skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's not that, say, the Make A Wish Foundation is inherently bad or that donating to them is a bad thing, rather the possibility that Zuckerberg could decide to give them 95% of his wealth while more critical social services receive none of it that is concerning.

It's his money, so it's his choice where it goes. Beyond that, this is just an argument for higher taxes to take that choice away. If you want to argue against allowing people to have and direct the wealth they've created, then make that argument, rather than assuming it as a premise. Once you've assumed that as a premise, then it starts to sound obvious to deemphasize charity and emphasize government programs; that step isn't the interesting part of the argument. As it turns out, we have multiple countries in the world, with different sensibilities about the relative value and efficacy of public and private work, among many things. The US model, evaluated by European sensibilities, is broken in many ways; the European model, evaluated by US sensibilities, is broken in many ways. Neither of those is as interesting or relevant for evaluating potential changes as a country's evaluation of its own models by its own sensibilities.

Personally, I'd be thrilled to have significantly less of my income directed by government to the causes they care about; I currently donate a significant fraction of my annual income to charity, and if I had the money back that currently goes to a pile of things I mostly don't care about, I'd love to donate even more to charity. I know for a fact that it'd do more good. Changing that would require changing what government is spending the money on, and I'm far more confident that I can change the course of a charitable organization (or choose a better one) than change the course of government.

As it stands right now, I think I could do more good with a pile of cash by setting it on fire than by giving it to government; additional money in government hands has negative utility, and may be used to hurt me and people I care about.

As a random thought experiment, I've often wondered how it would work if charitable donations produced a deduction directly from your tax burden, rather than from your taxable income. In other words, every dollar you donate comes straight off your taxes. That would produce some interesting results.
Actually, you can extract some info from the recruiters. Just ask them, tell them you need it to prepare better next time, tell them you know the reason but want to cross check etc. They will tell you
Always nice to see a Chicago startup garnering this kind of attention.
Actually it's a good name. C got incremented, and we keep original C locally while some weird side effects no one really wanted keeps happening in committee until the end of time.
What we have learned over the last 25 years is the traditional laissez faire model has failed us when it comes to antibiotics.

I disagree.

Think of it this way. If it were truly laissez faire, then drug makers would charge a price high enough to still make it worthwhile. Unfortunately, the way antibiotics are paid for in US hospitals, the hospitals would lose money each time they used the drug.

Hell, we pay ~$80K to cure hepatitis C (millions have it in the US). If you have an antibiotic that cures a highly resistant infection that happens maybe a few hundred times in the US, why not charge something similar? What is the benefit to society to save someone's life?
What if you rent a room with a whiteboard somewhere and put in telepresence robots for everyone? You'll save on food and...

Actually, a virtual reality persistent world would be more economical. Just buy Second Life licenses.
Why not noPlusPlusMathObject.addOne(referenceFor x)?
Yes, correct. This is using the simp_le client (as mentioned in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10672006). The client is easier to use and developed by the same author as the official client. Works wonderfully.
I would say that it is precisely the moral standing of LEOs that makes the torture, racism, fraud, corruption and brutality so much more egregious of an offense than when committed by any other armed gang.
"During starvation this metabolic state is a kindness of nature allowing the victim to suffer much reduced pains of hunger while dying."

I hope you have a cite for that, as it ignores the basics of natural selection.

There is no way "nature" would select for a means to reduce the discomfort of starving to death, as death would remove that being from the gene pool, leaving that mechanism out of the gene pool as well.
Just thought you might like to hear this---I love octave and use it regularly in my academic work. It is the perfect language for me to rapidly prototype out a calculation.

That said, I think the future lies in porting over octave libraries and plotting capabilities to Julia.
...as opposed to Firefox, Edge, and Safari which all do the same?
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These are serious, life-threatening, life-limiting illnesses where the seller can set high prices.

Unfortunately not. The way that public payers (Medicare, Medicaid) pay for antibiotics levels very little room for high prices. Even private insurance is going in that direction.

If drug makers charged a high price, then hospitals would be left holding the bag.
Well, I actually modded the mod myself – and just made it use Minecrafts' integrated keybind tool.

And switch EN and T1 is not very useful. I’d have to relearn blind typing completely again.
As a foundation for morality it does, violation of a universal principle being an immoral act. Your hypothetical situation depends on the dimension of time, I'd say that universality has no such constraint: the concept of a perfect circle exists regardless of a physical example ever having existed.
One word: Spinthariscope. The seller of mine said there used to be a version sold for one-time-pad purposes. All the cosmic voodoo you need, in a package as small as a USB stick, or less.
I was with you up until "It's entirely possible that we'd all be using Solaris on SPARC workstations by now if .NET hadn't existed."

I admit I don't follow the Windows world very closely, and I'm no developer, but Wikipedia says .NET got started in 2002, by which time Solaris was already on its way out.

I'm not sure what you see in .NET that you think killed Solaris/SPARC, or where you see the overlap (where a lack of .NET could have presented an opportunity for Solaris), but from my point of view Solaris was an also-ran by 2002, even though I continued to administer it until after the Oracle acquisition.
All the cool kids use Null-terminated strings now.

while (*a++ = *b++);
OBVIOUSLY CHAOTIC NEUTRAL
Why does being able to culture bacterial species matter? We can currently culture anything that infects humans.
Some of us use Common Lisp and are thus all the way to 1994:-)

It'd be kinda of nice to use something even better, though. I've still not found it.
Sorry, I left out a word. The vast majority of Apple's internal iOS stuff is still being written in Objective-C.
What exactly are extension expressions, do you mean extension methods? If so, Swift does support them. I actually miss interface extensions in Kotlin, but thats a java cross compatibility issue.
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> I meant from the perspective of users and providers, not drivers (which are irrelevant in the case of self-driving cars...). You have to get all these users to download another app when their existing one works fine. That's money that Tesla could be further investing in their core specialty rather.

That isn't what network effects are. That same argument applies to anyone competing against an incumbent.
Is it just me or is anyone else getting 404 for binary download (Ubuntu).
Youd be amazed at the number of insurance companies with pretty web front ends and paper records behind it all at the other end
The big difference between this and communist living of their parents generation could be summed up in one word "hope". They live in crappy communal living nearly identical to what their parents had but for them it is temporary just until they get their big break or their startup takes off. They all dream of living in a mansion when they get rich so they have hope. For their parents the government assigned apartment was the end of the line, there was no hope of getting a better place and you just lived with it and most people hated it. So when you choose to live this way you have the choice to leave, even though you most likely wont, but it is that choice that makes it so much better
Its funny, I was just performing an evil whiteboard coding question.

My question involves a sorting function and thus thinking of a problem one step at a time. Start with an inspection, then based on the element perform an action, then marking some bounds with pointers to spots within array.

Since you're doing this one item at a time, you're always just going to be incrementing or decrementing once.

Even if I do a

for a in range(15):

in python. Within that loop, I'm doing an action on one item. If I'm counting I'm most probably counting by 1.

We do things all the time in coding by looking at things one at a time, that's why increment and decrement by 1 is so useful to me.

In this case, the candidate couldn't not understand how to increment a "pointer" by one and wanted to solve it with a list. They still figured it out, but it got me thinking of this and maybe we're moving away from really thinking of things one step at a time. To me, its a very useful skill, and the reason I ask the question.
This is for markets with UberT (Taxi through Uber). They automatically add your set percentage to that fare, but only for that version of Uber. There are no added tips on UberX.
Agree they could have done without it entirely.
I'm definitely interested in those keybindings (I develop Cursive). Could you drop me a line? Email is in my profile, or cursive@cursiveclojure.com.
Fresh Insights from Clayton Christensen on Disruptive Innovation
> There was also the issue of Pranab’s excessive hours spent playing video games.

This looks to me like a "cheap outsourcing" flag, but I can be wrong.
How Mark Zuckerberg’s Altruism Helps Himself
Erick S. Raymond: http://esr.ibiblio.org/

Author of the Cathedral and the Bazaar.
> are

I don't think that existence is subjective, so universal preference either exists or it doesn't. It has been a long time since I've sat in a philosophy class though, so I'd welcome a correction.
France is still cleaning up explosives from World War I. About 900 tons a year are collected.
Seagate has really gone downhill in that respect, though it's worth noting their enterprise grade stuff is still reasonable (ymmv).
Study Finds Quitting Facebook Makes You Happier and Less Stressed
The countries and companies that make mines found in war zones should be required to clean them up.
I'm down for 100$.

It has to be nation wide in at least 45 states, it also needs to be a comparable price to what Uber is now ( so like 30$ or less for a 10 mile trip)
Great idea. Definitely the bot should have a business card scanner slot (and maybe a way to prevent every Tom, Dick, and Harry from inserting his business card).

I recall an amusing discussion about this on Slashdot a few years back. It would be great to have one of these at a conference, but someone pointed out, you'd need a way to distinguish people-bots from actual robots, e.g. Roomba.
Ah ok that explains it. Must have been an UberT ride.
Two hunches:

1) Expertise may cause certain types of bias.

Recent studies have examined this idea of "earned dogmatism": the idea that once you gain expertise in something, your ego builds, and that actually makes you less open minded and less able to revise or challenge your existing beliefs.[0]

2) Overcoming bias is different than overcoming ignorance. Categorically different, and perhaps massively harder.

A different study found expert philosophers exhibiting cognitive biases at the same rate as nonprofessionals, even when dealing with undergraduate-level philosophy problems.[1]

[0] http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022103115...

[1] http://cushmanlab.fas.harvard.edu/docs/schwitzgebel&cushman_...
Wow, seems like Apple is following the steps of Microsoft now!
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I agree with this.

However, it would be nice to know a little about the company. I perused your website, but didn't see any pages about the company history and current employees. Did I miss that? I did finally see the "CEO page", but it doesn't seem to be linked from the main page. It also appears to be something a technical person shows their CEO, rather than something that is about the CEO of rsync.net. I also didn't even see a physical address displayed anywhere.

Maybe it's just me, but I wouldn't feel comfortable dealing with such a black box business situation.

Perhaps you need to add a second disclaimer?

If you want to know who you're doing business with,
our product is Not for You.
Wouldn't HTTP/2 to origin give most of the benefits of Railgun, other than the change delta acceleration?

Seems like for high traffic sites and APIs the persistent non-blocking multiplexed connections with binary transfer might make a big difference?

I think Instart Logic uses the same kind of model in between their proxy nodes called IPTP (inter-proxy transport protocol).
They're not entirely the same thing. For example, if you think people have a right to privacy, one way to fight for it is to write cryptographic software, so everybody who already agrees with you can protect themselves. That doesn't require you to convince anyone who disagrees.
For android, we already have kotlin (https://kotlinlang.org/), which is very similar to Swift and has 100% interoperability with java.
Birds are neat.

My father had some sort of a mynah bird in a classroom where he taught middle school science.

(Mynahs can be phenomenal mimics, as this one was; it's also important to know that social birds both crave attention and love causing a scene.)

This particular bird learned that the sound of emergency vehicle sirens had the peculiar and interesting effect of causing the students to leap out of their seats in order to run to the windows to see what was happening outside… what the students never seemed to figure out was that the siren was in fact (almost always) the mynah bird mimicking a siren with perfect fidelity, down to the Doppler effect.

The students fell for it every time.
How an Eighteenth-Century Statistician Is Helping to Find MH370
We'll learn a lot more as we get closer to the IPO (estimated) in Q4 '16 or Q1 '17. As an investor and rideshare driver (Uber and Lyft), I'm skeptical.
If there is one unequivocal truth I have learned about social interactions, it's that nobody wants to know what your IQ is.
Wow, this guy's bias is really showing.

Young Cubans—well-educated and healthy, thanks to the communist system—comprise an attractive workforce.

The scent of predatory capitalism wafted through the air.

It's amazing how some people will completely ignore a brutal dictatorship if other things align with their agenda.
Curious — what sort of iops do you get out of a setup like that?
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A lesson in marketing/collaboration from Snoop Dogg
Clever (YC S12) is looking for an engineering manager
> This is why all the major pharmaceutical companies have shut down their antibiotic divisions.

No, but the other side of it is that for the money that they had invested, before shutting it down, they got very little at all. That is the other explanation here — that they invested money into antibiotics research and simply couldn't make it work. E.g., http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/?s=antibiotics
Buster Keaton – The Art of the Gag
"if you need both, then I agree with you that it's not much of a concern"

You need both pick-up and drop-off to get a unique row.

Now, I think about your examples, though, perhaps the absence of a particular row could show you didn't do something.
'SteveB went on the road to see the top weeklies, industry analysts and business press this week to give our systems strategy. The meetings included demos of Windows 3.1 (pen and multimedia included), Windows NT, OS/2 2.0 including a performance comparison to Windows and a “bad app” that corrupted other applications and crashed the system. It was a very valuable trip and needs to be repeated by other MS executives throughout the next month so we hit all the publications and analysts.'

'The demos of OS/2 were excellent. Crashing the system had the intended effect – to FUD OS/2 2.0. People paid attention to this demo and were often surprised to our favor. Steve positioned it as -- OS/2 is not "bad" but that from a performance and "robustness" standpoint, it is NOT better than Windows'.

http://iowa.gotthefacts.org/011107/PX_0860.pdf

"I have written a PM app that hangs the system (sometimes quite graphically)."

http://iowa.gotthefacts.org/011107/PX_0797.pdf
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Super excited! I will totally be exploring Swift for quantitative work. Julia has been great so far, but a lack of good IDE tooling is making a large codebase difficult to navigate and keep clean. Python has even less type safety than Julia. Swift has a REPL! Go doesn't, and its lack of generics makes writing most algorithms very limited (there isn't even a matrix 32 library, just 64 bit). Java has horrible native interfacing. C# is pretty anemic on Linux. C++ has too many gotchas, slow compile, to feel productive. Bonus: Swift libs will probably be very easy to deploy on both Android and ios.
I'm disappointed that they don't support wildcard domains.
USB cables matter when it comes to charging speed
While I agree with the sentiment, your "entropy" metaphor is quite wrong. Cleanup efforts lower the overall entropy of the Earth, they do not "kick it down the road" (which is perfectly fine for an open system with an external source of power like the Sun).

If you are worried about the Sun dying in a few billion years, then yeah, you are technically right.
The Charlie Rose interview is a pretty decent insight into the man. Certainly shuts up the armchair quaterbacks here with 20:20 hindsight calling him an idiot for certain career moves.

Sauce:
http://www.charlierose.com/watch/60463433
My first attempt at an IoT connected, voice controlled, Robot Bar Tender
I could be wrong but isn't Let's Encrypt more oriented towards securing servers?
cannot download snapshot now
What is the difference in this against StartSSL? It’s free, automated, and open ?
I think this is where VR will eventually settle in for the majority of people. In a way, smartphones gave us the ability to communicate with anyone in the world, for practically free, from anywhere in the world. With no barrier, we just started doing it. VR is going to do the same thing for face-to-face communication.

Sure, there is Skype and Face Time and whatnot, but they aren't the same. You get stuck looking back and forth between the camera and the screen. The camera angles are weird and the receiving user is at the mercy of the person they're talking to as to what they're going to look at. Ironically, I've felt more personally engaged, more like I'm talking to a real person, having conversations in VR with robot-shaped avatars than I've ever had with human faces in Skype.
We need to culture the things that infect the things that infect us.
Without water, even assuming people don't mix in colored papers, won't the recycled papers get darker and darker? Maybe the fibers are so small that it just throws away the dark ones.
OK, take "Total" out and see if you're still happy with that answer:

http://henrycountyreport.com/blog/2015/12/01/leaked-document...

It seems to me there's a tremendous lack of will to reform abuses and criminal acts by LEO. Perhaps not "Total", but so marginally less than "Total" as to be functionally equivalent (in that "not all men" kind of failure to acknowledge reality...).
Then incumbence effects -- either way, the point is that it's a barrier to entry.
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> You can just drop any old JS library and write a port for it (it will be async, though).

Actually, it's pretty simple to wrap Javascript functions so that you can call them directly from Elm. See e.g. [0] which is called from Elm here [1].

[0] https://github.com/elm-lang/core/blob/master/src/Native/Colo...

[1] https://github.com/elm-lang/core/blob/master/src/Color.elm
Not private key in public-key schemes (RSA, DH), because these are generally random integer and BN_mod_exp is not used in private key generation -- but it's used in public key generation so the result could be an invalid key pair.

In addition, I think it could produce a wrong symmetric key, as a result of a bad computation e.g. in the Diffie-Hellman protocol. So you could have insecure symmetric (e.g., AES) keys.
a brief history of helvetica and arial, posted here a couple of weeks ago:

http://www.marksimonson.com/notebook/view/the-scourge-of-ari...
> Whatever the reason he became famous for, he's probably done probably the single most influential figure to influence the West's familiarity and understanding of Buddhism.

That doesn't make him the head of Buddhism, unless you also believe Pizza Hut is the head of Italian cuisine, or ManchuWok is the leader of Chinese food.

Buddhism is not a hierarchical religion like Catholicism. If a monk seeks power/fame or participate in political struggle, he's not practicing true Buddhism.
Cleaning up may lower the entropy of the thing being cleaned, but there's no way it lowers the entropy of the Earth.
> This is why all the major pharmaceutical companies have shut down their antibiotic divisions.

Also, Radiolab recently noted[0] that antibiotic resistance can often be found in the wild within just a few years after a drug's discovery.

Antibiotic resistance was found in the wild to penicillin before it was even widely used by the public.

Others had a few years (or sometimes months):
Streptomycin ~5 years
Linezolid ~2 years
Clindamycin ~1 year
Piperacillin ~1 year
Meticillin 11 months

Why burn through 10 years of development for 1 year of sales? It doesn't even take very wide use before resistance gets around...

[0] http://www.radiolab.org/story/best-medicine/
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hbo is a content producer; netflix is a middleman getting into content production
If you fight to win (in at least as much as keeping your freedom to encrypt), you will have to convince your government at some point. The topic won't go away and if they care strongly enough you might find yourself in your own private full-on intelligence war, and maybe in prison. At some point tech cannot help you (rubber-hose cryptography).
Would you agree that well over 99% of LEOs either actively or passively ignore abuses by their colleagues? As evidenced by things like this: http://henrycountyreport.com/blog/2015/12/01/leaked-document...

I suspect that you're right that it is a minority of LEOs that actually abuse their power (possibly a 49% minority, but possibly even as low as 10% or even 1%), but it's clear that there are many more - an overwhelming majority, who actively defend or passively ignore those who do. (I'm sure I only ever see the bad ones, but just about every statement by the Fraternal Order of Police makes me seethe with rage...)
It's probably motivated in no small part by helping the type of person that's currently not encrypting their application/server and should be. TLS, certificates and PKI's are something a lot of people have a hard time with.

We're at a stage where people are capable of developing a web application but creating a (suitable) private key, generating a CRL and then using the resulting certificate in Apache is currently beyond their capabilities. Which is kind of cool in one sense but kind of scary in another.
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