skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anecdotal and worthless information but someone might find it interesting.

> he gets the thing, where “the thing” is a hard-to-describe ability to understand that other people are going to go down as many levels to defend their self-consistent values as you will to defend yours.

It think it boils down to anger.

I can't recall what causes it (the basal ganglia if I'm not mistaken); at birth we have "biological firmware" that protects our internal mental state - part of which is our belief system. When our internal state is challenged a flight or fight response is invoked.

Hypothesis 1: this means that the anger or irrational response to a challenge of beliefs could be a biological disposition.

Hypothesis 2: if you still have any semblance of neuroplasticity it might be possible to 'unwire' or 'reflash' this primitive "firmware".

I've been attempting to do this over a few years: killing off that primitive part of my brain by proactively seeking out conversation with intelligent people who are opposed to my beliefs: mostly bigots. I have anecdotal evidence that it might be working (although it can't be quantified or proven in any way) - mostly by observing this flight or fight response in others when I have none.
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Wasn't there some rule to mark old content with the year it was published? So 1993 in this case.
The desirability of paying to reduce pain and interactions with humans to get a job done increases proportional to income. I'm sure we all have been at a point in life (college) where we would read Indian tax code to try and avoid paying that 2500 as well. That changed, and it would continue to change for most people.

I would have other concerns, like privacy, but I doubt their pricing would come in my way. One less person to deal with is at least 3 hours of saved time.
I joined a startup recently and the product was over engineered by a huge amount. I think I could have rewritten it in around a tenth of the code. The result makes it far harder for new devs to get up to speed with the application, and bug fixe take far more effort as there is so much more code to read through.
In general nothing. In specific there is no FDIC for bitcoins so if a MtGox type situation happens then you have no coins.
What people like you who raise this argument forget is that the success of a blockchain is intertwined with the success of whatever currency/reward is granted to the miners who make the blockchain work. So if Bitcoin's blockchain is adopted by banks, then Bitcoin the currency will succeed. And if banks adopt another blockchain, then the currency of that blockchain will succeed.

It is literally impossible to have a functioning decentralized blockchain without a proper reward/currency built on it to incentivize miners to mine on it.
In my experience, it can and has, but a few anecdotes aren't really that meaningful, I guess.
So, it doesn't, but it does say that GCHQ have carte blanche to break encryption at will without warrant, in clause 187 section 423 - which may as well be the same thing, given that they can break far more than they let on, as they've more than likely factorised the most commonly used primes in standard implementations of cryptographic protocols.
"Ability to think probabilistically"

I think that is really powerfull, the ability to think in a Bayesian way, to not label something as one thing or the other but to accept fully, that as things stand now, something can be 70% A and 30% B. This does not even have to collide with objectivist views as the thing is either A or B but, based on all the information you have you can only be 70% sure it is A.

New information may well lead to to a new 20% A, 70% B, 10% something else. I tend to judge people by their ability to do this. Never enter a discussion unwilling to change your mind is one of my mantra's. I'm also fully aware I break it often by the way.

I have often seen two experimental situations with highly overlapping histograms for one parameter and then have a colleague ask: "So where do we draw the line for positive/negative?" I always say: "We don't. We call the sample that is exactly in the middle 50% positive, 50% negative and we have said everything we can about said sample given the 1 dimensional information we have."

What's cool for the Dune fans, this seems to me to be exactly what Bene Geserit witches and mentats do. Ingest proofs, take tiny, tiny hints, combine them in a Bayesian manner, produce a likelihood of truth for a certain hypothesis... Perhaps I'm over-interpreting (and projecting) ;)
I hate to "well actually" you Dan :)

I was informed by a TV license "officer" that provided you detune BBC channels you can still watch commercial channels. In the same way that I am permitted to listen to BBC radio channels (for which no license is required) via a Sky box.

TV licensing have to prove that you're watching on-air BBC broadcasts.
The free online books are enough to get started.

I would like to see larger adoption of Pharo in particular and immersive work environments in general.

In the 1980s I had a Lisp Machine with Smalltalk like visualization tools. As much as I appreciate modern languages and software stacks, I think that we have lost something. Even a good IDE like VisualStudio or IntelliJ have a "batch" processing feel to it: it takes a few seconds to rerun code and execution context is lost.

To some degree Emacs + Clojure is more interactive but the visualization tools are not as good as Pharo's.

I have spent time experimenting with the RTMondrian demos and this video will give me some incentive to write some code experiments. Really cool stuff.
A Social Justice Warrior from Mozilla makes a blog post about a project he doesn't contribute to, in order to comment about tone.

I can't wait until all these people fork the kernel. I bet it'll have literally double the amount of commits from these javascript programmers, finally able to peacefully contribute.
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But where does he end up with the "primitive cultures"?

To me it looks like it was just imaginary concept used as a tool. Once you understand that development of cognitive abilities are related to environment and that they are not necessarily "levels", you can forget the whole idea of "primitive cultures".

This is prime example why one should sometimes "entertain a thought without accepting it".
Hopefully it is because they identified all things t2015_08_25 did in the top post, and they see it a currently under preforming and make a killing by implementing those changes.
I guess the joke is that your logic is logic-free? or maybe where you live, banks, hedge funds, and other large financial institutions use their legal monopoly on violence to force you to pay for them.
Yeah, it's just... awkward.
> as you yourself have said, they could just be evil

This is exactly the opposite of my opinion. Very rarely do people think of themselves as "evil". E.g. I highly doubt Bin Laden thought of himself as an evil man. He probably thought he was doing the Middle East a favor. Same goes for Hitler.

My embarrassment and disappointment is directed towards contemporary society, the decadence of which I find your comment's non-chalance indicative of. And no, you're not as clever as you think you are by distinguishing rationality from emotion as if they were mutually exclusive. That you posit others believe emotions are something to be ashamed of is a straw man. Or better yet, a Straw Vulcan [0] (it looks like temporal covered this topic already).

[0] http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/StrawVulcan
I don't know, I'm not a kernel developer. Whatever error Linus was trying to avoid.
" In 1900, the wealthiest 10 percent pocketed 41 percent of the nation’s income—a number that would only be surpassed in 2010, when the top 10 percent took home 48 percent of the national income. "

Ah, so we are now officially more unequal than during the gilded age. A travesty of the highest order. Remember when people were protesting this in the streets and were hung out to dry by the media and their fellow citizens? Remember when those protesters were smashed by the cops for having the gall to ask for a better deal? That happened in the US, not China or Russia.

"The authors are only the slightest bit sympathetic to Obama. They concede that he operated under conditions not of his own making. But he “was not a transformational president.” He caved to Wall Street in bailing out the banks without demanding any meaningful reform; the Affordable Care Act may have insured millions, but countless others have been forced to pay more because its biggest beneficiaries were insurance and drug companies. And his foreign policy effectively continued to do by stealth what George W. Bush barely kept secret at all: drone strikes, secret wiretaps. Other fundamental problems that began at the start of the 20th century have re-emerged under Obama: racial segregation abetted by a criminal justice system that is the New Jim Crow; anti-immigration nativism, which has hardly been helped by an immigration policy whose only achievement is a record number of deportations. Meanwhile, as of 2012, a woman still made 81 cents for every dollar a man earned."

My sentiments as well.
if the alternative is SJW's watering down the discourse, I'll take thirty more Linuses, thanks.
It's not a trust thing. Microsoft is wheeling and dealing with Azure. So you won't get a deal on O365 or Dynamics anymore, but you can buy Azure credits at a discount.

They are using Azure as a loss leader to get you hooked, then the price goes up. This new SaaS world is kind of like buying cars.
This type of meme simply hurts the quality of politics and pushes us towards the type of highly polarised governance that the US suffers from. Politics should be a nuanced process but that's so much harder when each side holds that the others are simply malicious. An interesting writeup of a Tory meeting the protestors at this year's Conservative party conference brings that home: http://www.conservativehome.com/platform/2015/10/george-gran...
True, but does it have to be? We can throw more land at the problem. I live in the midwest, where we're starting to see the countryside dotted with windmills. If you can generate a terawatt per square mile, how many do you need?
So what numbers do you have to pump it to until you get your money back?
The interesting thing is the formats specified in Andreesen's request: Xbm and Xpm. This was a time before JPEG and GIF (and certainly before PNG).

I have some vague memories of the old days, when compressed images were a novelty, and people were talking about how you had to have special software to view GIF, which was described as this special ultra-high-tech format.

I think the main program people recommended was called GIFConverter, which itself is a telling name because it shows just how much of a new concept compression was that you somehow had to "convert" the image in order to display it. (edit: just checked, and not only is GIFConverter still maintained, but it's now available for iOS as well... didn't expect that)
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Taken from https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/?cmd=p/pop/confirmed_address_...:

"A buyer's Confirmed Address is checked against the credit card billing address maintained by his or her credit card company, or is verified by PayPal"

So if you do change shipping address to match the card holder's, item will be shipped to the legitimate card holder and the whole scheme becomes pointless -- you just bought unwanted item for somebody using their own money and probably get disputed by the buyer, whose order didn't arrive. A more simple way to achieve the same goal would be "take money and disappear", but it's not quite the same as "ATM on Ebay".
Is this really containerization as we know it, like Docker? To me, Android and alike just have a good separation between processes.

This is, of course, the core of linux containers. But I don't need to deploy a system image to run an Android application.
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This entails the ability to change one's mind as in "previously, I would have done this but given the new evidence now I favor that" - something often seen as weakness in politicians.
Our poor and even our middle class struggle to get medical care due to the insane costs. Poor people in Europe don't have that problem. Poor people in Latin America don't have that problem. It doesn't sound like our poor are rich enough.

American exceptionalism is a cult which needs to be liquidated... there is nothing special about despotic distribution of resources.
Opium - really takes the edge off.
I totally agree. I had a Xerox 1108 Lisp Machine in the 1980s and when I hack around in Pharo I get the same happy feeling of being immersed in code, data, and whatever my current work context is.
Greed, lust, and gluttony. Three personality traits our money-focused society selects for.
It's all in how you slice it. Teacher would be far more prevalent, as there are 1.7 million post-secondary teachers in the US.

However, they separate Primary School teacher from just teacher and Primary School teacher still shows up.
Solar star is theoretically capable of about a terawatt on about 4k acres, so that makes the reactor about 15-20 times as efficient. Still a huge difference, but don't hype the numbers too much.
That's another problem. Maybe adult people shouldn't have role models that they blindly copy in every way.
And we can see your net contributions to the kernel source tree as an example of the environment you choose to work in.

but thank you for telling us your opinion anyway.
Thanks. I'm a few paragraphs in. Yeah, the poem is powerful because Moloch is not only a stereotyped evil other. ("The capitalists.") We are Moloch. "Moloch whose name is the Mind!" Speaking personally and unprofessionally, I feel a grand loss of innocence from the time when as a dorky kid when I wrote Emacs Lisp macros for fun. I don't blame others, I don't blame "capitalism," I don't blame teh evil bankers. I simply want money so that I won't need money so that I'll be "free," just like everyone wants this. I do appreciate what David has been saying for years.
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Marc Andreessen proposal was simple and his Mosaic with inline image support had been release first. Good. Otherwise it would be called ICON instead of IMG or be part of an overly complicated A-tag. It also explains the nuance between the HREF (A-tag) and SRC (IMG-tag) attributes.
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In the next message is this gem:

> I was proposing to use the file extension (.xbm above) to tag what format the
image was in, but with the intention that in future, when HTTP2 comes along,
the same format negotiation technique would be used to access images.
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Bitcoin will not see anything near "sustainable" until it stops being the victim of speculation.
It's called "cognitive dissonance".

If someone passionately disagrees with you, accusing him of cognitive dissonance works always. So you can assume high ground by being right and being capable of seeing the motivations of the other party. (Or it might be that your opponent actually passionately disagrees. But lets not talk about that.)
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"Since we began using this program instead of Mergenthaler’s
formatter, most of our “hardware” problems have disappeared.

...

There is also a memory diagnostic sufficiently better than
Mergenthaler’s that the repairman asked for a private copy (which we
provided, on paper tape)."

Reading this part made me think, "of course! It was written by some of the most brilliant minds at Bell Labs." Many compaines would be lucky to have had software for them written by Bell Labs.

Considering what a piece of junk the 202 and the software running it turned out to be, Mergenthaler would have done better to just give the 202 to Bell Labs for free and opened up all their hardware and software specs to them, on the condition that the Bell Labs team rewrote their software, and made suggestions for improving the hardware, or even paid Bell Labs for the privilege. That would have been a win-win for both companies.
Enterprise. They don't buy into anything unless they can get "real" support (not just a few neckbeards telling them they can admin Linux).
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The irony - if that's the word - is that a site visit history is largely useless as metadata.

Only the most stupid people are going to visit "verydangerousterrorismsite.com" without going through a VPN. And visits to Facebook or Google are just noise without the details.

It's hard not to suspect that the real reason for the legislation is to legitimise dissident profiling, voter sentiment analysis, and thoughtcrime tracking.

I'm expecting an attempt to ban personal use of VPNs (without a commercial license) by around 2020.
When using Marijuana for its socializing/empathy/emotional benefits, you don't want to consume enough to be "impaired high". Very little dosage is needed.

You don't want to remplace / use all your body's chemical at once. You want to increase its natural responses.

Source: Have several family members with medical marijuana cards.
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> D has more of a scripting language feel to me.

I'm curious about this, although I don't think this is the first time I've heard D described as having a script-y feel to it. It sounds along the same lines as people describing Go as almost a scripting language, or comparing it to them. Neither Go nor D seem especially dynamic, both have compilers for reference implementations, both look more like C than Python. (To my eyes at least; I've never tried either one. Thus this question.)

Is it primarily the speed of the compilers? Both DMD and g6/g7/g8 boast very fast compiles, and Go uses somewhat script-y tools... but #!/usr/local/bin/tcc -run hasn't changed C's reputation. Fast compiling and memory safety, maybe?
No question they work. Lab reactors were run for years until funding ran out.
There were 5 American startups designing Thorium reactors a few years back. I'm guessing regulation killed them.
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The National Geographic Channel is a different company than the magazine and is a subsidiary of FOX. So, it's a good example of the kind of schlock that the Murdoch Empire will produce.

Despite all the issues that the magazine and non-profit org may have, they produce quality journalism. You can't say that about the TV channel.
I misspoke by attributing the double taxation on earnings to "income taxes." You're right that the portion subject to income taxes is a cost, not profit.

I meant the taxation of dividends, which are doubly taxed.
Oxytocin is NOT Oxycontin (oxycodone), by the way.
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I don't think anyone is arguing against the fact that it is good to be successful and that the more successful someone can be, the better.

In my opinion, the issue is that those who are most successful are being rewarded with far too much and creating a system that will inevitably make those who are most successful even more successful by shrinking the total number of successful people and increasing the number of unsuccessful people. Another concern is that this will lead to general stagnation of the economy and a slow-down of progress in general.
One big advantage of Kubernetes is that Google Container Engine is simply hosted Kubernetes, meaning if you are using google cloud stuff Kubernetes is already installed and all of that stuff is taken care of.

Of course if you are using AWS I believe their container stuff is based on compose.
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Except the positions for making a decent living are already taken.

And please don't blame only third world citizens - most of the time they're just grunts, the masterminds are usually in the countries where cards are actually stolen from (i.e. first world, rich, etc.)
Sadly, with the rate of wilderness, wildlife, and species loss, quite likely far more valueable in 30 years' time.

Comparative analysis of human + domesticated animal terrestrial vertebrate biomass vs. that of wildlife is truly staggering.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/112773623
It is fascinating to go through the thread history and read the names of the people commenting on the proposal:
- Tim Berners-Lee
- Guido van Rossum
- Marc Andreessen
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Cool! feel free to post the news on http://rtc.news ;)
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Our team (all ex-commuters ourselves) at Scoop is really excited to announce Scoop for commuters who head into San Francisco from across the Bay Area every day.

Scoop’s mission is to end traffic congestion nationwide by turning single-occupant vehicles into efficient carpools. 80% of Americans drive alone to work everyday, which means 100M people are clogging up highways across long stretches of the country - and for most, public transportation or other alternatives aren't viable.

Our automated carpool solution enables commuters to schedule and share their commutes, saving time, money, and the environment. We specialize in longer distance (10+ miles) commutes, and we're finding a sweet spot with Bay Area employees (by partnering with their employers) who commute on some of the country’s worst routes.
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More people are realizing that China and Greece are very close to default.

There are more holes in these economies than their respective governments has fingers to plug them in.

Flight to bitcoin is the only natural and logical progression.
There is also a pretty big Fedora community
The French government pre-fill a lot of things (everything in the most common cases).
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> There are liveusb (for macbooks as well)

Specific Mac images, or the main live USB image works on Macs?
There is some effects of a strong magnetic field on a current of water over aragonite and other calcium minerals, on a way that make less probable to a pipe get obstructed. However, this requires :

- a strong magnetic field in some special configuration.
- a water current flow, like you can find on a pipe.

These "magnetic water cleaners" that are only a mug with a magnet, don't match these two requisites. Ie, are a fraud.
I have problems operating socially on it: specifically communication. My "more experienced" friends tell me that they initially had the same response until they had practice at socializing while high.
Have secretaries really disappeared though? I think they've just shifted job titles to things like admin assistant.
I am big fans of 37s. I learnt a lot from reading thier blog posts especially thier unconventional (at that time) thinking to avoid crazy detailed requirement docs, focus on blank error states etc...

However, DHH's constant railing against the VC backed world seems a little tiresome. There seems to be a religious fervor to his essays that thier way is morally better (e.g. thier business model seems like a honest transaction vs VC backed startups who inflate numbers etc).

I think a lot of people get that raising VC is not the only way to build a business (there is even a nice tradeoff statement (do you want to be Rich Vs King).

It's a choice one makes. It's not morally inferior or superior to raise VCs or to bootstrap.
But in the end, they’re money lenders.
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