skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Initial cost, liability, maintenance, abuse, cleanliness, oh the list can go on and on. Far too many people are pigs when its not their property.

Now I am waiting for someone to sue over damages to expensive shoes or clothing because of a building owner's use of the paint.
I don't understand why newspapers always feel the need to try to come up with a 'clever' headline, and force it in even if it isn't actually particularly clever. It takes away from the story itself.
British slang for passengers - "The train operating companies treat us like cattle".

Actually, cattle may get treated better...
Hmm... not really, is there any value - medicinal or otherwise - from heroin, crack, meth or cocaine?
Still cheaper than Ultra Ever Dry on every wall. He coating dissipates due to weather and gravity after a month or ao anyway.

But it's a cool undercover advertisement for ultraever dry!
This is not really surprising to me. Have you seen Chrome? It's being bundled with heaps of malware for profit (PPI garbage).
But you typically need to freeze funds when doing that.
Opiates can have massively positive value and transform people's lives. Addicts include Howard Hughes, an impressive engineer, and Hermann Göring, a rather successful politician and decorated commander. Oxycontin is massively prescribed, and not all of it is going to highly-visible junkies. It's powering lawyers, doctors, engineers, and many other people that derive high value from it and make valued contributions to society.

While not as physically safe as LSD, opiates have essentially no serious long-term health effects other than constipation. The major downside is the highly visible acute respiratory depression after overdose.

Edit: Speed is used by tons of people, and Paul Erdos said it gave him inspiration (though methamphetamine might have more downsides than other amphetamines, similar to how barbiturates are rather outclassed by benzodiazepines - but that's hardly reason to outlaw it). Many artists have used cocaine to their benefit. I'm all for psychedelics, but don't pretend that other medicines don't have plenty of value.
How to keep your personal data from online theft?
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OpenSMTPD is much, much simpler than Postfix. I can't stand Postfix's fucking 1000 line multi-file configuration.

Nginx is simple, so, yeah – no need for a replacement there.
Prices would come down to the point where maintaining what amounts to a private army wouldn't be cost-effective anymore.
:) true

but then again, if the guy is too drunk he might not even notice some drops on his shoes
If you are using Firefox: click on the padlock icon -> "more information" -> "view certificate" and then on the "details" tab. If you check "certificate signature algorithm" for each of the 3 certificates, you'll see that the root certificate as well as your own one are using SHA256 but that the intermediate certificate is using SHA1. You need to bundle the right intermediate certificate which you can find, together with additional information, on https://shaaaaaaaaaaaaa.com/
I'm only seeing the abstract here. Is there a link for the full tutorial?
Pah, I celebrate Pi Time every day, at 3.14. And 15 seconds. And 926 milliseconds. And ...
"Why did you break into my house and destroy everything in your path?"

"I tried to pee on your wall and it bounced off. So I got so mad I decided it was time to do some real damage."
Why not FTP? Or even TFTP?
This site makes networking less painful
OT: Which church? Just curious.
e^(τi/2) = -1

Didn't think so.
“You'd be impoverished to not know the story of video games”
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There are whiteboard scanners--or at least used to be. But cameraphones have pretty much eliminated the need.
That strikes me as incredibly odd. I can't imagine any of the managers I've had over the years forbidding me from doing something like that.
Show HN: Visually mine π
Wouldn't it be cheaper than ~$85/sq meter to just have a motion-detecting camera on each wall that would record/broadcast the people peeing in all of their glory on a town website, and have signs on the walls indicating this and the URL where they can see themselves? A drunk person isn't going to care that they have to do laundry in the morning because the wall "peed back" on them. They might care that the entire town would see them doing it though.
Drugs like analgesics are especially dangerous though. There will always be people who turn to analgesics to relieve the pain of everyday life. People will turn to heroin or oxycodone to escape from the sorrow following the loss of a loved one, and it will work --- at first. Then they develop an addiction, and a tolerance, until they get to a point where the drug no longer relieves the pain of everyday life, only the pain of not having the drug.

In order for legalization to be effective, the legal drugs have to be equally potent, equally priced, and easily accessible. The fear of associating with a toxic culture, and of being arrested is part of what prevents more people suffering loss and other stress from turning to analgesics, I fear that the legalization of such drugs would result in more people addicted, albeit with a somewhat more manageable addiction.

I think I still support full legalization, but it's much easier to legalize low addiction substances than the "bad drugs".
What happens when you have 1/7 of a rotation? There's no one multiplier that will solve all cases.

In any case, personally I think that fractions are way better, because they tell you exactly what's what.
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I distinctly remember when I was learning geometry that there were some things that never really made sense. Why was pi defined in terms of the diameter when literally everything else we learned about circles used the radius? Why did radian angles feel off by a factor of 2? When I later stumbled upon the Tau Manifesto, it felt like a lot of things fell into place. And by that time, I had also studied calculus and had a familiarity with the kinds of things that happen in formulas which relate lengths and areas, so the discussion of the circle area formula resonated as well.

Despite all the cheap dismissals one sees, this feeling of "woah, that would have actually made sense!" is a big part of what makes the Tau Manifesto popular.
I think it's generally better to code directly to one provider and in the very rare instance you need/decide to change, go ahead and do the relatively easy work.
Public urinals like these are all over Amsterdam: http://goo.gl/LbWxd4 you're rarely more than a couple of blocks away from one.

They're male-only, and just a metal spiral leading to a cement wall that you pee on, and a drain below that wall.

They're very simple & easy to maintain, and all you need to clean them is a pressure washer. Public urination is practically unknown with these around.
Yes, which means "a half turn around the unit circle in the complex plane is -1". Try explaining that in words without saying "half" or something equivalent to it.
The quantified serf
"socialism with Chinese characteristics"

He means communism, which is essentially a tyrannical dictatorship. Not surprising indeed. What a scumbag. Supporting communism is no different than supporting naziism.
I have a better solution: electrified paint.
This is very popular and has been resubmitted a lot of times

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=The%20Story%20of%20Mel%20&sort...

(Note: The third in the list is: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=181144 (43 points, 7 years ago, 9 comments). IIRC 43 points was a lot 7 years ago.)
Overdose potential is largely irrelevant for low-addiction substances.
It's not the same at all. There's a "Pending" balance and an "Available" balance.

If you were to initiate a transfer after a successful charge, you will get an error. You have to wait days for it to make it to your available balance and transfer then.
Very interesting article, something every manager who manages developers should read.

However I think a lot of developers (Particularly startup ones) have multiple roles, so interruptions and changing flow is a part of the job. How do you suggest to get around that? My only solution would be to split your day up into chunks for the different roles, minimizing context switching.
> which leaves you with '3 / 2 of a half a circle', which isn't obvious how much that actually is

I like pi. I think it's quite obvious too, but maybe you need to stop thinking about circles and start thinking about planes or lines instead. Pi is simple, straight line, or equivalently the whole half-plane above the x axis. Pi/2 is half the turning needed to get back to the straight line, i.e. right square. And so on...
HR folks and interviewing engineers don't get this. Idioms, best practices and methodologies should be sought in senior people. Buzzword hiring shops are likely full of bad people to work with. Its a signal of lack of intelligence and perspective organizationally.
I'd love to see Mexico and Colombia license all production to pharma/bio companies. These cartels are tough, but I can't imagine they'd survive long against, e.g. Monsanto. Lesser of two evils, but at least one is less violent and sorta civilized.
Whats wrong with an open close button that can only be activated when the train is stationary and brakes are applied?
Is that why the original comment got deleted for going against the narrative and pointing out the blatant bias? If you've kept up with modleaks, you'd realize srs and srd are the real "toxic" communities, which relish their identities of hate, and wheel and deal behind the scenes to spread this ideology.

TiA is a sub for people who deal with this stuff in real life and would like to meet and chat with people who aren't crazy. They have strict rules about not getting involved.

Unless you can show me examples of TiA doxxing or harassing. I have not seen it.

Seen plenty of "justified" outrage from the SRS/SRD crowd, who think they're "punching up" because of dumb simplifications like "privilege is power + oppression".
Opposite of 1 on the unit circle in the complex plane is -1. Pi just means "enough of a turn to get back to the straight line".
A seachange in front-end best practice (but not for a while)
The canals also help a lot.
Undercover? I haven't seen such blatant advertising masquerading as news in years. The video in this article is clearly a commercial.
One of the benefits of running your own email server: You can block all LinkedIn spam at the gateway.

All LinkedIn email is banned at my gateway. As is any vendor who considers me purchasing from them to be an agreement whereby they can send me unsolicited email. 0 tolerance.
Of course not. This was some government contractor taking the tax payers for a ride. They could charge $x more per train this way and just through in a shitty gps device. Things like this aren't accidents.
In India, pre-pay call rates are like 1.5 cents per minute and 2-3 USD for 1 GB of data. Data gets cheaper with volume. Nearly all of texting happens via WhatsApp.

My and most of my friends' monthly costs do not exceed 500 INR (~8 USD).
Victorian-era solution http://www.neatorama.com/2013/08/03/Urine-Deflectors/
Love it, great read
I actually interpreted it as the parent comment. For instance if you have a really bad poison oak they prescribe prednisone ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prednisone )
I don't like to think about it this way. I think it's silly to go all out and insist one is always objectively "better" than the other (it's a tradeoff), but to have this discussion is illuminating. Look through the comments at how many people gained a better understanding of geometry as a whole by reading.
In one of the threads here someone points out that different doors should be opened at different stations (sometimes different sides of the train, I think sometimes not all of the doors on one side).

Which explains why they want it to be location dependent, it doesn't excuse the poor implementation.
In many German cities, you're fined for peeing on public property ($50 to $200, depending on the city and the circumstances).
For the same reason the other 20+ net-daemons are: http://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/~checkout~/src/etc/...

With OpenBSD, you can actually avoid the ports tree all together and still play a critical role in your infrastructure.

If you're going to distribute a system that doesn't do much of anything on its own, and delegate the responsibility of security (and choice!) to "the ports tree" you're not doing any better than Linux or FreeBSD.
Except that we knew all this 20 years ago. He's not really extremist at all. I guess he is just good at finding audiences that aren't up to speed.
No, they hate what they think is racism and sexism, while continuing to put people in boxes and treating them differently based on gender and ethnicity.

Only now it's cis white men who are the acceptable target.
Getting started with Solaris SMF
Their key points here were:

-Inbox Pause

-Thursday Meetings

-and Do 1 Thing a Day.

I personally use:

-Archive Everything

-Never have meetings... ever.

-and Prioritize

My email is like Chat unfortunately, so much back and forth on projects I really can't afford to only chime in once a day or nothing would ever get done. But everything gets archived unless I'm working on it actively, or I still need to reply.

Meetings... I never meet in person now. The time suck is just horrible awful miserable. I will occasionally have a phone meeting, but they aren't much better, but at least I don't have to take time to shave and drive.

1 thing a day would be nice unless your world consists of 200 little tiny things. So, I prioritize and block out hours to get things done. Then I DO apply 1-thing-a-day to my side-projects so they stay fresh.

To each their own.
20 years in this industry invites people to treat you as a fossil and not even hire. Technology moves too fast, nobody cares what you did in 1995 anywhere near as much as what you did in 2013.
The presentation hasn't happened yet. It will take place at ETAPS 2015: 11-18 April 2015, London, UK
And widespread prescription opiate abuse.
At the end, he wrote "We call them "useds" rather than "users" because Facebook is using them, not vice versa."
> one can easily aim at a wider angle to the wall

You could of course urinate into the open air. The reason people urinate against walls is, ironically, to protect their modesty.
SNI, for example. If you're running multiple virtual hosts, the proxy would have to be aware of all of them. But yes, SSL termination is not uncommon, especially if you have a frontend/backend architecture.
you can do that as well.
> Heroin

Palliative care, for one.

> Meth

FDA-approved to treat ADHD and obesity. Lots of people use amphetamines to great effect when working/studying.

> Cocaine

Used as a local anesthetic in nose surgery.
I think it will only take getting yourself wet once to learn that when in doubt, you should pee at an angle. People will quickly adapt.

Now if someone would make a pee retroreflector coating, things could get more interesting...
How to run Docker in production:

http://blog.terminal.com/docker-without-containers-pulldocke...

When you run a docker container on terminal, we handle all of the networking and storage problems for you. In addition, we're the only place in the world that's offering live-migration of docker containers right now (metal to metal without downtime. We carry everything from the RAM state to the IP address automatically).
This is rather hilariously slanted. "Bigotry by subreddit". Really?

"[TumblrInAction], a subreddit dedicated to mocking Tumblr – where marginalized groups, particularly LGBTQ, post about their experiences"

Here they neatly imply r/TumblrInAction mocks LGBTQ issues when in fact, it mocks people who use identities as tools to divide and hit people over the head with. Which is incidentally what this report does:

"Overt bigotry: the use of bigoted (racist/sexist/homophobic etc.) language, whether targeting any particular individual or more generally, which would make members of the referenced group feel highly uncomfortable"
In other words: assuming everyone in group X feels the same way about what the authors consider offensive language. This ignores e.g. the vast amount of gay people on chan boards who say "faggot" for fun to each other.

This so-called bigotry is contrasted with "supportiveness", apparently a desirable trait. Yet you can easily find people's horrible behavior being supported in more hugbox-style forums, when they get into an in/out-group fight and all the niceties go out the window for the sake of victimhood. We saw this with Atheism+, with r/GamerGhazi, and the "women in tech" activists.

Speaking of, notice how they explicitly contrast r/TheRedPill with a companion "Women in Tech" link in the footnote/popup for no stated reason. TheRedPill is supposedly "dedicated to male chauvinism", where "bigoted comments received approval". Well, if you define the entire subreddit's subject matter as bigoted, are you surprised the community appears to support bigotry by your own count? I have read TheRedPill, it is the male equivalent of Jezebel, nothing more, nothing less.

Really, this is just spreading fear about certain reddits, as the summary practically admits: which communities you should avoid, according to data. Yet the most toxic subreddit of all by their own data, ShitRedditSays, is nicely euphemized as home to "unproductive conversations".
Also if the authors think they "delved deep into the darkest recesses of the inter webs," by analyzing reddit comments, they are naive beyond belief.
In Germany, sometimes there's this weird tendency to patronize people just for the sake of it. So, instead of going for the obvious, reasonable solution that's beneficial for everyone involved an inferior and more expensive 'solution' is implemented that doesn't really solve the issue but merely punishes undesirable behaviour. While the streets will still smell like piss at least people can gloat over the wrongdoers having got their comeuppance.
considering you wrote a book on OpenBSD many moons ago, you'd know that the only things that get attention are the itches /developers/ scratch. since you seem to be happy not being apart of the OpenBSD "world" (aka not developing on or for OpenBSD), who other than yourself really cares what you feel are higher priority needs and gaps?
I've been playing with getting a Postgres/GraphQL system working recently too. I decided that the definitions of the "edges" in the schema itself should declare what the user/viewer is capable of fetching via the GraphQL.

I started a very naive implementation of A-Relay-Like-Architecture (Arla) and built todomvc with it[1].... schema.js[2] declares the schema/nodes as well as the 'calls/edges' available for each node, which allows you to limit the visible rows/columns based on the $viewer id.

It's all a bit of an experiment... but I'm liking the GraphQL pattern so far.

[1] https://github.com/kiloe/arla-todomvc
[2] https://github.com/kiloe/arla-todomvc/blob/master/schema.js
> Facebook doesn't invade anyone's privacy.

What do you consider the Like, Connect, etc. buttons that are tracking virtually every page you visit, Facebook user or not?
What's wrong with being "addicted"? You talk as if there was zero benefit to the user of opiates after they reach a certain point. Apart from the stigmatization of addiction as an intrinsically bad thing, where's the harm? Outside of legal and financial issues, which society has self-inflicted? Where's the evidence that users derive no more value once addicted? Users can " stay well " with less euphoric opiates, yet choose not to. If all they're taking the drug for is to clear the pain of withdrawal, why not prefer simpler, longer-lasting opiates?

People are treated with terrible shit like Haldol, lithium, and Zoloft, but we don't mock those users, calling the medication a toxic addiction and an escape. Even when those medications are very damaging to the body (lithium requiring regular checkups to make sure it hasn't actually accumulated to toxic levels). Those users don't get stigmatized beyond being mentally ill in the first place. In fact, the opposite is heard, with "he's off his meds again", or stories of responsible users that reliably take their medication.
Three out of four Ferguson residents have arrest warrants
Don't forget that pays for coverage of a land area roughly twice as big as the entire EU[0] with no roaming charges. Also, this article is from 2012 and has outdated prices. If you go prepaid you can get 2.5 GB for $35 with unlimited voice and text[1] or 5 GB for $30 with 100 minutes voice and unlimited text[2]. Or pay-what-you-use for voice, text, and data[3] (great for people who need a phone but hardly use it or with highly-variable use). Of course you can also pay a lot more for worse plans, but savvy shoppers have decent options available to them these days.

[0] http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=%28land+area+of+the+us+... (I excluded Alaska because most of that state doesn't have cellular coverage and the parts that do make up for the parts of the mainland that don't.)

[1] https://www.cricketwireless.com/cell-phone-plans

[2] http://prepaid-phones.t-mobile.com/prepaid-plans#other-month...

[3] https://ting.com/rates
It's bugged me as well. It feels like whenever you have a unit where all your measurements contain a multiplication by a constant factor, you should just pick a more convenient unit. This applies to radian measure regardless of whether one uses Pi or Tau. It's odd that the unit of radian measure is a quantity which one almost never encounters, and that the quantities one most often encounters are all transcendental (except 0), even in the most basic of situations.

But instead of picking an arbitrary number like 360 or 1337 or whatever, how about we pick 1? Let's give this unit a name, say "turn".

One full rotation = 1 "turn"

Half a rotation = 1/2 "turn"

1/10 of a rotation = 1/10 "turn"

etc.

What do you think?
please do not link to calomel.org. OpenBSD takes great care to have clear, concise, accurate documentation available both on the system and on the web. link to the man page!

calomel.org is filled with...ignorance, to say the least.
I think that a higher percentage of people that post on HN work for facebook or companies with even more invasive business models than once did. The privacy questions hasn't changed, it's just that most of the adults have left.
Gem Updater: Update gems in your Gemfile and fetch their changelogs
Only One Thing Matters for a Startup: Traction
As a techie, I find it exceedingly hard to ban myself from here. Setting up a work-around for browser blocks, dns blocks, etc--takes a couple of minutes at best, not to mention there's a ton of pages where they just use the api and create their own interface.

I usually just edit my hosts file now, because it prevents the 2-second "ctrl+t, n, enter" combo and makes me think about what I'm doing.

I don't restrict myself outside of working hours.
Put a motion-detecting camera near the coated wall, have it automatically mix in canned laughter and you can stream real-time comedy!
Fraud Detection by Behavioral Fluency Testing
I read the config file format and I fell in love.

I really hope this gets the portable treatment.
The thing is some people really don't care what they work on. As long as the pay is good and they are getting to program(or whatever other task they enjoy doing), the actual application doesn't matter.
Steroid abuse is common among police officers as well.