skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, but as usual, anecdotal evidence isn't worth much[1]. I'm sure I can point you to traditional display ads that I've seen on the Web that are tasteful, useful, and unobtrusive. Does that obviate all the complaints people have about display ads overall? Of course not. Similarly, the amount of times I've heard a podcast say "this episode sponsored by blahblah, [explanation of blahblah]" doesn't erase the amount of examples I've seen of an article with a tiny "sponsored by X" at the top. And as is inevitable when financial pressure is great enough, you end up with even well-respected publishers resorting to stuff like this: http://adage.com/article/media/york-times-shrinks-labeling-n...

[1] I'm aware that you're explicitly providing a counter-example, so I'm not disagreeing with your comment. Just saying that it doesn't really address my point.
Yep - details in the wiki link :-)

In fact, we even get a quantification of the potential 'value' of the billboards (to the advertisers, at least) :

JCDecaux paid the scheme's start-up costs, totalling about $140 million, and employs around 285 people full-time to operate the system and repair the bikes on a ten-year contract. The city receives all revenue from the programme, as well as a fee of about $4.3 million a year. In return, JCDecaux receives exclusive control over 1,628 city-owned billboards; the city receives about half of that advertising space at no charge for public-interest advertising
I don't make up my mind, I follow the dialectic of the conversation. Who the hell are you used to talking to?

The problem is there are NO ARGUMENTS bounding the possibility of the research paying off, and until you can you're going to just talk past the other person.
Well, you are, in fact, dismissing it as merely coincidence, as I predicted.

Nor did I say it gets done to me because I am a woman. It does get done to me a lot. I don't know that it has anything to do with my gender. It may have more to do with the fact that I have formally and informally studied certain things about social psychology and I have well developed mental models for how these things work that most people are not very familiar with. Since social psychology is a "soft science," it is much harder to convince people that X is true than, say, for physics or math. That doesn't mean there are not studies or established principles, etc, to call upon for drawing conclusions.

Anyway, I have work to do and this seems fruitless, alas.

Have a good day.
I work for what3words. It is an algorithm, rather than a database and as such is less than 10mb. It also works offline with no cellular connection and uses GPS. All 57 trillion squares in all the languages we support are on your phone. We are currently in 9 languages including French, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Swhili and we have Arabic and 14 others on the way. Thanks for your interest.
dismal science
"It brought a case against Discover Bank last summer, saying it inflated the amounts it said borrowers owed on their loans.

Discover Bank paid $18.5 million without admitting or denying wrongdoing."

These fines are just a calculated cost of doing business for companies like Discover, Sallie Mae, etc. They take the likelihood of getting caught breaking the law, multiply it by how much they'll have to dish out when they get caught, and subtract that from what they'll make by extorting their "customers."

In this case, Discover made a good financial decision on their part. Hooray for creating value for the shareholders.
> individual choice can be a problem that needs to be fixed.

Every comment I have written (including the root and the parent of your reply) explain how this is not what I am saying at all.
Microsoft HoloLens and adblocking. Hmmmm....
Entire state of Hawaii bans all forms of outdoor ads. Some company tried to sell ads on bikes but were banned. Another company tried to sell aerial ads (banner pulled by small planes) in Hawaii. The company insisted only FAA can ban such ads, even AFTER FAA announced the state can ban aerial ads.

The pilot was actually arrested.

http://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/story/26075222/pilot-for-aerial...
Another movement I'd like to see in the US is to take telephone poles down and put all that wiring under the ground. Would generate jobs and make the country much prettier.
"almost every program has to understand (100%) the output of every other program it has to interact with."

While I mostly agree with your thesis that types could be great in the shell, I think this particular bit is incorrect in a way that undermines your argument (not, I think, fatally). If a program's output doesn't match up with another program's input, a bit of sed (and maybe some awk) will usually do the trick. And if we added types, that would still be the case - output from one command would have to be the right type to be input to another.
You cannot repossess an education. Most loans are to buy something tangible that can be sold for at least something if the debtor defaults.
Here's Scott Wiener's post about meeting 2040 housing growth plans: https://medium.com/@Scott_Wiener/want-to-know-why-the-bay-ar...

Looks like East bay is falling behind schedule.

Here's housing prices since crash peek:http://west.stanford.edu/sites/default/files/hugolefebvre-ch...

I live several doors down from the old KFC. I miss the old Sugoi Sushi that was there - but am fine with the new construction. Am lucky to have rent control. Right now, if I move away, I wouldn't be able to afford moving back.
Yikes.

As far as I can tell, the only meaningful thing this adds is the ability to require developer registration in order to use experimental APIs.

> The ultimate goal is to enable experimentation and iteration on pre-standardization APIs, in a way that gathers meaningful feedback, but without burn-in of the APIs.

I'm not sure what's broken about the "experimental" label except that it can't trace usage back to specific developers. If it's experimental, it will probably break or disappear. "Burn-in" doesn't have to be a problem if you actually iterate and yank or change stuff. API keys don't solve anything that code removal doesn't solve (aside from developer tracking).

Want to curb "developer abuse" of vendor prefixes? Remove the API. Train developers to understand that experimental features are experimental by actually following through. If you don't want users to think the browser is at fault, maybe alert the user to that fact. "Oops, looks like this website's developers were a bit careless with their code. Sorry about that; some people like to take big risks and it stinks that you the user had to suffer for it."

If you really want to ensure that only specific devs are allowed to use some features, presumably to limit impact on users and loss of browser market share, then just ship those devs a custom release. Protect usage of the whole browser with a key, if you want.

Personally, I'd rather we leave things open to experimentation (with an established and valid understanding they may break) over locking it down to devs willing to give you their phone number so you actively approach them for feedback and turn off the tap on a per-developer basis if you so desire.
I was coming to say the same thing. I think this is a good question to ask of the folks who object to building homes, "What if the people who lived in this town before you moved here had blocked the building of the home you are living in?" You wouldn't have had that wonderful experience you are trying to preserve because you would never have lived here."

It is very sobering.
Thanks, good timing :-) of this article, been trying to understand why my new fancy Skylake CoreI5-6500 crashes with
"Switched to clocksource tsc" when booting Ubuntu 14.04 (Ubuntu 15.10 works fine, so not a big problem).
cool link. having spent years studying/researching the actual l/c journals along with most modern book interpretations of the expedition, i still think that clark nicknaming her 'janey' is a clue that perhaps sacajawea is the proper, um, vernacular. also, i know of no one considered an expert who thinks sacajawea is buried anywhere other than the fort lisa site in south dakota which is now submerged by the lake oahe reservoir.
Oh, it's much worse than that.

These are government-backed loans. If they go into default, the government pays the loan in full, automatically. And the lender can still go after the borrower!

After being fully reimbursed for the loan, they keep going after the student who defaulted, who can't get that loan discharged in any but the most extreme circumstances (i.e. can't work and will never be able to again).

What a scam.
Yes, I am dismissing your anecdote as mere coincidence. I can't justify on an intellectual basis doing anything else. Am I supposed to just listen and believe?

> I have formally and informally studied certain things about social psychology

Your continuing reliance on credentials isn't helping your credibility.
Wow, those are awesome!

The humorous "be careful or you could die" poems are also a feature of some bike events I've done, like the Marin Century. They particularly urge people not to descend mountainous curves faster than they can keep control. Which I guess is exactly what BRO is doing with its signs.
Oh neat, I hadn't seen the image from the SDR with better regulation, that's really cool!
The Little Printf
I would, as a general principle, be cautious (in the sense of not being hasty) to dismiss in a manner reminiscent of Parkinson's law of triviality (insofar as the latter pertains to the bikeshed principle) the literary style of the article in question, since the common interpretation of excessive verbosity is flawed, in this case being seldom more than a preference with little in the way of any concrete justification that would be of direct relevance to the topic at hand, the topic being an architectural treatise. Any reservations about succinctness, or a perceived lack thereof, must therefore be qualified and left over for further analysis to draw proper and conceptually robust remarks given the evidence presented.

(Yes, the writing style is somewhat obtuse. You'll have to excuse that. The topic itself is obscure, so I suppose it fits.)
Unbound works very well to block hundreds of static domains, like you get from ad-blocking lists, and needs very few resources. IMHO, it should be the default for desktop distros.
Tesla will release its software v7.0 with Autopilot
> You're talking about stripping many practitioners of software development from their culture. Why is that just?

Why is it unjust? Why do you have to bring your personal interests and preferences into the workplace? Why not make a neutral workplace where different kinds of people can integrate and feel comfortable?
If what you say is true, then that weakens the authors thesis pretty drastically.

For example, you say: "even the Jews didn't believe it until the news broke out in the final year of the war in Europe". This uprising took place almost two years before V-E day, which means the Jews in Warsaw were not aware that they were "literally" fighting for their lives. They were instead fighting for their human rights, and their way of life. (We know they were destined for extermination camps, but they didn't; if what you say is correct.)

The author also points out that the deportations were 'ostensibly for resettlement in labor camps, but almost always for extermination' and 'Often, the Judenrat was told that as long as the ghetto worked hard to produce factory goods for the Germans, the ghetto would be allowed to survive.' Thus, how did the Jews of Warsaw know that genocide was planned for them, and not, say, work camps?

If they did not know, then thesis - that weak gun laws can help prevent genocide - is actually a broader one; that weak gun laws can help prevent ghettoization, or that weak gun laws can help prevent mass deportations.

Hence if there is any lesson to be learned, it sounds like the author is arguing for the increased weaponization of the Palestinians, in order to better reach the long agreed upon two state solution.

Another issue is that you added your own qualifier; "Tribal genocide ... cannot be just as easily compared to the Holocaust."

This is a different definition of genocide than the author. Or rather, when the "International Society for the Prevention of Crime", concluded "defensive measures are the most effective means for the prevention of genocide"; did that mean genocide as defined by the Genocide Convention? I think so. While you want to exclude "tribal genocide" from that definition.

In science there is an analysis error called "p-hacking". More specifically, if the correlation across the entire data set is too weak, some people will look at a subset which has a more detectable correlation. (XKCD calls this 'Hey, look at this interesting subgroup analysis'.) The problem is, the method of subsetting should be part of the significance analysis, and by excluding it, the p-value is artificially raised.

By choosing a subset of 'genocide', you weaken the intent of the essay. You say they cannot easily be applied to tribal genocide, which opens up the possibility that the can't be used for other genocides, and especially opens up the possibility that it can't be used in the US political context.
I lived with a family there over a summer, not sure if they were just telling me stories or not, but my impression from their story is they boarded up some of their windows to avoid taxes. Maybe it was an excuse, i don't know. A nice tale they liked to tell a foreigner.
Daylight(5 years old)-FUCK a COP
The externalities you cite are not anything that causes a financial burden on society. Taxing them to recoup costs would be without basis.
http://www.brainpreservation.org/ken-hayworths-personal-resp...
You generally are being dismissive, not just "dismissing my anecdote". Women are frequently treated in a dismissive fashion by men. You dismiss my presumed hurt feelings over being misgendered as unimportant and something you cannot be bothered to put any effort into avoiding. You dismiss my accomplishments in gaining status on a predominantly male forum. You dismiss my "anecdote". And then you think that women should apparently be perfectly comfortable here in the face of you and thousands of other men like you being generally dismissive, disrespectful and insensitive towards them.

I don't imagine there is any hope of educating you as to why your behavior would drive off women and make them reluctant to participate here. But perhaps pointing it out will cast some light on the issue for other people.

Edit: And then you edit your comment to further dismiss my credentials as not helping my credibility. Just icing on the cake of a mountain of dismissiveness.
You're advocating for sterile, culture-less workplaces. You're free to do that, and companies are free to implement your proposed policies. Personally, I wouldn't work for a company that prohibited my expressing nerd culture.
Never had visited DC I googled "billboards in DC" and got plenty of results. A billboard in support of Chelsea Manning, companies selling billboard space and companies selling mobile billboard space as well. Nothing to indicate there was a lack of billboards there.
Not sure if anyone is still in here but this is OP. Here is a pastebin link from a few of the emails that weren't from auto-generated indian programmers. I downloaded one of the attached files and followed one of the links to a personal site with my phone.

http://pastebin.com/rTMrSETK

I am sure I overreacted but they did make me concerned when my machine was running slow. I had upgraded to El Capitan on like the 2nd. SOme behavior preceded that but not having fans run and machine getting hot is fairly normal on mac.

IDK maybe I am just paranoid. Trying to find the TCP DUmps. From before I formatted the system. I am posting them because a few people said that there was no real evidence. I am sure I overreacted and maybe should look into it more, but the emails happened.
Did the Jews in Warsaw know that they were going to be shipped to execution camps? I thought they only thought they were going to be shipped to labor camps.

If they didn't know, or weren't sure, then your explanation doesn't work. (That's not to say the desire to protect one's human rights, and way of life, isn't enough. One need only look to the Finns in the Winter War for an example of that.)

The information I found (mostly Wikipedia) is incomplete and contradictory. As there is a lot of fraudulent anti-Holocaust, anti-Jew publications on the topic, it is hard for me to get a sense of who knew what when.

Also, the German mass murders includes several million non-Jewish Slavs in Ukraine. If the Holocaust deaths help explain why the Jews in Warsaw fought back the way they did, is the Slavic response any different, and if so, why?

This lack of comparison data, when it seems like it should be both relevant and available, is why I don't regard this piece in the WaPa to be a good historical work.
Digikey has a pretty good web site for search, start with ARM M0+ and then select for what you want. I picked the 3x3MM QFN package as a selector and got a number of Kinesis parts, here is one that in 100 unit quantities is .50 each. In 10K I'm sure that is under 40 cents.
http://www.digikey.com/product-detail/en/MKL03Z8VFG4/MKL03Z8...

This particular part 8K flash and 2K RAM. Now the M0+ is better for these low end parts because it has the Thumb instruction set which gives it better code density than the original M0
Like Borges and I:) http://www.cs.northwestern.edu/~fabianb/borgesandi.html
How is that protecting him if he has a cliff too?
I'm sincerely asking. I'm a total noob when it comes to lawyer stuff and I'm learning everything on the spot right now.

In fact, I'm not signing anything until my lawyer approves.
Curtain Antenna
This is similar to the Moravec Transfer [1], a proposed method of (slowly) transitioning to a non-biological brain. Indeed the whole concept of "the self" is important to maintain, even if it is to some degree an illusion.

1. http://everything2.com/title/Moravec+Transfer
In two different time zones.
Unsure where the OP lives, but I know that Vermont doesn't have billboards. I've always wondered how they got around the 1st Amendment.
> this type of deal will entrench the VWs of the world and the "much-loved" Teslas will be squeezed out by entrenched corporate-sponsors with deep pockets

Why? It seems to be the opposite. The insane level of senseless regulations in EU countries is often the reason why medium and especially small american companies don't even bother going there. Have you, for example, tried accepting payments from EU customers as a small internet business?

Standardized regulation is what first and foremost helps the small business, not the large corporations.
$20B market cap. You could argue it should be $10B, but 'dubious hit' for an early stage investor is ridiculous.
Future is the matrix. Animation CPU said, that text is form, all user manipulations will be in native form - voice, touch, think, where text is local case.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubNfWarTawI - how UI replication will be used in the matrix

http://acpul.tumblr.com/
Why do you value attention at $0?
It looks lovely, installed and worked pretty well at importing my 16GB local library. It does seem like it's a very alpha stage though. I've come across about 10 UI bugs, none of them fatal though. The most powerful bit of it - the torrent search worked well. A search for a fairly unknown song 'White Keys Chilly Gonzales' returned one link that played the song I expected in its entirety. 'White Keys' brings back a list of 'Another Way To Die' by Jack White and Alicia Keys which seems a reasonably expected result.
There's a Unicode cost to Korea's writing system: it needs 11,172 codepoints to represent. This is because there are 19 mandatory leading consonants, 21 mandatory vowels, and 27 optional trailing consonants, giving a total of 19 x 21 x 28 possible syllable blocks, which are then generated by formula into range U+AC00 to U+D7A3 to comply with Unicode's policy that only the components of horizontal text be encoded, and any components built otherwise, e.g. Korean's square structure, be represented compositely.
I live in a capital city with only one billboard. The cancel has a firm policy against any visual pollution. On one hand I hate that graffiti rarely lasts more than 24 hrs anywhere in this town. On the other, the lack of advertising is really nice. Once I saw a mcdeath logo go up on the back of a traffic sign so I called it in and it was gone the next day.
> We all find our own solutions to the problem death poses.

No! No body does this. People make up excuses. People spin death to be a positive, often under some guise of Deep Wisdom. People come up with all sorts of ways to cope with death, but calling any of them a solution is just false. Death is a vile, atrocious thing, the biggest enemy humanity has.

We don't say that slaves all found solutions to slavery. Or that everyone finds solutions to domestic abuse. Or solutions to dementia or Alzheimer's. Death is a far greater evil.[1] So how disgusting is it to say everyone finds a solution.

I admit the author probably didn't intend to imply this, but it's exactly that kind of thinking that we should be aware of and fight. Just because it seems inevitable, we should not make it socially acceptable to give up and view death as anything but the wickedness it is.

1: Yes there are atrocities worse than death, but many of those involve death, or are worse because of the limited timespans caused by death. Apart from having your mind destroyed, I'm guessing most things would be healed by rather long periods of time, than sufferers would prefer a period of suffering+long OK life, vs suffering+death.
Notes from Creating a New Product
While I agree with the bulk of what you said, I do think it's important to understand that the difference with the Open Science Collaboration isn't really what you said. In my opinion it may be worse.

Being a (somewhat disillusioned) economist, I've read some of these papers but certainly not all of them. What I can tell you is that there isn't an "experiment" to replicate. These papers seem to be mostly or entirely computational macroeconomics and econometrics. In stuff like this, they design a model (a simple example is the real business cycle model), pump random data into it and see how different changes effect the model (i.e. the relationship between the volatility of unemployment with the volatility of output) and do those relationships match what we see in the data?

The replication as you define it (and I agree with the definition), should be pumping new random data into the model and still yielding the same results. However, it still leaves a few big issues. Such as, are these relationships really in the data? Because some of those relationships change depending on the time frame. So it the results may actually explain what occurred, but they shouldn't be used to explain what will occur later.

For reproduction and re-analysis, for this research, they probably need to go together. If we've defined a mathematical model, then it should be possible to program that model across platforms and software and still yield consistent results with different sources of random input data. And for verification, I think this is really important. Because I know I've messed up my programs before and gotten completely reasonable output that turned out to be incorrect. The authors didn't exactly describe how much they verified the programs were doing what they were supposed to do.

Honestly, I don't know that I can make myself care too much about the output results from the model until we can agree on what things are important for the model to show in the past, present, and future. And in academic economics, these important characteristics are almost canon and untouchable.