skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"That life in our galaxy is unique to our planet given our now solid knowledge that similar planet systems and planets of the correct size in habitable zones are beyond abundant"

While an appealing argument, it is in actuality sophomoric, not the sophisticated argument it fancies itself. Independent probabilities stack exponentially; as we look out into our universe, chances for life only expand somewhere between n^2 and n^3 as we look farther out (it's not pure n^3, our universe has vast empty spaces). We don't know what is really required for life. It could be little more than "a space to grow and some sunlight", but then, we kinda know there's a bit more to it than that from our own Moon. It could also be a surprisingly large stack of requirements (see any ol' Rare Earth argument, as all I'm referring to is the possibility that it could be a large stack), in which case the mere presence of bajillions and bajillions of planets are irrelevant in the face of what could be 1:2^bajillions odds.

We do not know. "But there's so many planets out there!" is just your human mind being blown by large numbers, not a scientific argument. We can not establish that the odds against life may well be even larger numbers. And we can establish through arguments such as the Great Filter [1] that if life is in fact abundant and easy, there's still something very wrong with our understanding of the universe. If it's so easy to be alive and intelligent, we really, really ought to see a different universe. "There's so many planets, how can life be rare?", as emotionally appealing as it may be, hasn't got a very good answer for that. It isn't the last word on the topic as you are presenting it.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Filter
Die Linke ist just the rebranded KPD (Communist Party), which was later transformed into the SED (Socialist Party of the former GDR) and is now Die Linke.

They might be on the right side of internet issues, but they are very much on the wrong side of much more important issues.
I have a suspicion that many philosophical arguments, probably including the knowledge argument, are ultimately about language use - in this case, words and phrases like 'knowledge', 'physical' and 'physical knowledge'. Is this what Wittgenstein was going on about?
Fine, you care only about yourself. Understood.

You're able to bike on the roads, it seems. What bike tax are you paying for those roads? And you're right, you as a biker don't benefit at all from reduced auto traffic. Not one bit. No, you're an entirely independent entity in an otherwise highly interconnected traffic and transit network, it seems. The environmental pollution, sound pollution, increased pedestrian/biker/driver safety, and reduced infrastructure damage are benefits for everyone else.

But in fairness, in isolation I would support a tax credit for individuals who drive less than X miles per year.
Hard to see how that translation could have come about, since there is no reference to a leopard, or any animal, in the Chinese. The leopard can only be in there by reference to translations of the entire idiom as "a leopard can't change its spots", but then I'd expect google translate to just give you "a leopard can't change its spots".

The "mettle difficult to move" bit is a fairly direct translation of the last four characters. CC-CEDICT glosses this saying as "rivers and mountains are easy to change, man's character much harder", which again renders the characters fairly directly.
That's a tempting thought, but if you read the article, it has nothing to do with where your eye tends to be focused.
Also, this is only an issue if you are running version 1.0.2. It doesn't affect any other version.
It was my understanding that homomorphic encryption was not yet ready for deployment. I didn't see that mentioned in the too brief blog post.
I didn't say that and that wasn't what we were talking about.

The guy in the post said that he didn't want to install the crappy Lenovo software from the restore partition. If he had he could have saved the drivers and then re-installed.

If I wiped the machine and didn't have drivers on hand I would expect something not to work...with any OS.

You are clearly a Linux "advocate" and you don't really care about this except to the extent that you can denigrate Windows to make your "side" seem superior.

I don't use computers that way. I try to learn how things actually work. When they don't work like how I would assume they work, I make a note for next time, and move on. I don't see the failings of some nameless developer somewhere in the bowels of a company or an open source project as indicative of , or representative of, some larger plot or plan that impinges my freedoms, rights, or prerogative. It's just another thing in a sea of things to remember about working with imperfect man-made tools to perform other tasks that I'm actually interested in. The software that manages my disk access and video card doesn't convey a sense of righteousness to me and I don't identify myself by or through it.
Yes, I accidentally hit the wrong key -- didn't notice it was posted, and reposted my full post.. sorry!
I don't disagree that people have problems with Microsoft products but I would just suggest asking yourself whether the people who went to the trouble of open-sourcing something are likely to want those problems to exist rather than, say, engineers trying to do what they can at a big, complicated company. Is it more likely that the person who reads a troll PR is going to say “I had no idea everyone wasn't happy with this!” or that their boss will say “See, I told you that releasing this was a waste of time”.
>This is huge; this is what prevented the financial crisis

Hey, I hate the anti-bank sentiment as much as anybody, but you do realize that every asset they sold by Goldman required a buyer, right? So, it prevented nothing, just moved the risk onto someone other institution's balance sheet.
Yes. Depending upon which candy bar I buy, I am indirectly supporting child slavery. Sadly almost nothing in our modern day society is victimless even though most pretend (or believe) otherwise.
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Palo Alto isn't different.[1] Getting rid of these laws will cost NJ jobs, while making products slightly cheaper for everyone else. In a state like NJ, that's a tough pill to swallow no matter what.

[1] In fact, I imagine lots of state legislators hate Palo Alto for making middle class jobs in their states obsolete while creating a few high paying jobs in California and diverting the difference to shareholders in New York. We're talking about a state hollowed out by deindustrialization, where the promise of better jobs to replace the ones lost was made decades ago, and still has yet to materialize.
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If you are a software developer and your aggressive manager is not a developer, don't work remotely. I worked for several months in this condition. The experience was very bad. The manager couldn't understand the difficulty and complexity of programming. He was just pushing and pushing to make sure I was working. I worked 10-12 hours per day, but he was still not satisfied. Finally, I worked on-site. The communication became much better and he could see I am working. And I did not need to work too long every day.
This nearly had me clicking, before I realized it didn't actually say 'car-poodling'
Alternately, it's probably because the use of "most" is unwarranted.
"The probability of all such unknowns will fall somewhere between 0 and 1."

As you can see in my other posts, in general I'm mostly arguing against certainty of any of the options. I've got my personal guesses, which I am not ashamed about, we are all entitled to our guesses, but intellectually honest people must put error bars on them that fill pretty much the whole probability range. But, by the same token, we can't eliminate very many of them either.
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tl;dr: nothing serious.
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I wonder if a "transparency" or "anti-corruption" party would be successful in the U.S. I'm writing a thesis now that delves pretty heavily into the financial crisis of 2008 and the level of carelessness, corruption, and trickery on the part of the captains of finance and the leaders of this country is appalling and disheartening.

The thing that really gets me though is that, as a 22 year old, I (and all the other members of my generation) are inheriting the current system with no input on how we got to the point we are at now and little to no say on how it works. I wonder if we will be able to fix things.
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Iceland is an interesting political community, which I feel is incomparable to any other country.

300,000 people

Everyone knows the other person, or a family member, or a friend, or a friend of a friend. It does not get any deeper than that.

New people and new parties were doing a great job of turning Iceland into a hedge fund, and did a pretty good job of that. A pretty successful hedge fund, until everyone in the words realised it was a pretty bad hedge fund.

Iceland is searching for a new bedrock. Going back to the old bedrock of fishing and... fishing, is unappealing to some. The political landscape is open to options becauseno one has any answers.

But I do see the last decade's rampant financial foolishness having unlocked a desire to cross borders and break out. Lords of fishing and having had a try at finance, why not dominate the finance of fishing across the oceans?
Your comment on the other thread is dead because it's a dupe of this one. Delete that one, and make a new comment with slightly different text.
I actually have to get some sleep now - it's after 1AM here in Aussie, I wanted to stress that I'm absolutely not against using cloud hosted services - just that they're not the answer to all situations and there's a lot to be gained from ensuring you don't get sucked in to too much of the 'Spin' that vendors provide.
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He explicitly says not to report crimes? Note that he talks to a cop in the video.
I realize that your post was titled "Hello World" so I wouldn't expect too much substance, but a couple quick questions (honest ones, not being sarcastic):

What is the use case for something like this?

Is this f/oss ... similarly, what are the licensing terms?

Quick comment:

Please don't misuse the word "hack" when you actually mean "security breach". Thanks!
Yea, I'm beginning to think the only real privilege is being born to a powerful and wealthy family.
Slack finally releases a standalone app for Windows users
Not quite as convenient, but at least you can still find the links here:

https://github.com/superherojs/superherojs/blob/gh-pages/ind...
Ok the latency is high. But I was seeing numbers in the 300,000 IOPS range for ramdisks.
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I've read about people who intentionally exercise before and after work to get the same effect. Essentially running on a treadmill for twenty minutes instead of sitting in a car.

Maybe something to consider? You could also physically drive to a gym if that would help. Or just have one office/computer for work that you don't touch when not "working."
If a mind is what brains do, then Mary cannot know every physical fact about even her own neural system - that is too much information for her neural system to hold. This argument, therefore, implicitly presupposes that there is something more to a mind, and so is begging the question.
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Sorry, I wasn't talking about forks the github term, I was referring to forking the project. It's useful to have open source available just for maintenance.
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Sorry, I accidentally posted this wrong earlier and I've updated my post.
Even though I haven't worked from home for longer than a week, I completely understand what the author means, My first 2 days were ok ok.. but then rest of the day were very bad... you don't realize or feel the break from work and off-work.

When you drive back home you feel the sensation of work is "finished" but at home you are always in the feeling of "work"
Get out while you still can.

Seriously.

I worked from home for 2.5 years and it has had a profoundly negative impact on my social life and even my personality. I'm good with people, but sitting alone all day for such a long-time has turned me into the kind of person who thinks of calling an old friend, then thinks 'eh, why bother. Let's see what's new on Reddit instead'.

Then there's the problem with setting a routine. I can wake up whenever I want to, sleep whenever I want to. And that's what I usually end up doing. Sure, it's fun for the first few weeks, but soon you realize why human beings need structure and organization.

It's corrosive. I moved to a co-working space and I've never been happier.

Working from home is seriously overrated.
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as the title says, I am interested in programming a database system for learning purposes.

Appreciate your help!
> Here is an idea: everyone should vote in a completely myopic way based on what is immediately good for them today.

Are you so also cavalier with your finances? Why not spend your money in a completely myopic way based on what will bring you happiness today. Next month will take care of itself.
Don't CD's say the same thing?

I think it depends on local copyright laws, but I think in most places you buy a license to play music publicly and with that license you are allowed to play any music legally acquired.
They are unable to prohibit OEMs from installing whatever they want as part of the antitrust settlement.
No, I didn't. I'm aware of the existance of those. But those , as you say, external packages are lacking any type of official support. And that is just no acceptable for any serious/big project.

A project manager will be rofl-ing hearing those words, I'd say.
Certification is only required if you want to display a "Certified for Windows" logo, prevent a warning dialog from displaying on Windows XP, and/or distribute your driver through Windows Update.
We will release it open source once it's ready to be used, together with a whitepaper. Which, I hope, will happen pretty soon!
> Law enforcement agents seeking to interview you are not your friends.

oh dear. this is a very sad statement all on its own, without any of what came before it.

law enforcement should be our friends.
And I appreciate the responses. I'm mainly looking for advice based on people's experiences -- Yes, I need to talk to my boss, but I'm trying to figure out 'when' to do this.
> regulatory capture

There doesn't seem to be much disagreement about the facts, just the definition of "regulatory capture".

The idea which "regulatory capture" describes is when regulations fail to do what they are intended to do, when instead of restricting they empower.

But the regulations have not "failed", they are still restricting manufacturers and empowering dealers, so this isn't "regulatory capture", just bog-standard monopoly-granting.
While I generally like Postgres more, the comparison does not include replication. It looks like master-master replication is still better supported on MySQL (but I may be wrong).

Another important thing for me is table partitioning. Both databases support it, but I'd love a comparison. MySQL seemingly covered a lot of ground in this regard.
^ I totally agree, I'll try and see if a 'trial basis' would work in their favor in case they're iffy about it.

Thanks!
As techscruggs put it [0], the ClientHello sigalgs DoS vulnerability does not seem to facilitate unauthorized access. It may allow malicious parties to take you down, but not get in your system.

The other big one is the RSA silently downgrades to EXPORT_RSA thingy. This is the now famous SMACK TLS [1], disclosed 2 weeks ago by researchers from INRIA, IMDEA, and MicroSoft. Most of the software is getting patched (OpenSSL already has) but still very scary.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9231958

[1] https://www.smacktls.com
they allowed factories to produce cars the full calendar year which substantially reduced costs and risks. eventually the manufacturers got to the position where they did have the capital and brand identity to compete and those dealers had to be protected.

i never understand why people are so anti-dealership. yes there are stories about bad ones but to be honest just how would anyone expect these places to be in business if they were consistently bad.

long term, without a dealership model if you have a problem with your tesla your likely up the creek unless they agree with you. there have been some well publicized cases where it took getting media involved to get cars bought back or fixed. dealerships want to preserve their customers as many sell more than one brand, manufactures can easily write off one consumer.
I don't know about meteor in particular - but my advice would be to eschew frameworks in favour of libraries, I'm not the first person to suggest this and it's worth using some google-fu to read the differing opinions.

Essentially, Common JS + NPM lets people/teams create their own "frameworks" with very little effort whilst also freeing them from the bulk and cruft of a framework that has a limited future; if it has any future at all. The tools and technologies we use to create websites/apps are changing at break neck speeds. Frameworks are in it for the long haul and they hope the decisions they make today will be relevant in two+ years time - but devs have to cope with demands in real time. We don't have the luxury of hope.

Here's some good reading
http://tom.lokhorst.eu/2010/09/why-libraries-are-better-than...
Honest question: what is your home situation like? Are you married? Kids?

In my experience, older folks with kids and a spouse tend to love the work from home thing. Younger people tend to get bogged down by the lack of social interaction.
I blame the early influx from members of various other parties (though mostly Greens and the left-wing party "Die Linke").

I don't necessarily disagree with their views, but it helped water the identity of the party down to a level that made it indistinguishable from other liberal groups. Initially the PP also saw some influx from more conservative parties, which created an unstable equilibrium. Now it's just participating around in the usual left-wing infighting (vegans vs vegetarians, feminists vs egalitarians, and so on).

I think part of the reason is that Germans expect parties to cover more than "one issue" (even if that issue is as broad as the entire concept of "an open information infrastructure with a transparent government and strong personal privacy"), so there was an early effort to create a "full programme" covering virtually anything. We'd probably be better off if we had specialised interest groups instead of shrinkwrapped parties. But good luck making democracy more direct and modular when there is a centuries old legacy that portrays anything other than the existing faction-based system as unconstitutional and therefore evil.
The first startup I worked for, back in the Ancient Days Of The Web, gave me (employee #4, 5, or 6, depending on which of the three of us walked in the door first) options that would have netted me low seven figures when the company was gobbled up in the first bubble. Would have, had I exercised those options before I quit the place and let them expire. So it goes.

The second time I had equity was a few years later, joining a much larger company shortly before a terribly botched IPO. The next morning the CEO parked his new Ferrari right next to the employee entrance; the rest of us were stuck with a strike price well above the current valuation. My options eventually peaked out at ~$300K value, but were underwater for years; in theory I could have made far more just buying the stock like any old yutz off the street, if I'd had any expectation that the company would recover, which I didn't.

The third time, well, ask me again in a couple years and we'll see how it turns out. It'd be nice, of course, but I'm not counting on it.

My advice:
* Be an early employee, preferably during a bubble. (Now is probably good.)
* Exercise your options.
* Never park your shiny new sports car where your employees can see it.
Other CVEs in the bulletin affect other versions.
I was talking about consent to searches and giving statements, where it's admitted in the basis of consent being given.
FYI - there are laws around where data is allowed to be hosted and what country that parent company is located in. Even if there weren't laws on this - I think it would be pretty irresponsible to trust all your data and servers to one large off shore corporation, especially one that has a fragile political climate (mind you, want countries don't!)
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Humans are creatures of habits and compartmentalization.

- Get a different computer (use a mac if you are a windows guy for extra separation).
- Work in a different room (DO NOT work from the room you sleep or play in!).
- Wear different clothes (business casual is great, and if you have to do a quick errant outside, you feel like a professional instead of a lazy guy working from home in his underpants).
- Do not visit NSFW websites (you are working, and we both know that porn and/or reddit can eat up your time).
Personally, I think it's great to just have 1 or 2 remote days per week. Really helps with overall time spent commuting and breaks up the monotony of the daily routine.
No, it's the exact opposite. It's a place where all these are welcome. Denie the holocaust, fine you can stay in the party. On the left side, celebrate war crimes? Fine. Which does not leave any potential for voters either.
According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Frog_and_the_Mouse , you can find each moral in Aesop, with the frog and the mouse teaching that evil destroys itself and the farmer and the viper teaching that you're a fool to hope for anything but evil treatment from evil. Presumably, you'd target the first lesson at people you wanted to shape up, and the second one at the excessively giving.

On a different note, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Scorpion_and_the_Frog is only listed in WP's "apocryphal" subcategory of Aesop's fables, dated to 1954. What's it doing on "www.aesopfables.com"?
I honestly don't understand what Uber is trying to accomplish with the integration of non-professional drivers into it's taxi platform.

It's devaluing their actual taxi service. By failing to address the serious safety concerns head on they're opening themselves up to litigation that they don't need and also removing trust in the overall brand. All for what, getting more drivers, you've got to ask, is it worth it?
I am actually quite a friend of the modular structure (Unix fan here).

The package manager is good and the packages itself are getting better and more usable all the time.

But one could definitely argue that things like routing should be part of the core. On the other hand Meteor could be getting pretty monolithic over time.
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We're still figuring it out. We came up with our own pattern based on event emitting. We're actually considering moving everything to reflux, or another flux implementation.

Bonnie, an engineer on the team, did a talk about our implementation at React conf: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZM6wXoFTY3o
Why the American Dream is unraveling
Apparently, you can turn the crapware offer off.

https://www.java.com/en/download/faq/disable_offers.xml
Dont talk to police
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wXkI4t7nuc
Actually it's considerably slower than the single SSD in the lowest model MacBook Pro.