skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>there's no reason you couldn't construct a system where everybody helps everybody else defend their property simply in terms of "mutual aid".

Are there penalties for not providing this "mutual aid"? If so, you're just describing a highly localised tax system.

EDIT: And if not, I think you might find your system struggles in the presence of noticeable inequality. (Why should we protect the rich guy's stuff?)

> Taxation is not an inherent property of all systems for defending property.

Of course not, but it is a feature of pretty much all existing such systems.

>In fact, I will continue to argue that taxation is inherently inimical to the idea of property.

I believe a property system will inevitably trend towards inequality over time, because those with more money have more power, and thus greater opportunity to earn more money. Inequality makes the system less efficient at utility generation, because it diverts production towards more marginal utility improvements. In order to avoid this, you need some system of wealth redistribution.
I see lots of threads shitting on the guy for doing it wrong vis-a-vis his configuration whilst ignoring his actual problem: An IP address without a reputation score. I've had the same problem and reached the same conclusion. The address can't just be clean, as in not on a blacklist, but has to essentially already be whitelisted via a "known good" reputation score or mail automatically gets blackholed. How do I get my VPS provider of choice to give me an IP address with a good reputation score?
Man, wish I could use spark at work but it uses a mavenized build that requires open internet access for dependency download. Not worth it when I have to register every dependent jar file by hand in my internal repository.
In what universe is learning to drive a "few" hours? At minimum most courses I know of have 10-20 hours of lecture type instruction.
> Again, UAVs are not computer-flown. They're remotely piloted. They are not completely autonomous (yet.)

This is incorrect. Most popular consumer-level autopilot systems used by companies like DJI and 3D Robotics have complete autonomous functionality (except sense and avoid capability) which allows the user to input a flight path and then watch the drone take off, fly through the checkpoints and then land, completely autonomously.
Certification and also a lot more technology behind figuring out when the position data is inaccurate. Aviation GPS units will run forward looking simulations (for example when flying a GPS landing approach) and figure out that satellites are about to be in a suboptimal position and warn the pilot accordingly.
From a practical perspective that may be true.

Consumer GPS (eg. Phone/Tablet) is typically augmented GPS, whereas certified aviation GPS uses WAAS (Wide Area Augmentation System) to improve accuracy.

The key difference is that aviation GPS will warn the pilot if there is degraded performance below requirements, whereas consumer GPS doesn't.
Ditto. Augmenting my code with schema has also been a life saver in terms of documenting the input and output types of functions (e.g. complex, deeply-nested maps) so I can return to code months later and understand what's going on.
Public school at Tippecanoe County (home of Purdue University), Indiana, USA. The math program was actually pretty good, along with the arts, and a few other areas. It definitely helped to be in a University City area. We got lab equipment from Purdue for a variety of science classes and some great teachers.
Land, Capital, Attention: This Time It Is the Same
but tiny toy battery-operated "drones" typically fly at much lower altitude then any jet engine would be flying at... while some birds fly at much higher altitudes then toy quadcopters...
weakdh can be mitigated client side. The website[0] itself has a test for it, which works by requesting this file[1].

[0]: https://weakdh.org/

[1]: https://dhe512.zmap.io/dhe512test.js
The article cites an academic book, Policing America’s Empire: The United States, the Philippines, and the Rise of the Surveillance State, (https://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780299234133) by professor Alfred W. McCoy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_W._McCoy)

Taft was governor of the Philippines, and later Secretary of War, during the Philippine-American War.

According to Alfred McCoy (http://www.tomdispatch.com/blog/175724/):

"Starting in 1901, the first U.S. governor-general (and future president) William Howard Taft drafted draconian sedition legislation for the islands and established a 5,000-man strong Philippines Constabulary. In the process, he created a colonial surveillance state that ruled, in part, thanks to the agile control of information, releasing damning data about enemies while suppressing scandals about allies.

When the Associated Press’s Manila bureau chief reported critically on these policies, Taft’s allies dug up dirt on this would-be critic and dished it out to the New York press. On the other hand, the Division of Military Information compiled a scandalous report about the rising Filipino politician Manuel Quezon, alleging a premarital abortion by his future first lady. Quezon, however, served the Constabulary as a spy, so this document remained buried in U.S. files, assuring his unchecked ascent to become the first president of the Philippines in 1935."
Religion/believes although important should not be mixed with business otherwise it creates tension and breeds hatred. An example is what happened in KY with that woman clerk.

So if a VC/Angel tweets bad things about your religion then you should seek alternative funding for whatever you are doing. Because it will never work even if you pretend those bad tweets didn't matter.
I built something like this back in the day. It looks like it's lacking a weighing mechanism. This (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subjective_logic) is a good formalized framework to use for that, if the authors are here reading along.
>But, what you really don't seem to be getting is that they do have a responsibility not to harm us. That's why there is a legal cause of action known as "tortious interference". I sincerely don't know how to make that point any clearer. Perhaps researching that term a bit might help.

Yes, yes, reading up on that is probably a good idea. I am not a lawyer... but in the case of a mail-filtering company blocking emails that their customers have asked them to block, they are harming the senders of those mails. That is a direct result of what their customers are paying them to do.

Or ad-block programs- really, it's exactly the same thing; what the ad-blocker does for the user does harm the advertisers. There's many, many places in the free market where helping one side of a transaction hurts the other.

That probably means that "tortious interference" is more complex than you are making it out to be. There are a lot of situations where helping one party necessarily hurts another, and helping one party over the other is generally not illegal.
Y Combinator made it into FontAwesome
"Yes, they are. These services are known as prisons"

Nice attempt to shift the goal posts, but I'm not going to bite.

We're talking about welfare reform, not prison reform.
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10402943
You Twit Face tells Android users to build your own damn app :-)
> Do perfectly rational highly intelligent agents argue [...]?

They agree, and do so quickly. See http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=2410 for an explanation of Aumann’s Agreement Theorem.
They argue, but they agree surely and quickly. (See "Are Disagreements Honest?" https://mason.gmu.edu/~rhanson/deceive.pdf)
But most dynamic languages have types. PHP ,Ruby,Python and even JavaScript have types.
The Uses of Orphans
I use a private email provider (privateemail.com, via Namecheap), which doesn't seem to stop others receiving my emails, but sites sometimes have trouble emailing me, oddly enough.

Though that might just be because I have a 6-character domain (ajf.me).
> IMO diesels suck to drive

Have you driven a new one in the last 5ish years?

Driving anything coming out of Germany that is less than 5 years old is a massive improvement over a gasoline car. Sit on 70mph, uphill, still in top gear doing low rpm and you can easily accelerate past all the gas cars that are dropping down gears, revving through the roof and slowing down.

Off the line, you are pushed back in your seat right off idle, rather than waiting until you're up above 3k rpm in a gasoline car.
Not to be all Winnebago Man here, but all the code in Urbit (protocols and language alike) can be replaced and enhanced, except Nock. In fact, the normal way to drive this process is just by merging the new version of the code. It's certainly true, however, that you don't want locked-down components.

Urbit is very happy to be an HTTP client and server. (Alas, HTTP has become the "everything protocol.") It also has its own network protocol, which it prefers for conversations between urbits.

The unreliability of network packet delivery (or more exactly, the unreasonable effectiveness of unreliable networking) is basically the greatest technical idea of the 20th century as far as I'm concerned.

There is actually a significant difference between processing unordered, unreliable packet streams, and ordered, reliable, message streams, with the "universal design." Neat thing about packets: you can drop them. If a packet sends the server into an infinite loop? Or at least, a timer detects an infinite loop? Drop the packet. From the network's perspective, the CPU is simply detecting congestion.

You can refuse to process a message, but that's not a stateless and passive operation; you have to return a failure report. But dropping a bad packet is the most wonderful thing in the world. By definition it doesn't change your server's state. It also doesn't leak information to the sender...
I never mentioned hugs.

But if you want examples of men being accused of being pedophiles for being on playgrounds, or similar things check out these:

The first 7 are playgrounds/parks, and the rest are other similar situations.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/xhwt8/i_just_saw...

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/xhwt8/i_just_saw...

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/xhwt8/i_just_saw...

https://www.reddit.com/r/MensRights/comments/2ayvaf/kicked_o...

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskMen/comments/24npnm/men_in_what_...

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskMen/comments/24npnm/men_in_what_...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QaV4saiEHkQ

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/xhwt8/i_just_saw...

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/xhwt8/i_just_saw...

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/xhwt8/i_just_saw...

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/xhwt8/i_just_saw...

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskMen/comments/24npnm/men_in_what_...

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/xhwt8/i_just_saw...

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskMen/comments/24npnm/men_in_what_...

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/xhwt8/i_just_saw...

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/xhwt8/i_just_saw...

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/xhwt8/i_just_saw...

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/xhwt8/i_just_saw...

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/xhwt8/i_just_saw...

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/xhwt8/i_just_saw...

https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2015/05/11/creep-shamed-on-...
If you get the UI right and have reliably automated (even if user-sourced) tools for qualifying statements and disallowing (or rather, marking) logical fallacies, the users can educate themselves.

I've played around with UI ideas in the past. I think you need a nested structure, which can ideally be generated by the users (but would need to conform to the basic rules of logic [to whatever extent it has been defined]). Any argument will be in some knowledge domain, until you get to some "ultimate high level domain" (which probably doesn't exist -- not sure how you'd represent this in the UI; probably just the superset of all your as-yet-undomained arguments), so the nesting of domains should be reflected in the interface.

I think the UI problem is related to the data modeling problem. In my view, it seems like the UI should directly expose the data model. If that is the case, then the question is, "What is the right data model?".

For that, I think it's primarily directed graphs showing the relationship between the arguments. Of course there is more needed, as you'd need to annotate the arguments with various meta-arguments (eg. argument's conclusion is assumed as premise).

I do agree that one can probably come up with solutions for handling subjective arguments relatively well, I just think it might be difficult to come to a "this will handle all cases" solution. If someone says a particular argument is fallacious, why should we believe them? What happens when your database gets spammed with tons of bogus info? How do you make sure it stays out (or at least, can somehow be "excluded" from what you normally see)?
I suspect we'll see an explosion in popularity of "drones" that are just small enough to to avoid these regulations.
Siberite: A Simple LevelDB-Backed Message Queue in Go
He was overseeing America's counterinsurgency operations in the Phillipines. Of course there was blackmail involved.

MacArthur declared martial law and implemented General Order 100, a
Civil War-era directive on the law of war that, among other tough
provisions, subjected combatants not in uniform, and their supporters,
to execution. This program forced civilians to take sides and served
to increasingly isolate guerillas from popular support.

The United States employed collective punishments that involved
families and communities.22 Municipal officials or principales were
held responsible for events that occurred in their towns. Prisoners
were held until they—or family or friends—provided information,
weapons, or both. Crops, buildings, and other property could be
confiscated or destroyed as punishment. General Order 100 lifted some
restrictions on courts, resulting in more prisoners being executed.

When General Order 100 was implemented, it was proclaimed in English,
Spanish, and Tagalog. It clarified that civic works were a secondary
priority to “punitive measures against those who continued to
resist.”29 Over time, information operations convinced an increasing
number of Filipinos that their interests were best served by the
American administration and not the principales

The weapon collection policy also merits a mention. When implemented
in 1899, a 30-peso bounty was initially a dismal failure, with only a
few dozen weapons turned in nationwide. By 1901, when coupled with
other successful pacification policies, it was common for hundreds of
rifles to be surrendered by disbanding insurgent groups. The lesson is
that any given tactic, technique, or procedure employed in isolation
may fail, but as part of a comprehensive mix of carrots and sticks can
be part of an effective program.
That was a useful animation: it made me realise that I didn't really know how a clock worked; I only had a fuzzy -and wrong- understanding of how the the parts worked together.

Good use of visualisation and animation is an extremely powerful tool for triggering that aha! moment.
Who are the radical academics today?
> Notice how this is neither a commendation nor an exoneration, attempted or otherwise. Love him or hate him, you have to admit that Bill Clinton knew exactly what he was saying at any given moment, and what those words meant.

What those words mean is...precisely nothing. So typical of Clinton. Personal opinion, but I think way less of him for saying it that way than a statement which is at least delicately tilted one way. The simple addition of a positive adjective like 'long' or 'great' might have done that.
And they say we don't live in a Police state.
Some people engage themselves in critical thinking, and thus discover some creative alternatives between the extremes of outright communism and an unfettered capitalism that routinely produces soul-crushing poverty.
I do respect other people, I am HUMAN first of all and pray for all people to find the right path. But can not respect people who do not respect their selfs. Although I do respect people who thinks they came from monkeys, it becomes very funny when they claim other people ANIMAL and their self HUMANs.
Its about certified accuracy. The UBlox or similar module could drift under certain conditions.

From a practical point of view, knowing where the RPV is within a 100 meters would be more than enough.

The $2000+ GPS is certified to provide position under Instrument Flight Rules for an RNAV (Required NAVigation performance) approach and landing. Not required for a RPV flown under 400ft visually.
I don't think a good argument can be made for Celsius. Like Fahrenheit, Celsius exists as a measure of temperatures within the typical experience of humans. There is one primary use of such a scale, and that is measurement of air temperature (weather, indoor temperature). A distant secondary use is in cooking.

Faherenheit's 0-100 range is basically a close match for the extremes in weather temperature experienced by typical human beings. Celsius is not even close. Additionally, Fahrenheit's scale has roughly twice the resolution of Celsius, and humans are good at distinguishing this precision. Unit precision is also helpful for body temperature.

Regarding the distant secondary use: obviously Celsius's range matches freezing and boiling: but because water's phase change is consistent and obvious at these temperatures (modulo altitude), cooking rarely involves measuring temperatures in this range except for unusual cases like candy. Celsius has no advantage at all for the primary use of temperature in cooking: baking.
Unfortunately engaging users in a campaign to encourage their providers to sort it out is a bit of a quagmire. Meantime, our business suffers.

It's a good thought. Just wish it were simpler to pull off.
This is great advice. Especially in a time where people from varied backgrounds are scrambling to learn software development, it is critical to stay focused on what matters to avoid getting bogged down. So, for anyone getting bogged down, just get back to handling your CSS and learning your JavaScript fundamentals along with one framework.
Dragooning Google into the fight to defend fair-use may be a smart tactical move for the EFF, but that should not impinge on the objective question of whether the Google Books settlement was legal. The privacy and censorship concerns they raised seem orthogonal to the settlement itself, as the concerns would remain whether the settlement was accepted or (as was the case) rejected (e.g. Amazon removing Kindle books from users' libraries).

Why wouldn't the Authors' Guild be willing to offer others the same terms? How would it benefit them to depend on Google? The agreement would have granted a new sort of status to Google, but there is no reason that status would have to remain unique.

Regarding the anti-trust angle, the wiki article cites an MIT paper that concludes the settlement would not violate anti-trust and would in fact generate a consumer surplus. [1]

Forcing Google to fight for fair-use may have been a sound Machiavellian strategy for the EFF (as it resulted in today's ruling), but it's ironic then that the main reason why the settlement was rejected seems to be because it was not strong enough on copyright, as expressed by individual authors' concerns over loss of control, and freeing of orphan works.

[1]: http://www.criterioneconomics.com/Google%20and%20the%20Prope...
I can see the logic in the case of a cut-throat competition. I want to argue that if you find yourself in a business keeping 1% secrets, it might be time to look for other solutions to your problem.
I think for most people, the need for intellectual fulfillment at work is much less important than the need to be needed.
>But can not respect people who do not respect their selfs.

Based on the above comment, if you don't respect a VC/Angel, why would you be interested in taking their money? It seems to me that is the kind of relationship that is doomed from the get go.
ok, so just use an helicopter and load it with some random human and you'll be fine... no restrictions (as long as you don't crash). I'll use this one: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Hughes-269A-Helicopter-/201447206828...
It would be cheaper to do IUDs than tubal ligation for women. There was a bill that proposed this in Arkansas, but it was shot down for being coercive.

I think that the argument from "avoiding coercion" is silly. First, because that isn't what literal coercion means. But moreover, At federal minimum wage, that money only takes 350 hours to earn. Over 18 years, thats 20 hours a year. If someone doesn't value being a parent enough to work an extra 23 minutes a week, then it doesn't seem like that is a right they value particularly highly. Also, there are laws that, taken together, coerce parents into working more than 23 minutes a week to support and care for their children. If we aren't willing to get rid of laws against child neglect, why are we worried about coercion in this case?
NOSQL Patterns
I didn't see anything really interesting in there about concurrency or consensus beyond the naive. What she does talk about is almost a microservices pattern though, and that can be an awesome tool for solving certain kinds of problems. I don't think I agree that it's more useful than other tools across all problems though.
Elementary School in northern California brings standing desks to the classroom
But since women overreport pain, that might be the rational thing to do.

Not doing a proper diagnosis is rational?
"Botnet" almost always refers to compromised computers, that's not what this article talks about.
The article describes a ridiculously ineffective approach of buying a bunch of EC2 instances to run 50(!) copies of spotify each, when you should be able to easily support thousands of instances of spotify running on a single server.

There's no need to do this using a botnet, there's no point in doing this using a botnet... It's utter nonsense. The only reason they talk about one is to make the whole thing sound far more nefarious than it is.

And to reiterate my point once more, nobody ever refers to remotely managing their own computers as a "botnet".
Ask: When building a new app from scratch, should I use Swift 2.0/Objective C?
I'm confused by why criticism of or current ownership model must be bundled up as communism. How about geo-libertarianism? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geolibertarianism
The same applies to {0.05, 0.25, 0.4, 0.25, 0.05} mentioned later: it's proportional to 1 5 8 5 1, which is two rows down from 1 3 3 1.
I thought the DJI Phantom quadcopters do have firmware lockout for certain restricted areas. Most RC flying clubs are committed to being good neighbors and not conflicting with other aircraft.

Part of the issue is that Helicopters do fly quite low, well away from airports, and the DJI Phantom can be flown high enough to be a concern.

Another part of these new regulations is identifying the RPV so that appropriate enforcement or education can occur.

Some people have suggested that DJI Phantom and other RPVs are shipped in "idiot" mode with tight restrictions. Once an operator can show responsible operation, then switch to a less restrictive mode.
ps. I only use windows for games (which is super-important for me. I'm ready to jump entirely to Linux at a moments notice)
Unfortunately, "we will satisfy people's desires by changing their desires" isn't a very attractive pitch.
Source, Lessons from a Successful Counterinsurgency: The Philippines, 1899-1902, by Timothy K. Deady

http://strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/pubs/parameters/Ar...
After learning can not get for sure, money is just a tool. But wanted to learn from other people by hoping to get some advice about alternatives.