skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not here to defend the particular social movement that grew around these guys, even though they are right about some things, like catastrophic risks tied to new tech (which certain academics are quick to dismiss).

And I get the point of it not being too rigorous in academic sense. Sure, no arguments there.

The point I would like to make is that dismissing thinkers due to their writing style, personality issues, oddities, etc, can lead to very problematic outcomes. Many top thinkers in history have had childish qualities and were not well-rounded fully functional "normal" human beings. "Normal"s are too busy leading productive lives to write thousands of pages on vaguely identified future risks. The types of blind spots that these odd thinkers can uncover in the rest of the society can be very useful in improving everyone's lives. The guy who pointed out the toxicity of lead had to go through same type of ridicule by the society that was busy applying a layer of lead paint on every flat surface, including their faces. Same with many others pointing out practical risks that the society is currently blind to. Off the top of my head, other famous weirdos with odd beliefs, yet huge contributions to science/tech: Faraday, Tesla.
Any particular reason you don't have Infiniband on these for interconnects?

Having this chassis with Infiniband and a local disk would be a dream if the manufacturing cost is right as we scale up in our local datacenter where I'm at.
Does this only affect the standard Telegram chats or also "Secret Chats" as well?
Not comfortable with this "don't blame the engineers" angle, which sounds like some developers are taking the fall for execs.

We are talking about engineers, yes, but, guys like the research and development chiefs of Audi and Porsche, Ulrich Hackenberg and Wolfgang Hatz, or Hanno Jelden, head of the company's powertrain electronics.

These guys are top execs. Likely substantial performance incentive packages.

Such execs, like any CTO anywhere, could run a "special project" like this off the radar, to hit projected metrics, and bonus targets.

Don't take VW's word for it, here is the German prosecutor's take:

> The number of Volkswagen employees that orchestrated the diesel-emissions scandal that's rocked the automotive industry was likely fewer than 10, according to the public prosecutor's office in Braunschweig, Germany.

http://www.autoblog.com/2015/10/23/fewer-than-10-vw-engineer...

Often we engineers know things the CEO doesn't. I'm confident that happens across industries.
A ponzi scheme would require a larger upfront sticker investment from new investors with large but unsustainable sticker returns over time.

This is just a straight up 'sticker + $.50' for 2 stickers exchange.
How did Elon Musk come up with the idea for the Hyperloop?
Has anyone tried Attic[1] and bup, that could comment on the differences?

1. https://attic-backup.org/
Mushroom Networks’ PortaBella Named Construction Equipment Top 100 New Products [pdf]
In my time at LW I saw so many people becoming anxious, struggling with how to "escape themselves", how to transcend their biases, and meta-biases, knotting themselves into paradoxes with the elaborate hypothetical constructions, it was just sad after some point. They convinced themselves that rationality means trusting an external system so that if it leads to something counterintuitive, it must surely be seriously accepted. I mean it's kind of how it works, you shouldn't rule out your potential conclusions at the outset, but real life is a lot messier than theories. And I know one can say, this sounds like an excuse to be lazy and unreflective and uninterested in the world's problems, but actually all I'm saying is you can't obsess over this sort of thing and keep your mental hygiene at the same time. This sort of thing can make people burn out or become actually depressed or paranoid.

One must keep the ability to laugh at oneself, to be able to humorously see a kind of futility in what one does but dance the dance anyway. Clenching too hard, making one more nested iteration in the prisoner's dilemma or the chicken game won't help.

Also don't take stuff more seriously than a certain ceiling.

For me, reading about Zen ideas helped me get out of this narrow, "rationalized", neatly ordered, algorithmic, packaged-and-labeled way of thinking. Metaphorically it's kind of the difference between a probabilistic machine learning system vs. a symbolic knowledge system where everything is defined precisely and unambiguously and every rule is laid out etc.

I'm still materialist and atheist, but I think being too deeply involved in any ideology is harmful (be it Marxism or Fascism or Scientology or LW). Yeah, you can reflect upon whether it's possible to live truly independent of ideologies without making or finding a new one for yourself. But there are certain indicators, like when you feel you're getting distanced away from the people around you physically, when you start feeling superior for belonging to the in-group etc., it usually means you're just not noticing some aspects and are obsessing over something. Sure one can say that if innovators thought like this and always stayed in line of the mainstream, we never would have gotten Ford or Jobs etc. And there is truth to this, but it kind of sounds like "X dropped out of college and went on to be successful therefore dropping out of college is a good idea". No, generally the good idea is to be humble and positive about the people around you, be open and reflective but not obsessive and be able to relax.
You might want to look a bit more into ISDS.. it's an international court which is agreed to in various trade treaties and allows corporations to sue foreign governments where that governments policies negatively affect the corporation.

One of the big concerns with TTP/TTIP is that they will expand the use and applicability of ISDS processes and this could impact things like environmental legislation.

Part of the concern about the use of ISDS is that the hearings are generally held in secret.

In this case I guess if it could be proven that the US government disadvantaged VW by applying fines to them whilst not prosecuting other companies who have done similar things, then if ISDS applies to this trade, it may be possible for VW to sue...
Segmenting web dev microservices for team profiling app
On the unreasonable reality of “junior” developer interviews
The Raspberry PI is the Amiga of our era.
No, I don't see that particular line of thought as progressive and empowering for women in today's world.

However, the quotes you choose are from a section that notes that "Various feminist standpoint theories ground the claim to epistemic privilege in different features of women's social situation" -- and in a paragraph starting with "Some early versions of standpoint theory (including Flax 1983, Hartsock 1987, Rose 1987, and Smith 1974) accept feminist object relations theory ..."

So I'd caution against rejecting the whole discipline based on early views from a handful of a few people.
You can refuse any number of jobs on Mechanical Turk or other 'jobs boards' where customers don't pick the worker.

Airbnb is a special case because there customers are picking a specific location so refusing cancels the transaction.

Uber wants to have the anonymity of Mechanical Turk with the Airbnb lock in.
Setting aside the questions about material improvement (in the form of income, etc) which seem well addressed by others, this way of looking at the problem overlooks one of the most serious critiques of gentrification: it disrupts existing communities, forcing longtime residents into environments where they no longer feel a sense of belonging and ownership, and reduces cultural diversity.

Another way of looking at the point: "gentrification" is more than just the arrival of affluent people to a previously poor neighborhood. "Gentrification" also refers to the cultural changes that come to a neighborhood as a result of an influx of more affluent residents. The latter can happen (infrequently) without the former.

Of course, this doesn't mean that gentrification is necessarily bad. It may be that the improvements to safety, material wealth, etc. that often come with gentrification are worth the trade-off.
It's a sad situation. The world, in total, has more money than it needs, distributed to a wildly disproportionate few, who have no idea what to do with it, yet there are billions of people who suffer and struggle with issues that that money could solve. But "redistribution is bad", so we all just accept the status quo.
Basic Needs
Unsubscribe from junk email
What is your definition of 'far-right'?
One man's capital (credit) is another man's debt.
On my server I have an old version of pandoc which doesn't support

pandoc -f markdown-raw_html
I thought that a Ponzi scheme was simply one where returns to existing investors are paid from the capital contributed by new investors.
I started writing one for iOS, using a game engine to get some really rich effects, but JIRA changes very quickly and I always found myself in their web interface rather than using what I had written. I am in the Atlassian ecosystem myself.
Every grocery store I've seen carries multiple brands of yogurts (usually in all of strained -- Greek, skyr, etc. -- non-strained, and drinkable), not labelled low- or no-fat that are full-fat. (At least one brands labels them as something like 4% fat, which is a low-seeming number, but is actually full fat.)
>Letting you keep your own money is not a subsidy.

While this is semantically true, reducing taxes as a vehicle to put money in the right hands is by all means a subsidy.
Code in Swift from a Cloud IDE
Alternative link: https://ftp.fau.de/aminet/docs/mags/Amigaville1.pdf
Expensive, yes. White, irrelevant. The solution to racial inequality isn't to punish white (or Asian, or any other "lucky" race) more.
Tumor Necrosis Factor α: A Key Component of the Obesity-Diabetes Link[0]

The hormone resistin links obesity to diabetes[1]

Excerpt:

Type 2 diabetes...is strongly associated with obesity; however, the mechanism by which increased adiposity causes insulin resistance is unclear. Here we show that adipocytes secrete a unique signalling molecule...increased in diet-induced and genetic forms of obesity.

Pigment Epithelium-Derived Factor Contributes to Insulin Resistance in Obesity[2]

Excerpt:

Herein, we show that the noninhibitory serine protease inhibitor, pigment epithelium-derived factor (PEDF), plays a causal role in insulin resistance. Adipocyte PEDF expression and serum levels are elevated in several rodent models of obesity and reduced upon weight loss and insulin sensitization.

[0] http://diabetes.diabetesjournals.org/content/43/11/1271.shor...

[1] http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v409/n6818/full/409307a...

[2] http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1550413109...
And maybe we'll relearn why taxi drivers were already an exception to those regulations.
Emphasis there on commute. What if you happened to live beside where one of these huge skyscrapers is plonked down?
> Any average developer can probably write something in Ruby/Rails at least 2x faster(in developing time) than the best clojurist alive if the startup in question is a web app / mobile app. And this matters for a startup, time to market.

Bahaha that's so false. Sorry I'm not laughing at you, just that it's not true.
Doing so selectively is absolutely a subsidy, and calling it anything else is sophistry.
> people move between neighborhoods at generally equal rates all things being equal

Source?

> In a gentrifying situation, people of less means will try to stay longer because they know they won't be able to get back in later and enjoy the same safety, amenities, etc

What poor black inner-city neighborhood are you living in that has better safety and amenities than the county surrounding it? People don't want to move because they just don't want to move, and they already had a house paid for, probably for more than a generation.

> But when they choose or are forced to move, the people coming in to replace them are higher-income, as opposed to people in the same income bracket, which this article doesn't address.

Again: Source? In a lot of neighborhoods in my city, people may have chosen or been forced moved out, but nobody ever moved in. Your generalization doesn't work for all cases.

> two working-class neighborhoods exchanging 50% of their low-income population

What neighborhood is this? Working class people don't just move around to the next neighborhood all the time. They buy a house and stay put; that's the whole idea behind the fantasy of the American dream and the working class.
I agree that we're Adobe of the IDE world is crap.

But is it really 100$ so expensive for an average developer? Consider how much money you're making because you have these tools.
I assumed the 'editorializing' accusation was targeted at the assertions behind the question: That gentrification is rare and helps existing residents.
Doesn't seem to have good ES6 support from what I can gather. I can be wrong, I don't know enough about Mithril.
Recommended reading for all Cray fans http://www.amazon.com/Supermen-Seymour-Technical-Wizards-Sup...
Holiday gift ideas for RoboGeeks (2015) from Robohub
"Troll insurance" -- i.e. insurance likely needed by trolls when they are doxxed.
After a brief trip to Europe a couple of years back, I returned to the States to discover that our bread is actually, physically, nauseating. It was weeks before I could stomach it again. I've been to Europe on other occasions and not had this happen, not sure why it happened this time.
I don't disagree but would like to understand your metric, "substandard returns" suggests you have a metric in mind, how do you arrive at the 'standard' ?
The Source will be with you, always
There's definitely a component of saving burn rate for the company and making me more literally dependent on the success of the company. I understand the perspective there and the needs that the company has right now, but I'm leaning on the no side -- if I can't provide for myself and my wife a stable means of living, there's no way I can continue doing the high-quality work that has earned me this offer.
"Nationalism has a strong component of devotion, an emotional attachment, to the state."

Actually, as the name itself suggests, it is about devotion to the nation not the state. Nationalism never ceased to be promoted, even after ww2, but the attention bias caused much of it to go unnoticed. The so-called "rise" of today's nationalism is in fact more of a rise in public awareness to it from (globally) opposing sides.
I'd recommend something different, and drastic.

At Wal-Mart, they sell a glucometer called ReliOn. It's the cheapest strips of the ones out there, 50 for $21.

Start testing your blood sugar. Test it when you wake up. Test before you eat, and then 30 minutes after you eat (up to 4 tests) and look at the carb count on what you ate.

A healthy human should be between 85mg/dL and 100 mg/dL. Numbers over that show "something". Over 140mg/dL causes nerve death. We think that over 100 mg/dL causes pancreatic beta cells to die or mutate.

Then start playing around with how much carbs you eat. Dow what's called, "Eating to the Meter".

Also analysing what you're eating may give you a strong answer why you're feeling bad by 11.

Also, look in my history for what I'm doing (from yesterday).
The proxy solution looks OK, shame it wasn't mentioned in the blog unless I'm blind.

Lack of private IPs has been the single reason why we've not moved our current dbs over. I'm sure it's hard but you're Google after all o_0
All these things used to be provided thanks to regulation

No, most taxi drivers were already contractors, those things were not being provided before Uber came around.
> As to the ultimate fate of Uber: even if they win this, they will lose. Other competitors will steal their network effect and grow by competing on the spread between pay to company and pay to driver. In 6-10 years, self driving cars will replace human drivers, but margins will keep shrinking and competition will stay fierce. It will remain a huge industry in dollar terms, but not exceptional from a gross margin perspective.

If this is the case, there is some justice in the world.
I think your point a) about there not being malevolence involved is quite important, and not repeated enough. If you have a world organised around private property and exclusion from what you need, people have no choice but to look at each other as means to their own ends.

Regarding c), I believe a communist would say that in a state-less and money-less society, it is not possible to appropriate wealth in the abstract (there are no means to do it). So it's not the motivation for profit that is abolished, it's the possibility of profit itself.
"Ponzi: The Incredible True Story of the King of Financial Cons" is good too: http://smile.amazon.com/Ponzi-Incredible-Financial-Library-L...
One of the hardest hit areas in the recent Candy Japan credit card fraud debacle was gift card sales.

It's a great fraud target, as you can buy a gift card with a stolen credit card, then possibly even sell it for real money while getting to test your stolen cards.
What's the disadvantage of w2? Wouldn't the costs be about the same?
Hasn’t the problem of Windows updates being partially installed been solved?
Building simple user authentication in a Node.js app using express
"I’m pretty sure nobody can implement a List<T> linked list in 30 minutes. "

Absolute rubbish. Checkout the monthly challenges on hackerrank. You have an hour to implement 4 problems, and none of them are as trivial as implement this datastructure you learned and used in school.

The unreasonable reality of "junior" interviews however is people shoving the words "we work at startup pace" in your face, but suddenly going silent when you tell them what compensation you expect.
The what now?
My understanding is that the "secret chats" (which should be, but aren't, the default) use the same bulk encryption construction.
Practically nobody lives near those things.
The Tesla AutoPilot
Push button to A+ SSL grading using Docker, Nginx and Carina
German here, what is this "speed limit" you talk about?:)

But yeah, kei style cars are redundant in Europe because bikes, scooters , minis, nowadays car sharing, public transport and more space exist.
I don't think it's true that the "secret chats" don't use MTE IGE; I think the "secret chats" are the same construction, but keyed with a separate DH handshake.
isn't a requirement for what?
Good question ... I didn't mean to reduce feminist philosophy of science only to that, although it's a key element. The most important aspect of feminist philosophy of science is that it looks at things through a gender lens, and Latour explicitly rejects that. From "... That Damned Elusive Bruno Latour": [1]

"The social sciences have no 'out there' or 'up there' to serve as a foundation," Latour once told an interviewer. For that reason, Latour objects to feminist critics of science (who elevate gender to a transcendant principle), Marxist critics of science (who do the same with economics), and Foucauldian critics of science (who repeat the process with power). They, in turn, object to him. The British feminist epistemologist Hillary Rose, for instance, in a review of Science in Action, wrote: "By cutting himself adrift from those who point to the dominant interests which science serves and to the masculine composition of its workforce and its knowledge, [Latour] sidesteps the crucial challenge.... Unless feminism engages in a rather sharp struggle for social and conceptual space, both networks and analysis are likely to remain integral to masculinist hegemony.''

http://linguafranca.mirror.theinfo.org/9410/latour.html
I run an Alexa top 10K website with an ad-based revenue model. iOS content blocking has not materially impacted overall revenue because

1. Even though mobile accounts for about 50% of traffic, it only accounts for 25% of revenue anyway.

2. iOS devices, for some reason, monetize way lower than Android. 25% mobile revenue breaks out into 10% iOS and 15% Android. Could be because the site uses Adsense and Google knows much more about Android users so can target ads better.

3. Most mobile users don't download apps. I'm too lazy to dig up the research right now but IIRC the number of people who only use stock apps is about 50%. So people just haven't bothered to download content blocking apps; because they don't bother to download any apps.

So while the mobile _adblocking_ apocalypse is a nonevent, the fact that mobile monetizes way lower anyway means that over the last few years -- as mobile share of traffic has grown -- revenue per user has slowly eroded. That slow-moving apocalypse has already occurred. Adblocking on iOS hasn't done much to make things worse.

Adblocking on desktop continues to hurt, and has a much bigger impact.
Say, did you see the submission about speed and memory use in JSON pbuttrs?
Maybe it helps to be a bit heavier. I used to almost faint without breakfast and running to catch the tram, but I gained a bit of weight (back into normal range) since then and now I can do it.

(Travelling and hiking on rice and vegetables seems to be very good for weight loss without hunger.)
Chile plans hydropower plant in the most arid place of the planet
Why is it so limited in the US? In other countries, they can go well above 10 tesla leading to a dramatic increase in resolution. I assumed it was because there were some inherent danger from more powerful magnets.
Flaws? Certainly, but surely insignificant compared to the magnitude of his thought. Lovecraft was a genius at least a century ahead of his time (Nietzsche is the only other figure that springs to mind).

People still haven't come to terms or even realized what he was talking about, but if there's something we're blindly racing towards it's that "ultimate void of Chaos wherein reigns the mindless daemon-sultan Azathoth".
I mean, right now I have about 1% equity and I'd jump to near 10%, so in the event of wild success of the company (let's say a 100M exit) I'd be way ahead, but in the meanwhile I don't think it's responsible to sacrifice the financial stability we're just arriving at. I'm in no position to open deep lines of credit and have no savings, so it's not like those are options.

The way I see it, it's really a timing issue more than anything. If I were a homeowner, I could consider an equity line on my home to cover a couple months of expenses (plus I wouldn't be paying rent...), or if I had a longer credit history I could open a big card with the understanding that I would either have a good exit with the company or leave for a well-paying, more stable job at a larger company at some point and be able to repay the debt either way.

It's just the wrong time in my life to take this risk, unfortunately. It's not even the long-term effects of the risk, either, it's the change to the near-term status quo that I don't think I'll be able to handle.
I'd be curious to see how FlatBuffers lines up against MsgPack seeing as it requires just a single allocation and read.

Heck if you want to get fancy(and have access to mmap) you can just mmap() your FlatBuffer data and let the kernel handle paging it in/out for you for very low memory overhead.
habitable*

*survivable in terms of temperature. It still has a 96% carbon dioxide, oxygen free atmosphere, so not directly habitable. The temperature is about room temperature at an altitude of 55km with atmospheric pressure (and T=75C) at about 50km. Earth atmosphere would float in the more dense carbon dioxide atmosphere of venus. You could conceivably have an airship full of earth atmosphere where the cabin is within the balloon.
I see the Pi as more like a Spectrum. The Amiga of our era is, well, Apple. Yet Apple seems to have lost focus on desktop users.
Homebrew receipt has been updated to 1.5 just a few hours later!

https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/commit/dee292132fb73820...
> What are the other possible factors?

High-caloric drinks
Bond Worries and Stress Tests
How about making yoghurt yourself? It's not that hard.