skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You seem to like the word "facilitate" as you used it in both your replies to my post. If I were to ask you if it is easier to mail vacuum-sealed drugs across the U.S. or to drive them there yourself then what would you say? Mailing is obviously easier. Therefore I could say that UPS/FedEx/USPS facilitate the sale of drugs. They most certainly know they do it as well as it is common knowledge and drugs have been successfully mailed for years. They also take actions to try to prevent it though. Is that where the difference lies?

Silk Road doesn't engage in drug trafficking as it does NOT: cultivate, manufacture, transport, deliver, distribute or sell drugs. Those actions are solely up to the sellers.
> This wording sounds remarkably similar to quantum mechanics. I wonder how far you could take the idea of building a game out of state vectors and linear transformations.

That's an interesting idea (and might fit in with "math / science gamification" software). Terry Tao used the opposite point of view, describing quantum mechanics in terms of video games: http://terrytao.wordpress.com/2007/02/26/quantum-mechanics-a....
Iraq was sort of bluffing about having chemical weapons after the Gulf War and before the second invasion. It wasn't crazy to think they had an active program.

The Bush administration didn't think they could just make up WMD. They assumed the WMD was there. Their real failure was that they pressured the intelligence community into giving a fast confirmation that WMD existed. It's sort of like when a cop lies on the stand by bolstering his evidence. The cop usually isn't trying to rail road an innocent person but insuring (in his mind) the conviction of a guilty person. That is what Bush's administration thought.

Turns out the program was finished after the Gulf War and never restarted. And a real hard intelligence look should have shown that. But dissenters were quieted.

The "WMD" that was found was lost, pre Gulf War munitions that were degraded to uselessness. They were for most purposes, useless. It was shitty, old as fuck mustard gas. So yes, really no need to worry.
Did you read the article because it didn't say that it wanted to prevent people from eating.
I don't have the patience to discover and curate a lot of music myself these days (atleast not enough to last my work day), so I like a couple of online radio stations. This one is my favorite:

WritheM Radio's Programming Electronic and Alternative on Grooveshark: http://grooveshark.com/#!/writhem/broadcast
#3 is probably unconstitutional but the laws for #2 are on the books in most cities. They just aren't enforced in cities like SF and Seattle.
VIRSTUARS
Is the Honest Company Worth $837M?
The perspective is that humans can't be trusted with asteroid deflecting technology in case they use it to attack Earth.

But this ignores the fact that nature has already placed an asteroid out there with our name on it. Which will kill us if we don't do our duty and prevent it!
You would tell this person where to find food sharing programs, which would be "located near what he calls the "core areas of recovery": mental health, substance abuse and job readiness services."
Article is missing many details. 8 workers with $40,000 in owed wages, thats about 1 months work. Now get some accountancy tricks and you get MANY possible scenarios. That 120 hour/weeks could be overtime they accumulated in India.

Nobody here ever worked for $1/hour? Many people would love to do this, just to be in California for free for a few weeks (all expenses paid).

Anyway, I just feel I should pass different opinion.
I never quite understood was was 'dystopian' about Brave New World. A world in which everybody is happy and content with who they are and the circumstances they live in, how is that dystopian? He threw in some bad things (the people in the reserves, the people who didn't take their meds, the 'conditioning' of the children) but never really justified why they'd be necessary. All of them (and the 'orgy-porgies') were, I felt, added to be able to make the argument that the society he was portraying was morally wrong.
You shouldn't tell them anything (get a job/get clean etc.), you should offer something/help instead. Food shouldn't be the only thing we offer the homeless, it should be only the last resort. Along with food, should come programs to get them the help they need, whether that be mental health, help with addiction or just help getting back on their feet.
My girlfriend described protocols to me as "it's like everyone agrees to speak the same language and then you can communicate". Which is a great way to describe it.

When you have to agree to API terms / "rules of the road" in Twitter's legalease / or revocable oauth tokens, things stop being a free language.
AngularJS is terrible choice for a front-end framework. It's just bizarre from top to bottom. Not everything needs two-way binding. Not all SPA's use nesting to compose their user interface! Why does ng-if create a new scope? Using attributes as control structures is plain dumb. Component re-use is difficult because of nesting as a central paradigm.

Javascript is a wonderfully expressive language. Unlike AngularJS, ReactJS let's you use this wonderful language to compose your application, not the foolishness of Angular's "modules", "factory", and "service". Even Dependency Injection is a foolish concept in a language like Javascript. Composition and wiring can be orchestrated through code, it doesn't need an intervening layer!

Javascript already has well-establish design patterns - it doesn't need AngularJS.
That illustrates it very well.

It's a shame that recombinantrecords.net has removed that from his site, even though it's original work, because lawyers sued him for using the title of a (good) book "Amusing Ourselves to Death". Then, 9GAG & other sites have no problems copying the content. It just goes to show you that you can't stop information flow. All you can do it stop legitimate players from controlling it.
> Morals are subjective

Can you source that?

There's a field of study called Ethics that would disagree with you.

If you can show some evidence for your claim, that would be an important finding in Ethics; nay, a breakthrough.
I think https://bop.fm has good potential for creating playlists since it uses multiple services you can find most songs.
So basically: you may ask for help, but only at certain places and with certain people. I guess if we specify the community as "Earth," this sounds good.
One of the issues I have with Huxley's view of things is that I think it makes a massive leap from the idea of people being content to that being pathologized into being oppressed.

Part of that is that I'm not sure there's ever been a point in history in which the majority of people actively contribute to the political sphere on a regular basis. They have always been distracted by something (often mere survival). Even revolutions have usually been driven by top-down movements led by discontent elites.

Given that, I don't find the argument that a state in which most people are content and non-participant (somewhat the current state of most western nations) is worse than one in which most people are discontent and non-participant (the previous state of most western nations, and the extreme form of which is presented in 1984).

Even more fundamentally, there's a distinct air of moralism to Huxley's arguments. Anti-sex, pro-marriage, body-is-temple kind of stuff. These positions are taken as given, and given very little support, in all of his writing. I think it taints his entire premise.
Ruby's Object.new in C
Postgres does have partitioned tables, although the implementation is different from MySQL's. Upsert stands, though.

I don't disagree there's tradeoffs - I mentioned replication, for example, but it seems to me that MySQL is lacking a lot of features that other DBMS's provide and except for a few use cases, the fewer features unique (or better implemented) in MySQL doesn't make up for it.

Honestly I prefer SQL Server by leaps-and-bounds over the four I've used enough to be very familiar with - MySQL, MS SQL, Oracle, and Postgres - but I think Postgres has much more to offer to most users for most use cases than MySQL.
Lots of homeless people have drug addictions, mental health problems that make it exceptionally hard for them to do 20 hours of work a week. Fetishing work isn't the way to do this.
In 2008, Massachusetts passed a law that mandates triple damages on employers who lose wage and hour lawsuits. The additional money is awarded to the employees.

I highly recommend this approach: compliance in Massachusetts is extremely high.
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You are equating your own worth to that of your animals, based on a role they've instinctly assigned to you.
Forgive me, but I'd appreciate if you'd spare me any further explanations and attempts at justifications.
We don't have any Apple hardware on our Certification list:

http://www.ubuntu.com/certification/

In fact, no Linux distribution has ever had Apple hardware certified.

If it's not certified it means that the vendor is not working with the Linux distribution. At that point it's a case where the distribution's developers and Open Source developers spend their time having to run after the hardware with bad information and experimentation.

It's not a particularly worthwhile 'investment' to make.

If you want to run Ubuntu well you should use certified hardware. Also note that when you buy certified or preloaded hardware you signal to the vendor that there is a market for Linux - everyone who buys a Dell XPS with Ubuntu preloaded signals to the market that supporting Ubuntu (and therefore wider Linux) is important.
I used Ubuntu in 2004 right when I started college as a comp-sci student. It was the only distro that worked with my laptop with very minimal effort. I also love the package management (though Brew on OSX is a close second).

Great read, thanks for sharing!
"1) Sounds a lot like slavery."

IANAE, but I don't think that's how slavery worked.
I'm going to go flat-out conspiracy theorist and say that DPR/alleged dealer/blackmailer are all the same person and he concocted this story and leaked it to let everyone know how seriously he takes privacy.

Unfortunately, the prosecution will probably say it had to do with intent and use that as a reason for why the public should be protected from DPR.

Either way I agree with the points you made. Also very bad opsec for DPR to not smell something fishy with the story if it is in fact a different person and even worse to act on it if that is in fact what happened.
See my sister comment -- I would also add not everything in church history in the archives is a 1400 AD vellum manuscript. It's great that they put 4,000 manuscripts online, but the library has tens of kilometers of shelving.

There have also been past events in history that disagree with what you are saying. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archive_of_the_Congregation_fo...
While all your ideas have problems individually, modern homelessness is a mental health problem, rather than one of housing.

While perfectly healthy people choosing eking out a meager living of booze or drugs by panhandling on the subway is irritating, the real issue is that many homeless are not homeless by choice, but because they have mental illness that inhibits their ability to work or associate with people.

Any solution aimed at punishing the voluntary homeless while ignoring the mentally ill is missing the point.
I've been using bento for a while now to find free coding resources online.
Aren't Zisserman and Simonyan in the Visual Geometry Group - which is part of Engineering - see http://www.robots.ox.ac.uk/~vgg/people.html.
In 2010, Catholic Charities received $2.9 billion from the US Government. This represents about 62% of their revenue. Only 3% ($140 million) came from passing the hat around inside of churches. The rest was from in-kind contributions, investments, program fees and community donations.

Source- http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/29/us/for-bishops-a-battle-ov...?

They at least get $2 billion every year from the Office of Faith Based Initiatives.

I personally find a lot wrong with this.
Though forgotten by pretty everyone who doesn't study Medieval history, the Muslim scholar Averroës (Abū l-Walīd Muḥammad Ibn ʾAḥmad Ibn Rušd) was perhaps the single most significant figure, influencing all medieval scholars including Maimonides.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Averroes

"Famous scholastics such as Aquinas believed [Averroës] to be so important they did not refer to him by name, simply calling him 'The Commentator' and calling Aristotle 'The Philosopher.'"
Thanks, it means a lot to us coming from you guys!
IANAL, but last time I looked, german data protection law regarded the level offered by other states within the european economic area as adequate.
Almost everyone sees it as their right (or the government's right) to restrict other's behavior/rights/property when it would affect their quality of life or the standards of their community (cf. drugs, gay marriage).

Suppose 90% of people in Fort Lauderdale want to disallow businesses from feeding the homeless while 90% of Philadelphia wants to disallow businesses from allowing smoking inside. What principle allows us to restrict smoking on private property that wouldn't also allow us to restrict people feeding the homeless? Is there a reason one of these is more acceptable than the other?

On edit: For those who feel the difference is purely about outcomes, what if Roger Marbut is right and feeding the homeless in the way banned is a net harm? Would it be okay then? Also, while one can argue smoking bars are a net good, they do, at a minimum, harm those who would like to smoke. We can also construct a scenario in which a smoking restaurateur wants to serve food to his 3 smoking customers (i.e. all are harmed).
Cool. Following.
As an Ubuntu user since 10.04, what I would really like to see is Ubuntu matching or beating Windows/OS X with regards to battery life. When I first installed 10.04, my ubuntu setup actually beat Windows Vista in battery life and stability.
Then 10.10 came out with serious power regressions (related to kernel regressions, Unity, etc.) - which I still blame from killing my battery.

Since then, Windows 7 and 8 have gotten more stable and better battery life while Ubuntu has struggled to keep up. With 14.04, Ubuntu is better (finally with basic support for NVIDIA PRIME)but has yet to catch up with Windows.

Seriously, Mark Shuttleworth and Ubuntu devs, if you are reading:- Ubuntu is promoting global warming and creation of electronic waste with its current actions. Forget the features and fluff for now - Fix the battery issues and make sure things just work.

Thank you Ubuntu for all the great work you guys have done for Linux over the last 10 years. Still love you.
1) What about all the people who can't work? What about all the people who can work but simply won't? Do you deny them access to the services you propose? If so, then you haven't solved the problem at all.

3) How do you propose to enforce that they use the one-way bus ticket? How do you keep them from coming back?

I think this problem may be a bit harder to solve than you think.
While I probably agree with you about the prison system, I dislike your graph. Using the absolute incarceration count is misleading, as the population has grown threefold since the 1920s. To put it differently, I could say that the there are 200 million more Americans out of prison now than there were in the 20s, so we must be better off now than before.

The next graph down on the wiki page is far more representative:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/48/U.S...

It actually makes your case stronger by showing a relatively flat line from the 20's through the 70's, indicating that this is really a recent trend. The other graph made it look like a historical inevitability, since the prison population is always increasing.
Nice :) I believe Vagrant also now has built-in support for Docker which is very useful for starting up ancillary services that your app needs: https://docs.vagrantup.com/v2/provisioning/docker.html

I quite like Vagrant myself but my primary complaint is that I seem to spend a lot of time waiting for VMs to start up and run a lot of bootstrap code.
Are you attempting to excuse the action?
Already down.
"Street feeding is one of the worst things to do, because it keeps people in homeless status,"

Oh yeah sure, they're homeless because they are asking for food, that's their own fault for staying homeless and not the fault of the society. This is very convenient.

Or maybe they just go to food sharing programs because they are hungry and that's their only option ? Who knows...
It seems the murder for hire charges were dropped because no murders can be shown to have taken place. But isn't it still a crime to pay for murder, even if it does not actually take place? The logs in the indictment documents sure made it sound like Ulbricht thought he was ordering real murders.
I've always believed that Huxley was closer in regards to the wealthy and upper middle class of society, whereas Orwell's predictions appear to line up better with the experiences of the poor and lower middle.
The options aren't "innocent until proven guilty" or "guilty until proven innocent" - there's also "what is the evidence that I've seen telling me is most likely so far?" Actions based on this should be heavily checked by recognition of your uncertainty, but if you are wanting to come to the correct answer most often, you'll use something closer to that. The purpose of the justice system is not "to come to the correct answer most often", but to determine action (typically severe action) and so needs that check.
> AWS is fully compliant with all applicable EU Data Protection laws

As long as the NSA can request data from US companies in foreign countries this is not at all compliant with EU Data protection laws at all. Under the current situation ANY US company providing services is not compliant and German companies with sensitive data would be stupid to put this data on US owned servers - wherever they are.
Google App Engine adds the following HTTP request headers:

X-AppEngine-Country
X-AppEngine-Region
X-AppEngine-City
X-AppEngine-CityLatLong

http://rominirani.com/2012/04/25/appengine-location-detectio...
Yes, I didn't notice the better graph before I posted. This one is indeed better.
Speaking as someone who grew up in Sweden I have a hard time believing the EU government is "less corrupt" than ours. Removing the ability to legislate (on anything) effectively forces every country to a lowest common denominator (that can be voted through) of legislation.

Then again I tend to be biased against centralisation of power so maybe don't listen to me when it comes to the EU.
(Disclaimer: I work for Nitrous.IO)

I wouldn't describe tug as less powerful, it's less complicated from my usage of it. For each service I only need to write one line and tug will figure out (from the Dockerfile) what needs to be forwarded.

The mind blowing moment is when you're using boot2docker (or any case where Docker isn't local) and it still forwards the ports to your local (127.0.0.1) host.
I'm not sure this is practical. Many homeless people are too mentally ill to be able to hold down even a janitorial position.
Wouldn't banning panhandling/begging be an immoral restriction of speech? What is the fundamental difference between a beggar telling a sob story and the woman who stops you to talk about the ACLU/Planned Parenthood/<charity of the week>? Or are you for banning all public requests for money for any reason?
To blur or not to blur?
Practice for treating humans like animals?
Animal Smell
Sorry about the name - auto correct on my mobile.

As for your other points, they're moot.

This whole case hinges on the fact that Ross Ulbricht = Dread Pirate Roberts. All of the government's evidence claims Ulbricht ran Silk Road and he's the person who ordered several assassinations. All they know is the person "known as" Dread Pirate Roberts did these things, so they need to tie DPR directly to Ulbricht.

Therefore, if the servers were searched illegally, then whatever was on those servers is important to Ulbricht, which means they're important to DPR, which then the government can tie the two together and make the direct relationship between them. This means even if he wins the Silk Road case, the government have established him as DPR and then can formally charge him under the several indictments they have for the murder for hire scheme.

If he doesn't challenge the search of the servers, and maintains since he's not DPR, then he has no stake in the evidence on those servers, then all the evidence (fairly strong circumstantial evidence) would stand and the government will most likely get a conviction since even though they haven't tied him directly to the DPR persona, all the evidence from the servers and other circumstantial evidence points directly to him. I say "most likely" but you never know for sure in these cases.

Contrary to what you believe, getting evidence thrown out in one case, actually solidifies the evidence in the other case. Also, it's likely the government is preparing their case to be ready to charge Ulbrict depending on what happens in the SR trial. Since Grand Jury's are a closed affair (defendants and their attorneys are not present) it's a dry run for the prosecution to see how strong their case is. They could be sitting on additional information, or still in the process of collecting more evidence against Ulbricht, you never know. There's a LOT we the general public won't know about their case until they actual charge him and have to start providing the evidence they have.
Nice to talk to you again David!

You're linking to the wrong thing. This is the proper comparison to Tug: https://docs.vagrantup.com/v2/docker/index.html

Re your complaint: with the Docker provider, Vagrant only spins up _one_ VM (if you're not on Linux). After that, `vagrant up` just executes `docker` directly so there is no waiting around for bootstrapping. It even detects if you have Docker installed locally or not to decide whether it needs to run in the VM or not. And, if you're on Linux, it doesn't use a VM at all, unless you're on a kernel that doesn't support Docker, in which case it automatically/transparently starts the VM.

EDIT: Responding to David's comment below since it would go to deep: Vagrant is basically the same here. It doesn't require Dockerfiles, you can just spin up images.
Please point to a proof of the security of symmetric crypto if you can. Last I checked, such a proof would have still been considered an incredible breakthrough.

All that people are doing is to show that k rounds of cypher C can be broken, where actual implementations use K > k rounds, and then arguing that nobody has been able to break more despite a lot of effort, cypher C is probably secure in practice. That is good evidence, but not a proof.
I believe he's explaining the reason corporations do this.
I just logged in to ask a similar question and would like to hear what others thoughts are on this. I don't support the ideas or situation described in BNW but what is the alternative that we should hope to achieve?

How do we draw the line between "helping people live happier lives" and "tricking the masses into contented servitude"?

What is the ultimate goal of humanity and our global society? What should it be? How do we reconcile differing opinions on this question?

A frequent answer for me is "to reduce suffering as best we can for the greatest number of people" but if taken to the extreme... a sedated and distracted society might be the one with the least amount of suffering? I can't support that idea but it is the unfortunate logical extension which reminds me of the sci-fi dystopias in which AI is tasked with ensuring the best for humanity...
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Also, soon it will be illegal to help victims of train and car crashes in order to reduce the number of accidents.