skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is foolish to think that this won't result in unemployment. We live in a time in which higher labor costs for marginal work can be eliminated through automation and these higher labor costs will only accelerate that transition. You may not like that fact, but that's what will happen. You don't a free ride on planet earth and no foolish government policy can change that.
Sorry, maybe my post isn't clear. My question is why is the distrust only applied towards the big business side?

Notice how Zimmerman's integrity and past ethical performance of his job is called into question due to his current relationship to Nestle while Loe and Earney's integrity and past ethical performance of their jobs is not also questioned. How do we not know that Loe and Earney didn't attempt to sabotage Nestle's legal extraction of groundwater as quid pro quo for a post-retirement gig as an activist?
The final goal this probably had is already achieved (a lot better) by properly configured TLS. I think this only prevents having the password in clear text at some specific point in time on the servers and (accidential) logging. OK, maybe some active MITM software (hi Lenovo!) that have not specifically been adjusted to replace the JS crypto may have been a concern. But probably someone just wanted to play around with JS crypto ;-)

They could have made this easier and faster by simply having the client apply a hash (have the server provide a temporary salt and mix it with a client-generated salt if you want to prevent accidential logging on your server) and handle this result as if it was the user's password (and hence hash this hash properly server-side).
As already noted, the (only) upside is that now you don't ever even process a user's password on your server, so you don't have to worry that a user's password might be stored in your logs or even MITMled in your own (unsecured) network.
I wonder why I have never read about somebody handling logins this "double-hashing" way? Anything I'm overlooking security-wise?
As an sf transplant in nyc... I'm dying for a good salsa bar. Damn. OH The humanity
Good on them. If sanctions and withdrawing aid have told us anything, its that they empower dictators not weaken them.

Perhaps if the West devoted more money to improving the quality of life in 'risky' countries rather than inefectually trying to affect political change through economic blackmail, the world would be better off.
The part of Google+ I didn't like was certain compulsory behaviors that seemed to have nothing to do with Google+ itself. And I see those same problems still in Hangouts. For example, this completely batshit idea in Gmail, when I click on Hangouts Conversation icon (middle icon bottom left), and then click on the magnifying glass to search, type in "mom" and this fucking goddamn piece of shit displays everyone's mom and not my mom. Why the fuckballs would this thing show results of people I don't know, have no way of knowing, don't know any of the people they know, and yet not my own mom? At least give priority to my contacts?

Shit like that, added with, you have to accept it mentality. It's what gets people deranged and they want to throw out the baby with the bathwater. So this blog entry just demonstrates to me they don't get it still.

Edit: Yes my mom is "mom" in my contacts. When I type in my sister's name, it does the same crap, it shows me everybody else with the same first name as my sister, but not my sister. WTF?
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Ethereum isn't my project. I build apps on top of it, like Augur. I'm claiming that work other people did will be pretty huge for humanity, which I consider pretty acceptable.

What questions do you have about how Ethereum is useful? I attempted to answer that question, but appreciate pointers that would make it more effective.
Well, that's sort of the reason - they needed a differentiator, there was an obvious one for the taking and they threw it away.
>>Even if it fried every electronic device, that'd still be much better than a 10 megaton nuke going off above downtown.

My worry is what happens to critical infrastructure. For instance, if the blast were in line-of-sight of multiple high-voltage transmission lines then extra-high-voltage transformers (think >200 kV) could “melt-down” (that is to say, the cellulose insulation is damaged by higher than normal temperature of the oil caused by the excess DC current, but maybe I am wrong?). These are multi-million dollars, weigh 500 000 lbs, are very difficult to move, and have a lead time measured in years. (There are probably 10 of these on hand as spares across the country for the 4,000 currently in use.) Cascading power failure, say substantial failure in San Francisco, could affect the entire Western Interconnection. If the power goes down, so does water pressure which depends on electrical pumps. A loss of power/water for more than a week could be an extremely severe event. A military strategist wouldn't settle for just one city to be in this state either.

So if you have an attack on multiple fronts, then today it would be suicidal to potentially knock out the power to your own cities. But, maybe back when the Nike was in use power failure wouldn't be as catastrophic as it would be today OR this wasn't a possible failure mode.
I've seen 10000+ line classes in the corporate world
let me drink coffee in peace :P !!
Because:

P(quid pro quo | quid∧quo)

>

P(quid pro quo | ¬quid∨¬quo)

Where in this case, "quo" is, "we'll pay you for 'consulting' after you retire" and "quid" is "I'll stop working on your permit review." The reason for the distrust has to be obvious, so maybe there's some other question you're trying to get at with your comments?

As to your question about who might be paying Loe and Earney, well, we don't know. We don't know that they're being paid at all, and there isn't anything anomalous about a biologist calling for environmental review. Conversely, we know Zimmerman is being paid, and we know that there were anomalies in the permit review process. So that objection basically boils down to, "If we suspect foul play in this one situation, why don't we suspect it in this completely different situation where the facts are not analogous." Well . . .
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contrary to what abduhl wrote in his statement asking where the distrust comes from, I find myself thinking the exact opposite:

where does our inherent trust to government come from? When I work with you I have to prove that I'm trustworthy. That happens either through working together or by you looking at my track record on github, mailing lists or whatever else.

Yet, when it comes to government officials no such thing applies. We trust them based on the fact that they supposedly work for government and therefore are supposedly trustworthy. But their track record generally shows the exact opposite.

And yet when I come home in a perfectly safe, good area of London, if I want something from my neighbour, I have to wait for her to open her 10 locks and open a tiny bit of the door to hear her ask what I want from her.

The only reason I see that speaks for them is the appeal to authority. We trust them, because we trust that an authority that has more power than we do is more trustworthy than us and by extension anyone appointed by them is as well.
You are right to point this out as contradictory, and I'm happy to clarify. It's more a product of trying to reply quickly.

Often in medical research, we see early high-quality studies purporting an effect. As a recent example, fish oil for hyperlipidemia. Positive studies (meaning ones that show an effect beyond placebo) are more likely to get picked up for publication, and ones that show new/interesting findings even more so. But the general trend, for nearly everything, is that continued research shows less effectiveness than the original studies. All too commonly, the effect with more and better studies becomes nearly indistinguishable from placebo. The media is very fond of pointing out this apparent "fip-flopping" as evidence that scientists are idiots.

That's where we are now with marijuana research. A handful of high-quality studies is a compelling start for more research, but not a basis for a robust conclusion, especially in the face of the large body of evidence for harm. Fish oil does not have that degree of harm, for example, so the early studies of effectiveness could meet a threshold of risk/benefit much more easily.

Hope that helps.

The reddit link does indeed have a bunch of peer-reviewed studies, but they are of highly variable quality. Not all articles, regardless of journal, are great. The negative outweighing the positive was related to my observation of the bias of cannabis research, and as you rightly point out that does not preclude a well-conducted body of research on a specific indication (for example, pain) from demonstrating an effect beyond placebo.
Obviously there is a well-known historical record that shows how how torture is ineffective and misleading, but that really doesn't matter. Even if it was effective, it is still a terrible idea that should never be entertained by a supposedly modern/advanced society.

Ethical reasons about basic human rights and cruelty should really be enough of a reason to never allow torture. It is also a completely stupid tactic, for reasons you would expect the military and and intelligence communities to understand: using torture escalates the conflict. You don't do it for the same reason chemical weapons are a bad idea: it invites the enemy to do the same in return.
What downside do they face by simply prohibiting further use until they review the permit? What's the USFS or the country getting out of this deal?
I love Google+ and am rooting for it. To me its a great mix of Flickr, Twitter and Facebook.

What really hurt g+ was three things. First it became bloated with features which confused the average user.

Second was the aggressive push by some at google (Vic?) esp. with youtube comment integration. This totally backfired with media and YT stars who were dragged kicking and screaming.

And third, failure to consolidate multiple g+ profiles for people who have multiple google accounts. I've 6 g+ profiles but only use one. When someone wants to add me they search my name and are not sure which person to add. This is such a basic failure in user experience that I don't even know why g+ was launched without first anticipating and addressing this problem..smh
Some editing by reply follows, since the editor just ate a lot of work (perhaps my edit straddled the time limit after posted when edits are allowed):

The identification of programs as well or badly coded can take place outside of the OS, and at a very different time and place, just as antivirus programs work. A bloat=identifying program can do the analysis, judge the programs and provide identifying bit sequences or hashes (if necessary to prevent evasion) to the OS, which can then use that information to police who gets what priority.

Other efficiency evaluation, including of script behavior, could be done either in nearly real time, or over days or months, by the OS or another program feeding data to it.

Some of this analysis would be straightforward, looking for known bad patterns, other analyses might requite AI, neural nets or the sort of combination (AI flags, humans confirm/disconfirm) that make Palintir hum.

Note that this doesn't just produce an immediate effect of shielding good programs from the sluggishness of bad ones; the competition that this sets up becomes something of a marketplace promoting efficiency that keeps becoming more demanding; a competition in which efficiency once again makes you look very good to your customers, as used to be the case when users could only run one program at a time. Back then, we knew who was feeding us garbage code and who wasn't. This invention let's us get back to something like that standard while keeping our shiny new hardware and multitasking, too.

Who knows, one edit at a time, I may have put a unicorn patent into the comments section of Hacker News as the idea occurred to me. Sliding down a slippery slope to publication.
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fun to read this alongside landis's "the melancholy of infinite space": http://www.geoffreylandis.com/infinite.htp
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There was a point in my life when reading something like this, I would have thought, "Silly Americans." Now I think, "Silly anthropologists."
One of the interesting things about the Marin Headland Nike station tour is the tidbit of information that they had targeting codes for Sacramento. So if the Ruskies invaded and occupied the state capital there was an "option"...

(May well have been a bored volunteer making things up, but I wouldn't dismiss it out of hand...)
http://research.microsoft.com/apps/pubs/?id=226843

"able to mask up to 250ms of network latency"

They tested with Doom 3 and Fable 3. I don't recall the specifics but I'm gonna guess that the actions people take are really quite limited, so with a bit of work you can probably guess what they're going to do enough to make things playable.
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The papers on THC triggering the immune system in lungs (quicker cell death, etc) aren't strong enough ? That was the main reason I wanted to try vaporized THC (bringing back air intake/capacity, asthma).
Here's an idea: You cannot take material gain that would have been illegal in your employ for 2x your time of employ, or four years, whichever is longer.

> Gene Zimmerman, the forest supervisor who was in charge at the time, retired in 2005. He now does paid consulting work for Nestle.
The first article stalls out when I try to load it.

The from the second:

CBD has neuroprotective and antiinflammatory effects, and it appears to be well tolerated in humans, but small and methodologically limited studies of CBD in human epilepsy have been inconclusive. More recent anecdotal reports of high-ratio CBD:Δ9-THC medical marijuana have claimed efficacy, but studies were not controlled. CBD bears investigation in epilepsy and other neuropsychiatric disorders, including anxiety, schizophrenia, addiction, and neonatal hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy. However, we lack data from well-powered double-blind randomized, controlled studies on the efficacy of pure CBD for any disorder. Initial dose-tolerability and double-blind randomized, controlled studies focusing on target intractable epilepsy populations such as patients with Dravet and Lennox-Gastaut syndromes are being planned. Trials in other treatment-resistant epilepsies may also be warranted.

This is not good evidence.

I want to be clear: I'm hopeful about the potential, but so far the enthusiasm for marijuana is not yet supported.
As gets mentioned basically every time this comes up, Nestle's total water consumption in California last year was approximately equal to the amount of water used by two golf courses. California has around 1200, with over 100 in desert regions.

Of course, as the California Golf Course Superintendents Association is quick to point out, parks and golf courses combined use up only 1% of potable water in California. They like to point the fingers at almond growers, which consume about a gallon per nut. Almond growers note that an ounce of lentils takes 71 gallons, and an ounce of beef 106 gallons. Farmers in general blame housing. And so on.

Vanity fair did a somewhat amusing chart about the blame game: http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2015/04/california-drought...

(Note: Take all the numbers with a grain of salt; they're self-serving press releases, if not outright lies. Even so, it's pretty clear Nestle's not to blame for California's water problems; whether their usage is the 0.008% of total California water use the company claims or, hell, ten times that, it's not a big deal.)
I think Bloomberg's article just got the DA side of the story which of course will try to put Abacus in the worst light possible. It could have been intentional or maybe Abacus lawyers chose not to discuss the ongoing case with the press and speak with their legal filings instead.
Also not a bug, but putting strlen() inside the loop condition makes my eyes twitch
The best case for velocity over time is a line that slowly declines to the right. Even with the cleanest code, as a product adds features it takes longer and longer to properly add the next one. Part of this is simply the multitude of cases to consider (because of all those features!), but another part is simply the number of lines of code.

The only way around this, IMO, is if you split the product into parts that have no dependancies on the others (the notion of a 'mono-repo' undermines this). This works because you trade one big product for many small ones, and thus avoid having to solve all the issues that come with big products. Of course, this is much easier said than done.
By the way, good luck on your presentation to LW-Tel-Aviv tomorrow evening!
That is different - they weren't using cloud rendering - they were just stuffing games to some sort of VM and streaming the output.

Cloud rendering would be something like you and me play the same game and the server rendering only has 1 instance of every resource used for rendering to reduce memory overhead.

If you have shared instance worlds (eg. MMO) you can then do shared state effects like animation, advanced lighting, etc. and reuse the calculations for each client.
A fun little fact: the name 'Shinra' is a reference to the Shinra Corporation from Final Fantasy VII, one of Square-Enix's most beloved games.
I remember a social studies teacher reading this to my class in high school, and thinking the language was ostentatious but it all sounded pretty normal (except the stuff about the dentist... and now that I re-read it, I don't remember what I thought seemed wrong about it.)
I'm struck by how often Congress mandates this or that legal procedure which is self-evidently expensive to administer, and then fails to provide the requisite funding.
And yet they managed to sink the Avro Arrow :(
I'm less worried about the requirement for an internet connection than I am about the single point of failure. When the centralised service goes down, all your tags are useless squiggles.
The understated importance of doing things quickly
Taking these numbers with a grain of salt is only going to exacerbate the situation.
Google Goggles will open up a written URL just from a picture. For handwritten ones I think it just has to be really legible but for printed ones it works easily.
A large lawsuit that chews up time and money for delaying a business critical permit that Nestle would unnecessarily stack a large sum per day of lost income for the water rights.

Remembering its a review of the permit to decide whether they can continue, not a cessation of operations. The only reason that Nestle haven't taken the regulator to court at the moment is that the review process failed open allowing business to continue. If they voluntarily close it and take forever to complete the review, Nestle has grounds for compensation on the waiting time.

The USFS is getting not sued out of the current arrangement and continued barebones operations, thats about it. :/
They can't "simply prohibit it." National Forests by law are managed for multiple uses including resource extraction. The USFS faces a very large downside because reviewing a permit like this would trigger an environmental impact statement, likely result in lawsuits, and tie up limited staff resources that then can't be used to review 50 (completely arbitrary number) other less controversial permits.
This was partially controlled for in their analysis, but it's a cohort study meaning that people weren't randomized into groups. So certainly there could be some of that happening, but the analysis minimizes (but doesn't totally eliminate) how much that influences the outcome.

Behavioral science is hard, and messy.
> if you make them less than the amount that they have to pay you

You assume we are already paying everyone fairly for the value they create. That's... possible, but it's also possible that a lot of people are paid far less than the value they create; raising minimum wage makes the job less profitable but not unprofitable.
Wondered if anyone would make that joke. ;)
Why? The peter principle could be part of it, but I suspect it is unlikely to explain everybody.

I think there is a simpler answer: basic human nature, in the form of "alpha male"-style dominance displays, tribalism and the instincts/"folk wisdom" associated with it, and even - in some cases - plain sadism. The movie "Dr. Strangelove" was basically an exploration of these behaviors.

On top of that, add in the well-known source of bias and limited thinking "When all you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail". (Or for the HN crowd, "When all you know is SQL, every problem looks like it needs a database.") We should not be surprised when the people we train to use violence as a means to an end end up suggesting violence as a solution to other problems.
Why is it exciting that Amazon made a 0.4 percent profit?
I actually think a plea bargain should cap future sentences: if you take the 6 months deal any future case with same charges cannot carry a sentence higher than 6 months.
As I noted at the time, fixing a roiling cesspit by draining it into the freshwater supply is hardly a solution.

YT comments should have been hauled out and shot. Not jackboot-forced onto other platforms as well.
I think a lot of people are missing the point here.

What we basically have is a pictograph URL shortener. This may be complex from the computer side, but from a human side, this could be vastly simpler.

E.g:
- Draw a Triforce and go to Nintendos Zelda page.
- Draw a big triangle, with a line across the top to make a mountain, and go to some page about Everest or something.

And since it's the segments that matter, the possibilities are endless, spokes of a bike wheel, a pizza, pacman, airplane. It also easier to remember than a url, and if your memory is a bit fuzzy, just start drawing and you can figure out if it looks funny.

Good job Sam!
Under federal law, permits remain valid until the renewal application is decided. The USFS lacks resources to review applications in a timely manner, so it priorities the ones that are actually important (which, honestly, Nestle's is not).

So they can't simply say "hold off until we check this out", because that's illegal; the permit is valid until they process the renewal. Nor could they simply deny out of hand every application they don't have resources to review; that would also be illegal.

The real answer would be to overhaul the entire system, streamline it, and see that it has proper funding (probably via some hefty application fees). But that's not going to happen any time soon.

(See also: Every other god damn branch of government. Although the patent office is experiencing an especially similar issue.)