skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> are rich people's opera tickets worth it?

Ummm....non-rich people go to the Opera, too!
There is a huge difference you're ignoring. The act of whistleblowing on Monsanto was unlikely to be illegal (at least I do not know what laws that could be used against the whistileblower, ignoring any whistleblower protections). Snowden, however, violated numerous amounts of laws in his act of whistleblowing.

Now I'm not saying what Snowden did was right or wrong but these two are not equatable.

Government protections for whistleblowers are important but protecting someone who had to break the law in order to whistleblow versus someone who did not are two very different things and I think mixing the topics may take away from the importance of one versus the other (protection from retaliation through a corporation versus being locked up due to the government) or worse simply conflate them and their associated arguments.
You're right. This problem is unsolvable. Everybody go home.
DARPA's Cyber Grand Challenge: Early Highlights from the Competition [video]
> Let (a) => a group can have a much larger subgroup of its members be something X compared to other groups (e.g. more black criminals than whites, more violent Europeans than Japanese, etc.).

Sure.

> Let (b) => an X subgroup is X because of itself ("caused its own harm").

It is a tautology.

> What I'm saying is that for (b) to hold, the group should have either a genetic reason to be so, or a cultural one

Hmmmmm. We agree that there exists a reason for everything. Any subgroup (even My Little Pony advocacy groups) exists for a reason.

Whether in the case of violence and/or criminality it is genetic or environmental is one I'm not going to address here because I think it is too complicated to answer convincingly in one way or another and I think we would be fools to be totally confident an answer without years of study.

> and the cultural one must also be of their own choosing (e.g. not imposed upon them by external pressure/circumstances).

Violence can be opportunistic because you're a war-like tribe and have spotted a weakness in another tribe. Consider the Mongols attacking Europeans or the Zulu wiping out the Bush people.

Do you consider that an external circumstance or a cultural choice?

Seems like it could be both simultaneously.

> What I'm also saying is I don't see (b) holding for blacks.

Wait, I thought we were talking about subgroups in a subset? Which is it? The group or the subgroup?

> And I haven't seen much in their criminality / culture that can't be explained by their status as ex-slaves/racism targets/subjects of racist legislation/practices, etc.

Ok. Well I don't live in the United States, but I can tell you that the same subgroup exists in places that never had a history of slavery e.g. Ireland. We have people directly from Africa who live here, and that same subgroup exists here, freshly minted as it were. That is inside of twenty years. Racism is quite unusual here, and you certainly couldn't claim 'structural racism'.

I don't claim to know if it is genetic or cultural, but I am not buying the historical slavery/oppression argument. Groups of people are just not that sensitive to trauma over generations or we (the Irish famine) would have never have survived. What happened to the Jews was just as bleak and yet they have rebounded in living memory.

That's not to say it does not matter. Just that I am not accepting that line of argument. The Irish and Jews are not notably more violent and criminal than they were pre-genocide, and they were also oppressed for centuries.

Now if some analog of the IRA or Mossad's assassination squads existed, then a historical oppression argument would tally up better. The recent sniper shootings for example, seem to fit into that category better.
Show HN: Fwd is a network port forwarder cross platform/arch dead simple to use
Why do you equate people making relevant jokes to "Reddit"?

Humor is fairly universal
> Its charging for support (not support-license since the support contract isn't a license when the software is actually delivered on a Free license) because that's an alternative to charging for software, because, practically, you can't charge for Free software, for the reason discussed in GP.

The industry calls them support licenses (since generally you only support X machines running your software -- though of course you can have alternative models), so that's what I'm going to call them.

As for not being able to charge for Free Software, it is true that unless you have some value-add (preinstalling or burning to physical media) then yes, youre going to have trouble selling the bits that make up a piece of software. But then again, why does is that model taken as being the "right model" with the free software model being the "alternative". In fact, many proprietary companies have the same model (Oracle will charge you for support too). How is it a better model that you buy a set of bits and that's all you get (no promise of updates, no support if something breaks, nothing other than the 1s and 0s that make up version X.Y of the binaries you built). In fact, I'm having trouble of thinking what companies have such a model, because it's so user-hostile (even for proprietary so software).
Having one of the largest public universities in the U.S. also makes it a good test market.
> The duo noted the picture-free material tended to be comprehended just as well as material with pictures, but students preferred the more vibrant option.

I wonder why students' preferences are even a consideration: if they learn just as well with older, pictureless books … why not use those?

> But it's worth asking—if professors know these textbooks are absurdly expensive, why assign them? Well, the answer involves a couple of factors, basically: Many professors simply don't know the prices of the textbooks, and, far less frequently, sometimes the professors themselves wrote the book.

FWIW, when I was in school I recall one professor doing his best to ensure that our bill for each of his classes was never more than $50. I think that all of our professors exercised some care in that regard — but ours was a small liberal arts college, with every class taught by a professor or associate professor.
Finding Profitable Possibilities for Energy Storage
I don't know. I live in Chicago, and while I do get recruiters representing Chicago firms pinging me on LinkedIn from time to time, the majority still seem to come from elsewhere. I also had a tough time finding my next job after I was laid off here, twice in the past three years.

I still love the area so I'm still sticking around for a bit longer, but I don't really see what this guy's seeing.
Basically, all that's required for writing a MARS implementation is:

-Writing a Redcode assembler

-A contiguous address space of up to 8000 units, with circular memory (i.e all addresses are computed mod the size of the address space.), and a segregated, program-specfic address space (typically 1/16 the size of the full address space), if you're implementing ICWS '94

-Writing an actual Redcode VM, with support for all 16 (7168, actually, counting the different addressing modes) instructions, and process queues for each program.

Notably, all instructions take up one slot in RAM, and take one cycle to execute, after which control is passed to the program which has executed least recently, specifically the process in the program's process queue that has run least recently.

Finally, all assembled programs must be inserted into ram, and the emulator is started.

See, not hard at all!

No, seriously.

If you're interested, the ICWS '94 draft (ICWS died before it was ratified, but it remains the most popular dialect available today) is available at http://corewar.co.uk/standards/icws94.htm. A. K. Dewdney's orginal articles in Scientific American describe the origins of the language, as well as the oldest dialect of Redcode, if you're interested in implementing that, as wellas describing the basics of how to play. They're also just cool reads. They can be found at http://www.koth.org/info/akdewdney/. Dewdney's Corewars guidelines, from '84, are also of interest http://corewar.co.uk/standards/cwg.txt. The Corewar wikipedia article is also informative.

Finally, http://corewar.co.uk, and http://koth.org have links to a wide variety of resources about the game.
You're right, but I would reframe it along the lines of Network filesystems (like NFS or OCFS3) vs. Distributed Object Storage (S3). In that sense, certainly, the current "default" is to use the latter and avoid the former.

Local filesystems and/or volume managers won't go away anytime soon. Internally, a system like S3 needs a unified access to the storage, which is provided by the filesystem.

I think we are going to see the emergence of new filesystems that are much simpler in design compared to ZFS (as reliability is left to an upper layer in the stack) for use in the Cloud. Somewhat similar to the trend toward lightweight OSes built for the cloud (CoreOS, Project Atomic, etc.). Many features that were in the realm of the operating system are now delegated to upper layers in the stack.
They have scrubbed their online presence.

https://techcrunch.com/2016/08/30/wrkriot-vanishes-after-sca...
Not OP, but the 'masonry layout' [1] where blocks of content reflow and fill out the available horizontal space is an enjoyable presentation on big screens. It may be familiar from Pinterest and the Tumblr archive page.

Some other examples: [2][3]

[1] http://masonry.desandro.com/layout.html

[2] http://halcyon-theme.tumblr.com/

[3] http://www.erikjohanssonphoto.com/work
America's Water Supply: The Corrosion of a Proud Tradition
Startup accused of scamming employees scrubs its online presence
Rain doesn't count as a season.

Seriously though, I moved to Seattle from the Southeast, and I actually love the predictability aspect of the weather here. I rotate between the same hoodies for 9 months of the year and never have to check the temperature before heading outside, it's always 50-60ish if it's not summer. So while technically it "changes", it doesn't compare to the rest of country which can have some truly nasty extremes I've never seen here.
Well, "make a lot of money by selling something that enough people want badly enough that they'll voluntarily give us their money" is somewhat closer to "change the world".
Vanadium: The Metal That Stores Energy
I'm American and live in New York.

You don't tip Uber drivers. I'm sure some small percentage of people do, but it's definitely not the expectation.

(Taxi drivers, on the other hand, do expect tips.)
It's funny that I got my free certs from WoSign because I didn't want to give my data to the Mossad, and now it turns out they are related. :/
There are rules for whistleblowers to be considered "whistleblowers". Snowden followed none of them. He wasn't a whistleblower.
August 2016 Incident
The shareholders, by the act of buying and holding the shares, expose themselves to all risks of owning a piece of the company. That the company may engage in accounting fraud is one of those risks.

The shareholders also benefited from the overstated earnings.
Fortunately with array bounds checks and default initialized variables, memory corruptions aren't very common in D.
Green Energy Creates More Demand for Silver
How trees talk to each other – Suzanne Simard
So, basically, nothing to worry, technology will save us in the end.

And it might -- long term.

Only, as things are now, between an antibiotic stopping working and finding a replacement, there could be tens of millions of deaths...

Aside from wishful thinking there's nothing that guarantees that we'll find the next cure as soon as an old one becomes obsolete.
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Audi A9 e-tron production confirmed
That's already how HN works. Articles with too many comments get a huge penalty and get pushed off the front page quickly.

It has the effect of stifling a lot of interesting and important discussions and topics. I make an effort to up vote posts with too many comments to help them.
Wacom launches global, virtual hackathon around digital ink
Inkathon, a yearly virtual hackathon, launches with a focus in advanced digital ink. The event is being powered by Wacom and AngelHack and challenges developers to think creatively with artistic-like SDKs.
Remind me again how that is even remotely legal to do?
I'm still seeing this - I wonder what their metric is for figuring out these things.
Niche topic books earn very little income for the author. Publishers are generally disinterested in anything that doesn't sell in the 10,000s. There is insufficient return on their investment in time and money.

Hosting your own book is potentially too much bother. Using a self-publishing approach, e.g. Amazon, Lulu, etc is far less hassle. You might want to consider the combination of print-on-demand together with eBook technologies. POD is great if you want to give books away as a value add to any consulting activities.

With niche books your only effective option is to do all the marketing yourself. That can be a lot of effort if you want to gain any sort of traction for your book. Perhaps you are also offering consulting and related services.

Editing is the biggest effort that publishers provide. You might have to consider getting a professional editor unless you have exceptional writing skills and attention to detail. You can use freelancers to do any graphic and cover design.

Just get started with the writing and see how you progress. Many people embark upon book writing and then falter. If that happens to you, you can pivot and release the material as a blog.
The point about it being like .unwrap is that the bug is a completeness bug.

My theory is that people have converted "memory unsafety can cause segfaults" into "segfaults are memory unsafe." Segfaults are actually the desired outcome, and initializing a pointer with null, instead of leaving it uninitialized is how that outcome is achieved.
It honestly blows my mind especially since I was describing a somewhat bad circumstance I was once in.

Granted my initial response was somewhat hostile. Nonetheless, I don't understand my own generation sometimes.
With regards to the UK universities/colleges which we currently in the feedback is generally super positive since we can provide books in a more accessible format with a much lower upfront cost.
Regarding price point (converted from GBP to USD) we currently have in Chemistry:
1) A premium plan with all the textbooks a student currently buys for ~$17/month ($102/sem) plus all optional reading
2) All optional reading for ~$4/month ($24/sem)
Hey man, i've been where you are and managed to push through that depression and get myself where I want to be in life.

I want to preface that we're pretty similar, i'm 5'7, I weigh 175 (Beer Gut) and i'm of asian ethnicity. I have hair, but i've done the shaved head because its cheap and easy to maintain, so again we're on even footing. Lastly, what I have really going against me is I have really poor eyesight, I wear big thick glasses and I can't even drive because of my eyesight (Thank god for Uber and public transporttion). So regardless of all this, I was still getting dates on OkC, and I was literally filtering women in a 2 mile radius from my house (because again, I can't drive).

You're going to hear the same set of advice over and over; be yourself, looks don't matter, etc etc, and really it is true, once you understand one crucial thing.

You have to love yourself. This is probably the biggest thing I had to learn on my own. I had desperately wanted companionship all my teenage life and was doing everything I can to get into relationships. From reading PUA and seduction, to going out on weekends trying to pickup girls, everything was a failure.

At some point though in my late 20's, I woke up one day and realized I needed to change my life. Einstein has a quote that goes something like "Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result". I kept repeating the same things, and I didn't change the real fundamental problem, I wasn't happy, and mainly I wasn't happy with myself. So I started working on myself and worked on things that improved my mood and lifestyle. I was actually working retail jobs until the age of 27 when I graduated from College, my stupid Business Admin degree led to minimum wage startup jobs, but I was able to learn quick and got promotions and raises allowing me to gain independence. Then I started focusing on taking care of myself properly, annual doctor visits, Brushing my teeth everyday, etc. Anything that can make my life positive, I tried to incorporate.

Once I was happy where I was in life, online dating became much much easier. I was able to write a better profile and my messages to women were light hearted and had no expectations behind them. I was in love with me and me only and was allowing the chance for other people to see how great I am. From there I got a GF and now i'm planning to propose to her in the next year.

So just remember, things will get better, but you HAVE to put in the work to get there, nothing in life is given to you, you have to earn it and once you earn that you learn to respect it and love it and cherish it.
Just Finished Lear You a Haskell for Great Good. What Now?
Antibiotic resistance in biofilms can be reversed. It isn't sexy. It isn't dramatic enough for the news. People don't like focusing on it. But we already have research into how to do that.

If you are genuinely worried, you can look up such info.
Can't browsers at least restrict CAs like WoSign so that their roots are only accepted for .cn domains?

I realize that X.509 name constraints are utterly broken, but that doesn't mean that browsers can't manually restrict the domains that a given root is accepted for.
I love your suggestion, with the caveat that browsers send a pre-flight interrogation request (similar to OPTIONS with CORS) to determine if the origin connection is secure before sending a legitimate request (containing potentially sensitive data).
I am not sure I understand why it makes a difference. If the baseline (federal taxes) are the same everywhere, it's just the same as if there were no federal taxes. States compete and offer special tax breaks on a state level; that's the same situation we had here in Europe, except that the federal government, unlike the EU, doesn't seem to care if states offer a company crazy tax breaks, subsidies, or loans, even if said breaks are a special deal for that company alone.
> "Fairness for everyone" is the same as "forcing bad outcomes on the individual".

I contest this unsupported assertion; you provide no argument to back it up.
Ensuring a fair marketplace cannot cause "bad outcomes on the individual" for everybody, as this implies nobody benefits from fairness (a.k.a a law-regulated environment) (an everybody-lose situation simply doesn't make sense, otherwise anarchy would have taken hold centuries ago).

> Group fairness doesn't trump individual liberties

... In your humble opinion. This is an ideological statement with no support.

> What Ireland did with Apple is the same as a company hiring away developers from its competition

... Except that it's not the same, as the two are in no way equivalent:

* the labour market is very different to the market for corporate domiciling

* private companies have no necessity to exist; failure (consequent from labour market failure) is acceptable whereas a state's failure (or a diminished form, a state's failure to collect adequate tax revenues) is unacceptable

* The market for corporate domiciling in the EU was regulated and there were regulations in place to prevent this action. There is usually no such regulation in employment law.

So really, the two are not "the same" at all.

> Does it hurt them? Sure

This is in contradiction with your statement "doesn't trump individual liberties, as long as that ... doesn't harm someone else". In this case the poaching company is harming the target company, and so by your argument group fairness ought to trump individual liberties. On the one hand you argue for constrained liberty, and on the other you accept unconstrained liberty. The two aren't compatible on this simple a level.
As our instruments get better, are we going to find these clusters further and further out until we hit the supposed age of the universe @ 13.7B years? Then what? When do we start thinking that maybe the models are potentially wrong?
Does Miniruby have call/cc?
That's a great link. Thanks for sharing.
It's strange. Every time I see a discussion about salaries on HN, I feel simultaneously over- and under-paid.
Your comment is low effort and off topic. I like AStellersSeaCow's comment much better.
Move Over America and Make Way for the Biggest Battery Ever
President Barack Obama Will Guest-Edit Wired's November Issue
And that's one of the reasons I stopped using Facebook. Fuck'em.
> Ireland did NOT set a different tax rate for Apple

It allowed Apple to pay an effective rate of tax much lower than that typically required of companies in the sector. De jure, no, they did not set a different tax rate. De facto, yes, Apple paid a significantly lower tax rate.
This title is complete click bait - Google is not defrauding advertisers (no deceptive intent); bots / viruses / bad actors are.

The fraud mechanism is clicks on Google search ads which causes general distrust in advertising and so it is in both Google and advertiser's interests to block these clicks.
Exercise is maintenance of the body. Maintenance of any machine is productive.
In Australia, no one would expect you to tip at a pub. Depending on how long you stayed there, you might open a tab, but usually people pay by round. With something like Paywave, paying small amounts is trivial.

On a date at a restaurant, they probably wouldn't care. Waitstaff don't really react differently whether you tip or not.
At the very least, it seems like an interesting approach, but I can't be the only person thinking of the Dilbert comic strip at this moment.
Ha. Stop telling yourself that and just enjoy your weather that's also as "west coast" as you can get :)
It's less a self-fulfilling prophecy than drawing on a bunch of professional experience with trying to get people to do things that would be vitally important to their health.
Students Study Confirms Instagram Photos Can Uncover Depression
You are right, except that Juncker is not the current, but the former EU president.
"Ask for a date and when you pick them up, spring the real reason on them."

Something tells me that lying about wanting to go on a date for the propose of discussing a business transaction won't go over very well. This will result in neither a date nor a haircut, and the person will never talk to you again.

Would you like it if someone did this to you?
Build projects? Why did you read it in the first place? The answer to that question should help decide what to do now.
If Monsanto wrote the law, blowing the whistle on Monsanto would also be illegal.

That's not a difference of kind, but of power.
These types of establishments are the places I'm finding myself if I decide to go out to eat these days. Me personally, I come for the experience of the food, not the service.
Going completely off topic, but when I heard the title, the initial picture I saw, was a body, with a failing head, being saved by the addition of functional head from the recently deceased.

After a few seconds, I remembered "the seat of identity is in the head" and I corrected the image. Anyway, for all of us reading the news before our morning coffee kicks in, I have to say that "body transplant" would more quickly convey what's actually happening.
Note that they're always careful not to say whether the world is changed in a positive or negative way :D