skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's hard for me to know what to think about this article because the author doesn't make his position clear. He says liberals are wrong to think that conservatives make decisions against their own best interests because they are stupid.

Does the author think that conservative decisions are in fact in their own best interests? Or does he agree with liberals that the decisions are foolish, but thinks conservatives make such mistakes for some other reason than a lack of intelligence? Or perhaps some other position?

This matters, because what liberals should be doing differs considerably for each case.
Or, alternatively, in this case there was no good case as some SEC lawyers suggested. It seems strange to me to suggest that assembling a security of mortgage bonds so that one party could short it while another could go long it is a crime. That is what Goldman is supposed to do !
Interesting idea. I'd like to check this out as a tenant, but I can't seem to find a sign-up link for that.
Well he could take a land or a sea route; Norway and Russia share a land border but it would be going the long way round.
I get 70% as many readers to my blog from duckduckgo as bing (and 3x yahoo), so I imagine they are well positioned to get a boost from tech people recommending it to their families.
You are going to have a harder time getting a good job in compliance at a bank or a trading firm unless you were a good regulator
This is pretty cool, great job!
I know this is only a cheatsheet, which implies simple, but one idea that I think might be useful would be to add something to allow an end-user to resize the preview pane. This would allow more complete "previewing" of responsive items, eg. "navbar-toggleable-*" which collapses the a navbar down to a hamburger when the width is small.

Once again though, nice work! :)
I could choose to sell a different form of my labor, like my ability to perform physical labor instead.
Facebook Just Censored Lawyers Fighting for Election Justice
$180k is a dangerously small amount to pay someone with James Comey's responsibility.
It goes to show that the more you suppress the vote or the more obstacles you put in the way, the more people won't vote or simply can't vote, or do vote and don't get counted because they didn't decide they liked Bernie 6 months earlier.
Many Enron "shareholders" were retirees whose retirement plans were heavy on Enron and they were basically wiped out.
Sergey Aleynikov Case: New York District Attorney Files Appeal
I would never have forgiven myself if I hadn't done a doctorate degree. It turned out that I wasn't a star, I didn't produce the research that would put me on to a tenure-track position with ease. But I don't think there was any way I would have found my limitations without doing it, without seeing how much smarter some people were - I would always have been left wondering what could have been. Now, I have come to terms with it, and moved on.
The sky is blue, grass is green, trucks are red, and everything else is a shade of brown :-) pretty cool work!
>>How can you know that?

We can't. That's the problem! The government just spend a million fucking dollars to access a phone's contents, and we have no idea if it was worth it. This lack of accountability is what's causing them to flaunt civil liberties so brazenly and shamelessly. If cornered, they always use the "it's a matter of national security!" excuse.
I'm talking about the time when other distros were already on systemd, but ubuntu wasn't. Of course we needed shell scripts before that.
Here is the interview mentioned: https://www.facebook.com/TheYoungTurks/videos/10153587923954...
I was inferring global human culture, we didn't really develop in vacuums. And pardon my wording, I meant species, but I felt that'd imply that women were biologically disposed to wear makeup, which obviously I don't believe is true(maybe social factors caused by biology, but none still relevant in the 21st century).

More importantly, you're right though, I have zero evidence backing this up, or going against it. I just don't feel like it's very right.
Show HN: Unity script for SteamVR functions – object grabbing, pointer, teleport
Mainstream Banks laundered close to 400 billions in drug money and got slapped with fines in 10 mil. range. Everyone is up in arms about GS.
GS counterparties are supposed to be sophisticated Fund managers they are payed millions in fees for managing money. It's their job to do due diligence on the deals they do with GS or otherwise.
Politics of the Day
By the way, that article is an advertisement for "Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions" [1] in case you're triggered by native advertising. That out of the way ...

As the article states, caching is useful when you have memory stores with different access speeds. This is (frequently, in my experience, caveat caveat etc.) not the case in reality, where you only have the one storage area that has a fixed, fairly low access speed. People are mostly bottlenecked by scanning rate, so it'd make more sense to use an indexing mechanism. Maybe b-trees for closets? B-trees, perhaps, if you store things in boxes?

[1]: http://www.amazon.com/dp/1627790365/
After living in both China and Canada for extended period of time, I've always wondered why China's society has such low trust compared to Canada's, and came up with a few possible contributing factors.

One of them, I believe, is the lack of history-tracking entities like credit bureaus, meaning that people who abuse trust are not remembered.

Lack of a proper justice system is another major contributor, meaning that people who abused trust can get away more easily.

Take a few concrete examples, when buying a used car in Canada, you can check vehicle history, which will bring up any major damages to the car (except in some exceptionally elaborate scandal cases); when renting to a tenant, you check his/her credit history; after a car accident, you only have to exchange insurance information; if you ate something bad in a restaurant or a food truck, you report it to the health services and they'll get inspected, potentially closing it down costing the owner dearly.

In China, those things are either non-existent or not very well run, making private commerce a risky venture, heck, even eating out is a risky adventure.
OpenGL tutorial – relevant to the GPUImage2 announcement yesterday
When I was growing up, my father used to tell me "bankers cause wars; they are the biggest criminals in the history of mankind." The article, and my own personal experience, which I'd rather not divulge in public, illustrate this perfectly. I know all the managers knew about the scam; they perpetrated it; and yet, they walk free and flush with cash from such deals, while ordinary people lost their homes and jobs. The S.E.C. is in cahoots with them. Essentially, the managers and lawyers inside of the S.E.C. and the banks found a way to commit criminal acts without going to prison.

"Liberty and justice for all."
Copyright law is there to protect your specific writing from being used by others, not to protect writing in general. The internet is pretty clear evidence that plenty of people are willing to write without much care as to monetising via copyright.
It was worth it because they didn't know that beforehand. Now the FBI are sure that the attackers weren't in contact with other ISIS members. The FBI thinks that information is worth the $1.2M+ they paid.

How could they possibly have known that without unlocking the phone?
That "2 nanoseconds for objc_msgSend" number is misleading for several reasons. For one, that's the timing you'll get for a fully correctly predicted, BTB hit, method cache hit, which does not always describe the real world: Obj-C method cache misses are several orders of magnitude slower. But the bigger problem is that the dynamic nature of Objective-C makes optimization harder. Inlining can result in multi-factor performance increases by converting intraprocedural optimizations to interprocedural ones, not to mention all the actual IPO that a modern compiler for a more static language can easily do. Apple clearly cares about this a lot, as shown by all the work they've done on SIL-level optimizations.

Another way to look at it is: I would probably get similar (or better) numbers by comparing the speed of a JavaScript method call with a warm monomorphic inline cache, with the type test correctly predicted by the CPU branch predictor. Does that mean JS is as fast as C++?
Mental Spring Cleaning: The Function of Sleep
The OP sugggesting updating iOS so if ushered did nothing ads would be blocked.
That was always an option. It's the same for systemd - you can always configure: `ExecStart=/etc/init.d/something start`. But the context of the comment was - you as a developer writing the config. And you can do it the modern/proper way instead with both upstart and systemd.
This is part of why so much is going in app it is much harder to block ads in apps.
And the laws in question here are to protect Monsato's specific seeds from being used by others, not to protect crops in general.
Well, it exists everywhere, but so does sexism.
On asteroids.
The more people that use ad blocking, the more important directed search becomes. Which Google is pretty good at.

I don't think ad blocking represents armageddon for Google.
According to their own account they did get their money's worth:

http://www.cnn.com/2016/04/19/politics/san-bernadino-iphone-...

The fact that the FBI have confirmed there were no contacts with other ISIS members is valuable information.
> Magical thinking (despite the numerous articles out there...

I think humanity applies the lessons from these articles in the aggregate, but at an individual level, this is a much messier story.

It features people (like myself) who didn't really understand or place any importance on marketability when asked to choose a major at 17.

Four years later you get another fun choice: accept your current job prospects, grab an advanced degree, or start from scratch on a different undergrad degree, which is psychologically quite hard.[0]

I know a lot of people push for universally free college tuition. A part of me though would much rather encourage school loans that signal to students the viability of their major by adjusting interest rates or availability of credit based on the field of study.

Though that has it's problems too. We'd want to pay teachers considerably more, for instance.

Ok, I mostly just wish someone had handed me a copy of "So Good They Can't Ignore You" when I was young and stupid.

[0] And some people successfully convince a great manager to take a chance on them. That involves a lot of search costs and a lot of luck, though. It also filters for risk-tolerant employers, which becomes a high-risk strategy itself.
This is really useful. Does anyone know of a Materialize cheat sheet? (http://materializecss.com/)
This is the correct reason - this has been going on since at least Norman Borlaug's work (the Green Revolution), you can't just keep on seeding your seeds you bought, the seed company has to keep on recreating hybrids.

There's a lot of misinformation in this thread, as usual on this topic.
No, but that society today recognizes that as worth protecting. People have been writing books for millennia, but now there's copyright.
>I predict that in the next major conflict, aircraft carriers will be utterly useless, most of our big flat-tops will be sunk in the first couple months, and the bulk of combat will fall to a large fleet of inexpensive drones.

Having worked on naval air defense, I can tell you carrier battle groups in open water are a lot tougher than people think. If a major conflict started today, unless it went nuclear the carriers would probably survive.

Of course the scenario matters a lot. A carrier group in the Med is a lot more vulnerable than a carrier group near Hawaii. A carrier group during peacetime is a lot more vulnerable than a carrier group during a war. Etc.

That's today. It's hard to say how things will develop - I think we'll see a lot more DF-21D style anti-ship ballistic missiles, but we're getting better and better at knocking those things down, too.

The difference between the interwar period and now is there isn't a clear successor technology. If you want to project force, the carrier is still the best way to do it and will be for the foreseeable future.
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Speed limit on the highway by my house is 70. If you are doing less than 75 during rush hour you will be passed by a stream of cars. I've been overtaken while doing close to 90.
Yeah but the alternative would be losing all their revenues.
I'm not entirely sure how you can call 14 deaths "non-existent".
Intel Lays Off 12,000 Sought Visas for 14,523 Since 2010
All of your reasons are valid. I would add one more:

5. Academic success has been rewarded every step of the way.

I look at my high school classmates who I know went on to get Phds. (Sample size of 8) All of them were among the smartest few percent in the class. Every success that they got through the end of undergrad was due to academic performance. But afterwards things slowed down. Only 2 of 8 stayed through to tenure. The two smartest got Phds in math and wound up in non-faculty positions. One other got a science industry job. One wound up at a hedge fund. And two teach high school.

All things considered it's not a bad lot in life, but these were amongst the best and brightest of my peer group. Five of Seven would have been better served taking other paths to their end destinations.

There is a systemic incentives problem going on. Every individual school has an incentive to push as many people as possible into academia. This is for both cheap labor, and because their brand goes up when absolute #s of their grads go on to big things. The schools in aggregate also benefit when there are more Phd grads than job applicants. (Again keeps costs down) The systemic over-supply punishes the graduates as a whole.

It's a case where the individuals who have gotten the most mileage listening to their teachers, are also the ones who most need to stop listening to them. :-)
Thoughts on the Econonmics and Tech of Starz’s “The Girlfriend Experience”
That'll just lead to a dick-swinging contest if your resident Java guru already said 4gb is enough. It's futile. There are many ways to reduce the memory consumption of your desktop machine. Start with those.
Cloud.

I think they are very serious about becoming the market leader in this space. They are behind AWS, but if they can leverage the same technology that they use internally, they will have a compelling offering.
The article seemingly is very focused on employment. It's taken as axiomatic that people must do whatever they do because it leads them into an employer's arms, at some point.

What about whether a PhD helps people with romantic relationships, sense of belonging in the community, happiness, social ranking, whatever other goals they might have in their lives?

In light of that I think the topic should be changed on HN - I expected a much more balanced analysis. The current headline on the site itself is "The Ever-Tightening Job Market for Ph.D.s".
I'm confused by this. Shareholders are some of the primary victims being defrauded in these cases.

Enron's accounting gymnastics were precisely to defraud their shareholders. How is that negligence on the part of the shareholder? It's not - it's criminal on the part of the executives.
I agree with that qualification.

Many people have audacious goals that aren't fully realized.

I think the saying is "Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars."

I'm not sure how true it is, but the idea is a common one.
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Hi, I am "the peace guy" (just google that phrase for more info), and I am now based in Mountain View, where I live off of the land. By the way, I created something called "Linux on the Web" -- find it at http://lotw.co

I got here a week ago from Florida, and I've already done my peace guy thing at the Google campus (twice), at Lytton Plaza in downtown Palo Alto, and on the Stanford campus. My thing is to literally make people fall madly in love with me as I dance and hold up the peace sign and say whatever the hell comes to mind.

Put simply, I am here to turn the world absolutely upside-down in a way that Bernie Sanders could only dream about.

My point is that capitalism, as we know it, is pretty much "game over". Google won it, and no one else should even try to take them on (that especially includes you, Apple).

As such, I would love to personally give my project to Larry Page in order to see how we can start up the greatest open source project in history. I would like Google to start supporting actual live/work communities in various parts of the world, kind of like neo-hippie tech communes (or kibbutzes if you like that term better), that are very far from traditional tech centers (think Amazon jungle rather than Amazon.com).

I would love to get a bunch of free-spirited types of people to help me work the I/O event. Since I've gotten pretty good at living on the streets here, I can give people plenty of advice.

Both of the times that I've been at the Googleplex, I've had Google security guards try to law down the law at me, only for me to lay down the law back at them... very, very loudly. After all, I am not some random jackass. I am literally "the peace guy" since if Google says so, then it must be true.

I am making friends with everyone around here, from other homeless people to local business owners and everything in between. I even just got done making friends with a couple of particularly friendly grade schoolers who actually initiated a conversation with me.

To be brutally honest about myself, I am a mad genius and I am mad sexy. Even though I am homeless here in Silicon Valley, the women/girls (and many guys) literally cannot stop looking at me (it is quite different than where I came from, in that everyone was just too "proper" to act like they were interested in anyone else).

My twitter is https://twitter.com/The_Peace_Guy (fair warning it is slightly NSFW at the moment).
A caveat to start with, I am not a front-end guy (though i program golang backend infrastructure all day/every day)...but I think the question of whether golang is mature enough for fintech and if golang is a good choice as an early language for you are orthogonal.

In the domains that golang excels in, it is much more mature than its age. Things like security, memory use, serving network daemons etc. it is great. I would be happy to advocate for it in environments that require a "mature" stack.

But if what you want to do, is rapidly take data from a user and put it into a database, over the internet, I'd say it is a pretty bad choice. Especially if you already have rails experience. Rails is purpose built for that use case and it is (from what i hear) good at it.
Was it "worth it" because they dodged the potential for setting a precedent that limited the FBI's power?

It doesn't seem like it was "worth it" because they found useful evidence on the phone.
Well, if you keep on refining it to maintain that elitist view, why not add "on a Tuesday, done by a Saggitarius who drives a Volvo"? "Getting a bigger banana" also takes years of iteration, effort, and failures.

So now that you're saying that patents should only be for difficult things that takes years of education to do, why did you bother to talk about copyright above? You can write trash and it's covered by copyright. Plenty of trash is covered by copyright, stuff that didn't require education, discipline, or talent.

Copyright and patents are meant to protect novel things; how difficult they are to achieve is not really relevant, so sneering at 'that's just a bigger banana' is just elitism.
Microsoft OneDrive storage changes
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seriously, one less stop on my webpath
Is it unreasonable to think there is legitimately valuable Intel on that phone? I'd say it's at least plausible, maybe even likely lives can be saved by getting at messages on a known terrorists phone.
Mike is great, but I can't understand a word he's saying half the time.
I support 100 < n < 150 servers for 6 hours of a chase-the-sun rotation.

I'm personally responsible for around 40 servers, across 5 cloud locations, providing a backend to ~5 products.

These are all configured with the same software stack: a DB, an LDAP running on top of that, and a web service or two for interacting with the data.

We have deployment, configuration and monitoring systems (avoiding naming specific products as it'd be easy to figure out my name, etc...) and avoid touching the live systems directly wherever possible.
Chances are, if something needs to be done for one system, it needs to be done for all (can schedule individually), and it keeps things consistent.
In case of failure, we know we can consistently redeploy our systems (assuming data backups are available).
That won't happen unless American voters want it. They don't want it, as evidenced by their not voting for it, so they won't get it.
So if someone the FBI is interested in knew they were being targeted and used a strong, complex, long password which would be impossible to 'guess' even without the restrictions then how does

> and without it taking a decade to guess correctly.

even make sense when there isn't a force in the universe that can guess that password in 10 millennia.

If they demand that restrictions like gated attempts and automatic wipes be removed, they're just pushing the industry to move to restrictions that can't be removed.

Hell, if I was feeling really cheeky and worked for Apple, I would give the FBI their backdoor which allowed them access, but they have to provide the phone a proof of work worth at least $10 trillion.

No this probably couldn't be made secure.
I guess other people enjoy this style of socializing, but I like to know at least the day before if we're supposed to hang out. I get annoyed when a friend texts me "hey let's do this thing right now", or in an hour or whatever. I already had an idea of what I was going to do that day, and it messes that up.
Abused Albatross? ;[

Afflicted Ass?
> I think I get a lot of work done (solo game dev on my own), but I also re-organise my task list about every week too, does that make me a procrastinator? If I get stuck on a hard problem, I'll often browse the internet mindlessly, then come back and solve it. Does that make me a procrastinator? If I take a week off, am I a procrastinator!?

No, that behavior seems pretty rational, not like what is described in the article. You're not consistently putting off a painful task, you're taking breaks.

> Just because we made up a word for 'not doing work' doesn't make it real, or a problem.

Call it what you will, but procrastination has been a serious problem for me. The negative effects on my life are far too plentiful to mention, but an easy example is that I dropped out of college because I didn't want to write a paper. I tried to write it, couldn't make progress, stopped going to the class, and then didn't sign up for any more classes. There are just some tasks that are very stressful to think about, and for better or worse, my instinctual response is to simply not think about them at all. Unless you've experienced this, and seen relationships, jobs, personal projects, etc fall apart right in front of you, over and over again, I don't think you can say procrastination is not a problem.

I do a fair amount of Yoga, and indeed it helps with relaxation, but that's rather beside the point: it's quite susceptible to the same mental flinch as any other task. If I'm procrastinating on something, it's not any easier to decide to do Yoga to help make progress on it, than it is to just not procrastinate in the first place.