic theory:

The mosaic approach is animated by legitimate concerns: it aims to maintain the balance of Fourth Amendment protection as technology changes, a method I have elsewhere called "equilibrium-adjustment." But it aims to achieve this reasonable goal in a peculiar way. By rejecting the building block of the sequential approach, the mosaic theory would be very difficult to administer coherently. Even if courts could develop answers to the many questions the theory raises, doing so would take many years—by which time the technologies regulated by the theory would become obsolete. The mosaic theory would also deter enactment of statutory privacy regulations and force judges to consider questions that they are poorly equipped to answer. If courts must broaden Fourth Amendment rules in response to new technologies, the better approach is to rule that certain steps are always searches. The model should be the Supreme Court's famous decision in Katz v. United States, not the concurring opinions in Jones.
I worked on one of the biggest selling music players that used PlaysForSure, and every other piece of hardware was junk taking seconds to start playing DRM'd tracks, etc. Janus/PlaysForSure was just a library that vendors like Creative/etc dumped into the low perf, crappy design "music player reference code" they got from the SoC vendor and hacked up on. The media player guys didn't own their technology in any meaningful way.

Zune could have been amazing! They had a nice big screen, a hardware accelerated UI with rich transitions. They were lightyears ahead of Apple/iPod on technology. Obviously they completely bombed in the market, but imagine if they had found success because of their better technology -- it would have been really hard for Apple to respond since the iPod OS was such a low level affair (plus Apple never would have made a brown iPod!).
I was actually also admiring the simplicity of his solution, to take advantage of services that are already in place doing the exact opposite of his.

Tip of the hat to the author...
Countries have never morphed from oppressive regimes into democratic wonderlands without violent overthrows in between. The idea that you would oppress now while you are poor so you can be free later on is bizarre.
Love to follow up on that too
Please, don't make us languish, and do tell.
> The most effective apology is often not as complicated as this. The crucial part is asking for forgiveness.

I don't think I agree. The words, even when they come from someone you know, are just ultimately words. Those words need to be followed up by actions on the part of the person asking for forgiveness: making restitution, showing how this will never happen again. What I am saying is that 'I am sorry' is just code for hurry the fuck up and get over it. If you want to move ahead of mistakes, the blog's detailed way of looking at it is much better, IMO.
You just need to be root to install whack-run, since whack-run requires the setuid flag. Once you've installed whack-run, you can install the applications as an ordinary user.
Thanks for that that those very interesting links. But I still don't think that is what is going on here.

In designs which rename using the ROB, the register file holds values produced by instructions which are completed and retired, the ROB holds values from instructions that are completed but not retired, and the bypass network supplies values from instructions currently completing.

What Agner is doing in his example with the seemingly useless instruction is transferring a value from the the register file to the ROB so that instructions which try to read logical register ECX will now source it from the ROB instead of the register file. But when I look at the code in the stack overflow question, nothing actually reads from s1. So these are even "more useless" instructions than Agner's example.

Some people have already mentioned instruction alignment issues, so that is one likely explanation. There are a whole bunch of other possible issues involving the scheduler and dispatch restrictions. For example, I've seen processors where there were two pipelines with slightly different instruction schedulers. So adding a useless instruction like this might push your bottleneck instruction into a pipe with a scheduler that is slightly better for your code. Sometimes bypassing across different pipes is more expensive than within the same pipe, so again the useless instruction might push some instructions into pipes that have more of their sources. It could one of any number of reasons and it's going to be very hard to tell from the outside without knowing the details of the microarchitecture.
Resistant infections in hospitals must not yet be a significant enough problem to get lots of smart people working on the problem. Or, rather, they're working on trying to contain infections and reduce transmissions rather than on how to treat the infections, right? The other shoe has to drop before other half of the problem gets serious attention.
It's a pity that GoogleTV (which the Chromecast OS appears to be derived from) is such a messed up platform. They really wanted to be able to run Chrome, before Chrome had been ported to bionic/Android...

So, they ported Android to glibc instead! If you poke around on a Google TV device, you'll notice that the Chrome build they include links to GTK+ 2, which renders the scrollbars (that you can't use with a remote on a TV...).

I have no idea why if porting Chrome to bionic was so hard, they didn't use a regular Android build but run Chrome using ld-linux and glibc (and the rest of the system with bionic). You'd have to write something to bridge Chrome's content to the outer system via shared memory and IPC but (having done so once myself) this is much less work than hacking up a whole operating system!

Porting code to it which already ran on Android and Linux was a pain because it was somewhere in between (lots of Android library stuff, no bionic hackery). If it had looked like regular Linux, or looked like regular Android I would have had an easier time.

Anyway, I hope that Chromecast stays unlocked and that a bunch of OSes get ported to it. It's like a super souped up Raspberry Pi that even comes with a case...
If statistics are considered sensitive, you can use cryptographic counters in lieu of their plaintext counterparts.

A cryptographic counter is a public string representing an encryption
of a quantity, satisfying the following properties:

1. Subjects with access to the public-key can update the encrypted counter by an arbitrary amount, by means of increment or decrement operations and without first decrypting the value (i.e., the operation is performed over encrypted data);

2. The plaintext value is hidden from all participants except the entity holding some secret key;

3. The adversary can only learn if the cryptographic counter was updated (i.e., information about whether the counter was incremented or decremented is kept hidden to all participants except the secret-key holder and the updating entity -- honest-but-curious threat model).

An implementation is available at https://github.com/secYOUre/Encounter .
Okay, so what about non-Linux then, e.g. Windows?

(Also, apprently LXC guidance is only offered for Ubuntu & Archlinux: http://www.docker.io/gettingstarted/)

I also thought the point was to be able to deploy anywhere. Considerable performance penalty on some platform may hurt the point significantly.
Yeah but still.
Option 4: Your design skills are too good-- way ahead of their time-- and will not be understood until years after your death.
I went to a small university with only 8 CS professors. One of them was the author of J's array parallelization and he taught our Intro to Functional Languages course.

That class was fourth in the undergrad sequence, coming after C, C++ and Java so it was quite a shock to, well, everyone. He took us from finding the average of a list all the way through to implementing a CMS in J (our department web server still runs on J because he's since retired and no one else knows how to maintain it).

This was easily the hardest class in the entire department. Students who sailed through everything else would struggle to pass. It's a fascinating language but not an easy one to grasp.
My fridge is exactly as large as the hole in my kitchen allows for it to be, and I have no place to put a second one.

Small condo is small :(
There's only two of us, unfortunately.
From Now On I'm Going To Be A Dick To Everyone I Meet Online
Perhaps now, but having stable employees certainly saves a company the money required to hire and train new employees.
vi is the god of editors.

emacs is the editor of gods.
This will definitely be merged into learnxinyminutes.com when I'm back from vacation :-)
I realize that auto-immune disease is a consequence of overactive immune system, and I thought I alluded to that in the last paragraph. I guess I don't believe that the only way to enhance the immune system is to make it more active in general or in ways that would necessarily lead to increased instances of autoimmune disease.

I should have said wherever rather than at all times when. I don't try to discuss this a lot so I guess I'm not as precise at organizing my thoughts as I'd like to be. Thanks. Yeah, "superbugs" are disproportionately at hospitals, and garden variety bacterial species; they cause problems because patients tend to have wounds or compromised immune systems, and because the frequency of antibiotic use at hospitals encourages thriving populations of resistant strains.
Cleanfeed (the UKs child porn filter) is supposed to be IP blocking/NAT based, coupled with web proxies. Given the scope of the filtering this time around though, it may be done by DNS. Let's hope so.
Is it only me that finds it deeply ironic that the company credited with closing a gazillion independent booksellers and round-the-corner bookshops, is currently at the receiving end of exactly the same market forces that it espoused during their demise?

Perhaps the real question is not how to save Barnes and Noble, but rather why anyone wants to save them at all. I find it hard to see them cast as Meg Ryan opposite Amazonian Tom Hanks in the re-re-make of You've Got Mail.

B&N were once fans of market forces, and the public's insatiable hunger for lower prices at any cost. Unfortunately, their discovering that economies Of scale are only on your side until someone else comes along who does it better.

B&N are fundamentally Unsaveable. They contain neither the charm of the shop around the corner, nor the value of Amazon. I for one will shed no tears at the demise of this corporate monster.
We allow the police to use violence that is not allowed for ordinary citizens. The doesn't mean the police have authority to do whatever they want.

Yes sometimes police officers will drag somebody into the back of a van and beat the shit out of them for no reason other than their own sadistic amusement, and yes police generally get away with it, but it's not something they are legally allowed to do. The problem is not to do with trite libertarian buzzwords like 'government monopoly on violence'. The problem is a culture of violence within the police, and a culture of closing ranks and not 'snitching', together with a court system that tends to take police officers at their word. Additionally in most of these cases you have a 'police investigating the police' situation, if it even gets that far.

There is also a wider social indifference towards certain section of society which means many people just don't care about the police 'cracking skulls' to put certain groups 'back in their place'. For examples go look at the comments on Fox articles in relation to Occupy protests or cases of police violence against minorities.

It really comes down to people in positions of power getting away with things that less powerful people wouldn't get away with, and that extends to groups other than just the police; the rich and well connected can get away with plenty of crimes that the ordinary person would get locked away for.

You can make a decent argument that giving people as much power over others as we give police (or other people in similar situations like prison guards) will inevitably lead to them abusing that power[1]. That is an argument for stronger oversight and regulation of police forces, not privately funded militias with no regulation at all, which seems to be what the 'government have a monopoly on violence' crowd desire.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_prison_experiment
I presume you mean Aaron Swartz?
I used to know APL2 well, and worked on some large workspaces at Merrill Lynch, 10K's of LoCs. I really liked the language but not the job. There were language dialects, you could tell if somebody had a Sharp or STSC background, or if they had come from Morgan Stanley (the code at Merrill and Lehman was pretty similar, at least in the area i worked in). Interesting times.

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also compare "under" in J to loan patterns and all the resource allocation mechanisms in algol family languages

http://prog21.dadgum.com/121.html
a simple autostereogram:

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3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3

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Physical markets absolutely do have a great quality of discovery and discoverability that online markets simply don't have.

Further, I'm one of the (rare?) techies who prefers paper books.

If there are enough people who like discovering books (like me), then brick & mortar bookstores have a future.