skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does this mean they have to insure the tractors against loss and liability? If the farmers are just operators, they shouldn't be responsible for repairs and maintenance either? Seems like they could have opened Pandora's box.
I lived in Papua New Guinea for two years, where linguistic diversity is higher than any other country.

There was however a few languages that everyone spoke. Tok Pisin was a pidgin language spoke by almost everyone, and English (due to it being the language used in schools) ran a close second.

Despite the relatively few languages spoken in Europe, we don't have a universal dialect that everyone understands. The vast majority of us are monolingual.
Huh, I hadn't heard that anywhere. Got a citation? Sounds like an interesting cultural phenomenon, assuming it's supported by the data.
This is very cool! I think this'd be a great incentive for people to learn programming and a great way to get into it - I know I've gotten a few folks to look into it purely by showing them how much easier life can be when you automate things. And people are more motivated to learn when something is solving real problems for them.
Linode has a great guide for locking down your server, if you don't do anything else at a bare minimum do this (https://www.linode.com/docs/security/securing-your-server).

I can remember many many moons ago I got hacked too so I know the feeling. If you don't have mission critical stuff, this can be a good thing though, makes you learn how to lock down your servers.

Besides locking down your SSH config, Fail2Ban is nice, and be sure to set your iptables so your only accepting packets you want. Also here's a list of other things I usually do:

1. Depending on your distro there's usually a way to install automatic security updates, in debian its called unattended upgrades (https://wiki.debian.org/UnattendedUpgrades)

2. Install logwatch to keep yourself periodically updated with whats going on.

3. Control your packages. If you don't need services make sure your box is clean of them. Basically, for every service you have on the machine thats one more possible attack point, so just use the ones you know you need.

4. In your firewall ignore icmp_echo and icmp_echo_ignore_broadcasts if you can. There's also other stuff you can do in sysctl and with SELinux but I've never really had the need.
Naive question:

Programs written in programming languages aren't guaranteed to terminate. Computable numbers, however, are all real numbers that can be represented to arbitrary precision by a computation that terminates. Wouldn't that mean we don't need a fully fledged programming language to have the capability to represent all computable numbers?

Somewhere in there is the idea we just need a program that determines whether an arbitrary program terminates or not...
> It boggles my mind why Magento would willingly distribute unsafe code this way, assuming users would just find out to download the patches separately.

Because Magento are OBSERVABLY INSANE.

This is from the Magento Enterprise tarball. I can't say how much we're paying, but I can say it's public knowledge that it's at least $13,000 a year:

$ grep -r chmod app | grep 777
app/code/local/Gorilla/Heartbeat/Helper/Data.php: chmod($logDir, 0777);
app/code/local/Gorilla/Heartbeat/Helper/Data.php: chmod($logFile, 0777);
app/code/core/Mage/Install/Model/Installer/Console.php: @chmod('var/cache', 0777);
app/code/core/Mage/Install/Model/Installer/Console.php: @chmod('var/session', 0777);
app/code/core/Mage/Install/Model/Installer/Config.php: chmod($this->_localConfigFile, 0777);
app/code/core/Mage/Compiler/Model/Process.php: @chmod($dir, 0777);
app/code/core/Mage/Catalog/Model/Product/Attribute/Backend/Media.php: $ioAdapter->chmod($this->_getConfig()->getTmpMediaPath($fileName), 0777);
app/Mage.php: chmod($logDir, 0777);
app/Mage.php: chmod($logFile, 0777);
For those who don't know after last years Game of Thrones debacle, HBO now uses MLB's infrastructure to run HBO Now.
Looks interesting. It sounds like it will attack a lot of the first things I did actual (non-homework, non-toy) programing for, which are also things I've tried (unsuccessfully) to convince others to learn just a bit of programming to be able to do. I hope this book accomplishes that.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micronation

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_micronations (Liberland is already listed)

Some are just notable crackpots, some take advantage of geographic changes or artificial structures (Sealand the most famous), some are whims tolerated by controlling sovereignties, some are violently overthrown, some are long-respected special cases (Vatican), some are genuine attempts that failed (Oceania).
Judges setting legal precedent is an inherently political issue. The article is political in nature. I'm asking HNers to explain a relevant philosophical belief they hold. It seems squarely on-topic.

This isn't reddit.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The text at your link contradicts your statement.
My main takeaway from this is that when there's very strange unexplainable sounds on the Earth, the most likely culprit may be the Earth itself. Also see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloop
It really depends on your biz model and there are many variations. At my company we do 1.5% of the monthly revenue of each client the sales person has "closed." Typical monthly value of a client is around $20k and we have no cap on commissions.

Reps are also the first line of defense when it comes to customer service for their clients. This works great for us because the reps who provide the best customer service typically get most of their new clients from referrals from existing clients.
Personhood is not (except in the sense of "what entities currently have the legal status of 'person'?") a fact question, and therefore "empirical evidence or scientific study" can't even in principal say much about it.
I think there is a bit too much focus on the crashing in the media. Give 'em 5 or 6 tries, they're doing something that all others have deemed impossible or impractical in the past. I think they will nail it next time.
Yup - because if they don't, their Australian licensees will sue them. When HBO originally made the deals to supply content to Australian Pay TV companies, that deal almost certainly included a clause giving the Australian company territorial exclusivity, because nobody wants to pay anything to compete with the original supplier, and HBO either didn't want or wasn't able to set up its own infrastructure in Australia. So although the technological environment has changed, HBO is still bound by the terms of whatever contract it signed until it expires. There's no way to know because contracts are private* but typically entertainment industry contracts involve 10-year terms and one-time renewability options.

* though maybe you could work it out from studying companies' annual reports, and maybe some kinds of contract should involve a public filing.

(from qzervaas): Australian pay TV is a scam.

Well yeah, but you live on an island and are relatively isolated geographically, which comes with an implicit economic cost that gets amortized over everything else.
I thought they already have at least some rights. Don't many states have entire departments of police officers dedicated to enforcing animal cruelty laws? I don't see much objection to making and enforcing laws against pointlessly cruel treatment of animals.
If you are saying print is gone, it isn't. It became a function in python 3.

print "hello world"

became

print("hello world")

If you are complaining about the format, then that really is a dumb reason.
I'm surprised that article didn't mention this: http://www.geekwire.com/2014/internal-memo-hbo-cto-otto-berk...
Very neat! Maybe add in a DNS service on top? Being able to map server.myname.com for private use would be a great feature.
Billing support is available to all customers for free: https://support.google.com/cloud/answer/3420056?hl=en&ref_to...
Sorry about that. Everything you ask here is very important. We updated the website and tried to explain everything more clearly. Thanks for your interest.
I'd definitely be interested in knowing more about your company, davideous. I have no doubt that not paying commissions can work for some companies. And getting comfortable with paying commissions to salespeople took me, personally, a really long time. (Too long, from the perspective of being a good CEO and doing what needed to be done to move my company forward.)

The arguments in the Fog Creek post sound right, and really resonate with those of us who are engineering/product people. But they don't match the reality of my own experience. At least for the high-cost, high-touch, long sales cycle stuff that I have the most experience with, the best salespeople all want their compensation to be heavily weighted towards commissions. So if you want to hire the best sales reps -- and, just as with engineers, you really, really want to hire the best -- you have to recognize and understand that preference.

But I'd be happy to be wrong about this! In addition to Fog Creek, I remember reading another blog post about a startup that doesn't pay commissions. Maybe a Foundry Group company: Moz? I can't find that post now, though.
I think a positive side-effect of PaperBricks idea would be full standardization of notation. It's tiring to look up meaning of variables as they differ with each author.
So, the Parliament shooting was a false flag to take away the people's rights?
Seriously. It seems like there are many very easy technical fix the markets could implement --

- hard-cap the number of cancellations a trader can order

- penalize traders if they have too many cancelled orders (delay further transactions)

- add a cost to cancellation

Why does this require police action? Is the exchange just using the police as a bulldog to avoid having to implement technical fixes for these problems?
Yes, Your Smart Dildo Can Be Hacked
But you're not supposed to edit core, you extend it.
> I'm getting tired of explaining why this kind of reasoning is wrong. Specifically, your statement about how "In his world, the creators of things starve." No, for the thousandth time, it's not true at all.

> There is nothing standing in the way of content creators selling GPL code, and even keeping it private until its been bought. Full stop.

You appear to be arguing that it is not expressly forbidden by the GPL, but this is not what api said. There is something standing in the way of content creators selling GPL code — practicality. When you can only sell one license to the software ever, it's really impractical to build a business around selling that software. In fact, I cannot think of any companies that create GPL-licensed software and actually make their money selling that GPL-licensed software.
I think your amusement park analogy is spot on. It's really annoying to sit there and watch a bunch of bullets and text whiz by when I just want to read what the product does.
Yes, sorry if that seemed like a troll-ish question, but it wasn't. You made a claim, and while I could assume I understand your reasoning, I'd rather know what you think, not what I think you think.
many things "get the job done", but it's the nature of that "job" and how much effort it takes which is in question.
I'm amazed that "spoofing" is illegal.

If your high frequency trading algorithm is so dumb that it can be tricked by an order that is then canceled, you deserve to lose money.

Anyone doing actual analysis of companies and trading accordingly would be completely unaffected by a spoofed order.
>"WTF did you expect to happen?!" //

Often we all assume something and so no one really investigates it properly. Science must concern itself with things we think we know are a priori truths in order to provide a solid basis for building on.

That said Goltz experiment seems quite reasonable to me, ~"do frogs have non-brain based reflexes that react to temperature?", ~"do frogs react to absolute temperatures or just changes in temperature".

https://archive.org/stream/studiesfrombiol00martgoog#page/n4... at p.389 suggests that the frog with "no cerebrum" is in some way alive in Goltz experiment - perhaps it is missing that point that makes you say WTF?

It seems the excitability of headless frogs in varying temperatures was quite a point of interest, see eg p.393 ibid.
Wondering how this will effect Yahoo's numbers with the amount of people using Firefox that do no setup their own search engines and just utilize the default.

Is there a large market for the mobile users of Firefox to really make an impact on this?
Considering their apparently sorcerous power to get the money people to sign cheques, I really wonder what the hell they do in the sales presentation for this pile of rancid garbage.
Wow, this went from the front to page three in just a few minutes... discussion getting too heated for a mod's taste?
We're not doing it for profit. We'll donate all money left after this campaign is over, ad space bought, billboards are designed, printed, and put out there.
Every one of us has a vested interest in stable financial markets.

I am for any law that helps make financial markets serve businesses and society and not high-stake casino players.

We need laws like this because of the endless supply of greedy assholes who want to game the system. This extends to other areas like systematic tax avoidance used by rich individuals and large corporations.
Patreon is tantamount to panhandling. It's not much of a business model.
What are you talking about? It was an example, nothing more.
Same print for all cities, yes. Sorry, no dogs for now.
And that's the gap between "supposed to" and "need to". So instead we cobble a pile of handcrufted PHP to work around its gross defects, given that maintaining our own patchset is making an even bigger rod for our own backs than running Magento itself is.
I'd suggest to integrate more semantics in this system, like e.g. Knowledge Graph in Google or SemanticMediaWiki. This can help for automated processing years later. Also, adding more interactivity with ipython/webppl notebooks embedded directly in the article and/or comments would be a huge step up for the community. Or even integration with systems like Coq, Agda, Why/Alt-Ergo.
Under the DMCA it's illegal to root your devices: http://www.wired.com/2015/04/dmca-ownership-john-deere/?mbid...
I personally think that sentience (and thus maximal interpersonal utility) is only possible to the extent that it's possible to anticipate someone else's desire by modeling it in terms of one's own. The degree to which I can imagine what you want depends on the ability to imagine myself in your position, and once that happens there's always the possibility that I might find occupying your position to be more desirable than remaining in my own.
I cannot think of an anime film particularly that is as prescient as Ghost in the Shell.

For my money, the best non Miyazaki piece of art the genre ever produced.
Whoever wrote Magento thinks 777 permissions are ever the right thing to do.

Every book I've ever seen on Magento seems to think the same. That 777 permissions are just not a big deal.
Wow, predict the sky looks pretty neat: http://predictthesky.org/

Too bad it doesn't seem to actually work.
Nobody's "pretending" that immutability trumps mutability. Rather, we're observing it firsthand. By making immutability the rule rather than the exception thereof, one eliminates a huge swath of bugs and makes an even bigger swatch much more difficult to achieve.

That said, you're right that there are tradeoffs, which is why languages like Rust - while defaulting to immutability - allow a programmer to define variables as mutable, and why Elixir (unlike Erlang) allows variables to be reassigned (though the data stored in those variables is still immutable; this is something that's enforced by BEAM).

And of course, you can still get many of the benefits of immutability with mutable variables by being careful about how you're using those variables; the difference, however, is that a language which assumes immutability will be able to catch those bugs more easily, forcing the programmer to fix them (either by making the variable mutable (in applicable languages) or refactoring until mutability isn't necessary).
Stimpy: "It's my remote control shaver! Now you can get a clean close shave without even being there! Obserruv!"
You know how the amoeba reproduces, right? It splits into two. So every amoeba* alive today has been alive for hundreds of millions, perhaps billions, of years.

*And all the other organisms that "reproduce" this way.
I thought C-51 was defeated. Why is it back?
Why interval arithmetic is so useful (2007) [pdf]
I think what he will claim is that his orders were not "virtually impossible" to trade with. The so-called "layer" orders were in the book for a reasonable length of time. His trading program was modifying the orders to keep them a few ticks from the inside, but they could have been hit by any contra side order that was big enough to trade through all of the orders in front of his. It's not unheard of for big trades to sweep multiple price levels in the ES book.

They will have to prove that his intent was to use the spoof orders to signal other participants to trade and I'm not sure that is as much of a slam dunk as all these news articles are claiming. I.e. there is no email where he just comes right out and says "these here are the spoof orders meant to move the price etc etc etc."
Are they still taking the "lucky sevens" approach to file permissions?
Straight razor or GTFO
Michigan Governor Rick Snyder has proposed that the Feds allow 50,000 additional visas for highly skilled immigrants if they're willing to live in Detroit for five years.

Priority would be given to graduates of Michigan universities. Despite widespread support from both parties in the state the Obama administration has yet to rule on the request.

http://www.crainsdetroit.com/article/20140123/NEWS/140129933...
i said it clearly - we should confer equal rights on both independently of species, including the specific right of not being killed.

To "zigzero" below: your desire to kill a highly sentient living being just to satisfy your urge for some peculiar taste you like is ridiculous. Mommy, i want a candy, a-aaa-a! Time to grow up.
Unlikely. It was a terrible thing that is being taken advantage of by politicians to advance their agenda of increasing their own power.
Let's say the D represents the duration between when you typed that code, and when you got feedback informally at the watercooler.

Pair programming, when it's working well, is just lim(D -> 0) :)
When people say something like this, what most would take away is "oh, so I guess not much will change then...since they've already being doing that".

But it would be wrong to think like that. When the activity actually becomes legal, such actions will grow by orders of magnitude. Maybe they were already abusing their powers against many people - but if it gets legalized they will shamelessly abuse them against many more.
So it doesn't support root domains? Using a root domain on Herkou requires configuring some non-standard record (I think it is ANAME).

It's something that annoyed me about Heroku because a lot of people prefer the non-www version of their domain as canonical these days.
I think oxygen toxicity is pretty well know, what I was musing over was whether through a slightly elevated breath frequency, or slightly deeper breathing, one could have more oxygen available and so increase CO2 production. If instead of 100% oxygen one breathes 22% (vs. 20% in normal air IIRC), what then?

Someone else has noted respiratory alkalosis as a limiting factor, but that again is seemingly an extreme.
What about excretion of ketones?
Android Support Library 22.1
3,000 floppy disk archive (1982–1994)
That's from six months ago.
This is sort of an easy thing for djb to say, but the truth is that most people are not good at creating things. Most people are barely useful for "work". The average keeps getting higher, but half the population is still and will always be below-average.

Maybe in a future utopian society everyone is somehow above average, or there are radically fewer humans that just are really smart, but right now most of the people are not going to create top-tier "content". And there are enough people creating top-tier content, and enough top-tier content in the history of human art, that I don't need any more content. Who is going to pay them? Why should I? Why should the state? Why is this is a thing we should be buying? I can think of at least ten better uses for my money.
On a large scale, don't physical archives need maintenance, as well? People need to keep the items stored in accordance with some sort of system (electronic formats make this easier), theft and fire prevention are needed, not to mention the amount of real estate that has to be bought, leased, and/or managed.

On a smaller scale, when someone moves, they have to move, or pay someone to move, their archive for them (I got a taste of this back in November).
I don't have built-in lighting, but I bought my e-reader before that was a common feature. I'd like to buy a physical book and get the e-book as part of the deal. This was something that Baen did, but I'm not sure if they still do.

As things stand, I now usually buy the e-book (or audiobook) and if I love the book, I'll buy the physical book. The only physical books I buy are for series where I've already been buying them as physical books before I got my e-reader (and cookbooks).

The most recent physical books I've bought are Jo Walton's Among Others and Nicole Krauss' The History of Love. I'm planning to pick up The Rook at some point too (although I think it's best as an audiobook).
The problem with Soylent is the same issue that Michael Pollan notes in his writings: It's a substance designed for nutrients, it's not food. Food is what we eat, nutrients come with food.
Wait.

So you are saying to solve the problem of rich individuals and large corporations from using tax loopholes, we need to implement more laws ?

Do you seriously think that solution will work ? When was the last time you though looking at shitty code "hey ! do you know how to solve the problems in this shitty code, write more shitty code !"

I do not think the problem is as complicated as it is made out to be. The tax code is already freaking huge ! no human nor even the people making them can read all of it.

Every time you try to "fix" the problem by introducing more laws you make it easier for rich ppl to find new loopholes.

Its the same thing with MPAA trying to stop ppl from torrenting, or ISPs trying to block websites.
That was exactly my point. thank you. Humans last longer than machines because we self-repair and acquire our own energy. Last I checked, human-made machines do neither of these things. Not sure why I was down voted for pointing that out?
Yahoo Revenue Misses Estimates as CEO’s Turnaround Sputters Business
Thanks for the link to force11. Any other suggestions?

I specifically don't like the idea of annotations rather than editing, because annotations expand and diffuse the literature rather than distilling it to excellent concise articles. In particular, annotations only address two of my six motivations (#4 and #6).

Within the hard sciences, what do you think annotation accomplishes that can't be accomplished through good editing?

> Nothing is going to replace the paper,

Ahh, a defeatist. You may say I'm a dreamer...

But seriously, I think this is a much more realistic goal than Wikipedia and ArXiv looked like when they were launched.
It seems pretty clear to me from context that api was talking about Richard Stallman's views on copyright law, not John Deere's tractors.