skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"The Guardian article is written by someone who is most likely a freelance writer"

The Guardian writer, Jonathan Jones, is the art critic for the newspaper. Hence, the links to art history and a very descriptive interpretation of the rhino in the picture ("His head is a marvellous thing. It is a majestic rectangle of strong bone and leathery flesh, a head that expresses pure strength").

The article is part of a series called 'Framing the debate' which the site describes as follows:

"A great photograph doesn't only say more than a thousand words, it can also create a hundred different reactions. In this series we take a close look at contemporary and historical photographs and videos that divide opinion"

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/series/framing-the-...
The DNA itself isn't sufficient. It's not the working system. You'd never know that this protein does X, if you've never seen an animal that can do X. And expression outside of it's original system (the organism) will hardly guarantee that it performs X.

The biodiversity argument is not a warm and touchy-feely one, but it is certainly an economic and social one that should only enhance the touchy-feely arguments of saving a precious animal. A rhino is a 3 billion year old piece of technology that we were gifted a glimpse of. One that we yet have a lot yet to learn from. And we, as species, smelted down that technology to make a ring or necklace. Imagine if a future civilization a billion years more advanced bestowed their version of the iPhone to us, and we melted it to extract the shiny gold... what fools.
Researchers develop undetectable malware that hides in video card
In a way, it seems similar to what Amazon did when they launched AWS.
Please, this is enterprise software we're talking about, sold almost exclusively through resellers, who are licensing experts and decide what the client needs. This is how you extract the most value.
We're Deprecating HTTP and It's Going to Be Okay
Really? some times the crucial part of the job is done away from the computer.

I remember doing a quick fix for one of the attractions at the melenium dome - the core part of the work was working out on paper all the permutations and what should happen the coding at a terminal was the trivial part.

BTW the program correctly run first time and was delivered in less than a day.
> It seems like a waste to people who don't understand systems of incentives,

Well, it may be that I don't understand incentives here, but it seems to me that Bitcoin is constructed to incentivize wasting exponentially growing amounts of power.

Yes, legacy financial system is a waste, too, but we should be striving to stabilize and reduce that waste instead of constructing an engine that could happpily raise it to an unprecedented amount.
It's the Collatz Conjecture. [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collatz_conjecture
We can say that, but it doesn't end there. Paying folks money means I get value in return. There will be disputes about the value; lawyers get involved.

The whole hotel-thing is 100's of years of working that out in law. Now we start over? Just because AirBnB is cool, and we want it to succeed? I don't think this is going to end well.
It's not without comparison in today's society. Because, well, guns exist. Equipment that gun manufacturers use (which is probably a combination of lathe machines, milling machines, etc.) are not illegal for someone to have. There is probably regulation that those big machines have to be installed in your facility to some codes, but nothing that a normal person couldn't have have if they had the will and the money.

Anyway, that said, I think you're wrong factually too -- 5-axis milling machines have existed for a long time and they can create practically anything a 3d printer can (with much, much higher resolution if you've got the money).
Nope. The way feminist use Patriarchy reminds me of creationist (and IDers) use of God, miracles, and the supernatural.
> Also, it seems reasonable that hotels and Airbnb comppete on a level playing field in terms of tax and regulation.

Sure. So why does that automatically need to be resolved in favor of increasing regulations on AirBnB rather than decreasing them on hotels?
Hope it didn't seem like I was trying to criticize. The app is really cool, and thanks for open-sourcing it. I'd be really interested in seeing the version that doesn't start pre-trained.
Eh, even with constant upkeep and trimming of all non-essential processes/services, desktop Windows still begins to atrophy from day 1 in a way that one just does not see on *nix machines. Wish it weren't so but such is the price of Windows' legacy baggage.
Fixing IT – Remembering What They’re Paying For
> If GROWS became popular, it would also be 'sloganized', branded and ruined.

Claiming a trademark is a threat of legal action against those hijacking the name to sell things in the same domain using the name without permission, which could be a potent way to prevent people from marketing things that are exactly the opposite from it calls for using its name the way it happened with Agile.

> People would go to one-day intensive GROWS courses, get certified and then just do waterfall anyway

Only if the owners of the trademark license GROWS certifications; if they are serious about preventing hijacking, they'll tightly control how the trademark is used and only use it on material (books, videos, potentially courses) consistent with the the intent of the system, and not for certification of people.
I understand what you're saying. I'm not understanding who in the current situation has any right to have grievance. In a situation where apartments/homes allow airBnB in their bylaws/HOAs, everyone - the landlords, the neighbors (whether or not they rent) and the short-term renters are all acting in accordance with their legal agreements that they voluntarily agreed to.

In a situation where HOAs/bylaws do not allow renting on airBnb, there already exist proper legal channels for enforcing contracts, and these extra regulations are not needed.

Your comment made it seem like these extra regulations somehow ease these complaints (which you are implying are legitimate).
Is my understanding correct?
You can't make a handgun with a lathe, though.

You can get pretty close with computer controlled mills that exist today, a lot closer than with the 3D printers that exist today.
No every shrink involved some material changes.
I had not realized that there was anywhere in North America that was "rat free". Would love to make Sunnyvale rat free but with all the old orchards and what not I doubt that is feasible.
The cheaper part is the issue. How cheap? What can they skip? Smoke alarms? Clean bathrooms? Hotels have to meet a minimum bar. Does AirBnB? Why not? This is going to end up in court sooner or later. Does hotel law cover it? If not, we have to write those all over again, for AirBnB.
not if the dollar is more stable than gold vs. a broad basket of consumer and other traded goods and services.
I recently wrote an answer to a question on Quora about Agile.

http://www.quora.com/Why-do-some-developers-at-strong-compan...

To summarize my answers as to why developers have started hating Agile?

1. Most organizations have a wrong understanding/implementation of Agile.
2. People especially at the management/leadership levels think that if a team follows Scrum, they are Agile.
3. There is an entire industry which is trying to over exaggerate/misguide the Agile movement and make money out of it.
4. The troubled understanding that Agile is a One Size Fits All kinda thing.
5. Being in a Fixed Mindset (Anti-Agile).
6. Some teams are already Agile. And for them, Scrum should not be forced.
7. Scrum by definition doesn't give a damn to the seniority of engineers. Because everyone is a Scrum Team Member.
8. Impediments are not removed. Or worse new impediments crop up when implementing Agile in a bad fashion.
9. Scrum by definition doesn't care about flow state of a programmer.

And the essence of the article that I have just read is that there is gonnna be a competitor for Scrum and it is called GROWS.. Wow.. Let's see what happens next.

And as someone rightly pointed out, as long as there is corporatism which tries to implement Agile, there will be lot of failures. So in a nutshell, it is not the failure of Agile, but the failure of people who didn't understand Agile properly.
I agree with you. Usually "agile" is used just as a religion: a mix of wishful thinking plus a way of pushing developers "because of the agile rules".
This brings up a few questions:
1) Does Google not use the same publicly hosted version of Google Apps that we all use?
2) Does this only work with privately hosted versions of applications?
3) Are they using the publicly hosted version of Google Auth for the authentication piece?
4) Is the Device Inventory Database hosted on a public machine or is that deployed to a private network?
5) digging into the white paper that provides a bit more information on how they're actually doing this… does anyone care to take a crack at explaining what this means? "BeyondCorp defines and deploys an unprivileged network that very closely resembles an external network, although within a private address space. The unprivileged network only connects to the Internet, limited infrastructure services (e.g., DNS, DHCP, and NTP), and configuration management systems such as Puppet.”
(full white paper published by google available here: http://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.co...)
Here is the source paper he might be referring to.

https://www.intel.ca/content/dam/doc/white-paper/non-planar-...
While you can theoretically leave the U.S. whenever you want, you cannot stop paying taxes whenever you want.

You have to renounce citizenship, pay a fine for renouncing said citizenship to avoid paying taxes and possibly be audited. And you might argue that's fine, because they should be able to collect back taxes but you'll generally have to pay taxes for the next 10 years.

So, putting aside the immigration issues, and assuming you could move to wherever you wanted it's still not possible.
Douglas argues against the aphrodisiac myth:

> There is a widespread myth about what people want rhino horns for - in fact two myths. The first myth is that ground rhino horn is an aphrodisiac. This, I think it's safe to say, is just what it appears to be - superstition. It has little to do with any known medical fact, and probably a lot to do with the fact that a rhino's horn is a big sticky-up hard thing.

> The second myth is that anyone actually believes the first myth.

> It was probably the invention of a journalist, or at best a misunderstanding. It's easy to see where the idea came from when you consider the variety of things that the Chinese, for example, believe to be aphrodisiacs, which include the brain of a monkey, the tongue of a sparrow, the human placenta, the penis of a white horse, rabbit hair from old brushes, and the dried sexual parts of a male tiger soaked in a bottle of European brandy for six months. A big sticky-up hard thing like a rhinoceros horn would seem to be a natural for such a list, though it's perhaps harder to understand, in this context, why grinding the thing down would be such an attractive idea. The fact is that there is no actual evidence to suggest that the Chinese do believe rhino horn to be an aphrodisiac. The only people who do believe it are people who've read somewhere that other people believe it, and are ready and willing to believe anything they hear that they like the sound of.

> There is no known trade in rhino horn for the purposes of aphrodisia. (This, like most things, is no longer strictly true. It is now known that there are a couple of people in Northern India who use it, but they only do it to annoy.)

> Much horn is used in traditional medicine in the Far East, but a major part of the trade in rhino horn is caused by something much more absurd, and it's this: fashion. Dagger handles made of rhinoceros horn are an extremely fashionable item of male jewellery in the Yemen.

> That's it: costume jewellery

Further arguments against on: https://www.savetherhino.org/rhino_info/threats_to_rhino/poa...

Update:
Argh! From savetherhino.org:

> There is a belief in the West that rhino horn is used as an aphrodisiac and sexual stimulant but this is not correct and seems to have been misunderstood or misinterpreted by Western media. However, research has shown that people in Vietnam are starting to believe this rumour as they are consuming it for new reasons.

Great.
I'm not sure if it'll have a Napster moment, or a moment quite like Napster. Napster was about having specific songs that other people made. Most of the makers in the 3d printing scene are not exactly printing from cad files stolen from manufacturers, they're building the models themselves with Autodesk software and Solidworks and Blender and so on. So there isn't going to be any day in which a manufacturer sues little folks to get money like companies were and still are able to do, because the manufacturer didn't create it, or have any part in creating it.
> I'm surprised to learn that cloud computing solutions (EC2, Azure) don't already support IPv6.

Lots and lots of parts of the networking stack (esp. when talking about both virtual and hardware interfaces) either don't support IPv6, or didn't until very recently. For example: OpenVPN didn't support IPv6 until last year, and even today, you're hard-pressed to find a commercial VPN provider that provides IPv6 support, despite the fact that IPv4-only means that there's a massive privacy hole when using it unless IPv6 is explicitly disabled[0].

Also, it's very expensive to move existing systems over without risking any potential downtime or performance impact for existing customers. This is one of the reasons that new and smaller providers (like Digital Ocean) are more likely to support it than the bigger names (and even Digital Ocean didn't support IPv6 until very recently).

I don't have direct experience with this myself, but this is what my contacts at AWS and other companies told me.

[0] https://blog.dave.io/2011/06/vpn-ipv6-privacy/
> Now I'm curious, is it guaranteed to terminate?

No one knows.

> Is there a name for this problem?

The statement that it always terminates is the Collatz Conjecture. It's the first problem in the posted article.
no, I am more specifically talking about the hosted application. There can be security bugs in the firewall or VPN as well, I was focusing on purely what is the difference between hosting a vulnerable application on a local IP vs. a public one.
I don't think you know what JVMs do if you think they're overengineered. Go's "simplicity", while great for small apps, means we don't get anywhere near the same level of monitoring we get with Java, slower performance (though not a dramatic difference), and much less flexibility (no polyglotism, no hot code swapping, no dependency-conflict resolution) -- not that you should notice the JVM's "overengineering" if you don't need it. Besides, everything is overengineered until you need exactly what it's engineered to do. A helicopter may seem "overengineered" if all you need is a car, but if you need a helicopter, then a car may be seriously lacking. In the case of JVM vs Go, if you need large data sets in memory, interesting concurrent data structures (even concurrent hash maps), or even if you need to know exactly what your server is doing -- the JVM doesn't seem so overengineered any more. As to new projects being written in Java vs other platforms (Go included), you have no idea what you're talking about. All of Android doesn't even amount to 5% of Java developers.
Oh! I had misread your original comment to be, "There are b! / (b - n)! ways to choose n of b unique numbers, [so] this solution is O(b^n)." You were contrasting! I believe that b!/(b-n)! is asymptotically the same class as b^n (whether we're varying b or n), hence my confusion.

I had initially skimmed the article, and assumed he was already handling uniqueness. With the correct definition of StateL, the solution presented is equivalent to what you describe here, but apparently that definition is deferred to a future article.

The idea would be that, for StateL, for_each would pick one value and pass that value to the lambda, interpreting the result in a context where the sel only sees the remaining values in the list.
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I think it's easy to blame cities for rent control.

Just shows what I know.
Maybe my comment is also contrary to your own personal interest.
So the German tourist that comes to Midtown Manhattan is going to be tracked down all the way back in Europe for violating a noise ordinance, is he?

Come on.
Could extend this so that file continues to exists as long as any peer who has downloaded keeps their window open. So, I share a file to a friend, he downloads, i close window. His window still open therefore link still valid. Similar to this http://ephemeralp2p.durazo.us/2bbbf21959178ef2f935e90fc60e5b...
> If people are buying whole buildings to rent out, what argument do the neighbors have for shutting down airbnb activity?

Most cities require hotels go through a permitting and approval process, usually in part to ensure things like security, parking, etc. are accounted for, and only allow them in certain areas zoned for such commercial usage.
PlanGrid (YC W12) raises $18M from Sequoia to digitize construction blueprints
Feds drop case in which cops nailed webcam to utility pole to spy on house
How can I determine my site or my host is using IPv6?
What's funny is every major city I've ever been in has had ultra-short term, private apartment rentals. AirBNB just made it extremely popular and easy to rent a room or your flat without putting a lot of work in.
"Zoning" is not a new regulation that cities just invented.
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What I'm saying is that, if there are X+1 decibels coming from a property, and there is a law or community rule that X decibels is the loudest allowable noise, then why can't that rule be enforced regardless of the nature of that property's residency?
Curation Is Dead Long Live Curation
So does 9P. It's just a protocol, at the end of the day.

FUSE is actually specific to the Linux VFS subsystem. However, there have been many reimplementations on the API compatibility level, even though there is no formal standard beyond the header file, which has seen several divergences.
interesting idea. if it's an excuse to play with something all for it. that being said:
parsing isc dhcp lease files is a can of worms you probably don't want to open.

to give you an example:
what happens if the same machine appears twice in the lease file?
what happens if some of the fields you are reading are missing? (let's say do you don't have a hostname)
Generally with a condo you have less freedom than you do if you buy a house with no common areas.

Hotels are prepared to deal with problems that tenants may cause. Locks are re-programmable between stays. Security, housekeeping and maintenance people on staff. Etc.

In a condo building, any problems caused in the common areas are going to end up being the responsibility of the association. Which is generally going to be ill equipped and probably unwilling to deal with any issues since they are getting no benefit from it.
This is a naive view of how quiet-enjoyment-type laws are enforced. It can take weeks to months to bring action against neighbors for violating noise ordinances (if they even exist).

When I moved into my current SF apartment, I verified with the management that short-term rentals were forbidden in the lease terms, and that they'd be willing to take action against tenants who violated that clause. I have no desire to live in a building occupied by people who have no incentive to live in harmony.
As someone who was drawn back into programming by the NLTK while in a creative writing program, I say bravo!

This one especially moved me:

Amorite and the Girgasite
And the Hivite and the Arkite
and the Sinite And
the Arvadite and
the Zemarite and the Hamathite

I imagine it would be fun to do this with heroic couplets, too. If I'm not mistaken, I think the idea has been applied to random tweets.
There's also the Hotel Act in most cities which allows police to enter whenever they want. Airbnb rentals are private so can't do their prostitution entrapment stings. They are already lobbying here claiming the sky is falling because they don't have unfettered access to shakedown tourists anymore.
"Rhino horn is made of keratin, the same material as human toenails"

And hair and fingernails and ..

Which brings up the obvious point that the best way to "save the rhino" is to gather about 1000 pounds of nail clippings, grind them up, and put them on ebay as counterfeit rhino horn. That'll poison the marketplace (something we're pretty good at) which will help ruin the profitability of rhino poaching, and it'll also kill the price, changing rhino poaching from "a worthwhile risk with the possible reward of a zillion bucks" to "an idiotic risk with little return"

The governments and activists involved should be flooding the market with counterfeit rhino horn today, if they really cared about the rhino.
Thanks for your note. I should have mentioned in my original comment, I'm behind with my knowledge of Windows. The fact there's a competent PDF reader in Windows 8 highlights this. Thanks.
I am not sure how the open source vs. closed source plays any role in this. You can support a feature with a closed source app as much as you can with an open source.

TLS implementations having serious problems as the last few years proved it. We need a more fundamental change in security protocols and implementations, using reliable crypto (for example elliptic curve cryptography) and implementing them in safer languages (like Rust).
Regardless of who enforces the rules, my point is that the rule prohibiting the misrepresentation of a business transaction is much more reasonable than the rule prohibiting (or significantly limiting) short-term rentals.
This was an unexpectedly fascinating read. This blew my mind:

> Rats are responsible for about half of all bird and reptile extinctions on islands, according to Gregg Howald of the group Island Conservation.

I live in the LES of NYC, and will routinely see 50+ rats in a 10 block span. They have massive burrows through a local park, with ample opportunity to live and breed, and a constant supply of trash and food (sometimes left "for the birds.")

One small benefit is that they prove a consistent supply of food for the local park's hawks, which can regularly be seen feasting on them.

Here's a cool video of hunting dogs attacking a rat burrow: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxQksEF2uso
9p works on Linux (and therefore - hypothetically - Android) via v9fs. u9fs is also an option for non-Linux Unixen. Plan 9 From User Space isn't a figment of my imagination, last I checked.
This is information for IT people, and you're treating it like it's for consumers. Consumers will only ever know about Windows 10 Home. The other options are important because:

Windows 10 Enterprise costs roughly ten times as much.

Windows 10 Education is the discounted version that they sell to schools (Apple has a similar program, they just don't tell you about it.)

Windows 10 Mobile because, well...

Windows 10 Mobile Enterprise because, again, they want to make money.

Windows is one of the top 5 most profitable software products in the world. Trust that they know how to make money.
My phone's web-browser only supports up to SSLv3 :(
Sorry, unless I totally missed something, that is not really the case. I am talking about conversation threading like Gmail and outlook global search in Outlook itself. I have not played with the most recent version and maybe I'm just not doing it right, but as far as I can tell in Outlook, searching a mail folder will only search that single mail folder, not a parent, not a child.