skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My post had nothing to do with how people are judged. It was all about how each individual reacts to the same stimulus differently depending on what's inside their head -- which includes religion to a great degree.

Yes, there's a huge culture shock happening. Christianity has been quite flexible over the years. People still think that if aliens land that Christians will freak out. These are people who don't know their history. Whatever kind of weirdness comes along, somehow Christians absorb it into whatever they believe. Then they'll insist that this was what they believed all along :) To adherents, this is probably both a bug and a feature.

The jury is still out with Islam. With so many adherents, it's bound to morph into something. The pressure is certainly high. But I have no idea what the characteristics of that thing is or how much traction it will have in the community. Like I do all people, I wish them the best. Belief systems based on tribal forms of society aren't going to go far in a internet-connected world without a lot of change. Just ask the Judaism folks.

Thanks for the reply!
Hiberno-English (the English dialect in Ireland) is similar. Lots of grammatical influence from Irish. e.g. plural you, additional tense ("do be"), verb repedition instead of yes/no.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiberno-English
We already know how to cure addiction, you cant make money off it though.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rat_Park
The GNU Hyperbole home page has been updated to include screenshots, some video links, and more detail. V6.0.2 with some great new features is also out.

See the home page here: https://www.gnu.org/software/hyperbole.

See the 6.0.2 what's new announcement here: https://savannah.gnu.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=8644.
Working on products that die
As helpful as this may be, the real transformative code is often proprietary. As others have mentioned here, not everybody will use every reusable component, whether it be because of ignorance, larger system incompatibility, or simply turf protection.

We should look into solutions for intellectual property that are based on an information economy instead of an industrial economy.

Personally, I think it would make sense (perhaps more for pharmaceuticals than software) to significantly shorten the time a patent is valid and/or strip the protection of monopolistic production rights, and instead allow the free market to sell the product at the lowest cost it can be made at, as long as there is a royalty fee. How the fee is determined, I'm not sure yet.

Still, it's clear that our IP system is creaky, overcomplicated, and is tilted too far in the direction of big business, lawyers, and patent trolls, instead of the actual inventors and consumers.
Without USA+Europe, I believe the Arab world would look like Libya does now internally.

This is irony, right? Without Europe and USA, Libya wouldn't look like it does now, and this isn't ancient history: it happened five years ago!

It astounds me how much people forget in such a short time. We have a sort of "Forget Disastrous Military Interventions" Complex.
A bot creates noise for everybody - I think it's nicer to have the client handle this (urlserver.py / bare display in WeeChat, or a non-terminal client). But that creates friction for new users so maybe it's not the holy grail either.
IoT in general has this problem.

I live a highly automated life and my database has when I woke up, where I drive, when I get home, what TV shows I watch, how long I spend on Hacker News and when, when I enter the house it is recorded... and then more benign stuff like how long my air conditioner has been on. And and I do this voluntarily.

Overall it's a gig of data a day.

The weird thing is my wife has access to this data too and I have access to her's (which is less extensive but still there... for example, if her code is used to disarm the alarm, it is stored that way).

I also might be crazy, most people would be disturbed with this level of data.

As a side note, I store the database on my own server and I am very comfortable with the security on said server. Firewalls, tripwires, multi-factor auth, encryption, the works. Even I wouldn't trust that database with a third party.
I'm thinking this will probably not extend to the majority of code produced. Intuitively, I'm guessing the military produces the most code of any branch of the government. And I'm not sure i believe that we should all have access to that code to use as we see fit.
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"And not know it"
If you don't have some idea of your net worth, you probably deserve it...
Yes
http://wheels.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/05/07/toyota-offers-to-...
Open Source Won. So, Now What?
Pretty accurate description for the last 100 years. But this fighting has been going on for thousands of years between the 3 Abrahamic religions, perpetually fighting over the Holy Land and between their own respective sects.
This is a way to reductionist view of the situation. Yes, oil is important, very important, but it completely fails to explain a huge number of factors that are in play.

Your reduction of the middle east countries as simple 'protectorates' is also completely false. These are countries with their own opinions and politics and they are far, far more then just outposts of the more powerful nations. Seeing everything as a global power struggle will not lead to understanding of the situations.

> The West needs much more energy that what they have. They have industry and without energy their society will collapse.

Thats also completely false. Any analysis of this will show that even in a worst case of a huge war in the middle east, the changes in oil prices would not collapse the first world. It might cause a slight slowdown in growth, and that only in the short term.
Arguably, if it is just for sorting/delivery we could simply use the last two digits of the "length" portion of the address. That would enable any delivery service to sort the mail within the city block and still have a human readable equivalent in case the barcode becomes unreadable.
Thank you! Your comment prompted me to look closer at her blog. There's some great stuff there!
Unlocking FIs Digital Resources Latent Value W APIs Store and Virtual Assistant
> that is, keeping free movement in exchange for free market access, and thus having to live by all the rules but getting no voice in deciding them

I didn't say that they got a good deal, only that they got what they wanted. To be out of Europe.
HelloSign (YC W11) Is Hiring a Sr. Security Engineer (SF, CA)
Unless you're arguing for something new and different, the only other option you have to UEFI secure boot, is completely unverified boot which provides zero security.

And that has to be less secure than UEFI by definition.

In that regard arguing about how UEFI brings attack surface seems misguided. Yes, there's is an attack surface, but that's only because now there is something to attack where there previously was a fully open door.

What you're saying is pretty much that any imperfect security measure lessons security compared to no measure at all, because it brings attack surface. That's a fairly backwards way of thinking.
> The thing coming out of my brain isn't the same as the one entering the brains of others.

That's true. I suppose the analogy to context is that the wiring of my brain isn't the same as the wiring of others, so something which seems obvious to me might make no sense to others.

Framing things can help, especially if that framing is done in the right place. For example, if I said "it's obvious that Javascript should be disabled by default", many people would find that silly.

If I framed it badly, and said "if we don't want arbitrary code on our machines, it's obvious that Javascript should be disabled by default", then the argument follows, but the premise seems just as silly as the original.

If I framed it better, like "if we want to run only Free Software, it's obvious that Javascript should be disabled by default", then the argument still follows, but now the premise seems like something a reasonable person might want; maybe not the listener, but they can imagine that others might want that. If not, then at least we've found the right level at which there's misunderstanding/disagreement.
CA is the state with the highest number of people period, so that's what you'd expect.
> Thankfully there is a spectrum of software available, so other people's choices and preferences (whether proprietary or not) aren't forced on everyone.

The software architectures - mostly the ones close to the users - of the business and education sectors are almost full with proprietary software which tends(and tries hard) to be incompatible with alternatives, especially with FOSS. The mentality of the regular user is to use what he/she has been taught to use - freedom has been presented as too "geeky"(catch phrases like "if you're different it doesn't mean you're useful"). The educational ministries literally sold those people to brands. It might sound quite disutopic but it can get worse.
The Problem with Thinking in Averages
Until GPS with GSM module embedded in frame becomes a viable countermeasure against bike thefts that is.
I was under the impression that a dialect becomes a language when it has its own set of "official" rules and not those of the "parent" language.
If you want a report like this for your own personal drinking supply check out http://www.karlabs.com/watertestkit/

I did it recently. I'm using the results to put some water filters into the house that are actually NSF (1) certified to remove the contaminants the test found.

[1] http://info.nsf.org/Certified/DWTU/
The Echo is ready for a killer app – 5 ways Amazon can help developers build it
You have an address, most readers of HN have one. The article is about people in Mongolia not having addresses

"a stand-in for the more common addressing convention of house number, street name and postal code, which never quite caught on in Mongolia, one of the world’s most sparsely populated countries"
Designing a 3D Printed Violin
I don't think any CPU features were designed specifically for video games. But video games often have workloads that fit nicely on top of the CPU.

You don't need interactions between entities at every point in time. There are very specific sync points during a frame and there isn't many of them (maybe 5 or 6). Your units can also be organized in a table where each row can be updated in parallel before moving on to the next.

Many types of software can get away using only concurrency or parallelism. Game engines have to master both. You want parallelism to crunch your unit updates and you want concurrency to overlap your render pass on top of the next frame's update pass.
Knowledge will most likely grow, but with a steady population the only true GDP growth can come from moving people out of poverty and into the higher income brackets. Once everyone is there, what real growth is there?
And the Turks fault before that, and Tamerlane's fault before that, and Genghis' fault before that, and the Arabs, Sassanids, Byzantines, etc, ad nauseum. It's the battlegrounds of the world, and always has been.
Karma Revero revealed, along with solar roof that will power the car
Getting obese seems like the opposite of excessive grooming. Most of the tendencies you're talking about are not happening in the overpopulated areas. The selfie thing is hugely overblown, a lot of people may be self-absorbed, but what says that's new, and a lot of people are also depressed.

The mice thing is not a utopia, it's an extremely artificial situation that only fits a very banal and shallow definition of "utopia". And that is not and probably never will be a situation humans will find themselves in since it requires a third party to engineer. None of us right now are in a closed environment, and we're definitely not in a no scarcity situation, since people are still worried about holding a job. The NEET thing is, too, related to the whole job thing.

In what way are these situations at all related?
Climbing Mount Trump
Would you like to live without fire? More humans lived without it than with it after all.

That's not actually true, though. There's evidence that domestication of fire predates humanity as we know it.

Maybe use "vaccines" instead of "fire," but it still seems sort of missing the point to co-mingle life and death matters with Photoshop and Facebook.
That's how governments around the world tried to conceal the deceleration of economy, encouraging people to get into debt. Was funny to see the Brazilian government commit the same error in late 2000s.
All cars sold in the EU come with eCall

They've been talking about that technology for years, but that's a long way from not being able to buy a car without it.

In fact, the official site[1] says:

"On 28 April 2015 the European Parliament voted in favour of eCall regulation which requires all new cars be equipped with eCall technology from April 2018. eCall will be seamlessly functioning throughout Europe by that time."

And that's before the inevitable privacy lawsuits and so on.

[1] https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/ecall-time-saved-...
not the one downmodding you but..

haha no it doesn't! the median lost almost all its value because the median of (0.5, 0.5, 1e9) is 0.5
There's a third way to be poor: cash poor. Technically positive net worth, but the assets aren't liquid or accessible.

For instance, retirement savings may be accessed early with penalties (IRA) or early as a loan (401(k)) that you have to payback before leaving your current job. Or stocks and other investments which you don't want to sell because their value and earnings are greater than your CC or other debt interest (a good problem to have, but still a problem). Or you may have paid off that home or car, removing debt, but at the cost of losing your liquid cash. Selling the home or car are not options because you don't have a backup and require (at least the vehicle) for earning your income. The home is sellable, but not promptly, could be rented but that also introduces liabilities and other risks.

EDIT: I imagine for many of you in SV, this is things like stock options as well. You can't sell it for several years, and there's no guarantee of its value at that point anyways. You may leverage it for obtaining debt (still staying networth positive, on paper), for things like home purchases, but ultimately you still lack liquid assets.
Zerohedge is not a reliable data source IMHO
"uses the following example to illustrate this: with an occupancy rate of 51%, the fuel burned per passenger-km is 0.176 lb. In comparison, a load factor of 100% corresponds to fuel burned per passenger-km of only 0.112 lb (RCEP, 2003)."

.176 is not double .112, it's only 57% more, so it seems that doubling occupancy results in a 27% increase in total fuel usage ( (2 * .112) / .176).

That's much better than a linear increase, but it's hardly zero. Am I doing the math correctly? (Ignoring the 50% vs. 51% difference).
I wouldn't be disturbed with this level of data - I would be delighted. Being disturbed signals lack of touch with how reality works.

That said, I absolutely, positively don't want this data to be owned by third parties. It should be my data, for my perusal.
Stupid question: if your estate can't satisfy your debt obligations, do your descendants inherit the debt or do the creditors just forgive the debt? (US, but I'm curious if it's different elsewhere). I would think that it must be the former otherwise there'd be a legitimate reason to discriminate against extending credit to old people, right?
"Even people with good jobs can owe so much on credit cards, student loans, or mortgages that, on paper, they’re worth less than zero."

So, by that rationale, almost everyone with a mortgage is "broke"? Because, generally (except in recent times where money is cheap to borrow), you get a mortgage when you don't have the cash to buy a house outright (and probably won't for decades).
While I don't particularly like the AARP, they haven't said anything against making voting day a national holiday. And with voting by mail it's totally unnecessary anyway. In CA now even postage is free so there are zero obstacles preventing the working class from voting.
To the contrary, it's getting even worse as longevity rises.
How the Father of the World Wide Web Plans to Reclaim It from Facebook and Google
Everything that makes it stand over Python for small data.
Linux bug leaves top websites vulnerable
You could probably do something hacky like modify the current syntax map in
after-change-major-mode-hook to apply it to every buffer. Or use something fancier like subword mode.
In the USA, should your descendants decide that they want to keep something where money is still owed, they may opt to take on the debt.

In Japan during the heyday, you could take out multi-generational mortgages.
Inequality between genders in Islam is a difficult subject to discuss without pointing out that many female Muslims in the Western world are afforded the same rights and freedoms as male Muslims -- indeed, Muslim women have achieved equality without being permitted to enter Islam's holiest sites.

That said, women are most definitely treated differently under Islamic rule as outlined by Islamic law, and there is no point of view that can deny this. Some would argue that women and men are inherently different and that it would be imprudent to ignore this, and this line of reasoning leads us to unpleasant situations like women being denied the same opportunities to achieve success as men are.

Millions of Muslims in the West find slavery to be barbaric and none of them own slaves, and not only that but one of the central tenets of Islam is donation to make slavery unnecessary. This is evidence of fairness, equality, and social justice not only being compatible with Islam, but encouraged.

That said, slavery is permissible in Islam under certain circumstances, and the primary basis for this permission is the profound lack of protection afforded to non-Muslims outlined in Islamic teachings. This is intentional and personally I hope it falls by the wayside.

Finally, criticism of the Quran is a touchy subject. The study of mathematics was regarded as being unable to bring perfection to the human soul, but many Muslims studied it nevertheless and humanity advanced in indescribable ways. Death was similarly regarded as an act of God regardless of the cause of death, but the study of medicine was defended as not being un-Islamic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bidah
How is that any worse than driving with your cellphone in your pocket?
It doesn't work that way for secured loans. So you can take out a $250K loan on a $300K house, and it results in +$50K in net worth. For credit card loans, there is no underlying collateral. For student loans it's the same.
* Cross Product is never needed by us.

* Validation? Actually we are on HTTP so mostly a sealed trait structure is enough for us we barly use `Seq(ValidationError)` from Playframework (only class constructs that manually)

* NonEmptyList - I never came across a palce where I needed NonEmptyList?!

* never needed.

Just keep in mind other languages don't have such abstractions as well (maybe haskell has, but I don't know haskell).
Some people need these high level abstractions and it's fine if you use it but most things are just syntactic sugar.

The only stupid thing is something like that:

- Future[Option[A1]]
- Future[Option[A2]]
...
- Future[Option[AN]]

and now I need a `case Some((a1, a2)) =>` without some magic you write a lot of boilerplate.

So a Monad is really something that would be great and probably we will evaluate if we get to use cats.

Edit: Code Snippet:

val h = (for {
ph <- OptionT(dbService.byId(id))
article <- OptionT(articleDao.by0A(ph.article))
} yield (ph, article)).map{ case (ph, article) =>

(ph.id, article.id)

}

h.value

yes this is something why we consider cats.
No. Except in the case of jointly-held debt (e.g. spouses, someone who co-signed on a loan).
The cool part of this is it seems like there's a bunch of API's on here. Perhaps that means I can submit pull-requests to get features that perhaps previously that government would not have had resources to develop.

A good example, there's a recall API: https://github.com/GSA/recalls_api

this is cool, I want to use it... I have an eCommerce website where I sell food. It would be cool if I could be proactive in pulling items from my product catalog. The issue is there is no UPC in the API, so there's no easy way to correlate my products to recalled products. A cursory look at the source code shows me the source:

http://www.fda.gov/AboutFDA/ContactFDA/StayInformed/RSSFeeds...

if you open that up, a lot of the items have the UPC codes in there. This gives me the ability to parse the details, and add the fields I need.
There is a monthly "Who is Hiring" thread where the community believes it appropriate to post job offers. The thread is posted at 11am Eastern on the first business day of each month. The next thread will be on September 1, 2016.

Otherwise, posting employment offers is generally discouraged, though the site allows companies directly affiliated with YCombinator some latitude.

One more caveat is that the "Who is Hiring" thread is for specific positions not general recruitment.

Good luck.
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I can't imagine the kind of stress having children in my bed would cause to my marriage.
Anyone have personal experience or research from reverse osmosis filters? I keep hearing it makes the water "better" but never any hard facts on how it performs statistically.
> there are a ton of people whose job is, at its core, to manually synchronize about six databases

There was an insightful article that I can't find for the life of me that claimed this sort of thing was the future of much human work - doing drudge work on the margins between automated systems, that's not worth the cost of automating.
Then don't make your employees move to the most expensive region in the world.
Pure Off-path TCP attack demo by using a side channel in Recent Linux Kernel
For obvious reasons I don't consider web clients a reliable solution, but it's a practical alternative when away from your desk.
Ask HN: Is there an OS project that offers dashboards / monitoring for scrapy?
I agree completely. And the data certainly delights me.[1] I don't think most Hacker News users would be disturbed by it. I was generalizing (without evidence, mind you) the larger population.

[1] One nice thing about owning the database is if I want to, say, stick it in an R program and graph some stuff / make some models I can. Which as a software engineer is fun for days and has allowed me to see and correct and/or automate patterns. For example, my bank accounts and credit cards are also in this database and it has allowed me to see spending patterns that I needed to fix.
I'd guess same with existing addresses (street name, city name, country name): you write what the local postman can best read. In the API the language parameter is optional so I'd say whatever system/app/website translates it to coordinates both languages work.
In the US they are forgiven. Family is not responsible for paying this. If you wanted to keep a house or something you could choose to have that debt transferred to you but if not it's the bank's problem.