skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If an activity is illegal than naturally only radicals will express a dissenting opinion on the topic. But this has no bearing on what is right.

>could've done a better job at education

There is no test that can be made to compare different educational systems since neither knowledge nor creativity can be measured. My guess is that the students who perform best in exams are the most damaged in terms of their ability to think independently. They also become the strongest defenders of the system that did this to them.

>anti-authoritarian profile

Can you see the paradox in being made to attend an 'anti-authoritarian' institution for years on end until it changes who you are and kind of person you will become?
This[1] explains the various fuzing types pretty well. Generally, some sort of intertial or centrifugal striker lights a fuse-train of constant-speed burning powder, which subsequently ignits the main charge. Timed fuzes could be set by either punching a hole through the delay spiral into the trigger charge at a specific point, or rotating a metal collar on the shell which had the same effect.

I think they would have all been set manually, although probably with reference to markings on the fuzes themselves for either time or distance. Experience and/or feedback from the artillery spotters would indicate if they were bursting too early or late (and many would have backup impact fuzes in case they were too late).

[1] http://www.passioncompassion1418.com/decouvertes/english_fus...
Reminds me of an experimental school my grandparents had started in Australia around the Second World War. Unstructured lessons in nature and student involvement in decision making.

Sadly it had to close due to lack of funding at the end of the war. There is a short documentary made before closing showing the student parliament and school life - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kg7TJ2WRndM
I used one telco provider in Philippines for a while that did something like this, sending lots of SMS spam. I had to threaten cancellation to get it slowed down.

In the USA, T-Mobile spammed me like this. Again, very difficult to stop the spam.

I think eventually this will be unstoppable, at which point I guess I'll stop using SMS and/or stop using phones.

I can't wait 'til the day I'm sitting in a group, and everyone keeps pulling out their phones every 30 seconds to clear another SMS spam, and then call me a luddite when I say I don't have a phone.
The thing I don't get about Amazon is they've allowed entire categories of products to become unbuyable from their site. Batteries? Every review seems to indicate what's sold is some substandard knock-off. Medical products like thermometers? They're all reviews from people who got the product for free in exchange for writing a review. Their brand is rapidly being tarnished in my view.
Wasn't the list price being nonsense marketing widely acknowledged?

I've had a fantasy of opening up a convenience store with absurd list prices.

Candy bar, was $1,200, now only $1.29! Save over $1,100! 99+% off! Maybe have multiple numbers slashed down to get to the final price, etc.

Then when the person leaves the store with 5 items I'd say things like "You've saved $94,650 today!"
In case it wasn't clear, I meant the OP is biting the hand that feeds.
This is medical data. "Open repository" and "medical data on individuals" doesn't really mix well. Ask the next person denied health insurance based on an open access fmri scan (Just to name the most basic/trivial example).

In fact, "simpler" things like heart rate etc, are not so simple, as mixed with other factors that are needed for control, such data can be surprisingly hard to meaningfully anonymize. I'm not saying we should give up on open medical data, but it is definitively different from eg: open data regarding a physics or chemical experiment, material science etc.

[ed: There's of course projects to collect data, but limit access - in that sense it can be "open" but one would need permission approval to work with the data. There are many such projects, like for Norway, for questionnaires and similar research: http://www.nsd.uib.no/personvern/om/english.html - research that uses standard clauses for possible re-use is also available to be combined with new studies and meta-studies. Often these data are only available in aggregate and/or anonomyzed form.]
There is no monopoly on the creation of currency in the US because it's not a business activity.

The Fed, though technically privately owned, is effectively independent.

Yes, it's basically insane that the Fed is not a nationalized entity, but at the same time ... not much would change if the government did nationalize it, I don't think, anyhow.

The power structure and decision making process would be the same.
Collection of different samples to architecture your Android apps -from Google
>"Okay, why do you think the null is crappy?"

Because their goal is to determine if some sort of treatment has an effect. If the null is false for other reasons, then statistical significance can't be used to support the existence of a treatment effect. So these would be pointless, pedantic calculations.
> Too bad that memory management is still tedious

I don't find it onerous. It also depends which compiler you're using. Delphi uses Automatic Reference Counting for Android and iOS:

http://blog.marcocantu.com/blog/delphi_arc_android.html

http://docwiki.embarcadero.com/RADStudio/Berlin/en/Automatic...
Another example are Laments by a great Polish 16th century poet (Kochanowski).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laments_(Kochanowski)
The proximity of death turns many people philosophical.
I like reading what people think when looking at life from that perspective.
I also enjoyed reading an article which was posted in HN some years ago, about the more common regrets of people on their deathbeds: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2012/feb/01/top-fiv...
No sweat, thanks for the heads up.
Yes unfortunately JavaScript is required. Instead of using <noscript> I opted for paper invitations in the mail as a fallback.
> finance industry manipulates the economy in secretive or abstract ways, which makes them distant and incomprehensible.

Hahaha... the finance industry manipulation is "distant and incomprehensible?". Tech is simpler? LOL...

If so why is there such a backlash among ordinary Americans regarding finance?

As for Ms Warren, she is a clever politician in the Obama mode -- nice speeches (in her case tough sounding ones), berate public officials publicly, pretend to stand up for ordinary people, get good airtime.

This is a woman who should have taken on Hillary Clinton and would have a solid chance of trashing her. At the very least, she should have come out solidly as a Sander's supporter. In fact, a Sanders-Warren ticket would have seen the GOP lose with a huge margin.

In the end it is just talk and high falutin' drama, nothing has changed. The bankers are still at it, decent economists are warning we are back to 2008 levels of risk. But now that the finance berating ship has sailed, she is focusing on tech.

A sore disappointment. Heck, I would even go as far as to echo the "Goofy" name tag.
That is strange regarding T-Mobile. I've yet to get any spam from them. The only thing I get is an SMS a few days before billing occurs monthly.
" Bernie could have swung the scales towards infrastructure, unionism, and lowering inequality, which would put dollars in the pockets of the poor, which would in turn be spent directly into the economy."

That's a little bit of a stretch.

Inequality is a problem mostly because:

A) The benefits of globalism go to the 1%, then to the middle class in terms of cheaper prices, but the working class lose jobs.

B) US has massive importation of low-skilled immigrants. They go right at the bottom. You don't need a 'messed up system' - if you just add poor people, you increase inequality.

C) Bernie is an old-time socialist - he has no new ideas, really. I've heard him talk, he wants to massive increase wealth distribution and do it by taxing 'the rich'. This never works out, really. 'Infrastructure' is a cover - really, it's a wealth transfer exercise. Europe and Canada tried that in the 1960's it didn't go s well.

The problem is really difficult, and it's exacerbated by the sheer size of the US, also there are no ethnic ties. Sweden is only the size of Los Angeles - and they are 'Swedes' an ethnic group with fraternal social order, a Monarchy, a State Church, common cultural identity. It's easier to 'redistribute' when the person getting the service is someone you know.

The best kind of 'redistribution' is 'jobs'. Surely, increasing the minimum wage a little bit might work, and possibly having unions where none exist (Wallmart?), but strengthening already existing unions - particularly in the auto-sector and government is not going to help anyone - they are part of the problem. Auto workers and gov. workers are massively overcompensated relative to their private sector peers. Gov unions are one of the reasons government is so massively inefficient. If Bernie could fix that, that'd be great - but he's a politician, he's never had a normal job and wouldn't have a clue how to do it.

I think moving towards empowering people, making sure they can participate in the global wealth creation is very important, but 1960's style socialism is not the answer.
Hey— the wedding is less than 2 hours away from my house! That's...interesting.
That hardly sounds civilized.

What if the sheep can't arm themselves? What if the wolves are better armed?
I'm not capable of putting words together to express how much your comments rang true on the discussion of prejudice (though societies whimsical nature towards one mega fauna dying vs deforestation, a sexual assault vs. the Catholic Churches paedophile circles) was far too raw.

So instead, I'll digress to the stereotype of my generation and settle for a hasthag.

#mindblown
Looks cool, do you have an online demo/sandbox?
The Fed is not technically privately owned. It derives its authority from Congress.

https://www.federalreserve.gov/faqs/about_14986.htm

When it makes a profit, it pays a little bit of it to member banks and the rest of it to the US Government.

I guess there aren't really laws about scrip in the US, but taxpayers know which money they like.
>Most companies I've seen are full of stimulus-response people.

Most companies I've seen turn perfectly good work-driven people into stimulus-driven wrecks.

I think it should be punishable, since it's very similar to a more labour-oriented employer creating circumstances where physical accidents happen.
Quantum effects are still physical. If your behavior is determined by the collapse of a wavefunction, is that more free-willish than behavior determined by a prior state? A double-slit photon doesn't choose a slit via free will, so I'm not sure how quantum mechanics helps inject free will into the brain.
Just found this and I love it. Going to be using it a lot from now on.
An Erlang WAT-story about guards and guards
Very good point on the "got product free" reviews - seems bizarrely misguided.
Why the most famous people in history took long walks
This is basically how pachinko gets around gambling laws in Japan
Also reproduction rates. From what I understand, in hunter-gatherer societies, children were breast-fed for a number of years, and, since women generally are infertile when nursing, children were spaced out. With agriculture infants came to be fed on porridge, goats milk, etc, and so the size of families increased greatly. And this made sense economically, since children can't hunt and are of limited use gathering, but even a very young one can pull weeds.
Oh yes, rando on Hacker News is far more educated about philosophy of science than an actual philosopher!

Surely he knows about Popper (duh!).
That does not answer my question. Is there a feature that absolutely needs JS on the page? If so, what is it?
The very existence of corporations is owed to government intervention. Speaking of corporations within a "free market" is incoherent at that point.
That's not the expensive bit. At some point it has to hit the legacy phone network.
Lots of countries actually have laws against this.

(But you might get away with it, if it's outrageous enough to be clearly a joke.)
Is it really supposed to have everything on the front page left-aligned in very wide white boxes? Because that's what I get on Safari. http://imgur.com/AnsXVoY
Honestly, what is and isn't a good deal is up to the buyer. If I see something I need on Amazon, and the price seems like a good value, I buy it. I don't worry too much about shopping around because my time is worth something and I have a ballpark idea of what a "good value" is for anything I would buy online.
You're an inspiration Pieter. Thank you for all of your contributions to building a better world.
I think you're missing the point. Of course there's nothing this site can't do without JS. It's a side project to learn a new framework.
There's also the possibility to vote on values, but bet on beliefs.

Ie vote on your priorities and what you want to get done. Then use a prediction market (possibly on a very informal level, if it's a small group), to decide on a policy to reach those goals.
Whoa! I simply observed that both Rust and Swift eliminate their respective forms of reference counting when the lifetimes are statically known. The optimization is analogous, even if the nature of the reference counting is very different, as you say.

To be sure, the proper Rust analog of Swift classes is Rc/Arc, not drop flags.

> Swift can never eliminate the runtime overhead of garbage collection. That's because, at a language level, Rust has static lifetime semantics and Swift has dynamic semantics.

Would you agree that Rust can never eliminate the runtime overhead of dynamic dispatch, because trait objects, at a language level, require dynamic dispatch? I would not agree: Rust programmers routinely eliminate it by sticking to the statically-dispatched areas of the language. Likewise, Swift programmers routinely avoid the runtime overhead of reference counting by using structs and not classes.
Look at Arabic; one "language" despite being barely mutually intelligible between, say, Iraq and Morocco.
Really glad that you like it!

I feel that it's a difficult site to monetize. Part of the appeal is that it can be more convenient than having a resizing application on your computer. I think adding sign in (a dependency for premium plans) would undermine that a bit.

At the moment, it's still growing quickly, doesn't take up much of my time and costs barely anything to run. Given those circumstances, I don't feel I need to rush into monetizing. I'd rather wait and see.

Probably the best thing that could happen in the meantime is widespread adoption of a very low friction micropayments platform. I think PayPal or bitcoin are best positioned for that, but I haven't seen any signs of that ideal scenario coming to fruition any time soon.
Someone once made this remark to me when I was in an undergrad architecture program (not the CS kind). He said "the biggest difference you'll see between grad students and undergrads is that undergrads will live in studio but waste most of their time; graduate students come in, work, get their work done, and leave."
Does anyone know if the Firefox phones are still around / in use in India? I actually had a friend import the Intex Firefox phone (don't remember the name, it's got 128mb of RAM and a dead-end FXOS version). It's utterly painful to use - I hope the situation has gotten better for users there.
As a game developer, it saddens me that this[1] is our industry's interpretation of WWI.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7nRTF2SowQ
Static technology, which is something different than tactics or positions. The article does not do the subject of technological progression necessary justice. Many of the effects described as if true throughout the war, specifically the blast effects, changed radically with technology (think fragmentation rounds).
The San Francisco Bay Area Sucks
I loved doing this in Ruby:

if (x = y)
x += 10
end

(assign y to x and operate on x if x is truthy )

The optional parens reminds me that this is a deliberate assignment. But as someone who now teaches Python, I thank the Python gods who disallowed such syntactic sugar. I've found it impossible to overestimate how difficult it is for beginners to grok "a = b"...and can you blame them, after years for math instruction telling them that that equals sign means something else? (Never mind the clusterfuck that occurs when trying to teach SQL -- which also uses singal equals sign for equality -- in tandem with a scripting language. The cognitive difficulty is so high that I've considered switching to teaching R, which at least has the optional arrow operator, "a <- b"
No, we figured that out decades ago, which is why capitalism was generally abandoned in the developed world in favor of the modern mixed economy. "Capitalism" is now, though, used in at least three conflicting ways:

(1) To refer to actual capitalism (the real system dominant in the developed world in the late 19th and early 20th century, described and named "capitalism" by its socialist critics),

(2) To refer to modern mixed economies as opposed to forms further from capitalism, such as Leninism and its derivatives,

(3) To refer to a utopian realization of Econ 101 ideal markets, whose adherents seen to believe is actually a plausible economics system rather than a useful simplification in the same way as a friction-free model in physics.

The former, as mentioned above, cannot be redeemed, though a synthesis with other ideas is possible (and now dominant) that mitigates some of its worst elements.

The second may be improvable while still recognizably remaining a form of the modern mixed economy.

The third isn't realistic, much less redeemable.
Something about the way the borders around the photos shrink while scrolling bugs me. I guess it feels a little akin to how the paintings change in the Disney land/world Haunted Mansions. It's not horrible, but I'm not sure what your intention with the effect was supposed to be.

That said, Congratulations, on the wedding and the website.
What was the motivation to create this?
Yeah, 45min from me in Myrtle Beach, SC - small world!
What if it was a dating website that didn't allow African Americans or Jewish people on the site?

Now what if it was a physical establishment? Say, a whites-only lunch counter?

Of course, some hold the position that no anti-discrimination law should be applicable to a private business. If so, at least that's ideologically consistent, though IMO historically naive.

But if you allow for such laws IRL, so to speak, then extending those same laws to the online sphere is, I think, perfectly rational.
@nonbel: Are you saying that an fMRI, when taken of a subject at rest, twice - then what the data here show - is that this is likely to be interpreted as a subject in two different states? And the researchers are ignoring the fact, rather insisting that we should be able to tell that these two states are the same (and then, perhaps tell them from other states)?

I see a few ways this could come about: perhaps the way we record and model activity doesn't conform to the distribution we assume (I'm not sure if they assume a normal distribution here - or if that even makes sense given the nature of the data) -- or perhaps the issue is with taking 3d/4d data and "turning it into" an easy-to-model statistical model (like the normal distribution)?

At any rate, it does seem that they're saying we can't tell that one individual at rest, measured twice, is in the same (rest) state both times? Hence, they're null hypothesis is bunk?
So when I check the "Use amazon smile" option, you guys don't get any money?
Most likely, they A/B tested it and liked what they saw. Interesting development considering Nordstrom's failure with the same experiment.
You're only getting that result by having 100% of the voters who prefer Nader to Gore approve of both while 100% of the voters who prefer Gore to Nader only approve of Gore. In which case approval voting does what it's supposed to do and gives the election to the candidate with the highest approval.

Moreover, the problem you're trying to solve is Arrow's Impossibility Theorem, which is provably impossible to do. You could have a third of voters prefer each candidate but majorities prefer Nader to Gore, Gore to Bush and Bush to Nader.
What is obvious to you is not necessarily obvious to anyone else. If I look around and see something different, then what?

I'm not disagreeing with your conclusions. Your previous argument is crap, and that should be obvious.

This:

"In order to equalize income, those of greater-than-average productivity would have to have some of their wealth redistributed, ergo less free."

Is part of an actual argument. "Just look around" is not.

But for what it's worth, I do not agree that freedom intrinsically requires total control of wealth. That it currently does is an artifact of our present culture. I don't even agree that the wealth is "theirs" to begin with.
Ask HN: How do you calculate development mandays?
Hi there, recently I've been using promodoro to help me focus on my work. I found that I'm much much more productive.

Given a custom CRUD module,I take less than 6 hours to complete vs 1-3 days before using promodoro.. what would be the best way to charge my client based on mandays? Or rather how do you estimate the mandays?

I've seen a company charges 5 mandays for a navigation bar, it seems ridiculous to me. Well maybe I'm wrong, please enlighten me
* Solution Architect would require deep thinking.

* Research Jobs. Microsoft Research for example.

* PhD - you may get some living allowance, which will allow you to 'survive" if you have no mortgage or family to support.

If you want to think deep then choose carefully who you work for. If they need to "move fast and break things" then you may not get the chance to think deep.
Wow, $115k is what a junior engineer can expect at Bloomberg a year out of school. Good luck with your search!
Religions discussion aside, they broke California law. That right there is enough to warrant either two choices: they adhere to the law, or they stop serving in California.
You can't seriously think mother's have not mourned a dead child at all times.

Even from the logical point of view of if they don't love and miss why care for the child at all.
Its a sign of heavy corruption and non existent consumer protection laws.
Weak Entities, Referential Constraints and the Conceptual-Logical Conflation
You may or may not be "right" in this particular case, but in general it's stupid to assume philosophers in the HN audience won't be drawn out to comment on such an article.
How to Enjoy 3D Movies by Converting Video to 3D Device
One group of people will always want to access the open web on a large screen via a web browser running on a general purpose computer: software developers.

If the web "dies", then the non-web will also die, or at least it won't be very healthy, because the developers won't have the infrastructure they need to efficiently develop the required non-web software.
Of course they did, but there's still a big difference between a society where child death is a rare tragedy and one where child death is unavoidable and common.
This would be absolutely amazing actually.
Why then the seeming reluctance (as posted here recently) of journals to publish "failure to replicate" papers?
Does it matter in practice whether the diseconomies are due to "software" or "design"? Are you offering a solution to the problem the author outlines?
Just added $25/mo more :) awesome, awesome idea!
Most businesses try to make a profit. In business, competing against a high volume very low margin incumbent is pretty much #1 on the list of things you should never ever do.
The point is that these are two completely different things with totally different causes.