skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Using cold Reason to examine what is actually True in the universe, we cannot tenably begin by assuming we must survive.

In short, Moral Realism holds that moral properties exist mind-independently and Moral Anti-Realism denies this saying they're all just subjective inventions in our head. Empiricists, if they are to hold logically consistent conceptions about the universe, must hold some form of Moral Anti-realism because they lack evidence of mind-independent moral properties (though taking the comments on this story as an indicator they are generally unaware of this).

Hume goes beyond the moral nihilism of Empiricism by saying (1) given that humans insist and are positive moral properties exist and (2) given that Empiricism shows us no evidence of mind-independent moral properties existing and never can due to Is-Ought then (3) the only way that these moral properties actually meaningfully exist is if they were based on a Supreme Being, not subject to dismissal by Empiricism. Otherwise they don't exist at all. From this a lot of people (like Marquis de Sade and his Sadism) took that they didn't exist at all and this is the primary subject human art, culture, and politics has been interacting with since then.
It's a very strange interpretation, especially given that there is a strong body of historical sociology on exactly this question. I'm thinking primarily of Orlando Patterson's _Slavery and Social Death_ - which would suggest that while Native Americans could potentially escape back to their people, African slaves had a much harder time alone, which was precisely the slavers' plan.
That's one use case, but far more common is reducing latency and increasing bandwidth for distributed computing acting on a shared set of data.
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Economics tells us that an activity that takes time costs the opportunity cost of that time. Whatever else you could have done with that time, you now can't. This puts people behind where they could have been on career, savings, family relationships, and so on.

If I could live my life over, I would never have gone to grad school. And I'd have probably had kids 10 years earlier than I did.
Its the whole of collections of views he is public about.

We talk a great deal of "Good Fit" and the like when working on projects with others, or working for someone. This is a case where he would work better with his own kind: racists, sexists, and bigots.

Like attracts like.
> That's wild, I didn't expect any security-centric website in 2016 to be HTTP-only!

Both of the websites for PuTTY (www.putty.org and www.chiark.greenend.org.uk) are also non-encrypted. At least the downloads are hosted on a third server (the.earth.li) which does use HTTPS and 2048-bit GPG signatures are provided.
wont work? the only thing people has to do with that money is spend it...how difficult could that be?
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Facebook Messenger doesn't have end-to-end encryption, it is stored in Facebook.
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So I mean this is great but are they open sourcing it?

Is there a way for us to play with it? Or are they just bragging?
Sent an email for the iOS role about a week+ ago, 1aim seems like an environment where I'd do very well, so I hope I hear back from you guys!
What about drunk/intoxicated driving? Ive seen a couple comments saying its ok if people smoke pot and play video games, but what about those who want to go out and drink? 33% of all traffic fatalities are alcohol related[1], and that adds up to be quite a few people. Ok, self driving cars will fix that eventually, but what about domestic abuse?

1. http://www.cdc.gov/motorvehiclesafety/impaired_driving/impai...
You mean aside from the project under discussion? Why are his personal views even relevant here?
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Bloomberg now has an adblock detector, although it incorrectly triggered on mobile chrome which doesn't even have adblockers.
I don't watch regular tv because of the ads either. It's time to change revenue models.
Additional several years of work are worth less than 200k euro? Either these tax people are not paid well, or they cannot calculate.
It wouldn't demonstrate anything that would make it a community I want to be a part of, though.
If they bring TouchID to the Mac maybe that is what they'll do as it uses the secure enclave inside the A series processors.
Or Microsoft's language parser: https://www.microsoft.com/cognitive-services/en-us/language-...
Can you explain how that sentence is racist? I legitimately do not understand how it is.
There are two constraints: we use Python and we run multiple copies of the software (with potentially version-incompatible modules) on the same host.

That means we'd have to use virtualenv or similar, plus pip or easy_install to actually fetch and install the modules. On the developer side, it means having to manually update the dependencies file to upgrade a module, while with submodules they can just do "git pull" inside it and then "git add" in the parent repo, which auto-detects the new version.

I'd love to see a simpler approach, but I couldn't find it.
If I ran Google I'd just up and leave France --it's been one thing after another with them.
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> We noticed that you're using an ad blocker, which may adversely affect the performance and content on Bloomberg.com. For the best experience, please whitelist the site.

The dishonesty of it saying that the adblocker will ("may") negatively affect the performance of the site, when it's in fact blocking an absurd number of requests unnecessary to the content people actually want to see, is astounding.
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There are no monopolies in this business. In NYC, Juno already has lots of drivers aboard. All the drivers here just keep all the apps open.
Another article I read recently stated that it's simply much easier to use SciHub to search a vast trove of papers than it is using the individual tools/websites of those holding these research papers hostage behind their subscriptions.
Some indoor air purifiers have particle count sensors that activate the purifier fan.

BTW - anyone have recommendations for an air purifier with a true HEPA filter?
Thanks for the recommendation. I just switched.
If you're an advocate for Social Justice then please apply your exorcism elsewhere. Surely we can discuss computing without beating the drum for morality every time.

If I brought up the abortion issue in every biotech thread I'd get panned and rightly so.
Not sure if you disagree with me or if you're just being sarcastic.

Being enslaved is an awful fate but it is a hell of a lot better than being slaughtered because your oppressors can't find a use for you.
There's a fair network in London https://www.londonair.org.uk/london/asp/PublicEpisodes.asp

The pollution seems fairly spread out so I'm not sure how much having higher resolution would help. I think those are government/council owned.

I was toying with a commercial service where householders could pay a bit for measurements on their homes and could try to counter bad stuff with filters and the like. Not quite sure about the economics - the cost of sensors seems to be dropping rapidly. The government monitoring stations I think are like $25k but there's cheaper stuff out there.
To me the parts of that document that treat on race show that this guy believes that races differ in IQ. That's racist.
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Maybe we should look into teaching techniques and technologies that would make learning more effective somehow.
Wow, based on the access fee for the early lowest power Model S, along the lines of $2500, if not more?

That's what, more than two years of fuel for an economic petrol car?
Looks like pypy for python 3 is back on track. This ameliorates one of my concerns about migrating to python 3 since I think/hope that pypy is going to be an important part of future python.
Agreed. They wouldn't even need to be overtaken. It seems that a lot of the valuation is based on the premise that this is a global winner takes all market. If it turns out that's not true and there is in fact space for multiple competitors then the valuation could turn out to be a lot less.
>The only thing that can ''take out'' Uber is widespread adoption of autonomous vehicles

Or their customers losing interest as driver/fare subsidies are slowly dialed back. I've already begun planning on Uber with hesitation as I have now twice been left "stranded" for ~30 minutes without an active driver available in my city.

I'm fine with the surge pricing which comes along with that but Uber is becoming increasingly unattractive to drivers and that's a real problem alongside increasing fares. Most of the casual drivers who fuelled Uber's early explosive growth are long gone now that the true costs of using your personal vehicle as a taxi became clear. Even the dedicated drivers are staying in on weekdays because Uber oversaturated the driver pool in small markets while cutting back on payouts. There aren't enough riders on a Tuesday evening for more than 1-2 drivers to dedicate their time and when those 1-2 call it a night, there's no one willing to stay up for a single $7 fare.
Facebook says its new AI is almost as good as humans at understanding context
Looks like your site is down.

EDIT: I'm able to access it through a web proxy. Probably a Cloudflare problem.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11787560
International is ok, but time-zone may be a concern... it depends!
There is no right answer- it depends on how the company was set up, which in turn reflects the type of company it's founders wanted it to be.

We changed our company constitution for this exact reason. We felt that it was important that the majority owner could present an empowered, decision making face to the outside world, rather than having to start any discussion with"I'm here to talk, but I need to run anything past all the other owners".

This does impact on the rights of the minority owners - a 2% owner can't hold up or influence an acquisition for example - but the upside is that their shares are worth more than if the company was controlled by a squabbling rabble.

Having gone from a majority owner to a minority one, I still feel this was the right move for us.
No doubt you are right. I'm sure the slavers had all sorts of tactics, and opinions about both their tactics and the enslaved, which were wrong.

The author seems to be positing the "easiest" explanation for why a particular opinion took hold among the slavers. Personally, my parsimonious explanation would be groupthink/received wisdom. Which, if it had to have a "legit" origin, was probably a multitude of factors such as you describe.

But, I'm not the author, and was just trying to explain why I don't think that passage is the heinous smoking gun that so many people think it is.
Why do you think the human brain would be useful for rendering? The brain processes input from the eyes, it doesn't render anything. The scene of reality is already rendered, we only need to look at it to experience it. VR requires building and rendering a whole new reality; the brain has evolved to experience an existing one.
An offering from Palantir perhaps?
You may think that such a statement is merely logical, but it becomes rather something else when one, like Moldbug, has a long history of rhetoric where it seems pretty clear his sympathies are with the oppressors.
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Uber has a higher valuation than actual car manufacturing companies (GM, Ford, Honda, etc)

http://www.forbes.com/sites/liyanchen/2015/12/04/at-68-billi...
Im not sure what you mean by plenty of space? I know when Ive had my urban friends over to my parents house, they all remarked about how empty it is 'out here'. But it is not empty, that farmland is in fact being used. Maybe things look different in my chunk of the world, I do come from a community that is largely agricultural.

you dont need much space to grow some veggies, true, the point I was trying to make is that replacing an acre of veggies with a house and .1 acre of veggies reduces the total supply of food(since good, farmable land is limited). Given the demand for food is rising, the impact on the price of food is somewhat predicable
Statistically, at least last I checked, that statement is absolutely correct.

The reasons for which is a matter of some debate, but the fact will resist any and all efforts to change it by way of insulting its speaker.

Were it someone relating this in a less analytical way, that sentence would read "People with higher IQs are not necessarily 'superior'". Which is also true, as it happens.
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I don't want to argue about what is accepted in Saudi Arabia and what is not. But we are talking about a company from the US, which is not stuck in the middle ages AFAIK. It is totally unacceptable that they accept money from, and at the end of the day, provide more money to this dictatorship that goes against the core values of western civilisation.
Especially when there are very similar [1] devices selling in China for about 1/3 the price (where bad air quality is more than what you cooked for breakfast).

1: http://www.originstech.com/
For what it's worth, that slide comes from a presentation by a university on how to communicate with Millenials/Gen Z.

http://www.slideshare.net/Ologie/engaging-and-cultivating-mi...
Assuming you guys are not open to remote?
I spent a good few weeks recently researching and testing different back up systems that I could install to a Raspberry Pi with a big USB hard drive attached, to act as an extra offsite backup for some remote servers. rsnapshot was pretty much the only system I found that ticked every requirement, it has proven itself very robust in the month or so I have had it doing nightly snapshots of around 5 servers. Previously I had used a Ruby back up library which was actually really good but needed to be run from the server rather than the back up endpoint.
IPv6 addresses have more than one : and have a certain format -- you can distinguish with a simple rule.
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This is the real problem. Zuck and co are a lot of things. Words like benevolent, disinterested, and unbiased aren't on that list of things.
Please, this is all hype to capture investors. What does Uber have other than money that gives them an advantage in self driving cars? Having users doesn't matter either. Google could add self driving taxi summoning to Google Maps overnight and we'd all be using it.
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What part of the change means that it's no longer suitable? The free dyno hours can be shared across several infrequently used apps, and apps will sleep after inactivity to prevent them using up the free hours.
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A planet, like ~tasfyn-partyv, has a parent chain going back to the galaxy: ~tasfyn-partyv (32-bit), ~doznec (16-bit), ~zod (8-bit). zod.urbit.org is directly DNS mapped.

Not using TURN and STUN specifically as the RFCs, but in effect it's the same. Routing will STUN (establish a direct peer-to-peer connection) so long as either side has full cone NAT.

As a planet, you need some star to route for you. Right now, the network is small and friendly enough that trust problems aren't an issue. As we grow, we'll put in an escape protocol so that you can switch stars if you have an issue -- there are 2^16, after all.

Urbit is not PGP. It's designed to feel more like the early Internet, ie, a wide-area world of nontrivial default trust. At present, it would be foolish to go full cypherpunk, because we're a long way from being worth attacking.

Hoon is unusual, but I wouldn't call it "esoteric" -- that term is reserved for languages which genuinely don't care about usability.
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Absolutely brilliant idea ~ the world needs you to succeed.
> For example: Rust's type system certainly has some nice properties to track dependencies between middlewares[^1] but I'm not convinced middlewares are even the best approach possible here.

There's a good discussion of this on /r/rust: https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/4lz92j/tween_a_middle...

I'm pretty interested in tomakas's approach, which seems to avoid the approach of middlewares, in favor of explicitness: https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/4lz92j/tween_a_middle...
Here's the thing -- ride sharing is the least interesting thing about Uber. Uber's expertise is on-demand logistics which is a totally new field at this scale. Ride sharing just happened to be an easy first step. Once they're able to move things around in real-time at a global scale the opportunities are massive.
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