skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The principle of relativity arises from observer dependence in measured quantities. Human experience is observer dependent. Morality is a logical system based on human observations. Therefore morality has a logic of relativity.

Relativity comes up in mathematics all the time. Relativity isn't the idea that there is no one truth, it is the idea that there is one truth but it cannot be described from a single point of view. The points of view are relative, but they are all views into the same truth.

Morality can be the same way. You can be a moral realist and still acknowledge that apprehension of morality is observer dependent. Then the game becomes figuring out the rules of relativity for morality. That is, figuring out how to communicate moral perceptions and judgments between people.
Feds Challenged by Encrypted Devices of San Bernardino Attackers
The cost per item for RFID tags is still much higher than the cost of a few seconds of a cashier's time to scan the item.
He's in supply chain and doesn't know much about software. The dark backgrounds thing came in a meeting as an argument on why they should switch from LCD to LED.
We plan to get ourselves integrated into media websites; hence helping them increase engagement and also leveraging their network to grow.
Astro Pi: Launch Review and ISS Arrival
Agreed. This is the problem with pretty much all "health trackers": how actionable are the data and visualization? Yes, you need to measure stuff to improve it, but still, a step counter is like a website hit counter and has little actionable value in and of itself.
Understanding *NIX Login Scripts
So release the game, get sued tell the court the plaintiff has no standing unless they can prove they own the game. Then once the courts have ruled who "owns" it, settle with them by paying a licensing fee.
But, you miss my point. If Peter Thiel wants to buy your shares and holds N% of the existing company, that deal will get done, regardless of the company's legal rights. It's social.
I work at at a big co: I'm given about 2 months off per year, flexible hours and a work from home option.

Of course, I'm selling this year's PTO back to the company because I was under pressure not to use it, and since every week is crunch time, required working hours are 8:30-6 Mon-Sat in the office.

Point being, offerings are meaningless unless corporate culture allows you to use them.
When swimming underwater, brain should not be telling or ignoring anything, it should be totally empty. Idle brain consumes about 25% oxygen, even more when it is being used.
The robot killing itself is both a direct action, and results in future inaction, through which humanity may come to harm which the robot could have prevented, had it not killed itself. So that's not a magic-bullet solution.
Meta-analysis shows no link between saturated fat and heart disease
This article opens with, "[New science] is also showing us that advocates of trendy paleo and vegan diets are missing the big picture of how our omnivorous digestive system works." But it concludes with, "Pick a modest-sized plate and make meals using vegetables, legumes, leafy greens, beans, fruits, and unmilled whole grains as the main ingredients. Add some meat if you want and dollops of healthy fats on the side or sprinkled through the plant foods. Desserts and sweets are special, so save them for the special times." Omit the optional meat an you have a vegan diet. What about the "big picture" are vegans missing?
You can't possibly have gone through life without seeing actual oppression.

I have, in actuality, been the subject of ethnic/racially based harassment, to the point where the police got involved. (The perpetrators were caught, but I was pressured by the police to not file charges.)

I grew up in a part of the country where the family had to drive 45 miles to visit with friends who were also asian, but not the exact same ethnic group. Yes, I know a little about actual oppression. Yes, there were other weird group hazings I experienced in my youth.

When people refuse to behave themselves, they get shunned. This is a normal human defense mechanism.

The default human reaction is to label the different as the wrong and the other. The normal human defense mechanism, when not properly cultivated and educated, is precisely the psychological foundation of oppression. I know this first hand.

Do you know why the Freedom of Speech is enshrined in the US Constitution? It's precisely because normal human defense mechanisms result in the outright oppression of those with different points of view. And it's precisely this sort of lack of self-awareness and self-examination that allows normal people to take on the role of oppressor.
Same here. I don't care about the convenience, but mostly about the security benefits. In the past 4 years I had to get two credit cards and one debit card replaced after fraudulent charges / fraudulent ATM transactions. Yes - as a customer I'm not liable for those charges, but it's still annoying if it, e.g., takes a few weeks until your bank refunds you the hundreds of Dollars that someone withdrew from your checking account.
This is possible at Apple Stores w/ the Apple Store app. It works great.
There has been an extraordinary semantic creep of the term "violence" under feminism. Everything they don't like is classified as violence, from one's mere gaze, to so-called "cyberviolence", to one's body posture, tone of voice, lack of social deference, or any other perceived arrogation of status.
the compact disk is not dead?
I haven't but I'm planning a new site and I'm going to give it a go. I have a site with entities rather than just pages, so the content model seems to fit. I used Django-CMS about 4 years ago and it didn't support the people editing the site in terms of UX. So I ditched it and went with Wordpress (which I'm not happy with, hence wanting to change).

I used to work for Torchbox who are developing Wagtail, so I heard about it before it went public. But looking at the uptake on http://madewithwagtail.org/ it seems to be doing very well in the market.
One topic that was not mentioned in the article that I have found fascinating is that your gut microbiome can actually affect your cravings. (1) Your microbiome accomplishes this through a host of mechanisms including changing the expression of taste receptors, making certain foods taste better; they may release hunger-inducing hormones; or they may manipulate the vagus nerve (which connects the stomach to the brain) to control their hosts’ eating behavior.

Are you sure you really want that extra side of chips? Or has your gut biome decided it wants that extra fat, and influences you to eat it.

Additionally, you can "reseed" your gut biome by changing your diet. Do you crave greasy food? Go vegan for 2 weeks. The new gut biome that develops and takes hold may soon have you start craving healthier foods. A change in diet can change your biome in as little as 4 days. (2) You can witness this phenomena in the movie Super Size Me. At the start of the movie Spurlock is disgusted by eating McDonalds for every meal. But, by the end of his experiment, his gut biome has significantly changed, and you can literally see his mood darken when he is not eating greasy fries and burgers. He craves, or should I say, his microbiome craves those happy meals, and is influencing both his taste receptors, health, and general mood in order to manipulate him in to a trip to the drive though.

1. http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/08/your-gut-b...
2. http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-guts-microbiom...
I was just thinking about the UI on a lot of shows/movies and how rarely we see any UI like it in the real world. Even those 'FBI databases mainframes...' that a character hacked into do not look anything like that in real life.

This is pretty cool and fits in well in 'Hollywood'. Now I want to find a project that I can actually use a similar UI on haha.
That will change when Chip & Pin are common. Instead of just swiping, yes, yes, done, it will be inserting the card into the reader, the reader fails to read the chip, spitting on it, then trying again, and finally entering the pin and yes, yes, done.

Don't misunderstand, chip & pin is something the US has long since needed. But the chips are unreliable and entering a pin on some terminals is annoying. A phone with NFC might be easier than that, just fingerprint to unlock, and then press a single button on the phone.
I have been using cursive for the better part of 18 months. It's fantastic. My .emacs file's creation date is 2/10/1999, but I wouldn't imagine using anything but lein+idea+cursive.
What's your rationale for making beta testers pay?
"Glad to see them going public, warning their users and doing the right thing."

Let me ask you something - what do you see as the benefit to going public vs. not "doing the right thing". I mean that by airing dirty laundry you also run the risk of losing customers. Are you sure that the goodwill earned by doing this outweighs the downside of airing your dirty laundry? [1]

[1] I am remembering a time long ago when a business owner told me about something personal that an employee told them. The business owner said "that was stupid that they told me that, so I fired them". This idea that all people in the world view things as generously as you might most likely hasn't been proven out in research (I am guessing..)
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Ask HN: How to get a moderators attention?
Sometimes I see posts that are obvious spam, but no way to flag it.

Example posthttp://imgur.com/iQ6NVMv

I don't see anything here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

or

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
One of my university professors always said: "No metrics, no movement."

The opportunity to add value is by intersecting the metrics. As a software engineer who likes to work in cafes, I'd like to know at which cafe I have the highest commit frequency. As a coffee drinker, I'd like to know at which cafe my resting heart rate is the highest (strongest cup!)
hmm I don't see the use but interesting. Will be great to write a blog like this.
That's your take. I find paying w/ Apple Pay on my iPhone very seamless and I far prefer it over dealing with a card. I'm sure there's others out there that share that opinion.
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We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10710828 and marked it off-topic.
Am I the only one to think that the new icons look like a bit of a console, the line below is the cursor and the letters the product initials.
Original news story: http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/ocumetics-bionic-lens-coul...
To be fair, his name only collapsed into a determinative state once we looked at it in the context of this article. /pun
Stack and Nix = portable reproducible builds
But maybe you just frequent one particular café when you're in a good and productive mood to begin with ;-)
While "leaky gut syndrome" as imagined by pseudoscience believers is a little ridiculous, the general idea of chronic low grade inflammation of the intestinal epithelium due to a breakdown of the innate immune system is not. If anyone is interested, checkout out David Artis' work on commensal bacteria on barrier surfaces.
No cringe here. The context makes sense because several people believe that 'Satoshi' is not a single entity but a group of people.

Either way; who cares.
Twilio IP Messaging Public Beta
Wagtail isn't so new now - it's coming up to two years since we launched the open source project and there are now thousands of sites in productions, with high profile users including NASA, Google, NBC, the US and UK governments. Wagtail takes quite a different approach to Django CMS and we're very happy to see their continued progress. Congratulations on the release!
“on a 1099 model it’s tougher to compel them to show up.”

Translation: Show up or be fired. Restaraunts have had this policy since the beginning for high trafic days.

/S American employement-at-will at work.... S/
Mind sharing your readings ?
It's a book extract: "Excerpted from The Hidden Half of Nature: The Microbial Roots of Life and Health by David R. Montgomery and Anne Biklé. Copyright © 2016 by David R. Montgomery and Anne Biklé. With permission of the publisher, W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. All rights reserved."

Based on that section, I would look for an extract from The Good Gut (1) instead. It leans more towards science and less towards popularization....

(1) http://www.amazon.com/The-Good-Gut-Control-Long-term-ebook/d...
But media website themselves don't get comments in the first place. You guys really think that's gonna help?
A better way to teach technical skills to a group
> who is one the Bitcoin inner circle

I have some bad news.
FreeBSD and Linux servers
Not really. Availability of work seems to be a motivator, as well as familiarity and image.

"Why do the “migrants” in Calais want to come to the UK?

This being the real world, there is no easy answer to the question “why?” Work, friends, family, language, historical links to the UK and, ironically, the UK’s reputation for fairness, tolerance and welcome all play their role."

https://www.freemovement.org.uk/why-do-the-migrants-in-calai...
Pluralsight has lots of courses on Angular. I can definitely recommend them. John Papa has a few courses on there as well.
And they start from time-of-approval (or filing?), not when you first put together a salable proof-of-concept, so for patents like which are not trivially possible to implement, you won't get all 20 years of it.
You do realize that slavery is a current problem, right? Slavery is a multi-billion dollar industry and there are tens of millions of people enslaved today in the entire world.
"Who is this guy? I’ve never seen anything like it. And during the race, I kept an eye on him and around mile 70 — he weighed probably 260 pounds, which is quite large for an ultra runner — he had broken all the small bones in both of his feet and had kidney damage and he finished the race."

Running 100s at 260 pounds - and continuing through kidney damage and broken foot bones isn't tough - it's just stupid.
I bet you they don't take Apple Pay or Android Pay because of transaction fees. Them rolling out their own payment system probably saves them quite a bit on fees.
What are you running, Alpine?
dig <anything>.bot
resolves to 127.0.53.53 meaning https://www.icann.org/namecollision
In the early 2000's a short TV series followed a class of SEALs as they go through basic training. It's a pretty interesting documentary on how they manage to select only those who have the necessary skills for the job. The first episode can be found here [1], the other 5 are also all on Youtube.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQFRePXMI9M
Thanks. I think there is an antagonism between trying to be conversational, which entails rambling, circling back, and exposing one's thought processes to others, and writing a compact, polished piece of writing. I prefer to leave my scatterbrained thoughts in Internet comments because I see it more as verbal conversation than written communication.
I'm an ex-employee too (former intern). Not saying that the company is perfect, but the tone of adrianlmm implied that Facebook was a such a bad place to work at ("even facebook"), which it really isn't.
Show HN: Artifact – scan photos easily on your iPhone
Using the Apple Retail app to pay for items like this makes me really nervous.

The 2 or 3 times i've used it i've ended up walking out of the store waving the product and the receipt screen on my phone around to make a point of being conspicuous so I don't get jumped on by security.
I would be surprised if Netflix cannot pay the patent fees. The ffmpeg page mentions that commercial ffmpeg users end up paying the groups like MPEG LA. In general, I'm guessing patent owners don't like saying "no, we don't want to accept your money".

https://www.ffmpeg.org/legal.html
Three new undisclosed Xen advisories
How much could they grow? It's not clear to me, unless they suddenly have much more ambitious plans and new categories of product, how big the market is that can sustain infinite growth over time for them. The market is very specialized for them, and if they try going after non tech their products directly then go up against many other players already entrenched (and it's not like JIRA is some shiny beacon of ease and apple-like perceived simplicity -- if they rebuilt from scratch maybe they'd have a better chance)
We had a few friends ask us to help them scan old photos that they have laying around, and it gave us the idea to build this app. It lets them scan their photos by themselves easily, without having to own a scanner, and without having to spend a lot of time on it.

We just released the first version to the App Store, and would love to get some feedback!
> I'm really looking forward to hearing the rest of the series, especially the exploration of the command culture at his unit.

What you get is probably going to be severely skewed to his point of view.
It may be worth looking into how different forms of exercise may affect insulin sensitivity; additionally, fasting (as well as the two combined).
In this case, they already have the source code; someone along the way just gave it to them.
I don't think you're participating in bad faith but I do think your passion for this topic is causing you to break the HN guidelines, both about civility ("your thick skulls", "stop saying stupid shit") and about classic flamewar topics.

The sign of a classic flamewar topic is that it ends in a recognizable meltdown end state, of which the-culture-war-will-lead-to-a-new-U.S.-civil-war is surely one.
Instinct is just an innate morality.
If you're going to down vote, say why instead.
App Claims to Not Leave Digital Footprint – IVR Technology Group
In today's climate that joke would be considered sexist and inappropriate.
Good suggestion: https://github.com/androm3da/libfaultinj/commit/9e11fadf6f8b...
But you're never going to avoid situations like this completely, regardless of how good the car itself is. Imagine one breaks down. Or gets hit by something (whether that be due to a natural disaster, the local landscape, human actions, animals, etc). Or it gets hacked. Or it just plain run out of power.

Now imagine the other autonomous cars following it have to make an urgent decision; go straight or swerve out of the way. Imagine the only somewhat clear path has some innocent people on it, and the alternative is basically to let the car end up as a giant fireball after it hits whatever's in front.

You can try and avoid similar situations as much as possible, by having the car figure out what's going on ahead and do things to avoid it (change lane, slow down, etc). But the situation isn't avoidable all the time. If something happens close to you and you're going down a motorway at 70mph, then physics alone says the car cannot stop in time. It will have to decide then to either take the risk or get obliterated.

It's not pathological stupidity, it's often bad luck. And in cases like that, the driver is right to assume the vehicle won't sacrifice them for others.
> 1.4 hours on Gyroscopedev:5000

Looks like someone's been working on the dev version :)
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Measuring cloud performance just got easier and better
I've never been in the military, but my understanding is that you don't get deployed without knowing better. I'll take Bergdahl at his word with regards to his intentions, but it's still an incredible reckless and irresponsible thing to do. He's lucky to be alive.
They state that those two character domains are reserved, but it looks like they're authorized by ICANN to release these domains (Since 04 August 2015): https://www.icann.org/sites/default/files/tlds/bot/bot-auth-...
Yeah they certainly prioritize "discovery" and their radio-ish stuff (which is intermittently available, even when I haven't moved location). Unfortunately, I hate radio, and am not much for "discovery". I just want to quickly access my current library. The fact that Windows Media Player is significantly better at this than Play Music is sad.

(It's really annoying in a car. I pull over, but I wanna be fast. Google Now is hit or miss if it'll properly play. Sometimes it just searches. Sometimes it plays off of YouTube. Etc. You'd think by now they could get this basic flow down, without harming their neato stuff I don't want.)
There ils also an issue with making different cars from different car makers cooperate efficiently. When an accident can't be avoided, involved cars would need to share info and processing power to behave optimaly and act as master and slaves.
>Get dang to ask me to stop, and I will.

Good grief, someone go and tattle to the moderator...

This is just my opinion but I think that trying to bully or intimidate your way through arguments on this subject isn't going to be a useful tactic for gun rights in the long run. IOW, it's going to eventually end in a severe curtailment of gun rights. It works now because of the number of individuals with uncompromising positions on the matter and their voting habits, not because of the strengths of their arguments.

>But consider for a moment how "really unpleasant" the other side is when they blithely talk about using murder to confiscate me and mine's Constitutionally protected property, protected for just this reason.

I must have missed that part. Please consider how much you've overreacted to nearly everything in this subthread; and while you're at it, consider how much that kind of reaction re-enforces a negative stereotype of gun rights proponents as unhinged
people prone to making threats of violence.
I use Expensify to track expenses for work and WaveApps for some consulting I do on the side. I disagree with the thesis of the piece, because I'm perfectly happy to keep installed apps that I use once per month, or even once per quarter.

WaveApps is great for invoicing, but their expense reporting module is ludicrously bad (it does OCR on the receipt images, but then doesn't include them in a nice report, so you have to download the images separately and convert them to a PDF manually).

I would have used Birdly if I had known about it. Anyone know about another Expensify competitor, preferably one who doesn't charge for single users?

As for Birdly, good luck with the Slack pivot, which looks clever.
As good as slack is for communicating I don't think it should be used as a "knowledge" store. At a previous employer I found that commit messages were a great way to store information. Maybe commit messages aren't as great for question and answers, but searching slack doesn't seem very intuitive.

Idea: A slack bot that searches for questions and answers and creates a wiki out of the scraped information.
It is half technical and half psychological. Coding wise it would take me too long to implement a free plan (as it actually goes through Braintree's gateway to auth the card).

And just imo, but charging $1 helps filter who is really serious who might use the service. And there is something about charging people money which makes them more involved in the transaction compared to free.
Really? Slavery is "unpleasant?" Going to the dentist is "unpleasant." The enslavement of an entire race of people goes quite a ways beyond "unpleasant."
It's refreshing to see a tech company IPO that isn't VC backed and actually can sustain itself with its profits.

Maybe I'm just naive but I find it strange how so many companies focus so long on acquiring users and not on making money, thus forcing them to continue to get outside funding. For something like Facebook I can understand how this makes sense, but it seems as though this strategy is currently the norm rather than the exception.
Absolutely on the first point. I believe the #1 thing the Navy wants from SEALs is people who just won't quit. The Nave doesn't train them not to quit, it just creates tests that search for this quality.

I'm unconvinced that the SEAL in question suddenly realized one day there was a "secret" to not quitting; it's just how he's hardwired.
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