skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While true, this argument falls flat when you realize the limitations. If I made millions legally, then why in the world would I decide to start making all subsequent money illegally? Wouldn't it be much better to just keep milking my legal cash cow?

The government doesn't seem to be limiting their purview to just the money that was supposedly illicitly gained. They're freezing all moneys that could conceivable by subject to a fine. It's not just the $5000, but everything. That's extremely problematic from a rights standpoint.
Sure there is a strong vested interest in the status quo by those that have succeeded in it, but it has reached such an extreme level that it is killing science. My experience is that the successful scientists within the current system love science enough to change even if it puts them at a disadvantage.

Having said this we could grandfather in the current “winners” and move the funding to the new system over a long time period (say 20 years). We really need to do something as the current system will destroy science if we let it continue.
> They're the mind viewing itself through its own intuitive folk-theory of mind

Why do you think I'm suggesting any theory of mind at all? You're stating too much.

I'm just suggesting look for patterns and produce models of what you can observe about human subjectivity. Hofstadtr's "strange loop" being an example of one such model.
Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6359555.
It means "pro-new-housing" generally. So someone who lives in a house they own in a desirable neighborhood that other people would like to build in would not be "pro-housing" by that colloquial definition.
And civilians are not the military.
Playing up the "equal access to justice" angle here is shortsighted. Rich people have historically served as an important counterweight to government. When the government prosecutes them, it raises special interests, beyond the abstract interest in justice implicated whenever the government prosecutes someone. After all, it was the new-money commercial interests that lead the revolutions that gave us many of our modern democracies, including here in the U.S. And history is littered with examples of rich, powerful people being prosecuted precisely because of the threat they pose by virtue of their means.

An interesting example is Joseph Nacchio. While he was probably guilty of what he was accused of doing, at least he was declared guilty after putting up the best defense money could buy. Given the dynamics of the situation, it would've been troubling if he hadn't been able to do that.
I loved netstorm. One of the best games ever, thank you :)
I don't appear to be downvoted to oblivion, so I don't see what the poor reaction is. :P
A useful oversimplification: Eaters vs. Bakers
Innocent until proven guilty must apply. And it is preposterous to tell a presumed innocent they cannot use their money to defend themselves in court.

If they spend that money and then lose, they are still responsible for the reimbursement. If its not money they will ever make in their lifetime, you can just garnish their income forever. It is magnitudes less injust for those whose money was stolen to never get the full amount back (as long as the responsible is compelled to give all their excess in compensation) than possibly finding the innocent guilty because they could not defend themselves.

But this is symptomatic of the fundamental issue in criminal justice that you need significant wealth to defend yourself. That in and of itself is the greatest injustice here, but making it harder on citizens to defend themselves cannot be the answer.
Some of the very early IP telephony apps (20 yrs ago) used the very same trick.
"How should we make it attractive for them [young people] to spend 5,6,7 years in our field, be satisfied, learn about excitement, but finally be qualified to find other possibilities?" -- H. Schopper

Potential missing staff in some areas is a separate issue, and educational programmes are not designed to make up for it. On-the-job learning and training are not separated but dynamically linked together, benefiting to both parties. In my three years of operation, I have unfortunately witnessed cases where CERN duties and educational training became contradictory and even conflicting.

http://ombuds.web.cern.ch/blog/2013/06/lets-not-confuse-stud...

Resolution of the Staff Council

- the Management does not propose to align the level of basic CERN salaries with those chosen as the basis for comparison;

- in the new career system a large fraction of the staff will have their advancement prospects, and consequently the level of their pension, reduced with respect to the current MARS system;

- the overall reduction of the advancement budget will have a negative impact on the contributions to the CERN Health Insurance System (CHIS);

http://cds.cern.ch/journal/CERNBulletin/2015/46/Staff%20Asso...

The situation is equally difficult for postdocs trying to make the jump to a junior faculty position or a permanent job at a national lab. The Snowmass Young Physicists survey received responses from 956 early-career researchers, including 343 postdocs. But INSPIRE currently lists just 152 "junior" positions, including 61 in North America. And the supply of jobs isn't likely to increase, says John Finley, an astrophysicist at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, who is leading a search to replace two senior particle physicists.

Indeed, even while giving complete satisfaction, they have no forward vision about the possibility of pursuing a career at CERN.

This lack of an element of social responsibility in the contract policy is unacceptable. Rather than serve as a cushion of laziness for supervisors, who often have only a limited and utilitarian view when defining the opening of an IC post, the contract policy must ensure the inclusion of an element of social justice, which is cruelly absent today.

http://staff-association.web.cern.ch/content/unsatisfactory-...

Pensions which will be applicable to new recruits as of 1 January 2012; the Management and CERN Council adopted without any concertation and decided in June 2011 to adopt very unfavourable mesures for new recruits.

http://www.gac-epa.org/History/Bulletins/42-2012-04/Bulletin...

precarity at CERN, aka cheap disposable temp labour w/o healthcare:
http://www.tdg.ch/geneve/actu-genevoise/suisse-prete-aider-e...
That's a narrow viewpoint. Sociology, history, psychology, psychoanalysis, philosophy, even the hated field of literary theory all provide fertile ground for drawing conclusions about the nature of human subjectivity. The people who claim, apriori, "you can't model human subjectivity and we shouldn't bother" are not going to be on the side of progress, especially with regards to AI.
How Silicon Valley Is Overhauling the Democratic Party
I totally want proof that their paper is reproducible.
This was created for manual testing of multiple scenarios while integrating with external APIs. We wanted something simple hosted, we didn't want this to be deployed multiple environments with config files or one environment where people might unintentionally overwrite or conflict with other's files. Creating stubs via web was easier was developers, QA's and SMEs testing the product.

Though you could use this for automated tests, I request you to wait till I get a better server with higher availability. For automated integration tests there other great stub servers in different languages.
Ok. Interesting to know that. I wasn't being sarcastic. In Australia at least you'll still get a minute silence at 11am with schools and most work places stopping to commemorate it (it's not a public holiday).
Are they still advertising on porn sites? Sounds like a one time publicity stunt to me.
It was pretty unclear what the actual reason for not releasing the scrolls was. The article mumbles something about 'power', but doesn't really explain what that means. It's sort of a weird end to a lengthy (and pretty wordy) article, that builds at great length towards the development of a technique to read the scrolls, and then sort of tosses in the fact that they can't use the technique without really exploring why outside of a single ambiguous sentence.

Its hardly clear why locking the scrolls in the basement for another few decades would increase the Institutes power. Having a bunch of unreadable papayri sitting in a box doesn't do much for the Institute, while having them revealed to be the only copies of works by Epicures (or whomever) could only increase their prestige/power/monetary value.
Not necessarily.. if people start to get sick, who has the liability. Jack in the Box had bad food practices and it killed a bunch of people. Same idea here.
Much of the US lives just fine without rent control. My landlord raises rents every year, in lockstep with local union raises. Doubling rent annually is hyperbole, and if you really think landlords can afford to pull bait & switch leases, local only movers cheap enough that clever people should exploit them by moving every year for the discount rent.

At this point it seems like the only places with rent control are where rents are refucking-diculus.
Thank you! I'm actually now preparing to update to Yosemite merely to be able to use this. It's sooo helpful for ensuring good sleep.
Single course of antibiotics can mess up the gut microbiome for a year
MIT Atomic and Optical Physics Lectures
Marissa Mayer’s Convoluted Yahoo Strategy
Yes, it's the clothed guy on a nudist beach taking photos of everyone saying "don't worry I'm the government; these pictures are to stop terrorists."
posted 6 hours ago.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10550482
Yup. We are building a product with micro services architecture, more often we finalise the API contract with other service teams and develop our service against stubbed response till the other teams complete their development
In-N-Out burgers aren't owned but rather licensed. Contingent on not being door-dash. Read the EULA.
Thanks! The site already makes money, actually. Plus the books sell in hard copy. I'm working on other things to sell on the site, because I think that has more revenue potential than the pdf versions I have on sale currently.
طرح 1000 قطعة ارض بالمدن الجديدة بمساحات من 400 متر حتى 1000 متر – تراخيص
you are still assuming that the thief is guilty.
Cool. I plan to look at the source code later.

One issue I noticed: when playing with the mouse, if I click on a tile, then click on some other tile, the FIRST tile clicked is the one that moves - which seems like a bug and is certainly a counterintuitive input behavior.
Total tangent but the public/private school thing is one of history.

When there were no schools at all, wealthy English would have "private" tutors at home. Then schools became popular - one would go to a school with other rich children, which was "public" compared to home tutoring. When state funded schools arrived, they needed to distinguish between the phrase "public" school and "state funded" school.

In the USA, the concept of a "public" school was the norm by then, so they never bothered using "public" to distinguish them, so when state funded schools arrived private and public became the other way round.

So simply put, the USA was already a socialist paradise by the time they came to name their schools
> If I made millions legally, then why in the world would I decide to start making all subsequent money illegally?

I would suggest you pose that question to this guy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Madoff

> They're freezing all moneys that could conceivable by subject to a fine. It's not just the $5000, but everything. That's extremely problematic from a rights standpoint.

From what I read, it's only freezing what's necessary to pay them back. That's not a public defender defending him in the oral arguments. So this is only problematic as far as your Sixth Amendment right to counsel goes as long as you allow the public defenders to be ineffective and expect people to be able to get better lawyers with more money, leaving those with less money less able to defend their legal rights.

Now it's fair to say that the government seizing money in other contexts, like civil asset forfeiture, is problematic. It's just not something this case is about.
> if luxury units only cost a fraction more to construct

Now there is an interesting point. If it's true does it mean that "rich" people are suckers paying 4x more for a house or apartment that cost barely any extra to build? Or that the building codes mean that a "modest" house costs a immodest sum to build. Probably something in between, but it sounds like the risk-reward ratio has been screwed up by the poor incentives in the valley.

EDIT: OK, derp... The price difference is obviously because of the location premium.
Yup. Specially for people who can't or don't want to run their own stub servers
What your blood test says about you
Sorry if I wasn't clear. This is not a legal argument, but a political one.
just posted 9 hours ago:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10549314
> if people start to get sick, who has the liability

The sick people, clearly. Just like the dead people who went to Jack in the Box. Exactly what kind of restitution are you proposing here? A pimped out grave?
There's two problems with the lookahead approach:

1) It only applies to the code you write. Libraries can still use insecure object serialization under the hood i.e. you can't apply this to an built in app server running JMX.

2) It doesn't account for pathological objects, i.e. a billion laughs attack: https://gist.github.com/coekie/a27cc406fc9f3dc7a70d

More details here: https://tersesystems.com/2015/11/08/closing-the-open-door-of...
Is this really true though? I though that large banke don't really make money on private account but primarily on investing in the market an lending money to really big companies. Seriously interested.
That is incomprehensibly dense. 500-acres is .78-square-miles and to drop 9,000 people in there would be like living in Tokyo.

The largest cities in the world by land area, population and density:

http://www.citymayors.com/statistics/largest-cities-density-...
What is Sama's reasoning on unicorn valuations?
Thanks for your feedback. Glad it is useful for more people.
Damon Lindelof on Depression and Why Knowing J.J. Abrams Is “A Bit of a Curse”
1. After a hard life she is now a millionaire

2. Assuming she is living almost alone she probably doesn't want a [big] house and could move into a smaller unit nearby (and have some money left over)

3. But, there probably are not any smaller units since zoning effectively blocked them being built.
The title is your opportunity to tell us WTF the article is talking about. This one fails.
I too do not know enough to not feel silly for asking this, but I have a similar feeling, and I am not sure if I have misunderstood the past year's worth of popular articles on USB security, the risk posed by the USB in the context of the ceremony, or both. I had gotten the impression that the firmware vulnerabilities of USB flash drives had proven to be inherent, unavoidable, and utterly devastating; that, basically, any given USB drive could become a general-purpose bus-querying hostile computing device, if once plugged into a machine controlled by a capable and motivated adversary.

If that understanding was correctly received, and given the strength of potential motivation involved here, my thought is that the problem presented by the USB drive could only be combated by (a) ensuring that the USB drive was obtained in a random enough fashion that vast numbers would need to be deliberately compromised with this specific target in mind for that approach to be feasible, and (b) ensuring that the USB drive was neither ever unsupervised nor connected to any USB port (except one on a "known-to-be-clean" computer) after the selection occurred.

The problem that I see with those measures is that if compromising the laptop with a compromised USB drive were possible, then the actual security of the process would be purely dependent on the security of measure (b), as established by a single actor at the ceremony: that is, whomever provides the USB with the key-signing request. This last point just by itself would seem to be a degree of risk well beyond the criteria implied by the established protocol.
Psychology is not a science. Psychologists are not taught statistics in their curriculum. Why did anyone expect that they would come up with sound, statistically accurate results?

You can read any two psychology "textbooks" and get two differing opinions about how to address the same issues...

It's not a science folks. It's never been. It's always been an opinion-based practice, and this just proves the fraud being perpetrated on the people of this earth who trust these charlatans for help on matters ranging from personal mental health all the way to court "expert" testimony that can swing the decision of a judge or a jury one way or the other...
Where I live, once you rent a flat, the landlord is legally allowed to rise the fee only by a small amount every year (related to the CPI). Also, most of the rentings are long term and the landlord is not allowed to kick you out (except for some exceptional events).

So, when you choose a place to live, you know that you can plan your life there. Also, you don't need to be scared for the landlord blackmailing you.

I guess that both systems work. It's just different models of society.
They (or anyone for that matter) can make billions if they learn the art of selling.
That's not how it works according to the law and health codes.
This info seems hard to believe and makes me think we're missing context
Is that what that text is at the bottom of my fries?
> How's that working out for San Francisco?

Kinda hard to tell, since they only allow a few new residential buildings to go up each year. If they didn't allow NIMBY interests to prevent _any_ housing from going up, we might actually see this in action and be able to tell.
I like a good deal of what's on Udemy, but it feels like for reasons totally different from the marketing. For me it's more like the online version of those video lecture series you used to buy on VHS or DVD through a "distance learning" mailorder catalog, and not so much like an online classroom. There's some course-like content in it beyond the lectures (quizzes and such), but imo the main value is really just the lectures, and the quality of the lectures is what differentiates good courses on there from bad ones.

Which is fine, video lectures are a model that's worked for a few decades, but now online and more convenient to shop for. And a good video-lecture course is certainly worth at least $10. I guess I can see why they don't brand it that way (the "disrupting education" hype train has money/press, while "mail-order video lectures, but on the internet" is a harder sell). But for me, their courses made a lot more sense to me once I started thinking of it as a place to buy a video lecture course, like the way you might order DVDs of the Feynman physics lectures.
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This is exactly what the VAT MOSS regulations have done, and it's been a total failure. The only people it has really affected are small businesses who don't have the resources to deal with it, so it comes out of their bottom line.
Do you have any comprehensive resource on timing Vit-C supplements? Also what form of supplement & which brand did you intake? Liposomal vit-c?

Do you also have any comprehensive resources that explains if vit-c supplements can affect recovery from lifting weights or general exercise?
I love the idea. I'm a fan of static sites but always dreaded having to rely on disqus and the like. Any chance you plan to open source this?
On the Dark Matter of the Publishing Industry
Even you are calling that fictitious entity a "thief" rather than an "alleged thief." But it's just a character in a story, not a real person, nor does it represent anyone.

It's normal to make that part of a story to see how the law would play out in various cases. The point of that has nothing to do with guilt or innocence, it's to point out that the outcome of the desired ruling is simply to reward people for spending stolen money. This is a perfectly normal thing that is often used when discussing laws. [1]

This is different from saying that about the actual people being accused. This context is important. Otherwise one is failing to separate reality and fantasy.

[1] Many examples can be found here: http://lawcomic.net/ It's written by an actual lawyer: http://burneylawfirm.com/Firm/
Doubling annually probably happens rarely enough you can ignore it. Where I live now, though, in a medium-sized Pacific NW city, rents in various of my friends and relations buildings/complexes have seen increases 50% in four years.

That's still pretty bad, and I know several people myself who were forced out due to rising rents becoming unaffordable.

That kind of disruption to people's lives doesn't make the kind of society I want to live in.
Would you prefer that somebody sells you Lisp telling you, that there is only one syntax rule? Later then you easily detect that a) people think Lisp is unreadable/unusable because of this and b) that it's actually completely wrong and that Lisp cannot even be parsed with a conventional parser, because it has even a dynamic syntax which can be changed by the user and that this is even a defining feature of typical Lisp?

Lisp like most other programming languages is not defined by one syntax role.

One of the main features of Lisp is actually that it supports user-defined syntax - either on top of s-expressions (aka MACROS) and/or by changing/extending the syntax of s-expressions (aka READER MACROS).

Wouldn't you want to know that? Just let the user of this editor feature know that it mainly works on the list level and does not know of the full syntax of Lisp and that this is sufficient for a wide range of editing tasks.

The emacswiki for Paredit says:

http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/ParEdit

> ParEdit (paredit.el) is a minor mode for performing structured editing of S-expression data. The typical example of this would be Lisp or Scheme source code.

> ParEdit helps keep parentheses balanced and adds many keys for moving S-expressions and moving around in S-expressions. Its behavior can be jarring for those who may want transient periods of unbalanced parentheses, such as when typing parentheses directly or commenting out code line by line.

It says what it does. It makes no claims about Lisp syntax.

Let's try to not oversell Lisp syntax - Lisp syntax has been controversial for decades and legions of students and programmers struggled with it. There is a reason for that.

Tell a student that Lisp has only one syntax rule, the list, and then he/she struggles a lot forming valid Lisp programs?

Typical questions:

(if (> sin (a) pi) 'foo 'bar)

Why is above not working? Somebody told the students that Lisp only has lists and it still does not work?

(cond (> (sin a) pi) 'foo
(t 'bar))

Above does not work either. Wasn't Lisp syntax supposed to be totally trivial with just one rule?

Let's be honest, it's not the students fault. The syntax of Lisp is actually more difficult than just writing lists.

I don't think this is 'pedantry'. Teach Lisp to people or deal with programmer's typical problems and you'll see lots of these questions.
> Law, not wealth, should give rights the people.

Why do you think you have a right to live in a home that someone else owns, and to control the price they can charge you?
> Fast food restaurant In-N-Out, known for its delicious burgers and secret sauce, is suing food delivery startup DoorDash, TMZ reported earlier today. In-N-Out, which filed the lawsuit on Nov. 6, 2015, claims trademark infringement and unfair competition. Basically, In-N-Out wants DoorDash to stop delivering their delicious food because of concerns around quality, food handling and safety.

Why using so many times the word delicious? Moreover, that's not really the scope of the article.