skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I, for one, studied both history and philosophy in undergrad/grad school. I find it very illuminating to anchor philosophy in a thorough understanding of its historical context. In fact, I find this informative in other fields, as well—economics, literature, textual analysis, science, etc.

That said, philosophy courses in university include a lot of historical survey because there's value in historically positioning schools of thoughts and their development across many philosophers who could be separated by culture and time, but nonetheless engage the same topic. Particularly in the Western tradition, it is fairly trivial to chronologically trace ideas through teachers and students, from one pivotal thinker to another, to the current state of Western thought. This at least helps students understand how we arrived to the present day, which I think is valuable.

Incorporating non-western philosophy would certainly make for a very positive increased coverage of human ideas, and could offer some interesting and challenging opportunities for philosophy students. There still needs to be a way to situate the information for students to grasp. Without including historical and cultural context, you could invite students to directly engage the texts and ideas alone, absent context, and produce their own comparative analysis of complementary and opposing arguments/conclusions. It could be interesting to present texts in a blind fashion, omitting identifying information about a philosopher, and see what students make of the texts without the bias of knowing where it came from historically and culturally.

While I agree it is beneficial to approach and study ideas based on their merits, and integrate non-western thought into philosophy courses that are centered on specific ideas, I think there is still value in some amount of segmentation to avoid overwhelming students. A survey of Middle Eastern and Eastern philosophy is just as valuable and informative as a survey of Western. They could all be required of philosophy majors, I think. We already have segmentation by topic, and could more easily integrate non-western thought that way.

Somewhat related, my own graduate experience led me to realize that professors and departments are very resistant to teaching, incorporating, or even approving research into anything that is outside their identified areas of expertise. This is, I think, a likely additive reason for why any given topic X doesn't make it into an academic department that is ostensibly focused on the field topic X fits into.
No, I think they are needed. The .com namespace is crowded, it's really hard to find a nice, short domain name, as pretty much everything under 6 characters has been bought up.

If we can get older blogs and new blogs onto the .blog namespace, then this will free up .com for what it was intended for; companies.
I don't think it was foreseen when license plates were created the harmful use case of having a cop at every street corner with photographic memory and accurate speed measuring abilities who occasionally notes cars down for speeding / running a red light and who is networked with every other cop all working together reporting on such-and-such car now at position x,y while a team at HQ is constantly updating large maps with tacks showing the last known location of car x,y. Agree that the modern tech equivalent of the above has already been happening to various extents. Indeed we're fast approaching a time when we'll have enough sensors-of-all-sorts penetration to be able to track the whereabouts of anything of interest worldwide -- the underlying geospatial tech to make that scale already exists.
You can't park in peace in NY. They hired h1b traffic officers too, I've heard the Americans traffic officers weren't aggressive enough.
Pinnes tabs solve that, actually. Whenever I hit a Facebook link or whatever it just switches to and navigates the Facebook tab to the URL. This is an awesome feature and probably singelhandedly responsible for cutting my tab count by the tens anyway. Still not enough, but definitely a step in the right direction.
Can they do it in the dark?
We still have the Marinas trench!
We have to really make an effort to contaminate that!
Yes, from the perspective of the defender it's better.
I am only saying, that for the attacker, it only means winning less, as opposed to not winning.
Tech hiring is broken so how can I find a new job?
I'm a senior front-end developer at my current job. I'm tired of working here but having trouble finding a new job. I have 8 years of experience, which includes having done some fullstack stuff with PHP in the past. I'm obviously qualified to be a senior front-end dev because uh.. I AM one... Problem is I don't have a CS degree and the interviews that I go on ask me questions about algorithms and data structures that I have trouble with. It seems a bit silly to me since these questions usually don't have much to do with frontend development (do backend devs get asked about how they would implement a mobile-first responsive design using CSS3 and HTML5?) but whatevs... it is what it is.

I'm planning on hitting the books (and coursera ) to brush up on this stuff, but I'd love to know if anyone else out there running into this same issue? If so, how are you coping with it?
I see you have a much greater trust and respect for government than I

I am a libertarian, I view 99% of government as immoral and unethical
Oh shit, true. My mistake. Sorry!
Ask HN: How to you share url with your team?
There are many tools to share url publicly or store/bookmark privately. But how do you share url with a a team or team members?
Just had to chime in and say thank you for such an amazing two games. Loving Uncharted 4 so far. I know you worked on mostly NPC AI, but this is the most beautiful game I've played and my PS4 sounds like it's about to die.
That is true - but I believe that extraction and refining is a much bigger contributor to oil's footprint, compared to coal's. It is also far more variable.

To turn a barrel of tar sands oil into gasoline, for example, adds another ~230 pounds of CO2 to the atmosphere - in addition to the emissions from burning it. That's ~40 pounds/million BTU.

It almost costs us more energy to mine and refine tar sands oil, then we get out of burning it.
Amusing, for sure, but I'm fairly certain the cops driving yellow cabs don't actually take any fares.

I've also seen uniformed cops driving those cabs before.
This sounds like yet another "sky is falling, Apple is doomed" article. The same type I've been seeing since the early 90's.
Isn't the assumption that smoking laws should apply to vaping moving the goalposts?
Just curious... what is everyone using scrapers for?

I've done a lot of work scraping various sites and I can tell you this: basing any product on your ability to aggregate data via scraping will not work in the long run.

Eventually you will be asked not to scrape and then you'll get sued if you don't stop.

Case law is not in your favor here. See Craigslist Vs. 3Taps.
Let me sum up my feelings towards this: neat!
Gotta love the subqueries and the join command! Makes everything nicer!
1. flagging != downvote

2. let YouTube take care of that
No, not at all. Last of Us was very good and a lot of fun, but it wasn't a masterpiece (IMHO). If I were to compare it to Uncharted (for example), I wouldn't say it was wildly better.

When I say the game disappointed me, I only mean in relation to the hype at the time. Some people have gone as far as calling Last of Us the Citizen Cane of gaming.
Hard to see them catching up since we don't see a trend over time.

Very curious about why people believe the cost differential between SF and, for instance, Austin, hasn't driven more business to Austin to reach equilibrium, and why SF continues to be so dominant compared to the others.
Newly independent QuickBase seeks low-code software
I don't see why you got downvoted. I 100% agree with you. It was simply not necessary. If you go around the web, even to large, reputable news sites, it seems more and more people are opting to not think about language and use whatever word first pops into their mind. To me, it's not about shock or ego boosting, it's simply mental laziness.
> ... while everyone else were thinking like geeks willing to sacrifice usability for a "imagine if.." ideal of devices that were ultimately quite unfulfilling.

As someone who was there on the consumer side, with an HTC Wizard bought in 2006 -- the year before the iPhone was released -- I completely agree with this. I did make the sacrifice of usability, because having the Internet accessible everywhere on a touchscreen was awesome. I didn't understand the iPhone either. From the perspective of the hackfest that was Windows Mobile 5/6, I saw a very limited and locked down device.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTC_Wizard
Depends on your Definition of "innocent" and crime

Since I do not get my ethics or morality from the government or law I do not view simply breaking one of the millions of laws as criminal, a crime to me has to have a complaining victim, no victim no crime.

Thus the state enforcing the thousands of victim-less crimes, or even crimes "against the state" are immoral, and unethical.

Further I find the governments use of ALPR data to build massive on going databases that are used for government and private uses to be offensive.

It is sad you do not
In cases where the attacker is strapped for cash, and the defender is not, $300 could be far more relative value to the attacker than $10k is to the defender.
Priest Accused of Sexual Abused Finds Work at Teen Pregnancy Center
Tipping is too personal and needs to go in general. I think tipping does lead to classism, racism, and an overall awkward experience. Going to other countries where tipping is not expected is really refreshing. I vote to pay more than to be put into a tipping situation.
We hear about state-level actors hacking into computer systems but the allegation here is that they managed to hack into sealed urine bottles. It seems like no system safe in the face of sufficient money and manpower.
'renewables' made of rare earth minerals. Which are more toxic to the environment to mine, refine, and manufacture than traditional energy sources.
Oh right. That's for disk_only shards. Regular shards use the disk log and those don't have a limit if I remember correctly.
Google's Irish datacenter does not even need the cooling since it never gets that warm in Ireland and in an unlikely case it did you can just shut down servers for that few hours of unexpected summer.
Haha oh I know. Tell a client, "Yeah this is the data, it says this, BUT this is also how its wrong" and they always ignore the last part. Its data, that stuff can't be wrong!
HDD Shipments Down 20% in Q1 2016, Hit Multi-Year Low
Ask HN: Golang :how do i handle index out of range error?
I am writing a CLI interface program in Go.my program requires a user to enter a filename as an argument . following is the code I wrote to handle the situations in which user doesn't enter any argument . but it panics and gives an error "index out of range".how do I handle this?

if len(os.Args) == 0 {
fmt.Println("usage: gohex <filename>")

os.Exit(1)
}
How about Los Angeles?
Refreshing attitude! Nicely put. Midlands here, and while I always want more 'stuff', reality is I'm quite steady. Still, happy to try new projects a few times a year just in case.
Yeah, I'm basically the worst because I use a blocker so other people can't track me, but I love tracking them.

I've been using Yesware, but no way am I paying for it. I'll give RocketBolt a shot, thanks.
Israel's shot a bunch of projectiles out of the air after detecting and calculating their trajectory in flight.

What makes smaller projectiles much harder?
Again I'm not really seeing your point. One goes about in public "openly and notoriously" as the legal jargon goes. It is expected that one's face would be recognized.
HyperDev: deployment, hosting and collaborative editing for web apps
Capital and government aren't enemies. Government is the thing that supports the relations that give capital power. However, government is in a balancing act between the working class and the capitalist class. Government is not in conflict with capital, government is the mediating body that balances the conflicts of capitalism.

Calling the Wobblies the lunatic fringe is accepting propaganda uncritically. The labor movement, and the IWW was a key institution of the labor movement, was radical, but not fringe and has been persistently defamed for decades.

> Taxation is (ab)used, IMO, to promote normative ideas far too much. It should simply be a way to pay for government, nothing more, nothing less.

What is the role of government? Everything the government does is normative.

> This is doable, with tools from economics but using norms to derive other norms is a good way to end up with entangled and bizarro systems. Just getting people to agree on Coase's interpretation of externalities seems nearly impossible. We have partial technocracy, with ideological shims rather than stern empirical underpinnings.

You are being far too optimistic believing there could be a technocracy without ideology. That kind of thinking only can give you a blind spot for your own ideology. Technocracy these days usually means the kind promulgated by neoliberalism, but it has also been pushed as part of authoritarian command economies like the USSR. What exactly is a "full" technocracy supposed to be?

> Just getting people to agree on Coase's interpretation of externalities seems nearly impossible.

And irrelevant. Coase theorem only applies when transaction costs are minimal. They are not minimal in real life. They can't be. Coase theorem theoretically nice and practically useless. Coase's most substantial contribution to economic theory is how people organize in the presence of transaction costs, not how nice everything would be without them.
That loophole has been reduced to 90 days now and new bill has been introduced to require new passenger cars to be issued with a temp license plate just like many other states do.[1]

[1]: http://www.ktvu.com/news/4680503-story
I tend to have the same browsing habits and it was a huge drain on my resources until I started using OneTab. It's a Chrome extension that saves all your tabs on a window and lets you reopen them all at once or one at a time whenever.

If you're still using Chrome give it a shot & hopefully it helps! https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/onetab/chphlpgkkbo...
Then I can easily parallelize existing code without touching anything?
Netflix Could See Margin Gains from $2 Rate Increase
My car was stolen right before we shot my Kickstarter video
Does Australian count as non-western, in which case Armstrong's contributions debunk the entire article?! Joking aside, I don't really know of a lineage or pedigree for a major active research area that is non-western, but I am not and was not active in the history of philosophy.

Philosophers working in metaphysics and especially causation are aware of Pearl, and the literature on causation in Philosophy is very large, old, and active. It is also clear that Pearl is also aware of the literature in Philosophy on causation and conditionals as he does cite people like Robert Stalnaker and David Lewis.

However, there is a slight difference in concerns on the topic of causation/causality. Philosophers are usually interested in providing a reductive account of causation by providing necessary and sufficient conditions for causation, as apposed to modelling known causal structures to predict what interventions might have on novel systems. That said I do know that L.A. Paul, Ned Hall, Hitchcock, and Menzies have done some work trying to incorporate the insights from the causal modelling approach done by Pearl and colleagues.

Some links in case you want to explore further. Standard Encyclopedia of Philosophy is an amazing free resource if you want to look something up:

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/causation-metaphysics/

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/meaning/
Show HN: Chext – a shell utility to change file extensions
My throwaway account is as anonymous as yours. I use it because it's been logged in in Chrome for the last five years and I'm lazy. I don't see how "JTxt" differs from "thrownaway2424"
Is this the best titanx option out there?
I am appalled at how unseriously 7-zip seems to take security.

The changelog only says "Some bugs were fixed", with no mention that there are serious security flaws. The homepage doesn't mention any vulnerability.

The installer is not signed, downloads are over HTTP only, and there is no hash available neither on the homepage or on the forum announcement linked from the homepage (the latter is served over HTTPS so it would be a reasonable option); thankfully you can dig around Sourceforge downloads to find a SHA-1 automatically generated by Sourceforge. So I can personally verify the integrity of downloads, assuming Sourceforge can still be trusted, but 99% of users won't do this, and more worryingly it's a strong signal that the developers may not understand or value security very much: you have to wonder if maybe they're not themselves downloading unsigned software over HTTP all the time.
The (management or computer) algorithm is likely designed to cut down on pornography and/or "offensive content"; the correlation of the terms bi, lesbian, or gay as metadata to explicit images is likely to be large on a visual platform. If anything is offensive, it's the quickness to jump to "I'm offended by logical explanations and I refuse to come up with practical solutions." Which is to say, I believe that the claim was infantile and deliberatively obtuse. Obviously it wasn't meant as a slight against sexual identity and if you want things to be better, get to work and stop complaining (which is unlikely to happen because complaining is easy and fixing things is hard).

Sometimes a cute riposte or simple response is all that's needed to defuse absurdity. Debating with someone plainly calling everyone racist and sexist isn't likely to bear fruit.

I wish we could get to a state in which the professionally offended would stop wasting others' time and encouraging this doublespeak-nonsense game -- there's only so many minutes in the day and we both wasted daylight on this.
What do you think the rest of it means? According to Wikipedia[1], the phrase "ruchnoy protivotankovy granatomyot" means "hand-held anti-tank grenade launcher".

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocket-propelled_grenade
Ask HN: GUIs on embedded linux, oh my
By day I am not an embedded developer; by night I'm trying to be. I have an i.MX6 (solo) based device that I ultimately intend to sell in [very] small quantities for a niche market. In other words, this is closer to a hobby than an actual business.

One of the requirements is a very attractive and responsive UI. Based on my research Qt seems the best fit, but its LGPL restrictions and very expensive commercial license makes it almost impossible for me to choose. Qt wants $6,600 up front plus royalties and afterwards a subscription for support. I'm just a guy trying to build a thing... I can't afford that!

Trying to look for alternatives has been frustrating. The practicality of HTML5 on my platform isn't sure to me. To real embedded linux developers out there, please tell me what you use for your GUIs? It needs to be something of similar quality to a car infotainment system.
Python 3 fan myself, but there are two things I've heard from colleagues:

1. More modules for Python2 than Python3. A lot of projects are forced to go down to Python2 to allow them to use the modules they want to use.
2. It's what they're familiar with. Generally the older developers like using Python2 because they know all what they're getting, no matter what strings are attached.
3. Better syntax. Apparently some people enjoy the Python2 syntax more than the Python3 one. Not using brackets for print statements seem to be the biggest plus, even though in my opinion it looks more Pythonic.
SHTORA is a an old shrapnel system and it causes a lot of collateral damage to infantry around as it was found in Afghanistan war and soldiers (not tankists :) disliked it.
True, but I think that with rails and a few dozen gems one can bolt together a terribly architected app that on the surface seems to work but is in fact a bunch of spaghetti and lasagna code bolted together with duct tape, teetering on the edge of a cliff like a house of cards; checkmate.

(sorry, couldn't help the futurama/zap branigan reference once I start mixing metaphors).
>I don't think it was foreseen when license plates were created the harmful use case of having a cop at every street corner with photographic memory and accurate speed measuring abilities who occasionally notes cars down for speeding (...)

That's not a harmful use case. That's an efficient implementation of the intended use case.
I had various issues with that combo, and also didn't like the repetition of VIRTUAL_HOST and LETSENCRYPT_HOST, so I combined the docker-gen and letsencrypt portion[1]. Still BYO nginx.

I also wrote a tool for deploying and managing static servers and application servers during development[2][3], but it's not ready for a Show HN yet. But the idea is ...

b3cmd --project foo static-scaffold
b3cmd --project foo static-put public/ /

... and you'll have a docker-compose project accessible at "foo--master.example.com" and a static server at "foo--master--static.example.com", all HTTPS ready.

[1]: https://github.com/mikew/docker-gen-letsencrypt

[2]: https://github.com/mikew/b3cmd

[3]: https://github.com/mikew/b3cmd-server
The problem with anything that can solve complicated rules and changes to them is that it can really help perpetuate the use of complicated rules. :-(
A couple of things offhand:

- It has Python 2 and 3 support

- It's a wrapper for the Python built-in "multiprocessing" library

- It spreads out work over all cores (so the abstraction hides the ability to control the pool)

Seems like a great way to get your feet wet with multiprocessing in Python, but it likely has limited use in production...although certain infrastructures like resource limited containers might be able to accommodate it.
BTW: does anyone know of a lightweight, retro "hit counter" that can grab my GA stats and display them at the bottom?
Agreed. You're going to be sitting in a scrappy office for the next 5-10 years of your life, why does "quality of life" matter? You're not there to retire.

I do care about conveniences like access to instacart / uber / maid services / munchery though, as I don't have time to do any of that stuff since I'm working all the time.
The fuel itself (reserves in the ground) is the largest component of that "stranded asset", right?
This is such a good post about:

a. how the internet archive is building its political archive

b. proving to other cultural heritage institutions that they can get their act together and preserve culture today and make it relevant today

Ok, so Ted Cruz ads are a particular part of culture, but bravo.

I used to work at The New York Public Library's Labs and we had to fight to do anything with anything that wasn't blatantly in the public domain. Meanwhile, one of my colleagues there, Leonard Richardson, would go off and create massive archives like the Minecraft Geological Survey (http://mcgs.crummy.com/#mcgs) in the evenings.

Seriously, we need more folks working in these big organizations that are very good at surviving for more than a hundred years, acting as arks of human culture, that can collect and make useful today's materials. It's just our ability to remember today at stake.
When I lived in Palo alto I kept dealer plates on for three years

You meant the special plate with "DLR" embossed vertically on the left?