skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Oddly enough it was Linux on one side and Windows on the other.

Doesn't sound at all odd -- quite sensible actually. Though I would probably have suggested a pairing more along the lines of OpenBSD/x64 and Linux/ARM or some-such. It depends on what the remainder of the systems is using. This is a perfect example of where ecosystem diversity is a Good Thing.
> It's a shame that Python's time/date stuff is so wonky. I see stuff like dateutils and arrow and just wish I didn't have to go elsewhere for such core functionality.

That's on point, and you're not alone. It's a little frustrating when you have to take a detour to get something done. There's that extra hurdle. That said, user friendliness, developer friendliness, and maintainability are all about using the best tools for the job. If arrow is that tool, then so be it.
Yeah, not so much Amazonian natives. That's absurd. Pretty sure the brits just lump everything together.
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I used to think that crowd-sourcing suggestions would be useful, but the it's / its mistake is so common that crowd-sourcing it would just contaminate the data.

But still, how hard would it be to have an algorithm that hits 95% accuracy?
Disagree, purely informational websites have no need for TLS.
Young kids go to school because that's what you do. They see their friends and have lunch and sit in classrooms with teachers they totally hate or completely adore. Maybe High School students think more about it, but not kids.
And the obligatory XKCD: http://xkcd.com/1402/
The Particle Clicker team won the grand prize for the CERN Webfest 2014:
http://webfest.web.cern.ch

http://home.web.cern.ch/about/updates/2014/08/code-and-coffe...
Client web development is a fad. Using a document markup language and a scripting language to build apps - what a joke. And what is this "desktop development" you are referring to? When it comes to modern development, desktop is just a subset of the native experiences, all of which could share the same logic (e.g. via Xamarin).
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I work at a government agency, no scrum, no agile, no nothing. It's so bad I'd kill for waterfall.

I personally love Visual Studio. Using continuous integration was an eye opener to me, I'm still not sold on continuous deployment though (on call isn't a good option IMO for a developer).
That's the multi-million dollar question.

I could theorize the cheapest way for the features com2kid is talking about to work is to use the commercial Internet connection for uploads. Then the device that connects needs an IP, and just happens to be running a telnet server for maintenance (it's always telnet) and nobody ever changes the default credentials. Now that device still has no actual control but it's connected to the airplane systems over a serial console. Which is also available to log in with the default credentials...

Another comment here suggests he only gained access to the satellite systems which would suggest this is overblown.
He did the right thing. Kudos. Money means nothing in the long run when family takes a back seat.

You cannot hit the rewind button. Ever. Once you miss your children's youth because you're chasing the money, you are failing them morally. Get a 9-5 like other people and call it good. Children don't care that daddy and mommy are rich -- they care about you being there. Full stop.
He forgot to mention that ideally minimum wage should go away under a strong BIG. Since people are getting a basic living wage from the BIG, there is no need to force employers to pay one.

I think that would help make the idea compelling to libertarians. And it should address some of the concerns of a big causing less employment.
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Having team members in separate locations is NOT solved by project management spreadsheets. That's preposterous. Its solved with collaboration tools. Many people arrange meetings using tools like Skype or GoToMeeting, but there are better integrated tools that promote continuous awareness of team member activities. Like Sococo. Disclaimer: I work there.
Yeah, I learned a ton of stuff by breaking the computers in high school. We even went so far as to open the tower and pop out the BIOS battery while the teacher was out for a few minutes to reset the BIOS password so we could use a boot floppy to circumvent the imaging software. I don't even remember why we did it, I think it was just a Mallory "because it's there" kind of thing.

Now I have trouble installing a custom OS on my own hardware :) I'm not sure this is an improvement.

Edit: Now I remember. I wanted to put a little smiley face on the Win95 boot image. I succeeded.
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Are you familiar with the hilariously bad 1978 version of Lord of the Rings? It's animated, but at some points switches to rotoscoped live action to save on costs. And it doesn't even finish the story.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZpmZyTK2dI

But for all of that, I don't see how it stopped Peter Jackson's movie from being made.
Just a nit, but 2nd time I've seen '9 to 5' mentioned as a regular work day. That's just 7 hours if you take breaks and lunch. A regular work day is 8 to 5, that '80s movie notwithstanding.
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Live or Life?
http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/words/live_life.htm
Navdy seems gimmicky, (Husband) I'm worried about Adam trying to hit on my wife...
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I think that the best way to find a partner or co-founder is to talk about it with everyone you know!
most chances one of the people you bring it up with will have the perfect person to recommend. Then, go on a few "dates" with the person to check the chemistry.
Finally, the legal issue: there are many templates online, find one you like and edit it to match your needs.

Good luck!
harpoons ;) yeah - http://www.xkcd.com/1402/
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I would stab someone for a private office.

Getting interrupted every 15 minutes while trying to get my head wrapped around some difficult bug fixes makes work virtually impossible.

For every startup I've had, I do all my work from home in my own office. Once a day meetings to go over issues, strategy, etc. makes my days exponentially more productive.
How fast the aspirin passes through your stomach has no impact on ulceration and bleeding. It's not a contact effect, it's a systemic effect that reducing the stomach's ability to protect itself.
For a service that entirely depends on network effect, they surely aren't making adoption easy. It's the same mistake Google made with Google+.
I remember reading about changes to development during the Windows 7 project, which I wrote up[1] for a different lay audience.

People underestimate Microsoft. It has enormous inertia, but historically enough introspection to recognise strategic errors and reorient. The most famous being accepting that the Internet was not going away, circa 1998.

[1] http://clubtroppo.com.au/2008/10/20/microsoft-rebooted/
We have (some) private offices, but the people in them stay connected online using a collaboration tool. They are aware of the entire team's activities and can communicate instantly with anyone with a question or issue, yet distractions are minimized by being in a quiet personal space.

Our tool of choice is Sococo, because its awesome and because we develop it (I work at Sococo).
Proof-of-stake could end up being part of Ethereum, and the team is putting a lot of thought into it. For example:

https://blog.ethereum.org/2014/07/05/stake/

https://blog.ethereum.org/2014/01/15/slasher-a-punitive-proo...
And even when you do pay them they still can't get it right. My bank made a huge error after I separated from my ex-wife back in 2004. When we dissolved the joint account they updated all my addresses to her address and then maintained her as a "linked" person despite us having no financial ties or liabilities.

It took months to fix the address thing and still ten years later I cannot get them to competently resolve the "being financially linked" data error. Sure this was a data provider that caused the problem and they should be responsible for fixing it. But in the end it became impossible to fix because there is no single department in the bank through which the credit record data is passed.

Trying to work with the credit scoring agencies was futile because they just bounce you back to the data provider telling you to tell them to fix their data.

It's like living the the world of Terry Gilliam's Brazil.
Which is why I laugh when people waste time or money on alternate input methods that involve more than wiggling my fingers very slightly. No one wants to use a Minority Report style interface for more than three seconds. There's a reason input methods (mouse and pushing discrete things on a flat surface) haven't really changed in nearly fifty years, even with the advent of computers-in-your-pocket.
'Pururambo' is a documentary available on Netflix about visiting uncontacted tribes like this, if anyone is interested.
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It's sad that we live in a world where the cube is now the "good" option.

If I ever have another company, if I can't afford the office space, I don't need the person. Office space is cheap compared to salary and wasted productivity.
Yep, they probably used an off-the-shelf method for that. It's often called image interpolation or "inpainting" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inpainting).
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Unfortunately, that answers none of my questions. I'm looking for solid ideas of things that can be done, that are interesting to do, and have some form of real-world (i.e. not just blockchain-contained) interaction, either input or output.

What is Ethereum useful for, solidly, that I cannot do today?
Ok, so from watching a few video introductions to Ethereum, I gather that you can create almost anything from it. But limitless applications doesn't mean it's going to be used by everyone, right? I mean how often do we enter a contract (outside of purchases) in our lifetime? of what use are smart contracts and organizations if they are not accepted by your local jurisdiction? How much does a user care about an application that is using a decentralized blockchain to store encrypted information? For example; if he can get a slightly better service for free by google, with the only downside that his emails are checked for advertising keywords. It seems most people still put a huge premium on ease of use.

the biggest application I see for Ethereum is using it akin to the SETI project, but with a reward built in. Does the Ethereum VM support advanced math? Ie. complex numbers, high precision values? if so, I see a real use case there, or maybe in the form of some online games. but I'm skeptical of the "grand vision" a this point.
Mandatory encryption support sounds like a good idea, but isn't that what the article was saying they aren't going to do? I would say the other things you mentioned are features, but not necessarily benefits. Server push is not something I want, and if I did, web sockets are probably a better solution. And those alleged performance improvements have yet to show a significant performance increase on real-world web sites.
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> he kept falling for sites that would advertise to "clean" his computer

If they need Windows for some reason, AdBlock is a big help with this.
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Bitcoin has a more limited scripting system. For details on ethereum script's added abilities, see the whitepaper on ethereum.org, pages 11-13.
I have a "non-latin" letter in my surname, and I find highlighting it as somehow wrong or suspicious offensive.
Those people don't all die in their 20s. It's harder to get past 20, but once you did, you could live up to 70 if not more. There wouldn't be elders otherwise.
Seems to be a lot of words to describe what is basically a company adapting to its place in the market.

When Microsoft had a dominant market position it could freeze its customer's in-house strategies by tactically leaking details (real or perhaps not) of its future releases. Extended release intervals did not matter because customers waited.

Fast forward to today and it is not dominant in markets where it sees growth potential. Customers will no longer wait. Microsoft is seen seen as a laggard by many adopting new technologies. Extended development time would preclude any chance they have of success so they had to change. The outcome is as yet undetermined.
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Brazil is in America.
I'm a super big fan of CloudFlare and I especially appreciate when a CEO / Co-founder of a successful company stays so close to it's customers by writing a detailed blog post about features/problems they achieved/solved.
I took an emergency suicide first aid course a couple years back, and to this day still carry around the pocket-sized "workflow" in the wallet in the hopes I never need it.

That been said, one of the most important things I took from the course was the need to have the person with the experimental thoughts to agree to stay safe. That is, to agree not to harm themselves for a pre-allotted timeframe. You’re not convincing them not to do it, but instead delaying their feeling of having to do it now. This time gives you both the ability to seek resources to help each other through the crisis.

As said above, be supportive of the person. Hear them out. Pushing them away or making light of the situation is not something that that will benefit anyone. You may not agree with them, but you must understand in order to help them through this period in their lives.

Be honest and tell them you don't know how to help - but agree to seek out help with them. Perhaps they just need someone to show that they are cared for...

tl;dr get the individual who is experiencing suicidal thoughts to agree not to harm themselves for six hours (a completely arbitrary number) so that you both can seek resources for help. DO NOT try intervention unless you are trained to do so - you could make things much much worse...
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He made a strong case on a single argument against bitcoin several times - which is the need to wait for the better part of half an hour to confirm a transaction.

I still don't understand how bitcoin will ever overcome that obstacle for casual transactions (as opposed to ones in which a 30 minute delay isn't a problem)
States have laws regarding this stuff. So let's look at California, where this company is based:

California

Video Screen Restriction
Hands-free Cell Phone Use Only
Ban on Texting While Driving
Restrictions on Cell Phone Use for Novice Drivers and School Bus Drivers

Law: Prohibits any person from driving a motor vehicle if a video monitor, or a video screen or any other similar device that displays a video signal is operating and is located forward of the driver's seat or is visible to the driver. Provides exceptions for emergency equipment.
Statute: California Vehicle Code §2890 (West 2004)
Penalties: No Penalty Specified.

Law: Prohibits the use of handheld cell phones while driving. Allows exceptions in emergency situations.
Statute: California Vehicle Code §12810.3 and §23123
Penalties: $20 for first offense, $50 for each subsequent offense.

Law: A person shall not drive a motor vehicle while using an electronic wireless communications device to write, send or read a text-based communication
Statute: California Vehicle Code 23123 (2009)
Penalties: Infraction - $20 first offense, $50 for subsequent.

Law: School and transit bus drivers and drivers younger than 18 will be banned for all cell phone use while driving (regardless of hands-freeheadset).
Statute: 2007 California Statutes, Chap. 214
Penalties: $20 for first offense, $50 for each subsequent offense.

http://www.ce.org/Consumer-Info/Car-Electronics/Got-It/State...
>(I don't have any problem at all with an author living off their own work for as long as they live). //

It corrupts the copyright deal to some extent. Copyright in part is to encourage creation of new works in the hope that they will benefit society. If we (the people) allow authors to rest on their laurels we potentially deprive ourselves of much of the benefit that could be elicited from their creativity. We also to some extent lock up important works that would otherwise allow the inspiration of others - creators of derivative works - to be rewarded.

We want to reward creativity, but not so much so that those who happen to have societally enriching creativity don't need to exercise it more than once!
What techniques are you referring to specifically?
As a beginner with knowledge of only F# and Clojure, I feel a lot of his issues are solved with having immutable values.

> It's theoretically possible that the 'f()' or 'x' might change between the lazy evaluation of step one and the lazy evaluation of step three million. Trying to prevent that is what we programmers call a 'hard' problem.

and the examples he gives in Myth 3 & Myth 4 where he reassigns `x` to mean something else. Both of these can be avoided had x been immutable.

I agree with the conclusion in Myth 2. I didn't understand the latter half of Myth 3, so can't comment on that.

Am I missing something wrt my assumption of immutable values solving most of the issues?
Hihi.

We have a wiki-backend, but the reality is that our subject matter is far too specialized.

The edits are not as frequent as you'd imagine - one of our guys does the lead research on our page, emails the editors, and then they all hash it over, partly via email/asana, and partly with online editing. Then when they are all happy with it, it goes to the copyeditor to clean up (another fittitor!)

You can also click on the "History" link to see how a page has evolved.

RE: SSL - yes. We are working on rewriting the entire code base from scratch, so that is one of the things on our massive todo list!

And thanks for the kind words.
holy crap. that's 171mph
Obviously it's not vaporware but there are many discussions about their implementation behind the scenes such as "Ethereum “Dagger” PoW function is flawed" [1] and "Changes in Ethereum scripting language" [2].

[1] http://bitslog.wordpress.com/2014/01/17/ethereum-dagger-pow-...

[2] https://bitslog.wordpress.com/2014/02/05/changes-in-ethereum...
Oh, there's not a chance. Google's already invested quite a bit in Uber. Their exit is an IPO, not another investment. Private investment for startups is like a game of hot potato. Investors want to toss the potato to whomever will pay more. The public market is the last person to throw it to, and the valuation of Uber necessitates it.
My goodness, that is quite a load of nonsense.
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In a sense I agree with you, because I think the fairest thing to do would be for all property to escheat to the state at death (which should use the property to establish a trust fund for every child born the same year).

Barring that level of social reorganization, I see no reason why it's more fair for copyright to end at death than it is for other property rights to so end. It makes no sense to me why my legal claim to a piece of land, which my predecessors stole from the Indians and which in any case existed long before humans roamed the earth and will exist long after, should be stronger than my claim to a unique work that exists solely by virtue of my creativity, intellect, and effort.
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I am the complete opposite in that my depression made it impossible for me to enjoy any kind of video games (and tv shows, movies and music).
Isn't because after the increment operation, x has the value 4. Thus even if y has the value 3 and equals 3, it doesn't equal x.
Sounds similar to songthaews in Chiang Mai, Thailand. Aside from bikes, they seem to be the primary way of getting around and you just hail them like a taxi, talk to the driver to confirm that they're headed in somewhat the right direction, and it all works a bit like a dynamically selected bus route.
it is sad to hear that sasha passed, he was a great man. he did a lot of really positive work for expanding the public's knowledge of hallucinogenic compounds, mainly 5HT-2A agonists of various varieties.

that said, he is typically over-attributed as being the 'godfather' of this field in an academic context when nearly every single compound he synthesized was originally synthesized and researched by someone else. there are thousands of researchers from the pharma industry and academia who spent huge parts of their adult lives just synthesizing a few of these compounds who often receive zero attribution for their life's work. knowing this, i find it rather offensive that an academic institution would provide such a trumped-up tribute to sasha shulgin.

oh, and for the record, a lot of the syntheses in tikhal and pikhal have _intentional_ omissions and errors, which makes those texts mostly useless from a synthetic standpoint.
I disagree for a number of simple reasons.

- Cost. You now require every domain owner to also pay for certificates (or get a free one, but the process is roughly the same).

- Limited choices. The keys to the kingdom are owned by a few corporate interests.

- Encrypted browsing is simply unnecessary for certain classes of sites (non-logon, informational sites).

- It increases the barrier for entry to put a basic website up. As well as knowing some html and css, you also need to know about certificates and keys, how to deploy them, and how to keep them safe.

- Internal network communication becomes a lot harder with self-signed certificates. You've now got to generate certs and add them to trust stores.

Leave the choice to the site operators and the users. Fix the CA system before forcing it upon everyone.

I have HAProxy set up as the SSL termination point. It fronts about 15 different applications. But there's no easy way to decrypt at the proxy and then re-encrypt to the backend servers.

We're not ready for mandatory SSL.
The need for TLS is less in purely information websites, but there are a number of problems with this attitude. For one thing, the content of the pages you visit still leaks information about a user, even if the page isn't customized per user.

Second, authenticated, trustworthy SSL connections provide MITM protection and prevents modification of the content you receive - the transition from HTTP to HTTPS is generally going to be vulnerable to an sslstrip-like attack, homoglyph attacks, etc, plus content could be modified maliciously in transit directly over an HTTP connection (a less drastic form of this sort of thing has happened many times with ISPs adding in tracking cookies in transit, or comcast adding some javascript to pages when you get close to your bandwidth limit).

In any case, the cost of all-TLS is really not so high that you can't enable it just for edge cases who want or need to use secure connections for all internet communication.
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Unfettered access to a computer at 9yo is quite different to the same at 3yo. Particularly if that 9yo was accessing the computer more than about 10 years ago.
There's a strange hypocrisy or at least contrast in view on his wikipedia page.

In a paragraph it mentions his work with the DEA, his seminars and reference books. Immediately below he's photographed in an erowid t-shirt and talk about his experiments with friends.

Every time I read an article or have a discussion even remotely related to this topic I feel like I have to fight back the urge to go into rants and platitudes. Even the path to effective decriminalization of marijuana (and perhaps later some psychedelics) through medicinal use is enraging.

It's like ending race based slavery on the grounds that the majority of slaves have some white ancestry.