skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Free will is just the sensation of having a brain that models counterfactuals. It allows you to have emotions like hope and regret, since you are capable of imagining the world being different from how it is. It allows you to understand your role in the consequence-that-is-the-current-reality.

And here there's nothing to debate. Of course free will exists. It exists just like every other aspect of mental perspective exists. Nobody is debating whether love, hunger, confusion, or boredom exist just because they aren't quantified and modeled in a properly predictable manner. They're debating free will because religious people want a common experience and a long history of unaddressed confusion to leverage for their self-comfort. A "mystery" that not even scientists can touch.
You are correct in principal ... we should all have it better. However, now that I'm a bit older, I ask questions about productivity and such. If we are earning more than we are actually producing, someone is paying the bills. It is either someone else (which is not fair), or coming from the pockets of our children (incredibly not fair). I think the previous generation screwed us badly. It is our responsibility to not pass it on. But you are definitely right about issues like CEO pay being unfair and beyond any true productivity.
A few examples. (I'm not sure why a lot of these are treated as permissions at all.)

* Running in the background

* Displaying desktop notifications

* Using the OS's text-to-speech engine

* Storing more than 5MB of data in local storage
The fix for Wired is part of uBO itself. I don't know if there is an extra fix in Reek's list, but in any case Reek's list is meant to be used with Reek's user script.

So you should have the fix with default settings. Sometimes clearing the cookies on the site may help -- maybe the site remembers you were visiting with a blocker which did not defuse the site's anti-blocker mechanism and serves you the notice because of that. I just checked and the fix still works on my side.
Determinism and non-determinism are both just models that can be converted into each other fairly easily. Either way, that has nothing to do with free will, because getting random outcomes is not 'will' at all, let alone free will -- as ill-defined as that concept is.
I consider advertising evil, as the primary goal is to replace useful thoughts with thoughts of buying and consuming things.
"Freechain" is great. It passes the cognate test (sounds like "keychain," which it is), and the "free" part gives it the multiple meanings of both FOSS and freedom from surveillance. Euphony is pretty high, and it looks fairly low-noise on Google, too.
I've been drawing every day for a year
They're human beings with a job to do. Part of this is engaging with you, but different cultures treat the boundaries differently. In the US this involves small talk and as it makes people happy I do it in situations where it is normal. Other countries think differently, it's cultural so there's no right or wrong here. Engaging someone with small talk where it's not expected is felt as rude as not doing it where it is, if that makes sense.

As for the other point. I've seen Americans being polite, but I've also seen them belittling staff, shouting and being generally rude. I've also seen this from non-americans, but far less frequently. I assume this is selection bias (the American tourist syndrome - you only notice the loud obnoxious ones). This is across multiple countries.
The Great War youtube channel is also great. They do at least one video a week, on what was happening 100 years ago, plus extras on notable people, questions from viewers, and other things.
That's bullshit. The government at least owes you a song and dance about how it's working for you. Even if you're too poor to pay taxes. Corporations don't owe you anything. When the masses have been squeezed dry they will have nothing to protect themselves from the externalities of corporations. The failure of this government is that it no longer exists. It's a corporation now. Sort of an inter-corporate security/insurance firm. What we actually need is a working government. I can't believe we still have the electoral college. Has no one heard of instant runoff voting? Or what happened in 2000 with Nader and Gore. The problem isn't just government period. It's this pretension of one.
The drop flag is not a reference count. It is an implementation detail, and we could eliminate it if we wanted to.

Swift's value types are less flexible than those of Rust because of the need to maintain soundness in the presence of aliasing and mutation.
>A lot of the arguments/heated debates on HN stem from a failure to define key terms. ... Especially universal basic income.

Can you recommend some definitions that are a good starting place for basic income discussions that we could helpfully point to when discussing that issue?
I completely agree that this can be frustrating. For what it's worth, the data from a research study aren't necessarily going to be clinically informative to a GP or even to a radiologist. Structural MRI data could potentially be interpreted, but the sequences collected for research are still different than what you'd get if you went in for a clinical scan.

And if you're interested in having the data for your own purposes, there may still be some liability concerns for the researchers. There's always an agreement to keep MRI data under strict supervision to avoid leaks of personal health information, so providing those data to participants (safeguards or no) could potentially count as a breach of protocol.
So they have been ordered to implement additional features into their website to make same-sex matches possible, for types of users they don't want on their site in the first place? I don't think that's right.
Ask HN: What are some open REST APIs like Pokéapi?
I'm willing to teach front-end development to some people I know so I'm looking for some APIs like Pokéapi (http://pokeapi.co/), that are easy to deal with and still cool to work with. Some rules I wan't follow:

- Must be a REST API;
- Should not use auth (or some easy one, like passing a simple key on the get params);
- The data should not be too complex (like having to do a lot of requests to fill a view.

I know PublicAPIs (https://www.publicapis.com/) and Todd Motto's public-apis (https://github.com/toddmotto/public-apis), but most of them need auth and/or are not RESTful.

Can somebody help me? :)
should capture RSVPs via https://www.invitespring.com
Practice surgeries go virtual at Chicago medical center
Buy Samsung or Nexus phones only?
Blockchain Helps Brooklyn Dwellers Use Neighbors' Solar Energy
I understand other posters' concerns about the name, but I have to admit it evokes almost the same level of wry wit of Linus, when he christened 'git'.

In fact, the reception this name is getting is quite ironic. Just think about it, and you might just burst out laughing.
OP, your site does not show anything without JavaScript. Is there some feature that needs JS on the page or why is it so?
Recommend reading this piece: http://hintjens.com/blog:115
for some context, and because it's excellent.

Glad to see another update from Pieter, I hope he finds his way out of limbo, preferably healthy.
How the world’s best-performing schools come out on top (2007)
It should be noted that rooms are not "on" a homeserver the way IRC channels are on a network. The server is just a convenient reference point. If it goes down, the room still exists and can still be used, and even given a new name.
In WWI the British used burning timers, which are quite inaccurate due to variable burn rates vs pressure and chemical composition. The Germans had mechanical timers. The battery command post would do the calculations from gun tables, tell the battery the fuse setting (twisting something in the fuse (nose) of the round), then observers would report back and it would be adjusted.

In late WWII the UK invented RF proximity fuses, first for AA then for surface.

Nowadays the guns talk to the shells, the shells run self tests, etc. They will be self aware before too long, a la Darkstar: https://youtu.be/qjGRySVyTDk
I was able to get a copy of my data from a MEG study, supposedly because it was part of my electronic medical record so I was entitled to it. Not sure whether that was sound reasoning, but it got the result I wanted.
It's all relative. At the right level of abstraction, bad statistical analysis is a bug.
Can you say that in a generally digestible way?
> I wonder why learning can't be more like that?

As John Taylor Gatto explains, it is because our education system was designed back in the 19th century to produce factory workers who would follow orders and do the same boring thing all day long.
I don't think there's such a thing as a metaphysical soul. What would that look like anyhow? But I do think any sufficient complex system could show patterns which could be perceived as random. Although they may be hard to reason about.
I believe consciousness arises from such processes, and the perception of free will.
I've learned over the years to completely ignore the 'list price' and simply check camelcamelcamel.com, a website that tracks the prices for most items on the site. If it's within 10% of the lowest price from the past year, I bite. Else: I shop around.

I think consumers are getting savvier over all, and the list price is losing its effect.
I'm curious what you mean by this in a real world situation? It seems like you're advocating the delegation of liberty into the hands of a trusted authority. What if they decide to do something against the interests of a minority?
Slightly Off Topic: What is the term for a socialist that support free market? Or is that a contradiction?
An incredible essay. That closing poem moved me deeply. What a terrible, terrible time in the history of mankind.
This X-shaped sensor will alert you to incoming drones
The same Bernie that now supports Hillary and is himself a part of the incredibly corrupt DNC?
I don't doubt that, but it's $2 Billion we're talking.

An 'unfamiliar database' does not begin to cover it.

Neither do 'last minute changes'.

It was a boondogle from the start, failure in gov, failure in planning etc., failure to understand what they are doing.

Google Engineers had to come in and fix it.
Waldorf education assumes, for completely unscientific reasons that are about as reasonable as homeopathy, that children go through fairly specific phases at fairly specific ages. Based on that belief certain things are taught at specific ages in specific ways. Any deviation from that is seen as harmful to a child's development.

So, their disapproval is not strange at all, it's completely consistent with their view, which is that teaching children younger than 7 about abstract things like reading is harmful.

What is strange is that Waldorf is still a thing. I strongly suspect that a large number of people sending their children to these schools would've never done so, if they were introduced to the theory behind them in detail beforehand. It's certainly not the place to send a child, if you dislike the cookie cutter approach of public school systems, as Waldorf schools are even worse in that respect.
So, is it that you don't get how encryption works, or you think Amazon can access that data somehow?
>"not fully refined" and "unpolished."

When you are talking about 100k luxury sedans isn't that exactly what you are paying for? I expect those things out of my car that costs ~40k.
The problem is there isn't a candidate running who is willing to do the right thing. The Republican Party hasn't been for small government in decades. They take your money and give it to defense contractors and banks, whereas the Democrats take your money and give it to insurance companies and banks. The Republicans eliminate regulations that protect people and competition from corporations while the Democrats enact regulations that protect corporations from people and competition.

Nobody is doing the right thing. That's why the Republican voters nominated The Joker and the Democrats almost nominated Sanders. People are for someone who will shake things up. But the fact is nobody knows what Trump will actually do, so your choices this year are between "clearly bad" and "wait, what?"
If you want to write systems programs, I'd probably focus on the programs you want to write first, and then pick out a language in which to write them - based on the features required and the community support you can gain.

Sure, you may be capable of writing device drivers in Swift, but how much help are you going to get while doing so? How much help will you need? Will it be picked up and used by the community at large? Do any of those matter to you?

Base your language choice off the project, not vice-versa. Remember, Docker was written in Go, zookeeper in Java, and Rails (a web server as well as a framework) in Ruby.
Governments are the more dangerous, objectively speaking. All of them have the monopoly of army and public forces. Not a single corporation in the world could be equally dangerous just based on this.
That was the PR cover. In reality, it was a power grab by the Indian government. How do I know this? Because we repeatedly asked them for the list objectionable content. Chances are that it violated our ToS, and we would take it down without protest. Problem was, they never told us anything. There was no terrorist content. It was all a front. In the end, they wanted us to pledge fealty to India, and take down any content that they (Indian bureaucrats) found objectionable. We refused, and in the end, the hubbub was too much for them and they removed the blocks.

They wanted the ability to take down content that criticized the government, the PM, their government office, anything positive to Pakistan, etc. It was a power move to squash free speech, and they backed down. Terrorism was just a false flag.
Any system in which there is a monopoly on the creation of currency can hardly be called capitalism.
fMRI is great for generating headlines and pretty pictures for the popular media.

However most neurologists view the vast majority of fMRI research as junk science.
Is it slavery if it is the only (statistically) viable reality?
The new CP doesn't offer enough granularity to be fully useful. I'm guessing this was not addressed in time, so they threw in the classic CP to appease users.
But, but, if you accept that French has a formal definition and you do not follow that definition, then you do not, by definition, ipso facto, quod erat demonstrandom, speak French.
What sort of advantage/features do you provide over something like wix.com?
What's the original and new version of that?
Are you sure? There are some pretty scary private security firms. Do you actually know what they have? I hope government really does have a monopoly on force.
So again I ask: how does that fix anything? The government still spent too much money. The site still sucks.

People are already raising a stink they're spending too much money for subpar work, and nothing has changed. Having the code has exactly 0 effect on either of those two issues. Even if a concerned citizen FIXED the code, the odds of the politicians refusing to accept the fixes "for the security of their infrastructure" is upwards of 5-9s. Why on earth would they take those fixes when they're beholden to the people they're already overpaying for the work who likely donate large sums of money to their political campaigns?
Hi, sorry but this is false. There are no such thing as 'stabilising muscles'. Whilst you do learn the proper technique over time (and this eliminates 'shakiness') - this is due to muscle memory and improved proprioception and NOT an increase in strength in stabilising muscles. One caveat - you may improve core strength which could help with stability for some of the more dynamic lifts. Generally on the internet when people say 'stabilising muscles' they have the impression that humans have little extra muscles in the shoulder that help with keeping a bar horizontal or some such which is of course ridiculous.

Source - college athlete.
Yeah this was around before 2004.

As for the thank you, it was probably compensation for whatever damage was caused to the MCG. ;)
Because a Windows style keyboard can [still] be reconfigured using OSX, [1] it might be worth considering the Microsoft Natural Ergonomic 4000. They're inexpensive (as little as $30 US at some retailers), reasonably robust (I've considered replacing mine due to unreadable keycaps not mechanical problems), and for me the layout ergonomics trumps a bar style layout with mechanical switches.

My suspicion is that Microsoft dog fooded these. Anyway, it might be cheap and easy enough to try as a solution.

Good luck.

[1] http://9to5mac.com/2016/03/17/how-to-remap-windows-keyboard-...
Unfortunately I am not familiar with anything outside of the Maryland program, but I do know most colleges offer life experience credits.

With that said, also double check the accreditations. Just because they say they are "accredited" you need to research who they are accredited by. The only reason I bring this up is I had a friend who earned a "BS" degree in computer science from what he was told was an "accredited" school. He went to get a Masters later and was told his BS degree was basically useless. The accreditation was essentially a generic accreditation that didn't mean much. That is why come schools you will see warnings that your credits may not transfer. In the end it cost him more. Luckily he was able to convert much life experience and some of the course work into life experience credit at Maryland so that helped.

With life experience courses you still pay for the credits, but it is deeply discounted. I would check in-state programs if you are in the US to further reduce costs.
This is interesting but I think based on a false assumption. Speaking only for myself I currently buy a lot from Amazon, but it's based entirely on whether a given product is a good deal or not. I have no particular loyalty to Amazon (even though I'm a long time Prime member.) Anything that isn't a good deal, I don't and won't buy from Amazon.
> Has no one heard of instant runoff voting?

Approval voting. You want approval voting. Range voting is actually better but approval voting is almost as good and is a lot simpler for people to understand, and both are better than IRV.
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>“I’m well aware that it is bogus but it is a common marketing tactic that works very well at boosting sales,”

It seems to work on enough people, though.
Does it mean studies like these are likely bunk?

http://kangleelab.com/articles/Paper0002_0009.pdf
https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2016/05/moms-voice-activates-different-regions-in-children-brains.html
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/apr/21/babies-feel-pain-like-adults-mri-scan-study-suggests
https://news.brown.edu/articles/2013/06/breastfeeding

And with bunk I mean doesn't show what they claim.
>"The experiment is set up so that there are no true positives."

No, a true positive is when the null model is called false when it is false. They say the null is known to be false. The errors here are actually the false negatives, in this case that is every "non-significant" result.

>"When the threshold is p<0.05, then 5% of the calls should be positives"

Only if the null model is correct. In this case they describe problematic aspects of their null model. Ie they know it is false.
I know you're memeing a quote, but the etymology of "flammable" is kind of awesome.

Flammable is a word, invented several times over history (most recently in the 1940s), to mean that same thing as "inflammable" (able to become inflamed) because it's important to get correct and the in- prefix confuses people into thinking it means the opposite.

French and Italian apparently have words beginning ininflam- which mean "not-inflammable". Americans prefer an the less ambiguous concoction: "non-flammable".
> As a generalization, how does one explain things where no good mental model exists?

Papert et al. are convinced that computers ought to help with this problem. The idea is that visualizations, even if they are interactive, aren't very useful. Instead, the learner should iteratively build and play with a simple version of a model (a microworld) until the learner gets into the full-fledged model. Preferably by programming the model itself.

It's sad that this idea never caught much traction beyond educating children.
That's what they want you to think ;)
If you specifically issue the command as trying to download a file called "safe_file.txt", and then the actual file that gets downloaded is not only a different file but even a different file name, this is definitely unexpected and un-intuitive.
There's more to it than just testing. If there weren't, then I'd be inclined to agree with the author. What many people fail to realize is that the full form of the scientific method (when applied properly) is:

* make an observation

* form a hypothesis that explains the observation

* design a test to disprove the hypothesis

* carry out the test and collect data

* analyze the results and either reject the hypothesis or formulate a new test

It is the necessity of a hypothesis to be falsifiable, and the intent of the scientist to disprove (not prove) their hypothesis that sets science apart.
'Democratic Socialism' and 'Social Democracy'.

'Democratic Socialism' is almost like communism: 'Social ownership of the means of production' - no real private enterprise, but not quite centrally planned.

'Social Democracy' is socialism + free markets/private enterprise, meaning socialization of some things (i.e. possibly healthcare) and government intervention for the 'wellbeing' of people.

The former is basically far-far left wing, the later not quite as left ... is the political basis for most left wing parties in Europe, especially Scandinavian and somewhat continental as well. Canada's NDP party is basically Social Democracy. Bernie Sanders would probably be described as Social Democracy.
I agree that approval voting is simpler conceptually. I like that IRV lets me prioratize my vote. It's not that much more complicated. Counting the vote is a lot harder but the voters don't have to do that. If 60% prefer Gore to Bush and 90% of them prefer Nader to Gore then you don't get the "correct" result. You'd have Gore beating Nader with 60% vs 54% approval when 54% (the majority) of the population actually prefered Nader to Gore. They can't risk leaving Gore unapproved because then Bush might win. IRV solves this.
The question is whether capitalism should be redeemed, no?
I was struck by this part

"The MPL team was not the ideal workforce: They were (and remain) contractors to contractors. They were not protected by a union, nor did they enjoy the many benefits of working as public employees. They are coders-for-hire who could relocate across the country quickly, and they reflect the larger industry they work in: Mostly young, mostly male, and highly educated. It does not have to be this way. This kind of precarious employment—lucrative, quasi-nomadic—is as much the result of poor planning as a natural consequence of writing code for a living."

Why are any of those things not ideal? What's wrong with being contractors to contractors,non-unionized, young, male or educated? Or am I misunderstanding the author's point?
But dental and vision plans have always been poor deals with low yearly coverage limits and high copay. I find it hard to believe people would work just for those two things when a lot will come out of your pocket anyway.
Well, you could assume he meant "secure" in the same sense as many of us in the industry would interpret it today and conclude that he is a dimwit. Or you could read the sentence right before which gives the context for the use of the word "secure". Reading into any more than that is pure speculation.
Market socialists exist, take a look at the former Yugoslavia, or the ideas of people like Proudhon