skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Individualistic, freedom/harm based moral thinking is far from ubiquitous.

This can lead to libertarian leaning people (like me and many members of Hacker News) mischaracterising the world-view of many conservatives/liberals who have different moral beliefs to us and having discussions with them which are not constructive.

Johnathan Haidt has some interesting ideas on the topic. The idea that many people value stability/group loyalty/ideas of sanctity is often missed by many responses to moral issues on this site when people correctly state 'I can't see who is being harmed here' or 'I'm uncomfortable with people's freedom being restricted' in response to the day's moral issue.

Ultimately, many/most people have a bunch of sacred beliefs/narratives that they do not objectively challenge when faced with new evidence (instead they act like defence lawyers trying to reframe/discredit the information).
>No doubt it will benefit them (which is why you paid all that money, I imagine).

The nightmare many are facing is that it doesn't benefit them. Regardless of what self improvement one may receive from their degree, certain degrees are being awarded at a faster rate than the economy demands them, depressing wages for those who can use that degree to get a job and resulting in many who can't use that degree to get a job.
I am sure. I was just pointing out that your risk of dying was likely increased by not eating beef and eating chicken.
And until I see definitive proof (meta-studies, convergence in scientific beliefs) that passion is something you are born with and not learn from your environment (through you know..inspiration, encouragement, and reaffirmation). I'm gonna keep trying!

Because currently, a 'passion' for STEM fields will tilt your future power prospects. If there is a systematic bias that causes a tilt the other way, it is simply untenable.
I'll prompt people at companies where I've used ZMQ in the stack.
For git commit messages.
I've began liking to initiate or end a statement with stuff like these:

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

(ง'̀-'́)ง

(ノಠ益ಠ)ノ彡┻━┻

(ﾟ∀ﾟ)

ಠ_ಠ

How do you guys feel about these in git commit messages?
Correct me if I'm wrong but can't you also run arbitrary code while installing packages?

Either way I'm not saying `curl | bash` is good, I'm just trying to point out that people have a very knee jerk reaction to it and pay no mind to things which are similarly as dangerous.
> Firefox vs us on Linux

That's a bit of an unfair comparison. Gtk has lots of nice themes which AFAIK Tk can't use. That dialog doesn't exist on Firefox anymore, but this is what Thunderbird's preferences look like on my machine: https://my.mixtape.moe/fggaex.png

It's true, Tk can look okay on linux, but it will still be out of place when placed side by side with Gtk and Qt apps (Qt can use Gtk themes).
Yes, it's a nice space and I like walking by it. It's a welcome respite on that hellish stretch of Houston St. The inside is also very nice, and one of the best grocery stores in Manhattan. Outside of WF and TJ's, grocery stores in NYC are horrendous, so I'm not complaining.
You misunderstand. A reduction in motivation isn't inherently harmful - it's only society's value system that causes you to view it a "harm". A society where people valued relaxed socializing more might view a reduction in compulsive need to be "doing stuff" as a benefit.

Lung cancer, on the other hand, doesn't have a positive reference frame.
How to recover lost files added to Git but not committed
Sublime with MarkdownEditing is what I use. Does everything I need.
This is really cool, but is it jumping around for anyone else? I zoom in and pan around to an area of interest, then after a few seconds the view is changed to somewhere radically different for no apparent reason. It also randomly toggles the various overlays when it does this(routes, ports, etc).
Well, if you want realism, wolves are one of the really select club of species of animals known to readily protect, nurture and adopt a lost human children if some circumstances occur. This is a fact, not a feeling.

Do you know what other animals can be dangerous for a small children in a close encounter?: Buffaloes, mooses, deers, bulls, rams, bears, rats, horses, rhinos, donkeys, chimps, coyotes, pigs, snakes, racoons, big cats, snapping turtles, electric eels, lots of arthropods, and most of all other humans or machines created by humans. This is the reason for small children never should walk unprotected by unsafe areas. For children there is a change at least of surviving a close encounter with a wolf, that will not enjoy if is a buffalo instead.

Curiously today the local press tells a story about a man that died after four years fighting lyme disease caused by a deer tick bite. For some arrogant interplanetary alignment, lyme disease cases are increasing in my country at the same time as wolves being culled regularly.
What do you mean by "real keyboard"?
Most of the world calls soccer Football so this is yet again an american only issue. I can't believe someone would be "triggered" by such a silly thing, it's like some people are actively seeking outrage for a reason I don't know. To get popular on social medias? and get many likes on Twitter? to feel like they are victim of racism every second? or just to get attention, I really don't understand.
Ford paid $199,950 to tear down a Tesla Model X
Could you share the average conversion increase for your clients?
Is there any historical situation where destroying this 'evil' has been successful? Getting rid of nukes is not a real world possibility at this time - they are too powerful a tool. These comments are close to being ignorant of reality.
Very easy-to-use service, affordable for companies and free for their clients, I think it's attractive
Anders Breivik, Norway murderer, wins human rights case
For dealing with this problem, as well as anything that's not already packaged, the checkinstall utility is very helpful. It intercepts filesystem calls and builds deb/rpm/tgz packages that you install with your distro's package manager. It's been packaged in Debian for a long time. Highly recommended.
Deepstream.io – Using PassportJS for Facebook and Twitter OAuth
Google's Container Management with Brendan Burns
I'm obsessed with not throwing away things and really appreciate a cool project like this. But nonetheless, I would like to emphasize that recycling is no substitute for not producing and not consuming plastic, which is by far the best way to fight what is depicted in the Why? section!
CasperJS 1.1.1 – e2e testing made easy
In theory though, if Amazon is making a superior product that's cheaper, isn't that what competition is supposed to achieve? I've bought a few AmazonBasics(cables, mostly) and have been pleased with the quality, but it could be radically different with other products.
The most seductive keyword in Go
It's pretty horrible, but it's the future unfortunately.

The web is ubiquitous. Everyone knows it, and so it's much easier to scratch whatever itch you have in a tech you know than a scary one (C!) that you don't; building for situations you understand (your fast piece of expensive apple tech connected to your fast internet) than ones you don't.
I don't really agree. I think we can make the web so much more. The main problem is trying to cut through the endless amount of drudge and bullshit.
You make some good points, and it would certainly help somewhat, but it won't solve the underlying problem. Instead of real choice and ability to buy something that will be under your control instead of the manufacturer or operator you need more than giving Samsung et al the ability to remove Google Chrome and install their own browser infested with spyware that no longer receives security updates after it ships and cannot be removed. If these constructs Google enforces on the manufacturers are indeed illegal, why don't Samsung, HTC, etc. not sue Google to get it sorted? I mean, it is a b2b problem.

A Galaxy config? Yeah, they have that now more or less, they offer many alternatives next to the Google ones installed by default that are in all ways inferior to the Google versions of those apps. They replace one big company services with another and do a worse job. No benefit for users.

Anything that does not bring benefits to projects like e.g. Replicant or CopperheadOS are in the end meaningless for "consumer" freedom and progress in the mobile device space.
hmmm, I've been thinking about making a website to help recruit disenfranchised millennials into indentured servitude and I'll be free and in the area (I'm about to move to the bay area). Might be fun, but i'm not sure I should blur the line between satire and terrifying reality so much.
I feel for Rain Design (I love my mStand); however is this any different to your average supermarket offering lower priced own-brand competitors to their other stock?
This is what I was getting at. "Valuation" of "the market" is far more subjective and psychological rather than objective and empirically measurable.
You can imagine an odd pattern might develop where countries that have high suicide rates seem happier because their most depressed people irreversibly exclude themselves from the surveys. I wonder how strong the statistical effect is though.
Slack is IRC with history. That's it. If IRC had history built in, Slack would never exist.
I think the mixed incentives problem is becoming more and more glaring with each passing day.

Want to write an app that people use on their phone? Awesome. Become an Apple Dev or a Droid Dev. It's the lottery: the providers love you playing, but only about 1-in-100 make it, and "making it" is not about quality. The garden is too big to be manually cultivated, so the winners are the ones that can play the algorithm.

Have a site online you'd like people to visit? If you're advertising it, you're going through Google or Facebook. Just be sure you don't accidentally flip any yellow flags with them. If you do, they can yank your advertising and you're talking to a robot trying to get it back. Unless you're big, of course. Or you can play the algorithm.

How about if you sell a physical product? What if you've been selling it for years? Well, you gotta go to Amazon. They own internet product sales. But guess what? If you switch to a provider, you don't have an email list, you don't have a unique internet address, you don't provide a unique experience, and whatever you do has just become a commodity. And we're back to the algorithm thing again, because if you can source, package, and sell it on Amazon? Somebody else can too. Probably cheaper. Maybe it has high quality parts. Maybe not. There's far too many products for Amazon to manually curate, so you're back to worshiping the algorithm. The algorithm provides traffic, it provides recommendations, it provides an indication of quality text content -- it provides sales.

Make a mistake in the old brick and mortar days? Go change your sign. Deal with complaints through the BBB.

Make a mistake now? Sure, there's recourse. Sometimes. It's all about the algorithm. And we can't tell you what's in the algorithm, because if we did? Everybody would be gaming it. Like they are now.

The algorithm rules all.

Cross it and die.
Also relevant from 2 months ago:

"Company Makes $70M Selling Random Stuff on Amazon" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11186289

I also remember another somewhat 'recent' article about a secretive company doing what AmazonBasics is doing now but I can't locate it.
Well, in practice, probably not?

Will someone make some sort of software for it?

They probably already have, sorta.

But, for taxing specifically?

I don't think that would work very well.

In order to tax bitcoin, you would have to force transactions to include transfers of bitcoin to the decentralized government.

Afaict, this would require either changing how bitcoin works specifically to accommodate this, or using some sort of threat to get people to pay the taxes.

Bitcoiners probably wouldn't be fond of either idea.

And the second idea would, uh, require some sort of force outside of computers, which would probably be prevented by the existing state, and even if it did "work" it probably wouldn't be decentralized.

Buffoon isn't really fully anonymous, but it is anonymous enough that taxing it would be infeasible I think?

Some other cryptocurrency could be created which has taxation built in, and a voting system which determines the amount of taxes etc., but I don't think adding it on to bitcoin as an external thing is feasible, at least not without using an already existing state.
Awesome, great to hear.

Multi-label filter is coming this friday to GitLab 8.7!

The other issue will also be solved in a future release, I'll reply in detail there.
Don't fret, you've only been the victim of a loss of perspective. Others replying to you fell in the same trap.

Let's take the VW scandal as the first example.

What happened: VW lied and cheated on gas emission trials.

What happened surrounding this: cars have been improved to emit fewer gas, new hybrid vehicules have been designed, completely electrical cars are now feasible, safety equipment have been improved, new car safety mecahnism like lane change detection added...

On the whole, cars are better and better. They keep improving. The emission scandal was just that, a scandal, a lie, a cheat. Today's VW cars are still much better than they were 10 or 20 years ago. On the scale of world events, it's been given way too much weight.

The same applies to other areas. The same basic underlying rule: any system can be cheated. There will always people evading rules. That does not make the rules bad, not the normal mode of operation useless. Capitalism works because it give decentralized power, has some self-balancing effect of responding to supply and demand, etc. That it can be abused does not eliminates it's advantage. That we can discover scadals is a good things: abuse will always exist, and we're showing that it can be found out and exposed.

How is that bad?
F.B.I. Says It Needs Hackers to Keep Up with Tech Companies
Maybe he gets paid by the word? Well, he did say he needed the money.
Sure, it works fine if you're selective about the plastics you use, especially if you avoid using objects that were made using a mixture of different plastics.
Stunning Twitter Summary Images with Docker, PhantomJS and Unsplash
Why are big banks pulling out of investing? Is it fin tech?
Today the NYT highlighted (link below) that Goldman Sachs is one of the only banks still investing and trading heavily, and they're seeing massive loss in profitability. What is causing this? Is fin tech automating it? Is someone else moving into the space?
Link:http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/20/business/dealbook/goldman-sachss-profit-and-revenue-tumble-in-quarter.html?smprod=nytcore-ipad&smid=nytcore-ipad-share
One of the reasons I left x.ai was that I believed the leadership was deliberately misleading users, investors, and employees with false advertising and extremely inflated and skewed metrics. I am sure that the company is making great progress, because it is full of very intelligent people tackling an interesting problem. But the way they treated employees, customers and investors was unacceptable to me.
I've been using it in preparation for finishing a basement. It has both a 2D architectural drafting mode as well as a 3D mode (among several other specializations). I've hit the occasional bug but development is active - I looked at a bunch of tools before choosing this one. It's quite good..
Why can't you do it through the web interface of a company-backed IRC network? There's literally no difference there, IRC is just a protocol, you can still wrap around your own local stack with registration, email notification, fancy UI (I know UI != UX) and auto-invite system or whatnot.

I just don't get it...
The Hedonic Treadmill
I agree with most of your points (I'm one of those well-fed not-ready-for-revolution types, despite being very much a self-confessed leftie) but:

> Justin Trudeau (not bad, but ultimately unfulfilling)

I don't follow Canada very closely, but isn't it a bit early to judge his record? (Totally agree on Obama btw, but that was coming from the day he announced Biden as his running mate...)

> There's enough wealth in this world for the entire planet to live prosperously

No there isn't, really. It's growing and we're trying to figure out ways to feed everyone and help everyone, but levelling down first-world disparities wouldn't free enough resources to really level up the third world. Consumption rates are just too high all across the board. We (well, some) are trying to figure out more efficient ways of producing and consuming (solar etc) but there's a long way ahead if we really want to take billions of people out of poverty.
Sure, but we all know costs of a litigation which most sellers on Amazon can't afford - Amazon takes most of the profit, 15% default fees leave very little to normal sellers, usually under 5% as the (re-)pricing competition is now algorithmic, resembling HFT. Then if you want to have your product featured on Amazon (meaning your offer will be the default one even if it is more expensive than somebody else's), you need to contact the category manager and it's up to their discretion to decide (which reeks of a high potential of corruption/profit sharing etc). On one hand it's pretty cool you can automate price responses and very beneficial to the customer, on the other the game has an increasing risk of being rigged.
True story: an argentinian video for breast cancer autoexploration had to be filmed with a fat man because otherwise it would get banned.

Warning: In spanish and surely NSFW for someone: http://verne.elpais.com/verne/2016/04/19/articulo/1461073073...
As citizen of nordic country, I would rather kill some people than accept someone taking the independence of my nation.

Our politicians are clowns, but they are our clowns. And they care about us lot more than EU clowns or U.S. clowns. So far it looks like bigger countries tend to have less efficient and more corrupt governments. If we make some kind of world government, that might turn incredibly inefficient and corrupt. And now you have absolutely nowhere to run to.

If you are US citizen, you can small tasting of your new world order by voting in the next election like some random person over the internet tells you. Are you willing to do that?
Is there a dry-run option for this?
Three Reasons Why Buying a Home Makes Sense
How can this post have 51 points,be second on the front page and have only one comment?
This is just beautiful - lovely visualisations that make patterns in the data pop out at you. High resolution point map is at https://jasmcole.files.wordpress.com/2016/04/countrymap_nofi... - for some reason the image in the article isn't linked.

One interesting one is that London appears to be the only city in England and Wales where the inner city has higher property values than the suburbs - but we already knew that - post-industrial urban rot is taking time to heal. This also illustrates the steady growth of conurbations as the author observes - the rich one in the south-east, and the poor one in the north-west.

Also - what on earth happened in London in January 2010? That's a "market adjustment" if I've ever seen one. Perhaps a single large landlord dumped their portfolio...

At this point, London may as well be a city-state enclave.
Platform? Download Link or Get Started or..?

Seems like the site author could've done with being a touch less distracted...
> In Russia for example, it was State Capitalism under the guise of Communism.

LOL. Sorry, but that is really beyond absurd.
I suspect that autonomy plays an important role here.

For writing apps, you need only your computer. You don't have to interact with other people a lot.

For medicine, fundamental physics, you need a huge amount of resources, and you need to cooperate with lots of people.

It seems that smart people prefer complete independence.
A Wine Mogul Says Fidelity Cheated Him Out of Millions
I just don't understand this. I've used Debian and Ubuntu for many years, and I've never had to reinstall a single installation for any reason. I use packages whenever possible, and when installing unpackaged software, I use checkinstall to make a package from it. When I move to a new system or disk, I rsync the filesystem over and boot from the new disk. There is no accumulated cruft; or if there is, it's limited to e.g. tiny config files in /etc from older package versions, which aren't a problem or even noticeable.

The closest to cruft is hidden directories in my homedir from software I don't use anymore. That isn't a problem either: they don't take up much space, and it's easy to manually delete them if I ever feel like it. If not, they are compressed and deduplicated by backup software, and they're hidden by default, so who cares?
>>Patients had been infected through the sterilized scalpels and endoscopes.

For someone who had an endoscope recently, that's really scary.
What's also wild to me is that, conversely, RNA can have enzyme-like behavior [1], including catalyzing their own synthesis [2]. Both types of molecules are amazingly versatile.

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

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autocatalysis
This showcases the power of open data. Love the graphs and especially the flyover.
Do you have your sound turned down perhaps? When you hit play it kickstarts the introductory Talkie 'tour'. Hit pause to stop it!
Ount-Min Tree Sketch: Approximate Counting for NLP
I recently learned that Chronic Wasting Disease was spreading through deer in the United States, there's a map of its spread here: http://www.ct.gov/deep/cwp/view.asp?a=2700&q=323412

Apparently it's been shown that spiker monkeys can contract it but it hasn't (yet) been shown to be transmitted to humans.
In other words, consumers really like Google Apps, and the alternative apps are not desirable.

What can Google do about that?
This needs a Show HN in the title.
A toxic web: what the Victorians can teach us about online abuse
You're right that this requires well-maintained packages, and this is one of the strengths of Debian: its policies that require well-maintained packages. If you install a package that's part of Debian, you can count on it being well-maintained, as opposed to one put out by a random web site or developer, which may install but may not integrate well or clean up after itself.
Machine Learning Meets Economics, Part 2
Many of us depend on it to pay the bills, though. On the internet, to build stuff for other people to use the internet more and generate more internet related jobs...
"nonprofit" is a bit of a misnomer -- if you don't take my word for it, please check other sources like investopedia or wikipedia

I pasted investopedia already so here is wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonprofit_organization

Note "surplus revenues", and if you click that, wiki says they're basically the same as "profit" (because... surplus revenue is profit...)
Could you link to it?

EDIT: I see, https://clarifai.com/#demo.
Google places strict rules on the phone, before you are allowed to get the license to ship the Google apps with your phone. Think of things like a locked bootloader at sale, no root at sale, but also other rules.

I can even think of legal issues that might be used by Google to not endorse a phone (violating IP patents in your phone's hardware, shipping it from an embargoed country).

And even then Google might decide your phone isn't worthy of their apps and not give you the license.

It's more that the Google Play store has such a marketshare (monopoly) that it can make or break a competitor's phone, which I think is what the EU is challenging here.