skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If it's difficult to distinguish mere theft from terrorism, then here's a hint: it isn't terrorism.

The "terror" in "terrorism" is there for a reason. If nobody can tell that you stole the wiring because you resent the British rule of the Northern Territories/the French occupation of Algeria/US bases in the middle east/whatever, then even if you intended your act to terrify others into getting their government to comply with your wishes, you have failed pretty badly.
>In my experience[0], most religious people use their religion to create and foster a sense of difference with Others, and do not keep the focus internally.

Having lived in both religious and secular communities, it seems to me that tribalism is a human universal. Secular people have no trouble judging the religious by secular standards. I'm not saying that's bad, I'm just not clear about what the secularist complaint is at that point.

Also, my point was not that Christians (and religious people in general) never pass judgement on the rest of the world, but that most outsiders don't see the investment Christians make in subjecting themselves to scrutiny by the standards of their beliefs.

Complaints about religious hypocrisy are sometimes relevant, but sometimes they are a red-herring.

> American politics is a crucible of religious sources of obligational determinism locked in combat with secular forces.

Could you clarify what you mean by "obligational determinism"? The only google search results I could find lead me back to this thread.

> If you genuinely think you've found meaning, it's not selfish to keep it to yourself, until such time as someone asks for your thoughts in their own search for meaning. Which means it's likely to only happen with people you've grown close enough to that they open their private selves to you.

I'm as annoyed by the door-to-door evangelists as the next person (I think there are better approaches) but if you genuinely think other people might be missing out on eternity, then isn't it a bit schadenfreude to not reach out to them at all?

I guess what I'm trying to say is that I can respect a secular person who says to a religious person "please don't talk to me about religion". Assuming the secularist agrees to do the same, the theist should generally respect that wish. I can also respect the secularist who engages theists and attempts to dissuade them of their beliefs. It makes no sense to me that secularists should ask theists in general to keep their beliefs private, as if they were talking about the color of their underwear or something.
It's common for boards to have formal and informal transition plans upon seat changes. Brain dumps, "sessions" overlapping incoming and outgoing members, etc. The only time that may not work is if members are ousted on bad terms.

Adding to the likelihood of continuity is the fact that Roger Dingledine and Nick Mathewson remain in senior operational roles so one would expect communication between them and the board to be possible when necessary.
> they test safety effectiveness by giving doses of varying size, often times below the level of clinical effectiveness.

OK, good point. But even then there needs to be a reasonable belief that either (1) the likelihood of clinical effectiveness is nonzero, and is still worth trying compared to the smaller chance of bad effects, or (2) the same patient will be able to receive a clinically effective dose in the future based on the safety information gained testing the smaller, clinically ineffective dose on them.
> the expectation to open my wallet for everything was frustrating

Sorry that you had to go to grad school and pay for things over in China, rather than get more things for free like you had expected...life is tough some times.
Branding it the same name as Amazon Echo's chat agent (also Alexa) seems like trouble...
Could you expand on string refs as an anti-pattern?
I'm guessing that KUM is a play on KVM. Is your project really Kernel based? A lot of *VM names are understandably already taken by big players. However, googling "MinVM" only turns up one little solo project that hasn't been updated in a couple years. I don't think you would be too rude to clash with that. Minvm seems like an appropriate match for your goals.
Because exceptions can create much more readable and writable code, and DO THE EXACT SAME THING.

func magic() (int, error) {
a, err := foo()
if err != nil {
return 0, err
}
b, err := bar()
if err != nil {
return 0, err
}
c, err := baz()
if err != nil {
return 0, err
}
return a + b + c, nil
}

is less readable, more pedantic, and just generally more soul crushing than:

func magic() int throws SomeException {
return foo() + bar() + baz()
}

The explicit error check after every call actually doesn't provide anything useful. If any of foo(), bar(), or baz() fail, magic() is screwed, so why bother writing the same code three times? This shows that the proper place for the error handling isn't in magic(), it's in whoever is calling magic(), and yet, here' I am writing the same do nothing again, again and again in this function, and in all honesty, every function.

It's the multivalue return semantics that's the problem here. It's impossible to chain multivalue functions together to write anything succinctly. Worse yet, it's easy to simply ignore the error and create latent bugs because the first return value (which you're probably not ignoring) now has a "zero-value" which can be semantically valid. Whereas if I simply didn't catch the exception, it will be caught, perhaps by main(), but it will be caught, and I won't be populating my data structures with gibberish, which I can very easily do with Go.
Go was essentially designed with the idea that you shouldn't ignore errors. However, if you really don't care about errors, you can simply ignore them:

result, _ := thirdparty.ReturnsError()
What right has not been protected?

You do not have a right to require manufacturers to create repairable items. If you think such a right exists, prove it.

That's what this "right" to repair really is -- it is forcing manufacturers to make things that they don't currently make, and that most people don't want to buy. (If people wanted to buy them, someone would already be selling them and making money on that segment of the market.)

In effect, this would be the government taking action to promote the personal preferences of a small number of consumers. (If the number of consumers who wanted repairable products was not small, manufacturers would already be making such products by choice, and government action would not be necessary.)

When the government starts forcing manufacturers to make things that people don't want to buy, something has gone pretty wrong.
You have soundly demonstrated that you don't understand regression to the mean. The quality of work of a very good scientist is not a random variable with the average being the same as the population average. It is, however, a random variable with an idiosyncratic average, and that is sufficient to observe regression to the (individual) mean.
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Am I the only one who initially misread this as "Alien Brain Observatory" ?
> For swimming, the norm in America is to think you know how to swim.

That too. But actually knowing is a norm, too.

> 56% can demonstrate the five core skills that the Red Cross considers to be basic skills.

i.e., the majority of Americans can swim.
What a strange stereotype. Why do people in the U.S. think blacks can't swim?
I think you've missed the point about racial identity.

White people do get to embrace their identity, but how it's how they do it that matters.

"White pride", for better or worse, is closely linked to "white supremacy."

That is different than, https://stuffwhitepeoplelike.com/ which embraces and celebrates "white" culture, without demonizing other cultures.
I get intermittent success with that method, only works about 30% of the time.
You're right, I got something backwards there! I suppose it's not that unnatural on second thought.

Your examples are good, though the only ones that are moderately common in American English seem to be “drawing” and “crossing”.
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No I haven't, but I'd imagine it would work. It's an x86 machine and you can plug in USB devices, HDMI, etc. I'm guessing if someone got it to work with the Intel Compute Stick, it would work here because the hardware is pretty much the same.

I never use the Android side. It's not really up-to-date and I have an Android phone. Definitely don't buy this for Android. :) The Windows side is great since Windows Update keeps it current.

The MiPad2 with Windows 10 looks nice. Really just looks like they copied the iPad. Aluminum body, 5ghz wifi, 2k (?) display. But it's ~$250. More than I want to spend for something without a warranty.
Selling dollars for dimes, no?
> Whatever. Did you have a point after all?

Ahh, when you run out of ideas but can't stop talking. Nice.
What would you prefer that they relied on? In my experience, it tends to be the least biased of available sources; books are usually sold to promote a particular agenda, news articles are devoid of content and without citations.

At least on Wikipedia, I can check the citations easily...
Or:

f <$> f <$> x
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It's hard to explain, but it's more visceral than just being comfortable over common ground. My personal take-away after visiting Israel was that Judaism was a bigger part of my identity than I'd realized.

Maybe it's that things like skin color, religion, nationality and language have been much more significant markers of in-group/out-group than say sports team or profession or favorite pastime.
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Dan Grossman's popular Programming Languages MOOC returns soon
Here is the video.

http://techtalks.tv/talks/whats-wrong-with-deep-learning/616...
It's fairly common for invisible minorities to be asked why they didn't disclose that they were X, in some instances it's fairly clear that the person asking is trying to make a case that the person is embarrassed or ashamed of being X.

The best answer I've heard to that question is, "Because X isn't the most interesting thing about me."
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No no, the performance is very important. A piece that sounds dull and uninteresting from one performer can sound full of life from another performer. Of course it helps if you have better source material, but that can only carry someone so far.

As for forgotten interpreters, before the days of recording I'd agree with you, but now we have recordings of greats from the past that's no longer the case. For example, in the case of classical guitar, people still admire the playing of players that are no longer with us, such as Segovia, and will still play their recordings. Whilst it's good to support new players too, a great performance is a great performance, it doesn't matter how long ago it was performed if it's still possible to listen to it.
It's also similar to the April Fool's joke Google did earlier that year... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YMD6xELI_k
I agree with your analysis of how far each vehicle will get - in fact that's why I say the car on autopilot is more dangerous. A conventional car with cruise control enabled will 'fail early' and crash in fairly short order (most likely running off the road into a crash barrier or something) if the driver stops controlling it. A car on autopilot won't crash for some undefined but probably long time, which means that when things do go pear-shaped, it's much more likely to be on the road and in a significantly different environment from where it was driving.
I may not have been clear. I don't feel particularly discriminated and don't really care in any case. It's incredibly minor.

However, I strongly object to the idea that it's okay to discriminate based on unalterable characteristics as long as you're not discriminating against a member of a legally protected group.
I was going to sketch out a higher order component for you that does the same thing but it looks like they've already implemented that: https://atmospherejs.com/meteor/react-meteor-data

I guess this is the "create container lunacy" you're talking about?

I'm not sure what's so horrible about it, especially if you enable decorators in Babel (admittedly non-standard syntax but it works great):

@createContainer(() => ({
currentUser: Meteor.user()
}))
export default class Foo extends Component {
return <span>Hello {this.props.data.currentUser.username}!</span>;
}

This is basically how Redux's React bindings works too.

Is it really just the syntax you're upset about, or am I missing something?
>> The standard reply is that evidence obtained from torture can't be compelling because it is by definition unreliable

> You're conflating the reason evidence from torture is inadmissible with one of the arguments against torture.

No, I'm complaining that in much of what I read on this topic, the argument I stated is presented in the terms I stated it in: no evidence given under torture can ever be trusted, because people under torture will say whatever you tell them to say. I find that aggravating, because it is clearly wrong.

It's misleading to say it's one of a suite of arguments presented against torturing people in the first place; it is one of two, the other being that we shouldn't torture people because it is invariably morally wrong.

I don't think it's a coincidence that arguments that we should never torture people no matter what rely so heavily on different premises of invariability. But while the moral-incorrectness invariability claim can be defended, the untrustworthiness invariability claim can't be.
There are are reasons to be skeptical of BI, but the author is willfully misunderstanding what it is ("all profits go to me"???) and being an asshole about it.
I wouldn't even say that being gay necessarily works this way. I am a gay man, and I can look back over the timeline of my life and identify several key turning points that could have caused me to take a different path. I may have decided that being gay was a "phase" and decided to be straight. To date, despite identifying as and clearly being gay, my longest relationship was with my highschool sweetheart, a woman whom I am still friends with to this day.

Gender identity is fluid, and not nearly as clear cut as something like race. I'm sure there is some genetic influence that affects ones biological tendencies (For example, I am biologically attracted to men, and I can't really change that no matter how hard I wish to "will" it away) but ultimately how one expresses gender, and whom one decides to be interested in, is influenced by so many learned behaviors, social pressures, and factors that go beyond the biological component. Relationships are much more complicated than "Gee, I would like to have sex with that person." One's preferences in this regard are far more than a simple boolean variable, and the choice of expression is ultimately up to the individual.

Every person will have a unique story and their own outlook on this, so I don't think it's fair to place people into boxes and say, "This is the way things work, so this is the label I will assign you." That's not fair on any basis. Not race, not gender, not sexual orientation or any attributes that are out of the control of the individual. You must instead judge the individual based on their unique characteristics, their behaviors, and their own merits, separate from the group to which they supposedly belong.
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sure, but you underestimate that lots of devs might learn something from this article.
That depends. If your definition of epistemic justification is some variant of Positivism, then my answer is "no".

If your definition of epistemic justification is not so utterly self-defeating, then "yes", but then we can no longer automatically infer that religious beliefs are unjustified.
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Most of the time I end up writing if err != nil { return nil, err }. This seems better than a simple panic to me it allows the function to return, executing any deferred functions and doing any necessary cleanup.

If I had any complaint it would be that go could offer some way to setup default handling that simply returns zero and error for any unhanded errors.

I know the same thing can be done with try, catch finally but then you have the same problem of needing to know what errors may be returned so you can make sure an wrap that call in a try statement.
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Thank god! Highly Available Block Storage. From Digital Ocean. Great! Now I can finally store all the 300mb/s streaming in on my server. Oh wait. I cannot, because DO cancelled the service again. Bummer.
America is a very big place, and incredibly diverse. This diversity expands to being both very diverse in places and completely mono-cultural in others. Some areas are heavily black, some areas are heavily Hispanic, some are enclaves of immigrants from any number of other places, and some are almost completely lily-white.

Anecdotally, growing up, there were a half-dozen Hispanic kids (who were my cousins, as my great-uncle had married in Arizona when he was in the Army), one (adopted) black child, and one other (adopted) Indian child. That was the sum total of the ethnic diversity in the entire thousand-person school district in one backwards corner of Maine. We had to rib on the French-Canadians and fall back on home-town stereotypes... There were actually more Asians around, because the Boston Chinese food restaurant cartels/mafia expanded northward. I never met anyone who was Jewish until I went to college.
Where can I learn more about this basic support?

There's the next full stack paradigm right there. I give it two years, and it will be called rustic-asm framework...
I'm a 6'6", 260 lbs. white guy and roughly 80% of these things happen to me too. Crazy.
Nobody is suggesting to ignore errors. Checking every single return value in a block of code is a ton of boilerplate versus catching all the exceptions from that block in a single place.
You're describing Facebook Messenger, which is my primary mode of communication
Yes, this situation is in the realm of the plausible, which has little to do with my comment. I'm not arguing against an analysis of the decisions made by a self-driving system. That's essential. I'm arguing against applying ethical models that utilize knowledge outside the realm of the knowledge or "reasoning" capacity of the drive algorithms.

To continue your example, I'll pose that any system with unilateral behavior of self-endangerment is extremely problematic. Motivating example: assume that self-driving cars will always avoid head-on collisions with other vehicles, even if there's no safe alternative. Including driving off a cliff. Attack: manual driver drives down the wrong side of the road (or maybe the middle of a two-lane road), forcing all of the self-driving cars off the cliff during evening commute hours to a hillside residential neighborhood. I suspect all systems that don't hew to some baseline of self-preservation are subject to similar modes of attack.
The article discusses the interplay between polling and betting. But there's something that has changed recently, and that is polling. It's becoming very difficult to do polling. The response rate is under 1%, which IMO completely undermines the results.

Check out this article in Wired: http://www.wired.com/2016/06/civis-election-polling-clinton-...

Response rates to phone polls:

1980 72%
2000 61%
2012 5.5%
2016 0.9%

Good luck obtaining accurate data if fewer than 1 in 100 people answer the phone when you call them.
police harassment, store owner suspicion

I experience both of these things when I was younger. Not so much anymore.

people avoiding you on the street

As I related above, I've had moms keep their little girls away from me. Is the perceived potential danger from a middle-aged guy much different from that of a black guy?

explicit discrimination from landlords

Funny you should mention that. As it happens, my wife is Asian. I know for a fact that in at least two rental situations, we were given preferential treatment because of that. It cuts both ways.

Again, as long as people keep pointing fingers at me and telling me I'm a racist, I will grow increasingly inured, and even angry. I think that in the end, you start to have the opposite of the effect you'd like.
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Coding mobile first emails
corysama, yeah, it's based on KVM, I am not very creative in the naming field. Yes, it's kernel based.

Thanks for the suggestion.
Ask HN: Is there an open source license that requires you share data collected?
Ask HN: Is there an open source license that requires you share data collected?

So, let's say you open source a web chat program. Is it possible to specify it is free to use but you must share any data collected with the research community.

If not, would such a license be feasible legally?
I've found that Google's Messenger app[0] is a nice, no-frills SMS app (not to be confused with Google's other messaging apps, or any of the other apps called "Messenger")

[0] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.and...
This was a hugely frustrating thing for me recently.

I picked up a used Pioneer AVR on eBay a few years ago and had no issues with it until I decided to plug my wife's older plasma television in because my main TV decided to take up an unusual smoking habit. It refused to connect to the new TV, indicating an HDCP error, despite working when plugged directly in to any of the attached devices. A quick google search yielded the likely culprit: my firmware was out of date. This model was one version behind but, unfortunately, was one model-year behind the ones that allowed for online updates. So I called Pioneer and was told they do not provide firmware updates directly to consumers and I could only get a firmware update from an authorized repair center. Besides the added frustration of having to disconnect the 30 or so cables, cart this thing across town, then come back at a later date to pick it up and plug it all back in, the fee was going to be half of what I had paid for the thing in the first place. So DRM caused a product I'm using legally to fail and the simple software fix was not allowed to be applied by me.

After following several dead links, I managed to find a forum where someone posted a Dropbox link to the firmware, making me a firmware pirate (aaarr!). This incredibly technical process that can only be performed at an authorized service center? Extract a file to a USB key, insert said key, turn on device while holding down two buttons and wait until the screen says it's done.

Pioneer's approach here succeeded in making me a "former customer" at some point in the future since the firmware update fixed my problem.