skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>foolish decisions made in good faith by .... lenders

I'd dispute that. Often it was a smart and cynical decision by lenders to make bad loans, take the bonuses and commissions and leave the government and others to clean up the mess. If you were to pin the blame on one group I'd say it was mostly the governments fault for under regulating this stuff.
I really don't think this contradicts PG's point or challenges it in a way to be deserving of the phrasing "entirely different perspective."

For one, from the essay:

> But different things matter to different people, and most have to learn what matters to them

And for two, Kurt is at odds with himself in that quote though his overall sentiment is correct. He says to "fart around" and then creates a straw-man with computers. What he really means to say (I think) is that life is about experiencing it and appreciating those experiences.

This certainly doesn't run contrary to what PG is saying. In fact, he's saying the same exact thing -- life is short, so find what you love and do it & love it.
Don't forget to add Nim to that list! One of Nim's defining features (compilation to C) makes it work rather well for this sort of thing.
Softwar swings both ways. Some productivity software saves hours, months or years by maximizing efficiency. On the otherhand games and social media sure do suck up a lot of time.
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FWIW, slide 21 from this presentation on the site you linked has the picture I have in mind since at that size scale the glass is effectively flat.

http://ab-initio.mit.edu/photons/tutorial/L1-bloch.pdf

Feel free to correct if this is oversimple, I am vaguely familiar with this stuff but it was by no means a speciality.
It's funny because my kids have shown (really reminded) me of the age old strategy of declaring a game to be stupid as soon as they're losing.
I don't see the article claiming Nietzsche would praise popular culture - it seems to claim otherwise ("Anti-academic Nietzsche may have been, but his mistake was in pinning his hopes on “high culture”") and it's rather solely what the author of the article thinks himself.
PG says Life is Short. There are still 101 people arguing^W discussing it - on an online forum no less ;)
He doesn't have a "bully pulpit" because he's hyper rich. He's been writing fantastic essays that have been widely shared for much longer than YC has existed (including one responsible for modern spam filters which made email usable again 16 years ago).

Also, I think the last 2 essays pretty much nailed it. If you found them "laughably wrong", it was likely due to the assumptions you brought with you to reading them, not due to any fallacies in the content itself.
I wish I had an exceptional memory ;)

Only 4-5 accounts require a strong password. The rest I don't care, I use the same password or request a reset every time I go back.
They also tune prices to local markets; if there is no local competition in a product category, prices are higher than at a comparable store with aggressive nearby competition. They were using Big Data before it was a household term.
It that's true, it would be trivial to design a survey to get whatever sexual assault statistics that you want. Even after the survey has been taken, by having questions ambiguous, and then reclassify them as either sexual assault or not.
Indeed. But it's not just about the memory usage. I have been using Atom to edit AsciiDoc documents and after having written more than 1000 lines or so, there is a noticeable delay after typing each keystroke. That may have been due to the AsciiDoc preview plugin I was using, but IIRC I disabled that and the issue persisted.
I think you raise excellent points. However, I could see Iranians being very angry that people in the U.S. government decided for the Iranian people that it was best that the Iranians should live under a brutal dictatorship. I can only imagine if the situation were reversed ...

> The Soviets were masters of infiltration and political intrigue. You should read up on how they turned Eastern Europe into satellite states.

I don't know about that particular example: I believe the E. European client states were occupied by the Red Army after WWII, dominated by secret police services, and later when they rebelled in Hungary and Czechoslovakia the tanks were sent back in. Not much intrigue needed.

But they did manage to acquire allies in many parts of the world, so generally I'd agree they seemed good at it.
At least the performance of the websites will improve.
Supposedly they last forever, but they don't seem to deliver on the supposed 10+ year lifespans -- I have no bulb older then 3 years in my house.
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I think that the death of a close loved one is a prerequisite to truly understanding how short life is. Having children helps too but I don't think it is enough on it's own. I do absolutely agree that children are the best at focusing us on what is important.

I have known how short life is for a long time but I encounter people on a daily basis, most far older than me who don't seem to realise it or if they do are acting irrationally. When I see them wasting their time on things that are clearly not important it doesn't bother me too much because it is their time to choose what to do with but what does make me angry is if they try to involve me in the 'bullshit' too, to use the term used in the essay. At work this can range from petty disagreements or the colleague that creates busywork. I wonder how many people start startups recognise life is too short compared to those who do not, it would be interesting to find out.
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Fortunately? Why on earth do you say that?
> I'm not sure how difficult it would be to brute force into 1Password locally but either way it's a low benefit game compared to the potential access with a compromise to a cloud based scenario like LastPass.

I'm not sure if you're familiar with how Lastpass works in general, but all of the data you store with Lastpass is encrypted in almost an identical manner to your 1password vault. They can't read your passwords.

A "compromise" of Lastpass would require brute forcing each user's vault in order to gain any actual passwords, which would require an extraordinarily long time.

I know it sounds concerning saying "put all your passwords in the cloud" but the reality is that it's no different than using 1Password with sync enabled.
Nice (surprising) to see some let up in the US's brutal war of aggression against Iran!
I'm curious about use cases for this.
> This blames poor people for being poor.

No it doesn't. A claim that most rich people are driven doesn't imply that most poor people are lazy. The portion you quoted makes this distinction clear: "Variation in productivity is far from the only source of economic inequality, but it is the irreducible core of it, in the sense that you'll have that left when you eliminate all other sources."

If we found a way to give everyone the same opportunities, there'd still be economic inequality. Is inequality what we should attack? It's probably better to attack the undesirable causes directly. The essay made this point clearly.
I have a degree in physics... and this seems like as reasonable an explanation as any other to date. We know planets migrate, we know large collisions occur, which tend to be followed by periods of bombardment (e.g. Thea/Earth -> Moon, Jupiter from inner to outer system), so the observations, particularly coupled with the gradual but significant dimming, could correspond with Kessler syndrome on a stellar scale.

Actually, I say that, but they also address this in the paper - a planetary collision would result in a huge amount of excess heat - infrared - and there isn't any. So scratch that. Whatever did this is cold from our point of view.
How is the idea that variation in productivity leads to a variation in income a "breathtaking misunderstanding of poverty"?

It's absolutely true that variation in productivity leads to a variation in income and it's also true technology acts as a lever and is increasing the variation in productivity between people.

At no point did PG say anything like what you claim it "sounds like" he is saying. The essay was an argument to attack rent-seeking, and other bad behaviors, but not the variation in productivity. It also argued that even if all rent-seeking were eliminated, there would still be variations in income because some people are far more productive than the average.
Let's take one step back to the first point: we have shown you above that the whole "Where ad blocking doesn’t work" section does not make any sense, as you can kill any kind of ads on the network-wide level.

Now you are claiming that people using PiHole, Privoxy and the likes are merely "Lynx" users, as if that would discredit the original point, or maybe it will water-down the consequences.

You are also severely underestimating the power of individuals and small groups, see: the initial surge of Firefox install base, anti SOPA and PIPA protests, Ubuntu, and (ironically) the early days of TechCrunch.

There is nothing wrong with this article, as what you have written about is "Browser ad blockers". Hopefully you can write a second article and explain the fruitlessness of trying to play a cat and mouse game with network-wide ad blockers.
So what did he mean when he said that Iran would be able to access its holdings abroad?

"A senior American official said Saturday that Iran will be able to access about $50 billion of a reported $100 billion in holdings abroad, although others have used higher estimates."
Good essay, one of the few recent PG ones I've agreed with.
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Hearns stated that Gavin shared the commit privileges with four others, creating a now-problematic majority-wins scenario.

However, I don't hear anything about Gavin not being able to appoint additional people, presumably bearing his philosphy. Is this an official restriction or, if not, why not?
I personally didn't like too much that essay about inequalities, but I think your comment is unnecessarily nasty.

I believe arguing with commenters like you is exactly the bullshit PG mentioned.
Yes! I never got a CS degree (or any degree, actually) and I've been professional programmer for more than 20 years. I've also been in the position of interviewing/hiring developers and never paid any attention to degrees. I think it's more about what you can do (or have done) and the way you approach development; a curiosity for continuous learning and improvement is way better than a degree. That said, I'm not too current on getting into the field but there is a lot of demand right now and if you can use personal learning (or a bootcamp sort of thing) plus demonstrated work to get your foot in the door, you're on your way. Good luck!
"But when she and others raised objections to the toxic loans, something odd started happening. The number-crunchers who had been complaining about the loans suddenly began changing their reports. The process she describes is strikingly similar to the way police obtain false confessions: The interrogator verbally abuses the target until he starts producing the desired answers. "What happened," Fleischmann says, "is the head diligence manager started yelling at his team, berating them, making them do reports over and over, keeping them late at night." Then the loans started clearing."

Said diligence manager got off. JP Morgan paid $9bn to settle and hush it up.

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-9-billion-witn...
> LastPass also detects you enter your master password on an incorrect domain and notifies you immediately of your mistake

Interesting! How does it do this?
This is not correct.

The normal situation with escalators on the tube is that the flow of people onto the escalators is less than that which would cause a queue to build up.

That is not surprising, as the system has been designed so that there is sufficient capacity on the escalators to handle the flow of people.

However, at one or two stations during rush hour the situation can be different.

Sometimes the flow of people can be such that a queue builds up.

It is debatable, though, what would happen then if people walked on both sides of the escalator.

The queue would not move twice as fast, as people will not walk on side by side.

Another problem is that people with luggage take more than one person's width.

Standing two abreast may jam up the escalator, so that people are unable to get off easily at the top.
> If online commentary is anything to go by, US citizens have been totally brainwashed by government propaganda.

The internet, like the US, is a large and diverse place, with varying political, cultural and intellectual identities. You're just cherry picking to assemble a strawman "ignorant, brainwashed American" to knock down, but as straw Americans go, if it depends on internet comments to provide an unbiased reflection of reality, it's not very substantive.

If online commentary were anything to go by, the earth is flat and space-jews did 9/11.
Read them now. They may even guide your future.
This smells to me like a Publish/Subscribe mechanism. [0]

I mean, this would be useful anywhere you want to send events/messages to some number of interested "parties", when you don't necessarily know what or who those parties are going to be ahead of time.

I'm not snarking when I ask this, it's a genuine question: Have you ever done that sort of thing before?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Publish%E2%80%93subscribe_patt...
Thanks for the responses. Have you considered reaching out to businesses to offer free stuff? Sort of like Groupon that doesn't cost them anything other than the discount/free item they provide?
Oh. And definitely bringing that domain knowledge (medical) is an advantage to getting into your first programming gig.
Interesting - I just helped on a similar project that showed football (soccer) player zones of control using voronoi diagrams for a CES demo: http://www.geekwire.com/2016/sensoria-microsoft-soccer-colla...

We used a custom PowerBI visualization (d3 + TypeScript). For dev purposes I just averaged data with some simple SQL queries, but the real thing used (I believe) 10k datapoints fore each player over the course of the match.
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You can't. You are bound by the speed of light.
TL;DR: Because many more travelers stand (on the right) than walk (on the left); catering to the latter potentially leaves nearly half the escalator's capacity unused.
It is part of the Observer pattern: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observer_pattern

One common use case is in workflow systems. For example, you might "wait" for a bunch of files to exist before kicking off a job. This could be implemented as a bunch of "subjects" notifying when the files exist, and then the "observer" taking action when all of its subjects notify.

It is also used in UI frameworks to update visual representation when underlying data changes.
Terrorists aren't going to balk at patent infringement.
Off HN I go?
That doesn't really work for passengers who have trouble walking or standing like the old or disabled.
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more reason to switch to lubuntu, ubuntu, et al. Oh, good thing I already have :)
That sounds like an ordinary bandpass interference filter.[1] Those have film layers and only pass a specific wavelength of light. Unlike ordinary filters, the angle at which the light hits the filter affects the passband, because it's the spacing of the layers that makes it work. The receive side of LIDAR systems use those. But those absorb the light they reject; they don't reflect it, much.

[1] http://www.edmundoptics.com/optics/optical-filters/bandpass-...
Imprisonment for bankers doesn't seem to work to well. Too hard to prove. Now if as an alternative if you found with a greater than 50/50 probability that they'd screwed people over you took all their assets that might work. For shoplifters maybe community service.
When I was in HS some of my classmates got in trouble for something similar. In MS word there is a dictionary that can be edited for the auto-correct. Example changes teh -> the, etc. You can put a name or common word as the common misspelling and anything else as the auto-correct.
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Hi HN,

(Disclaimer: I'm the one-man-band behind Wormhole Network)

As part of my work on overlay networking I'm developing a series of examples on how this technology is a disruptor.

On this specific example, you could spin up a private Minecraft server and get your friends to connect to it with very easy steps for everyone and avoiding complex VPN solutions, working with NAT, routing and firewall configurations (plus exposing port on Docker itself).

A tiny Minecraft hosting business could be built around this Docker image. Offer private Minecraft servers and spin as many as you can on one single server. As you don't need to tweak network configuration nor expose ports on Docker, all the servers could run on the same default port, making it very easy for your customers.

The possibilities are endless :) hope you enjoy it!
Not sure why you're downvoted. This paper is great and understanding compositing math is something that comes way too late for most graphics programmers. Also great is Tom Forsyth's article on the subject, if you can figure out his blog UI: http://eelpi.gotdns.org/blog.wiki.html
So delivering burritos and driving in bus lanes = bad.

Openly smoking crack, or shooting up heroin on Market St, or openly dealing them at 6th and Market (those audio stores), or elsewhere, or urinating / defecating / masturbating in public = no problem. (All things I've witnessed in SF.)

Thanks SFPD!
A ginormously accurate scale model of the solar system
I'm not going to comment on the other points because either we agree or I can see how different perspective can see things in those ways, but with Ukraine, U.S. had spent 5 Billion dollars on civil activism, sponsored by various American oil companies, prior to the "coup" which ousted the elected, legitimate Russian-friendly Ukraine government. Without such surreptitious interference from the U.S., Ukraine would be in a more prosperous and stable situation today. Russia would not be able to say "You ousted a legitimate government that was protective towards the interests of Russians in Ukraine, that is why we're taking over Crimea because that is what the people want.".

Here is the video direct from Victoria Nuland's mouth, speaking at a Chevron and ExxonMobil sponsored conference[1]. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2y0y-JUsPTU#t=448

Ukraine, along with Libya and Iraq are prime examples to demonstrate when the Americans tell you your country should be liberated so it becomes democratic, you should probably plan to move out.
Considering the neighbours, a Sith lord would be considered liberal at the moment.
Seems to only work with a single receiver, in a synchronous manner, in which case I wonder what's the point of using that instead of a simple function call.
It seems like one thing that CRISPR brings to the table is find and replace, or find and delete.

As a layman, this would seem ideal for treating any sort of cancer... Just find the distinct sequences and delete?

What bad news do I not (yet) know that makes it much tougher than I'm hoping?
In defense of those "lazy people," there are escalators and then there are escalators.

Here in Washington, DC, for instance, our Metro system has several escalators that are 200 feet or more in length (http://greatergreaterwashington.org/post/23038/what-are-the-...). The longest one, in the station in suburban Wheaton, Maryland, is 230 feet long and climbs 115 feet vertically over that length. (Photo: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheaton_station#/media/File:Wh...) Long, steep escalators like that make a challenging climb even for the young and fit.
Not sure I'd call the US scrawny.
The "tracking users without direct approval".

And without JS tracking is very hard to do at all – a large part of the current tracking from Google depends on JS and/or Flash for detecting unique identifiers of the user.
Truth. His last essay actually hurt me pretty personally. There aren't too many figures in the business or tech world that I actually admire, and I was really disappointed when a guy that has been this lucky is too scared to acknowledge that life simply isn't fair, and that hard work isn't always enough. PG has become a beggar like the rent seekers he claims to abhor.
Because swag.
"One you do learn some physics you'll recall this conversion and cringe in embarrassment, not at your ignorance, but at your refusal to learn."

Just FYI, your conversational partner's website says:

"Paul Lutus has a wide background in science and technology. He designed spacecraft components for the NASA Space Shuttle and created a mathematical model of the solar system used by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory during the Viking Mars mission."
Re: "Economic Inequality".

I tend to read with a charitable eye, so I don't take the same meaning as yourself. But, he's chosen an expression that allows a lot of interpretation.

The way I read it, I assume we're talking about a cohort, and the point is, on average, the least lazy of the cohort will probably do better.
Not exactly on the subject of science, but the European Commission runs a similar blog debunking news stories about the EU:

http://blogs.ec.europa.eu/ECintheUK/
You seem to know a lot about Iranian politics, would you recommend something to read to bring an American up to speed on Iranian culture and politics both domestic and international?
His tone might seem unnecessarily harsh at first, but when taken in context of the amount of ass-kissing that goes on here, it starts to seem more like an appropriate counterweight.
And how many more years will you wait before you do that? How many more years can you wait and still be able to make a difference?
Very good point. A visit somewhere entirely new for just two weeks feels like 3 months of comparable memories to the two weeks in my regular mundane life.
One could avoid privacy issues by not collecting any information outside of email and chats, I would imagine. You don't HAVE to collect lots of user information.

As for porn, why does a social network have to allow embedded images? If it's mainly a chat service, there's no risk. I suppose someone could use your network as transport for links to outside content, but that's pretty unlikely and it's a stretch to say the network is responsible at all. You could also disallow hyperlinking.

Of course, both of those fixes make the system pretty damn hard to monetize, which I think is the biggest issue.
It's a controlled democracy, it's not brutal and it's not a dictatorship[1]. What gives U.S. the right besides it's carrier groups to say what kind of government the Iranian people should live under? The head of state the Iranian people last officially recorded as having overwhelmingly supported in 1979 is more legitimate than any kind of leader or government U.S. might say they would like to foist onto the Iranian people. The U.S. has indirectly caused multiple times more deaths and suffering in Iran that it's current government ever did.

Who is brutal, and who is trying to dictate?

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