skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It would happen, assuming a competitive market, because competition drives out economic profit, so that reduced costs mean reduced prices.

Obviously, monopolies are different, but even with a monopoly cost decreases can reduce the price point at which maximum profit is realized.
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I think the fundamental purpose of a business is to accomplish a task, not to employ people. For example, I don't care how many people are employed to keep hackernews running. I'm thankful for their efforts, but I don't care if it's one person, ten people, or one bot. Or how much any of them get paid. The only thing that consumers and businesses care about is the end result.

If a job can be done by a machine, that's fine. People will find new forms of employment. Or they won't. But we can't expect businesses or consumers to misallocate their resources for the sake of someone's job.

Fortunately, fully automating the process of driving or running a restaurant is decades away. We have time to implement a basic income. Or just come up with more ways to employ people. The number of available jobs is limited only by imagination. "Instagram Photo Producer", "Online Forum Discussion Facilitator", "3D Printed Object Finisher". Someone can pay someone else to do any given thing, and now that's an occupation. "Potential Job Titles" isn't a finite list, and we can't ever run out of them.
What I'm saying is, Hololens does ALL of those VR/AR things already, and there's not even a slight chance of eye damage involved. I really have trouble envisioning anything that would be lightyears beyond Hololens, but rather, something that would be a small step up from Hololens, and yet, still 2 years out.
Would you mind elaborating on this assertion, preferably using direct quotes from Confucius himself?

It's true that Confucius focused a great deal on leadership and the hierarchical aspects of society, but I don't see how he was anymore authoritarian than Plato, whose Republic was much more authoritarian (see the film "Starship Troopers" if you want to see Plato's Republic in action). Confucius' philosophy survived 2,000 years in China because it focused on making leadership wise and just. In fact, for hundreds of years in China, anyone, no matter their background, could rise to leadership if they could demonstrate an understanding of Confucian philosophy. That seems pretty egalitarian to me.
Races are not difficult to distinguish, in fact determining self-identified race from genetic data is trivial, and genetic data is clustered in ways that reflect the common usage of racial categories. For example see http://www.gettinggeneticsdone.com/2011/10/new-dimension-to-...
That may be so, but once the cat's out of the bag, there is no putting it back in.

Additionally, it wouldn't bother me to submit political authorities to more stringent standards of transparency regarding the office they hold.
It's the line of culpability, if we have instinct that causes racial bias then we couldn't have done any better.
Jut wrong about Hololens. Stuff may be drawn close to your face, but the image is scaled very, very well. It may be drawn up close, but it still looks like it's very far away, way more than 2 meters.
Looks pretty cool. I'll have to try it out. Been hacking on ago stuff lately so def seems like a good project to check out. Thanks for sharing this!
All I will say is: try Hololens, then come back here and tell me it is lacking, dramatically.

It's a VERY good device. Surprisingly good. I expected it to suck.
I really wonder what would have happened if Yannis Varoufakis had had his way and a Greek default had happened last year.

Like I have literally no clue, but some part of me wonders if it would have been better than the drawn out mess that was sure to ensue once bailout was agreed upon.
What are the odds of someone calling 911 around you the moment you try it? I'd say negligible if you're not in the center of a city.
He surely thinks that he's one of the best engineers ever, but he stops at the engineering part.
First impression : Storybook looks beautiful! Thank you for this. Developers like beautiful UIs as much as anyone.

I'm currently working on a simple React.js commerce platform and even in it's early stages I'm already wrangling tens of thousands of lines of UI code. Anything to make React development easier is welcome.

Also, thank you for bringing awareness to how hard building a proper UI is in your Medium post.

I'll try to give you some more thorough feedback on github.

I am curious to find out if you have any plans for future features or where you see this project going from here?
Other than mathematical correctness, which was why John started working on unums, one of the coolest things about "Unums 2.0" as shown in this presentation is that all four arithmetic operations (add, subtract, multiply, divide) can take the same time. The 64 bit IEEE FPU my company is developing is able to do add and subtract in a single cycle, a multiply or fused multiply add in 3 cycles, and a divide in 17 cycles... all of which are pretty much the fastest reasonable implementations you can get.

To give you an idea of actual time to do those things, doing an add takes around 300 picoseconds, while the multiply is around 3,000 picoseconds. An order of magnitude increase in time to do an operation is a lot when it comes to hardware complexity (and thus associated area and power cost).
I've been seeing such posts for 15+ years at least.

Have those "super shady" things found in service terms EVER been actually used/abused?

99% of time they're just some "you grant us a license to show your stuff on our service and store it in our dbs etc" cover-our-ass clause, which is then misunderstood and interpreted (with some mass hysteria) as: "all your content are belong to us" (sic).

This case here seems like exactly that again.
Well, it does scale: Just put a guy at the airport that scans all computers passing the check. You got nothing to hide, so why worry? The law clearly states that you need to hand over any password / key when asked.

That is as bad or even worse then mass surveillance, because with mass surveillance you can at least try to be "safe" offline. With this "law", they could get to your data whenever they want. Much more of a police state that mass surveillance (at least in my opinion).
Good point. That did not occur to me.

edit: Thanks for the dialogue thus far.
The SORNs / Unum IIs talked about in these new slides are only described for a relatively low precision, for which a lookup table wouldn’t be impossibly large.

It’s not clear whether a pure lookup table approach would scale to 32-bit or higher numbers. The last slide lists as a future research question, “Create 32-bit and 64-bit unums with new approach; table look-up still practical?”
Is there a reason to believe this test corresponds to bigoted attitudes?

It measured me as less biased the second time I took it, so this test not only measures bias, it cures it.
Yup, that's what was happening. Agree about a paid account, but I decided Fastmail was a better fit for my needs.
Labels aren't completely valueless. HR at some large corporations are actually anal enough to check that your official job title at a company matched the description you put on your resume, and will red-flag you if there is a significant discrepancy.
Antitrust laws?
With all-due respect to other philosophies than mine, that sounds like a nightmare. And I like tests. But everything has a cost, and I can't imagine ever getting anything significant done with such a straight-jacket, I'd spend all day tracking down weird compiler quirks.

I do a lot of cross platform stuff, and just having warnings as errors (a good idea) means a lot of build fixing because clang and MSVC disagree on things. If I were writing code in MSVC and I had to deal with code coverage reports from clang breaking the build, I would be paralyzed.

"Code quality" isn't a thing that can be trivially measured, and in my experience people that fixate on certain metrics tend to miss the forest for the trees.
Citation: http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2015/02/05/382664837/map-t...

The prevalence of secretaries from 1984-1988 is interesting, too.
Proof Driven Development
A tradeoff that few consider is that dynamic linking can lessen the motivation of library developers to reduce code bloat and complex dependency trees. Who cares about 20 megs here or there if there is only one shared library instance? Who cares about bringing in a tree of 50 dependencies for this console program if the user probably has them installed already? And thus we end up with the modern Linux desktop, where nearly everything depends on a gigabyte or more of dependencies.

Whereas with static linking, you can directly see the effect that any library you use has on the binary size. This encourages library and application devs alike to be more judicious with their dependencies.
Yup, that's what was happening. Re: a paid account, I decided Fastmail was a better fit for my needs. Besides that, the problem was on the receiving end. So I somewhat disagree that I should have had to pay Google for someone to look into that.
While I agree with some elements of that line of thinking, I also think that surfacing latent biases can help us to double-check some of our "gut reactions", particularly in high stakes situations (hire/fire/promote as just one example).

I do not believe in any form of quotas or similar affirmative action items, but if I am sub-consciously biased against someone, I'd rather know that, so I can make an attempt (which will still have some bias) to make a fact-based decision.
Full employment is one of the fundamental macroeconomic objectives. So yes as governments you do expect exactly that. You also expect to reduce disparity between the rich and poor. Why? Because you don't want people to revolt and create chaos. If unemployment goes up too much and there are no jobs, people will revolt and violence will occur... in which people will probably destroy your peaceful stable life... your factory... and your government. So yes the government has to as its objectives solve these issues. If they don't then people have the right to get rid of such a government, and take all your wealth and means of production.
One obvious answer is that capital punishment guarantees that the criminal will not commit another crime, which isn't true of any other sentence.
That link says what I'm saying: it's not clear that this is really happening.

> Many studies in women have looked at the possible link between talcum powder and cancer of the ovary. Findings have been mixed, with some studies reporting a slightly increased risk and some reporting no increase. Many case-control studies have found a small increase in risk. But these types of studies can be biased because they often rely on a person’s memory of talc use many years earlier. Two prospective cohort studies, which would not have the same type of potential bias, have not found an increased risk.
Note that this appears to be unusable without the Flash plugin.
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That's entirely awesome and inspiring. Out of curiosity, what was the series?
It always throws me off. As much as I love it, Nicolás Bevacqua's Ponyfoo is a bad example of this. Too much emphasis that it becomes noise.[1]

[1] An example: https://ponyfoo.com/articles/github-for-human-beings

Luckily the content is good enough that it doesn't matter. But IMO emphasis should be barely used at all.
Source? I'd like to read up on that.
As Karl Popper said, all life is problem solving.
All I meant was, you can get stuck in analysis paralysis with weight lifting just like anything else. Of course you need proper form. Front squat vs back squat, which is what I was specifically addressing, probably doesn't matter. Either is better than neither, though I think most people would find the back squat easier and a better place to start. The front rack position can be uncomfortable, and the mechanics of the front squat I found generally more challenging. There's also a debate about high-bar vs low-bar back squat which may be as heated and silly as emacs vs vi. Ultimately, getting under the bar, getting below parallel, and standing back up (all with proper form) is the important part, not which style of squat it is.

Aside: the Olympic snatch is an amazing feat of strength, agility, form, athleticism, mechanics, balance, all of it. It's really a thing of beauty to see done well.

Just watch this - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cL1T-jKdTqo

Starting at 4 minutes. Pyrros Dimas is competing in the 85kg (187 lbs) category. He lifts 178 kg (392 lbs) over his head there. 392 lbs. Most people couldn't pick that bar up off the ground, much less get it over their head.
At my most pessimistic moments, I think that just knowing who Donald Knuth and Larry Wall are is strongly correlated with being above-average.
To Buy or Rent a Home?
That's only because Reddit let you post direct affiliate ads, which they don't anymore. I'm surprised Reddit adops don't do that kind of arbitrage themselves, it's like free money.
This should be re-written:

"You must like dealing with people to be great at management."

This is more accurate:

"You must like talking with people to be great at management."

When I first started managing, I tried to send people a lot of email. I like writing, so email comes naturally. One thing I learned, rather quickly, is that most people don't like writing. Even well educated people don't like writing. Most people find it easier to talk than to write. Most people would rather talk an issue through than write about it. The more difficult the issue, the more that people want to talk.

The next line should have been the sub-headline:

"Imagine you spend a full day in back-to-back 1:1s talking to people. Does that sound awful or awesome?"

This bit is very true:

"Unfortunately at many places, you’re roadblocked in advancing your career unless you become a manager. This sadly incentivizes the wrong outcomes, in which people who don’t love dealing with people become bad managers, and both they and their team suffers."

I wish this was more true:

"In more technical roles, we are fortunate that many companies support separate but equal career tracks, where at a certain level of seniority you can choose to go deep into the craft of your discipline or go into people management."

I have mostly worked with startups during the last 16 years, and in all of them the top managers were paid more than the top engineers. The only "exceptions" were the founders who weren't paying themselves. But obviously, their path to renumeration is very different than it is for those of us getting paid a wage.
False; even if racism isn't conscious that doesn't mean that it can't be identified and racist actions percent d by sufficient conscious choice and self-examination. Doing better than what unconscious instinct would lead to alone is often possible.
Lifetime solitary without any means of communication. This is probably worse than death.
That's how I feel. Clearly the infrastructure of the NBA is racist for having a majority of black players when it is WAY off statistically from a population standpoint of the United States.

This indicates a likely inherent and possibly unconscious structural racism within the organization. Not active racism per se, but more unconscious or subconscious selection favoring black players statistically. From this we know that the NBA consciously or unconciously believes that blacks are superior to whites and even asians in the game.
That's completely fair, I hadn't considered critical situations.
Wow. Excellent work.
What has always impressed me about Confucius is how is philosophy has survived 2,000 years in China, and it is completely secular. It achieves the societal peace religion usually makes claim to, but without the invisible man in the sky. For all its flaws, the Imperial Examination in China, which was series of exams on Neo-Confucian philosophy anyone could take to become certified to work at various levels in the state bureaucracy, was quite egalitarian [1].

But at the root of Confucianism is the idea of leading by example and through self-discipline. If you want to understand Confucianism, "The Great Learning" is where your studies should first begin. This is my favorite passage from that writing:

The ancients who wished to illustrate illustrious virtue throughout the kingdom, first ordered well their own states. Wishing to order well their states, they first regulated their families. Wishing to regulate their families, they first cultivated their persons. Wishing to cultivate their persons, they first rectified their hearts. Wishing to rectify their hearts, they first sought to be sincere in their thoughts. Wishing to be sincere in their thoughts, they first extended to the utmost their knowledge. Such extension of knowledge lay in the investigation of things.

Things being investigated, knowledge became complete. Their knowledge being complete, their thoughts were sincere. Their thoughts being sincere, their hearts were then rectified. Their hearts being rectified, their persons were cultivated. Their persons being cultivated, their families were regulated. Their families being regulated, their states were rightly governed. Their states being rightly governed, the whole kingdom was made tranquil and happy.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_examination

[2] http://mxplx.com/meme/2873/
Hillary Clinton’s State Department Armed Saudi Arabia to the Teeth
Real x86 is very different; you have limited registers (especially 32bit x86), very weird variable length instruction encoding, gazillion different instructions, memory access takes significant amount of time. Of course having near infinite amount of memory compared to the 256 bytes of BOX256 changes the way you program your code too.
Even better, I believe there are 2 different sequels that were developed simultaneously at atari and have finally been released.
Like all things in life the username scarcity problem can be solved with gamification. Initially all users are assigned a unique number as their username. By reaching various predefined goals users can earn new characters to use in their username. For simplicity's sake I'll restrict my examples to ASCII characters. Made your first 20 comments? You've earned a random character. It'll be like opening a pack of Magic cards. Will you get a highly desirable 'e' or much less useful 'Z'? Created your first 3 posts? Get another random character!

You'll be able to trade your characters with other users. You need a 'Y' to form "YoloSwaggins", so you trade your desirable 'e' for a 'Y' and a 'g' (you need 2 'g's). You can also sell characters you have no need of or buy ones that you want, all through the website's online marketplace that takes a modest cut for themselves of course.

You can't just change your username at any time though. Each character change requires a special character change token that has a small chance of dropping with each achievement. Or you can buy character change tokens in packs of 3 from the online shop.
It's not really cookie stuffing. In the end, people have to click on the ad to get the cookie.

Cookie stuffing would be, for example, HN embedding a hidden iframe with their Amazon code and placing cookies on users.

I did something similar a couple of years ago with a _very_ cheap traffic source I found. I bought traffic and sent it straight to the Amazon homepage. I had a good run for about 4-5 months. On my last month I really ramped up traffic, spent like $250 and made around $6k in a single month. But amazon caught on and like you said, cancelled my account and didn't pay me.

It's a sucky thing to do I guess. I know of massive operations where guys are pulling in $10-20k per month. If someone wanted to really put their brains in to it, cookie stuffing is very hard to detect.
>> Imagine if you were cleared of a charge but someone kept re-accusing you over and over, dragging you back to trial again and again.

Well that is turning the double jeopardy rule on its head, using that to defend not considering innocence on appeal is something only a lawyer wishing to pervert the law would consider...

The purpose of double jeopardy is to limit state power to put people in a cage, not to increase state power to keep them there...

>And appeals, which ought to be rare, somehow have become routine for many cases.

I dont think so, I think any sentence over 5 years should come with an automatic appeal to a 3 judge panel and any sentence of Life or more, should come with a automatic retrial with a whole new jury.

I have zero faith in the Jury system and police state, and I think the wrongful conviction rate is vastly under reported. That is with out even getting started in the immoral extortion racket called "plea bargain"
> She lost her health insurance because she exceeded the policy limits and had to skip her last chemo treatment.

What in fucking hell is this? An insurance exists to protect people from going bankrupt due to health issues, not to screw people over when they're already in no position to fight.

How on earth is this legal?
I don't think work ethic = value is ever going to go away to be honest. People will always value hard workers, and rightly so, because hard workers get things done and problem solved.

However, I don't necessarily think that work ethic needs to equal basic income. That homelessness is even a thing is a symptom of this world view; we are in a society that is more than capable of dealing with some problems in the most poverty stricken parts of the world, and yet we don't, because we say these people have no work ethic, and therefore they don't deserve to be clean, to be fed, to have access to sanitary facilities.

However we end up at a solution to this problem, I'm open to explore. I'm sick of us criminalizing the lazy, because the consequence is to also criminalize the disabled, the elderly, the mentally disabled, and occasionally the perfectly great, strong individuals who roll a poor lot in life and can't escape the system.

Laziness should mean a lack of respect, a lack of advancement, maybe a lack of entertainment and privilege. But the primary reason we have so many low wage jobs is because there is an incredibly huge incentive for people to work them; they have no other choice. If you don't work in this country, that's it. You're "worthless."
I just had to make a quick mockup of hardware version of BOX256: http://i.imgur.com/Vw1i459.jpg
Which is why http://github.com/microsoft (and dotnet, and azure) doesn't exist, right?
In the article, I explain two options in the Apple case:

1. Apple could develop new software and give the FBI the key. That is the true back door.

2. Apple could disable the guess limit and let the government brute-force the code. This is the "lesser" back door.

In most encryption cases around the world, the government can get in with enough computing power. They can brute-force as they see fit, which is a problem for all people who support encryption. These people essentially are in favor of a method of privacy protection that works only as well as the math used to support it. In this case, the math is only so dependable.

The other option is to depend on due process, checks and balances, and the branches of power. Government cracking encryption is inevitable, so sticking to absolute encryption and refusing compromise is a losing battle in the long run. We might as well start today on working out a compromise, developing and implementing a federal system that appropriately handles the privacy of our communications.
DevCards and Figwheel are amazing. As much as I love React and its hot reloading plugins, `lein new figwheel` has always worked better than cloning a boilerplate or setting stuff up.