skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The letter to our daughter works pretty well as comedy, e.g., “Medicine has only been a real science…” (emphasis added).

I'm not sure what the author is trying to say here. He cut out important context. The "..." was "for less than 100 years". While one might quibble with the exact number, Zuckerberg was reasonably in the ballpark.

> It also works pretty well as a dictionary example of “optimism”, with Zuckerberg imagining that a $1 billion annual budget is going to move the needle (NIH spent $31 billion in 2010, according to Wikipedia, and the drug companies keep telling us that they are spending some of their Irish dough on research)

The Gates Foundation spends about $4 billion a year, spread over many different kinds of initiatives. Their health spending is "only" about $1 billion a year, and they move the needle there. I see no reason the Zuckerbergs can't move the needle at $1 billion per year as long as they don't spend in too many disparate areas.

Here's an article from NPR that explains why it can be more effective to do charity and activism through an LLC instead of through a non-profit foundation: http://www.npr.org/2015/12/03/458276386/facebook-founder-to-...

Some excerpts:

"A foundation itself is not allowed to do what the
Internal Revenue Code defines as lobbying," he says.
"If you're trying to achieve a social end through
advocacy, you're going to find yourself very
constrained, whereas if you're just paying it out of
your own pocket if you're a company or an LLC, there
are really no constraints at all, at least imposed
by the tax code."

In a public letter to their newborn daughter, Chan
and Zuckerberg said about their philanthropic goals,
"We must participate in policy and advocacy to shape
debates."

and

Mollie Cullinane, who runs a law firm that
specializes in philanthropic giving, says creating
an LLC instead of a nonprofit looks like a move by
Chan and Zuckerberg "to get more deeply involved in
advocacy and promotion of certain causes that other
charities and foundations can't speak out about as
loudly."

and

But beyond politics, there are other ways an LLC
will give the couple philanthropic flexibility.

"There's a whole new area opening up, so-called
impact investing, where you invest in a for-profit
organization that has a social mission," Brest says.

So the couple might invest in clean energy
companies, for example, and could make money off
those investments. Foundations can do some of that.
But, Brest says, "you are freer from any
restrictions if you simply do it through a private
company."
Not sure where they get their figures from but according to http://www.thepaperlessproject.com/facts-about-paper-the-imp... the average office worker continues to use a staggering 10,000 sheets of copy paper every year.
what aspects of the text made the code hard to read for you ? Was it the parens ? If LISP was displayed in the editor without parens (but still had them behind-the-scenes), so that the code was formatted much like Python, then would it be acceptable ?
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As I get older I've come to believe less and less that morality is subjective. I believe the NAP or non-aggression principle is as close to objective, universally-preferable morality as it gets. Certainly some people have other senses of morality, but they cannot be universally-preferable.
The convention is to append the year to a title if the article is not from the current year. But that's definitely not to disparage older content. Quite the opposite! Older articles are often more interesting (because time culls the less interesting stuff), and historical material is a lot of the best that appears on HN. We're always hoping people will post more.
I got to the step 5 but nothing seems to be happening.

When I opened the developer console on Chrome, it has these errors:

Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 400 (OK)
index.js:834 Uncaught InvalidStateError: Failed to read the 'responseText' property from 'XMLHttpRequest': The value is only accessible if the object's 'responseType' is '' or 'text' (was 'arraybuffer').

I opened the page, then needed to close my laptop for a while before I had done the step where the domain provides certain hash in particular url. Then I got back and provided the url, and it validated, but the step 5 doesn't work.

Thanks for providing the service!

edit: If I now try to do the 4th step again, I get:

Error: Domain challenge failed. Please start back at Step 1. {"type":"urn:acme:error:malformed","detail":"Unable to read/verify body :: JWS has invalid anti-replay nonce","status":400}

Ok, the error in the api call seems to be "Certificate public key must be different than account key".
Slightly off topic, but I don't think that the argument "capitalism is the system which worked better) is valid. It's not that it's wrong, per se, but I think it's an implication of mankind evolution and not the capitalist system itself.

In more concrete terms: if you pick any given point in time, you'd probably be able to say the same without being wrong. At date X, the social system in practice is/was the one which worked better up until that X point; it's because we've been evolving somewhat continuously, not because the system per se.
"The reports say the 52 prisoners – all of whom were convicted in the secretive Specialized Criminal Court – will be executed across nine different cities in the Kingdom in a single day."

The brutality instantly felt astonishing, and then I remembered Guantanamo is still open and will host its prisoners, sent there by secret courts, for the foreseeable future.
The sooner we stop burning oil the better.
I didn't realise hn threads could go so deep.

I understand that we're not arguing, and find the conversation interesting: I approach it from the point of view of someone who was mostly taught OO (and learned whatever CS theory he knows by himself), where you seem to have a more solid FP and theoretical background and entirely different viewpoint.

As a new father myself, I absolutely understand that free time is scarce. Enjoy your baby and holidays!
Then again. True laissez fair would mean no patents. So I think its fair to assume that it would be radically different in which actors are involved and in which constellations they collaborate. In such a system I wonder if "drug makers" would be able to charge much more than the production cost. Is first mover enough to cover RnD? I suspect not in which case "drug makers" would probably not be "drug inventors"
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Because people are not pure rational creatures. Most decisions are governed by emotion, and most people have empathy, so harming others directly is abhorrent. The rest is post-hoc justification.
Not all implementations of snprintf behave the same way. Many are subtly broken.

Some don't nul terminate the string if it's longer than the destination buffer.

Also the return value can be -1 (correct behavior on failure, but it's often left unchecked) or more than destination buffer size! Fun times if you accumulate total written without range checking snprintf return value...
I have seen this phenomenon a few times. I think because they got so much positive reinforcement early on; they feel at ease spouting off their wacky theories? After all, they are geniuses. They are allowed to say what ever comes to mind, but only later in life? After they carved out a comfortable life?

I've seen the same behavior in way too many wealthy individuals. Just because they are filthy rich; they can spout off whatever comes to mind, and we give them a get out of jail card because we assume intelligence equates with wealth. Trump comes to mind.

I don't know much about Balmer. I just saw a huge, out of shape guy, playing cheerleader for Gates. Sorry--it's just what I saw on the tube. It was obvious Apple, and open source was going to trounce Microsoft. I do think Balmer saw the fall of Microsoft comming--maybe before Gates? Hell--I'm being modest--we all hated Microsoft. He did his best at milking a sinking ship. That is genius, but wouldn't a simpleton do the same?

I have met very few geniuses who were wealthy. The extremely smart individuals, I have known, or watched, did not become very wealthy. Their intelligence seemed to hold them back in too many situations, or maybe they had a higher level of integrity? That integrity that needs to be broken/desimated in too many business situations? That integrity that need to be twisted when becoming very wealthy?
What really bothers me most is way too many of the best students/best minds had nervous breakdowns. I have seen too many great people just crack?

I wish we would stop calling these guys geniuses just because they are wealthy in business. It's getting old.

Now the guy who can carve out a comfortable life, not steal, not take advantage of the weak, has a few people who truly love them, add a few original ideas to this thing we call life; that smart?
Because when they have nothing we want we'll care more? Like Africa?
The episode took a turn, however, when they looked at Medieval versions of antibiotics -- a treatment for eye sties, I think they discussed -- they found the described treatment was wildly effective.

The researchers they interviewed postulate resistance wanes when a treatment leaves the population for a while.

The conclusion at the end was that it would be beneficial to have a big bevy of antibiotics and such, that we could rotate through as immunity came and went.

In this ^ way, it would seem these pharmas, and the pharma market, needs to adopt a second perspective on antibiotics. They should look at a new drug not for revenues over the next 6 quarters, but over the next 6 decades. In that time frame the drug would hit, be shelved, hit, and repeat.

Perhaps this would be one place that more permissive or advantageous patents would help, by encouraging growth in the antibiotic industry. That probably sounds unpopular given the general "no patents!" sentiment, but I there could be reason in it for at least some period of time.
Great links, thank you very much!
> you're likely typing on the "wrong" keyboard layout and use a "wrong" calendar

When someone shows me/I find a better way to meet a requirement I will adopt it (static site generators, Go routines, ...). I won't doggedly stick to the first thing I learned; I don't expect the world to adapt to suit me.
> the only downside of doing it in Beijing is that you’d have to tolerate the bad weather and air pollution

That is certainly a huge downside, but isn't another one the fact that you seem to be stuck "fast following," building everything on top of services which the author admits are "clones" of popular ones from outside China?

I suppose it depends what the author's business is. I didn't catch that from the article.
I agree with you. I get the impression that data aggregation&analysis is so deeply ingrained in Google company culture that it's entirely possible the responsible people truly believes nothing went wrong here.
Some compilers have options for separating call stack and function stack. So an under or overflow of a char buf[] can't corrupt return stack frame.
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A single drone strike can kill 52 people, considering 90% civilian ratio in drone bombings... Middle Eastern people don't get any consideration for people's lives from their rulers or their Western counterparts.
I agree. The opinion of law enforcement is irrelevant in the sense that we should not defer authority on the matter to them. Law enforcement might similarly have thoughts on how to run the judicial branch or alter the Constitution so as to better "catch criminals" (or some other excuse), yet that is no reason to grant them it.

Law enforcement will naturally seek to expand their power by any means available to them, in the same way that various branches of government or political parties will. Hence we have separation of powers.
Oh, Saudis are US friends, would love to see human rights watch report on Saudis.
Funny anecdote about NLP: I accidentally took a NLP class because it had Programming in the name, and for some reason I didn't bother to read the description. First lecture, second slide in the lecturer presented the quote:
"We only use 10% of our brain, imagine what we could do if we used 100% of it" ~ Albert Einstein. And continued to claim that we could use more of our brain by using NLP or something like that.

Never dropped a class so hard in my life.
Have a two part trial, with two juries.

Part one, with jury #1, just considers the facts. It does not attempt to apply the law to the facts to render a guilty/not-guilty verdict.

Part two presents the facts as determined in part one to jury #2 (which was not present during part one), and jury #2 applies that law to those facts to render a verdict. The facts as presented to jury #2 are cleaned up to replace names with pseudonyms, and race, gender, etc., are removed (unless they are relevant to the applicable law).
Africa has plenty that "we" care about. That's the cause of a lot of the bullshit that goes on regularly there.
If your spam signatures are small (around 32 bytes) and fixed size, you might also want to look into a pure XOR tabulation hash. It's excellent for generating fixed-size keys for hash tables:

http://www2.imm.dtu.dk/projects/thrash-workshop/slides/thoru...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabulation_hashing

I use it all the time when I need a hash table index. It's simple to understand, safe and fast. Even though it can generate more assembly than other hashes, it's actually often faster because it has no multiply operation, only XOR. If the tables are small enough to fit into cache (i.e. small keys), it's brilliant. It has properties suitable for triangular probing, where other hashes sometimes don't have enough independence. And if you need a rolling hash, i.e. for Rabin Karp, it's also perfect.
Nice job. For somebody like me without much experience, I was able to get my domain secured in 30 minutes.
But don't you dare to compare them to ISIS.
We are screwed either way. It's sad to be frank.
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these same people are voting for your president or prime minister or MP.
If anything, the (unfortunately, long term..) solution is to educate these people, not to abolish jury duty.
It remembers me of the HumancentiPad. Pick something what should not exist by nature (a robot for remote workers) and put an iPad on the top of it. I mean if I want to see a movie but I want to stay at home I don´t send a robot with an iPad on the top of it to the cinema but I connect my laptop to my TV and streem something.

[edit] Maybe I should send a robot to the cinema and write an article about it. And start a protest movement because my robot can´t access the cinema and that´s why I am discriminated. And write an article about it.
protip: install a full linux distro on your chromebook, and then use non-google end-to-end encrypted services such as firefox sync or owncloud for dealing with private data.
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A single jury is still too small of a sample size to be statistically significant. If you have more than two groups in the population (races in this case) then you need at least 5 expected cases of each in order for analysis of the actual versus expected proportions to be meaningful, which you can't get with 12 jurors. The closest you can get to it is if there are 3 groups evenly divided in the population, which gives you 4 expected cases each. If you had only 2 groups in the population that were each 50% then you would have 6 expected cases each. However, when analyzing sample proportions of 2 groups you need at least 10 cases each.

Those minimum case numbers are needed in order for the central limit theorem to be applicable in the statistical analysis.
My apologies, but I find your comment somewhat confusing.

> In Japan lay judges (citizens) were re-introduced into trials in order to offer defendants a possibly more sympathetic audience. In Japan, due to quite a few idiosyncrasies[1], prosecutors achieve upwards of 95% conviction rates.

> often no attorneys during interrogation, forced confessions, detentions without charges, taking up only choice cases, declaring "accidents" rather than pursuing murder, etc...

How are any of these problems solved by introducing lay judges ? Aren't they attacking the wrong part of the problem ?

> An imperfect jury system is likely better, in criminal cases, than having cozy professionals decide cases.

I find it hard to believe that professionals would be more incapable of sympathy.
Compare? they are the ISIS, ISIS/ISIL is wrong name, Daesh is proper one, is very funny that John Kerry use Daesh, but Obama and everyone else use ISIS).
Space borne kill vehicles
Quite proud to see PouchDB being used for things like this, it looks like pretty much a perfect use case.
The idea about Android apps is stillborn. I don't know why they pursued it in the first place. There's no way Google will allow Play Store on such a contraption, nor will they allow Google services to be run (which means, for instance, no Maps or Youtube access). As a result you get an OS that can't fully participate in the Android ecosystem. Epic fail.
If it's possible, it seems like you need to add a second channel for your handshake protocol. SMS is pretty difficult to MitM for non-state-sponsored attackers.
I don't get it. What is the domain key here?
I tried to read the instructions but all of it said that the signing should be done with account private key.
Url changed from http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2015/12/03/a_florida..., which points to this.
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No because we will stop supporting them. I don't want to be indirectly supporting an illiberal neo-medieval government to continue. The people of Saudia Arabia deserve better.

There is also the issue of the huge amount of financial support for bigotry around the world coming out of Saudia Arabia. The sooner this money flow stops the better.
Now that more than enough people complained about security etc. I also want to add that a modern wiki doesn't really work with their own grammar anymore. Consider changing to markdown, restructuredText, MediaWiki, or Atlassian style (last not really suggested but better than nothing).
If I was a senior engineer on your team, would I be willing to get a beer with you? i.e. the most important advice I have is to make sure you ALWAYS have a good attitude.

People are always willing to praise, help out, and even promote guys with good attitudes.
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I would say ethnic hatred is the primary factor. As it is in the middle east. The violence in Syria has more to do with hostility between Shia and Sunnis than oil. Oil is only making things worse because it gives the means to be really nasty.
I'd be curious to know why the Planck length wouldn't be reference frame independent, though... (which may be explained in your links, but it will take some time to go through them).
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10674334.
How about ONE app for all your apps?
How does the other party see your face if you're wearing VR goggles?
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It's hard to have a good idea of what's going on in Saudi Arabia, but I am under the impression that the population is more conservative than its depraved monarchy and its cocaine trips to Europe. I am not sure a secular liberal government is what would result from some free elections.
Ok I got confused because tried to simultaneously read how to make the certificate using Amazon AWS documentation, and seems I skipped one crucial part.
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Don't get me wrong - great work, it takes real skill to put something like this together and a good understanding of the architecture / platform, but why would anyone adopt this over Multiboot v2 or UEFI? The later are cross-arch/plat compatible and have OSS and industry implementations. Both would allow you to spend time focusing on the kernel design and implementation. You seem to slightly paint yourself into a corner by limiting yourself to legacy BIOS and writing the entire loader in assembly. The later makes supporting PCIe via ECAM a chore as well...
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I really think we should stop being so mean to the submitter. Sure the code might have problems and the whole approach might not be advisable, but I am sure they have learned a lot from doing this. Ronsor congratulations for actually shipping.
How is it useful for you, or anyone, to know the name and face of a mass killer?
It's not like you can predict how likely it is someone will murder you based on how they look or what they're called.

The point is that media is making mass killers into celebrities and that encourages more sick (read depressed, lonely) people to perform acts like this.
I'm using React/Flux/Electron and am really comfortable with it. Highly recommend checking out this project (which was posted on HN a while back) for ideas: https://github.com/jingweno/hacker-menu
https://fpf.org/about/

https://fpf.org/about/our-mission/

Their "About Us and "Mission" pages are identical, and are full of glowing talk about convening a discussion that "seeks to advance responsible data practices", and doesn't say anything about privacy. This smells strongly of a corporate/lobbyist PR front.
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