skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I didn't get that from the essay. PG writes, "Some people still get rich by buying politicians. My point is that it's no longer a precondition."
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It goes on to say, referring to the report,

"For those projects to work, the companies need to offer internet access with no strings attached, the World Bank says. At one point, it calls out Facebook’s recent efforts to provide free internet access to consumers in some countries – but only to access Facebook."
> Because harsh expressions are usually gratuitous. Because blanket assertions are usually wrong. And, because combining both is rude.

This never happened though. The parent simply stated they didn't have time for bullshit then said they purchase Macs so they don't have build PCs. He / she simply stated what they considered important. It was personal, there was no blanket assertions at all and it was in the same tone as the article so what was gratuitous in this context?

> For instance, did you really need to say `Whoa whoa slow down' when you began your reply? Did that add value?

I certainly did due to the outlandishness of what I replied to. It sounded two orders of magnitude harsher and more personal than I would have expected especially on HN.
Tell me how that is any different from "The Lord works in mysterious ways that we just don't comprehend yet"?
Yes, a thousand times. I've long since learned to treat Stanford University's press office, to name a specific example, as nothing but noise.

More generally, this is a problem of press and media generally, which as much of this moves to an online / technical component, intersects with what many HN readers are actively involved with at their day jobs. Advertising-supported media are only one part of the overall failure, though a large part, and much of the low-value and/or low truth valence of online information can be traced to this.

More generally, as with so many other areas of abuse, corruption, and malfunction, the problem is one of impunity. Those who misbehave aren't called to account and made to pay.

That said, the support for a truth-telling system seems to be very, very difficult to come by. I've got thoughts but no clear answers.
Generally as a matter of rhetoric one does not pick out a single attribute to predicate of a class of people, unless one wishes to imply that other classes do not possess the attribute, or that the attribute is a sufficient condition for membership in the class.

What makes it a dirty rhetorical trick is, of course, that one can then reply to one's critics "ah, but I didn't explicitly say what you read into that".
>This sounds like a huge slog, and it is amazing that the method works.

Thanks to programming, a lot of this is automated.

In Biology, you can use programmable robotics arm that perform thousands of experiments (high-throughput screening). So for CRISPR, suppose you want to test the thousand genetic variation identified previously computationally for a particular cancer; you can take a cancer cell-line, apply gene-editing targeted at each of those sites each in a slot in a 96 plate-well and observe if the cancer cells' tumor growth. These 96 plate-wells are then fed into image analysis program to quantify the tumor growth.

>Is our understanding of protein folding still inadequate? Or would reconstructing a protein's physical structure still not give us enough insight into its intended function?

The field that simulate protein-to-protein simulation is called MD (molecular dynamics) simulation. The issue is the simulation is really complex. So you start at the molecular level, whether one protein can attach to another protein's end like Lego's, then you have to account for the individual cellular level, called cell circuits (modeling an individual cell like a logic circuit, different genes producing proteins that regulate one another), then you have to account for the multicellular interactions (how cells influence another).

Instead of trying to simulate everything, you have people comparing and studying things at different level.
I feel like I can't be alone in not wanting to stand next to someone I don't know on an escalator and finding the idea uncomfortable?
I didn't have time to read the original report, but I hope it's better written than this article.

Providing free internet to the public will offset the income inequality? Talk about a simplification.
I'm still unsure by what you mean. This is more along the lines of user tracking rather than ad blocking. Spoofing or preventing user tracking won't stop ads by itself, it'll just result in more generic ads that might not be relevant to you.
GOOD. Thank God that it's not just tech people yelling at Facebook now.
While I think it would be nice if community changes make it upstream so the government can benifit from the changes this is not the motivating factor. The motivating factor in my mind is that taxpayers paid for the code they should have the rights to use it. Already if the code is written by a government employee it is in the public domain because the government can't copyright. But in the public domain is not the same thing as publicly available. There have been cases were government employees have written a code base then hired contractors to work on the code and sell the product back to the government at crazy prices. And then when the government wants the source code make a change they can't get because the code base is now proprietary. And the government is forced to pay the contractor outrageous sums to make a change to what originally was the government's code.
Couple of assertions made that I have trouble with:

> There are only two methods to compensate content producers:
> pay directly or get free content in exchange for ads.

Other than the assumption all content producers need financial compensation, there are evidently alternative methods out there.

The BBC and ABC (of the AU, not the US variety) are two examples. They are paid / subsidised by the respective populations. Users typically aren't subject to advertisements - low quality or otherwise, and which probably contributes to why the services are perceived as high value.

and:

> Advertising is a great model, but what is fundamentally
> wrong today is the implementation.

While the implementation is doubtless wrong, I'm unsure how we could demonstrate that 'advertising is a great model'.
Previously discussed when it was an ipython url instead of a jupyter url: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10327409
In the Philippines, police shoot suspects in custody and say the (handcuffed) suspect tried to grab an officer's gun, thus necessitating the (always fatal) shooting. People then applaud how tough on crime the police are, and anyone who brings up human rights are derided as bleeding-heart idiots.
There are smart people of both sexes and all races, and I always assumed that an organization as focused on problem solving as NASA would employ the smartest people and ignore the discrimination that was all too commonplace at the time this occurred. While I'm glad to see that my assumption was grounded in facts, articles like this, in 2016, seem divisive to me.
That is a very well articulated reply.
High CRI white LEDs have been a thing for a while though. While not completely continuous the high CRI GE "reveal" lights are pretty good [1].

[1] http://www.cnet.com/news/shining-a-light-on-high-cri-led-bul...
The thing about the value of money being roughly logarithmic sent me on a google exploration where I ended up on a suggested "logarithmic flat tax plan". The gist is, you figure out how many times the poverty rate you make, take the log-base-10, and multiple by some flat constant that is the same for everyone - the result would be your tax rate. Right now in the US that constant would be around 9, assuming the same tax scheme would apply to companies that make billions in profits like Apple and Exxon.
Doudna's article is a typical scientific review written by someone intimately involved in the research. She doesn't try to teach 'important lessons', or outline the history of CRISPR, nor does she draw on unquoted 'personal interviews and other materials'. Everything is referenced, you can go and read each paper she cites. You can also compare her review to countless others written by her colleagues and patent opponents. Scientific reviews are invariably invited by the journal, with authors chosen based on their research interests and scientific output.

Lander's article is a completely different beast. I highly doubt Cell cold called Eric Lander and asked him to write a campfire history of CRISPR.

It is clear the Cell has a liberal COI policy in any case. I can't find COI mentioned anywhere, even to say that there aren't any.
Apply to big healthcare companies. They will highly value your domain knowledge and you could probably get a dev job just having your degree.
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Yes, good joke but true.
Formation walking is the solution.
The Ukrainian constitution requires a three-fourth majority vote to remove the president from office. The actual 2014 parliamentary vote only had 73% for his removal[0].

If you polled people in the west, at least 80% of them wouldn't be able to tell you that Yanukovych was removed illegally.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor_Yanukovych#constitution...
> Mani Gandham is co-founder and CEO of Instinctive.

The entire post is a native ad.
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Depends on when you last tried I guess.

So what happened was that many of these packages existed pre-1.0 when there was no stability system. Nobody knew which features would be stabilized (if you go further back, the fact that things would be stabilized in such a way wasn't clear either).

So we all just used whatever feature we liked. Many of these unstable APIs or features had stable counterparts, but the choice to use an API/feature was made pre-stability, so nobody had any way of knowing. Which meant that a lot of unnecessary unstable API usage persisted after 1.0. Some crates made a transition. some were slower (I think hyper was pretty quick to stabilize). Servo, for example, didn't have any issue with using nightlies for various reasons so we kept using unstable APIs (I later audited and removed low-hanging extraneous unstable API usage. Most of our out-of-tree crates are stable too).

There have been efforts both by maintainers and by individual community members to bring crates to stable, and I think at the moment most useful non-plugin crates work fine on stable. Let me know (@Manishearth on twitter) if you find a crate that you need that doesn't work on stable!
I've always wondered how efficient are traditional bulbs as an actual heat source? I live in Minnesota and its -17°F outside, and would it be more energy efficient to heat the room I am currently occupying with the light bulbs of the room, keeping the rest of the house cooler than pumping a higher level of heat to the entire house?

I feel like the switch to CFLs may have increased my energy bills overall.
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Can you easily fit things like glm across a view or large table with the SQL Server R addon?
This article is all over the place. First it equates income inequality with protests against gentrification, and second, it's ambivalent about technology. On the one hand it "democratizes" on the other hand it "eliminates no-skill and low skilled jobs". It doesn't know what it wants. It only knows something is "not normal".

It offers one possible solution in regulation, but regulation will not be able to protect no skill and low skilled jobs, which is the bigger issue over things like "access to the internet".

Basically tech is creating problems; we don't understand things completely, but in any case, technologists are at fault for creating this new transition period fraught with uncertainty and also for being indifferent about what they do.
Many people who have access to internet is still in extreme poverty. There is no clear map from being poor-with-internet-to-middle-income.

I know this to be true because I know some of them, they use Facebook to gossip and YouTube to listen music but that's about it.
Whilst having to debug this is still undesirable, I recommend trying `rr` (http://rr-project.org/) to track this if you're ever in such a situation. It's as simple as setting a watchpoint and reverse-continue-ing!

I don't do much C/++ these days, but when I do (and it's a large codebase which is hard to debug), `rr` is invaluable. It works with Rust too.
The aperture, exposure time, etc would all be recorded with the plate, so any bias would be absolutely minimal. Additionally, photographic plates don't have a single star on them, but rather a field of stars, so any overall bias would be applied equally to the entire field and weighted out.
You have to be very specific about housing.

Some is very cheap
http://www.trulia.com/for_sale/Detroit,MI/10000p_price/price...

And some is very expensive
http://homesoftherich.net/2013/05/30000-square-foot-tudor-ma...

If price is the factor, deals can be found.
clickbait site that makes you click through to the actual site via minimized URL... and that site doesn't even give more info, let alone the Rome content.
Sending the notification still seems like a better idea than not doing it. If a page has gotten you to enter the password at all then it's pretty likely that it knows the significance before the notification.
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Happens to me, too.
I don't get it. Couldn't it have cooled down already and we're only seeing the junk?
> It is a conjecture or speculation; it is not a hypothesis, in the scientific sense, because without something more than "some way we don't understand", it makes no falsifiable predictions of future observations.

But it is falsifiable, for example we could falsify it by visiting the star and observing that there is no life in its solar system and no artificial satellites orbiting the star.
Digging it out from the bottom of the Marianas Trench only to rebury it in an inferior location (from an accessibility standpoint) seems counterproductive.
I make a record of them shrouded in a mnemonic that I can figure out but that would be useless to a stranger.
His mention of 'arguing on the internet' as one of the few specific examples of time-wasting behavior makes it hard not to read it as a reaction.

I absolutely believe he values time.

But I also absolutely believe that he is using this as a public excuse as to why he's running away from the criticism of his previous essay; a previous essay which was quite possibly the most flawed piece of writing he's ever let loose onto the Internet.

It's just really, really convenient that one moment he's making ridiculous assertions about what people mean when they're upset about income inequality... and now he's talking about why life is too short for him to have unpleasant conversations.

It reads like cowardice. It reads like a cowardly billionaire who wants to grossly distort the actual concerns of real people; who doesn't want to listen to anybody who doesn't think he's a god; and who wants to live in ignorance.

I'm sure time is meaningful for you... but maybe you should ask him if there wasn't some reason that he suddenly finished this essay. And if maybe it wasn't because he's a thin-skinned jerk who can't handle the fact that his previous missive was really poorly thought out... maybe he can't handle interactions with people who don't think he's a God.

pg has had a ton of my respect for a very long time. But between these two essays, I've realized that pg is no longer a useful or good man. He's passed into that world where he simply cannot accept the notion that he might sometimes be wrong; and he'd rather live in ignorance of that. He'd rather believe he is perfect, that he is a god, than face the fact that he wrote a really terrible essay, an essay that showed a complete disconnect from reality.

But hey... you're married to him so you're a billionaire too, so I bet you thought his reality-deficient spew was also really great. And that's one of the best things about being a billionaire; you can afford to live in a distorted reality that has no connection to the real world. You can do so, and it will be comfortable for your entire family. Nobody will say anything to your face, because you are too powerful.

So yes... enjoy your time... enjoy your ignorance... enjoy shitting on the world and denying reality. Enjoy making excuses for your husband's ignorant brand of politics. Because he's going to get worse for the rest of his life. Rich white men rarely get less entitled as they age.

pg won't wake up and be Bill Gates, realizing that this shit is fucked up. That would require a connection to reality that he has clearly lost.
There are several reasons that apply to different people and it doesn't hurt to be aware of them. It might seem basic or obvious to you but the article was meant to be a detailed introduction to ad blocking.
Maybe, but I think it is plausible there would be. Suppose we wanted to build a set of megastructures for collecting solar energy.

I'd guess we'd get the materials from the asteroid belt, or by taking apart Mars (or maybe Mercury or Venus, if we want to keep Mars for terraforming). I'd guess we'd set up the construction area for building the megastructures in the same general orbit where we get the raw materials, or we might move the materials to somewhere near Earth.

For deployment, though, we'd want to move these closer to the Sun, because you collect more energy per unit area the closer you are to the Sun. If we are putting them closer than Earth is to the Sun, though, we'd probably want them away from Earth's orbital plane so we wouldn't have the annoyance of them blocking out the Sun on Earth.

An observer at some other solar system is only going to see our megastructures if we've got them in an orbit whose plane intersects the observer's solar system. Those who can see them when they are under construction won't see them anymore when we shift them from construction orbits to deployment orbits, and those who can see them after we put them in deployment orbits won't see them before that when they are in construction orbits.

Another possibility is that what we are seeing is a redeployment. Maybe they were originally deployed in one configuration which from our vantage point was not visible, and then due to other future projects that configuration was no longer optimal and so they moved them to a new configuration which is visible to us.
When I was about 10, I loved the idea of technology. I knew (loosely) about 50 people (all male) who were interested in computers and technology. There were no sign posts, ads, encouragement - it was binary: you were either interested or you weren't. I fought my parents and got a job at 8 to get a computer because my parents wouldn't buy me a glorified toy.

When I watched an old documentary from the 70s a few months ago, they had boys going around junk shops sniffing at junk parts to put together their own systems.
Now, revisionists talk about women being barred, ostracised, etc - but the only people I ever saw ostracised were the geeks like me. We didn't care what gender you were: you either were interested or you weren't. Even my nerdy female friends thought I was odd back then.

I hear these revisionists like you and it annoys and disappoints me.

When we were in computing classes, girls and boys wanted to be my friend in equal measure. When we left the room, us nerds were scorned by both sexes in equal measure.

It most probably doesn't surprise me, but my wife (the same age as me) was in the same boat as me - but I didn't meet her until we were adults.
In short, I never met a girl in my childhood that was interested in computing. I am not inclined to agree with the "social conditioning" excuse as everyone I knew motivated themselves. Two years of paper round tells you how dedicated I was.
The U.S. propaganda machinery is very strong. Even as Joe Biden's son is now involved in Ukraine's gas companies[1] right after the coup, and along the 5 billion Victoria Nuland said U.S. spent on "democratic institutions", in front of Chevron and ExxonMobil flags, with half of Ukraine in tatters and gas rationings during bitter cold winters, people in the U.S. still think their government is a force for good in the country.

Why help Ukraine with billions and not other countries that do not have gas/oil?

[1] http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-echochambers-27403003
I don't think the post is bragging about this. It's well known amongst the Rust community that this stuff is pretty easy to do)

I read it as a primer for writing simple Rust programs that can run baremetal on the Pi (I've cross compiled for a Pi-with-OS before but never tried this) and access GPIO.

If you're talking about the HN upvotes, HN just tends to upvote posts mentioning Rust a lot :)

Have you looked at https://zinc.rs/?
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Me too! And my partner.
I read it differently.

He suggests that social mobility is highly correlated with non-laziness (whether expressed through hard work, not hard but smart work, natural curiosity, drive to tinker with stuff, or ability to deliver on a project started without letting the inertia set in).

That does not mean that poverty is correlated with laziness.

The only logical conclusion that follows is that laziness is not highly correlated with social mobility, e.g. people who are poor and lazy have not statistically been exposed to much social mobility.