skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He's probably right.

I'm very pro-legalisation myself. I also think it would be amazing if we could point our pharmaceutical research facilities at recreational drugs and say "Hey! Go find drugs people like that are less addictive and less harmful!".

But given the nature of markets we'd end up optimising for the most addictive substance, because you want repeat customers, right?

And the last thing I want to see is aspirational drug advertising of the sort we've had forever with tobacco and alcohol.

"I don't often take cocaine, but when I do it's Old-style ultra-crack, because I'm a young go-getting executive type with lots of cash and a hot girlfriend..."

(Please snort responsibly. This message brought to you by the cocaine producers alliance)
> The world currently consumes 20 trillion kWh of energy annually.

> Enough energy to power a single family home for 1.8 billion years or supply energy to a nuclear power plant for 2,300 years.

That's, ..., not the way I would have written it.
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Ok this sounds legit. Thank you. But if you think about this carefully it means that two people wrote the exact same expression in different scopes, which seems really, really odd, no? I'm trying to contrive this in my mind and I'm having difficulty (my fault, obvs).

If this happens again it deserves its own blog post describing the situation carefully!
You are right that there's a tradeoff. I'd say the tradeoff is not so bad if at least they get to be large before being sued out of existence.

A way to address some of the problems that would arise for the protection of IP (what happens if google starts tomorrow the service disregarding the non enforceable patents?) would be to not commit to the patent fund patents that are both highly innovative and/or key to the business model, while committing the rest.

Anyway what I wanted was to start a discussion on it not detail all the possibilities of a rather complex topic in a small HN comment ;)
You are feeling disapointment and satisfaction, which are pretty normal feelings imo.

You need also to focus on what is between the start and the end of a project. People may fail but learn a lot and know even more than you because of this failure. Keep in mind that what make good stories are peripeties.
I don't think most households (in the US at least) could run off a single unit. You would need three units, and they would only give you 1 days capacity, compared to a natural gas generator which could keep running indefinitely.

http://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.cfm?id=97&t=3
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'not-object, not-function, not-process' (neti, neti). the Knower of these.
That would be a very nice cheap shot if it had responded in any way to my criticism.

You were describing an idea for minimizing the role of speculation on the value of cryptocurrency, and your proposal was to peg the value of cryptocurrency to something which is valued largely on speculation. If you wanted to say that tying the value of cryptocurrency to gold would stabilize it, then you should have said that instead of saying the stupid thing you actually said.
Clever macro expansions: https://github.com/sustrik/mill/blob/c1c302f7edb3811d9098f7b...
Does your insurance company allow you to keep one liter of gasoline in your garage? It has the same energy content as the Powerwall, is insanely flammable, is frequently implicated is home fires, and regularly causes human deaths.

(Ok, a burning lithium battery will release more energy than its storage capacity, but I'm not finding a nice reference, Tesla knows all about containing cells to prevent chain reactions, and one liter of gasoline is still enough to burn down your whole house.)
Wow, I am working on something very similar... still in beta... it's here: http://magako.com/exercise/symbolic/eng
I choose my wireframe strategy depending on my audience. Sometimes I'm only wireframing an idea for a designer, so I spend more time pointing out the primary, secondary and tertiary pieces that belong on the page -- instead of implying where they should be.

If I have no designer lined up yet and we're just looking to wireframe an idea for non-technical, non-designer people ("the client"), I may give it more form and layout. But always with the discussion of "This is NOT the design, only an example to show app workflow".

I find the best combo to be a flow chart (site map + "things on the page that aren't content"), and a mockup of what the UI could be like. I'll even do it for myself if I'm the full stack person on the job taking it from front-end to back-end. Gives me a basis to work from, that I scratch on and change as I go along if need be.

There is no one true way to do it I guess is what I'm saying.
I am not the OP, but I have no problem with any of those scenarios. Given how much those scenarios would be outliers I see no reason they would adversely impact anything.
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It's definitely not a baseless stereotype, but then again few truly are. It is however a stereotype that is pretty inaccurate and more readily accepted than it should be.

Your last statement alludes to other related stereotypes; that people who smoke cannabis are the kind of people who make this argument, or that people who smoke cannabis secretly only want to legalise it for the sake of their personal weed-greed.

This isn't targeted at you, I'm not saying that you believe these things.
The subjective experience of a home lit with incandescents is very different than one lit with LEDs. I don't care if the color temperature is the same. Things just look different. The bulbs cast their light differently.

There may not be a difference in "light quality", photons are photons, but if you convert a home from one to the other things will look different, and you may prefer one way or the other.

And don't forget about fixtures that were designed to work with clear incandescent bulbs for aesthetic reasons. LED bulbs will look downright hideous in those even when the lights are off.

There are people who like how vinyl sounds better because they like the hiss and the pops, not because they fall for audiophile silliness. The same holds for lighting.
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Hi, I'm the enterprise over here!
I agree with you. Yoga helped me a lot! #zenprogrammer
I'm trying to get my posture back into alignment after many years of stress. This book helped me: http://www.amazon.com/Pain-Free-Revolutionary-Stopping-Chron...

It gives you a set of targeted exercises depending on your self-diagnosis. His secret weapon is the 'Supine Groin Stretch', shown here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXYQWFkVTDI. I recommend trying it at least once. The stretch opened my eyes to how my body should and could feel.
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Agreed on all points. In this case, I'm actually interested in a share-alike license. I'm making this code available because it makes the research world stronger. If someone else extends it, I'd like to encourage them to share the code back to the community. So, the GPL comes up of my own volition.

In the case of prose, though, I want people to be clear whose words are whose. Even changing a word or two can change the meaning of the document significantly. The GNU FDL appears to address this sort of thing, but doesn't apply to code.

In this case, the prose is laden with included code, so I'm sitting between licenses.
First thing I thought as well. Especially since you hear so little about Eclipse these days.
Yes. It's a constant battle for me, but I have to keep reminding myself that my self worth isn't based on anyone else's perception of me. And it's especially not based on my work.

You eventually have to reach a place where you realize two things: you will suck at life sometimes and your worth isn't tied to those times. Failure is inevitable for most people, and the sooner you accept that failure or stumbling or some other fault (no matter how minor) will happen, the sooner you can realize they don't own you and don't define who you are.

I mean, honestly, the answer is right there in the word itself: self-worth. Your self-worth should be derived from people who value you for more than your work. It should be derived from someone valuing you not any sort of external criteria. It could be your wife/husband, your dog, your God, or whomever, but ultimately it boils down to you learning to value yourself beyond these things.

I used to put an intense amount of my self-worth into my work. A totally unhealthy amount. I felt good about myself because I was in my early 20's, writing books, being invited to speak at international conferences, working at the hottest startups, making a bunch of money. I was building my self image around this empire of dirt that I'd cobbled together based on how good of a programmer I am (and how well I could network). Then I tried to start a consultancy, which didn't work out great. I tried to build products there, that failed. I got fired from my next job. I felt like utter crap because I didn't understand why I was being personally punished and devalued. My work had betrayed me!

But it was at this point that I had to realize that anyone or anything that judged me by my work or my ability to work at the cool startup or my ability to be a part of some project wasn't judging me at all. They were judging my work, and I can't let my value and self image be tied up in that. For me, the first person I needed to teach that lesson to was myself.

And I did. And it wasn't fun. It's not fun to totally change your worldview, but oh my gosh, I feel so much better about life now. Not feeling like I live and die by the work I do frees me to do some of the best work I've done in my whole life. Sure, I'm not working at America's Next Great Startup and sure I'm not speaking at 2 conferences a month and sure I'm not signing up book deals all the time now, but holy crap I'm so much happier.

So, yes. People experience this exact thing. And it can crush you. But please don't let it. Find the worth within yourself and surround yourself with things and people that will support that.
That is BS. When you install updates it restarts to install them. The time is proportional to the number of updates.
Also if it's remote but US-only, please put this in the posting too.
Health risks of firmware-based attacks: Real or tin-foil hattery?
While getting a headache from working with a badly set-up monitor today, I came to the realization that there are other, unforeseen, possibly health-related risks associated with today's proprietary hardware, which is often loaded with locked, closed-source firmware.

There has been some media coverage about 'doctored' firmware being implanted in Cisco routers before they were shipped to customers, and there is proof that hard drive firmware can be altered to modify data read from and written to it. How about the risks posed by more 'mundane' devices like computer monitors?

Anyone who has seen the movie "The Andromeda Strain" probably remembers how an epileptic seizure played an important role in the story.
What if firmware in a modern flatscreen monitor were tweaked, before it being shipped to a specific customer, to program the video circuits to emit a seizure-inducing (or hypnotizing) display pattern the moment the person sitting in front of it opens an email message with some innocuous looking graphical pattern in it acting as a trigger?

As I see it, this example and others like it demonstrate the possibility of very specific, targeted attacks on peoples' health. One out of a huge arsenal of possible attacks, which need or need not be specific to one person or a particular group. All of them made possible by our ever increasing reliance on technology over which we have little or no real control.

If the history of hacking and unconventional use of technology has taught us anything, it is that not the things one thinks are possible, but rather the things that one hasn't thought of as being possible, are those that really count.

I'm very interested in your opinions on this matter.
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DataStax engineering is distributed and hiring numerous positions, including some test engineering (automation) positions for my group. We use Python, Clojure, and Javascript - most of the automation is currently in Python. There's also a lot of Java in other parts of the company.

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take more risk while u r young and single: a unicorn is gonna be materially different experience than the giant. u can join a large corp at anytime.

a Master's degree is nearly useless in industry, unless ur resume needs help from a prestigious name-brand school. ppl usually pay more attention to where you get ur Bachelor's, or Ph.D. degrees from. a Master's only takes 1.5 or even 1 year to finish, too short for anybody to change/improve a lot.
Yes, it likely will. That's probably why the article mentions a deprecation of "Non-Secure HTTP" rather than prescribing a specific TLS version. It's the sort of language that will stand the test of time as newer protocols become deprecated. The comments here, however, largely encourage "SSL" which is poor advice.

BEAST can be mitigated through ciphersuite selections and other measures. This makes it somewhat different than POODLE which is a protocol design flaw for which no reliable mitigation exists.

Suggesting folks not deploy SSLv3 is hardly a controversial statement. It's not just a difference in version number, it's a difference in protocol specification and name. When we say 'Use SSL' a well intentioned reader may follow that guidance and implement SSLv3, or worse disable support for TLS. Words mean things.
Ubuntu Mir display server 0.13.0
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I love reading my 6 months old code and feel like a complete stranger wrote it.
Back in 2012, we talked about our foundation for this at Indeed:

Blog: http://engineering.indeed.com/blog/2012/11/logrepo-enabling-...

Talk: http://engineering.indeed.com/talks/logrepo-enabling-data-dr...

tl; dr: a human-readable log format that uses a sortable UID and arbitrary types/fields, captured via a log4j syslog-ng adapter, and aggregated to a central server for manual access and processing
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I've got 10 years of software experience, including:

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While we have an office in Chicago, we are looking for the best fit whether you are near Chicago or a thousand miles away. We have people in the United States, Canada, Belgium, & Australia. Decent time overlap with the CST timezone is preferred.

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That's a fine line to walk unfortunately.

I suggest iterating your CV/LinkedIn/Portfolio. Keep it up to date and tweak your skills just like you would with SEO.
That could work. You could also establish a committee to resolve disputes between two or more members. Of course, members would have to agree by the operating rules of the organization, and would have to agree to abide by the decisions of that organization.

Hell, you could get the larger organizations involved -- they couldn't sue the hell out of each other, but they could protect their intellectual property.

We could call it "The United States Patent Office" or something like that. Is the domain name available?
They already banned intentionally flying planes into mountains, so I don't see how banning someone from a campus prevents them from going there anyway and shooting up the place.
> The RIAA collects royalties on all music, whether or not the artist is signed to one of their labels[0].

Whenever there's an inflammatory post like this on the Internet that implies obvious injustice, it behooves us to do a little more research. As with most such articles posted around here, there's always another side of the story. A collection of comments from Slashdot, of all places, that explains this:

http://forums.penny-arcade.com/discussion/comment/1530851/#C...
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I would also recommend a Bekant regular desk and this setup: http://iamnotaprogrammer.com/Ikea-Standing-desk-for-22-dolla...
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