skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Human worth or, as I like to call it "respect" has nothing to do with equality of outcomes.

There is a difference between benefiting materially or politically from how society is structured and social respect. There is a difference between paying someone more or less for doing a job and how you treat someone when you interact to them.

Let me put it a different way... why should you respect raw intelligence over a person's height? After all, both simply an accident of birth (genetics and early nutrition). Neither are something one achieves.

I do not respect raw intelligence. I respect personality traits such as hard work, honesty, reliability, affability and bravery. I respect achievement, not potential. To tie someone's worth to inherent traits such as intelligence is, to me, somewhat shallow.
I was hired to build something like Ensembles[0] for an Apple Design-award winning iOS/Mac software developer in 2009 (and did) that needed seamless Core Data sync across a suite of iOS and Mac OS X apps.

At the time, I considered building a startup around the technology, but in the end decided not to because I believed the market was too small.

It's been interesting watching the development of Core Data sync, and at least at this point, feel I made the right decision. Sync is an interesting problem, but you can nearly always build a specialized solution when you need to for your specific data model that is _much_ simpler than the "general" case, and that handles conflicts better.

Given how long Ensembles has been available (over two years), how much the developer charges for a commercial license (peanuts), and the fact that it's basically a "lifestyle" business for him, I think it's clear that there's not much of a market for object graph sync.

[0] http://www.ensembles.io/
From my understanding with EB-5 $500k is only for regional centers, other businesses require $1mm.
My friends who went to law school said that the terms 1L/2L/3L are fixed in stone. It is impossible to take courses in an accelerated manner to graduate in 2 years instead of 3 years. Why? Because the law school and bar association make it that way. Milk the most tuition money out of the students.
In its heyday Usenet worked fairly well. The major advantage of a site like SO, is that it tends to have less repetition. The same questions on Usenet came up over and over again. On SO, the memory hole is smaller.
Not sure what your point about existing categories is, but with respect to the point that it might be all roses for the US to invite foreigners to found companies, just off the top of my head:

Most of the investors that get involved are likely to be in the US, they may have limited legal avenues to pursue if the company fails due to negligence or fraud and the founder moves back home.

Depending on the financial status of the founder, the US might have to choose between providing social support or paying for deportation.
Prices would rise significantly and it would create a very large black market. There would be supply issues for more than a decade. The US does half a trillion dollars worth of importing from China. Every major US retailer is designed around imports from China. Most of that is relatively low priced consumer goods. Where do you plan to buy decently priced microwaves, by the millions, that aren't made in China? That doesn't exist, it would take years to bring that production on-line. The same is true of television sets. Hell, just about anything you can name that is mass consumer oriented. The disruption to supply would destroy most US retailers instantly. Walmart and Amazon, both suddenly lacking 3/4 of their inventory, would go bankrupt in a matter of months. Walmart would have to fire upwards of two million low income workers that have no possible replacement jobs.

It would harm the bottom 50% in the US the most. That's enough reason to look at other options first.
I would counter with the concept that any valid interpretation of intent must come from one with cultural understanding. Machines do not have cultural understanding. They cannot identify language/intent clearly in violation of cultural norms. Before attempting the intent code, I'd first need to see a machine capable of understanding why Shylock's pound of flesh was an illegal contract.
Ah, the old 'Tu quoque' fallacy. Even so, let's examine some of these claims a bit:

> Indian reservations

Yes, the state of the modern Indian reservation is tragic, but doesn't that have to more to do with too much government assistance[1][2] rather than government stepping in to destroy?

> gentrified urban areas

You're not trying to suggest that living in a neighborhood that's getting nicer and more expensive is somehow akin to the government coming in and demolishing the whole city block are you?

> Japanese internment camps in WW2

Well taken point, and a black mark on the history of the US government to be sure. But there's much to be said about the state of exception in wartime[3] and it seems unfair to compare measures taken during unprecedented war with China's actions during unprecedented peace.

> Guantanamo Bay

Yeah, this is a shame. But hardly seems comparable, considering the Chinese are literally putting thousands of families out of homes and seeking to destroy an entire religious minority, and at best Guantanamo Bay is an infringement on the civil liberties of a relative handful of individuals. Not that it's right, but it certainly is at the top of a long slippery slope on which China is currently racing to the bottom.

andy_ppp's comment is apt...we have problems, but we still are far more free than almost anywhere else. And it isn't insulated thinking at all; Americans are objectively freer than the Chinese by almost any metric.[4]

[1]http://www.forbes.com/sites/realspin/2014/03/13/5-ways-the-g...
[2]https://mises.org/library/native-american-reservations-%E2%8...
[3]http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=23630
[4]http://www.heritage.org/index/ranking
Yes, I agree it is atrocious reasoning. It's probably not reasoning at all in the sense of thinking about something in a logical, sensible way. I don't care because I'm emotionally exhausted by the situation.

While I do think we should do something, it's not clear to me what I should do other than occasionally shout at the screen from my chair. I suppose I could vote Green or vote with my dollar, if I thought it would help. I could put solar panels on my roof, but I'm not a home owner so I can't. I could buy an electric car but I don't have tens of thousands of spare cash, nor the desire for a vehicle loan, because I'm trying to save for the deposit on a house.

Maybe what I can do is seek solace in the knowledge that future generations will be able to look back and read that I was at least angered for a brief period by the circumstances I find myself in.

And in the mean time I'm going to continue doing the things I like that make living worthwhile, which means driving 200+ kilometres one or twice a month to get to the surf or the mountains in my not-so-fuel-efficient camper van, and having the occasional steak.

But that's just it isn't it, if 'saving the world' means giving up the things I like, I'm not interested, really, until there is zero friction and everyone else is doing it.

And this is the revealed preference of almost all of us on this planet: we're too busy surviving, or too busy enjoying, to stop for a moment and think "should we be doing these things, no? okay let's change". And even when we acknowledge we should change, we don't. We're trying, but it's mostly token gestures.

All the evidence suggests that dead people, previous generations, don't care much about the environment, and since the consequences / benefits to inaction / action are multiple decades out it is very hard for us to act now.

I don't believe we, the global community, will act until our ability to survive is in immediate danger.
Yeah. But which are which, and are you willing to put your money on that?
There Are Dot-Com People and There Are Web People (2000)
Don't ask, just be prepared. I think asking and appearing prepared can open you up to being more likely to be let go early if there are rounds of layoffs.
Hopefully it's just the API that's being deprecated, to be replaced by a newer one, and not the service itself, no?
That last part where he talks about logging out being the responsibility of the client is rather key. Basically I can't invalidate the key from the server side. So if a user's account is compromised and they recover it on their mobile app for example, I can't sign the user out of everywhere else too. It's what has given me pause about jwt so far and has held me back from using it. I find the cookie is generally good enough to hold most other information I need about the user.
> Most cheap Indian food is made by Bangladeshis and Pakistanis, and most Indian food here is cheap. Of course, people don't realize that. But it's true. More than 70 percent of the Indian restaurants in New York City, for instance, are not run by Indians. They are run by Bangladeshi and Pakistani restaurateurs.

Isn't that ironic - to claim inferiority of the food preparation due to the nationality of the persons preparing it, when you are complaining that americans treat food the same way.

Lets take a history book, shall we ... and a map while we are at it. Those territories were split fairly recently. I am willing to bet that Pakistani people could prepare decently Rajastani dishes, or the Bangladeshi from west Bengal.

And of course the concept of Indian food is ridiculous by itself. As every other country that has varied climate zones, terrain and people - my wild guess is that India probably has at least 10-20 distinct cuisines based on what is available here, what grows well and the religion and customs of the people that inhabit the territory.
That'll be because the world is getting hotter. In some places in the Northern Hemisphere it's increasing at the same rate as if you moved south 30 metres every single day. The current measurements are far worse than even the most pessimistic estimates of around 20 years ago.
Smarter people then I have said that this message is not validly signed:

https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/4oo1io/an_open_le...

Though the view it expresses (but not the legal gibberish) is still though provoking.
Stick it out . . . if you're well paid and they have funding see what happens, save for a rainy day, learn and be productive.
Per capita, China produces less carbon than the first world. What gives us more right to burn carbon for quality of life then them? Besides that, we buy their crap - basically we export the carbon costs of our goods.
What do you think of SRS?
Yes. He is a saucy fellow.
Considering that much of their population lives in poverty, I would say they have done an impressive amount. I can't imagine we would do as much if the shoe was on the other foot. The figures I've seen say they have greater levels of investment in green technologies than any other country (including the US).

But, in any case, if we really wanted to do something about climate change, it wouldn't be difficult. The US is currently negotiating trade deals which would cover about two thirds of the global economy.

https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=SUM+GDP+Australia+Brun...

All they need to do is include a minimum carbon price, or a requirement to meet the Paris targets, in those deals. You don't need that much of a push for the weight of the global economy to drive forward the alternative technologies. It's not a question of who is going to take the most punishment, it's a question of applying the right pressure so that solar, electric vehicles, etc have the scale to become cheaper than current technologies. And if enough countries undertake that together, they will be leaders in those new industries.
I anal, but I'm pretty sure that the law mostly operates off what the intent of a contract was.
Uhh, okay.
An important question for the future is to what extent the legal system will let people opt out of using it to adjudicate particular disputes. Historically that's been difficult or impossible outside of limited contexts, like mandatory arbitration, although courts have also been fairly OK with venue restrictions.

But a related question here (which there was already a 600-post HN thread discussing) is whether people who intend to opt out of court adjudication of disputes are willing to stand by that intent when something bad happens to them.
http://articles.latimes.com/2013/sep/14/nation/la-na-ff-immi...
The real question now is, for most folk - sell the ether, buy more ether while it's cheap, or do nothing?
The fact that this is an issue at Google makes me think this is entirely the result of the review process rewarding it. Could they really hire so many highly qualified people with no sense of DRY?
Machines don't understand. They simply compute. It is up to the programmer to have them perform the appropriate computations.
I am also of the opinion that we are currently treating the internet just like we treated plastic/fossil fuels 20-30 years ago. The amount of digital data being generated on a daily basis with no regard to the massive DCs that host all the servers with A/C on full blast 24/7 is staggering. And nobody seems to care..
I disagree the view that somebody that advocates wife beating and rape should be considered a not-all-bad part of the community because "he finances OpenBSD".
tin, slrn, or pan are good free clients.

http://tin.org/

http://www.slrn.org/

http://pan.rebelbase.com/
Sure. Most degrees don't give you pratical skills, but law is particularly egregious. Law schools go almost out of their way to teach impractical stuff. The only writing class usually teaches appellate writing. Total joke.
Only in the specialty novelty-oriented DQN agents; the Montezuma's Revenge reward itself remains the same. The problem is defining 'novel' when every screen's pixels may be different (for example, imagine any game which has a timer ticking up).
Driver+Easy+Crack+Only+Plus+Serial+Key+Free+Download
I have doubts how this could work. Let's say, I register the domain name A for my personal use. So far, nobody else wanted it. One day I get an email from somebody claiming to want the domain as well. He makes me an offer: he would step down if I paid him $30.

I'm neither willing to pay $30, nor $100 dollars for my personal domain. $10/year is already enough, so I'd probably have to decline and risk losing my domain (because he could simply buy it for $100). I'm sure there are many scenarios where someone could even buy your domain (assuming you're not willing to pay $100), and damage your reputation (and since it is the Internet, sueing them can be impossible if he is outside of the us and getting back the domain name through a court would be way more expensive then $100).

Now, another scenario is when a domain broker bought domain B before company X does. The domain broker paid the usual price because nobody wanted it at that time. Now, company X wants to buy that domain and offers the register $100 for it. The domain broker is asked if they still want it for $100 by the domain register. They would agree knowing that they can sell the domains for a lot more than $100 to company X.

I don't see how this system could help anybody but maybe I just didn't understand your proposal right.
Normally the people instigating it give a reason. I'm asking what reason has been given by the PRC in this case.

Also, it's not clear to me that this qualifies as genocide.
Wow. WTF. What leads people to think like this?
Most SaaS startups take time to get going, about two years according to saastr, so it might take awhile. [1]

But a lot of really bad founders have raised money during this bubble cycle. The VCs are screaming about the market changing behind closed doors. The founder where I work was recently pressured to fire the team and sell the company.

Make sure you look after yourself. Get your interview skills up and have a list of opportunities. Don’t overcommit to 50+ hour weeks. If they want to pay you 25% more than sure, but don’t fall for the overwork peer pressure by founders who have a 20-100x equity win over you.

Make your own personal assessment of the team, product, and market, and the likelihood of success. Recognize that founders “sell” their belief and my not be honest about issues. I’d probably try to stay to the one year mark and move if you don’t have a strong belief in the company, but be ready to be dropped at a moments notice.

[1] https://www.saastr.com/if-youre-going-to-do-a-saas-start-up-...
>That's pretty comparable to, if not less than, what you could expect in tech at that age

Only in big "tech" cities. This article is about someone in Indiana.
Spaceship Generator
Here are even more names for this fallacy: tu quoque and whataboutism.
If I remember correctly, domains used to cost around $78 to register.

When the price dropped dramatically, there was discussion on Slashdot about the effects. Most thought it was great ("hey, I, a poor college student, can get a domain now!"), but there was speculation it would lead to more domain parking.
This is the common misconception. Think of a cookie as a storage 'bucket' on a user's device. It can store up to 4KB in bytes of, well, anything (a string). JWT is format. That's it. It is enciphered and has the ability to store JSON, but otherwise, it's just a format or scheme that allows you to organize how you store your session (or whatever) data. As an example, in my usage I actually store my JWT in a user cookie and all it keeps is the expiration, user id and a few other tidbits I don't want to hit a database for but am comfortable exposing in case the token is cracked.
Lectures may require a slower speed. I am talking about more general podcasts where there is more of a discussion going on. If the speaker is fast or if there is a wealth of numbers being recited you may need to slow it down. I don't have a single podcast that I run slower than 2x which yields an actual 2.6x with silence skipping.
True, but the show is not mocking intellect or intelligence, it is mocking nerdiness. Which, believe it or not, is not really that highly correlated.
Lede. Yeah, it's one of those words.
In short the domain name system is a racket.
You're begging the question here. He's trying to use spurious legal claims to prevent cancelling the transaction. His success at that can't make his legal claims valid.
Depends on the strong opinions held and the actions taken. For some individuals, the world might be better off if they just sat on the beach and enjoyed their wealth. With great power comes great responsibility, but if someone doesn't care enough to agonize over the responsibility part then I would prefer that they didn't exercise the power.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11918741
This is called "British humour".

What runn1ng is saying there is that the guy's a shitheel.
Israel and Palestine seems a bit more complex to me. They are trying to find a solution for two groups of people with very different cultural standards for how to live life to cohabit a small bit of land. Tibet is a pimple on a pimple in size compared to the rest of China.
Electing Trump is about disrupting the system.
Obviously not! That would be madness. /s
Curious—so if a dev applied for a job and had an AOL email address as their primary, would you find that odd? Certainly their choice of email—which they use many times every day—says more about them than what their favorite color is.

For example, it might say that they are security-conscious and don't trust Google/gmail. Or it might indicate that they take pride in being contrarian. So it could reveal something about the character/personality of the individual.

For the record, the question was whether we notice email addresses and have any sort of prejudices based on them. Hopefully none of us ends up making important decisions (hiring) based on choice of email provider!
I don't agree with your 30 years lifespan argument. The average of 30 years was always done taking into account a high degree of child mortality.

Meaning that you either died before you got to 5 years old, or you easily got* to the ripe age of 55. Average 30, but very different lifespans.

Also, many biological features are stable until 55, for example male strength with an adequate training.

It is after 55 that everything starts to fail. What's unknown territory is living more than 70.

* disregarding external factors like wars.
I once read that 70% of the world's lawyers live in the US. It was only a matter of time before something broke.
I have read the article, and the terms are very clear (assuming the article is accurate): the code specified the actual intent and all other claims are void.
Not quite. I am saying that the already small library of 3D titles had been further fragmented and this had a negative impact on 3D adoption.
Writing a Log4j alternative in TypeScript
Yeah, how dare someone think anything differently than exactly what you think?!?!?! /s
For an insurance policy like that, they wouldn't offer any policy without auditing the device, including the code.
That's suspended, not banned. Suspended accounts can usually be recovered if you talk to Steam support, and suspension still doesn't block you from playing your games, just from buying/selling/trading games and in-game items. (At least since 2013 or so; it may have been different before that, it's not entirely clear, but it's definitely the case now.)
Who is the "he" you are referring to?
This actually has happened at both online and real casinos. In general, if the player intended to exploit an issue they knew about they have to return the money, if they randomly benefited they do not.
I would like to see those palm trees growing in the darkness of Greenland
Chinese government is attuned to history. Chinese history is a constant cycle of disintegration and reunification and the current government knows it is not special. At some point, it too will disintegrate into 100 pieces. It's just that they don't plan on making that any time soon. Anything they can do to delay the inevitable, they will do so.
For .dk domains they simply disallowed reselling domains. I think this has mostly solved this problem. I think I remember having heard cases where companies would contact domain owners with an outrageous offer and use their acceptance to 'steal' the domain from the owner.
Debugging techniques in Elixir
From personal experience I can say there are incorrect assumptions on both the EB-5 and L-1. Happy to share my experience - let me know how to PM you.
If you're in your mid 30s, then you and I are about the same age. I'll turn 33 in a few months.
Just from reading commentators here at HN, it doesn't seem like these issues were unforeseen. Rather, it seemed that whatever intense optimism exists around cryptocurrencies is capable of overwhelming investor sense in return for the promise of some ideological "win".
I don't see the ramifications playing out remotely like that.

There'd be a diplomatic tit-for-tat leading up to sanctions, they wouldn't just be turned on at 00:00 tomorrow. So there'd be perhaps a year. Sanctions tend to start with specific items and scale up. So it's a process, with a timeline, over perhaps 2 - 10 years.

Plenty of time for significnt amounts of trade to move to india, Vietnam and the other developing economies.