skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We also shouldn't forget that a dictatorship doesn't imply a regressive and authoritarian (in daily life) government. See Singapore, for instance, which is effectively a single-party state but helped to install gigabit internet access for residents.
That could happen, but I don't think it makes much sense for it to happen on a large scale, so I wouldn't put a lot of probability on it. Entertainment is the most likely use for that kind of simulation, but I like to imagine they would be less boring than my life is right now.
Well, pretty much, yes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance
Languages such as Haskell which move more logic into the type system are safer.

A big reason for this is that the errors are more often than not at compile time.

I'm the real world this means you deal with a bug after trying to compile, rather than an intern 8 months later trying to fix a runtime error, who is struggling to understand the codebase, much less make a good bugfix that also takes backwards compatibility into account.
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Well, duh! I'm not paid to do shit.
x86 servers are a commodity. There is no way for a company like Apple to get the margins they want on manufacturing that kind of hardware. Data center buyers don't care about brushed aluminum cases with no visible fasteners.
IMO, more startups would be struggling to write any copy at all before it's about effective copy. So I can see this being very helpful as a starting point.
I can answer from an Australian perspective. Here's how it's supposed to work:

Suppliers register and prove that their products comply with Australian standards, and are awarded a compliance number. That number is the consumer's indicator that a product is safe. Any interested party can check that the certification is genuine by looking up the compliance number in an online database.

Here's how it works in practise: you're screwed. The relevant government department took the database off line years ago, and there still isn't a replacement. When you go to do a search, you arrive at a page that talks about the database in the future tense [1]: "The national database will list all the equipment registered by the responsible supplier". A supplier can put a fake mark on a product, and there is no easy way for a consumer to know if is genuine, making the marks virtually useless. The result is electrocution whilst listening to a plugged in music player with headphones [2].

[1] http://www.erac.gov.au/index.php?option=com_content&view=art...

[2] http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/warning-over-usb-chargers-after-wo...

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Don't just hope. Contact your representatives! Airbnb and Uber move offshore? Call Visa and Mastercard.
> There is very little chance Yarvin would get past the HR department of any

I think this is an intended as an attack on Yarvin, but it makes much more sense to me as an attack on HR departments.

If HR departments are filtering out tech ically astute candidates bc of what they do out of the office , they are harming the corporation.
This is about the Imperial College study's just-published results:

'David Nutt, the government’s former drugs advisor, professor of neuropsychopharmacology at Imperial College London, and senior researcher on the study, said neuroscientists had waited 50 years for this moment. “This is to neuroscience what the Higgs boson was to particle physics,” he said. “We didn’t know how these profound effects were produced. It was too difficult to do. Scientists were either scared or couldn’t be bothered to overcome the enormous hurdles to get this done.”'
What were your general perceptions of the team from the interview process, if you don't mind sharing?
Yeah - they've experimented with multiple monetization models over the past year or so. Now there is a beta for a select group of users. I for one really hope they nail it, but I'm not sure it's on the right path yet.

The challenge is that the platform of curation of interesting content for the sake of interesting content, stops working when it becomes the curation of interesting content for profit. As unless you do it based on customer satisfaction in microtransactions (oh I like your content have a cheese puff), then it's based on views or clicks.

Thus begins their decent into clickbait land where everyone gets cheesits (the crunchier, lamer and more disappointing brother of the cheese puff).

You earn low volumes of cash as you don't have a loyal readership. I earn disappointment as your title was misleading, and we both go home and cry in the fetal position at what the internet has become.

So, once again, hopefully they nail it - because right now they're pretty dandy.
I tend to use slightly embarrassing terms for config options that enable workarounds. This motivates to deprecate these bugfeatures as soon as possible. Who would want to have 'fickle_timestamps' or 'fudged_routing'?

Interestingly I use a similar policy when selecting my passphrases. My passphrases are bad four-word poems about personal experiences. Thus I'm personally invested in protecting passphrases and keeping discipline even for "worthless" accounts. I wouldn't be comfortable about sharing even my old passphrases.
Why simulate a very atypical world if the vast majority of intelligent-life developing worlds are much younger than ours?
"This hash is computed such that it is resistant to alterations in the image, including resizing and minor color alterations."
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PhotoDNA)
The internet is still new and so businesses remain committed to pre-internet business models. Modal popups, interstitials, encroachment on real content...all of this stuff comes from broadcast and print advertising models that a majority of the players in this world were trained on, either through degree programs or experience at agencies themselves wedded to the status quo.
We've already lost
I suppose I just don't understand why you'd consider proselytizing abhorrent views to be an insufficient cause or behaviour. They occupy space, and are capable of terrorizing others just all the same.

To extend my other comment, which you've read:

Suppose you and I were friends. Suppose further that I discover that you routinely have over Mr Qux, who has an extensive archive of Medium posts suggesting that society would be better off if my ethnic group were to be exterminated.

Mr Qux doesn't say it needs to happen. He spends a lot of time recommending that people not act on his words. But there it is, essay after essay carefully explaining how all of society's ills would be solved if my ethnic group were to just disappear overnight.

Why, you reply, we only ever discuss software architecture. He's charming and effusive, and exceedingly polite whenever in the presence of others of your ethnic group. His medium posts never come up for discussion!

He's a brilliant software engineer, you go on. In fact, I'm sure he'd be a great hire at my company and have forwarded his resume.

It'd be irrelevant to me how pleasant this person is. He considers me unworthy of breathing the same air. Should he ever be in a position of power over me, how could I possibly trust him to be impartial? How am I supposed to believe that his impressively well articulated views on my inferiority would never impinge on his ability to produce an objective assessment of my abilities?

It'd be hard for me not to interpret your behaviour as implicitly condoning that man's views.

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Nobody's ever threatened to extinguish my ethnic group, tho there are some negative stereotypes. But it's rather easy for me to empathize with the above scenario.
"We've tried nothing and we're all out of ideas"
No, we're enlightened here in the USA. Our police don't do anything secret; they drag you out in front of the World and sack your house.
That's specious and unrealistic. Nobody's buying that it costs $10K to train on fries or any other low-skilled position.

These would be voluntary programs for skilled jobs that require training. No one would be obligated to sign up, and no one would voluntarily do so without obvious benefit.
You don't find these articles to be interesting discussion starters amongst your HN peers? These are generally amongst the big problems facing developed countries. I like that potential problem-solvers are reminded of the opportunities out there, and we get the chance to read the full gamut of opinions surrounding them.
I always assumed antivirus venders were given a copy of the list as well.

It's a way to scan millions of computers without the owners of those computers knowing they are even being checked. It's perfect.

It also begs the question can you get around detection by re-encoding the files so the hashes don't match?
Also highly recommended, Alan Gross's story of five years in Cuba:

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/03/transcript-alan-gross-...
> what a way to easily ruin someone's life.

Isn't that what they're going for? I certainly haven't seen any signs of intent to correct or rehabilitate the convicted for many crimes. The Department of Corrections should just be called the Department of Punishment, in my opinion, though that's perhaps not as catchy.
Psychedelics can absolutely have profound, long lasting changes. It is quite common for a powerful Ayahuasca experience to have residual effects for months, and sometimes even years afterwards. Of course, your neuroses are strongly influenced by your environment, so if you go back to your old life eventually you will probably end up with the same problems again. Ayahuasca, when taken in conjunction with positive lifestyle modification, has the potential to make absolutely radical, permanent changes on a time-scale that most western psychiatric professionals find absolutely incredible.
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The math is simple, the Cuban average salary is around $20/month, current public internet rate is $2/hour. So, at least you receive an extra money, either from a family remittance, personal business or in my case from working as a freelance (BTW using Internet), you can't pay for much access time.
I had a similar experience. Except it was caused by marijuana.

It sounds like a classic case of Depersonalization disorder, which is a subset/interconnected with anxiety. Google it.

The consensus is that it can be triggered by substances in approx 3% of the population. Weed, mushrooms, ectstacy and LSD are the most common culprits. It's extremely common, though it has very little mindshare among mental health professionals. Probably because there is no pharmaceutical treatment.

It took me about 2 years to get back to reality after my trip. I'm still not quite the same. But I'm thankful for the experience because it's been the hardest thing I've experienced and I've learned a lot about myself, self care and the importance of relationships

Good luck sailor!
> So, what was the answer?

The poster you replied to specifically said he had no way of finding words to explain his experience. This is common with LSD trips and other such experiences. The very first line in the Tao Te Ching is "The Tao that can be spoken is not the eternal Tao." Some things are ineffable. For instance, it's not possible to explain the experience of the color red to a blind person. You can explain metadata like the fact that it is light of a certain frequency, but there is no way to actually convey the experience.

> Reality includes the past and the future though. This just sounds myopic.

The future and past may or may not exist as physical realities, but that's not relevant to the direct human experience. Unless your brain has time travel capabilities, your experience of the past is just replaying memories and the future is just simulations of potential paths. There is only what is happening right now - future and past are just fafuture. That doesn't mean you can't think about the past and future and make decisions based on those thoughts, but it is impossible to experience the past and future
Especially with a view like this at a conference like this. By attempting to deny him a platform at an event which is often based on a meritocracy (like so much of hacker culture) they are admitting his position might have merit and hence must be censored rather than simply dismissed by anyone who hears it.

To be clear neither his political or technical views hold merit, his project is an interesting mental exercise, but I doubt many will see any technical merit.
Some of what the guy says is generic business speak. But then he says this:

"We’re a brand that’s recognized around the world consistently. We don’t have different brands in different parts of the world."

Well, you have Lincoln (and for much of history, Mercury) in the US. They sell your cars under different names, but don't really exist much outside of North America. Then you have Mazda, your activities with which I cannot summarize better than to quote Wikipedia:

"The Mazda B-Series and Ford Ranger models sold in North America were developed by Ford, whereas models sold elsewhere under the same badge were engineered by Mazda."

So no. You aren't a single brand everywhere. It's hard to see how you could claim this with a straight face.
I think live chat will be better. You should already try.

Blab is a little similar: https://blab.im/martin-shkreli-shkreli-2-10-16

but is not for debates.
Well, in Elm you would have to explicitly handle the possiblity of a database crash and what to do with it. It wouldn't be a runtime error, it would just be another code path.
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You should read his work and not scotty's f.a.q.
$5 us for a straight razor shave? This guy got absolutely taken to the cleaners
We're not discussing social media. We're discussing whether to extend the graces of polite society to people with abhorrent views.

It's not clear to me whether you understand the spirit of the Popper quote.

As I interpret it, it can be boiled down to: it's OK to not tolerate those whose unimpeded actions would to destroy your tolerant society.

I'm afraid that in that context I don't understand the rest of your comment about sincere tolerance.
Well depending on scale, your entire "existence" could be a few "minutes" in the "real world" (that's a lot of quotes...)

Much like how we are making ML applications now, you could be a complicated AI who's purpose is to calculate something encoded in your experience. You wouldn't need to know your purpose in order to complete it.

I'm clearly grasping at straws here, its just fun to think about :)
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Ironic because of that time Polaroid won $919 million against Kodak for patent infringement? ;)
> So, what was the answer?

There isn't one, of course. Drugs like LSD and psilocybin put your mind in a state where you perceive knowledge that you don't actually have. For many, that's enough to (begin to) resolve depression and anxiety, but obviously no drug is going to reveal the "true" nature of reality to you or something ridiculous like that.
ShadowSocks, RedSocks2 and ChinaDNS on OpenWrt
Also afrotechmods: https://www.youtube.com/user/Afrotechmods
Depends on what the trees are shading? They couldn't be much worse than concrete I imagine...
Really? I just tried dividing by 0 and it gave me Infinity, not a runtime error.
When I lived in Chicago, the State Street Subway at evening rush hour would have every car packed literally sardine tight. They could barely close the doors and there was barely room to breathe, forget about sitting down. I'm sure it was illegal but the conductors seemed to just pack people on until there wasn't room for one more.
>>What if this was shown not to be the case? Would you still be okay with the inequality?

I would be okay with it, yes.

But since we have mountains upon mountains of evidence to the contrary (i.e. the wealthy corrupt the political system and make it serve their own ends at the expense of others), your hypothetical is rather meaningless.

>>And if it is the case, how does this make you and me worse off in the absolute sense?

Because it goes against the "one person, one vote" principle of democracy.
I feel these limitations are pretty central to the way our universe works, and that without them the universe would be very deeply different. You can only "simplify" the world so much before it becomes something else entirely, or loses its interesting properties. For instance, if you use fluid dynamics to simplify the simulation of the ocean, you'll save a lot of computation and it'll look the same, but life won't evolve in it.

> Isolating each "light cone" of local spacetime allows the simulation to be distributed and run on separate compute clusters, because it limits things to local interactions rather than universal ones.

I don't know if that would make a difference. If you split the universe into zones and assign a cluster to each, they still have to interact with each other all the time because of the boundary. Besides, in a universe where interactions can be "universal", what's the performance gain of local algorithms?

> Things in superpositions only becoming "set" after observation... that is just lazy evaluation.

Really, though, what collapses a quantum state is interaction in general. It happens everywhere, all the time, so I don't know if there's actually anything to gain with this "lazy" evaluation.
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> The fact is, I do wish to exclude myself from any community that deliberately includes Yarvin and his ilk. I would encourage others to make the same decision. I will happily discuss or debate ideas with them on any topic, in any forum where it makes sense to do so. They are human beings and deserve all the rights and privileges thereof.

That's fine. If they left it at, "I don't want to go to this conference anymore", then fewer people would have an issue here. I certainly wouldn't care enough to get involved either way. It's the next step of, "...and therefore the conference should be killed off" that I have a problem with.
This seems like a great router setup for those of us in China:

- Shadowsocks doesn't seem to suffer much from blocking

- RedSocks will make all TCP connections go via Shadowsocks

- ChinaDNS will mediate DNS requests so that you can avoid (i) DNS poisoning from local DNS servers, and (ii) lack of CDN optimisation from foreign DNS servers
A buddy of mine lived and worked in Cuba for many years.

While the place is not perfect, he had many great things to say about it. About how family and connections are more important than material possessions, about how healthcare and education are rights that everyone has and doesn't think about, and about how the purpose of life is not just to go to work more and earn more money.

My friend is Canadian, and he genuinely loved living in Cuba, which tells me a lot.
You make it sound like there isn't a repressive regime in power that brooks no decent and certainly doesn't allow anyone to voice an opinion contrary to the establishment.

http://abcnews.go.com/International/304-dissidents-arrested-...
For those who were rejected this time from YC, keep grinding
Keep on grinding. Getting rejected from YC is in no way a reflection of the quality of your startup. As they say in the rejection emails, sometimes they miss out too.

Here's are two stories that should give you some inspiration hopefully:

https://45m.ph/overnight-success-it-s-possible-4ce22f618787

https://medium.com/@imjonathanlee/how-fear-of-embarrassment-turned-into-a-11-billion-dollar-valuation-c17fae86f7a3

Keep up the good work and don't let this bring you down!
I don't use c++ so I'm not sure how std:hash works or gets implemented, but the way that guava (Google's java library) does it is by passing in a key and a funnel object. The funnel object is essentially responsible for decomposing the object into a byte stream. The advantage of doing it this way rather than making the caller specify his own hash is that you can use murmurhash3 which you thought had the best properties for the bloom filter.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albedo#Terrestrial_albedo

Albedo of a conifer forest is 0.08 to 0.15, albedo of new concrete is 0.55.

The climate change effects of reforestation are addressed later on in the same article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albedo#Trees
>Things in superpositions only becoming "set" after observation... that is just lazy evaluation. It's fun to think about.

Lazy evaluation is generally used to defer some expensive computation until later. In this case, though, the pre-measurement state (a superposition of states) is MORE complicated (computationally speaking) than the post-measurement state, which is nominally a single definite state. It's not a good analogy I'm afraid.
CPU too. Check out the requirements for tracking-based systems like the HTC Vive.
It wasn't illegal because these banks created deliberate loopholes in regulations by lobbying.
I don't see anything wrong with a neighborhood democratically deciding they don't want sidewalks. Not much different than other covenants and restrictions many neighborhoods have, such as no vinyl siding, no boats parked in the driveway, etc.
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An easy way to visualize outcomes, with a simple interface. Worth a look.
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I've considered that but my circles are pretty wide and I've been thinking about this for a long time and going out and verifying (asking absolutely everyone who will listen).

Consensus seems to be that we're trending towards homogeny.
It's a statement of fact, not a judgement.

You're welcome to your opinions of HR departments, and of Yarvin.
Yes, YC should have sent you a email with your final submission.
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It's true our police may imprison over 2 million people, but they are very careful to make sure it's only bad people, so there's no threat to liberty.
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Well, if he can't tolerate you either, then you'll both be fully tolerant!
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To take it a step further than "test our API and show us the cool thing we could build with it", I think it's also "you young, bright programmers, show us which of you is willing to work yourselves to death for whatever arbitrary tasks we assign you".

I may be a bit too cynical, but there's some element of that in those sponsored hackathons as well.
While I agree that the article is all business-speak ("we're just like Apple!" said every auto exec ever), the Mazda/Ford partnership is basically done as of the market crash. Ford at one point owned 33% of it in the 90s, now down to 2.1%.
I had delicious food in Cuba, which was quite a surprise after reading so much about how uninspired it is. The liberalization of the restaurant scene has quickly had an impact at the tourist-friendly private restaurants.