skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It all comes down to the benefits. Spending money supporting Europe militarily is better than the alternative.
VLC 3.0 will come with Chromecast support across multiple devices
I get your intent, but there's also the political problem in a democracy.

How hard is it to convince a majority of people that buying more death machines is a good use of their money?

Now how hard to convince a majority that feeding the world is a good use?

Now how hard to convince them that building schools is a good use?

I'll just remark that the answer to that last is why Afghanistan was controlled by the Taliban in the first place (after the warlords the US supported bickered amongst each other for a while).
There are probably many genetic/out-of-your-control-environmental effects which strongly influence your chances of success, but learning, concentration, and memory can also be practiced and improved upon like any other skill.
I was going to say "no I don't", except I've just tabulated it and found it's about a once every 18 month experience.
The most recent price list I got from David Schmidt @ Symbolics (2/23/10):

"Thank you for your request for information about Symbolics and our products. Our Open Genera software for HP/Compaq/DEC Alpha workstations running Tru64 Unix costs $5,000 for a single CPU license. There is an academic discount for students and teachers that brings the price down to $999. You should have a 300 mHz or greater Alpha workstation with at least 500 MB RAM, 4 MB cache and 1 GB of available disk space. Besides selling Open Genera and maintaining the installed base of Symbolics machines, we
also sell refurbished Symbolics hardware. There is no hardcopy documentation, but there is complete documentation available on the hard disk of each system."

As of a few months ago when I checked, he said they no longer sell refurb hardware, keeping the remaining stock for service contracts/warranty work/etc.
I don't think talent is BS, but there is certainly a lot of BS in evaluating it.
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Exactly and those jobs will be automated in about 5 to 10 year's. We as a society are not prepared for that.
Another perspective on Handy, the company discussed in the article as the target of a class-action lawsuit:

http://thebillfold.com/2014/10/my-day-interviewing-for-the-s...

Sounds like working for Handy is hell, whether they try to classify you as a contractor or not.
If done in good faith is the key though. I'm complaining because I've seen too many discussions derailed by people assigning labels to each other and then calling it a day. The argument goes like this: "you said that, it sounds like what Marx would say, and Marx was wrong in something completely unrelated, so therefore you're wrong too". It's a trap people too often fall into.
"Hard work beats talent when talent fails to work hard"

But more importantly, talent isn't "what you're good at", talent is "what you enjoy".
"GEOM, however, supports only RAID0, RAID1, and RAID3. It does not support RAID5 or RAID6 in software RAID configurations!"

Looks like the author is still learning FreeBSD and hasn't read all relevant docs yet. 'man 8 gvinum' clearly says that raid5 _is_ supported:

"To create a raid5 array on disks /dev/ada1 /dev/ada2 and /dev/ada3, with stripesize 493k you can use the raid5 command:
gvinum raid5 -s 493k /dev/ada1 /dev/ada2 /dev/ada3"

I'd take this article with a big grain of salt.
> The point here is, if you go with the suggestion of 'redemeer that "if you get automated away, you get 0", said accountant will have no incentive to help with the automating

If you go with a principal that if you are involved in automating the job away, you get some reward, the accountant may have some incentive to help (especially if it is likely to happen, but with perhaps lesser quality -- but still perhaps a net cost savings to the company -- anyway, which would result not only in the company getting less than if the accountant was actively involved, but the accountant getting less as well.)
As a bonus - no one gets killed by the bombs.

I don't think wars would end if we stopped spending money on the military.
30% is practically standard for zero-marginal-cost, digital goods.
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hairdresser: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccP-ayh6Wlc

waiter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBuIhH9aaSA

singer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kM3n64WJmo

prostitute: soon (fleshlight+occulus)

masseuse: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004BXJZB2/ref=as_li_tl?ie=...

athlete: http://robogames.net/index.php

actor: there are tons of CGI actors in movies

croupier: slot machines, video poker, etc
At our hackerspace, the washroom situation was terrible. I found out there are some fuel cells that react to hydrogen sulfide! We thought about displaying whether or not it was safe to enter on an LED scrolling-message sign.
I have considered wearing glasses but couldn't justify the cost and I've never met anyone that swore by them.
In a part of the discussion talking about the arms industry funnelling tax dollars back into the American economy. I don't find it particularly unlikely that someone might then equate, within that context, it to be effectively analogous to ditch digging and not bother to qualify their remark more fully.

But, we can assume:

1. That Petersellers has grown to adulthood with a remarkably naive understanding of human nature.

2. Believes that the industrial and design capacities of modern nations are such that we could conjure effective weapons faster than a strike could be effectively delivered.

3. That they meant their statement in a somewhat more bound form.

Since 1 & 2 seem either unlikely to be held, or to be held by a mind that hasn't been convinced by the other arguments / observations it would have come across to the contrary, the latter seems the most useful context to interpret their remarks in. The others would either be mistaken assumptions or remove the point of talking to them.
SHOULD OF HAPPENED 2012
tangentially, that's a really lovely header font ("jim nightshade"). one of the very few times i've seen a "fancy" font work well in a post like this.
okay so what do you suggest or want out of this discussion? I'm afraid I don't have answer to all your questions.
One of the best TA's that I ever had, in any discipline, was a female CS instructor at Cal who was also likely a PhD candidate. My operating theory was that she not only had to be smart enough to be admitted into that program, but that she additionally had to overcome some degree of adversity stemming from gender-based perceptions (which I definitely observed in our department). The entire class was disappointed when our regular professor returned from a conference after she had been instructing for a week because she was so much better at teaching than he was.
> "if you get automated away, you get 0"

No, I actually said the opposite.

If you get automated away, by yourself or by anyone else, you instantly get the bonus and you're instantly fired.

The accountant has every incentive to either be an amazing accountant so that any automation would be a pale imitation (everyone wins), or he can choose to automate himself away, move to the next job, automate himself away and pick up the bonus there, and so on (everyone gets their due).

This is competition, and I think it's a happy ending for meritocracy. The only people who lose are those who desire to continue to be paid while not generating value.
Why would you report shitty behavior? Is that against some sort of code of conduct where you work?
> Might as well throw complete itunes connect overhaul into this.

Funny considering the current iTunes connect is a complete overhaul, which only came out recently with iOS 8.

The new iTunes Connect acts like someone's first attempt at an Angular app (which it is), with a complete disregard from doing things in a performant way.
Well, you can start with the same question and reach different conclusions. Does this mean that you're still wrong? And does the fact that Marx was wrong about one thing means he was wrong about everything else? It's too easy to group some idea with some others and then dismiss the whole thing by noting that one the other ones are wrong.
I do think things are as the grandparent noted. These companies are shifting risk around and attempting to reap reward.

I have a feeling that your 'there are laws' is more a general rallying cry rather than the particular nuances around these laws.

So, ie: for work like programming, usually one CAN BE mandated to work in a specific office, on specific hours. It happens all the time. The consequence is usually the exercise of the 'at will employee' and being terminated. Subordination is a valid reason for termination and it does happen.

As for misclassification of workers, the issue isnt there are holes in the law, the issue is likely that these companies are actually just violating the law.

Finally, the competition Uber vs Lyft thing hasn't actually worked to reduce the Uber cut in a percentage-basis. Competition isnt a magical bullet. It often ratchets up the abuse and pushes marginal contractors to the edge. This is the very nature of competition, working harder for less.
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Will I get downvoted if I propose a meta conversation on the horribly weasly rhetorical device of the "open letter"? I suppose etymologically, this used to actually mean something, but I don't remember anymore. Now all it signals to me is that someone wrote a blog post, prefixed it with "Dear <High Clout Person Of Interest>" to essentially work up some minor amounts of linkbait. Double reader rage points if it's signed "Love, <Author>"
Nothing useful, just a warning: "Don't invest more than you can afford to lose"

If you are new in that business, you'll probably make a few mistakes. I guess you are not a millionaire, but anyway read this advice: http://www.nutmeg.com/nutmegonomics/2014/05/19/lessons-in-mo...
Talent is a thing. However, it's a bit different from what people think it is: inherent talents are about acquiring skills, not having skills. Talent won't make you magically good at something. What it will do is make it easier for you to practice a skill and let you improve faster. And even then, it only does that if you help it along, and sometimes it's not very obvious how it helps. I have a bit of talent for science and mathematics, but it's not incredibly direct; rather, I tend to start spewing ideas when looking at sciencey things. That doesn't make me magically good at producing good science, but it did help me stay interested early on and it keeps me from plateauing. Talent also isn't necessary. You can get really, really good at something without having any inherent advantage, and lots of people do exactly that.
I used to work on the router used in VZ Navigator and related products (I wrote the part that used real-time traffic data to route around slowdowns, plus several other bits). After leaving, I started writing my own router on top of OSM data (fall 2008). The difference in quality of Navteq and other vendor data vs. OSM was substantial, and I abandoned the project simply because shit data is impossible to optimize for. It looked great on a map, but disconnected road segments, incorrect road categorization, incorrect directions of one-way streets, missing intersections, ... I wasn't at all surprised at Apple falling on its face in 2012 with its OSM-backed maps product - it was a virtual guarantee from my experience.

Likely a missed opportunity for a big exit for me, but life's too short to work against poor-quality crowd-sourced data as a one-man startup in Venice.
Oh, I'm sorry. After re-reading your comment for the third time I realized you said something exactly opposite than what I thought.
Extremely advantageous genetics are really hard to measure with current technology outside of fields such as sports. e.g. in strength sports, by the late teens it's really obvious who has it and who doesn't: some can effortlessly pull 3x a weight that's practically unobtainable for someone else of same weight category. Talent is real in sports, there's no reason why it wouldn't be in every other area of life. Talent is optional if you're going to be OK at something, but it's a basic prerequisite if you're going to be competing at world class.

Things are a lot trickier with brains, since there's actually a lot more internal structural variability. Current scanning technology isn't accurate enough to tell us what the teenager (brain structures stop growing by this point) is going to be naturally good at, but that's not that far away given enough investment and the technology and enough data (basically other brains to compare to)
Mercurial, Darcs, and so on...
All these questions have insightful answers. I'd say "use separate set of private keys for each originating device".

http://superuser.com/q/189355/33303

http://serverfault.com/q/170682/80866

http://security.stackexchange.com/q/40050/13510

http://security.stackexchange.com/q/10963/13510

http://unix.stackexchange.com/q/27661/14305
Can you describe in what way it's not working as intended?
> Portugal also has a national ID card that's a smart card and includes a key.

German ones do something similar since late 2010. The card can be used for online authentication and eletronic signatures (requires certificate that is separately available).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_identity_card#Chip
Writing a third-party journal reader is officially discouraged: http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/journal-fil...

Instead of implementing your own reader or writer for journal files we ask you to
use the Journal's native C API to access these files.
Yes. Since 2010, I've been begging in forums on Android and iOS to use a heavily layered category system or tagging system that would allow me to narrow and filter my search as much as I need to. I want this as a consumer. I want this as a developer. Why it doesn't exist makes absolutely no sense to me. Especially for games.

I should be able to go to action games, then platformers, then side-scrolling, endless, speed run, leveled, then filter out only those with boss battles, or powerup-ups, or 8-bit graphics, etc, and so-on.

The only thing I figure is that the developers will abuse the ability to tag their own apps, making the fine-tuned results even more ridiculous than general results.
> Portugal also has a national ID card that's a smart card and includes a key.

So does Finland (since 2004).

But under 10% of the population has such a card (most people use drivers licence and/or passport as ID), and thus almost no private web services accept it for identification.
Dumb question, why not have all processors contain a new hardware RNG based on thermal noise or some such thing? That was even VMs can get some stable entropy.
Using the edges of the pages for navigation as the only option would be ridiculous, but it's not; there are conventional navigation links. Think about reading this on a tablet, where a lot of ebook readers have a convention of turning "pages" by touching the left or right side of the screen, and this may make more sense.

Underlining in the typewriter style is a sin against typography. :) I don't like the way Butterick's chosen to do links here, though; the lozenge mark seems kind of twee, like he's choosing to make a stand against both underlining and color changes at the expense of both readability and learned behavior. (Most of us by now associate both underlines and blue inline text, whether in conjunction or separately, with "click this to make something happen.")
The diamonds are too big. I think this convention could work if the diamonds weren't the height of the line. Maybe at 50% or 30% of the original size. Then it would be obvious but not nearly so distracting.

As it is, it's fairly ugly and breaks the text unpleasantly.
> An AI only needs electricity, which it can easily generate with renewables without any need for competition with humans

Humans also need electricity, and many human needs rely on land which might be used for renewable energy energy generation, so that doesn't really demonstrate noncompetition.

> just like we produce food without having to compete with natural predators

What natural predator are we not competing with, if nothing else for habitat (whether we are directly using their habitat for habitat, or for energy/food production, or for dumping wastes)?
There's that old joke about a Lisp programmer who's looking for a job - "will write code that writes code that writes code that writes code for money" ;).
Sure and there will always be some demand for horses for various purposes but the total demand for horse labour is way below its peak in 1915. Do you foresee any future technology which might reinvigorate the demand for horses?
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I'm not sure what language you're targeting, but you might look at http://cubes.databrewery.org/
Ask HN: How many apps released daily for iOS/Android?
Are there any reliable stats out there that show how many apps are released daily for iOS/Android in their app stores?
Honestly, Apple reached the point a long time ago where they are trying to set the bar higher to make an app, not lower. They even flat out said, "no more fart apps". So I think they consider themselves to be at the app saturation point. More apps will not help them, only higher quality apps will. Helping indie developers generally won't encourage high quality apps.

The current situation is indie developers make apps, most completely disappear, and very few make it to the top of the charts. The rest of the apps on the charts are there because a big company dropped 70k ad spend to put it there or because it was cross promoted from other apps or already had a high place. Encouraging small time development is encouraging a part of the app store hardly any users see anyway.
Couldn't you say the same for the Vietnam War? After the Tet Offensive, North Vietnam was reeling from it's failure to achieve its military objectives (it was an absolute success politically).

The US got North Vietnam to agree to a peace treaty and then left South Vietnam. Vietnamization failed and once the North Vietnamese realized the US wasn't going to help the South anymore, they just took the whole country.
What, specifically, was Marx wrong about?
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And the prefetcher cannot fetch across page boundaries since that might fault.
Some of the rules are awkward and confusing to someone who doesn't understand them.

For example, you can convey information to your partner, based on how long you take to bid. Technically, you aren't allowed to have that information.

Me - Left Opponent - Partner - Right Opponent

1NT - x - xx - pass

pass - 2C (after long pause) - x - pass (after long pause)

pass - 2D

Explaining:

I played a weak 12-14 HCP NoTrump opening

opponent on my left doubled, showing a good hand

my partner redoubled, saying he also has a good hand (i.e., we got them now)

Rather than letting us make 1NT redoubled, the opponent on the left ran out to 2 Clubs.

My partner doubled, because he had good clubs (i.e., we got them).

The opponent on the right passed, but he waited a long time before passing, illegally conveying to his partner that he was not sure if they should stay in 2 Clubs or run.

Taking advantage of that (illegally obtained) information, the opponent on the left decided to run to 2 Diamonds.

So, someone who does not understand the concept of unauthorized information would not understand why I would be disadvantaged.

At a local club game, I would let it slide. At a regional tournament, I'd expect the director to get it right.
Someone has to have killed the most children as well, but that's hardly a justification one would care to rely on in court.

My point was not that no-one could justify an extreme of door locks but that I could not. If someone wants to try and justify an extreme of door locks, they're welcome to do so. But merely noting that we all do some thing, or that someone has to have done the most of it, is not such a justification even by analogy.
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So you're telling me...
Would it be reasonable to have an invitation from a person with x reputation bump someone up to the required rep to ask questions? One could spend time in meta, and the chat room where people could get to know them. For the well-intended but naive, this would encourage getting to know the site and expectations of the culture. For the people who are just a bad fit, they could be filtered with minimal effort. Would there be any undesirable consequences from this approach?
We don't know how to do this.

We did a pretty good job in Japan and Germany after WW2, no? And South Korea?
Not the glasses, but I use f.lux, which has the same effect. It's great, and makes a noticeable difference to eyestrain
I think the tide of blaming people running CURRENT and attempting to dismiss the issue instead of addressing the extremely serious vulnerability is troubling, since even in the limited Venn diagram of people I know that run FreeBSD, one of them matches this template:

1. STABLE prod fleet

2. CURRENT dev workstation

3. TLS certificate private keys in prod generated on CURRENT workstation to be signed by authority

4. Potentially vulnerable TLS keys existing in STABLE fleet

You folks can twist this to try to deflect severity by pointing to CURRENT, but in the real world, it existing at all for four months is extremely serious and must be taken seriously. My production TLS keys were created on my OS X laptop, because I don't often have to think about a compromised random number generator and this is a tradeoff I make in my own life.

I guess if I truly cared about my TLS keys, I should have made them on a copy of airgapped Warty Warthog and run them through a shitload of random analysis tools before shipping them off to be signed. My bad.
Like I said in another thread: free marketers have adopted the Marxist notion of historical inevitability and automatic progress.

I don't think it works that way. We get the future we construct. If we just trust the means to produce the ends, we will just get some random future selected for us by impersonal and amoral evolutionary and economic forces that don't give a damn about our well being.
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I've read somewhere that there's no real appreciation and respect between two men unless they make fun of each other.
It is the type of cheating that allows optimizations to be applied to list comprehensions.
“More research” into geoengineering is not such a hot idea
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It is very good that the bug was found and fixed in -CURRENT, but it's also important not to be dismissive of the issue. It is unfortunate that some recent posters are clearly confusing -CURRENT with the stable branch from which releases are cut. However, this is a very serious flaw that existed in the tree for some time, and is indeed a big concern in the FreeBSD developer community.