skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The PATH Act: So…uh…Why Aren’t We Paying Our Taxes?
Probably my misunderstanding, but this simulation does not reflect a continued concentration of wealth in the hands of a few, in my opinion.

Please let me know your thoughts:

I agree that the concentration of wealth reflected in the charts shows that, at any point of time, the person at the 1st percentile owns an increasing fraction of the total wealth.
However, this same person is very likely to be almost immediately spoliated by the subsequent transaction, and give all its wealth to someone (maybe the poorest person).

In summary, there is a lot of social mobility, as can be revealed by commenting out the following line in the code (essentially, we now track the financial path of specific individuals, rather than the wealth of various percentiles):

def record_percentiles(population, percentiles):
#population = sorted(population, reverse=True)
N = len(population)
return [population[int(p*N/100.)] for p in percentiles]

So, it seems to me that, on average, everyone is equal over time, but each instant offers every participant dramatic ups and downs.

Not sure if I am missing something.
There is a new book out called "Gut: The Inside Story of Our Body's Most Underrated Organ" by Giulia Enders:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/97817716...

I can't recommend it enough as it is both entertaining and packed with comprehensive information on a taboo topic (hint: you are "the borg";)

Interview with Giulia Enders on "Gut":

http://youtu.be/weskzCKki-s
This particular article isn't just an editorial, but also an announcement of new federal prison policy.
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Your statement should have an "or" instead of an "and". Ex: MDMA does not have high dependence but does require an increased dosage due to plateaus
Fascinating. I see it as yellow.

This also hints at the "qualia" mystery...
Yeah, riding a tricycle in the sky (no resistance)
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I could have outdated information; in either case speed isn't as important as security.

Why haven't servers started advertising how many connections they are willing to accept? The need for other domains could be easily removed with something like an HTTP response header:

200 Ok
...
X-Max-Parallel-Connection: 10
...

This type of header could even be used to give per-page values:

X-Max-Parallel-Connection: 20, scope=local-page-only

(there's probably a better way to phrase these, but that works as an example)

Yes, I know these are not supported by browsers yet, but sensibility is one of the best features of HTTP.
Whilst colour can be subjective, in this case it is clearly yellow and a mistake by the OP, because the preceding bar is clearly orange.
But Meteor dictates your backend AND your database, which React does not do, so it is appealing to a much smaller user group.
More likely she's played 2048 a couple times. Obligatory xkcd:

https://xkcd.com/1344/
Isn't that akin to arguing that choosing to distribute your movies only on Betamax is not a bad decision?
With `hg commit --interactive` and `hg amend --interactive`, I really don't see what's the difference between a temporary commit that you keep adding stuff to and a staging area. It's all just diffs and hunks. Whether it's finalised or not is just a matter of perspective. Mercurial encodes this perspective by distinguishing draft from published commits.
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In this case the "user" is the system manufacturer who developed an exploitable application, in this case, Lenovo.

Lenovo could sell a Linux PC with a similar application that communicated with a daemon running as root which binary was saved in /bin with 0777 permissions.

There is nothing special about Windows that makes this vulnerability possible.

The end user mistake here was buying Lenovo.
I had dinner with Prof Minksy, about 15 years ago. He asked what I was working on (evolutionary algorithms) we got talking about domains of knowledge.

He said all knowledge has a half-life, the time it takes for half of what you know to be redundant or wrong. Math, he said, is the longest, measured in centuries or millennia. One should feel sorry for neuroscientists: they can go to the bathroom and half their knowledge will be out of date.

The only time I spent with him, but both the metaphor and his passion for math will stay with me.
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>>Your tax dollars at work.

> Wrong.

>This video and test were done by the IIHS

I believe GP was not referring to video, but to the safety legislation leading to starkly improved safety performance of the 2009 vehicle (I thought their second line made this very clear)
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How long have you been in the software industry? Github would be lucky to be half its current size in 5 years, if it's not entirely gone by then.
There is another deeper meaning in this koan.

It's related to the No Free Lunch Theorems. It basically says that if an algorithm performs well on a certain class of learning, searching or optimization problems, then it necessarily pays for that with degraded performance on the set of all remaining problems.

In other words, you always need bias to learn meaningfully. More you have (the right kind of) bias, faster you can learn the subject in hand and slower in all other kinds. In neural networks the bias is not just the weights. There is bias in the selection of random distribution of the network weights (uniform, Gaussian etc.) There is bias in the network topology. There is bias in the learning algorithm, activation function, etc.

Convolutional neural networks are good example. They have very strong bias baked into them and it works really well.
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This is an over-the-top uncivil comment. It's also dumb: Rayiner isn't white.
I wonder what he'd have concluded if it had looked different?!
Likewise, I identify with you on the main points. I liked maths as a schooler, did well in it. As did yourself, I had to memorise formulae for exam and was only allowed a 'basic' calculator. I have maths to thank for allowing me to get the necessary school marks to secure my further studies (which are unrelated to maths). But math's honestly just felt like imitating a machine or a robot. Completely mechanical, it just became a competition of making sure you could make the fewest mistakes in the upcoming exam versus your colleagues.

A majority of it is memorisation, which makes it both very easy in some respects, and hard in others. I still feel in the end it is a bit useless to learn it in the way we do now, seeing as computers can do it in a fraction of a second.
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The idea of changefeeds / subscription cursors has been around for a while now, especially in Meteor. I doubt it'll be that crazy to add reactivity to graphql queries when compared to what Meteor is already doing w/ subscriptions and DDP.

RethinkDB for example has changefeeds built in and is tackling this problem as well. See: https://github.com/rethinkdb/rethinkdb/issues/3711

Data as a stream is pretty interesting too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fU9hR3kiOK0
2FA is now available for Amazon customer accounts: http://betanews.com/2015/11/18/how-to-enable-two-factor-auth...

The option is only (at the moment) available for Amazon.com accounts, but if you enable it there is will also be turned on for other domains Amazon.co.uk etc.
FoundationDB too. Cited specifically in the proposal slides behind GB [1].

1 - https://getgb.io/rationale/
Also, isn't MDMA highly toxic if used frequently? Drug forums seem to recommend the use of MDMA no more often than once every two weeks.
It depends a lot on where you put the limit between neats and scruffies. I personally would have put him straight in the center, as more of a pragmatist. One of the big criticisms he had (from my memory of the Society of Mind lectures) is that some researchers spent too much time trying to find an overarching, simplistic theory of mind (some sort of physics-envy), which would put him in the scruffy camp. I do also remember him saying that trying to replicate the brain was pointless and that people should focus on trying to replicate its function rather than its architecture, which I am assuming is a criticism of the connectionist approaches, which would put him in the neat camp.
It's per FQDN, not per host. Host refers to either an individual machine, or an IP address, and the restriction is to neither of these.
The biggest surprise for me is that they weren't already doing this. Or perhaps they were and this is just adding a way to opt out?
To be fair to the GP, this view-layer-independence is very new, only officially supported since summer. Very reasonable to see it as all-in looking any time before.
It's nothing Gradle-specific - as you say it's the Maven scheme and used by almost all JVM dependency managers. Note also there's a convention of using a domain you control in reverse order as the groupId (i.e. com.mycompany:myproject:1.0) which makes collisions extremely unlikely. Finally it's very easy in the maven ecosystem to run a "proxy repository" for your organization that indefinitely caches all the artifacts you depend on, thus ensuring that your builds will always be reproducible.
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There you go

https://www.stickermule.com/marketplace/1550-y-combinator-sq...
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Russia Is Poisoning Western Dignitaries and Nobody Seems to Care
Well, I don't know. To be honest I doubt such magic pill exists :/.
Came here to pose the exact same question. I also always understood that one of the risks of repeated mdma intake is serotonin depletion. Also the effect where one feels like shit 1-3 days after an mdma trip is very real.

So while it is possible serotonin is not the happy chemical, it either does play a role (possibly or even likely if you ask me in combination with other chemicals) or else all other research so far has been very much wrong.
I suspect so. I've noticed the same uptick in spam into my inbox. I disabled the auto-image-loading as a result, but haven't seen an improvement yet.

I also have a feeling that the "report spam" button loses its effectiveness after awhile. I went on a report-spam-spree a few months ago, but Google seemed to ignore half of my reports and still delivers those senders to my inbox. Frustrating.
It also appears in "Homeland", his follow-up to "Little Brother".
1) This is AI theatre. We have been able to write plausible prose since at least the 80s using Markov models + ngrams and sentence structure. (Thanks Chomsky! ... from An Introduction to Information Theory by John Pierce 1980)

2) what's with all the Washington Post spam? Do all of their articles just get mirrored on HN every morning now?
Looks yellow to me.
Somewhat off-topic:
I feel that Firefox has improved significantly lately, even though it ceased to be the "star" browser a while ago.
Its usability is much better than other browsers. On Linux for example, it integrates with GTK and the rest of the OS seamlessly.
Also websites tend to display and function more accurately than in Chrome. This is subjective, it might be just me who experienced more broken websites lately.
Remind me of this Slashdot comment about killing the goose that laid the golden eggs:

http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=7754987&cid=5019893...

Perhaps GitHub will be able to resist "change for change's sake".
30% Minsky does not imply that there isn't a fully functioning intelligence, only that a mere 30% of Minsky is part of them.
I think you overestimate the amount of brain matter required to maintain personality.

It is possible to lose an entire brain hemisphere and retain complete functionality
(see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemispherectomy).

There is a huge amount of redundancy in the brain, and most brain matter is only concerned with I/O, signal processing, and life support. It's one of the reasons I have a lot of hope that cryonics is feasible -- massive loss of brain tissue need not mean irreversible loss of an individual.
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It might be a cultural thing to average levels of criminality from the top and bottom. Much like Americans believe some things to be binary or some things to be a spectrum, perhaps in Denmark criminality is binary, either you are and they throw the average sized book at all of them, or you aren't.

As an anecdote this is the same Denmark that went insane over a retailer selling Marmite, costing many thousands of euro in fines and punishments. That would fit the pattern of once the binary switch flips from non-criminal to criminal, a medium sized book is thrown at all miscreants.

Another possible anecdote is I know their neighbors, and probably the Danes also, punish drunken driving similar to how attempted murder is treated in the US. That would also fit the theory.
However, what's wrong with retribution? If my daughter was raped and murdered, how should that person be 'rehabilitated?' My daughter would still be dead and the criminal would be able to resume his life. That isn't fair by any definition.
Ask HN: How to port to .NET core?
I was looking for possibilities for porting some web projects from Windows .NET framework to Ubuntu linux using open source .NET core

After a lot of struggle with Mono, which I have almost gave up. I was looking at .NET core as a new hope. Have anyone of us ported from .NET to .NET core?

If yes, can the possible problems like the ones I faced with Mono be shared? Source: http://stackoverflow.com/q/34638105/2404470
I respect the skepticism. I do not subscribe to the 'UFOs are aliens' idea myself. Though in this case I believe the OP did see what he claims. There's a longstanding rumor that some branch of the armed forces is in possession of a 'stealth blimp'. Exactly what a 'stealth blimp' is, I don't know. But there have been numerous sightings over the previous 20 years that match very closely with that OP saw.

I think most "credible" UFO sightings (especially those in the western US) are Government owned aircraft. For the most part, Humans are just bad at interpreting what they have seen. One of my favorite examples is the rumored "flying artichoke" that was likely just a sighting of an F-117A Stealth Fighter ( http://i.imgur.com/D22OrQ1.jpg )
Given that I moved my entire family here, just got my green card and isn't planning to move any time soon I would agree that it's the best democracy in the world :)

But this is not a discussion about democracy and actually not so much about the length of sentences (although that does matter) this was more a discussion about what constitutes a crime that you go to prison for and what constitutes stupidities that might be illegal but shouldn't treated as if you are on the verge of becoming either a mass murders, criminal mastermind or drug overlord.

I have two kids, one which is american citizen the other now with a green card and I am hoping with time to apply for american citizenship (Denmark allow dual citizenship). My concern is that my kids grow up in a society with these kind of laws and I don't want them to be caught in some Kafkan universe which there are plenty of examples of here.

With regards to Civil unrest in Denmark. Then no. There is of course debates and there are people who think the rules are too lax. And so the justice system needs to find a balance where it's primary function is to deter people from committing crimes to begin with and then make sure the victims of crimes feels the offence adequately punished.

This is not an easy task and Denmark is not perfect but as much as I feel free in the US I am a thousand times more afraid of the US justice system than the Danish. It's the one thing I fear here and I am by all intents and purposes of the word a law abiding citizen.
Ok, I did that search and here is the first paper I found: http://www.nature.com/articles/srep14253

EDIT:
Let me look again at this paper later.
Hey jamasenr, thanks for your question! We differ from classic email marketing platform as we are a technology — you can actually use Reelevant with MailChimp for example.
As for the personalization, it's based on weather conditions, yes, but also on temperatures and device. At each opening of an email, we detect the recipient's context to display the most relevant content in real time.
Now, on top of this contextual analysis, we have also developed algorithms doing behavior analysis. The idea here is to identify unique engagement periods, so when you send an email to all your list, Reelevant will send them one by one, so they are delivered at the best time, for each recipient. So far we have been analyzing recipients behavior on each email (such as opens or clicks), we will soon go further but I can't tell you more for now ;)
Display technology also varies quite a bit. Some cheaper devices tend to saturate certain hues like redness. It could very well look a bit more orange on one display and look completely yellow on another.
The middle bar looks red to me.
I have a Pixel C and haven't run into any of those issues so far (trigger for buying it was The Room 3 not working well on my old tablet). Have mainly used Chrome, BS Player and The Room 3 for several hours and did not encounter any issues.
Is "react-stack create my-new-project" really preferable to something like "git clone git@github.com:react-stacks/react-firebase-template.git my-new-project" ?

I'm sold on the latter, since often enough I'll customize and publish my own tweaked templates as I become enamoured with different tech.
This literally has no use case other than illicit transactions - the one and only substantial Bitcoin use case in practice. They're even asked about this directly and can't come up with any!

So the question is: can Zcash compete with Bitcoin in the darknet markets? Is there any DNM that does any substantial business in a crypto other than Bitcoin?
What do you mean by similar to how attempted murder is treated in the US and what US state are you talking about?

Drunk driving means first getting your drivers card taken if you have too much alcohol in your blod but it requires a lot.

And I am not sure what you mean punishment wise. Care to elaborate?
I spend a lot of time in places where I have no data access. I need local development capabilities. ChromeOS can do that via crouton, but data access from USB is very slow.
I think early math education suffers from the lack of awareness about how important is exactness in math. People come to math from real world, where they don't mind to be rigorous about the meaning of every word. Most newcomers tend to skip words they don't find interesting and then penalty seems to come from nowhere. And education even encourages such error-prone behaviour, by giving wrong exercises and poor material.

Math isn't hard, it just doesn't work for those who don't know how to use it. And knowing how to use it means understanding what exactly you are doing. Many students don't bother about what does it mean to do when asked to solve an equation.
Seems most user's don't know how to google :

http://www.wsj.com/articles/alphabets-google-to-fold-chrome-...
Yep, a lot of businesses got burned very badly with Final Cut Pro X, and to a lesser extent Logic X.
>> I've noticed a scary involuntary alliance of journalism with what you might call the US-style conservatives

I thought that this 'alliance' was called ownership. Rupert Murdoch et al whose political agenda is less government control and more control for the private sector which translates into private control by fewer (and fewer) people with less accountability. Essentially what we are going through, world wide, is a consolidation of wealth and power into fewer and fewer hands.

This consolidation suites the purposes of the ownership of media companies, and it is the media companies that set the tone and content of their reporting. Over the last 50 years there has been a massive consolidation in the ownership of media companies, with a corresponding massive shift to a very right wing perspective in popular reporting.

I can not think of a single time that a strike by a Union has been reported in a favorable light, for example.
Yes but in Switzerland they're not allowed to keep ammunition at home.
There has also been a fair amount of executive turnover lately. Plus it's not a great business which means as cash is spent some type of business change is inevitable which includes selling it and relinquishing control to some new owner which might have a different idea (see Oracle and Java).
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10967196
Any files? That's a brave claim.

Actually: "Supported File Formats:
DOC, DOCX, XLS, XLSX, PPT, PPTX, PDF, PAGES, AI, PSD, TIFF, DXF, SVG, EPS, PS, TTF, XPS, RTF, ODT, SXW, SSV, SXC, ODS, SXI, ODP, WPD"
AR glasses like HoloLens or whatever Google's building look like a good use case for that (you need your hands free fro many excercises).

I wonder if Google Glasses are usable while on a trainer or a treadmill.
> The Go maintainers have conflated what a library is and where a library is. That's an important distinction that should not be glossed over like this.

I think this depends on whether GitHub treats URLs as just URLs, or more generally as URIs. Based on their documentation [0], they refer to them as URIs, which means they are intended to represent both Location and Identity [1]. The domain represents the "where", the repository path is the "what".

They should be able to change their URL schema relatively easily, by including the appropriate redirects - a mapping from the old schema to the new. Which is exactly the strategy they discuss in the HTTP Redirects section.

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[0] : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_Resource_Identifier

[1] : https://developer.github.com/v3/#http-redirects
This is exactly why I am trying to avoid Google's product as much as possible and suggest people avoid them as much as possible.

They want just shove the internet to your throat. With all of their product.
I'm not sure because it's a Spanish translation. I have it somewhere in the house, but I think it might be the Children's and Household Tales. It has most well-known fairy tales as well as some more overtly "Christian" tales, which as I mentioned I skipped as a child and never found the inclination to read as a grown-up.

The folk tales are both entertaining and gruesome. I remember one story where the father of a family is forced to decapitate his wife and sons, but then there is something with magic blood (I don't remember the details) and when he sticks their heads together, they come alive as if nothing had happened.

My favorites however were not the blood-soaked stories, but the stories where the resourceful younger brother of three -- or sometimes a veteran soldier who decided to make something of his life -- would either cheat others or, alternatively, reach success by being kind to a mischievous gnome or a mysterious old lady.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10935130
> why should I care. It was a simple website for a company

I wouldn't want some shady ISP or a public hotspot injecting ads (or worse) into my company site.
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