skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, I'm not saying there's no way to achieve social mobility. I'm saying that it's just very unlikely. There's always exceptions you can hold up as examples. Also, the idea that everyone living in the "third world" is penniless is ignorant. In every developing country, there is an elite whose children will have the same benefits during their upbringing as in any other country. The idea that because an inventor came from a developing country means that everyone has the same chance at social mobility is laughable.

Lazy people, indeed people in general, are experts at rationalizing away their problems. They don't need the help of my rationale. Of course, everyone should believe that they are capable of achieving anything they set their minds to - research shows that those who believe they are in control of their own destiny tend to be more successful in life. But from a statistical standpoint, there's no denying that people from a tough upbringing have a much harder time than otherwise.
this week's political activity, discrediting Carly. Brought to you by all left leaning news sites, blogs, and now, Hacker's News.

Really guys, the first three sentences should have made this tripe obvious. Expect submission after submission that are purely political hidden under techy click bait titles. We need a new flag, "political"
Apparently Peeple founders are not fond of being reviewed themselves:

https://twitter.com/sharonodea/status/649575258123579392

Edited to fix typo
SIP doesn't block /opt for the exact reason MacPorts relies on /opt: It's not part of the existing operating system. In other words, this situation isn't just good luck for MacPorts, it's a direct result of the design decisions behind MacPorts, and the design decisions behind homebrew.
Oh my god the tone of the article is exasperating. We get it, you think she'd dumb or something, but you need to relax a bit.
I love this essay by Bertrand Russell. It's just a shame it remains a utopia for the typical person.
At the live press announcement they talked about multi-room audio... here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jc-LEG0T_4c&feature=youtu.be...
How does this differ from long-existing "mutual" insurance companies? A policy holder essentially owns a a share in the insurance company. Peer-to-peer automates this on the web.
> There are things we can't do yet, such as orbital insertions, with ion engines.

We can do orbital insertions - if we approach a planet or asteroid with parabolic speed, we need only small change to get to an elliptic orbit, and that orbit can be later shaped as we need.

What we can't do is a launch or landing with bodies with sufficient gravity - like Moon or Vesta. There we don't have time to accelerate.
> Now the evidence itself suggested at least a plausible hypothesis: the attacks were triggered when a bus used to transport heroin was commandeered by the students, and that the motive—because the municipal police and others involved in the attacks didn’t know which of the commandeered buses had the drugs aboard, or perhaps had been specially outfitted to smuggle drugs without detection

That's a very plausible theory. I wonder how much drugs could a bust like that carry.
I believe did: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jc-LEG0T_4c&feature=youtu.be...
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What I Learned Reading the F# Source
The worst collision so far was deliberately caused by the Chinese military. Good job guys, way to show what a great country you are:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_Chinese_anti-satellite_mi...
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The more I read about this woman, the worse it gets.

She is sales. Not an engineer. Not a designer. Not even a good leader.

The world needs salespeople for sure, but they are mostly sizzle and little steak.

She will get shredded on the national stage, I think she is worse than Palin. At least Palin was a governor.
Shouldn't it be "gamedevver" instead?

Anyway, on my personal wishlist:
Allow customized pointers. For example, if I use a mmapped file that is mapped at a different base address every time it is opened, the pointers within that file are always relative to the base address. I'd like to use "special" pointers inside the mmapped file, that are aware of this. Also, I'd like to use standard data structures (associative arrays, lists, sets) inside the mmapped file, meaning that the solution should be generic.
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This was my first thought as well. Why go through the trouble of redundantly fetching a resource by URI and verifying its checksum when you could just use a system designed for this in the first place?
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Well, don't feel anxious. Charles Stross is a science fiction writer and dreaming up (or researching) interesting calamities pays his bills. If humans are an ant hill, you're just one ant, and unless you work for NASA, ESA, SpaceX, or (at the very least) have a prestigious professorship at a major university and/or serve as the science advisor to someone with real political power, there's nothing you need/can do about this one.

So relax, and enjoy a good setting for a dystopian story.
The danger is not that malicious websites figure out where you've been, the danger is that a malicious website could poison the cache for a critical piece of JS used in, for example, gmail. Visit a malicious site, boom, Russians can read your email.
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The only reason I read through this piece was because its by Steven Levy. Not going to flag it, even though its highly political, because I'd never heard or known of the Apple/HP deal and it was still an interesting read.
Are Nats in agda and idris not also just GADT based peano numbers?
Plus, as real life ion engines have burn times on the order of years, and as KSP can't do (adequate) time acceleration while the engine is running, there's a bit of an incentive to build high-thrust short-burn spacecraft --- I don't really want to have to babysit a burn in real time for six months.

(This also disqualifies solar sails, which is a shame, because I'd love to play with them.)
Isn't the solution to only allow caching using the key if it's over https (to stop modification) AND in the original HTML (i.e. not added afterwards by JS). Limiting, but would cover above.
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Ah that's interesting! Can you talk a bit more about the kind of project you're doing ?
Relative pricing between stocks is due to investors actively bidding up the price or letting it slide down. They do this based on either information about company fundamentals, or instinct on how the market will eventually react to news. This form of information or instinctual arbitrage nets active traders a profit.

As an increasing number of low-intensity investors broadly invest in the entire market space, it overinflates asset prices and diminishes the efficiency of this market space, to a degree. It's hard for news to knock on VW stock prices, for example, if the index funds keep buying it like clockwork anyway. Of course, it's possible that this system increases information arbitrage, but the overall effect is that index funds become less efficient as more investors rely on them.
No joking on HN!
I think I see what you're trying to get at, but regardless of its basis in fact, the ad hominem tangent in the third to last paragraph really derails and cheapens the argument.
Are you suggesting she has any credibility at all to discredit?
Absolutely. I have first hand experience: When I started school, tuition was 2200 a semester. When I finished (3 years later), tuition was 6400 a semester. (that's base, not including the premiums I paid for taking more than 18 credit hours a semester).

Completely insane.
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I think they mean the merit of the institution.
> other planets

Interesting to think about, but I have a feeling that once you land on another celestial body, all property will be determined by homestead until a significant number of humans arrive later.

Imagine: there you are on Mars, building your habitat structure in a nice crater when the phone rings and NASA says, "Hey, you can't build there, since that's Russia's crater." Your response should be, "Well, when Russia gets here, they can move me off of their property."

The ability to enforce property rights is vastly reduced without a local presence representing your interests. Yes, there could be conflict over it here on Earth, but for the people actually off-world, it has no actual enforcement mechanism, especially on one-way missions. Any such treaties and agreements made now are purely for show and political gain by those parties involved.
Well, if you unwind far enough, I think the original discussion was about why Homebrew has trouble using /usr/local. Where "using" means "owning, adding git repos to, changing permissions on, etc".

OSX suggests /usr/local as a good location to install software, but insists that the directory itself be owned by root, and protects the parent directory /usr under SIP.

My assertion is that Homebrew is using /usr/local incorrectly (and in contravention to all expectation), and that blaming Apple for the problems thereby created is inappropriate.

I also think SIP is a good thing.
I expect big sites to start serving ads in a way that appears to be organic and would be hard to block. As long as people serve ads direct from ad network domains blocks is fairly easy. If the content looks like part of an article then it's much more difficult to differentiate.
Dear Apple: Please start using apt
I feel like you're just effectively adding more bits to the hash length by appending the resource size; bits that might be better used by just adding more length to the hash.
Previously on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9001704

(Same South Korean researchers)
Get with a doctor who has experience dealing with autoimmune issues.

Anecdotally, I can say your issues are consistent with Celiac disease. Headaches/migraines, depression and "brain fog" are some of the most common symptoms. Your B12 and D deficiencies are also suggestive of malabsorption of nutrients in your digestive tract.

It isn't necessarily Celiac (I have a bias here since I was diagnosed with Celiac/gluten intolerance in 2009 with symptoms quite similar to yours), but I would get some tests from a doctor who can look at and rule out GI parasites, thyroid issues, Celiac, Crohn's/colitis (especially if you have GI issues like gas/bloating as well.)

Also, if you have been in an area with ticks, get checked for Lyme disease--the symptoms you describe are also indicative of Lyme, and the "bullseye" spot on your skin from the tick bite doesn't happen to all Lyme patients.

Good luck!
Load Testing: How do I define my user profiles?
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> Postulate a runaway Kessler syndrome kicks off around 2030, at a point when there are thousands of small comsats (and a couple of big space stations), ranging from very low orbits to a couple of thousand kilometers up. Human access to space is completely restricted; any launch at all becomes a game of Russian roulette.

Postulate? This article hasn't got a shred of calculation to give any hint when this becomes a problem. Is this a 2030 problem or a 2300 problem? No data.
No, Palin was a beauty contest winner that got elected Governor. She read People magazine when flying between political meetings. She had zero education/competence in the political arena. No policy education and no desire to learn. She was a zero with a big mouth.