skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not as if Google doesn't do work on behalf of the State Department and Department of Defense to begin with. Let's not split hairs here - by your rationale Matt Cutts was already tangentially involved in helping the US government kill people while at Google.
Nifty, looks like there are a few more than I thought (but still not a lot); thanks all.
The classic quote: "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it" (https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Upton_Sinclair)
For me, it's bash functions "st" (or "sq" to skip untracked); I also made them such that they DTRT in svn, hg, darcs as well.
Probably my most used commands :-)
People do their own thing.

If the author had gotten a big lavish dinner he'd use it to talk about the .1% and how out of touch they are. Instead he got an eccentric geek circle with probably a lot of boring SV inside baseball chatter and no food and uses it to drag out the spectre of the rich weirdo.

We've survived two centuries of mega rich people with strange agendas and we can survive this. Honestly this crowd is far, far less scary than the Ahmanson family and other supporters of things like "theonomy." Google the "Chalcedon foundation." Or Henry Ford and his admiration for Hitler and Mussolini, or countless other examples. The SV crowd and their rather tame gentrified version of transhumanism and Ayn Rand is fluffy bunny of light stuff compared to those things.

Is Thiel actually a Trump supporter or is he just contractually bound to cast a vote for him due to being a delegate?

I'm getting bored with the SV bashing genre. You can criticize SV for many things, but SV did not cause the decline of the middle class. That trend was firmly in place by the mid-late 70s and began a full 30 years before SV rose as a power. It's largely due to outsourcing, the decline of unions, and the siphoning of trillions out of the American economy to support our pointless waffling quasi-empire. Blame Nixon.
The problem I see is that by invoking heritage/past, there's the thorny issue of Europe's sordid history of going to other cultures and exploiting them. Perhaps this gives 'us' even more responsibility to accept people into our culture.

I don't necessarily agree with that logic myself, but then I also don't feel that I'm entitled to what my 'heritage' brought me.

Personally my main concern with this whole issue is practicality. I'm concerned that a too-large influx of refugees (or economic migrants) might cause severe destabilization and further increase the growing right-wing sentiment.
The American coal industry has lost 99% of its value since 2011: https://www.americanactionforum.org/insight/decline-coal-ind....
Except that it is 7% on restaurant food in France. Getting back to the previous 17% (IIRC) is under discussion because the prices did not go down as promised by the restaurant owners.
Oh nifty; I've seen a few projects you guys have worked on (some of the artistic installations listed on your website), I'm glad someone in town is doing things like this.
I'd rather have a ripped one, than one with a hidden hole in it...

real graphene strengthened condoms funded by bill gates: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0008622316...
I believe it's a misattribution to automatically equate lower-ranked law schools with "inferior legal abilities". Especially considering that law school coursework (1) is largely the same at various law schools, and (2) rarely covers the same subject matter as actual practice. The prestige is different, sure, but that is more an amalgamation of undergraduate GPA and LSAT scores than representative of actual legal ability.

Disclaimer: SCU law grad
> human emissions are now 25 percent greater than in the last big El Niño in 1997/98

Sigh. It's not as if we were clueless about the effects of emissions 20 years ago, already
As though America is the only meaningful nation advocating for freedom in the world; or that Americans are themselves living lives of liberty, free from the shackles of systemic oppression.
If you was an interviewer then avoid asking PhD-grade questions (that are not relevant to day to day activities). In the end it all boils down to proper motivation, with no motivation even a professor won't contribute much to your business.
I don't get how the transfer vs Transfer typo is supposed to have enabled a larger attack. The token balance is zeroed in the splitDAO function anyway, and presumably the sanity checks in transfer are also redundant, or else there would have been no need for recursion.
> Then just say no when the DoD asks you to work for them.

This is a fundamental misunderstanding with how DoD contracting works. Regardless this is too broad of a paintbrush to use.

> I certainly am. The safer "our" soldiers are the more people they can murder.

This is literally the exact opposite of how things work in the military. Regardless if you think killing is so horrible it's a bit shocking you would rather soldiers to be more likely to die and contribute to even more death.
I live in Canada and I did not hear of Canadian shooting.
Thanks for bringing "Canada’s worst school violence in a decade" (4 people dead) to my attention. Because the only shooting news I hear about are from USA. Maybe, due to their sheer number of deaths? Or due to how often they happen? hhmmm
south koreans
Saying "a Congolese female" in this context seems inappropriate. "Woman" would be a more humanizing term.

(Also, the rest of the article seems to suggest Ota Benga was a man, not a woman. My point still stands.)
SalyangozMe Electron App
The sales taxes, and the items they are applicable to, vary by municipality, and it's unrealistic for any business to conduct an advertising campaign when submitted to a requirement to quote the final price.

That includes the blanket national TV campaigns (McDonald's "pick 2 for $5", for example) as well as more locally targeted print ads and billboards. Large US municipalities are also really an amalgamate of a large entity, various smaller towns who incorporated on their own (like Campbell, surrounded by San Jose on all fronts) and various intentionally unincorporated areas, each with their own taxation regime and slightly different rate.

If that wasn't enough, some sales taxes have a temporal restriction, with various addenda to sales taxes going into effect and sunsetting on various dates. Then you have the sales tax holidays, which some state governments occasionally adopt to boost the retail component of their economies.
There's a lot of startup activity in Montreal, and costs are cheaper than Vancouver or Toronto.
How+Food+Technology+Delivers+Fascinating+Fear+Of+Fire
A 99% chance that this year will be the hottest on record. [0]

I would say that now is time to panic, but the time to panic was twenty years ago. Perhaps the West will pass from 'apathy' directly to 'resignation' and skip 'panic' altogether. Bring on the apocalypse!

[0] https://twitter.com/ClimateOfGavin/status/742668462699499520
There is research behind this, not sure why the down vote.

Although considering the comment being replied is a throw away account, I imagine that person is also a moderator who doesn't like debate to their troll comment.
all those who were liberated in Operation Freedom obviously. All those who now live life of a zen like peace due to Operation Enduring Peace

Reminds me of the clip of the Us Marine pointing a gun in the face of unarmed protesters screaming "GET BACK WE ARE HERE FOR YOUR MOTHERFUCKING FREEDOM"...... yeah right mate, you just keep telling yourself that.
We live in a time where it is far easier to invent wild new technology to extract and sequester CO₂ from the atmosphere than it is to convince industry and individual to reduce the amount of CO₂ they contribute, let alone convincing people that a problem actually exists.
Use Wit.ai Natural Language Processing in Elixir
To be a little more fair it's also about defense.
Oregon is just one program, why is life expectancy for wealthy rising, and falling for the poor?

Why is the gap around a full dozen years?
I think you vastly over-estimate our ability to have monitored the earth throughout its entire history.
What if Earth will be warming faster than we have predicted. Time to prepare time B with some geoengineering?

At least fund research to have some plan and prototypes. Maybe that should have priority over article citing business :-P.
Fairness on the Internet
Then I will bid $100 quadrillion to keep my domain and pay myself for it out of the proceeds, minus 18 cents for ICANN.

Edit: Actually I missed the part about paying a percentage of the top bid.
Wordpress for SaaS
Thinking about developing a SaaS product that uses a lot of APIs that is built as a Wordpress plugin using the Herbert framework (all PHP). Would appreciate some feedback on pros / cons to this approach.
As a mathematician who is still in the learning phase and intuition is lacking, thank you. This method is ingenius and makes the invention of logarithms make even more sense consequentally. HN rocks :-)
Thanks for the informative response. Can you express in some more detail the user agent problem we have?
I'm taken aback by this comment. This is such an out of touch extreme. You would probably do well with getting some exposure to the DoD because you're dragging in an absolute ton of issues unrelated to the conversation.

Regardless are you willing to do the same? Just as millions are employed through the various agencies of the DoD through contracting it'sthe same with the large technology companies. Google, Microsoft, Amazon and many others are actively DoD contractors. So they're making money in the exact same way and yet I never hear people telling them to stop or quit .

So are you going to continue using Google, Microsoft and Amazon knowing they actively work on DoD projects and profit off of them?
> structures meant for

"Meant"? Nothing in your body or brain is "meant" for anything. There is no "meaning", or "intention", for starters. And the brain is nothing if not adaptable. If your brain is "meant" to be anything, it's versatile.
tl;dr; Sad personal story and no stats. Also, faith healing worked for my uncle so I know that all those randomized control trials are wrong!

My numbers come from the BLS Consumer expenditure survey, though they moved it and I don't know where it is now. I blogged about it and reproduced it in a graph:

https://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2011/why_the_poor_dont_wo...

The CBO does similar calculations based directly on taxes and transfers, and gets a similar result:

https://www.cbo.gov/sites/default/files/cbofiles/attachments...
No offense to fovc, who I wish all the best, but you're assuming his company will be a success.
Thanks. I didn't catch that. Still not double digit...

Also, you can still get a degree for under 20k/year http://www.thebestschools.org/blog/2011/11/18/10-affordable-... at many public law schools.
Forth code ran on the Rosetta lander's space qualified, radiation hardened, 16-bit Harris RTX2010 processor. The OS could even be changed via the radio link by writing new code to EEPROM [1].

Let Node try that ;) On second thought...

[1] http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu//full/2003ESASP.532E..72B...
There is no argument. What the department is or is not doing is not up for argument. Objective reality doesn't change just because the dept used to have a different name, that's stupid.

I work with dozens of peaceful, bright people, on projects that are responsible for keeping people safe without violence or conflict or any nonsense like that. Many of the people whom I work with wouldn't swat a fly, so I don't really concern myself with the thoughts of people who have no clue what they're talking about, like commenters on HN who google "depart of defense not really about defense???" and then think they've stumped me. Honestly.
I do agree that we're not at fault for everything. But expecting a post-colonial society to just do well after a long period of colonial abuse is a bit like expecting a person who is depressed or severely insecure as a result of childhood abuse/bullying/whatever to 'just get over it'. This is not how humans or societies work.
The article uses a rather limited definition of 'tech'.
I agree. I covered this only briefly under 'formal methods'. My point was that such formal semantics and proofs are far more easily obtained starting from a functional language.
Human nature is tribal, by evolutionary dictat. Not much ever will change that at a base level.
Not a book but excellent history nontheless "Triumph of the Nerds" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0115398/
I'm going to be a little polemic here.

It's this an attack?

It's not the problem that those technologies try to solve, to get rid of subjectivity?. In a way, this could be interpreted as trying to be free of politics.

If my understanding of what they are trying to accomplish here is correct, if the system allow it, then, by definition, it's legal.

If you require a framework where something allowed by the code but with unexpected consequences is illegal, you are again where you started.
Was? What happened to her?
the issue is not with oil industries. it is with media/news industries making every fucking thing a sensation, a breaking news solely to get their ratings up! what it does in turn - it makes people numb. we only react on things that are super violent, super graphic and immediate, now. its the media industry thats greedy and inhuman.
People call the language "node" because they're ashamed to admit they're just writing javascript, since javascript has such a horrid reputation for amateur, poorly-performant bloatware.
If you were to set this up and leave it running (say for a dev environment), what would your monthly bill look like?
This has nothing to do with politics but with basic moral principles.

Just because someone higher up decides something, doesn't mean you don't have any moral responsibility.

If you think what the DoD does is morally questionable (and I think it is pretty clear cut that it is) then you are morally obliged to not help them with it. It's pretty easy in the software industry to find work somewhere else.
Link for the lazy: https://eprint.iacr.org/2015/1168
String Theory Co-Founder: Sub-Atomic Particles Are Evidence Universe Was Created
>It is very inefficient to bring people to Germany and other western countries in order to help them. We could help one person in Germany, or another 10 people in Turkey for the same money.

So let's start doing that, then close the borders
This doesn't look like it's doing any actual NLP. This just seems to be looking for a "conjunction" or a "prepositions" and replaces text.

This would have been a great application for something like nlp_compromise or some other NLP library.

The source code also needs a lot of work. If you run that through a linter it'll throw you against a wall.

That dev needs to watch "Javascript the Good Parts"
How a Social Media Strategy Map Made Me a Better Marketer
There are parts of the brain meant for specific tasks. It isn't a homogeneous mass of neurons. The bit that is working the eyes atm was designed (via evolution) to work the eyes. As was the bit that takes the message from the eyes and ups the heart rate when a lion appears in your field of view. There is certainly some flexibility, but the basic task layout is a layout, not a random allocation.
Laurent Chemla, the founder of gandi.net, a French registrar wrote a book [1] on this topic, describing himself as a «thief» for selling stuff that have no cost in the first place (domain names).

[1] confession d'un voleur (confession of a thief) : http://www.confessions-voleur.net/confessions/ (in French)
You shouldn't have reservations about automating criminal law. One of the great injustices of our time is the overloaded criminal court system, which can hold defendants for years before they see a courtroom due to the time it takes to handle simple pre-trial motions.
thanks for the pictures,t they are amazing! So is the place... I hope China will revert its decision, it would be incredibly sad to loose this :(((
Some people own domains/websites for reasons other than Money....
It comes down to building an economical product for the Industry to use over building new technology that is not limited by cost..
if you think killing is so horrible it's a bit shocking you would rather soldiers to be more likely to die and contribute to even more death.

What a strange accusation for a person involved in the military to make. Are you saying that when the army makes an offensive operation with the goal of eliminating some enemies combatants, it's because they think killing is awesome?

Because it seems to me that the reason is much the same: we must kill these people to lower overall deaths, no?
Yes, but the debt required to do that kind of work is completely unsustainable. 150-200k debt to service on a 60k salary working in human rights. Only with family help or huge sacrifice
How about instead of linking to some blogspam, you link to the actual source: http://public.wmo.int/en/media/news/may-2016-sets-new-record...
How taxes support the military is decided by lawmakers. We vote candidates based on their programs. If a candidate promised to lower contributions to defense, (s)he'd have my vote. You can have labour that doesn't feed the military.
Sure, here's two articles [1, 2] that describe the situation. Most of the refugees do stay in Turkey (including 1.9M Syrians acc. [1]).

[1] https://www.hrw.org/news/2015/09/29/why-dont-syrians-stay-tu...

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/20/amnesty-report...
It's roughly two percent everywhere. And yeah, not denying that we got pretty lucky.
That indeed is the problem, not the system itself. (if you want to continue with the cheap sarcasm)

I see this pattern so many times in the US, blaming parties involved instead of the original wrongdoers (e.g. "Facebook and Google are so evil", yet the NSA and USG are out of the argument completely). That even a fairly educated crowd such as the one on HN falls for these cheap tactics is a great proof that in fact this technique works great for manipulating masses of people. (bonus example: the broken bipartisan and electoral college systems – all the talk is about how horrible Hillary and Trump are, instead of maybe taking steps to fixing the system itself | bonus video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wC42HgLA4k)
On the other hand, where I live winter was pretty nice and May was just amazing. Have other things to panic about.

"How do you have audacity not worrying about our problems", you're probably selfishly asking. Well, I've never seen much caring about my problems.
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Specification-Based Test Design Techniques for Enhancing Unit Tests
To counter your attack on Buterin, he is aware that writing safe contract code requires proofs and type safety. That is why solidity is compiled to EVM code, so that improved languages could incorporate this. Solidity is built for rapid innovation and user friendliness. Buterin is now more busy with sharding and scaling issues.
It's a lot easier to have above average jobs for everyone when you only care about 20% of the population.
Correct. But you can't have a successful company without having a company in the first place

Like you can't blow out a candle without it being lit in the first place.
Big Tech Squashes New York’s ‘Right to Repair’ Bill
Note that this probably means that designing contracts of this sort of "friendly AI complete" in some sense, and therefore not a good thing to be betting on in the short term.
Reminds me of the very sad zip story:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zvFeHtcxuA

The whole "The BBS Documentary" is great and I recommend starting at the beginning if you're interested in it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRap7uw9iWI
Evan Williams: The Forrest Gump of the Internet
Gavin Andresen on the Rise of Ethereum
The Great Ethnic Food Lie
>> ... will hold their breath and work their feet.

Imho that isn't related to swimming. That's them trying to keep their heads above water by standing up, hopefully in relatively shallow water. Even with drowning adults, they don't so much try to swim as try to grasp onto something.

Compare dogs. They have a swimming instinct dedicated to movement. Dogs don't tread. They move forwards. We flail around trying to climb out of the water. They are trying to get to shore. That has to be some sort of evolutionary relic speaking to very different ancestral environments.

Polar bears instincts accommodate both treading water and swimming within moments:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scFiRRTU5jg
worthington's law: more money = better than
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ke9iShKzZmM
People did lose $200 million dollars. Why is he focusing on scaling?

Edit: apparently the thefts so far are "only" 45 million.
I don't know.

But if I understand correctly, the point of bringing up the Oregon study was that access to medical care doesn't seem to have a lot to do with it. At least not the incrementally better access provided by Medicaid programs.

I would certainly speculate that there is a bundle of ideas that contribute to it. Ideas about personal decisions being impactful, leading to things like less smoking and better diet, and even better life situations (which can presumably lead to a different relationship with stress).
You mean China
Lawyers out of law school have a pretty hard time practicing on their own. A lot of these broke lawyers never get a substantive job and never really become lawyers. You can hire these people but you need someone to manage and train them. You need an expert.

The cheaper fields of law pretty much do that. Personal injury, traffic and dui, immigration, insurance defense etc. will take broke lawyers and pay them shit. They bill out at ~200 dollars an hour, but don't collect anywhere near 40 hours a week. The associates are getting paid in the 50k a year range.

There are good reasons most companies don't try to do litigation in house. Litigation comes and goes and isn't steady. I'm defending a medium sized company on a patent case. But they have a patent case maybe 2-3 times a decade. During certain parts of the case we'll need 2-3 associates working full time. But a year ago they had no need for even one patent litigator.

Plus certain parts of the case are hard to handle with in house lawyers. They might be forbidden to see certain confidential documents.

Another big difference is that law is specialized. A guy who does DUI defense doesn't have the slightest idea how to do a patent troll case. And a patent lawyer can't do a DUI case. Once you gain that experience you aren't a broke lawyer anymore.
Invent, sure, but implement on a useful scale, not yet. Even sequestering CO2 right at the source has proved more expensive than anyone wants. Extracting it from the air is worse. Research needs to be funded all-out at this point, but leaving existing fossil fuels underground is going to be the cheaper option for some time.
Well, nobody is curing cancer or solving poverty, so by your logic nobody could criticize. Many people are actually doing something to help either cause (from researchers down to the $10 donor), and I think all of them have the right to criticize one's choice.
For anyone who hasn't read up on the objections of the NRA to the no-fly list disallowing you from being a gun owner. The problem lies in the fact that there are no qualifications for being put on the no-fly list.

Fox did an article on the topic a while ago: http://www.foxnews.com/travel/2015/09/09/8-ways-can-end-up-o...

The Huffington Post has a similar article: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/07/25/terrorist-watch-lis...

I think objecting to being randomly disallowed to do something with no due process is a valid reason to campaign against something.
That would be interesting and even necessary. But why not use something much easier than Agda, though not less powerful for this use case -- like TLA+ -- something that even "ordinary" engineers could use to verify their contracts (not to mention that it supports model-checking in addition to deductive proofs, which reduces the verification effort considerably)?