skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He had opinion pieces by Andrew Orlowski published in The Guardian, I think that says everything you need to know :-)
Maybe I misunderstand, but your definition of free will seemed to me to be a tautological "free will is the freedom to choose among possible alternatives."

To my reading, you did not address what it actually means to choose, which implies some kind of unmoored Cartesian ego selecting one alternative or another.

> And "not a will"? Oh, come on! What is your definition of will? Something that has no causation? Of course our will is caused, by instincts based on natural needs: food, sex, group bonds, in the aspiration to dignity, improvement and solidarity.

Quite the opposite: that what we experience as will is actually an after-the-fact event that occurs after a decision is already made in the brain as a consequence of how it synthesizes different instincts and stimuli.

Anytime you think to yourself "I'm going to do this", that decision was already made before you were even aware of it.

> We're not free in a vacuum, but free to decide what means lead more effectively to goals and a personality that are given to us.

What does that mean? Do you have any evidence that, given the same circumstances, I could have chosen to do something differently? Or it is just a bunch of hypothetical navel-gazing?

The Stanford encyclopedia link is a great read.
I like the idea of it being a mindset

I guess by complacency/ability I mean instead of working to create a solution to a problem, offloading the problem to someone else or just suffering with it.
Georgia's state employment laws don't override federal laws in regards to labor. The clause in question isn't like the no-compete clauses seen in employment contracts since those clauses don't technically impede your right to work (or not). It's probably why the clause the bank has language that says they'll call upon you if it doesn't impede your current employment since this would go against other firms which would put them in a situation where they may or may not see a big firm (possibly as big as them) taking them to court for such interference in their employee's obligations(A slave cannot have two masters as it were).
> It doesn't matter. They threatened him with it. They didn't threaten this DEA goon with it.

Even if that's true (for which no evidence is presented), the DEA agent, being a federal law enforcement professional, probably understands federal sentencing, so probably wouldn't be susceptible to threats that can only work on someone who doesn't understand that.

> His union lawyers or whatever made sure of it.

I am sure that any competent criminal defense lawyer makes both the theoretical maximum and the likely real sentences clear to their clients, yes. That's actually a good thing, I would say. Not, of course, that information on this is particularly hard to find even for reasonably intelligent laypersons with access to public information.
Is $30 statistically significant? Depending on the keyword, this could bring only 10 people to your website.
I'm not 100% sure it means people are doing less searching in general, though. I still search a lot with my phone, but rarely using Google. Instead I search Yelp for businesses, search Twitter for news, search Facebook for people. I think it's more about a move in behavior to being more app-centric.
New podcast featuring stories about Startup Acquisitions that went well
Every download tool wants to become a browser.
Yeah I don't think I'm backpedalling. I'm actually starting to question your sanity, but I guess we'll have to disagree.
I have been using T3 http://t3js.org/ very small and very easy.
What do you think about Manticore? I'm curious.
Video games aren't about power – they're about agency
I'd be very interested in bug numbers for those.

Not challenging, I use [open|libre] a lot for writing course guides and presentations and I'm sending other people stacks of .odt/.odp stuff and they are getting interested in being able to edit the material.
Microsoft is breaking the really old and nasty stuff anyway, so it's not that big of a deal.

Also, whose office suite is "better" doesn't matter. Can the software meet the task? Thats it... nobody cares if a government worker like Excel.

Exploring this stuff is automatically a cost-savings activity, because Microsoft will run around like chickens to save the business. You may end up getting significant concessions on Office just for asking the question.
Interesting. I just uninstalled Facebook on Android because I noticed it was using ~5% of my battery. I literally never open the app ... so why was it using battery?!?

I figured it was just polling background data in a way that allowed Android to track it ... but maybe it was something more like this?
Sure but GWT == writing Java, downloading an heavy an complex SDK , and writing imperative UIs. Sure it comes with widgets but you can find the same widgets in JS.

Compare with React,AngularJS and co : way more popular,declarative UIs , if you need static typing you can use Typescript which needs no heavy runtime.

GWT might make sense for some LOB app for desktop but not for a mobile webpage.
> Where's the evidence that small amounts of alcohol are harmful?

>we know alcohol is harmful, but we don't know what a safe limit is, so we set a limit of zero.

Literally that right there. It's not like we can test on humans to find what the safe amount is, that's highly unethical, highly illegal, and will never be done. The safe amount is zero, or as close to zero as you can get. It shouldn't cause any guilt or stress on the mother: it's not impossible or even difficult to completely abstain from alcohol for nine months unless you're an alcoholic, and if you're an alcoholic, you're not going to have "a small glass of wine every so often". There's actually negative societal pressure for pregnant women drinking.

What would cause more stress and guilt? Not drinking while pregnant, or drinking some amount and then wondering if your child will be born with some birth defect because of it? Or wondering if your child's birth defect was caused by your drinking? The safe bet is just to not drink, to not smoke, to not abuse drugs.

I honestly never thought I would be seeing a discussion about how it's not fair to ask pregnant women to abstain from alcohol.
Amazon Spars with NYT over article
It depends, did your stomach rupture in an Alienesque scene? If so it might be specifically related to the quantity.

Did you see increased cancer incidence (granted that would be a longer study)? You might have been eating apples treated with daminozide (aka Alar, out of use in the US since 1989 but likely caused a number of cancers before then). Your larger doses exposed a rare but real effect.

The "Alar Scare" is a good example of elevated dose testing. It possibly does cause cancer, but the extreme elevated doses at which it was tested in the '80s probably exaggerated the effect.
Exactly my point, and why there is no such thing as "true Agile" or a true Scotsman argument to be made.

And yes, I agree that the term Agile is largely meaningless at this point. Partly because nobody knows what it means, and partly because it's so ubiquitous there's no point calling it out on its own anymore.
S3 support is built into Apache Hadoop [1]. Azure Blob Storage & OpenStack Swift are also included (see Hadoop Compatible File Systems section in the left sidebar). A properly provisioned NameNode can support hundreds of millions of blocks. Like any high performance system, it won't do this out of the box and does require some tuning based on your use case.

[1] http://hadoop.apache.org/docs/current/hadoop-aws/tools/hadoo...
> In this case, the GP probably believes, albeit incorrectly, that the media reports about the sentence Swartz was likely to recieve were correct.

I don't think there were any media reports claiming that Swartz was likely to receive anything like the max sentence, only that it was the maximum allowed in the law.

Unsophisticated readers may have falsely concluded that Swartz was likely to receive that sentence, but that's not what any of the media reports I saw said.

> Remember that the 50 year figure was widely reported at the time, often by sources that seemed reliable.

None of the media reports I saw that presented the figure -- as an "up to" figure, invariably -- did so inaccurately, or claimed it was a likely sentence rather than the most extreme theoretically available for the offenses for which he was charged.
Yeah, searching on a mobile keyboard is a pain. Hence the huge push to intelligent agents (Siri, Now, Cortana).

We're currently in the unfortunate position to be using mobile devices heavily but not yet having decent intelligent agents.

If you believe @swardley (which in my entirely unqualified way I'm inclined to) this will be a huge battlefield over the next 20 years or so:

https://twitter.com/swardley/status/641206424840896512
You have to study the failure and the mechanism that leads to it. Then hopefully you can tell which sort you have.
How do you verify control of a domain? Their current mechanisms verify control of a _host_ pointed to by a hostname, not of a domain. They'd need different mechanisms to verify control of a domain.

If you control the domain `example.com`, sure. if you just control the single host that `example.com` points to, that doesn't neccesarily mean you control the domain, and in fact DNS contortions are needed to even have example.com point to a host.
> If I'm right, this example shows that placing such traps can have an impact on the people living there.

Definitely not the first time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agloe,_New_York
Upon reading the article, you seem to be correct.
Should I use Dart?
This reminds me of http://codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/50299/draw-an-im.... There were some great, rather creative results: in particular, using weighted poisson disc sampling or fuzzy k-means returned some really nice images.
http://wheelmap.org/, a map for wheelchair accessible places builds on OSM.
If they care so much about search volume, why do they make me fill out CAPTCHAs whenever I try to do multiple search queries in a short period of time?
How will this impact the time table to reach the googleplex singularity godhead?

...

Or maybe after all they're just some guys who made a profitable search at exactly the right time, then pigged out on an IPO?
Vim works well enough for me. I got merlin-mode, ocp-indent and syntax checker to work in vim but not REPL.
It's up and running now -- J. C. Jones gave a reference to search the log via a web interface.

https://crt.sh/?caid=7395

If you want to dive in more, you can get this data in other formats too.
I'm not sure we disagree that much. However...

The point I'm trying to make it that the cost is not the only part of the equation and that we must also account for reward and control.

Cost/reward
When the female birth control pill became available the cost/value was weighted very heavily against the woman and female control was much more essential. However today the cost/value is more evenly weighted. Back then a man could deny everything and move on leaving the woman with the baby and a ruined life. Now the man can't deny everything and as a minimum will be committed to child maintenance but he may still be denied access to the child. So the situation now is: woman high cost coupled with high reward; man moderate cost and potential reward controlled by the woman.

Control
Let's assume that both parties decide for themselves based on their own cost/reward situation. Let's assume that they don't always inform the other of the their decision honestly. Neither is perfect judge of character.

Current situation
Scenario 1: Man wants child. Woman does not. Woman controls outcome. No child.
Scenario 2: Man doesn't want child. Woman does. Woman controls outcome. Child.
Scenario 3: Both want child. Child.
Scenario 4: Neither want child. No child.

Situation with male birth control
Scenario 1: Man wants child. Woman does not. Woman controls outcome. No child.
Scenario 2: Man doesn't want child. Woman does. Man controls outcome. No child.
Scenario 3: Both want child. Child.
Scenario 4: Neither want child. No child.

P.S.
Personally I think that the pill was one of the greatest drivers of women starting to have rights on a par with men (I'm not saying that 2015s western world is perfect gender equality wise but it is a lot better than the 1950s western world was).

P.P.S.
I just think that men should if possible have the option to control their reproductive function and that it does not matter whether woman trusts the man -- the man's control does not affect the woman's control (except in the scenario that the woman is a deceptive actor - NB that the inverse situation where the man is a deceptive actor is already under the woman's control).
I had a breakthrough in college when I started staying at the library until it closed at midnight. Before that, I would stay until 6 or 7 and then get a little tired and go home to rest. I would end up getting distracted by my friends. I realized I should just sleep in the library instead. I started doing much better in classes that were kicking my ass.

The goal is to avoid distraction and put systems in place to avoid them. I was a classical studies major so disconnecting from distractions was pretty easy, but if you have to do work on your computer you should consider other systems to avoid distraction.
I just found out about orgmode and use that on a text file in sublime using this plugin https://github.com/danielmagnussons/orgmode
My objection is you imply that only un-educated and influenceable people use heroin, and that they wouldn't with better packaging. Drugs in the same family are abused by people of all walks of life, in large part starting with prescription use!
I've seen an article online where an "off-grid" home powered by solar re-purposes a chest freezer into a fridge for the very reason you state.

http://newlifeonahomestead.com/convert-chest-freezer-to-frid...
They see SQL rollin', they hatin'
A Decade of Home Price Changes in NYC Reveals a Very Divided City
Also, it may just be an indication that Google Now is doing its job.
> In a sign of wariness among pre-IPO investors, an analysis of funding rounds by law firm Fenwick & West LLP in March found that 30% of private companies valued at $1 billion or more promised a specified IPO price. In some cases, the companies agreed to give additional equity to investors if the IPO price wasn’t met.

This is not necessarily a "sign of wariness." The investors are just doing what reasonably sophisticated investors do: protecting against downside risk. As long as the companies they've invested in can get out to market, the investors really can't lose. The companies themselves and other shareholders lose.

> Dropbox received the $10 billion-valuation offer from BlackRock after just two days of investor meetings, said a person familiar with the fundraising.

The company and its valuation don't matter. The terms of the deal do. You can make enormous profits investing in bad companies if you negotiate great terms.

If BlackRock structured its investment well, which it almost certainly did, Dropbox could go public with a $5 billion valuation and BlackRock would still achieve the desired return.

As I wrote in a previous comment, it's kind of amusing that so many in Silicon Valley rail against Wall Street and "financial engineering" when the biggest "winners" of this tech boom are products of Wall Street and "financial engineering."[1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10403067
Email is such a broken system. It's unacceptably hard to get a message from one machine to another and have it not marked as spam.

Furthermore I can't stand when I have to setup all of my accounts across the multitude of devices that I own. Way too many settings to configure regarding ports, domain names, encryption techniques, folder mappings, etc.

Don't get me wrong, I'm super impressed that email has managed to continue to be an essential tool in many people's day to day workflow despite being old enough to be found in a museum. But it's time for a change, and for us to put all we've learned about encryption, data serialization, and user workflow out on the table to design a better future for the universal method of digital asynchronous threaded communication.

And if we've learned anything from Google Wave and friends, these changes have to make sense, and not stray too far from what we're already familiar with and know that works.

Anyone want to weigh in?
It's a trap topic. Anyone submitting it gets flagged as karma-seeker. Anyone whining about it in comments also gets flagged in the system. What the moderators do with that data is classified.
And yet this BI platform shares the same limitation as Excel. It uses Excel WebApp hosted as SharePoint WebPart/"App". The Excel row and column limits are also true for BI. If you want to show millions of data entries, better choose a more mature BI platform.

On the one side companies want to ged rid of their Excel data silos with many unverified formulas, on the other side some choose a BI platform based on Excel (data is loaded from MSSQL DB).
Goodbye CoffeeScript, Hello TypeScript
London startup Conversocial raises $11m
A Google employee lives in a truck in the parking lot
Benchmark’s Venture Capitalist Gurley: ‘Private Valuations Are Fake’
Angular 2 Keynote slides at AngularConnect conf
Poll: Which company would you like to work for?
If given a free choice and visa and such were not a problem then which of these would you work for?
AT&T
Comcast
Verizon
> And as of Friday, at least 11 of 49 venture-capital-backed U.S. technology companies with IPOs since the start of 2014 traded below the per-share value where they last raised money as a private company, an analysis of stock-sale documents by The Wall Street Journal shows.

Here's why I think this matters. Previously tech companies, Microsoft being the prime example, paid employee's a fair market wage but then gave options or restricted stock as well. The rising stock price acted as a sort of bonus to employee's.

With companies now spending more time private and getting more of their gains as private companies, what's happening is that private equity and vc companies are now capturing more of those gains that the public would.

Employee's are also the one's holding the bag here. With their lockout periods after going public they are the most exposed to busted IPO's.

One other worrying trend is that investment banks are no longer backstopping the IPO's they shop. If you remember the Facebook IPO, there was a lot of buying at the ipo price from the book runners to ensure that facebook didn't drop below that price. The last few tech ipo's had no such support and happily "broke", or traded below their initial offering price.
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And many other Lisps like Franz and AKCL/GCL.
I've only tested Meteor briefly, but there is a pretty large initial download by default[1]. However, there are solutions using community libraries for pre-rendering and also hosting static assets to a CDN.

[1] https://forums.meteor.com/t/first-visit-loads-are-ridiculous...
Just noticed OSM has overhead power lines on their maps. A quick search reveals GM either doesn't have that data or doesn't have any way of displaying it. +1 for OSM in my book.
If you're doing TLS solely with your own app, this is often described as a best practice -- avoiding exposure to the public PKI entirely.

Personally, I'm typing this post into a web site using a web browser, so I appreciate that it has a certificate that my browser can validate!
This is largely what I'm trying to avoid. Looking at the Hadoop toolchain raises more than a few alarm bells, but I don't want to dismiss it too quickly since a lot of people have clearly invested a lot of time into it.
Government takes family's land near Area 51
The idea expressed in the title is a kind of hell. Think how hard it would be for all of us if we were obligated to maintain every app past the lifetime of its creators.

Software dies. Maybe there will be some OS code that runs for a hundred years. But I think every application is going to die that doesn't have some cult like group of fans who maintain it, probably mostly for sentimental reasons.
We've seen these countless times before. Trying to recreate native UI in web technologies is a lost cause in my book.

I think what you've got here for an OS X implementation is pretty good, but I can still tell that it isn't really native, and if an OS update changes anything in regard to the standard UI components forget about it.

Why not design and develop your own UI? That way you can control how it is supposed to work given the drawbacks and advantages of web technologies and not have to ask the user for forgiveness of minor quirks in your reimplementation.
Building with ReactJs: Part 2: Components and React Philosophy
Was Slack just lucky?
Do you think you have gotten brand awareness from Google ads? I think I have (freelancer sites, for example).
I hate typing on the cell but Swiftkey is really good...
In choosing between presentation freedom and a sane GUI programming model, I'd choose the later, especially given that the 'presentation freedom' is problematic when I want my desktop to have a common UI theme. Take into account that modern GUI toolkits actually provide presentation freedom similar to the web without having to do without native widgets, I don't see why anyone would prefer web GUIs from a programming perspective.
On a small scale, guns allow your LEO to enforce the law of the land. The individual is not in a position to fight against the state and that's a good thing so long as the majority of the population is content and willing. However, if the majority of the population wishes to enact a new government - they'll need to have more power than the government. Rest assured - the government will fight back to remain in power. This is where the importance of an armed population comes from.

This justification is how the U.S argued for its independence - the "Right of Revolution" [0]. Which has since been codified as illegal in US law [1] yet remains protected under many state constitutions [2]. I'm not sure how the conflict is resolved.

On a larger scale - look at your countries' history - look at your current influence on the world - look at how many military bases you have around various points in the world. Your country has the largest military spending in the world by a large amount [3].

The U.S of A is the living, breathing definition of "might makes right". It won its independence by might-makes-right. It became a global superpower by might-makes-right. It enacts treaties and forces embargoes because might-makes-right. It aids in overthrowing foreign governments to prop up agreeable leaders for their own benefit - and they can do this because might-makes-right.

Rest assured that "might makes right" is how things are done to this day. It's just that nobody tries to overpower the USA, so you don't notice it as often as the countries the USA plows through.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_of_revolution

[1] https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2385

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_of_revolution#Examples_a...

[3] http://pgpf.org/Chart-Archive/0053_defense-comparison