skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I live in the Yukon, and I can confirm that when confronted with even a medium sized brown bear the last thing the world you'd want to do is shoot it with a 9mm sidearm.
The thing is, there's no formal, "prove it" review, by a jury, grand jury or judge. It's just some dude in the FBI who doesn't like someone, and decides to fuck with them. They're supposed to be an investigating agency, but now they just skip ahead to punishment.

Some guy fucking with you, is what our government has descended to.
I remember reading a summary of this when it occurred in 2012. It's obvious to everyone here what SHOULD have been done, and I find this pretty surprising in the finance sector..

Also your submission should probably have (2014) in the title.
Thanks -- I get it now. Not sure I agree with the conclusion due to Yemen's nominal assent to this, but I don't disagree at all with the principle.

As for the shoe on the other foot, that's an ongoing issue with the Polonium Tea incident being merely the latest.
My bad, I was cranky!
Your version inexplicably discards the age difference the parent post included. Straight men who picked up _underaged_ girls would indeed be vulnerable to compromise (legally or by blackmail etc.), and I think the parent poster would agree.
Shareholders want their profits now, like Apple -- not in some imaginary future, like Amazon!
I think you should let people know you plan on cloning the entire repo. You are currently cloning chromium.git, sorry :)
Yes, many people raised in Buddhist households would say that, but it's not an accurate representation of what the Buddha taught, based on the Pali texts which are the earliest written record. You can decide whether that means it's "Buddhism" or not.
If you're interested in this, check out MAPS: http://www.maps.org/

They are doing a great deal to push this research forward and have been for decades.
I have often heard people make the back of the envelope argument you are making. I'm unconvinced.

Everyone I've heard seriously propose a basic income has coupled it with a progressive increase in federal income tax, so that individuals earning above $50k or so would receive no increase in their BI+earned income-federal income tax.

So the actual ratio of basic income provision to federal income tax would be much lower than 1:1. 1:2 seems more reasonable.

Then, the expectation is we would significantly reduce spending on distortionary and expensive bureaucracy like food stamps, welfare, minimum wage, school lunches, and housing subsidies.

I imagine overall people in high income brackets would pay higher income taxes to the extent that we wanted to balance the budget.
Yea I think the key here would be looking at technologies both extremely cheap and currently unavailable to villagers (otherwise they would probably have thought of it).

Mass produced plastic support seems to fill that role. You could even join a shoulder rest part to allow switching orientation!
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We use Jira + Agile + Confluence.

Please help - where can I learn to configure our setup correctly? I think our Agile is pretty ok but the integration with Confluence is almost zero. Where do I find an expert to help with the setup?
Yes (at least, in the UK). The brief here:

http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/research/brie...

Mentions the "The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008" which banned implantation of a genetically modified embryo. There is a provision in that act for Parliament to approve regulations that provides exceptions for the treatment of mitochondrial diseases.

More: Here's the section of the act:

http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2008/22/section/26
How do mitochondria replicate their own DNA? Do they somehow have the rest of the cell do it, or do they contain/produce and use all of the necessary enzymes/proteins/base-pairs/etc to do it by themselves?

The relationship between them and their host cell almost seems similar to ant-fungus mutualism.
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Rise of the simian army? I suspected netflix was hiding the "good" AI somewhere (because they haven't been using it on my recommendations).
"Power Peg"? More like powder keg.
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Wait what? I've used both and I can't see anything good about Fogbugz over JIRA?
FCC will reclassify Internet as public utility; AT&T and Verizon will sue
I have no need for any of that yet I could walk around a store like that for hours and hours.
During the evening hours, Netflix represents over 35% of all internet traffic in the US. That is an insane demand to be able to service, but they've done extremely well in my opinion. Much of their tech is open-sourced leading to much better practices industry-wide and they're transparent when things go wrong.

Here's an example of their preemptive work to deal with the loss of AWS/ELB regions:

http://techblog.netflix.com/2013/12/active-active-for-multi-...

An an example of their post-mortem after deploying Node.js with a bad handler:

http://techblog.netflix.com/2014/11/nodejs-in-flames.html

Is there any other service with a library well over a petabyte in size that delivers multiple terabits/second worldwide to millions of customers with better reliability? Maybe YouTube with the backing of a company worth $300B more than Netflix?
> Oracle

Er, no.

The entirety of Oracle's dabbling in "open source" has been by shaking free software products out of the rotting carcass of Sun Microsystems and - in many cases - adding those products to the grave (see also: OpenSolaris, OpenOffice, various others). The exceptions - namely MySQL (which wasn't a Sun product) and Java (which is still doing reasonably well) - are few and far between.

Oracle Linux certainly exists, but I'm certainly not about to hold that monstrosity on any sort of pedestal.

As for the others, yeah, they're making money on FOSS (and not killing said FOSS in the process), though such free software tends to be integrated in very much proprietary end results (like OS X / iOS and the vast majority of Android distributions).
What about purgatory?
Yes, link it dynamically :)
The choice is "sometimes I don't want to distribute my code."

You can use it, or you can not.
>Those who think this is the start of ever more invasive genetic modification of humans, or so called "designer babies"

Well...this is the start of ever more invasive genetic modification of humans.
My favorite thing about Shadow Stats is that they claim inflation is really high and the government numbers are fake, but they haven't increased their subscription price since as far back as it goes on archive.org.
I don't know, but just from your description it sounds like a case of NIH[1].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_invented_here
Well, the Amstrad is now either at my parents' house either in the garbage :( so I can't use it sadly... It was in the late 80's that I was playing with it, I'd love to check it again though.
This is why Kyle cofounder a company worth $1 billion and you're just the guy making sarcastic comments on the internet.
Again you are confusing openness with availability. I do agree they are open. I don't really see the connection between their openness and their performance though.
S3 had 2.81 hours downtime, according to the report I just linked to. Homework...
According to Wikipedia, a mashup is a term used to describe web development and combining music. It doesn't denote to me rigorous engineering development. And no, it doesn't inspire confidence in me that they didn't release a mashup that was unsafe.
Perl6 started long before PyPy (2000 vs ~2007).
"Why would they buy a marginal retailer with poor footprint, when you could just lease stores yourself?"

Because it's already assembled, at, in theory, lower than market rates and won't take months or a year to assemble. Similar to why companies buy companies instead of building their own. At least in the area that I am in Radio Shack has decent retail locations.
With other recent news in mind, I wonder what effect compounds like these might have on religious extremists. I wonder whether - assuming some kind of method of administration is figured out (a love bomb?) - they might stop burning people alive in cages after a decent trip.
You have to store the length, C# strings can contain '\0' (although the hashing code doesn't take this into account!)
xyz? S3 is on the same link. Even if they are additive -- assume the S3 downtime doesn't overlap with EC2 -- they are still at less than a day, half day, quarter day...
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>I don't see why everything needs to be open source.

I think this goes back to one of the core tenets of free and/or open source software: the user should be able to know, control, and modify exactly what their machine is doing.

If the source is not available you're just running a black box and praying that it will do what the person who gave it to you claims it will do.
I come from a Japanese background, a county with a lot of history and culture inherited from China, so take this as you will.

They have the following primary designators:

一 One
十 Ten
百 Hundred
千 Thousand
万 Ten Thousand
億 Hundred Million
兆 One Trillion

Given the following when considering the max allowed value of a specifier:

10002000 - 1000万2000千

The next significant digit:

100020003000 - 1000億2000万3000千

Next:

1000200030004000 - 1000兆2000億3000万4000千

Everything cleanly breaks down into larger sets of 4 digits.
Are you suggesting there are no limits to growth? No limits to available fresh water supplies? No limits to energy production?

Once you run you of fresh water and have to rely on nuclear power to run the desalination plants to keep people watered, you have three major problems.
> People who simply don't like Microsoft will not use it just because it's open.

You're forgetting that a lot of people traditionally haven't liked Microsoft because their software wasn't/isn't open. Yeah, Windows would still be a steaming pile of bovine manure regardless of which license it was made available under, but the availability of that source code would make it easy for better, Unix-like operating systems to pick up the necessary pieces to support Windows software, thus continuing to allow Microsoft to profit on their non-operating-system software (Office, SQL Server, Exchange, IIS, Internet Explorer^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^HSpartan, etc.) regardless of whether or not Windows itself is widespread in usage.
Why would they repurpose an old flag at all? That seems crazy to me unless it was something hardware bound.
Yes, it was explicitly banned in 1990, with the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act. In 2008 the government modified the act to allow mitochondrial transfer under future regulations, which enabled such research to take place on human tissue [1].

[1] Section 4 of http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2015/9780111125816/pdfs/...
also, as I understand it, the original game is a computer convincing an observer that it is a woman as well as a man can, or a man as well as a woman can

in that version the human and the computer are then involved in a more similar task, which to me makes it far more experimentally interesting than most of the modern attempts on the idea
This is actually a now-standard theory of the origin of mitochondria (that they were originally separate organisms):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbiogenesis
A closed source project can license closed source technology and save development costs while avoiding putting 1.0 code for an edge case into their core product. The exchange of money helps keep the interest in support, maintenance, and extension by those who first developed the technology.
Over 12 years of Catholic education I was taught that the whole concept of purgatory had been repudiated. But looking it up now, it seems to have been resuscitated, albeit as a sort of "waiting period" for souls that hadn't fully reconciled with God.

In any case, at least in the modern Church, the concept of purgatory isn't an endorsement of the benefits of suffering.
To keep the messages as short as possible, to reduce the time-costs of transmitting and processing them. It's HFT, they do things like that.
Yeah. That makes sense. I guess demotion makes it seem like it wasn't his choice. I would slightly change your statement to say "he had effectively resigned ever since he took his initial leave of absence."
some of the authors seem to have been somewhat related to the creation of unix itself, so I guess, just guess, they know macro-assemblers... ;)
There are a ton of very successful opiate addicts. OxyContin alone does around $3BN of sales a year, in addition to other opiates and generics. It's safe to say that not all of that is going to people in hospitals or on workman's comp. While failed users are gonna generate a storyline and visible effects, successful users aren't going to make a big deal out of it.

Heck, the commander of Germany's Air Force was a lifelong addict. Not that he's a good role model, but that should dispel the idea that opiates kill the ability to run a "successful" life (for some values of successful), in the same way that FB using PHP should dispel idea that you can't write a world class service in PHP.

Keep your eyes open in meetings with "successful" white collar people. If you look carefully, you should not have a hard time finding plenty with pinned pupils.
In the sense you mean it: not sorry at all. More like, "you're right, and that was my least favorite comment of mine on the thread".
Of course there is a limit. But population is soon going to start falling.

Look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_fertility_rate the chart on the right. We're currently at 2.36 fertility rate and falling rapidly. 2.33 is what is necessary for replacement. The US is at 1.9 and Europe is 1.59.
We did IVF and got pregnant on our first try. We now have a beautiful 2 year old boy :)

Good luck.
The art of rehashing old stories for exposure. Without mentioning where you got your material of course.
Alan is an extremely well respected, super nice, and very smart individual. I can all but guarantee no one asked him to leave. He's always been open about having passions for many things and I think he simply decided to prioritize those other things over Google.
I, personally, have mixed feelings about this sort of thing being heralded as some sort of metaphysical panacea.

These drugs seem to be karmic accelerators, and they seem to intensify time by factors of 100 to 1000+, which means you can get months or years worth of experience in a few hours. If you're on a path "upward" (ignore the subjectivity of spirituality and growth for now) the drugs will push you along, you'll learn a lot, and have a beautiful experience. If you're headed for, or at risk of, crisis or a disaster, they can bring it forward with a lot of force... and it might be better, for many people, to have more time to deal with such a thing.

Monitored use with a skilled therapist is probably fine for most people (and I wouldn't be surprised if psychedelics were much more safe than what's currently being used for high-grade mental illnesses, because many of those drugs-- legal and regularly deployed in mental institutions-- are nasty) but the recreational/hedonistic use pattern you see in our society (which, for the most part, is materialistic, thrill-obsessed, short-tempered and crass... and using LSD or psilocybin doesn't change that aspect of a person unless he has the right intentions) seems to have minimal expectancy and a lot of variance.
The growth rate is slowing.

http://www.worldometers.info/world-population/#growthrate
I assume "flag" in this context means something akin to a command-line flag.
I think you're referring to confirmation bias which is related but not quite the same. Never the less I understand what you're getting at. I took it to mean that the kinds of problems a programmer encounters is not sufficiently random to properly determine the usefulness of a given language or "paradigm." Which may keep people from switching to new, better tools (or from trying them out at all).

The data-oriented design thing is interesting and something I've heard come and go over the years. Check out:

http://www.dataorienteddesign.com/dodmain/

and

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

A video demonstration of Jai; a new compiler from Jonathan Blow designed around this paradigm.

Cheers!
I guess it is! That said, I don't think the 'slippery slope' arguments made in parliament are valid, precisely because this is a very specific kind of genetic modification:

> "But one thing is for sure, once this alteration has taken place, as someone has said, once the gene is out of the bottle, once these procedures that we're asked to authorise today go ahead, there will be no going back for society."

Replacing mitochondria is very different to designing genetic traits, either through careful selection of eggs and embryos, or splicing, and I think that conflating the two is silly.

If laws were introduced that would allow modification of the primary genetic material that debate would be had then. This law will not shoo-in laws that provide for that kind of genetic modification.
Surely the large amount of greenhouse gasses festering in the upper atmosphere would seem to contradict that assertion. Or the fish populations mysteriously disappearing from the seas. Or the former rainforests suddenly becoming farmland and chopsticks. Or the many many species going extinct.

Yes I'm sure the Earth can support more humans but it is at the expense all other life.

Humans are so destructive they named an epoch after us. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropocene
> Maybe young people are just hired at an absurd rate, which is suppressing the proportions of old people.

Honestly, I think this accounts for most of the ageism in tech.

Way more people are entering the field now than in the 1970s, so even if there's absolutely no ageism at play you'd still expect the majority of all developers at a company to have graduated in the last decade.
I guess it isn't that novel anymore for a woman to donate eggs and not expect to have any rights to any resulting children.

Swapping out the nuclear DNA doesn't really complicate that.
Podcast where Adrian Cockcroft goes into the philosophy and technology behind scaling at Netflix: http://www.se-radio.net/2014/12/episode-216-adrian-cockcroft...
Yep. The one closest to where I work is in a great spot in downtown DC, ironically enough half a block from Bezos owned Washington Post headquarters.

The one closest to where I live is in the prime shopping center adjacent to University of Maryland.

There's seemingly enough in good locations to cherry pick them out.
There were some potential solutions (like billing SPARC servers and workstations as "Java development/deployment platforms") that Sun started to brush against, but they ran out of time / money / distance from Oracle's sidaM Touch, etc.
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Sure, but if a drug was truly harmful, we shouldn't encourage it. And if we discover activity X leads to doing something else harmful, it's cause for considering restraint. After all, cigarette ads don't harm anyone directly, yet we make the tradeoff to limit them in order to limit smoking.

(Not that it applies here. Everything I've read and seen indicates the world would be far better off if access to opiates and psychedelics was legal, easy, and well understood/educated.)
> And apparently it started right before my son's designated Sesame Street time.

Something to be said for local copies of programs that really matter.
Time to launch various editors on my SSD-backed, 4x4ghz Windows desktop:

ST3: Instantanous, VS2013: 1 second, Atom: 3 seconds

You know you've got problems when Visual Studio is running rings around you.
IVF involves all the same hormonal and ovulation monitoring that NFP would, so I'm a bit baffled by the apparent belief that this anecdote is anything other than raw probability in action.
Oh, I agree -- I don't know how to handle the problem either, and since the majority of our cells aren't human, there are plenty more microbiomes waiting to be transplanted (e.g. skin, underarms, feet). The incentives are incredibly perverse, with drug companies wanting to spend as little money as possible to develop drugs that appeal to the richest consumers, e.g. copycat drugs for old men who still want to get it up for their young mistresses.
They answer your phone calls, they just say "it's not a priority for us to fix this right now" and then the negotiations start. Some times, that's where things end, because you just can't meet the demands of the vendor. Happens all the time in hardware for big and small businesses alike.
I can't read something like this without feeling really bad for everyone involved and taking a quick mental inventory of things I've screwed up in the past or potentially might in the future. Pressing the enter key on anything that affects a big-dollar production system is (and should be) slightly terrifying.
Open source projects can also release v1.0 with bugs, it's not like there is some Open Source Police stopping you from doing that. You can also pay for support of open source software, and that benefits everyone and not just the company that happened to have money to invest in it.
> 4. When the Government successfully killed the US Citizen, using a military drone strike, in a Country the US was not authorized to use the Use of Force (under International Law)...no one cared because the individual was Muslim and the Government assured us this was a guy with ties to Islamic terrorism.

It's pretty offensive to muslims to lead your characterization of al-Awlaki with the fact that he was Muslim, rather than the fact that he went to Yemen and took up arms against the United States while inciting violence against the country. U.S. Citizenship isn't a blanket immunity against U.S. military action. It's certain that the U.S. killed Americans who went and fought for the Nazis in Europe. Few people would challenge the validity of such actions. Does it become wrong because you make a list instead of doing it indiscriminately?

And ultimately, it's deeply counter-productive to try and lump people like Hammond together with people like al-Awlaki. Military action against foreign aggressors is a fundamental right of sovereign nations. People will not give it up. If you tell them that such actions must be subject to "law" all you'll accomplish is distorting and diluting the law to accommodate the sorts of actions that must be taken against foreign aggressors. The law should not try to insert itself into foreign military matters. It's not a fight it will win, and it will be the downfall of the law.
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I assumed it was a single bit in a string of them that describes a message.