skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
California has statewide referendums, which are generally pretty awful: state law is (for better or worse) pretty complex, and referendums never handle that complexity well. If successful, they'll impose some requirement without much regard for existing law in the area, and certainly without any regard for future laws. They're heavily lobbied, perhaps more so than regular laws, because easy appeals to regular people's sense of how government probably works are effective, regardless of the accuracy. Referendums can't be overturned except with another referendum. And you can fairly easily have conflicting referendums, which has given rise to court cases about which one prevails.

Here's the Economist complaining about it in 2009: http://www.economist.com/node/13649050 I can anecdotally confirm that my reaction to most of the referendums, a few years later, was "How should I know?"

This is not to say that such an approach won't work. You just need some mechanism for managing complexity. That could involve trusted organizations that like-minded people delegate these decisions to (sort of a cross between lobbying/activism organizations and political parties), which could work very well or could just turn out like an actually corporate version of the current party system. You could alternatively try to limit the inherent complexity of governing, but that seems very experimental.
Listen to them while you write those scripts? Better than nothing?
Reasonable suspicion is such a low standard that it can always be manufactured.
You need to a bit more reading.

The US/UK did not "overthrow" a democratically elected gov't. Mossadegh's gov't had become very unpopular and there were mass protests across the country.

I agree that the US/UK fully supported the Shah in his attempt to take over the gov't, but overall the effect was more a nudge than a bullet to the head.
If you look at how well Donald Trump is doing, you have to concede that the "fringe" is a bit more than a fringe these days.
You shouldn't be getting downvoted for this, but also no.

A black hole would have an accretion disk in this case and be a very bright object. It would also be in orbit so we would've spotted the traversal of it given the timespan or the matter siphon if it was in a large orbit.
The ultra-violent origins of gold
> [saying] inequality would arise because some people are "more driven" than others [=== saying] those with less money are simply less driven.

Slow down there. You can't just take the converse of any old statement.

PG is saying: IF ((starting equal) AND (differences in drive)) THEN (ending unequal).

You are saying that PG's statement is equivalent to: IF (now unequal) THEN ((earlier equal) AND (differences in drive)). Which translates to "Poor people are poor only because of laziness."

Furthermore, the quote you provide says: IF (rich now) THEN (probably driven earlier), which crucially says nothing at all about people who are not rich now.

That's as best as I can put it.
All NBA centers are tall. This doesn't mean that all people who aren't NBA centers are short.
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Minecraft.

The most valuable truths are the ones most people don't believe. They're like undervalued stocks. If you start with them, you'll have the whole field to yourself. So when you find an idea you know is good but most people disagree with, you should not merely ignore their objections, but push aggressively in that direction.

http://paulgraham.com/notnot.html
Presenting is only as complex as you make it
I would like to see a comment about this by a lawyer, I'm genuinely curious.
Sean here: the mitigation you speak of (notifying the user that they've typed in their master password) is actually another vulnerability.

A malicious page can detect the fact that LastPass put that notification, and then it knows exactly what your master password is without even contacting LastPass. I've told your security team about this but haven't yet received a response.
"A plausible model" is the key phrase. There's a huge difference between postulating that aliens might exist and produce radio broadcasts (something which we can already do, and understand very well) and that aliens might exist and be able to not only build something larger than a hundred planets, but build it in ten years. We don't even have a theory about the sort of engineering that might be required for that--it's pure speculation. And that's the problem.
Access money that is outside of Iran. Most countries have assets in other countries. Preventing the movement of this money is pretty typical form of sanctions.
Unfortunately I can't downvote you, so I have to leave a comment telling you how stupid you are. Like seriously what is wrong with you? Most people don't run up an escalator unless they are in a hurry, and it defeats the entire purpose of an escalator. Some people can't because they are old, or weak.

There is no reason for anyone to run up an escalator unless they are in a hurry, and it's only going to save them a couple seconds. Then you are still going to get stuck behind a crowd of people walking up a regular stairs or hallway, where people aren't expected to crowd to the right for you to run past. Why should it be different on escalators?
It is worth repeating: http://paulgraham.com/ineq.html
Commandcast: Run command on multiple hosts over SSH in Go
A 400m valuation for a local anonymous chat application? Yup, I'm skeptical.

You'd be wrong.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/year-old-messaging-app-yik-yak-d...

Perhaps you meant you disagree that valuation makes sense?
That's interesting. Repetition doesn't create memories but it does create skills. Maybe that's why when we get older we tend to have fewer new experiences but more skills. Because of repetition - the more we live the more we repeat something.
Note that due to how CRIs are calculated, you can have an arbitrarily bad color rendition even with any CRI <100 with discontinuous spectra: if your object reflects mostly on the bands where the spectrum is weak, it will appear black (or you could have a daylight e.g. red object appear e.g. blue or any other color). That's why incandescents are really the standard for color rendition.
A lot of people make a lot of money from writing terrible PHP applications that solve a particular business need. Sometimes it's shocking to me to be honest!
Sometimes the truth can be very hard for people to accept. Western academia, media, and press all turned a blind eye to Soviet repression, gulags, and purges up until the late 40s and early 50s. George Orwell, a leftist, had a very hard time getting Homage to Catalonia published because it portrayed the Soviet-backed Republican forces in Spain in a very unfavorable light. The Western intellectual elite was infatuated with Communism and didn't want to deal with facts that contradicted their neat world view.

There's a really powerful line in 1984 that has stuck with me: "He who controls the past, controls the future. He who controls the present, controls the past."
PG claims that if all other avenues to wealth are shut off, then the driven and determined will "do well" at starting startups. That is not at all the same as saying that all successful startup founders are driven.
All of your points are great but have nothing to do with this:

> first step towards democracy.

More importantly, when countries are strong trade partners, they are way less likely to fight. War would hurt both parties through loss of economic activity more than it would benefit either as aggressor.

The United States has been the aggressor / meddler in too much of the world for too long. It's good to see when diplomacy works, since we've been taking the "last resort" of war WAY too often.
What is lazy about not running up an escalator? That defeats the purpose of an escalator and saves you maybe a few seconds at best. Most people prefer not to.
You do not have to identify yourself in California.

https://www.aclusocal.org/barstow-stop-and-id/
Quick-sort with Hungarian folk dance
Server-side tracking doesn't sound like that bad of an endgame to push towards. If users are behind a layer or two of NAT and browsers unilaterally stop leaking information in their user-agent strings and other optional HTTP fields (which are basically only used for tracking people and nasty brittle feature-detection hacks), server side tracking is easily crippled, and nothing of value is lost.
And, yet, the percentages of hired and remembered are similar despite women usually making it in blind auditions. Are they really different worlds for black women in engineering?
Java 8: The JVM Can Re-Capture Objects That Have Escaped
How is link bait when it never mentions Linux? It seems like hardware lockdown of windows versions.
The 2 most dangerous numbers in the universe are threatening the end of physics
No it's not: that article was objectively trash.

It was one giant false dilemma logical fallacy between having economic growth or having low economic inequality.
Analysis of Responsiveness of GitHub Repositories
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-k35cVRFZik
Really incredible to me that my comment and the one below are downvoted more than the one parent which is a blatant lie
The slowly fading art of flying and maintaining Cold War fighter jets
Investors invest to make money. As outlined, it doesn't sound like it would make a difference beyond providing an excuse. For what it's worth Robert Morris of Morris Worm fame is a YC partner.
Wonder what he thinks when he was investing in OMGPOP, Reddit and 9Gag. How many hours have those sites clocked off of peoples lives. Don't get addicted :)
Making heavy elements by colliding neutron stars (2013)
If the game is more equitable the tall centers or the driven founders will do better. If bribing the ref/lawmakers is an option then this is less true.
Whoa whoa slow down. Parent sounded like they simply don't have time to build computers anymore and that buying a Mac is just far easier (less driver issues due to the vertical stack, etc).

This seems perfectly justified and fine to me; I don't get why you're so upset by it.
http://www.npr.org/2012/11/08/164632546/crushing-eastern-eur...
Even Fox News Employees Donate More to the Democratic Party
technical details, "An r-Process Kilonova Associated with the Short-Hard GRB 130603B" ~ http://arxiv.org/abs/1306.3960
Show HN: React-like DOM element template engine
I suspect those who are experiencing high cpu usage while idling are running into weird bugs. It's only been 6 months since they released 1.0.

It runs well enough on my laptop with a 4th gen i7, 8gb ram, ssd, running linux but cpu utilization is rather high. Scrolling inside a moderately sized file puts a 20-30% load on all 4 of my threads. If I enable on the fly linting, autocomplete features, minimap, and etc, it starts to add up.

I've used vim, emacs, and sublime text and I've found that with my uses cases (mainly python development), atom ranks at the bottom of efficiency and performance (but highest in productivity). I consider myself a proponent of atom and it's currently my favorite editor, especially with vim-mode but it has it's drawbacks. It's just not a fair fight; comparing the performance/efficiency of atom to editors written in c/c++ doesn't make sense to me.
What's wrong with Pakistan? No mandated hijab, no execution of gays, no deep packet inspection...
This is a biology paper, not a medical paper.
Bruh, his wife probably has a much better idea of his mindset than we do.
So instead of electing someone else, they would install a shah?
>Technology firms such as Google and Facebook are working on projects to offer free internet to parts of Africa and India.

Um, no. Facebook is not offering free internet. They are offering "Facebook internet", where website maintainers must abide to their guidelines in order to be part of the internet that they offer.

More on the atrocious limitations that they're imposing is outlined here: https://info.internet.org/story/platform

There has been a lot of traction in the news about this too, so it's worth reading about this before labelling it as "free internet": https://www.google.com/search?tbm=nws&q="free+basics"
The article and its experts assume that "efficiency" is more important than culture and regimen without proving that is true.
Well, except for China, Malaysia, India. In India the cops will do whatever they want and get away with it. I'm wealthy enough to bribe the police as needed, but many folks aren't.

A fellow I met in Kuala Lumpur told me they are starting "black lives matter", though the word "black" doesn't identify any particular ethnic group. Migrants from poorer islands/regions are more commonly targeted than locals, however. (Kuala Lumpur is quite wealthy, roughly US poverty level. However rural areas are significantly poorer.)
Free Hardware and IoT Reports
What do you do on pages that require / forbid special characters and require / forbid length >8 characters?
First of all, why is a Lander writing this? What qualifies him to reconstruct the history of CRISPR? He doesn't do CRISPR research. Historical reviews are always written by the people that actually did the research because A) who else really knows what happened and B) we are interested in their perspective. So Lander's qualification is what exactly? That he's an important person who knows what DNA is?

The article itself also absolutely stinks. First an ad hoc justification why this article is important consisting of nothing more than platitudes about science, then evocative descriptions of the weather in Santa Pola, progressively more brief descriptions of other sicentists' work followed by a long section at the end which could be a slightly edited version of the closing remarks from the Broad Institute's patent attorney in their dispute against the other CRISPR developers.

This in particular, stinks:

"The history also illustrates the growing role in biology of “hypothesis-free” discovery based on big data. The discovery of the CRISPR loci, their biological function, and the tracrRNA all emerged not from wet-bench experiments but from open-ended bioinformatic exploration of large-scale, often public, genomic datasets. “Hypothesis-driven” science of course remains essential, but the 21st century will see an increasing partnership between these two approaches."

What 'growing role'? Biology has always been largely hypothesis-free. Which hypothesis was being tested when DNA was discovered? They were trying to fit a model to the data, not testing out their ideas about how DNA should look. Penicillin was discovered by accident, where was the hypothesis there? And the importance of bioinformatic exploration? How does this: "Using his word processor, Mojica painstakingly extracted each spacer and inserted it into the BLAST program to search for similarity with any other known DNA sequence" support the importance of bioinformatics? Manually pasting 4500 sequences into BLAST? Surely this is an example of progress DESPITE any substantial bioinformatics.

I can't see why this was written except to further the agenda of the author and his institute, and to color history to support their legal claims. I can't see how this was published except through nepotism, eminence based science and the kind of shameful arrogance and entitlement that only academics have the luxury to cultivate. Maybe Lander thought he was setting the record straight, but that isn't his privilege.
Book description for those that may be interested:

“Murakami is like a magician who explains what he’s doing as he performs the trick and still makes you believe he has supernatural powers . . . But while anyone can tell a story that resembles a dream, it's the rare artist, like this one, who can make us feel that we are dreaming it ourselves.” —The New York Times Book Review

The year is 1984 and the city is Tokyo.

A young woman named Aomame follows a taxi driver’s enigmatic suggestion and begins to notice puzzling discrepancies in the world around her. She has entered, she realizes, a parallel existence, which she calls 1Q84 —“Q is for ‘question mark.’ A world that bears a question.” Meanwhile, an aspiring writer named Tengo takes on a suspect ghostwriting project. He becomes so wrapped up with the work and its unusual author that, soon, his previously placid life begins to come unraveled.

As Aomame’s and Tengo’s narratives converge over the course of this single year, we learn of the profound and tangled connections that bind them ever closer: a beautiful, dyslexic teenage girl with a unique vision; a mysterious religious cult that instigated a shoot-out with the metropolitan police; a reclusive, wealthy dowager who runs a shelter for abused women; a hideously ugly private investigator; a mild-mannered yet ruthlessly efficient bodyguard; and a peculiarly insistent television-fee collector.

A love story, a mystery, a fantasy, a novel of self-discovery, a dystopia to rival George Orwell’s—1Q84 is Haruki Murakami’s most ambitious undertaking yet: an instant best seller in his native Japan, and a tremendous feat of imagination from one of our most revered contemporary writers.
AVRs are simple and reliable. You can read the whole datasheet and understand everything with much less effort than modern ARM MCUs. They've been around long enough that I have a lot of confidence in them. They're electrically more robust than most modern chips so they're hard to accidentally damage. There's a lot of community support available because of the popularity of Arduinos. Many tasks don't need anything more powerful. I think it would be foolish to discard AVRs as obsolete just because they're old.
> Slow down there. You can't just take the converse of any old statement.

This is in the context of a hypothetical universe where "the only way left to get rich is to start startups." In that universe, PG asserts that the driven will do well, thereby creating inequality. Since we know inequality exists, some will have done less well, and "determination is the main factor in the success of a startup."

To go back to what you said earlier, this isn't directly relevant to real world inequality. But the essay posits this hypothetical world as a parabolic justification for economic inequality. The essay acknowledges that "few successful founders grew up desperately poor" but refuses to engage in any discussion of why. It will only examine a simplified universe, which allows the author to make implications about the real world and then hand wave any reactions away when others engage with those implications.
I've never heard of Ahmadis in Iran - I didn't think they'd be foolhardy enough to preach there.
You have your history all wrong. If you try to squeeze the Republican party of 1900's economic policy into the current American liberalism vs. conservatism spectrum (I say squeeze because obviously the political positions of that time were different than today's), they would be liberal, and the Democrats of that time would be conservative.

So the fact that once upon a time red meant liberal, but no longer does, does not prove that economic conservatives have reducing economic inequality as a direct goal.
It's actually just the reverse of what the title makes you think.

1) Windows 7&8 will work on new processors, just like windows XP and 1.0 will. They just won't be updated to use, say, a new instruction set.

2) Windows 10 will in fact get these updates.

3) This won't apply to enterprise customers for 18 months

The article does NOT say:

That future intel processors will only run windows, or only windows 10, or anything remotely of that nature. This is microsoft doing something, not intel and/or AMD.
Hot Potato – Windows Privilege Escalation
China's economy grew by around 7 percent in 2015
I think "need" is a strong word. I have 20/70 (maybe worse) vision, but I am fully able to do most any normal task. I am even a better shot with a gun than most of my friends, with their contacts & lasic. Yes, everything is a blur, meaning I cannot recognize faces until ~30ft, but I can recognize if it is a person, a bear, or a car. Very few things are impacted by my poor vision.

I do occasionally wear contacts, so I am aware of the advantages of having better than 20/15 vision, I just usually do not require that level of clarity.
I will concede, it is disturbing that Donald Trump is as popular as he seems to be. But to be fair, he is a celebrity and can afford to literally force the country to listen to him, and he doesn't actually have to appeal to anyone but the hardcore Republican base at this point. I feel like Donald Trump is the bursting of a pustule that's been festering under the skin of America's psyche for a while.

But he hasn't even been nominated by his party yet, and I'm not entirely certain he would actually win a general election.
Extremely powerful intelligence agency that basically pulls (or tries to pull) the strings on the rest of the government.

Actual tested nuclear weapons with some nuclear scientists sympathizing with extremist Islamist views, not just a bourgeoning nuclear program.

Pseudo-militaristic rule. (Going back and forth between military and civilian rule, with various coups over the decades).

Slow loss of control of various extremist elements?

I don't know, I'd say Pakistan is pretty risky as well.
Yeah, that's how I read it. And that last bit seemed so shoehorned on there that it almost seemed like it was an effort to give the story some kind of hook that the author or an editor might have thought it lacked.
> I don't get why you're so upset by it.

Because harsh expressions are usually gratuitous. Because blanket assertions are usually wrong. And, because combining both is rude.

(This applies to parts of PG's essay as well!)

For instance, did you really need to say `Whoa whoa slow down' when you began your reply? Did that add value?
> PG claimed that some rich people "create wealth" and are thus entitled to it.

Close enough. But, like, is anyone really going to argue with this? With scare quotes, sure, OK, I guess there's an example of someone out there churning out widgets from their blood-diamond-financed widget factory, and that's more of a grey area, but without weird factors like this...yes, people ought to be entitled to what they create. There are valid arguments on definitions of that (patents, land use, etc.) but all of those are disputes on how to apply the main principle, not whether it is legitimate.

> He further argued that they're extra entitled to it because even if you eliminated all other sources of inequality, you couldn't stop them from creating more wealth for themselves: "creating wealth, as a source of economic inequality, is different from taking it

This is a straw man. He didn't argue that they're "extra entitled," he simply pre-empted the (reasonable) argument that not all the rich got rich in good ways.

But in any case: your description of his argument does not match the description I responded to:

“we rich people deserve to have 100x more than the poors because we’re pushing humanity forward”

Do you think the above is a hostile interpretation? I did, so I said so.
> Why would someone use an ad blocker?

Isn't this like asking why someone would fast-forward through commercials, or why they would use a spam filter?

The only reason I use an ad blocker is because I don't like being blasted with words and images designed to get me to do or buy shit that I don't want.
Millionaires living in the Silicon Valley microcosm are not the best voices on income inequality.
Reversal of hair greying is definitely possible. I'm in my early 30s, and I have a few grey hairs. Sometimes I find one that started growing as grey and turned back to brown at the root. I've never heard of this happening to anybody else. I have a few saved as proof.
Coffee business in need of help
This is Children of Men level shit. It's time to make the mosquito extinct.
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Possibly a new variety of variable star, like the Beta Cephi and slowly pulsating stars [1]? The article doesn't have any information as to what sort of spectrographs, etc have been taken.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slowly_pulsating_B-type_star
"Customers are likely to see regressions with Windows 7 ongoing servicing"