skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a serious question: what about enjoying memes, and humor in general, indicates a lack of "special ability"?

I won't disagree that the stuff people have posted in that issue isn't funny. But honestly, I'd rather see that kind of thing than live in a world where people feel the need to treat everything (or even all technical things) seriously. There's enough darkness in the world without imposing more on ourselves.
Awesome I'd never heard of 'war is a racket', thanks! In return let me reccomend "the ruses for war" by john quigley and confessions of an economic hitman (and others) by john quigley as well as "a game as old as empire" with foreward by the same.
Juicing consumption when the economy is a measure of consumption has a certain logic.
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Apple is one of the richest companies! what makes you think they are going bankrupt?
For those who aren't familiar with it, the parent is quoting from Eisenhower's 1953 Chance for Peace speech [1].

There's an interesting piece from the NY Times in 2013 about what a bomber would buy today [2]. The situation has become considerably worse.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chance_for_Peace_speech

[2] http://atwar.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/04/16/what-would-a-fight...
They've already gotten the better of us because they're within our borders.

Now the choice is between doing nothing, thereby accepting the risk of us or our loved ones getting blown up or shot going while we go about our daily routine (see: Israel during the second intifada) or trade liberties for security (see: Brussels and France today) until we come up with a more sustainable solution (see: Israel today).

They've already gotten the better of us because they are here and they will kill us because their ideology is fundamentally opposed to Western concepts such as freedom of speech, press, religion, and association. Not to mention gay people existing and women having independence.

This is a real choice we must make. I doubt most will choose the first one once its them or someone they know that gets murdered/maimed in this way.
A military response plays directly into their hands so no, this does not merit a military response. What it does merit is isolating them and making sure they have no further access to weapons or funds and to assist those that want to flee.
I hope so but sometimes tradeoffs have to be made.

Compromise is the name of the game, and if BSD development is any indicator, security/privacy focus users are not ones to jump in and help keep lights on in most circumstances

That said I'm not sure FF could have done better things, but in their situation I would be trying to find some revenue streams that weren't Google
she has a new born and twins in the oven. and a company that didn't meet any goal.

i bet 100% of her time is now devoted to manipulating the board into firing her so she can get that obscene recision money. explaining all the articles about exactly that popping up everywhere in the media this week, when the twins are almost due.

... Hope I'm wrong, but would be clever.
To elaborate: Emotional responses are very plastic. One can deliberately change the brain structures involved in those processes. It stands to reason that the brain structures we have without deliberate practice are not some neutral state of the human brain, but a reflection of our social context.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2944261/

Abstract: In a recent visit to the United States, the Dalai Lama gave a speech at the Society for Neuroscience's annual meeting in Washington, D.C. Over the past several years, he has helped recruit Tibetan Buddhist monks for, and directly encouraged research on the brain and meditation in the Waisman Laboratory for Brain Imaging and Behavior at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The findings from studies in this unusual sample as well as related research efforts, suggest that, over the course of meditating for tens of thousands of hours, the long-term practitioners had actually altered the structure and function of their brains. In this article we discuss neuroplasticity, which encompasses such alterations, and the findings from these studies. Further, we comment on the associated signal processing (SP) challenges, current status and how SP can contribute to advance these studies.

Choice quote: "Expert meditators also showed less activation than novices in the amygdala during FA meditation in response to emotional sounds. Activation in this affective region correlated negatively with hours of practice in life, as shown in Figure 1(A). This finding may support the idea that, advanced levels of concentration are associated with a significant decrease in emotionally reactive behaviors that are incompatible with stability of concentration."

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22661409

Abstract: The development of social emotions such as compassion is crucial for successful social interactions as well as for the maintenance of mental and physical health, especially when confronted with distressing life events. Yet, the neural mechanisms supporting the training of these emotions are poorly understood. To study affective plasticity in healthy adults, we measured functional neural and subjective responses to witnessing the distress of others in a newly developed task (Socio-affective Video Task). Participants' initial empathic responses to the task were accompanied by negative affect and activations in the anterior insula and anterior medial cingulate cortex--a core neural network underlying empathy for pain. Whereas participants reacted with negative affect before training, compassion training increased positive affective experiences, even in response to witnessing others in distress. On the neural level, we observed that, compared with a memory control group, compassion training elicited activity in a neural network including the medial orbitofrontal cortex, putamen, pallidum, and ventral tegmental area--brain regions previously associated with positive affect and affiliation. Taken together, these findings suggest that the deliberate cultivation of compassion offers a new coping strategy that fosters positive affect even when confronted with the distress of others.
It really isn't comparable.

In the areas that Apple competes there are a handful of serious competitors and they deliberately place themselves in markets where they know they can offer a superior experience. In the automative industry there are dozens of competitors. And most of them over at least some cars that are higher in quality than Tesla. And of course none of them have the problem of electric cars namely range and worrying about recharge locations. Which is a concern for the mainstream masses.

For me Tesla is more like the Windows Phone. A great product but with quite a lot of uncertainty around it's longterm future.
Agree. Current patterns in discussion board designs are very unsophisticated and drive content toward uninformed debate and reader exhaustion, rather than constructing understanding.

Our entire news infrastructure (blogs/articles, television, etc) also suffers from similar problems.

Its like we can't break orbit of much shallowness, except in relatively esoteric, insular communities online and offline.
It gives a read-only peek at the scope of the imported module.

import {foo} from 'bar.js';
// you can't re-bind `foo` from here, but if
// a function defined in 'bar.js' mutates it,
// the change is reflected here too.

It enables circular dependencies, for free, and makes it easy to discard unused code.

See the examples at the Rollup playground.

http://rollupjs.org
Thank you! I sent the recommendation to a friend of mine who likely will get a lot more mileage out of it than I will (no employees atm).
I agree, although I think Musk is thinking much more fundamentally than cars with Tesla... we as a civilization need an efficient way to produce, store, and consume energy from the sun. The car is a logical near-term path/product to advance the 'store' and 'consume' technologies while having a near-term positive environmental impact and a sustainable business model.
You can't tackle the threat already within the borders without a France-style state of emergency, unfortunately.
Just to put numbers to this, sickening as that is...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Iraq_War estimates between 150k and 1 million dead. That's out of a total population of 32 million or so according to <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Iraq>, so somewhere between 1 in 200 and 1 in 30 killed.

For comparison, the population of Germany in 1939 was about 70 million according to <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Germany#Statis.... And according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_casualties_in_World_War... there were somewhere between 4.3 to 5.3 million military deaths, somewhere between 500k to 2 million civilian deaths due to some of the Soviet end-war and post-war shenanigans, another 350k to 600k civilian deaths due to Allied bombing. Let's call it 5 million all told on the low end. That's 1 in 14. And due to the fraction of this that were military, the resulting demographic distribution has some interesting features. See <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Germany_sex_by_age_1950_1.... In particular, note the deep notch in the 30-35 demographic that would have been born during World War 1 and the large differences between numbers of males and females in all the 20-30 age group.

So one difference is that a larger fraction of the population was dead, and a significantly larger fraction of the "young male" demographic that tends to do things like fight back against the occupier as opposed to going on with life. People were just _tired_ of fighting, effectively.

Another difference was the massive aid/rebuilding program financed via the Marshall Plan.

And I suspect a final difference was a much smaller feeling of "us vs them" or "we're fundamentally different", on both sides....
KiCad also has support for microvias and blind/buried vias in this release. There are a few high speed design tools (trace length tuning and differential pair routing) that were added and I expect more RF support will come in the next release or two.
Sarcasm, bro.
Many of the ideas they assembled into the iPhone were derivative of work done by others in academia and private companies, especially the things they sued Samsung for. Maybe that's what the OP was getting at.
And that may be what it will take for a while. But that's a different problem than what to do about IS on territory that they currently hold. One thing that we can do is make it impossible for IS supporters abroad to go to their territory to receive training.
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You've been on HN long enough to know comments like this are out of bounds here.
yeah, i dunno why they market the lib so heavily for client-side use. but it's 2015 - js is as much server as it is client
I also suspect that Tesla is a battery company that happens to sell cars.

But there's a problem. There is just so much R&D being done in energy storage devices and battery technology that Tesla will need to do quite a bit of M&A in order to stay relevant. That's a weird thing to do whilst you are still selling cars.
I would think so if it was just the first line. The whole rant about patent does not indicate it is sarcasm.
I thought it was going to be about having a minority stake in a startup, like investing 10k when a couple of buddies have an idea for a product
I think his concern is- since the security program would need to run on the attacker's computer, the attacker may simply opt not to use it, circumvent it. That being said, I don't see why it can't be used to sanitize requests to the server.
Yea, Word 2000 and later is famous for VML and other IE-specific features in the HTML output, and Outlook 2007 and later uses Word for HTML email.
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This makes perfect sense. There's a huge evolutionary advantage in calling attention to a bad actor (someone behaving in a way not advantageous to the tribe), because that person will either change, or be expelled from the group, or killed, which helps the group. However praising someone just makes them feel good, and is not a real motivator. Humans evolved to be violent and critical, because the tribes that didn't have that attribute got killed off, conquered, or died of starvation during hard times.
Islamic State needs oil money to sustain its military, not the terrorists that it sends into Europe. The most expensive cost there is airfare and weapons/munitions.

Additionally, cutting off funding doesn't solve the issue of homegrown terrorism, a la Sayed Farook who is a salaried employee and set up an IED factory in his home. He probably paid for that himself.
Having a pop-up that displays an error "not found" as soon as you start typing—making it look like you made a mistake before you've even finishing doing what you're doing, looks really annoying. You'd constantly see these little red alerts appearing and disappearing below where you type.
that explains the internet
Research shows that school racial integration alone increases outcomes for all children by high double digits. In fact, racial integration is to my knowledge the only reliable method anyone has bothered to attempt to improve educational outcomes in underachieving schools.

What are referred to as "inner city schools" can more relevantly be referred to as re-segregated schools or just never-integrated schools.

ProPublica came out with extremely compelling data on this subject just several weeks ago.
> Now the choice is between doing nothing, thereby accepting the risk of us or our loved ones getting blown up or shot going while we go about our daily routine (see: Israel during the second intifada) or trade liberties for security (see: Brussels and France today) until we come up with a more sustainable solution (see: Israel today).

That risk will always be there no matter what we do.

> They've already gotten the better of us because they are here and they will kill us because their ideology is fundamentally opposed to Western concepts such as freedom of speech, press, religion, and association. Not to mention gay people existing and women having independence.

No, that's not why they kill people. They kill people because it serves their goals indirectly, it allows them to recruit, get more funding and credibility.

> This is a real choice we must make. I doubt most will choose the first one once its them or someone they know that gets murdered/maimed in this way.

As unfortunate as it is sometimes solutions are not simple, easy and quick.

This on is complex, will be very difficult and will take a lot of time (likely: a generation or more).

Of course that's not going to get you voted in anywhere so instead we'll act rashly, counterproductive and quick and in the process we will be a willing partner of IS doing exactly what they want us to do.
Does anyone who shares this criticism have a reasonable, realistic plan for how Mozilla can make money? There's a very large payroll keeping this project alive, and apart from advertising revenue, I just don't see how you monetize a browser.
> doesn't have somebody like a Steve Jobs, or even a John Ivy, who obsesses over every small detail to make everything perfect.

Ah, irony.
Some of you may be amused to know that Lehrer's "Fight Fiercely Harvard" [1], written as a parody of his (and my) alma mater's traditional football fight songs, has been enthusiastically and affectionately adopted by Harvard students themselves, and is frequently played at games by the Harvard Band.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27PSHASlGUU
I don't read SBM, I just know they're a popular blog whose beat this story intersects. Can you find anyone that analyzed or contextualized this paper? It seems like it should have been a bombshell.
Every time someone armchairs evolutionary psychology on the Internet my brainstem tries to curl in on itself.
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can you be a little more specific?
First historian: "Let's talk about what happened."

Next gen historian: "Let's talk about who talked about what happened."

Third gen historian: "Let's talk about how those who talked about talking about what's happened talked about it."

It's like they're discovering recursion one generation at a time.
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I believe everyone has exactly the same rights, regardless of their gender, skin color, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, choice between emacs and vi, etc. But I don't consider myself a feminist. I don't really see why I need to adopt one specific label like that. Should I also identify as an Emacsinist or whatever?

Perhaps more to the point, in the case of feminism in particular, there seems to be a strong undercurrent of something more than a desire for equality. The phrase "man hating feminist" exists for a reason. For my money, the "rad fem" sect have largely co-opted the label "feminist" and I don't necessarily want to endorse their worldview.
smart thought. yes, definitely could be that in my opinion. Everyone wants to see people escape from North Korea, and no one wants to see innocent people get sent to a prison camp.
False. This is exactly what they want. With an idea as "viral" as theirs that is about the dumbest thing you can do i.e. give them more evidence of their bankrupt cult-ish ideas.

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/03/what-isi...

tl;dr: The Islamic State awaits the army of “Rome,” whose defeat at Dabiq, Syria, will initiate the countdown to the apocalypse.
how significant is it really? anybody ever put numbers to it?
Honestly I'd like to verify these numbers because I can't believe them. 5bn $ in 2 days? That can't be!!!
> company that basically does nothing but buy things from other companies and puts them in a shiny box

I think you are referring to samsung or other company building screens or other parts for apple, you have to realize that apple is the one who develops specs and ideas for these things to be built and is only using Samsung and LG for their manufacturing resources because they are leaders in actual manufacturing.

It's like praising a construction workers for building a bridge that was designed by a extremely talented engineer, all the praise for designing a functional bridge should go to the engineer who designed it. It's easy to follow instructions, it's incredibly hard to come up with something that was never done before and create specs for a construction worker (samsung factory) to actually build it.
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Yes. I would associate Tesla with Samsung as much as with Apple. Samsung LCD/OLED technology is in many high-end mobile device for example, even though they have flagship products that directly compete.. they are selling the more fundamental technologies. In the same way, Tesla (Elon) would much rather be selling batteries to many other car manufacturers and home battery storage manufacturers (the patent release makes a lot of sense within this line of thinking).

The challenge with energy storage is not only in the R&D, but also in the manufacturing at scale, cars are a great avenue to approach this challenge.
> That risk will always be there no matter what we do.

Yeah, you're correct. I meant significant risk. It's always a risk.

> They kill people because it serves their goals indirectly, it allows them to recruit, get more funding and credibility.

The stated goal of Islamic State is to establish a caliphate across the world. The stated values and de facto policy of Islamic State is in opposition to Western values such as freedom of speech, press, religion, and association.

Yes, these attacks also double as recruiting tools.

> we will be a willing partner of IS doing exactly what they want us to do.

Who gives a fuck what Islamic State wants us to do? This is the most intellectually bankrupt argument tossed around. It literally makes no sense at all.

We need to do what is strategically sound.

If that happens to be what IS wants, why should that matter one iota beyond the strategic calculus?
It also explains politics. I'm pretty sure that, if we were facing an extinction event courtesy a rather large and immovable asteroid, they'd spend the time we had left trying to see who they could blame other than themselves for curtailing efforts to expand beyond LEO.
I highly recommend this long article about him: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7580638. The story of the master tapes in his basement is striking, but the whole portrait is striking.
> namely range and worrying about recharge locations. Which is a concern for the mainstream masses.

I don't think the masses drive 200 miles a day on the regular. That's $500+ a month in gas.
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this is for their "design patents" issued in 2007.

which can basically be described as "a phone as a box with a touchscreen and no keyboard"

all they "make" is the box. they don't own the rights to any of the parts inside it (although they do have exclusive distribution rights for the versions of the components they put in the box)

OK they write their own firmware for those boxes. but none of that is actually that good. anyone using their latest kit knows their phones don't even work that good as a phone.

apple as a company won't survive past the last of Steve jobs patents expiring. which is no later than 2028.
Copy pasting this from below:

Who gives a fuck what Islamic State wants us to do? This is the most intellectually bankrupt argument tossed around. It literally makes no sense at all.

We need to do what is strategically sound.

If that happens to be what IS wants, why should that matter one iota beyond the strategic calculus?
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"because the options are effectively worthless until there is a qualifying event"

That's like saying a lottery ticket is effectively worthless until after the draw. It's not true. The expected value (weighted average of all possible future outcomes) might be low. The chance of the long term value being non-zero might be 1% or less. But, that doesn't mean the equity has no value.

Yes, people on both sides fail to do to the right calculations, or don't have access to the data or tools to do those calculations, but that just means the value is difficult to measure, not that the value doesn't exist at the time.

If the equity part of your compensation is effectively worthless (to you) then I'll happily buy you a beer today, in exchange for rights to all future cash flows from those shares/options.
Good advice here. I haven't used KiCad yet, though this thread might finally spur me to try it. I've been using a super simple program called FreePCB for really simple analog stuff that can be routed by hand.

The thing that gets sent to the board fab is a set of files in "Gerber" format. So, the Gerbers are your last chance to confirm that the boards will be what you want. I suggest using a Gerber viewing program and look carefully at all of the files to make sure that they agree with your conception of what you expect the board to look like.

Finally, whatever fab house you choose, read all of their instructions and design rules, both to confirm that your board has a chance of being made, and because it's educational.

I've been happy with www.pcbfabrication.com for several runs of boards. I know people who go to a different house for every order, shopping around for the best price, but that just adds one more level of effort and worry for me. So I'm loyal to a good supplier.