skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's interesting, could you please expand on that ?
"If nonviolent criminal laws were enforced on college campuses or investment banks for just a single day in the same rates as in poor communities, there would be twenty-four-hour news vans outside of every local jail and immediate public hearings about the harshness and efficacy of our legal system."
http://harvardlawreview.org/2015/04/policing-mass-imprisonme...
Yes. But most of them are far too close to each other to remember easily. Or relatively not used words.

It's (generally) easier to just use a longer passphrase and a shorter wordlist of only relatively common words.
I love books. I love all books. I am especially fond of rare books, and first editions. I think books and their dust jackets are a thing of beauty. I just picked up a 1st edition copy of Carrie, someone discarded. The dust jacket is fair, but come on--it is still a thing of beauty on so many levels? 90% of my collection is non-fiction. I started to accumulate books before the Internet--thinking, I'm tired of going to the library, and who doesn't need a library in order to get through life, especially if you are the type of person who is forced be a DIYer(in my case poor, and I knew I would have to fix problems myself), or have a wide range of interests?

That said, if I was coming up today--I wouldn't have all these books. I can get most of the information online. I now am going to have to part with these books eventually in order to lighten my load. I will keep two boxes of non-fiction, and most of of 1st editions, if possible, and all my Horology books.

The used book business is dead, which I find sad. I really enjoy looking through used book stores, but where I live, the used book stores had to close down. I don't know how used book stores stay in business with these rents. I do donate to good independent used book stores--not Goodwill(I can't figure out what that nonprofit really does, and just who is really benefitting? (Goodwill--keep your employees employed longer than one year, if the person can't find a job. You know the employees I'm talking about. I know you have the money to carry these people. We have bought your overpriced products for years? I know what your regional managers make, and it seems unfair?)

If I had an empty store front, and I really didn't need the money; I would give a low long term lease to the right individual, if they wanted to open a used book store. It would be an honor.

I used to be one of those guy's who fiercely defended a physical book, but have changed my mind for the most part. There are a few instances where a physical book is preferred over the electronic edition in my little world. One area is automotive. If you work on you own automobile, buy a factory service manual for that year of auto you are working on.
(My father got me into this habit, and it was great advice.)

Way off topic--sorry--I probally need therapy?
> How do you build an apartment block these days anyway so it just lasts 20 years? With modern materials it's a bit unexpected.

My rented apartment in central Beijing is about 10 years old, considered fairly high end (we pay 7500 RMB/month for a one bedroom), and is already showing signs of deterioration (and our complex is considered "good" and well managed compared to the other ones in our fairly middle class Sanyuan Qiao area). It is a combination of poor construction techniques + poor maintenance + poor planning. The government and development companies "built to build" with little focus on the long term.

They are already tearing down developments made 15, 10, or 5 years ago, or even before they are finished* for "re-development."

* http://www.zerohedge.com/article/china-proudly-demolishing-b...
When you see billboard advertisements for apps which themselves rely 100% on advertising for revenue, that's when you know it's a bubble.

It's as though ad-supported companies are advertising each other to keep the money flowing because they can't get any outside money.
Shakycode,

Put some contact information in your profile. A friend of mine might like to hear your story. Might help.
Which is probably not going to end well for the people in the front seat in a sudden deceleration: http://roadsafety.transport.nsw.gov.au/stayingsafe/vehiclesa...
This was a very touching story, and like others have said, I'm very pleased the author has found his feet again.

However, remember that for many people life is like this every day and has been since childhood. These people don't have the resources, skills or networks to pull themselves out of such situations as did the author.

Next time you're tempted to judge someone who has less than you (and everyone judges based on their own experiences, it's all we can do) - remember that you've had it good, despite the downs and maybe they deserve some help too.

This is something I need to keep reminding myself of regularly.
It also means that your startup resume is slower and such, as you have to do a full sleep instead. Personally I've used the alarm and stuff too.
Because of taxes and [edit] insurance, retirement, etc. [/edit], yep, $100K is more like $50K - 60K clear (your the 1% but not really). I did the put $100 away a week into a saving account when I was a consultant.

I'm luckier than the author since I have folks to crash with (relatives) and can borrow some of the items needed to get a new job (computers, car, etc). I have also been on the other end by letting a friend have a room while he got back on his feet.
"Have an emergency fund" is personal finance 101.

It's kind of pointless to know enough to earn $100k/year, but not know enough to manage your money.
In some freemium games I'd say that the scaling of difficulty can be an ethics question. What if a free game promises free gameplay but actually requires hundreds of dollars of in-app-purchases to actually experience the core gameplay? There should at least be a gambling-industry level of ethics.

*Sure, it's not a big deal if the free player just loses some time trying the game out before dropping it, but what about the player who put in $20 thinking it would get them X, but it turns out that actually only got them 10% of the way to X?
Making it so babies aren't dying from minor traffic accidents is not bubble wrapping the whole world.
If you had advanced warning that you would go through the same financial hardship, what would you do differently?

Have you considered driving an offroad vehicle out to BLM or USFS lands and subsisting there for free? You can live indefinitely without paying rent in some places.
I lived in the area, not much going on. Majority are established big companies, not necessarily tech companies.
I should have clarified that over a long enough timescale, profit has to go somewhere and the only place it can go is shareholders. Right now, Google's profit is sitting as massive cash hoards. Profit that gets reinvested back into the company isn't profit anymore. It's just spending.

Of course, even the word profit itself is ambiguous because it's potentially referring to multiple different concepts. The aim, for this was to illustrate at a high level why investors generally don't want a company to be profitable until they want it to be very profitable.
And it's just a matter of time yet that these cities become the equivalent of America's hated suburbs. Cities like Greenbelt, MD, and Levittown, NY - planned large communities where everyone can enjoy a picket fence and a driveway. Soon, perhaps, china, too, will have a director that makes a film about the ennui of living in a planned community prominently featuring as a main character a floating plastic bag.
Answer is pretty easy to find out:

http://blog.uber.com/uberfamily

Also:

https://shuddle.us/
Optimizing Mapbox battery life on iOS
> convinced NFOrce that he was me

> So NFOrce reset the server's root password for him

So a couple of things:

I do my hosting with gandi (moving away from self hosting as Comcast business is...well anyways...). I had setup TOTP with their service and my phone died and I lost my OTP key (lesson learned - always backup OTP keys - hint gitlab developers...). I had submitted a ticket and they called the number that was on the account and had me answer a few questions. I don't remember what the questions were - but they weren't certainly "can you reboot this server?".

The simple fact that the company used that as verification should be a red flag.

Here is another red flag - why does the hosting provider have the ability to reset a VM's root password? Gandi states that in their FAQ that they won't reset the root password - though they give you instructions on how to do that.

Though if he had access to KVM (through virtsh or virt-manager ?) he could have easily reset it himself (which would require a reboot). Perhaps he wanted to be discrete as possible?
It is of course possible, it just needs a domain whitelist, app public api key and per user rate limiting
Walmart is subject to the same effects as every other company. That's why their net profit margin is 3-4%, not 100%.
Sounds interesting, can you expand on that?
Perhaps some linker enthousiast could give me feedback on an idea for a compiler I'm working on. My strategy is that my compiler produces a database of externally visible functions in an position independent format and with a metadata table that has information about each reference to an undefined symbol, that information would be fully qualified paths and types. A static linker would then walk a tree from the main function down to each referenced external function, concatenating them and resolving the locations.

A dynamic link would simply be the same but then embedded as a runtime of the executable.

I have read the ELF book, and am now reading this article series. I think my strategy is pretty similar to how ELF works with its PLT, but I'd like to do the dynamic linking at load time, not with a jump table. The fully qualified path and types are just a case of fancier symbol names probably.

The idea of the compiler+linker would be to bring a Java/C# like experience to a native compiled language. Perhaps Rust could be an inspiration, I haven't read much about their compile process yet.
When he submitted the ticket or whatever he was probably logged into his account and to DO that is probably a "the user is logged in so we don't have to verify his identity".
In short: quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur. Serious-looking fonts impart more trust into content.
Now if only they decided to ship them to other countries.
Paywalled, and the title gives no hint of what it's about.
How containers became a tech darling, and why Docker became their poster child
At least visit. It will be an eye opening experience.
I wouldn't say all - but many. However, there is always more than one way to skin a cat.

Gandi states that they won't reset it - but offers instructions on how to do it [1]. Which, presumably if you are spinning up VMs the owner of the account should get an email notification.

[1] - https://wiki.gandi.net/en/hosting/gandi-expert/change-root-p...
I guess this image from the article will answer your question:
https://hbr.org/resources/images/article_assets/2015/05/R150...
Failure, Depression, and Yoda
Good story, thanks for sharing.
When I see documents nicely type set with LaTeX, I have a prior expectation that it is more likely true.
Not very much, know of a good "beginner's guide to NASes"?

Honestly though, while I'm sure they're cool, I'm not sure NASes will do much good here. Most people need something as simple to use and set up as Evernote or Gmail.
Yes, isolation is the goal, and sadly it's for reasons of deployability, not security.

This implies that the configuration tools (puppet, ansible, chef, whatever) are simply not good enough.
Two corrections:

1) "Engineer" isn't protected; "professional engineer" is.

2) This applies to all of Canada. Each province has its own regulating organization.
Soylent will never be the future. Just like slim fast or ensure were not the future in the 80s and 90s. This is because food, and to some extent drink, are central to cultures around the world. Many countries have food traditions dating back 100s and 1000s of years. Heck, ever since we discovered fire humans have been taking a break from the day, gathering around something, and enjoying the fruits of a hunt or harvest with their community. This is why outside of tech and maybe health/weight loss circles meal replacement of any type will have an incredibly hard time catching on. In my opinion that's a great thing.
Neither are terrible arguments. They are not exactly equivalent, obviously. A car does have crumple zones, meant to slow deceleration of the vehicle itself. It is assumed that passengers and objects are somehow attached to the car, such as by a belt device of some sort I imagine. The crumpling effect doesn't help you when you propel into the person in front of you, or as in many cases, through the windshield itself and into something that's not so crumply.

You absolutely would not drive into a wall sans seatbelt at 30mph, even with a newer car. You'd be a fool to do so, as you will get injured and MAY not survive said injuries.
What's to take away from this story?

1. Revolvers don't jam - that can decide between life and death

2. The mind is remarkably good at warping memories to be more positive. Here we have a man who (spoiler) tried to kill himself and later describing this period of time as "not that bad".
And speaking of isolation/segregation ..

We already run apps in a vm (a jvm), on a vm (vmware).
If we wanted to add security, we'd turn on the jvm's security manager.

Adding docker to the layers for security isolation seems a bit silly when you could turn on the security manager instead.

I love docker, but adding security is not the reason.
Non-Cooperative Games – John Nash (1950) [pdf]
My Microsoft Experience (2013)
The secret to vacationing in the world’s ‘most dangerous’ places
"Sonny Liston Takes the Fall": http://www.apex-magazine.com/sonny-liston-takes-the-fall/ (fantasy)
I was just beginning to make 100k/year. I had the knowledge but was irresponsible with not putting enough away. It was a mistake which I will not incur again.
“It’s absurd to think that we would be nudged by one typeface over another, into believing something to be true. Something disturbing about it, I’d go so far to say.”

It's really not disturbing.

It's obvious that the way something is presented can affect your judgement about things like the motives (or credibility or even identity) of the person saying it, and it's obvious that this will in turn affect whether you believe what you're being told. Things like tone of voice, choice of words, and typeface all have an effect.

Why does it surprise people that the manner in which you communicate can affect how likely people are to believe what you're saying?
I wrote some Python bindings[0] for fun some time ago. I never did get around to implementing the full spec. I never did get around to implementing the full spec, but I did enjoy parsing the tests directly from the RFC.

[0] https://github.com/michaelmior/pycbor
I found a previous discussion on CBOR fairly insightful from 572 days ago - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6632576
1. I didn't own a revolver as I always favored semi-autos
2. Yes, looking back it now almost 6 years later it wasn't as bad as when it was happening. Yes I was on the brink of dying but I came out a stronger person and have learned to look back at the situation as a life lesson. If I let it haunt me to this day I'd be right back where I started.
Okay, the patents of Nokia and Blackberry in one hand (and especially Microsoft's hand) is a scary thought.
http://ia601507.us.archive.org/3/items/gov.uscourts.cand.287...
While interesting, I wonder why this is front page with only 3 votes in 2 hours?
What if... this whole article is an experiment in itself in that it is completely false, but has used its fonts and the blinking eye to convince us otherwise.
That sounds fine, if it all works out as planned.

China is about to become the most indebted nation. At the rapid pace they're accumulating debt, that should happen within the next few years. They've spent wildly to keep the building spree going; even now their real estate market is crashing, it has been falling for a year.

It begs a simple question: how many more people can China transition out of old China's poverty, and into the new China's middle class, before they run out of the ability to accumulate more debt to keep it all going (global consumers are tapped out, which has left China's manufacturing boom dead in the water, with their PMI contracting during a supposed non-recessionary period).

I fail to see how thinking ahead equates to taking on tens of trillions in new debt to fake economic growth. That sounds like they're baking up an economic recipe for future stagnation.
What's the x-axis?
Thanks, yes we definitely need to reach out to the younder demographic :)
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OP had a house and an expensive car to pay off. That's got to be a lot of money right there. Also, OP probably ate more expensive food and probably ate out a lot more. It's not difficult to imagine how a lot of the money can be spent on these things. Let's not forget that taxes will eat a lot of the gross income too.
When you request a taxi you can specify one with a child seat. Traveling without one is insane if you care about your children surviving a crash.
Yea, so what, you can quote a fictional character all you want but it doesn't give a person the right to say disrespectful stuff like this. It is lamentable that they passed away and all I'm saying is that we should pay respect to them, not debate whether they should have died or not.
The Nokia patents were not part of the acquisition, Nokia Networks kept them.
This is just so fundamentally disconnected from anything I can relate with I don't know what to say. I'm all about being critical of "safety first", sometimes to the chagrin of my wife, but having or even requiring child seats is not bubble wrapping. (though I do find the "until they're 9" in California a bit much)
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It's an unjust counterexample, because religion is in our genetics, a tendency to symbolism, hierarchy and dogmatism, awe and fear of the unknown. Theism though is anything but durable in the face of scientific progress, but the same can be said about genes. It is durable only in ignorance.

Therefore faithful believe is a marker for predisposition, so the carrier will have to adapt or die out at which point the meme has to be revived, as the GP stated. Religions do change much quicker than the gene-pool. They hardly qualify as memetic if really anyone (counting in antheists with their own cults and rites modulo the theism) follows them, anyway.
There's certainly limits. Compilation-time type safety can only guarantee the absence of certain errors or presence of certain behaviours. Any question that can be reduced to the halting problem is something that cannot be automatically verified. However, there's lots of interesting and useful stuff that is not reducible to this problem. Such as "is this input really an integer?" (cough cough, dynamic languages)
Same here, Ember is a pretty solid framework. I've dabbled with React and Angular, but since I learned Ember first, Angular left a lot more to be desired, especially in routing. React I'm still trying to understand, it seems pretty limiting for my use-cases. Pre-CLI can still be valuable for learning certain concepts, although it may not be the BEST way of doing things.
One of the two references was to a previous paper of his.

The other reference was to a book co-authored by John von Neumann. It was written in 1944 but is still in print and can be purchased on Amazon.

If you're going to have only two references, you could do worse than citing those two people.
Not speculating, but always found the public story about the beginnings of OR to be somewhat, uh, magical, given his non-technical background.
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i talk about karp's paper: reducibility among combinatorial problems(i); in another thread

and i found this integer programming tutorial comprehensive in offering practical applications of the desired algorithm(ii)

do any of these examples explain the problem best for you?
can you write a program that will solve this question for you?
now change the values of the variables, increase the number of variables

does your algorithm still work on these other inputs?

can you rewrite the algorithm to give the correct answers for these other inputs?

can you develop enough coverage to prove all possible inputs return correct values?

if your coverage is substantial, seemingly complete, can you write against your algorithm to find inputs that will still require you to further develop the algorithm?

for me, i felt i was able to follow the explanation for how the author found the answer and through that was able to start to see the shape of the coverage necessary to accommodate such a problem (iii)

this specific tutorial is on integer programming.. one of karp's 21, and through reduction on our understanding of 0-1 integer programming we can understand all of the other 21

(i) http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~luca/cs172/karp.pdf

(ii) http://mat.gsia.cmu.edu/orclass/integer/integer.html

(iii) http://mat.gsia.cmu.edu/orclass/integer/node4.html#SECTION00...
If google keeps loading their interface down with widgets and geegaws that I can't get rid of, and keeps screwing up their route line that now sometimes can and sometimes can't be sensibly dragged around, then at some point one of my frustration visits to mapquest will see me not returning.
Yes, it is. Read the other replies, specifically the ones pointing out that child seats are not one-size-fits-all.
That blinking eye took away whatever effect the article's font had on me.
While this is a good resource for current RESTful patterns, I found infoq's series of articles on REST http://www.infoq.com/articles/description-discovery-profiles... better gives a glimpse into the future.
Use a mail forwarder that is located in the EU.
"Simplicity is the final achievement" -- Chopin, according to the video.

After a bunch of Googling the only source I can find for this is a 2007 religious apologetics book with no Amazon reviews. I can't even find a French version of the quote. Anyone know if it's legitimate? And a more interesting question: if no one has ever even reviewed this book, how is it all over the Internet as the source of this quote?

EDIT: Oops, looks like it is not religious apologetics. Still, I'm curious how a (presumably manufactured) quote like this spreads from such an obscure source.
You can submit a pull request on https://github.com/restcookbook/restcookbook
After spending 10 minutes trying to find where Google moved their menu so I could print directions, (I completely missed the hamburger menu blended into the text box) I gave up used MapQuest instead.

Instead of focusing on the quality of their map data, MapQuest can just compete by not ruining their UX.
> How long until doctors find themselves in a similar position? Medical bills are, after all, the number one cause of bankruptcy in the US, and US doctors are the highest paid on Earth.

Blame medical insurance companies. Physicians must charge 10x what something actually costs because insurance companies will only pay 1/10 of the bill. This insurance company bullshit works all fine and dandy, until it lands on a poor uninsured bloke.

Ask yourself: "why the hell should a medical insurance company be for-profit?" Why should the top 5 medical insurance companies make _billions_ of dollars in _profit_ _every_ _month_ ?

http://www.forbes.com/sites/peterubel/2014/02/12/is-the-prof...
Thanks Shakycode for sharing your story. I am glad you came out well and were brave to look back and share your story with the world in a positive way.
Their claims are weak and old. The corporate version of long lost friends asking you for money after they see you on TV.