skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Trials are operated by trained lawyers but the final decisions are often rendered by juries of everyday citizens, who might have little or no legal experience.

Yes, they aren't educated in law, but the intent of the system is that the judicial system informs the jurors adequately for them to form opinions. I'm not trying to exclude people based on whether they have a degree.

> And of course, anyone can run for office, vote in an election, or lobby their elected officials, regardless of education or training.

But the intent of the system is that we elect people who are informed enough to make good decisions for us.

> Where does economics fall on this spectrum?

There is no spectrum, you've simply conflated formal education with being informed.
AT&T finally ramps down throttling of unlimited LTE customers
I hate to think the cost if you had to restore that data from glacier though.
If your question wasn't rhetorical, the answer would be "nothing".

Quite obviously that question is more about how you answer than it is about what you answer.
I don't see how the question is informative, especially since the reframing is essentially "If you had a 250 billion dollar company would you run it for 10 years? And if you had a mediocre company would you dump it and do something else?". It's like saying that you will do whatever is in your best interest at any given time.

And in any case I don't think it would change much if an investor knew with perfect foresight that AirBnB would be a $10 billion dollar company but one of the founders was planning on leaving after 7 years (or even 4). The same is true if it was a $100 million dollar company or a $0 company.

It seems to me what really matters is whether the founders will stick with it for the first 1-3 years when things are toughest.

(edit: And Larry and Sergei tried to cash out immediately).
On Forcing
Hmmm? Genomic breast cancer subtypes that each respond to different chemotherapies?

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v490/n7418/full/nature1...
Not if its a decent warranty. Its ok to replace HD and RAM on a 2010 MacBook pro.
What kind of a job does this apply to? I and every single friend of mine that went through interviews for tech companies had to go through multiple rounds of technical interviews that mainly involved problem solving, followed by like one non-technical interview.
I'm not following that at all. But thanks.
Well, handles aren't exactly communication. Posts are.

If someone inadequately communicates what they mean, that's on them, not on me.
Dash cam video is pretty good context, the observed discrepancy between the observable events on video and the reports officers file is part of how this started.
I agree. The definition of nerd is: "a foolish or contemptible person who lacks social skills or is boringly studious."
Interesting, I just hired someone in mid 50's for a programming role. We've seen at least a dozen candidates and he did by far the best on the phone and code test. Now I'm happy to have him on the team. In a industry with a shortage of people that are good I'm surprised anyone can afford to discriminate good candidates based on their age. I think the key is being good and getting along with people. I've interviewed some older guys that were not only bad but were coming with an attitude that they were going to teach everyone here.
Yeah i may be coming across as overly dismissive.
Anything over like 20 lines for me takes a second or so. Then again the machine is like 175 miles away and its a core 2 duo... so I suppose that's reasonable.
I'm just surmising here, but at 35 it's something I need to start thinking about. If I can't find a job when I'm 50, this is what I'd assume I'd start doing: just start hacking.

I mean, with modern computing, the cost for creation is very low, so it seems like with some effort and a lot of knowledge (gained over a 30 year career), it shouldn't be too difficult to create a living wage outside of standard employment.

I mean, as long as you aren't looking for that billionaire breakthrough and constantly trying to figure out burn rates.
It only seems insane to someone completely averse to nihilistic thought processes. If you believe that everything in this life and universe are effectively meaningless then ending your own microscopic existence is basically irrelevant.

My understanding of his comment was that he was trying to convey the above, not necessarily argue that feeling depressed one day (or year!) makes killing yourself a fantastic idea. See:

"Of course, people might also make emotion-based decisions to kill themselves, which might be a symptom of their depression or whatever, but that doesn't mean that all suicide must be a mistake."
Unfortunately for non-fad followers, the people with money want to use the fads.

Shouldn't having the knowledge of what you could do in 1994 make you that much better suited to doing it in 2015 even if you have to spend a few days learning the faddish way of expressing the concepts?
If we imagine Greg was a founder what would be different exactly?

(Also I'm curious, does anything I have said in this thread count as "gratuitously negative"?)
I'm not convinced. All it would take is OCR to read one of the zeroes as the letter 'O' instead, and suddenly there's your SSN out in the open. That's at least a civil lawsuit, maybe a criminal one, depending on context. (Healthcare, banking, etc. have strict laws in the US regarding the release of personal information.)

In other words, the risks avoided by paying the best heuristic computer known to man -- a human -- far outweighs the cost of the resource.
Keep in mind that The Stranger is an alternative newsweekly. They run a feature called “Drunk of the Week.” Their whole shtick is, for lack of a better term, urban authenticity.
Of course its PR. Its hard enough to accept that your doctor is a computer, how much harder if its a javascript from healthcare.gov on a tab opposite cat pictures?

The fiction is that, yes its a computer, but its the biggest smartest computer ever! Look it won Jeopardy!

We do exactly the same thing with people. The medical system does a great deal of theater to convince everyone that they are getting "the best care possible" even though a moments thought is all it takes to realize that every facility and every doctor can't be even close to equal or "the best".

This is one step down the road to getting people to accept automated medical care. It will be lousy at first but it probably is the right path to take if everyone wants to get "the best" care possible everywhere in the future. You can replicate an awesome program for everyone everywhere but not an awesome doctor.
there's much pressure for an early exit, either IPO or acquisition. if i'm passionate enough to start a company, i want to remain in creative control.

that said, i would be very discerning on funding sources because i don't want the quick exit.
NASA Announces Journey to Mars Challenge
The gentleman who produced these benchmarks replied directly to this thread. He also has been very open with sharing his scripts and setups, so that you can reproduce it yourself. He encourages it actually!
I feel blessed too. I truly love what I do for a living and couldn't imagine it being any other way. And for that I feel extremely lucky.
Also 55, though didn't start programming until 1978. I love it, but I'm more apprehensive these days about being able to continue as the free-lancer I've been for the last ~15 years. I have a few biz ideas (and still riding one from 18 years ago that has made me a tad lazy), but sorely need a collaborator or two.

Maybe I should do a graybeards Meetup group or something. Get some reverse-discrimination going...
To be fair, I responded within that sibling, even before this response.

I will reiterate, though, that it's impossible to capture or represent the feelings of a large group with a one-sized-fits-all rule. Whether I accept them or reject them depends exclusively on the reality of the situation and audience.
Your FAQ says:

>Provide others with a token that represents the group's value and potential as human beings. That is already non-zero (researchers are very valuable!).

If that's the logic, you can do that today without any cryptocurrency. Take a blank sheet of paper and write, "the bearer of this note acknowledges my value & potential as a human being."

Go and take that paper out on the street and see if you can trade it for other pieces of paper such as Euros, US Dollars, or real goods such as hamburgers. If your experiment works, everyone can have "basic income" just by writing affirmations on sheets of paper and trading them.

I'm not being flippant with my example. Warren Buffet can take a piece of paper and write, "the bearer of this note is entitled to a 1 hour lunch with me." Someone could take that note and sell it on ebay for over $1000. (A similar type of transaction happens everyday with celebrity autographs.)

There's a reason why Warren Buffet's piece of paper (scrip, IOU, whatever) is more valuable than your piece of paper or my piece of paper. Cryptocurrency doesn't solve that. Basic income is also not something that can be solved by cryptocurrency.
It seems indicative of hostility and disdain- an unsubstantiated dismissal.

And regardless of how you see it, plenty of people associate it with being mercilessly bullied.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJyMT4ZVQEc
In the military, the best soldiers become officers

This isn't true in any modern military.
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Are you defining ambiguity by the number of people who report to have each interpretation? I suspect if you asked 1,000 American native English speakers (I don't know about English in other countries) how they interpreted that usage of "guys," the overwhelming majority would respond with the gender-neutral interpretation. Even among the people who are offended by the potential male-only interpretation, I suspect that for most it would be clear that they actually did understand the speaker's intentions.
Really? Almost all the programmers and engineers I know at least took econ 101 & 102.
One of my mentors is in his 60s (I think). He's an extremely successful architect/consultant who still does plenty of coding. His enthusiasm is what energizes me (just turned 30).

I'm not saying that people don't get tired/slower as they get older (I struggle with it), but I don't think it's inevitable.
>He withdrew his opposition to a plan, proposed by clerics loyal to Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini of Iran, to establish a Shiite political party in Lebanon.

In the minuscule piece of the article you quoted (as well as the preceding paragraph left unquoted) the OG author states that religious leaders in Iran, not Syria, spearheaded the effort that later became Hezbollah.

So where is your gripe, specifically? Or do you feel it is in poor test for people of country [X] to write/discuss country [Y] under any circumstance?

I myself grow weary of poorly researched articles about the Levant, the Gulf Countries, Northern Africa, etc as they IMO foster more misunderstanding, but this article is not one of them. I love polisci and historical articles, but i was wondering the relevance of it being posted to HN. Then i got to the section documenting Wissam Eid's analysis of the cell network used to carry out the intel and implementation of the assassination documented herein. Fucking awesome. I only wish this young man had been able to escape the religion regulated shithole that is the Levant and come to North America so he could have played with network analysis and other nerd stuff instead of being smeared across the pavement by monotheist psychos.
There's a well-established secondary definition along the lines of "a person who is very interested in technical subjects, computers, etc." as Merriam-Webster puts it.
I apologize! I did in fact not mean to be curt, and I felt so bad about that that I edited in a more complete response that you will hopefully prefer :)

Great, and now you've edited so that I look like the crazy one...
It's not "every document the police" have, it's every document that a specific office in the police department has. It's an enormous amount of documents, but it's pretty clear that the tactic that the OPA is using is "produce documents for the duo more slowly than they can destroy them." I doubt that there's a stipulation that says the request must be completed and the records maintained until the request is complete. "Oh, it took 5 years to process your request, but due to department policy, we had to destroy all documents from the first year of your request." That's a far grosser violation of the spirit of the public access law than anything a public citizen can do.

And to bring the point back to the unions: the union signed a contract mandating that records be destroyed after 3 years. Not archive, not digitize, but destroy? That destruction isn't to ease job performance, it's to ease long-term liability for the police to the detriment of the general population.
We don't know the right scale of desired adoption. For some companies 10k users is a lot but for others like Google, even with tenth of millions [1] they shutdown services like Google Reader.

[1] http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2013/03/how-many-users-does-goo...
Role Reversal: Increasing Nature Connectedness Through Technology
A large part of the document boils down to 'run with defaults', 'setup auditing', and 'check file permissions', 'drop unneeded capabilities', 'define sane limits', 'centralize and rotate logs', and 'make backups'. These are all really great baseline steps. There were also I think a few Docker-specific points worth highlighting;

- Run with -icc=false. This should have been the default but isn't for legacy reasons I think. By default there is no firewall between containers. icc=false turns the inter-container firewall on. This is a pretty basic one, but easy for new docker users to miss.

- Host port mapping (e.g. -p 80) by default binds to 0.0.0.0:80 on the host container. This could inadvertently expose your internal services to unexpected interfaces. Specify the host IP you want to bind to explicitly (e.g. -p 127.0.0.1:49123:8080)

- Run inside containers as non-root. Most Dockerfiles you come across will run as root inside the container. In your base image, 'RUN useradd' and in your Dockerfiles add a 'USER' directive, and start the container with -u <user>.

- Set root file system as read-only inside the container. It enforces the best practice that the container should be immutable anyway.

- Instead of --restart:always, try --restart=on-failure:5 to avoid a possible DoS or excessive flapping. Not sure if I 100% agree with this, but it's an interesting suggestion.
RM vs IM is entirely about where the name (id, pointer, whatever) of the widgets comes from. In RM it comes from the library, and is typically a pointer to some data that represents the 'widget', and in IM it comes from the user and is frequently a string or other local pointer (sometimes macros are used to generate IDs).

Anyway, there's no reason this would be harder to do in IM, other than that a lot of people are more familiar implementing RM than IM.
I hate to pile on, but I also find this incredibly hard to read. The problem is that the precision with scrolling one "slide" down is very hard to get the same every time. Clicking a right arrow guarantees one click, one slide, whereas with this UX I'm constantly scrolling, then reading, then scrolling, then reading, and it's enough to make me not want to read the content.

I'm normally not a UX pedant, either.
Sure, you can build such a hackintosh, but you're behind on OSX updates, you can't update automatically (it may break some of the custom hacks required), you probably can't use auto update.
Also, some of the drivers may have additional bugs due to the ever-so-slight hardware change. In the end, your system may freeze more often, or display weird behaviour.
All that apart from the EULA issue that was already mentioned. Maybe imgix already tested such hackintosh systems and realized that they're just not stable enough for continous high workloads.
For those who didn't get the reference: http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1990/11/16/page/131/artic...
> The power draw related to cooling for this rack versus a rack of conventional servers is about 1-5/th to 1/10th as much.

Do you mean your Mac Pros dissipate 1/5 to 1/10th as much heat as other x86 server hardware, or is there there some other factor in play that makes your AC 5-10x more power efficient?
> The size of the human genome is 21 MB.

No.

> In the real world, right off the genome sequencer: ~200 gigabytes

> As a variant file, with just the list of mutations: ~125 megabytes

> What this means is that we’d all better brace ourselves for a major flood of genomic data. The 1000 genomes project data, for example, is now available in the AWS cloud and consists of >200 terabytes for the 1700 participants. As the cost of whole genome sequencing continues to drop, bigger and bigger sequencing studies are being rolled out. Just think about the storage requirements of this 10K Autism Genome project, or the UK’s 100k Genome project….. or even.. gasp.. this Million Human Genomes project. The computational demands are staggering, and the big question is: Can data analysis keep up, and what will we learn from this flood of A’s, T’s, G’s and C’s….?

https://medium.com/precision-medicine/how-big-is-the-human-g...
Even if that were not the case, I doubt the performance of the OS X image pipeline is tuned for non-Apple hardware if it supports it at all.
Keeping your wits as an indie app developer
Let me also say thank you for the CTF's! I enjoyed them immensely. Please get in touch with the Starfighter guys ;)
Hey csthrow42,
Can I follow up with you in person?
Got a related questions to ask.

Here's my email: davidglbr@gmail.com
My experience of Atom after having been using it exclusively for the past 6 months or so: Awesome editor, even though the experience is definitely better on the powerful computer I have at work than on my personal 4-year old laptop. I like the plugins, I like the themes, how customizable everything is. The only aspect where I've found Atom to be dramatically inefficient is search/replace. Feed it a big enough file (and it doesn't even have to be THAT big) and the whole editor can freeze for minutes.

I am not sure I understand why that is, but I sure wish this is an area the community will help make better in the future.

A community that I would like to thank heartfully for their efforts and dedication, Atom has turned into a fine editor.
Quite a few reasons.

1. A lot of the paperwork is all over the place. It has to be gathered, which takes time.

2. Same is true for the digital info, all over multiple databases. It takes a programmer or few to focus on pulling it (and getting all the necessary permission to do so).

3. Everything, once compiled, has to be reviewed to ensure it is on target and that any necessary info has to be redacted. The problem is that no one wants to take responsibility for a massive data dump without checking ever single word/number. This is because, while column X or form Y should only have publically available information on it, the people who processed the forms or input the data may have put information that would need to be redacted (SSNs appear in all sorts of places where they shouldn't). So the programmers will not give any sort of guarantee for the data pulls and the people pulling the physical files won't give any sort of similar guarantee for the physical files. This means the FOIA office (or what ever they are called there) has to do a line by line, word by word, number by number redaction.

4. To make this worse, many times the staff is not fully trained and has outdated equipment. FOIA has to print out files, use a black marker on both sides of the paper, and then scan it back in and print out again (and this is per policy, so the worker can be disciplined if they do anything else, even if it is more efficient). The programmers often are tasked to go through largely undocumented decade old (or older) systems.

5. Even without the political nature of the work, so even for a completely benign info request, the work is often time of low priority and for most of the staff involved it is on top of their normal day duties. Often times the staff is already underpaid and overworked, and with the info request being of low priority, it gets largely pushed aside.

It would be ideal to have it all accessible to an API, but having this done would take multiple miracles that would be better spent on obtaining world peace and ending world hunger.
The vexing nature of brilliance
That works now.
There were 8-bit "ADPCM" (er, ADPCM-ish?) variants, too! They used 2, 3 or 4 bits for encoding but were deltas against an 8 bit target.
Frequently, it's not technical. I have in mind one individual who still maintains a project management position at a former employer, who has repeatedly made every last project management mistake possible, right down to "adding people to a late project makes it later." It got to the point where I was uninterested in his latest fiasco because it was like 1980s sitcoms---a minor variation on something that wasn't all that funny the first time around.
How Apple Influenced the Labels to Shut Down My Startup
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Seems like the endgame of this current iteration would be a sharing economy where any outside work or production that gets input into the system is distributed amongst the shareholders of credits.

Whether that can sustain a "basic income" remains an issue not directly addressable by the scope of "Group Currency"
Holy hell why is this still so expensive? 64-bit Lispworks is $3000 when visual studio professional is $1200? Visual studio community is FREE for COMMERCIAL USE in small teams! What student has 500 bucks to throw at something that can't even distribute binaries?
...or had to deal with violent offenders on a daily basis. Yes, different in every way. It doesn't work to cherry-pick examples, you don't draw very good conclusions from that.
Oh I was following the same path and was mising a library or two. The result is similar to Michael's scratch image: https://gist.github.com/noteed/4155ffad2b1d13ab17ee

The resulting image for "hello world" compressed with `xz` (default options) is 1.5MB. And it runs in a chroot or with qemu too.