skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> should be a norm

This statement is already a normative one. I don't even know where to start in terms of breaking down this incredibly feeble argument but one place to start would be the fact that a move to "Scientifically-based politics" would be a political move in and of itself. Then you have to consider that you're asking people to get rid of ideologies, "backward religious ideas" and replace them with "science." Science done by whom? A bunch of California tech companies? I wonder what that world would look like.

This comment reads like something from /r/juststemthings or /r/justneckbeardthings and I honestly can't even tell if this is a joke or not.
Yes, "pure-democracy" and/or "populist" politics has worked out so well in the 20th Century. More than 50% of a group of people doesn't like (or is convinced they don't like) something or someone for whatever reason, hmmm, I think that's how people end up in ovens.

We have a democratic-republic in the United States so popular / populist majorities can't inflict absolute will over unpopular / unpopulist people / regions.

Populists today, at least in the US, aren't as dangerous as they are / were in countries where changing the constitution is much easier for a powerful / popular leader.
I get that. I'm just saying that this is a great situation to basically answer a different question and give the person the exact data you want to give them. Everybody wins.
Circumvention of technological protection measures?
> I am also compelled to redesign their website for free.

I think it's fine the way it is: clean, light and straightforward
True, but that was all very early. The Paypal acquisition happened in 2002. "Success" in the P2P space in the late 90's/early 2000's was at a much, much, smaller scale.
And so do the rest of us.
> One example is that in Mexico, people don't have to pay property taxes until a building is complete, so there are many buildings with a false unfinished second floor so they can always be marked as incomplete

It seems like courts would fix the problem here, since a judge could easily see the spirit of the law and fix the letter of the law accordingly.
People always act like Paypal can just do whatever they want - they lose tons of money to fraud and are heavily regulated. That drives a lot of the annoying things they do.
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Yes, I know. I think that it is legitimate for the US government to prioritize the interests of US citizens in implementing and defining its immigration policy. After all, if it did not, the US would simply have open borders, and there is not much point in discussing that hypothetical.
I wonder if unmarked roads would make the development of self-driving cars more challenging or less challenging.
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This is in Racket, but it has an arbitrary subjective threshold of 1%: (Online version: http://pasterack.org/pastes/94321 )

#lang racket

(define (~=~? x y)
(and (= (length x) (length y))
(for/and ([vx (in-list x)]
[vy (in-list y)])
(define avg (/ (+ (abs vx) (abs vy)) 2))
(define diff (abs (- vx vy)))
(< diff (/ avg 100)))))

(~=~? '(1047072 1047216 1047441 1047521 1047682 59102 59361 59583 59818)
'(1047085 1047276 1047471 1047754 1047938 59128 59364 59732 59945)) ; ==> #t

(~=~? '(1047072 1047216 1047441 1047521 1047682 59102 59361 59583 59818)
'(1047085 1047276 1017471 1047754 1047938 59128 59364 59732 59945)) ; ==> #f
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I can appreciate the language barrier and I thank you for changing it when I pointed it out.

As for having my work cut out for me, I definitely expected this to happen (maybe not to this scale). HN tends to attract the kind of person who thinks that anything is fair to say any time, regardless of who it might hurt, because HN tends to attract people of massive privilege, many of whom have never been the victim of societal discrimination.
There is truly no substitute to just jumping into the thick of things, learning by doing, and looking up how to do things as you go along. However, I know that it's intimidating when you are starting out and don't know where to turn first. For that first kick-starter course to form some basic knowledge, I have found that http://www.lynda.com has a really wide variety of beginner tutorials to get your feet wet in many different categories.
Filter bubble
Shame, sooner or later the VPN service I've been using for the past 6 years will get one of these notices as well [1]. I've been using them to get a dedicated IP and also tunnel all my public wi-fi traffic. It's legitimate use, however I can see how over the past years their website has evolved from business-oriented to be more towards geo-blocking circumvention and targeting the average Joe.

[1] They have other payment options, too, but all are worse than PayPal.
Require that the job they were /brought/ here for:

* last at least a year

* pay at least 150% of median market rate

* have been open and unfulfilled with at least 10 who are interviewed AND report on their desired compensation for the role

* Eliminated non-hourly work* ('Salaried' would be a contract to buy between X and Y hours of work per year, with limits of hours per day/week etc.)
I suspect that there would also be some negative effect of consistently increasing the cognitive load associated with driving, as opposed to looking at performance on specific roads on which a given driver probably only spends a small portion of their total drive time. At some point, I would expect the detriment of mental fatigue to outstrip the benefit of "forcing" people to pay attention.
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computer decision making would be even worse.

what if the computer decides there is no way to feed the population at the current (or a future) growth rate and implements a mandatory two children only policy?

a computer wouldn't understand tact, politics or empathy, or if it would, it wouldn't be a solution much better than what we'd get now.
But simply not wanting to be inflicted with a condition is no excuse to dehumanize people who are. Perhaps part of the problem is simply people mocking eachother for being different, but another part of the problem is the cultural normalcy of abuse promulgated by linking diagnostic terms with definitions of global inferiority. Language is the very matrix from which thought arises, so real-world usage of words can alter people's perceptions.
This whole fiasco makes me wonder if the link between the TouchID sensor and the rest of the phone is so fragile and easily spoofed that they are concerned a fraudulent sensor could be trusted implicitly by the phone, and therefore used to inject malicious data ("here, I am sending you [USERS] thumbprint").
If you think about it, the more money you have, it means you've extracted money from more people.

More wealth means you've taken more from more people.

It also means you didn't have to take quite that much but that is a different argument.

I also laugh at how people think we won't have to work someday because robots and automation. Who do you think is going to own all those extremely expensive robots? People with the most money who've taken it from the most people. Certainly not the average person. Now where are you going to get your money?
Rather than simply asserting that the variable speed limits are a complete failure, it might be nice to cite some measurements. I live in Seattle, and I find the variable limits to be useful information.
One of the great ironies of contemporary left-leaning commentators is that despite their insistence on paying attention to institutional factors that others allegedly neglect (see how Pfeffer constructs the popular but false dichotomy of "self-interest and profit maximization" versus "human well-being, longevity and happiness"), they are largely stuck in thinking in terms of the very same institutions they abhor. Effectively, the current approach is mostly fine, it just needs a few tweaks and reforms to turn it into a "social democracy".

If money is the problem, then the solution is not to engage in petty social democratic welfare reforms, but to end the monopoly on currency and allow for communities and individuals to coordinate savings-investment decisions and account for their local capital using the denomination of currency that they have decided to create. This is the mutual credit solution as advocated by 19th century anarchists and a minority of monetary reformers since then.

Pfeffer quotes Article 23 on the "right to work," and indeed full employment has always been a bizarre fetish for Keynesians, social democrats, Marxists and conservatives. The Protestant work ethic is the right-wing version of the labor theory of value. It is a contradiction how so many bemoan the supposed rat race working conditions and then advocate the "solution" of having the state put everyone into the rat race through full employment policy. Nowhere have I seen any social democratic reformer argue for artisanal crafts and decentralized governance. It's always more and more massive centralization. I will note it was the mercantilists who first provided economic rationales for full employment. And they went to great lengths to achieve it: anti-vagrancy and poor laws to forcefully turn people into serfs. The current proposals are more humane, but borne of the same logic of "to live is to toil".

I will also note that a reason why formal models haven't focused that much on things like subjective utility and happiness is because those suffer from intractable aggregation problems. It's easy to speak of the "public interest" in colloquial language, it is brutally difficult to model and quantify it, actually drawing the line of how far it extends. Then, of course, interpersonal comparison of utility is fraught with issues because there is no measurement of utility as such. Robert Nozick's thought experiments have been good at illustrating this.

This trite paternalistic reformism leads nowhere except to further exacerbation of instability.
Say I'm already a competent programmer in C++/Python. would these also work out?
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Tableau Desktop Professional is $1,999, as the regular has a limited connectivity this is version to get for an enterprise user.
> When they are widespread and commonplace the accident rate will go past that of wide/marked roads.

Widespread or not, the lack of rules still forces drivers to be more aware of their surroundings. Drivers are not going to start speeding through junctions because they are used to it, the risks remain the same. As an anecdote, the Netherlands has unmarked crossings everywhere and one of the lowest rates of road accidents.

> For a fair comparison, if you compared a country with wide/marked streets to a country where narrow/unmarked streets are commonplace (Mexico for example) you'd find marked/wide is much safer.

That assumption doesn't hold any water. It is nearly impossible to make that kind of comparison due to the amount of factors involved - fleet composition and age, skill and education, driver attitude and behaviour, pavement quality, speeds, etc, etc.
The common response to this is: Universal Basic Income.
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Sorting the visas by salary will work just as well. Right now there is a random lottery choosing who gets the visas, where the Indian body shops are known to "oversubscribe" to it.

Also, after a verification that the Visa recipient is working at the given salary for at least two years, then the they can apply for green card irrelevant to who their current employer is (as long as they are employed and earning at least similar salaries to what they did when they got the visa).

Switching jobs (as long as it is the similar profession/pay), should not reset the Green Card process.
This will remove the current defacto "Indentured servitude" state that most H-1B visa holders find themselves in.

There are many ways to improve the current system (without changing the quotas), to benefit the country itself, and not large corporations, but right now there is no direct personal incentive for lawmakers to do that.
There are even more exciting libs like numpy/scipy which rely on a system BLAS package before they can even compile (and take forever). This is a problem that Ubuntu has made less difficult but a better solution would be package managers for C and fortran.

If the 'alpine experiment' results in more work on portable build tools for complex projects, that's a win for the open source community.
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> Using the word retard victimises a group that is already significantly marginalised while simultaneously not doing much to the intended victim. The word has a greater affect on unintended, innocent, victims than the intended target.

That clearly isn't what the word means today.

"Our son was having trouble in school and his counsellor suspected he might be retarded. We brought him to a retard house with a reputation for taking good care of the retards and the doctor said that he was, indeed, retarded."

That's the sort of thing you might have heard in 1905 but not today. It means something different now. Which is why it's now inappropriate when applied to a person with a learning disability. But the target isn't a person with a learning disability, it's a multinational corporation. The point isn't that Apple has a learning disability, it's that they're being retarded. There isn't another word that means quite exactly that.

It's essentially the same argument as the people who say not to use the word hysterical because of its history. That's not what it means anymore.
This is what makes http://www.redox-os.org/ an interesting project. Full stack Rust OS, which is probably the most advanced language you can use right now that can also bootstrap itself from ASM.
Is the same problem with Excel/Acces and similar.

They have a good tool, but the language them use for glue things are not a match for the task the tool do.

For example, Excel. VBA have impedance mismatch with the way excel visualy work. If, isntead, it have a more array-based language and bit more functional, then the way you use excel will be the way you code for it.

That is in fact the power FoxPro have. You can make forms with tables, because, forms ARE tables. The syntax and basic operations work fine with the relational storage. You can SELECT INTO ARRAY and stuff like that, or just not use SQL.
The author hints at, but does not point to, data that correlates motorcycle helmets laws with higher accidents. That is counter to recent research which supports the standard view that helmet laws save lives: https://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/the-cost-of-repealing-m...

Short version: after repealing helmet laws in Michigan, they have seen higher injury severity and mortality.
Unfortunately, the majority of people don't have Bitcoin acc.
You said: "...Paypal being the default payment..." I'm saying: They didn't just get anointed as the default by eBay; they became the default (and survived this long!) by taking an aggressive stance on fraud and risk.

Also... the scale wasn't as small as you think. According to the numbers [1], PayPal was doing >$2B in transactions at the time of acquisition. For perspective, estimates from 2014 [2] put Stripe at $1.5B in transactions (and a company valuation of $1.75B). Paypal wasn't small, even in 2002.

[1] http://www.fraudpractice.com/paypal_companyprofile.html

[2] https://pando.com/2014/01/24/memo-to-stripe-winning-the-hear...
Then it's disqualified. 1% is just an arbitrary constant and if it's suitable or not depends on the input. The operator must not have any constants, otherwise it won't work in the general case.
You think labour migration has absolutely no downsides at all? No impact on the stability on society at all?
I really like Dapper - allows you to write "raw" SQL but does the tedious bit of mapping to/from objects in a nice way.
I'm not sure what your point here is but I see several possibilities:

* Is independently supporting Sanders' campaign, maybe even volunteering.
* Is gainfully employed by a pro-Sanders PAC.
* Is gainfully employed by a something other than a PAC that is pro-Sanders.
* Is gainfully employed directly by the Sanders campaign.
* Something else

It isn't clear to me which of those is the case, but I assume it's the first. If he's actually employed by Sanders, that'd make his post a pretty odd thing to do. I think there are a lot better ways to have dealt with it (actually, I guess that's true either way).
The most serious accidents are ones where the helmet is not enough to protect the cyclist. So every e wearing a helmet doesn't really reduce the number of serious injuries, while it does encourage more wreckless riding because of the feeling/assumption of safety.
While not a perfect site, http://www.w3schools.com/ is my to-go place whenever I need check something. Its content might not be all fully correct, but strangely it gets to the point very efficiently for me.
And not all states are the 50 U.S. A German state is not bound by our constitution. They have the right to enter international trade agreements.
I'll take it as a positive that there is a good chance if someone tampered with my device my information is still secure.
Can't fix stupid.
We techy people have let them down, in that case. It should be safe to crush any of my terminals under a tyre and lose nothing.

I learned 15+ years ago that the OS should have that as standard, with no privacy issue either. It is crazy that it is not baked in already. It's not even difficult.
Thanks you for the feedback, very useful to see how a first time user runs the app.

> so I sign up for mashape.com?
| Answer: Yes. Sorry about that. I think it makes sense as next step to run our own API management.

> put my code in the application bundle? Why can't I just select a folder?
| Answer: Look for "settings.xml", there you can change to another folder

> Apparently that wasn't the key or the app couldn't access the internet.
| Answer: Can you try running the jar from command line? The mac version needs to be fixed, the jar edition should work: http://triplecheck.net/download/quantum.zip

To see the UI:
java -jar quantum.jar

To run from command line:
java -jar quantum.jar scan

The API key should be inside settings.xml too. If you typed the wrong key, you can replace it there or just delete settings.xml to reset the app. Good luck, please let me know it this worked. Thanks.
Which part of the bay area? Those homes are probably > 1.5 hr commutes for most jobs.
Please try to support free and open resources like MDN (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/) and http://www.webplatform.org instead of w3schools
Charming, even.
Sammon mapping is another famous example, see [1] for instance for a nice visualization.

[1] http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/rbf/CVonline/LOCAL_COPIES/AV09...
> The alternative would be at some point a headline like "compromised Touch ID sends fingerprints to bad actor".

There would be no such headline. Before update to iOS 9, the affected phones functioned normally, but with disabled Touch ID.

And if you have to know why people come up with theories like that - either Apple didn't think what happens to users who already had this hardware replaced or they thought about that. Maybe those who accuse them of malice simply overestimated their competence - after all, they make big claims about high quality, attention to detail and whatnot.

Not to mention that the first part of this comment makes sense and probably expresses well how people feel about this screwup.
Not quite as bad as the logo fail from the Office of Government Control (OGC) in the UK.

http://www.boredpanda.com/worst-logo-fails-ever/
Enforcement would be the bigger issue.
No, that is not what I said.
Not to say any country has successfully ended homelessness, but there are at least a dozen successful counterexamples to your claim that those policies would "destroy" economies with taxes.

Are you honestly and seriously suggesting that the US tax system is absolutely at the limit and there's no room to pay for any of these policies? For example, we shouldn't have any more tax brackets over the $400,000 one? Have you looked at the proposed tax brackets that actually pay for these plans? How do you explain the idea that 3 new tax brackets ($500k-2m 43%, $2m-10m 48%, and $10m+ 52%) would destroy the economy? How exactly do people who make $10m+ single-handedly sustain our economy, why would a 10% tax increase on their over-$10m income end that, and why do the thousands of dollars of reduced overall expenses (including taxes) for almost everyone else not matter at all in your math?
I liked codeacademy.com for css and html. Thanks to it I managed to get a grasp of how html, styles, and css work. I was already a technical person so his/her mileage may vary.
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Conditional on its prediction being accurate, reducing birth rates is a better solution than creating new people to starve.
By the way - I should mention that the last part about using modern technology to as organizational structure instead of decision making as part of some sort of Delphi method is originally from a 2014 interview[1] with James Burke (Connections, The Day The Universe Changed).

A few of his comments that are relevant to the use of technology with politics and society:

We have these extraordinarily limiting constraints from a past in which we did not have
the tools to have anything other than extraordinarily limiting constraints. But, now we
do have the tools, and the tools are running away with us faster than the social
institutions can keep up.
...
I think countries ought to set up Departments of the Future. [...] We are on the edge of
having the technology to be able to say, let us run a constant, dynamic, updated review
of everything that science and technology is thinking about [...] then let us use the same
techniques to ask the public in general, not politicians, whether they like that idea,
whether they feel that they could live with that idea. And then, like a Delphi technique,
re-run it until everybody stops changing their mind.
...
Collate all [research laboratories and business R&D] together and process them using stuff
like big data to see what the pattern looks like becoming, and then layering on top of that
social media analytics to say, if this was coming, would you like it, and if not, why not?
In other words, to have a sort of 24 hour a day referendum

The other parts of the interview are very interesting as well:

... it’s no longer important to teach people to be chemists or physicists or anything ‘ists
because those jobs are gone, and if they’re not gone today they’re gone tomorrow. And unless
we know the old tools of critical thinking and logic and such, we will not be able to handle
what follows. So, we’re wasting our time training people to be things that will no longer
exist in 10, 15, 20 years time.
...
Every single value structure is meaningless [...] commercial society will be destroyed
at a stroke. The trouble is the transition period [...] how we get from here to there.
The vested interests, I mean, we’re going to have to shoot every one of them – nobody,
nobody is going to give way to this. [...] All cultural values relate to scarcity, ultimately.

[1] http://youarenotsosmart.com/transcripts/transcript-interview...
The research you are thinking of concerns bycicles, not motorcycles - the risks are an order of magnitude apart.
Uh, when I say tiresome, I'm partly talking about the attitude that this would be interesting reading:

that it admits I could drop bombs on PHP, even while considering him a real programmer, but kindly and unusually don't due to a rare moment of respect given the story I read.

PHP is well worn territory, discussion of who is a real programmer or not is just dick measuring.