skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Indeed, there are factors that influence the susceptibility to this mind virus, but to understand the factors that influence it you first need to acknowledge that it is a religious mind virus. None of the articles that analyze this have acknowledged this (at least not the ones that I have read). That's partly because for atheists and moderates it's hard to imagine that somebody really believes that stuff, and partly because of political correctness.

An example why it's important to understand this is that the data shows that education in general does not work. Many terrorists are highly educated; a lot of them even have college degrees. So raising the general level of education is probably not effective. Education about religion might be.

Other important factors are tribal us-vs-them mentality, and (perceived) grievances.

You ask why this mind virus spreads so easily. That question is not very hard to answer: people are susceptible because they already believe that the Qur'an is the infallible word of God, and the things that ISIS does are sadly a plausible interpretation of the Qur'an. Such a belief in the infallibility is in itself dangerous, and I don't think we will have long term peace until the majority no longer believes that. Christians used to believe that about the Bible but the majority no longer does. Hopefully Islam can make a similar change, but I'm not very optimistic.
I was more reacting to the general HN zeitgeist and the current front page thread about safe spaces than I was the issue of religion. But I do appreciate the discussion of the topic that this has generated.
Ask HN: Moratorium on threads related to the culture wars and identity politics
The Hacker News guidelines permit "anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity".

Now, even HN qualifies what isn't suitable for political stories: "Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon." Rest assured, most such stories do not satisfy this criterion, or wear off their novelty all too quickly.

Be it the Millennials whose whining will immanentize the eschaton, the white heterosexual males and their original sin of mercantilism and colonialism, the feminists and Cultural Marxists who want to usurp Western values (whatever they are this month)... it is all grinding.

The chief complaint, of course, is that threads on this subject are devoid of any value pertaining to debate. They instead serve as hubs for signaling normative dispositions. The inevitable result of such vacuous posturing is attrition. Discussions grow ever more primordial, threads on the subject increase and these elements spill over to other threads. It is not uncommon now for technical threads to derail into aesthetic tangents (i.e. Coq). Everyone wants to be the greatest victim and the greatest receiver of sympathy. No one actually cares about the utility or disutility of people. They only care that everyone know how righteous they are.

Many of you will object on the basis of free speech. But there is no free speech on private property. Certainly, the property owner may implicitly consent to ideological dissemination on their property. They may even explicitly have easement or other contract permitting nonpossessory use that includes the right to disseminate ideology, or otherwise, speech. The property owner's rights ultimately override yours, and so you have no right to demand anything (neither do I, obviously). As such, the owner exercises all final discretion.

Note that I do not expect any such moratorium to actually take place. I merely wanted to counterbalance things by expressing a dissenting view.
Yes - they're called 'basic blocks'.
Pledge during lifetime means that they have the flexibility to do the bulk of the liquidation during the latter years of their lives, when perhaps he has assumed only Chairman responsibilities.

Also, you can get loans at very low rates by putting shares into collateral. This is how Larry Ellison funds much of his endeavors.
Well this is a hit piece.
They didn't announce plans to sell immediately and given the timeframe, I'd imagine that selling/transferring those shares will be done in the most tax-advantaged way possible.
Maybe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_truce#Christmas_1914
By saying "they" is no worse I didn't mean to imply it's no better. Perhaps my bit on "he" annoying people understates the issue though.
Doctors have been working to advance the field for centuries certainly but for pretty much all of them science by any reasonable definition wasn't involved in the process.

Evidence-based medicine (what else would it be based on?) is actually a thing and an uncomfortably recent one at that.
I love cruel easter eggs like that. It worked didn't it.
This covers a much broader range than the title indicates: A sophisticated account of the origins of Modernism, its history in Olympic design, and the intellectual property rights of designers.
Yes. Here's what the real one looks like:

http://www2.pcmag.com/media/images/473538-windows-10-is-here...
We agree it's worthy of debate, not merely a hand-waving assertion.

In the 18th century, the French Academy of Science published their consensus that there were no rocks that fell from the sky because there are manifestly no rocks in the sky. So European museums threw out their collections of meteorites.
Mark Zuckerberg and Wife Pledge 99% of Their Facebook Shares to Charity
In the end, it's extremely difficult to fight against guerilla warfar against an enemy in their own territory. Generally 12-15% of the population is needed for an armed rebellion to be successful. It'd be hard for most countries to buy off enough soldiers to fight against that, in most areas.

Just looking at Iraq and Afghanistan it's rough. The rifts in that entire region are problematic. Even with superior technology and training, there's no clear victory... the same could be said of domestic rebellion if it ever came to that in the U.S.A.
Okay, maybe it's just me, but after reading the introduction and getting through the list of extremely difficult "Can we..." challenges followed by the "We must..." directives, the first quote that popped into my head was a variation of “a poor man is crazy, but a rich man is just ‘eccentric.’”

I get the desire to solve the world's ills, of society's shortcomings, of essentially fixing the thousands of years of evolutionary programming to craft a utopia. What sane person would sit down and say "You know, when I die, I want to leave the world a chaotic fireball of pain and suffering" in all seriousness? Maybe I'm significantly jaded, but I hope I'm not the only one who finds such a letter a little bit narcissitic, brought to you by the originator of one of the most narcissitic platforms of the modern era, and hosted on that very platform, naturally.

>Our generation grew up in classrooms where we all learned the same things at the same pace regardless of our interests or needs.

This isn't true at all. "Our" generation grew up with having to work to acquire knowledge. To spend time in the library. To sit down and read. To think. It took time, effort, opportunity, and personal investment - so much of which is no longer a priority now.

>The internet is so important that for every 10 people who gain internet access, about one person is lifted out of poverty and about one new job is created.

Citation needed. Like, really.
The Autodidact Ratio: A Better Way to Measure Bias Against Women
I think the reason it feels so sluggish is that the servers it pulls data from take so long to respond. I don't think a native view would help with that, but it's absolutely something they need to fix.
So much for the three comma club.
The article (blog post) links to an earlier blog post by the same author which contains previous discussion and plenty of examples of the singular they: https://illinois.edu/blog/view/25/247504
I was taught that "he" is gender-neutral as/when needed, and in true Humpty-Dumpty fashion that's what I use.
I meant project as in company before it's doing business.
They're meant to reduce the impact on influential people who would oppose cell-towers in certain places.

The company that invented the towers also make fake lighthouse and windmill cell towers.
I think that's why they created a non-profit organization, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative. Non-profits are taxed differently and I'm sure they'll figure out how to get the money where it needs to be and pay as little tax as possible.
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I don't think anyone would dispute that gendered pronouns make learning a language harder. Here in the US most kids will learn a rudimentary amount of a foreign language in school, at which point they realize just how lucky they are that most nouns in their native language use gender-neutral pronouns (I distinctly remember wondering just what made tables female when we were required to say la mesa). There's even a famous Mark Twain essay where he laments at length the chaos of German's genders: https://www.cs.utah.edu/~gback/awfgrmlg.html
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I sold my software business with FE International earlier this year and hit about 3x yearly earnings for a 1.5 year old company. Comparing it against the rest of the market, particularly Flippa and Empire Flippers I felt that it was a good deal.
Plus you get great guys like Thomas to handle everything for you.

Note: reading that back almost sounds like an advert but I'm not affiliated in any way, just a happy customer :)
>Anyway though, it's still a lot. And I hope they follow what other billionaires have been doing; not just throwing it at charities, but putting it into research and even funding entirely new projects.

You might be interested in reading about Chuck Feeney (the founder of Duty Free Stores), who was the original guy advocating for such hands-on charitable work.
You overlooked that small detail where for services where the cloud does not require plaintext, Apple encrypts everything with a key that never leaves the client.
How would one, practically, go about modeling the impact of L3 impact in a SoC design, assuming you were intending to produce sonething like the A9X?

(I speak as one who loved sim_g4 as a modeling tool for verifying compiler efficiency, or rather, occasional lack thereof. So easy to see when a cache miss would occur, or just execution unit contention)
It's not okay regardless who is doing it.
>I mean, what else are you going to do with $45 Billion?

You are thinking about it the wrong way. You don't spend $45B on stuff for yourself. You spend $45B on changing the way governments and populations live work and how power is balanced.

When Bud Fox asked Gordon Gekko "How much is enough" Gekko knew immediately that Fox wasn't in the same league. Money isn't about stuff, it's about power and influence.
Spotify is pushing updates that breaks the app
That fills me with terror. And thank you!
Adorable baby girl, welcome to the world.

PS: stress and toxicity quite often are the real causes whereby the few diseases Mark mentioned is a consequence.
The snark was overdone ("because pretty", "just no", etc).

"because "pretty.", for example, implies that the creators of the language are shallow idiots that can't take practical considerations into account.

That's hardly specific technical criticism. And it fails to take into account (even just to refute) the whole business cases/design logic as given by them.

Then you answer to complaints about said snark with "Oh sorry, forgive me for having an opinion. I wouldn't want to upset anyone. I guess that's the nature of upvote aggregates, isn't it, to eliminate diverse opinion.".

Still passive-aggresively confrontational.

Which happens to others, and me too occasionally, and I also have got down-voted for that. But it's hardly a case of "eliminating diverse opinion". It's mostly eliminating mere opinion unsupported by arguments, or presented without consideration to the people doing the hard work ("just no").
A hot tip that may help others, here at Dropbox a lot of the engineers (and other folks) schedule "maker time" in their calendar and when people see that they respect those times as sacred and won't bother the person.
There is a still huge industry of web games (99% of them in Flash) because that is still the best technology to write cross-platform games in the browser. Kongregate, Armor Games, millions of people playing games on Facebook.
Spending money meaningfully is hard work. John D. Rockefeller had such a hard time with it that after awhile he just left it up to his son, who devoted his life to philanthropy.

At the Cleveland church he went to, significant portions of his time spent there was to write checks to parishioners.

I'd say it takes roughly the same amount of effort to spend money as it does to make it. You still need an organization, you still need to make really hard decisions day in and day out. It seems that there's something fundamental about philanthropy that doesn't scale.

Personally, I think the work a person does to earn that kind of money, assuming of course it's from legitimate commercial activity, is plenty enough, one shouldn't feel morally compelled to donate it back. But like you said, what else are you going to do with it? Doesn't make a lot of sense anymore to leave billions to heirs.
> Yes, because it has to, to serve the sync purpose.

If you bothered to read my post, I never said that couldn't be done. They simply need to be liable (both civil and criminal) for any problems that arrive.

The idea that Google gets to collect all the data on people they want without any responsibility for how they handle that data is insane.

> OK now you must be trolling.

The fact that you think my post could be trolling suggests you aren't taking the risks from data aggregation anywhere near as seriously as you should be.

I'm not - those are examples, not an exhaustive list. That said, data stays around forever, while 2nd graders eventually grow up. If you want a more likely example, try insurance companies.
This guy tried to get Cuba online and got five years in jail: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/last-prisoner-cuba-alan-gross-60...
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I have a guess, but after reading that, I would very much appreciate knowing what the game was?
Cuba will be connected to Verizon DC in Florida.
Oh sorry, forgive me for having an opinion. I wouldn't want to upset anyone. I guess that's the nature of upvote aggregates, isn't it, to eliminate diverse opinion.

By the way that's not snark. That would imply I was being snide, like the first two sentences above, provided for your example. What I called the language was a bastardized version of Lua. There isn't anything subtle about it. What this thread is rife with, though, is ignorance.

I'm getting tired of passive aggressive conversation on HN, and elsewhere. It just promotes bullshit and dismissing others voices if they don't pretty it up for the crowd.

If I said something more like, "Wow, what a wonderful set of features, too bad this breaks syntax highlighting and doesn't support drop-in replacement." Then it might be more palatable, but that's not what I thought, nor how I felt.
Chapeau Mr. and Mrs. Zuckerberg.
At last Zuckerberg realized real problems of the world can't be solved by Facebook or for that matter technology. I am talking about healthcare and medical problems. Personally websites like Facebook are wate of time and barely make ant impact in human potential improvement.They do make us feel worse and sell our personal data to advertisers though.
This is just one of those studies where they get tens of thousands of people and then find dozens of correlations with tiny p values between questionable measurements. Here is what they report correlated with glycemic index quintile membership using p < 0.0001:

Burnam score (supposedly measures depression), BMI, physical activity, SFAs,MUFAS,PUFAS, trans fat, fruit, vegetables, legumes, nuts/seeds, dietary fiber, healthy eating index score, Age, Race, education, income, hypertension, hormone replacement therapy, alcohol intake, smoking status, stressful life events, social support

Here is their description of this scale:

"The Burnam scale includes 2 items from the Diagnostic Interview Schedule and 6 items from the Center for Epidemiologic Studies–Depression Scale. Questionnaire responses were used to calculate the Burnam score with the use of a logistic regression–based algorithm; values for the scale ranged from 0 to 99, with higher scores indicating greater depressive symptomatology."

Mean scores for lowest and highest glycemic index quintiles were .0209 +/-.09 and .0273 +/-.1, respectively. I have no feel for what these numbers mean, but ~.03 on a scale of 0-99 doesn't sound very depressed.
After Steam, Windows Store is definately the best app store I've used. Normally a Linux fan, but I'm really impressed by Microsofts products lately.
Is there still the problesm connecting/disconnecting ethernet after booting? My understanding is that apple broke thunderbolt in their interface in writing their drivers to handle connect/disconnect (iirc).

Does the scaling work okay? (I'm on a retina mbp)... IIRC the camera was another issue for recent macbooks.

Sorry, just noticed you're on a 2010... :-) ...I had an early 2011 before my current one, it was stolen a couple years ago. Used a chromebook for a while, even with RDP, but couldn't get it to VPN to work, so went back to an MBP.
I've used this since the 90s, so -

oh God, I'm a pronoun hipster. ;-(
And on the other hand we have the public companies, lacking strong leadership, forced to look at quarterly returns.
> Yes, it intentionally uses the feminine third-person, but I guess it makes a point about inclusion this way.

I end up feeling suspicious of an author that uses she about ~75% of the time since it seems they remember to use it more often when referring to people in a customer/student/etc role or with an example question/mistake, yet more often use he or avoid pronouns when referring to an expert or people with titles.

Meanwhile, they works perfectly fine, if it confuses someone that is their problem and if I said her problem there it would be because I was sexist for one reason and his for another. :)
"If you sign up for some website that requires an email address (especially if they might spam), using a + alias lets you create a filter for the stuff they send"

It's a great idea...but I'm encountering more and more sites that reject your email address outright if a + is in there anywhere.
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If you can't make any money for upgrades, and there isn't a new influx of users, then there's not much money to be made by updating your app after release—only the people who would buy it after the update, but wouldn't have bought without it. Everyone else either paid you all the money they could, or will buy it anyway.
>"is this machine actually capable of running this game?" check. Non-trivial to implement, sure,

Quite trivial, actually. They already do the necessary data-gathering at your end (i.e. their periodic automated survey), the only "hard" bit is data-gathering at the other end (when a game is listed).

It's so trivial to implement, in fact, that one has to wonder whether there are commercial considerations overriding the technical aspect. Maybe they don't want to piss off hardware and game vendors, maybe Valve would rather have you buy their console to bypass these considerations altogether... who knows.
That "official" repo is just a code dump.

They handle this pretty weirdly, with each commit on master being a release. There's dev branch that was meant to have actual changes (without commit comments - developer said most of his commits have useless descriptions like "bugfixes", but that's a personal preference), but seems to be dead.

This was all discussed here: https://github.com/DrKLO/Telegram/pull/76
Facebook notes were a huge part of the platform at first, died with expansion of the Newsfeed and the way statuses work now.
Besides taxes, selling 44.5 billion worth of shares would affect the share value negatively. They will probably use some kind of derivative contract to get funds for the non-profit.
This is pretty close to how I, as a native English speaker, feel about gendered inanimate objects. I have no idea why so many other languages force you to stick a gender on something without any genitals.

I would've preferred not to have to learn that something as simple as 'milk' is feminine in Spanish, masculine in Italian, and neuter in Russian - that hunk of my brain could surely be put to better use.
That's very interesting! I haven't seen that specific (and horrifying) criticism.

What I've seen was from Christopher Hitchens, who said that she wasn't a "good" person because her primary motivation was to proselytize, as she believed Jesus instructed her to do.

My comment was creating an analogy between those two: Dan Price doing something awesome for his employees because of a lawsuit is something like Mother Theresa serving the poor because she believed it was how she would have a good afterlife.

I don't know if either of those motivations are true. It's impossible to know someone's motivations with certainty. That's why I think an action and its consequences are the thing to focus on.

If it's true, as the article says, that Dan Price is creating the cult of Dan Price (a do-gooder-CEO kind of thing), great! Even if he's just some narcissist who wants people to love him, I'm happy that another wealthy person is pursuing some form of humanitarianism. All the really "good" people might be narcissists, for all we know!
Where is the evidence for Google's claims of not using the data? Why would you take their word for it.

People who following unsubstantiated claims are also called apparatchik.