skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Regarding the meat packing plant, I'm not really sure what the objection is so I'll have to let you explain why someone might object to it. Do they put off some smell? Make a lot of noise? In both of those cases the smell or the noise would be seen as a trespass onto the neighbors' properties.

The rifle range is the same story. The new noise would be considered a trespass on existing neighbor's properties.

Regarding the hoarders, whatever the thing threatening neighboring properties (rodents, smells, diseases) would be considered a trespass.

Once someone has legitimate claim upon a property, they have the right to enjoy that property in the manner in which they obtained it. A lot of the protections of enjoyment of property that people seek through additional legislation would be built in if the laws held greater respect for property rights to begin with.
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Go to http://www.truthcontest.com , read the top entries, and spread the truth. This will blow your mind. As said in the books, the truth is like water, and it will slip through your fingers.
The "cold and lack of oxygen"? How about just altitude sickness?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altitude_sickness
> Until you've absorbed the rhythm and the literary style

also reading outloud helps

i used to tell people the first one will take you two months, the second one will take you two weeks, and the third one will take you two days

i meant it as playful encouragement but i think it may have put some people off

also, i just like taking more time with texts than it takes me to read them

it took me two weeks to read the first sentence of basho's oku no hosomichi:

"moon and sun are passing figures of countless generations and years coming or going wanderers too"
If you had no ego, you would just say Mandelbrot set. If Mandelbrot had no ego, he would have just called it "calculate z_{n+1} = z_n²+1 for each point repeatedly; color it black if it converges...".

Ponder this. Without ego, there is no judgement. And no judgement of those who judge. The cycle breaks.
Considering that some have climbed Mount Everest (29k feet, and requiring much more physical exertion) without supplementary oxygen, it doesn't seem too far-fetched.
That's patently untrue. The very notion of justice is built upon revenge. To say modern justice systems aren't based on it is to say they float in the air, founded upon nothing.

Citation needed. »Justifications for punishment include retribution, deterrence, rehabilitation, and incapacitation.« [1] Note that retribution is not revenge and that retribution is probably the most controversial justification for legal punishment. [2] What good does it do, whom does it help?

Well, yes, it is eminently sensible in many situations to obtain nuclear weapons for your country. That doesn't mean I have to support them doing so, as it is not necessarily in MY interest for them to do so, even if it is in their own interest.

Why would it not be in your interest unless you want to attack that other country? You argued that not having nuclear weapons increases the risk of being attacked, so more nuclear weapons should reduce the likelihood of armed conflicts which in turn means a more stable world which benefits everyone (besides weapons manufacturers and the like).

Our domination of the planet suggests this is the case.

How does that follow? The dominant species on a planet can certainly be benevolent. I grant you that humanity had and probably always will have a fair share of assholes and that they are good at getting into influential positions, but without good additional arguments I wilt not grant you that it is a fundamental aspect of humans that will forever prevent us from living together in peace. We certainly still have to go a long way, but we also have already come a long way.

No, it's not.

If you don't have nuclear weapons you increase the risk of being attacked, you should really consider getting some.

If you wear sexy cloths (not wear non-sexy cloths) you increase the risk of being rapped, you should really consider getting some non-sexy cloths.

A dictator cannot gain power without the support of a large segment of the population.

A coup d'état does neither require the participation nor the support of a large fraction of the population.

Yes. It is immoral not to resist evil.

That is a bold statement. How far does that go? If I see someone pointing a gun at somebody, should I try to intervene even if it is likely that I don't stand a chance? Is it my moral obligation to travel to North Korea and try to topple regime?

What does that have to do with the price of tea in China?

You argued that the people are responsible for the actions of their leaders. It is admittedly not the best analogy but wouldn't it similarly follow that a mother is responsible for the actions of her child?

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

[2] http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/legal-punishment/
I think they mentioned the weather because it's relevant to his reputation as a legendary live performer and it's part of a great story. [1] There's something almost magical about incredible live performances. I can't really describe it, but sometimes a show has the perfect mix of emotion and artistry and it's completely mesmerizing to be a part of, even as a spectator. Participating in that moment bonds millions of people together in a small way. Even if they have nothing else in common, they were able to experience that together. Prince's Superbowl performance was one of those moments.

[1] http://www.maxim.com/entertainment/prince-2007-super-bowl-pe...
Python, because of two reasons:
1. The syntax is very clean and readable.
2. Availability of libraries for almost every task.
> The viewpoint I meant is the technical

My objection was also a technical one: Haskell doesn't give you access to the physical identity of any runtime object that isn't a reference cell (`IORef`, `STRef`, `MVar`, `TVar`, etc.).

> (and performance-centric) one

The ability to pass around arbitrarily complicated values in O(1) time is an intrinsic part of Haskell's cost model. This is the most natural thing in the world, unless you've lived all your life subordinating values to object identities, in which case, yes, non-destructively transferring a value from one object identity to another (aka “deep cloning”) might be an arbitrarily expensive operation.
NASA's previous X-Plane initiative seemed to end without making any substantial change to civil (non-military) aviation.

We could really use small jets out here in sparsely-populated Western USA. Eclipse Aviation got very close, then ran out of money. How much money would be required to start them up again?

We need new engines. My 1966 Cessna 172 required leaded AV gas, which is as rare -- and as damaging -- as the tears from a weeping unicorn.

Why invest in supersonic transport? We need low-end disruption, not high-end incremental improvements.
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In the first version we learn and discover, edits and rewrites.

In the second version we build with symmetry and regularity.

We need both versions, and in the second we drop some corner cases to make things crystalline. It is important to recognize the things we drop and why, sometimes they are important, but the purity of the construction takes precedent. And sometimes the corner cases are the thing, without them the chandelier would cast no light.

Anyway, I don't know where I am going with this. Small, playful, understandable systems are the most informative. We need playful, useful models that can be used for experimentation in a momentum free way. And it is important not to suffocate the future with exhaustive engineering. Recognize the is.
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Also, they would be liable for the employee's behavior. Which is terrible, economically.
Another important performance issue is related to Java's handling about generic type erasure and auto boxing. This is one of the biggest design issue comparing with C#'s handling. So manipulating bytes is a pain. And there is even no unsigned byte. Benchmark does not represent real world use case. I don't feel Java is much faster than Python or Ruby. But there is too much boilerplate code comparing with C#. The pure Java language is clean. But with Spring framework and various Apache common, endless different logging framework, it makes the language such a hassle to deal with. Just my 2 cents.
Are you accusing me of posting an accusation?
Who on earth is carrying cash? I'll give one stars to any driver asking for tips in cash.
From no experience to teaching web dev at a bootcamp after three months? one year later offered roles by Google and Airbnb for $250k a year? Is this truly possible?
It was a good night... I skipped that article as I avoid unnecessary negativity on subjects I already know about. To heck with a depressing piece, ya know? Then, I click on the link to find Pieter wrote it and is about to die. I hoped I'd meet him one day as some awesome project or paper of insights would come out of it. Couldn't be any other way with him as his work was like the enterprise version of Bernstein: series of techs balancing effectiveness, correctness, and speed unusually well. His work was a steady set of attempts at The Right Thing mindset with quite some impact.

I'll miss him. (sighs) Wrote that here in case he sees the higher ranked article. He said he didn't want negativity. ;)
Not all companies look for short term profits over long term viability. Why exit at all?
I've seen many implementations of this exact thing, the basic ones are just sha1 or sha2(master + website domain) which generates a unique "password" for each site. This is just another implementation of the same idea. I've seen a few releases of simple scripts that do this for you as well, some work as bookmarklets, browser extensions, or single-page app websites.

Visionary being a Python script I think makes it less portable, harder to use for average users, and definitely not mobile-device friendly.
> My name is Dave in every language

No it most likely is not. For one it is a short form of the name David, so it has already been mangled, and then like any other written word will change how it is written to attempt to show the sounds in the written rules of that language. This can lead to additions of letters or some very strange changes to the spelling of the name.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_%28name%29

"Hebrew: דָּוִד, Modern David, Tiberian Dāwîḏ ... In Christian tradition, the name was adopted as Syriac: ܕܘܝܕ‎ Dawid, Greek Δαυίδ, Latin Davidus. The Quranic spelling is داوُد Dāwūd."

So just around the Mediterranean, where the name originated, we have (in the English alphabet) Dawid, David, Davidus, Dawud. All for the same name.
The fact is that before the JVM has a chance to optimize the code, the app already restarted by the user unless it is some long running server process. On the server side, JVM is so heavy, normally there is only 1-2 heavy JVM running for web server and database driver on the entire machine. On the client side, Java is a joke. Though users now have more choices: Swing, AWT, JavaFx. Every one of these is hard to use comparing with C# or Qt. Most native platform developers hate Java, including OSX developers.
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That's possible. The only issue would be the mixing I mentioned. Serious comments often get joke replies and vice versa. But yes I would like to see that tried.
Baking OpenVPN into the browser doesn't seem like a horrible idea.
Good references. On the side, seeing as most of what is the internet started here (packet switching and ARPANET), and there were hacker BBSs and pirated material before Pirate Bay, I'd say we were not behind in any of these trends. And go further back to the invention of the transistor in NJ, USA, mate ;)
Not OP - I was on slashdot back in the day and I did enjoy the reason for the moderation on the post. I'm also a bit convinced that the rule you could moderate a discussion or post in it but not both made for an interesting dynamic. The moderate the moderator was nice too.

Downvotes do come in many forms, twitter didn't have downvotes until they added lists, then lists became a way to downvote.
I think they figured they can extract that via market terms, such as bonuses for those driving X+ hours weekly (where X is a fairly large number) or never-ending chain of orders in UberPool.
> Here, if someone gets my master password all is lost.

Not true. They'd need to know your keywords, which don't necessarily have to be "github" or "facebook" -- e.g., you could choose a consistent pattern, yielding "git##hub" and "face##book".
ahah, always keep a scientist mind, right? that's why you downvoted :D keep it up, scientist :)
I argued against that position at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11557949

See also http://slatestarcodex.com/2015/07/22/freedom-on-the-centrali...
Like pretty much everything else in life, most riders and drivers have a preference that gets most of their usage.
Yeah..The fiber in rural is fascinating. It is part of a national push to spur economic development in rural areas. We now need more nerds in the countryside as I still find myself explaining what fiber is! You can build a custom $300,000 home here that is 3500 sq ft on one-fourth acre.
Much of what he writes about requires, I think, experience in the 'real world' in order to understand and relate to te play. In high school I couldn't understand why Hamlet dithers; what kind of hero feigns insanity and procrastinates? Heroes, everyone knows, charge right at the Death Star and the only question is whether he'll use the battle computer or the Force.

Sometimes I wondered, are these just random ravings of a lunatic? I could be bounded in a nut shell and count myself a king of infinite space, were it not that I have bad dreams.

Now I understand it and his genius is a a pleasure, an education in humanity, and a wonder to behold. But perhaps it's wasted in high school. Another problem is that there are so few good films of his plays, so people don't have a chance to see well-done versions of them. Some of the films are so poorly produced and such wooden film-making that I'm afraid they will scare people away.
Javascript, I know there will be many haters, my reasons are

* it runs on so many devices, browsers, servers, mobile, IoT, what's next...

* large community of developers

* huge number of available modules

* decent performance (and improving with things like asm)

* so many languages compile to it

I think it is important to think not only of where the language is today, but where it will be in 10 years or more. Sure there are issues with Javascript, their are issues with NPM, etc, etc, but with the huge body of developers working on javascript and the javascript ecosystem, I suspect these will continue to be worked out.

Javascript devs have a bit of a cavalier attitude at the moment (I'm one), but I think/hope that over the coming years we will work out the existing issues and make javascript a more respected language.
I really liked the read but I kinda agree, he seemed to make the same or similar point paragraph after paragraph.
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Well, democracy answers this by asking people directly. So one way to do it is poll the sub's members. Or, you could see whether the stuff that gets deleted was highly voted before it was deleted. If people don't like certain content, it won't get voted up.

I'm not sure which cases of hostile takeovers they're referring to, so I don't know what happened there, but presumably they either had a mod on their side, or got an admin to step in. The mod's behavior must have been pretty bad if an admin intervened.
> we're trying to take a stronger stance on harassment

Do you believe it's possible for Anti-GG people as well as GG people to harass?

I ask because the prevailing culture at Twitter and Github is that harassment only comes from one direction: from white men. They don't want to act on claims of "reverse-discrimination".

However, many other people like myself believe that there is an equal or greater amount of harassment and threats from the Social Justice world.

I'm genuinely interested to know your attitude about this.
A great write-up on his theory of model-driven development and the tech that underpinned most of iMatix:

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&c...

Their website is a slide-show demonstrating their amazing work:

http://www.imatix.com/

Generating servers from state machines and such:

http://hintjens.com/blog:75

SMT kernel for portable, multi-threaded, fast code:

http://legacy.imatix.com/html/smt/

Web server (old and new)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xitami
http://xitami.wikidot.com/main:start

One of best middleware ever
http://zeromq.org/
Personally the bigger message for me is that as time changes, all things change with time. As long as you're working to achieve your vision, you'll adapt with time, fashioning events in favor of your vision, and with a little luck will be able to meet success head on.

Good luck to you, keep working on it. :)
Yea, that makes this approach useless.
Tribute to Hintjens' great work and ideas. Man is like the Bernstein of enterprise software with great balance of unconventional design, correctness, performance, and innovation. Here's a list of some of his work for those interested:

A great write-up on his theory of model-driven development and the tech that underpinned most of iMatix:

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&c....

Their website is a slide-show demonstrating their amazing work:

http://www.imatix.com/

Generating servers from state machines and such:

http://hintjens.com/blog:75

SMT kernel for portable, multi-threaded, fast code:

http://legacy.imatix.com/html/smt/

Web server (old and new) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xitami http://xitami.wikidot.com/main:start

One of best middleware ever http://zeromq.org/
> healthy, positive communities

It sounds like therapy. it will attract people looking to be fixed.
Oops, missed this comment. If anyone is reading still reading this...

To be honest, I don't know. I think it is possible to get a lot of information out of a single drop of blood. But there are issues with sampling--blood from the capillaries in my finger is very different from blood coming back from my intestine.

Maybe more fundamentally: a lot of "interesting" things are specific proteins. These can be at extremely low concentration--on the order of nanomolar all the way down to femtomolar. It's very difficult to amplify such a signal -- DNA is easy to amplify but proteins are not. At such low levels, the wrong drop of blood may have a dramatically different meaning, due to stochastic effects.
Got it. Thank you for the response! It's always helpful to be able to learn more from all other platforms. We do require community leaders to enter a reason whenever they remove a post or comment, ban someone, etc., and the OP is always notified of the reason (and soon we'll be adding it so that it's visible if you have a link to the removed post/comment as well).

That's really interesting about the decision to be able to moderate or post but not both. One thing we're doing in order to be able to help with moderating the moderator is that soon there will be a public leader log that shows what actions leaders have taken in their community and why they did it, so that people can see how their leaders are behaving. Hopefully as we grow we'll be able to add more tools that help leaders manage their communities and help the communities manage their leaders. :)
> You might not think it's a problem, but it's still a problem for Reddit: the conversation is generally inferior to the standards required for it to see mass adoption.

Uhm, what? Low quality comments have never been a barrier for a website reaching mass adoption. In fact, mass adoption has been what has crippled the discussion in the biggest subredits. In any case, when discussing the quality of the comments, mass adoption is beside the point as far as we (average users that have no financial stake in reddit) are concerned.
It's a cute name but there is existing Research that relates to this issue which calls it "the thundering herd problem" so I would recommend the one you can actually search for without problems.
Drawing with two fingers.qp2qp app
We'll probably take the "positive" part out. But if people want to come here looking for help, that's totally fine! We already have some support groups started.
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Arguing about the definition of a word is a huge red flag that a discussion is going nowhere. Sadly a lot of philosophy seems to be basically arguing about words.

>Do black holes exist? Electrons? Magnetic fields?

Yes. I mean we might not know what they are exactly or how they work, but they are clearly real phenomena that we can observe. In the same sense, "twoness" is a real property that a set of objects can have.
Thanks for all the input! We're pretty young and still figuring out how to talk about ourselves and present ourselves to the world, and we'll be refining things as we go.
I think an apocalypse[1] will bring out what's in people not their best or worst just what they really are. I think of the apocalypse as being the big dark[2] that allows you to see people's true character.

As to survival kits, I tend to think that combining the standard survival kit for winter in the northland with the basics a person would take deer hunting and fishing would probably go a long way.

1) short term disasters are a bit different but a lot of madness tends to hit - see all the rioting in mini-disaster scenarios

2) Character is what you are in the dark. - Dwight L. Moody
Their contributions to crypto software, as controversial as they may be, would exceed 3 arguments alone.

And as much as a lot of us here (myself included) think they're a net negative on the world, that doesn't mean they don't come with positives. They may not catch all threats but it's highly doubtful they catch none.

I'd wager that if you broke it down to the core elements, people aren't against the NSA but against the techniques they use: lack of transparency, gag orders, mass surveillance, etc.

And just to give you an actual third separate argument, the NSA existing keeps security in check. The threat of an entity that turns theoretical attacks into actual attacks means you can't get away with the "it'll never happen" excuse when building a secure system.
That's cool; maybe it'll be a niche area for you.
I agree with some of these. Further, I found the stuff people said about him in the parent comments even more fun to read. Just goes to show how powerful his work is and how thoughtful is his style.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11520888
He's this guy:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11558468

Plenty links so you can all learn from and enjoy his work. :)
People are infinitely fascinated by scarcity.
In fact, the very ideologies we consider "detrimental to society", to put it lightly, e.g. Nazism, Communism, were "detrimental" because one tenet of those ideologies involved banning ideologies which it considers could lead to detrimental outcomes for society.

It doesn't really matter what the ideology believes, the only thing that matters is what the ideology advises its adherents to do, or not do, to people who do not adhere to the same ideology.

A government of egalitarians intent on censoring, torturing and quartering every racist and sexist it can find, en mass, is no different to the evil that was Nazi Germany.
> Journals are expensive, but they're not _that_ expensive.

https://mako.cc/fun/overpricetags/

Would $25,888/yr for a single journal not count as '_that_ expensive'?

But I agree they're not likely a tuition driver. After all, institutions can simply drop subscriptions: they don't do much for attracting students compared to facilities.
The ability to overthrow a dictator has worked in non-computer situations.

I'm a bit curious, is there a stated definition of harassment that you've agreed to?