skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Excluding incorrect views is difficult. If you only do it lightly, as is done with the holocaust you don't get very far. If you go further, say what China is doing, you get quite a lot of criticism which can be a problem.

You also risk succumbing to your own biases and excluding information that is correct. If that happens and the truth comes out, which it always does, your state eventually becomes unstable.
Yes, it's been my experience to always transfer the foreign currency to China and do the exchange there. But that's something to always check with any countries... It's very easy to assume and lose a substantial amount of money.
Many animals kill not just for survival but for play and sport.

Any cat owner has observed this behavior.
I didn't include the direct link to the town's statement because the website has been struggling under the load, it was timing out yesterday.
Reacting to painful stimuli is not clearly the right yardstick. If I build a deep belief network which meows every time it encounters a penalty in its stimuli and wags a tail every time maximizes its reward function, does it follow that we now have to treat it as if it's human ? I'd say no. Similarly, the fact that a cow reacts to pain stimuli doesn't automatically mean that I shouldnt eat that cow
Wellington is very windy and thus cold, but it has nice bar culture, is small and very lovely overall.

Auckland is much larger and warmer. Number of beaches around so the culture is more around surfing. Also quite a few nice hiking areas ~1hr drive away. I only been in Melbourne and SF for a few days, but Auckland definitely beats them in quality of life.

Xero is always seem to be hiring something. There is also a strong albeit small group of functional programmers (find via meetup.com).
I wish there were places like New Zealand and Australia with less restrictive laws. It's practically the most ideal place for a person like me to live except the local laws are alien and restrictive to me.

I wish I knew of a place with few people, few laws, and cheap land.
Please don't make this thread even less substantive. Also, on HN, please don't do the internet thing of picking the worst thing you can find (or gin up) about somebody and hauling it around on a truck with speakers.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12026394 and marked it off-topic.
Taleb's “Real World Risk Institute”
Any discussion about Green Cards or permanent US residency should always mention eventual exit tax[1]: "...to deter tax avoidance by abandonment of citizenship, the United States imposes an expatriation tax on some of those who give up U.S. citizenship. The tax also applies to green-card holders who abandon U.S. residency after having held a green card for at least 8 of the last 15 tax years."

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expatriation_tax#United_States
>I was, but people also inflict physical suffering on themselves, from fasting to literal self-flagellation and mutilation. There have been people who offered themselves up for literal torture and sacrifice gladly

This behaviour you describe is usually mediated by some kind of non-biological impulse -- like the 'certain' 'knowledge' that the Hairy Thunderer/Cosmic Muffin will reward this suffering in some future-/afterlife. Those impulses are all related to the pointless social factors that you decry. These people suffering is still an evil, even if they ultimately inspire something that outweighs the evil of their suffering (religious revolution, buying time/forgiveness for their loved ones, etc). Plus, you're still splitting hairs because it's not like these individuals are feeling pleasure or not anticipating pain uncomfortably. Next up, BDSM!

>>>You're simply trying to exploit a "hack" in my social animal brain, which is that if you tell me that something is wrong, you are telling me that other members of the human herd will judge me unfavorably and perhaps ostracize me or otherwise punish me. Some people, but not very many, will be swayed by your attempted brain-exploit. But I, again, observe that my conscious feels guilt-free, which is a very strong sign that the people I am surrounded by do not, in fact, disapprove of my eating meat, and also that the vast majority of people I know actually eat meat. So somewhere in my hindbrain, I realize that you are (from my perspective) lying to me, and it will make me instinctively resentful of you, because you have marked yourself as a member of The Other

You typed this, right? Then you typed:

>> and your self-described thresholds for othering members of your social circle.

>I was describing how people in general work, not 'othering members of my social circle.' People do not respond positively to being told something they do or like is evil. I don't think that is a controversial statement

Is this how 'people in general work', or is this you Othering someone? Did your interlocutor turn out to be utilizing the technique you perceived him to be?
What about laser cutting the wood? I'm making a gear clock driven by stepper motors that shows the weather and while I'm handy enough with a scroll saw that I could could probably cut the parts, I went with laser cutting the wood instead.

The other nice thing about the laser cutter is that you can engrave the number/lettering directly onto the parts, though the downside is that the edges will be much darker from the laser burns.
I was confused by this as well.
I firsthand observed the fall of communist regime in my country (1989). A lot of ordinary citizens (some of them with great education and so on) were very childlike when interacting with the non communist world and the new rules. There was naivete in the population that was exploited and cashed to the fullest. Ponzi schemes, predatory advertising, cults, quacks ...

When the rules of the game change drastically - we are all children until we figure out the new ones.
This really depends on what your production environment requires. LibreSSL is mostly API compatible with OpenSSL but removes FIPS and support for esoteric platforms. If your production environment requires Windows 3.1 or big endian amd64 then probably LibreSSL is not ready for your production environment. Seriously though some of us are already using LibreSSL in production without problems.
I didn't know it was easier for people from Australia. I have many Indian and Chinese co workers who have worked for years in the US and still sweat visa issues. It also limits their ability to job hop because immigration status chips away at stability and confidence.
What if an animal can communicate a complex though to another animal? Like we do?
Oh, sorry. I just read the link and followed it and thought I would share it directly. :(
I believe such self-pay discount is given "under the table." I.e. the provider is breaking Medicare rules, but expects not to get caught. Which is why you cannot get large providers to do this.
> Because that knowledge tells you absolutely nothing about any given individual.

You can't know the heart of any man: all you can do is make predictions about how he will behave under various circumstances, based on the observations you have made of his behaviour so far. To ignore an observation with strong statistical power because you don't like it is simply unscientific.
I use tmux constantly. But if you are happy with screen, I don't see any reason to switch. I hate articles that say "you should use $new_tool instead!" when they should be "Here's why I like $new_tool better than $old_tool"
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12023024 and marked it off-topic.
In the absence of other imperatives, financial or deadlines, it's easy to become overly-concerned with style and purity.

And then you never stop bike-shedding.
2000 was 16 years ago, so it's important to understand that NZ is no longer the same country that you knew. I left in 2005 for the UK and can't imagine returning to NZ to live (last time I visited was 2010). Here's just a few reasons:

* I've been spoiled by UK broadband speeds and NZ just doesn't compare.

* Food is more expensive, and not of the quality that I'm now used to (fresh seafood would be the exception).

* Higher tax relative to what I pay in the UK as a contractor.

* Real estate prices are now worse than in the UK

* It's an isolated country, you can't just hop on a cheap plane and find yourself in a completely different country & culture an hour or two later.

* Purchasing power is greatly limited. In the UK I can buy virtually any obscure item that I want online and get a good price, including P+P. Not so in NZ.

* There's very little variety in the job market for software developers, few 'cool' or cutting edge companies and no startup scene worth speaking of.

* Finally, cultural experiences are extremely limited. I know I'd miss all the museums, art exhibitions, theatre, concerts, comedians, ballet, opera and so forth. One of the biggest reasons that I left was because of boredom and the UK/EU certainly alleviated that.

Source: 27 years of living in NZ.
I've found that the best way to save money is not to manage every penny but manage your own expectation of what is expensive and what is cheap.

A lot of people increase their spendings proportionally to their income so when they get more money, they acquire more expensive tastes, go to more expensive restaurants, buy more expensive cars and so on.

It's an easy trap to fall into especially with peer pressure but if you can avoid it, then it becomes easy to spend less than what you earn without tracking every penny (or at least it's easy for most people here who tend to earn more than the median salary).
The Kids Are All Right–but Why?
Even if we assume that all the parts are present and connected (not clear), surely having 90% reduced neural availability would lead to observable defects (e.g. psychosis, dissociative disorders/schizophrenia) if the neurons were directly responsible for consciousness.

Yet this doesn't seem to be the case here (and in the other example someone else mentioned in this thread) which leads weight to the theories that treat consciousness as meta and emergent.
That was my perception as well: the rat immediately tried to mount the rat that had been trapped.

My issue is not with the results of the study, but with interpretation. I think it's possible to explain the desire to free the other rat purely in selfish terms without any nods to altruistic or empathic behavior.
Agree on China pop.

Russia has less than half the pop of US, and it's declining.
With names removed, I don't see why a cleric can't share non-confessional details with a psychiatrist, nor vice versa. Are you seriously saying that in the U.K. one can't discuss cases with names removed? How does the Lancet stay in business then?
To vendor or not to vendor, that is a question
In programming, that which you're calling the map is in fact the territory. The analog of a map is design documents: these indicate how the territory is going to be soon, or how it is.

In the physical world, we change the territory (e.g. alter the landscape, build). That's what is analogous to coding.

It is helpful for the territory and all of its manipulations to be clean and well-organized.

This is not just an "obsession" of "university coders".
I am not an expert, but as someone who has occasionally paid cash for medical procedures, I know one way it happens: deliberately mis-classifying procedures. You've probably seen doctors check off a few things in a tiny print grid that you then hand to the receptionist to pay for your appointment. Many of the things on that are judgement calls or close enough to each other that anyone not in the room could never tell which it really was.

For example, if you go to your eye doctor, they can bill you for a standard visit, a refraction (getting your prescription), an eye health check, a super-duper health check because they found something and needed to look at it more, an eye health check with dilation, etc.

I have gone to eye doctors who will do everything and then ask at the end of the appointment what my insurance situation was. If I'm on insurance, bang, they charge me for all of it. If not, they just charge me for the refraction and forget about the rest.
The only exception you ever need to throw
That's an interesting article, but do you have a pointer to any discussion of it?
> based on the observations
> you have made of his
> behaviour so far

That's what interviews and resumes are for. I would be interested to know how you would practically hire for race while not being hit by the halo effect for one race on one hand, and not missing strong candidates through racism on the other.
What’s your ideal for democracy? In India it's not only easy to build political parties and contest elections but also very good chance of winning them and having a majority/influential stake in the assembly/Parliament. Unlike many popular western "democracies".

Giving one instance of 1984 just demonstrates stark biasness/ignorance, in fact it was the pre-private television/internet era. Since those two things have arrived on the stage, free speech has taken itself to an extreme level and powerful politicians/celebrities are ridiculed like anything.

You seem to have zero understanding about Modi and in fact it's due to that "free speech", that perception of yours have been created. He hardly responds on allegations and instead focus his energies on doing the work, which gives opponents/critics a free hand of propagandizing wrong perception about him through that free speech.

The India you might have lived has changed a lot, it’s more open, more daring and more “democratic” than ever before!
I was using tmux for a while after years of using screen. At least for my use case, the main thing I liked better about tmux was that windows (or whatever the proper term is) get their names updated based on the command running. In screen, I would have to manually change the name (maybe there is a way around this but I was always too lazy to find out).

Why I switched back to screen:

1. It's more commonly installed. Not a big deal these days, but still.

2. It's really easy to resize a window to fit whatever terminal window I'm using: C-a F. As far as I could find, there is no way to do this with tmux.
I use a jump-server, so I can ssh in, and connect to an existing tmux session. If I handled my terminals locally, I wouldn't be able to do that.
The green card process wasn't specifically helped by being Australian but more by being from a country that does not submit a lot of green card applications.

There's a rate limiting approach so that countries can not use more than a certain amount of USCIS's application processing bandwidth. Currently China, Mexico, India, Honduras, The Philippines, El Salvador and Guatemala are being "rate limited".

Here are some tables about the backlog for each country in each category: https://travel.state.gov/content/visas/en/law-and-policy/bul...
The lyrics for the first couple of Carcass albums were pulled from medical texts, so I think lyrical content is pretty flexible. But, the nonmetal words almost sound like a very boring BBC program about people in an office in the 19th century; like Eastenders with stuffy accountants. It'd be an interesting challenge.
What are the advantages of using something like this over installing your own gateways?
Slaughter is a hassle, but so is harvesting berries. And you get a lot of burgers from a single cow; you'd have to do it significantly less than once a year. I'm not sure if that's a very strong argument against a food.
See also: Rats Remember Who's Nice to Them—and Return the Favor http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2015/02/150224-rats-...
It's a different experience each time ... but sometimes it's quite pleasant.
Maybe I'm just jaded, but everyone on slashdot has always seemed like a cynical, tin foil hat wearing, "neckbeard".
> What you're arguing for is
> categories of 'forbidden
> knowledge'

No, I'm expressly calling attempting to make useful decisions on individuals based on small differences in wider populations illogical and non-rational. It would not be difficult to model this mathematically.
Income Inequality Is at the Highest Level in American History
Homeless in Seattle: The roots of a crisis
My wife is a member of the R.N. club, but sadly it appears that there are no perks associated.
Can you give couple examples of such laws?
No, the .pyc files are just the source code translated to bytecode when you import the .py file (notice that running with "python somefile.py" doesn't generate a somefile.pyc, the .pyc is created when you import, from inside python or another script).

.pyc files are created for "faster importing", and they remove having to parse and "compile to bytecode" the .py files.
Push-parsing and Pony
Hopefully when super-advanced telepathic aliens show up on Earth they don't think the same way about us because we can't communicate complex thought in the same way they can.
Project Bloks
What did you find disappointing about the US?

I moved here a few years ago and have had my Green Card for a while. The US is every bit as I expected and even more. I love this country more than I've ever loved my home country.
every python programmer who has every used Numpy or Pandas, and in my opinion this is where Python shines and why it's so huge in scientific programming, is "dropping into native". So actually a large amount of people are doing so. And I find Python to be an excellent glue language with almost anything I can think of being possible, and much of my heavy lifting being extremely efficient, especially if you use a modern AVX-enabled Numpy.

Arguably anybody who ever accessed a database in Python is also "dropping into native". That's why no sane database is written in Python, but plenty of database-using applications are.

The only language I have discovered that approaches the efficiency of Python as "glue" is R, but it's about 20x slower, and doesn't even try to be threaded (which can be a big problem for IO sensitive glue tasks).
Synthetic spider silk could revolutionize clothing
Actually, I think it's an excellent comparison.

The part that makes OSX and Apple in general so good is that it just works. It really does. It never crashes, never locks up and works year after year.

A hackintosh does not do that, and is only a close second.
Who else here on HN is working with LoRa?

In my opinion it can be a very interesting business offering a global team of expert of the subject.

Feel free to contact me on the address on my profile.
They tend to just say "we need this permission for the application/extension to work correctly". And stop at this.

Seriously, a certain (quite famous, 5M installs) app got an update that requested a permission to install packages (!). It was actually harmless, as granting this won't work - the system won't allow this to non-system apps, but nonetheless it had just looked wrong.

I've emailed their support, asking why is it there. And - guess what? The reply was, essentially, "we need it because we do, it's required for the app to work, sorry but can't disclose the exact details". Well, polite, but essentially like this.

Long story short, I've accidentally mentioned this on a friend's blog, and my comment was noticed by his friend who had connections to the app's company (world's small, hah!) - so the ticket got elevated and took a proper review. Result is, this had just accidentally slipped from some dependency's development builds. Or something like that. Got apologies for the dubious response and a discount coupon, and the issue was fixed.

The thing is, it seems that a) I highly suspect, most users don't give a second thought about about accepting this permission (would there be more reports on this, I guess, the tier-1 support would know about the issue and the response would be different) and b) the initial attitude is "we know better".
Nowhere did I claim that pigs ought to be treated as humans. For that matter, nowhere did I say you shouldn't eat that cow. Why are you trying to imply that I did?

Your thought experiment ignores a lot of established facts, like the neurological structural similarities between, say, pigs and humans. Both have amygdalae, both have periaqueductal grey, both have similar pain avoidance behaviours. Why not assume that pigs feel pain? If you're willing to ignore structural (same hardware) and behavioural (same software) similarities between pigs and humans, how can you tell that I feel pain? If my similarities to you in both physicality and reaction are not enough to convince you I feel pain, why are my words enough? And if they are, if I build a deep belief network which says "ouch, fuck" every time it encounters a penalty in its stimuli and says "awesome" every time it maximizes its reward function, does it follow that we now have to treat it as if it's human? I'd say no.
SSL Is Not a Badge of Total Security
Bit Twiddling Hacks (2005)
Here's a discussion about such an article:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12024794
I hope this process becomes part of mainstream dental medicine. Our current dental technology feels backward compared to other fields of medicine
GLOWWORM – Unkeyed Jam Resistance [pdf]
I suspect he has experienced it often enough to know what is going on, he just didn't provide the full facts of why he thought so, which is understandable since that's not the subject of the article.

I've been living in India for nearly a decade now. Casteism and religion-ism are very non-obvious to those unaffected (or positivrly affected) by it, but spend enough time outside your bubble and you start realizing that it exists often in an undercurrent and start recognizing situations like the one he talks of for what they really are. I've seen far more overt versions of his anecdote play out; I have no trouble believing him there.
You spend a weekend butchering and you're set for the year, assuming a large enough freezer. No more trips to the store for meat, just walk to the freezer. The equipment to make the job tolerable is a large initial expense, but it'll probably last you the remainder of your life. In the end, the fries are probably more hassle because you're less likely to have a year's supply of cheese fry ingredients lying around. Source: I haven't always been a vegetarian.
> Is this how 'people in general work'

Yes.

> or is this you Othering someone?

Who would be othered by that statement?

> Did your interlocutor turn out to be utilizing the technique you perceived him to be?

That statement is about a fact, not anyone else in the conversation, so it doesn't matter.
OP isn't removing the names.
...including his own father, of which he speaks in the piece.

So, how are gay people (of which he is as well) treated in India again? Is section 377 any closer to being repealed?
One of the design choices of Unifont is to trade quality for coverage:

"Unifont is a creation of Roman Czyborra, who in 1998 lamented that seven years after Unicode's first release, there was still no single font that could display all Unicode characters. He suggested that if expectations of font quality were lowered to that of a bitmapped font, achieving coverage of Unicode would be easier."

So, if you render everything with it, it won't be very pretty. But it makes a great fall back option for missing glyphs.

source: https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/unifont
For the JavaScript Hipsters: JavaScript Pocket T-Shirt
An E-3 is more like a TN.

The H1-B has a lengthy application process, there is a maximum number of consecutive years you can be on one, there are more applications than availability, there's a transfer process, it is dual intent, and what else?

None of which are characteristics of the E-3, which is practically instant and infinitely renewable and expressly not dual intent.
While Cython was made to "write C with Python", it also allows you to write wrappers to use C libraries from python, and quite easily too (compared to other alternatives).