skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My understanding is as follows. The root problem is that merely identifying races on a genetic basis is racist. If you believe that the race of a human refers to anything more than a social / ethnic / cultural construct, you are a racist.

This seems like a fairly neutral belief. However it's wrong scientifically by definition. In population biology, races are formed when there is absolute geographical isolation of a population. Without isolation, you get clustering of alleles but you don't get distinct races. Over time, the clustering of alleles diminishes, much like gas dissipating into a room.

If you're really struggling with this, just ask which race does the child of a man from race A and a woman from race B belong to? And when that child reproduces with more people from either race A or race B, what race do they belong to? And then ask how long has there has been contact between human populations? Do we know if there was ever a time that human populations were truly isolated?

End result is that biologists agree there is only one human species, Homo sapiens, and one human race (a.k.a. subspecies), Homo sapiens sapiens.

The page on Wikipedia about this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_racism

> Scientific racism is [...] the practice of classifying individuals of different phenotypes into discrete races.

So what happens here is that first Moldbug puts forth the false premise that there are genetic / biological races. Then he says stuff like black people have a lower IQ, but he's not discriminating, rather it's the belief that having a higher IQ is better that's discriminatory. (This was in the recent blog post about how he's not a racist.) Not only is this a really slippery position, but everyone gets so caught up in his arguments built on the false premise of the existence of races that it actually starts to implicitly build support for the false premise. I personally believe that getting people to accept this premise is the point of the trolling.
Very good book, given the difficulty of knowing exactly what happened so long ago.

One thing this battle shows, people have been killing each other for a long time.
Actually, the design constraints are quite different.

1. FPGAs have between 1-2 orders of magnitude higher on-chip memory bandwidth. Imagine lighting up all of the block RAMs on your chip. That blows away the memory performance of a CPU. It's not even close.

2. FPGAs have significantly more parallel compute resources (if your problem isn't purely memory bandwidth limited). Even if it's not stupidly data-parallel, there are several clever design choices you can make to extract a lot of parallelism.

It is, as you point out, much harder to program an FPGA. God save me if I have to run SP&R tools again in my life. However, if you have the resources and know what you are doing you will get 10-1000x more performance from an FPGA. Just look at any FCCM paper from the last 20 years.

The more apt comparison is FPGAs vs ASSPs. Those are what have been eating FPGA's lunch for the last decade.
I'm not familiar with Spotify's terms with employees, but it's not uncommon for this to be expressly forbidden in the stock option / Rsu grant agreement.
Many work at jobs without those benefits, or take out loans against their retirement accounts. Also, I'm not sure if most calculations offset those amounts with debt.
> I'm unhappy with this line of reasoning. For me, an abstraction leak is a failure to behave as advertised.

To my mind, it must fail to behave as advertised in a way that is meaningful. Otherwise, the differences are precisely what is being abstracted away.

> I'm not sure this is even possible (if I take nothing for granted, how do I do anything?), but I'd like to be proven wrong.

I don't mean "might act in arbitrary ways", but specifically "might be unexpectedly be terminated at any point".
You're right, I think people severely overlook Google Play Music when they talk about online streaming services. It's close to the same price as all the competitors, but the music library is much more thorough. I listen to some semi-obscure music and I've had trouble finding some of the bands and albums I like on Spotify and apple music, but I've never not been able to find an album on either Play Music or YouTube. Plus ad-free videos on YouTube mobile is a very nice extra feature
One way to leverage a high stock price is through all/part stock M&A transactions.
The modern desktop app is at a point where it's pretty solid, but I still miss that old 0.80.x branch or whatever the final non-chromium verison was.

But you know what? Google doesn't have a desktop app for Google Music. Amazon doesn't have a desktop app for Amazon Prime. Apple doesn't have a desktop version... so yeah, despite the fact that Spotify's only-one-in-the-business desktop app isn't perfect, it does exist... (and I do use it every day between Android and two desktops and I think it works pretty ok)
It's a big deal because AIs can now beat humans at all perfect information games. And NNs and maybe even MCTS are applicable to non perfect information games. Soon they will be beaten too. Then what? The list of things humans are better at is narrowing.
I met all kinds of people living in one of the murder capitals of the U.S. from public events to parties to tattoo shops. Some we know just don't bullshit. All I'll say is that I was told the hits are cheaper than new cars with the kills themselves dirt cheap. Most of the money goes to people in positions that determine what the courtroom or media will see. Lots of missing persons, etc aren't what they appear. I didn't ask for more information.

Far as Senators, they have bulletproof PR, low likelihood of prosecution, and ties with LEO's. They'll just ignore someone's claims, have legal action taken in a legit-looking way, or have LEO's harass the person. The latter tends to cause mental wear that makes the source's writings and actions become more erratic over time. They are dismissed as having mental illness. People are only killed when it's a straight-up blackop that they're also a serious, persistent threat to. That's rare given the selection process, planning, and field experience of those involved in such work.

So, I'd say the numbers on contract killing aren't relevant here. It's possible but unlikely. The only exception is those like Feingold deep in defense-related matters. An overlap between dirty Senators, money, and black ops has risk or results I could only guess at. I won't bother.
Not sure why it's so devilish. They basically raised $1B in cash on a 20% discount, no valuation cap. Basically, they're agreeing with the investors that they can't figure out a valuation for the company -- so they're deferring that until an IPO and have the public market sets the valuation.

There's a lot of bellyaching here about the dilution for the existing shareholders. But I don't see how that's any different from an equity raise -- you're still diluting.

Now, the risk with convertible debt is that there's no valuation FLOOR so the company is betting on itself to execute -- and if they miss expectations, that's a problem.

The different lockup period is a bit of a concern, but the reality is that no institutional investor can sell a 10% (or whatever) stake in a public company overnight. So they capture a little bit more upside but it's not that material in the scheme of things IMO.
Adding fake meetings is an easy and effective thing to do. Honestly can't see what value a service adds here
>Spotify also has to pay 5% annual interest on the debt, and 1% more every six months up to a total of 10%.

Fwiw I'm parsing this as the interest to service the debt topping out at 10% rather than 15% (which imo is a pretty big difference)
>By raising debt rather than equity, it doesn’t have to worry about poor signaling from a down-round raised at a lower valuation than the $8.5 billion it set in June 2015.

How is the signaling from this any better? It still plainly reveals that the previous valuation is not representative of reality. The only difference is that we don't have another imaginary number to outright replace it with. And can we all agree to stop parroting valuation numbers based off investors buying preferred stock?
> Finally, for folks who would like to share their datasets, BigQuery offers free hosting and credits to help get a pipeline going.

Is this available in an automated fashion or is it something one has to contact Google for?
This sets off my hyperbole bullshit alarms.
The problem with saying that the whole thing is bullshit because encryption is just math is that it ignores that laws really would prevent companies from putting encryption (useful forms of it anyway) on phones. Yes, elite hackers (and perhaps terrorists, but they are not usually very bright people) could encrypt their phones anyway, but the vast majority of non-technological people wouldn't if it was difficult and/or involved breaking laws.
If you run into any problems with my solutions or notice any fundamental issues with it, then let me know and I will fix it ASAP.
That was one of the many brilliant things about it.
Do you think a simple "stop sending me messages" would be enough for abuse prevention?
Well that doesn't make any sense either, because there is no toll at the southern entrances to SF on 101 and 280.

I'm not looking for an answer here because I know the answer. The answer is that car drivers are the most self-entitled bunch of externalists the world has ever seen. If there was any sense in this system the toll at the existing toll plaza on the Bay Bridge would have been raised until congestion disappears, but that hasn't happened. On the other hand BART fares are indexed to inflation, because only the riff-raff ride transit.
Apple's desktop version is iTunes.
Would Spotify able to at some point simply just pay off the debt by issuing more stock or raise money from an alternative source?
Delta has them code while pulling out of a stall on landing with only partial gear down in a 787. With the engines on fire.

What's up now, Uber?
That was based on a survey with the question "How much money do you have saved in your savings account?". I doubt most of the people who answered it included their 401k or HSA.

http://www.gobankingrates.com/savings-account/62-percent-ame...
It's odd to me how Google Music is not often mentioned. It is either Spotify or Apple Music. I quit Spotify years ago when Google Music started, having never really cared for Spotify.
The desktop app is nothing special, just another web-view. Put Amazon or Google Music into Fluid and you have the same functionality minus media key control.
The phishing for URLs in mails has little to do with the reputation of the sender, and everything to do with phishing reports for the links in question. It's quite likely that whatever site you are trying to link to is serving malware unbeknownst to you.
As per HN Guidelines[1], "please submit the original source", which, in this case is:

http://blog.npmjs.org/post/141905368000/changes-to-npms-unpu...

Also, this is a duplicate, since the original source has already been submitted, and is being extensively discussed:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11382885

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html (link at bottom of the page)
Can anyone honestly enlighten me as to why Spotify matters? I've used it once and never got past finding anything to listen to while on SoundCloud I was drawn in without even thinking about it and have nearly 60 songs that I wouldn't have found otherwise. Not trolling, I want to find what they offer since I hear about them in the news way more than SoundCloud.
I know you're acting out your therapist fantasy, but you're being a little passive aggressive.

Meditation has been debunked. CBT has been debunked, Mindfulness has been debunked. Not only that, but meditation has been shown to be counterproductive and even dangerous. CBT is no better. It has become an industry of exploitation and snake oil. Recently two meta studies came out debunking the original CBT studies. Surprise surprise.

Yet psychologists keep going on and on about how it helps some people. Listen. If you are going through a rough patch and you try a bunch of things, the last fad you tried is always going to seem like it might have helped. If a million people are giving anal breathing a go, and half of them come out of their "episode" while practicing, they're all going to proclaim a cure. It's like this never ending loop, over and over of bullshit.

This is basic stuff. I can see you're feeding off my distress, so this is the last I'll say on the matter. Some people really are sick.

cue passive aggressive "I know you're"... "totally fine, and useful" creeping Jesus response
MN company invents gun that looks like a cell phone
It really isn't. Jumping into using a huge performance sink like ember to add a little interactivity to a content page is a horrible decision to start with. This just seems to drag the poor performance back to kill your server
Saying that cryptography restrictions are a war on math is like saying explosive restrictions are a war on physics. It's ignorant. What we're really talking about is if a man-made construct should be free, regulated, banned, or some combination depending on context. We're then talking cost-benefit analysis of that. Then, my side argues against such restrictions given they imply huge, potential costs with virtually no benefits to the public.

Much more reasonable.
When I was a kid my family got a big, ancient second hand TV that had individual "cards" for the R G and B components. One day a diode on the red card blew out. I soldered in a replacement and the replacement diode lasted a couple minutes before also blowing out with a "bang!" Obviously a short somewhere else, but I didn't feel like troubleshooting it. What to do? Well these 3 cards all look pretty similar, I wonder what would happen if I swapped slots? Well, turns out it works! Just whatever color channel the bad card was in would go out. To get a "full" range of colors I swapped the red and green cards so that we'd have red and blue and it would be the green that was out. The result was surprisingly decent; you could tell something was "off" about the colors but not bad. However, after watching TV for a couple hours, when you looked away the real world would appear green!!
> I think people severely overlook Google Play Music when they talk about online streaming services.

I just mentioned this above. It always seems to be Spotify this or Apple Music that. Play Music works great, and is even better that I'm grandfathered in at $7.99/month beta price.
But telephony has always been band-limited to 3 kHz, even in the 'good old days' of analog lines. Voice quality over a transatlantic link compounded that with delays, static and fading. If you needed high quality audio over the phone system, it _was_ possible to book a 'music line' for things like outside broadcasts that did not have the aggressive filtering, though.
Australian government deports Disrupt's co-founder for not picking fruit
Montreal<>Toronto is around $45 on VIA, no? Or are you talking about a round trip?
iOS 9.3 upgrade kills hyperlinks for some
Yesterday I upgraded my iPhone 6S to 9.3. Today, I pulled out my phone in an attempt to show a client status on a Fedex delivery.

I clicked on the link in front of the CEO and Mail.App froze. After trying again and rebooting the phone, nothing worked. The meeting was derailed as we both realised that we were unable to click on links in Safari and Mail. His phone was broken as well!

Then I found hundreds of users posting the same issue to the Apple forums:

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7505840?start=0&tstart=0

An unprecedented bug from Apple. I downloaded Firefox and could open links 50% of the time in a new tab. Chrome was unusable. Via the Apple forums I learned that a browser I'd never heard of (Puffin) seemed to work, and it did.

A few forum posts recommended deleting the Booking.Com app and resetting the phone. After more Googling I found that Ben Collier had likely identified what was happening here:

https://bencollier.net/2016/03/unable-to-open-links-in-safari-mail-or-messages-on-ios-9-3/

Ben's assertion was that "Universal Links", essentially a local database of URLS that automatically open Apps - was the likely culprit. Apparently Booking.Com had overloaded iOS by including several megabytes worth of URLs. This doesn't mean that other apps might haven't done this as well, and I'm not blaming Booking.Com here.

The upshot - be careful of upgrading to 9.3. Apparently Apple is working on a fix at present, this is rumoured to be delivered in a few days.
"Minus key control" is HUGE, though. Key control is amazing.
For those that want to read more, a detailed run down of events is available on disrupts blog at https://www.disruptsurfing.com/save-our-start-ups-the-govern...
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the thing is, apple doesn't have a superior product, the resale value is higher because people view iphones as status symbols,
Um what? Species drive others to extinction all the time. Humans are no exception. We only preserve some species because we care and think nature is cool, but an AI doesn't need to have any such value. It would likely turn the earth into a dyson sphere to maximize it's energy intake, without giving the things on the Earth a second thought. Why would it? AIs don't have empathy or morality.
And Amazon Prime, which many now get for "free" because they get prime for other reasons
> 1) If it's not clear what the meeting is for and there's no agenda - just decline it.

This is probably the best advice. Meetings should only be about hashing out the final details that might have had some contention. Start all conversations on email/slack and only meet when it becomes needed.
> And you also want to be free to engage in behavior that puts MY life at risk? And you see nothing wrong with this???

You're putting a lot of words in my mouth.

> If you want to reap potential rewards for your behavior, you also need to take responsibility for the potential costs.

"Potential costs" (ie, risks) are very difficult to define in advance. You can sometimes identify them after-the-fact, but having to wait until afterwards defeats the whole point of insurance in the first place.
If I may, that just means that either 1) your tooling is bad 2) Scala's type system is too complex.

I don't know scala much, but it's not a problem in other languages with full inference (particularly OCaml, but it's not a huge problem in Haskell either).
Catalog rights is probably a good portion of it...
Posted a dozen times already: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=How%20a%20game%20got%20on%20St...
Uhhh... no.

If you compare the NIH budget vs. the major pharmaceutical companies, it's a 2 to 1 ration. And not all the NIH budget is spent on drug research. It's mostly basic science.
All too often, people confuse groupthink with morals. With a little dialog, I suspect that we could identify some accused murderers that you would excuse.
How is TLD namespacing not sane? If you own the domain you own the package(s) in that namespace. It's pretty easy and fairly trustworthy to identify a TLD. When Stickman Co comes along, there's not a fight about the package name and the original package maintainer doesn't get elbowed out of the way.
SoundCloud does an excellent job of finding "similar tracks" which autoplay after your current, and I often find myself in the same boat (or bookmarking a track because the related tracks are so good). Spotify comes from the other direction: You can play anything, as long as you know what it is, and the discovery (outside of "Discover Weekly") isn't as on-point or pushed onto you as strongly.

Beyonce doesn't release her songs on SoundCloud, but those who I listen to (or find myself listening to) on on SoundCloud aren't on Spotify.
I like it! I have similar opinions on static vs. dynamic, Java vs Python or PLs in general - too many judgements are based on shallow first impressions or ease of getting started to the detriment of future maintenance.

Check out Scala :) Its a pretty complex language, but its the sweet spot between Python and Java i've been looking for.
Yes. As I understand it (chemical engineer, not a petroleum engineer), fracking for oil and gas (in addition to normal oil drilling) is USUALLY done thousands of feet below the water table. For some reason here they were fracking at a much shallower depth, in addition to doing things like "dumping of drilling and production fluids containing diesel fuel, high chemical concentrations in unlined pits" (from TFA).

Fracking is like setting a bomb off underground, but you can imagine there being something a city block or two of solid rock between where the bomb's going off and the water table.
Red vs. red doesn't necessarily mean no debate on environmental issues. If there's enough disagreement among the state's population, it just gets moved to the primary. For example, Texas is almost exclusively GOP-controlled on a state level, and yet has implemented an extensive plan of government support for wind power development [1]. There are hardline small-government conservatives who thought that was a bad idea, but they didn't win enough primaries and lobbying battles to set policy. In this case the winning coalition was a mixture of environmentalists (who like wind energy), West Texas landowners (who like a new source of revenue), and state budget wonks (who like a new source of tax revenue that isn't an income tax). There aren't enough pure environmentalists in a state like Texas (or, I'd guess, Wyoming) to win only with their support, but if it can be aligned with preferences of a significant share of say, farmers, ranchers, and other landowners, it's possible to pass things.

[1] http://www.texastribune.org/2013/10/14/7-billion-crez-projec...
They have everything I want to listen to with very few exceptions and their Discover section is gold. I've found several of my recent favorite artists through Spotify. And being able to listen to any music, any time, is amazing. Soundcloud is mostly unknown artists and amateurs, and I feel like that's great if you're an artist and you need a dsitribution paltform, but that's too much crap to wade through for me.
I have no idea about financial terms so not commenting on that, but as a product Apple Music doesn't even compare with Spotify. Apple Music is garbage. I made it 3 days into their free 3 month trial before moving on to try Google Play Music. Google's isn't bad, but for me Spotify is clearly the best of the bunch (curated playlists, great discoverability, lots of variety). Apple Music was really buggy both on an iPhone and Windows PC using iTunes. You can't just play all top songs nonstop, playback randomly stops, it's slow and just feels clunky navigating around.

Only reason I tried out competitors is to try and save money, but after my trial with Google Play Music I'll just commit to Spotify at full price.
Audit shows UC admission standards relaxed for out-of-staters
One data point: we signed a sublease 3 months ago at 18-20% lower than market. This was a 10k+ sqft space in a Class A building in FiDi. Also notable: other subleases at the time were ~10% off.
That's not true at all. It's more than a web view as it supports more functionality, for example the open.spotify.com website does not supported a nested folder structure, but, on desktop I create something like http://i.imgur.com/pOMwTeB.png. It also has the integration between phone and multiple devices, unlike web, so I can control my desktop app from my phone (full control of desktop from phone, and vice versa)
Call me when they get rid of UPDATE_ROLLBACK_FAILED until then it's practically useless.

Whoever thought it was ever acceptable to leave your production stack in state that requires deleting it is an idiot.

Even if they fixed it I doubt I'd ever trust a service that ever acted like that with my production infrastructure.
OK, but there are lots of them, and they're all hard on foreigners.
New UPenn Haskell Course Materials Released on GitHub
Spotify is the best streaming option IMO. Absolutely great discovery with curated playlists.