skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is really interesting to me. I've always associated rationality with intelligence. Naturally this leads me to wonder how people with high intellectual aptitude have strangely inconsistent opinions.

But after reading this article, intuitively it makes sense to me. I'm eager to read the linked study for further study. I feel as though the researcher's holistic approach to quantifying rationality (decoupling rationality into IQ and "RQ") is more precise than assuming the two correlate together.

One of the things I'd be very curious about, assuming this study reproduces well, is whether or not it can be reproduced for other aptitude tests. We already have EQ, which will make three measures if this catches on. Can we keep decoupling traits from intelligence to measure them more granularly and accurately? What else could we move into its own category?
Price increases are bounded by substitution of goods and "what the traffic will bear."

The things - real estate, education, health care - that are inflating most rapidly are doing that because they are subsidized. When you subsidize a thing, it costs more and you get more of it

Ag subsidies are different because that's a sort of Nash equilibrium - the cost of inventory underruns exceeds the mild price increase from overproducing agricultural products.
So it's just a label for leftists. Even if they are being conservative at the time.

Fun story. During the collapse of USSR, a local band wrote popular song that had a line saying "conservative idiots strangled us in wires". Later on, most of independence movement formed Conservatives party. As in, the word itself is party title. Song quickly dropped the "conservatives" word :)
Mainly for editing. Segmenting and editing the different footage into something more easy to watch takes a bit of time.

I will aim to get the extended version online after the weekend, but downloads do take a while!
Youtube also allows going back in time if you missed the first part, it's buffered. so much better.
You can also use 'use-package'. https://github.com/jwiegley/use-package#for-packageel-users

I wonder if it can handle dependencies like req-package https://github.com/edvorg/req-package
That was the statement that was most impactful to me.

"What really matters is the machine that builds the machine, the factory. That is at least 2 orders of magnitude harder than the vehicle itself."
I'd imagine all these pro-privacy guys cheering right now, shouting "we told you where this is going!" if only it wouldn't be so terrifying and not funny at all. First they collect your personal data to show you ads, and people don't mind, because why not? Then they monopolize the market more and more, and basically all your data ends up in their hands, making them know you literally better than yourself do (as you don't normally quantify your life and are not watching over yourself really well). And people don't mind again, because "I have nothing to hide". Then they are officially profiling their clients to use the data for political purposes. First this might be ads, then some more. And people won't mind again, because it's unacceptable for USA citizen not to hate ISIS (but it doesn't really matter what is the most iconic black sheep at the moment). Then (at the moment, actually, but just in China[1] for now) the most used social network is running "citizen loyalty bonus-points" program. And people are accepting still, because it's all so cool and nice and what not.

And even though it might seem terrifying to some, I don't think "the people" will ever actually regret this: the "acceptable norm" will just become narrower and narrower, and everything else will be treated as a criminal offense, a sickness that must be cured.

It makes me think that this is just how life goes, the natural way an organism evolves. But the thought of it makes me feel sick anyway.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHcTKWiZ8sI
Also, as with anything in politics, it's easy to justify truly horrific things using noble-sounding arguments. For example, who wouldn't want to protect civilians? No-one, which is why when Clinton's State Department and the UK government used it to justify catastrophic military intervention in Libya few questioned it. Yet according to recent committee report, the threat was questionable and the groups we supported dangerous: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/sep/14/mps-deliver-da... It wouldn't take much of a slide down the slippery slope at all for Google to back those groups, or their Syrian equivalent, in the name of stopping murder - or for them to discredit claims that the groups we're backing are killing civilians.
They're doing massive amounts of publishing and research in AI - image recognition. They need to understand all those pics uploaded to Facebook and Instagram and turn them into actionable opportunities.
For my home setup, I run pfSense on top of QEMU/KVM on an i7 Haswell 1U box with 2 eth ports. I have a bridge for each eth instead of IOMMU. I can max out the 1gbps ethernets without a huge hit. I then have a Mikrotik Gigabit 24 port switch that everything gets hooked into. A bit overkill, but it's nice to have.
I've never seen any city with a homeless population like San Francisco's and I've been to much poorer places. Side by side with the artists and web developers is a parallel tent city, and it seems to have a lot of mentally ill, people with drug problems, and traumatized military veterans. People who in any other nation would be taken care of.

Simply put Americans don't seem to care very much about other Americans.
Dolphins Recorded Having a ‘Conversation?’ Not So Fast
I read a comment on FT that quoted an employee saying every original Skype manager was eventually replaced "by a Microsoft manager. The original Skype managers either were replaced or left."

I learned from a previous large Microsoft write-down that Microsoft has a highly disciplined work culture. It allows them to execute a task well. They often take that work culture and put it over the acquired company's head. This new form of discipline breaks the acquired company.

Well, once Skype was bought, I expected a write down. But Balmer initially took a more sensitive approach.

But after reading this comment, I am afraid that is not true.

Discipline breaks creativity. And innovation happens from creative cultures. Probably the best approach for a disciplined company to acquire is to bring the technology of the acquired and integrate it into the rest of the organization.

Maybe the same happened here. And the consumer version of the product fizzled.
The trolley problem is hard to think about, because like the prisoner's dilemma, it deliberately ignores the implied context. Both problems should really go something like this:

"You are suddenly transported into a magical portal. You arrive in the home of a powerful magical creature. It explains to you what has happened, and that you are not crazy. It gives you as long as you like to investigate this and convince yourself that it's right. It tells you that it has a one time chance to transport you to a parallel universe for a few minutes. It has never happened before, and it will never happen again, and you will never be able to prove it happened. Nobody in the parallel universe except those directly involved will believe it either. You are then transported to the parallel universe, and the trolley problem/prisoners dilemma happens. Then you are immediately returned home and the magical creature vanishes, never to interact with our universe again."

Under those conditions, I would take the utilitarian solution. In the real word we have unintended consequences, and utilitarian solutions are uncomputable. Deontology is at least fair and predictable.
And California has had both assembly and state senate dominated by Democrats for 50 years or so.
The one thing I've learnt is that often a "dumb" programmer with domain expertise is far more useful than a smart programmer without. While the smart programmer might be able to implement a clever optimization or spot a subtle bug in some corner case, the domain expert will point out that your perfectly optimized, bug free code is built on entirely incorrect premises.
Haha, yes that makes a lot more sense, you don't say "make words with their vocal cords" after all.
Ah, that's cool, but as I often write in French and I'm trying to learn how to write proper Spanish, I appreciate the default-off.
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This is similar to what I do. I run Debian as the host machine and then have guests running on QEMU/KVM. I don't use IOMMU, I simply create a bridge on each physical ethernet. This allows me to add other "router/vm" on the WAN side and play with some additional isolated "networks".
Hentjens' "Social Architecture" book goes into the same topic in more detail, and is freely available here: https://hintjens.gitbooks.io/social-architecture/content/
But we already know who they will go after next. From the article:

> And this month, along with the London-based startup Moonshot Countering Violent Extremism and the US-based Gen Next Foundation, Jigsaw plans to relaunch the program in a second phase that will focus its method on North American extremists, applying the method to both potential ISIS recruits and violent white supremacists.
Don't miss part 2:

http://www.robertpriddy.com/Nos/Nor2.html

that goes in to a lot of detail on other aspects of Norwegian society as the author saw it.

I'd love to hear your reaction and that of other Norwegians. How accurate or fair is the depiction? How does your perspective differ? Would you have anything to add?
> If you'd sent it to the wrong wallet, OTOH, you'd just be at the mercy of the wallet owner to return the BTC.

IIRC, a wallet is just a public key, so nearly any incorrect account number will be a public key for which no-one has created the private key — thus there would be no-one to return the money.

This really isn't a problem, I think, because I'd rather have to rely on me and my computing equipment not committing errors rather than have to rely on some random teller not making errors.
I did something similar with a project I lost interest in several years ago (https://github.com/dbfit/dbfit - table-oriented database unit testing). Just gave over commit rights, and there's a whole bunch of people writing code for it and maintaining it now, still going strong. I occasionally look at the github repo, and always end up amazed how much it's moved on.
Not everyone has a strictly utilitarian viewpoint. One life lost might be a thousand times more horrifying than one life saved.
That's true. There's a big difference between "expensive for Texas" and expensive on the west coast or in NYC. Still, a house or apartment in downtown Dallas (where the homeless folks are living) is nowhere near $150k.

I'm not sure what's causation, and what's merely coincidence, when it comes to "expensive places have more homeless people". It may just be that density correlates with both for a variety of reasons. If you don't have transportation and need to eat every day, being in a metropolitan area is pretty much mandatory. Those also happen to be the most expensive to live in.
Never knew we had such insane laptops as well
That's why you aggregate logs in a central service. I was writing about sending logs to a central service and not about how your disks fill up with more logs. There is log rotation for that and usually your logs will have been sent way before any log rotates. If your log rotation deletes logs before you aggregated them or if you let your disks fill up with logs you have a much bigger problem you should fix, of course.
Hey!

We do indeed have people who got jobs fresh out of graduating from our program. Obviously it's hard for me to discount all their prior experience and say it was entirely up to us. What I can confirm is that within months of graduating from our program they were able to get these jobs. You can read about some of these students here: https://www.udacity.com/success
I'd guess it was this:

http://felixge.de/2013/03/11/the-pull-request-hack.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5357417
The ability to call a method on a nil receiver doesn't have anything to do with what comparisons should do. Semantically, the question is whether == should compare the values or the vtables. In no other language I know of does it compare vtables.
Finally stable release of Django JET – responsive and fresh admin interface
If you're accessing computers you care about from a computer you don't control, you don't really care about them. It's already game over: sufficiently-advanced software could easily permit you to log in, then execute any sequence of commands leading to the downfall of your servers.
> I've never seen any city with a homeless population like San Francisco's

The other west coast cities have massive homeless populations, too. LA has largely cleared the homeless encampments out of areas they are trying to spruce up (the revival of downtown LA and all that), but I've seen camps in LA rivaling those in SF. Portland and Seattle also get pretty large homeless populations during the spring and summer, although the homeless population drops precipitously during the rainy season up there.
Simply put Americans don't seem to care very much about other Americans

Now there's a vast oversimplification if there ever was one. Using SF, which is highly anomalous economically and socially, to extrapolate out and project it on "Americans" and their attitudes toward poverty is a lot like saying the City of London's particularities are the same as the rest of England.
He's arguing it isn't more effort than it needs to be, and that carefully reading and evaluating questions about your operating system usage are standard when selection an OS.
The strange story of a seized container ship and its lonely crew
Yes, it is kind of difficult to accurately use SF as representative of the USA as a whole. However, I think there are some things in SF that could happen, as Don King used to say, only in America.
Capital letters for the word 'doctype' are not mandatory for HTML, only for XHTML.

https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/syntax.html#the-docty...
Do you know the difference between emacs-w64-25.1-Og.7z and emacs-w64-25.1-O2.7z. I'm guessing maybe one is a debug version and the other was build with -O2.
Xianfoods is far from an example you want. It is a large space that is relatively clean and has a strong brand in its area in an absolutely prime location for its food.

You'll more likely want one of the tens of hole in the wall spots around xianfoods that have no website, no name, not even a Yelp or a Google map indicator. Things that serve steamed buns out on the street or shops that are little more that hallways to order food and leave.
Yes, it's easier, but it's completely and totally insecure.

Security is not terribly hard, but it is completely and totally unforgiving. If you slip up on security, you will suffer, or others will suffer because of you.

Don't slip up on security.
Yep, something similar happened to me - I released what is now https://github.com/punker76/gong-wpf-dragdrop on google code in 2009 (I think) then pretty much lost interest. Forward on a few years and @punker76 had uploaded it to github, and continued working on it. It was a strange feeling when I first became aware of the fork - like seeing an inanimate object come to life.
Culturally, there is a huge difference between American nuclear families and Thai extended families. As was mentioned in TFA, when someone in Bangkok is unable to support themselves they fall back on their extended family as a support network. This can mean moving from Bangkok to a rural village where they are given work doing farm labor... it can mean they are given a "job" for room and board by a family member with a business in Bangkok, etc. etc.

There is no social safety net to speak of, but the extended family model provides a functionally equivalent version. Again, this was explicitly stated in the article itself.

Your insinuation that there is forced institutionalisation because the Thais don't respect "human rights" is, quite frankly, racist.
I published my debut novel to critical acclaim – and then promptly went broke
>Reality is if you're a developer you either use RHEL because that's what corporate chose or you use Ubuntu because that is the platform chosen by library devs and unless you use it as well you will waste time sorting out issues.

My experience is completely opposite, I like to prototype and test stuff and both distros are shipping heavily outdated libraries and tools, even if I need to compile on some old compiler to deploy why would I miss out on compiler perf/usability improvements, run outdated debugger, etc.? The CI can let me know if I broke anything in the target environment, but I prefer to have my tools up-to-date, and updating on Ubuntu/RHEL is a PITA
seems like a likely point for that overgard fellow
Charlie Stross's series on how the publishing industry actually works is also illuminating: http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2010/04/common-m.... Most people outside it do not realize how it is structured.
I want to say that being homeless can be really bad for your mental health in its own right. I spent two months homeless and living around hostels a few years ago. The feeling of having nowhere to go home to starts to gnaw at you. You feel vulnerable and insecure, all the time. I got really paranoid, and had an emotional crisis before finding a permanent place.

Homelessness seems to be something anyone can get trapped in, like alcoholism. If you ended up long term homeless, nobody would think of employing you.
I once had an entire meal at an exclusively vegan/vegetarian Malaysian cuisine restaurant. The people serving were apparently staunch Buddhists. It was unconventional and great.
I'm American and have been living in Norway a few years now. My spouse is Norwegian, and I read him this passage.

And he laughed, then commented that he believed that sort of drinking was somewhat specific to cultures in Norway, Sweden, and Finland - and likely at least some parts of Russia, though he didn't mention that bit. It is socially acceptable enough that my Norwegian language class bought our teachers bottles of wine for a gift. This stuff is generally balanced out with responsibility. Take care of your kids, don't hurt others, definitely don't drive even a little drunk - or be a passenger with someone that is.

And honestly, what the poster said was that there has been a traditionally strong temperance movement. It doesn't mean that the core of society follows this, simply that it has been strong. There was a period of complete prohibition alongside the one in the US. Like the US, it was used to control others. Currently, some of the outcomes are that bars are closed at 2am. You can only buy beer and cider under 5% alcohol content at grocery stores. Wine, strong beer, and spirits must be bought at the state-run liquor stores (there are more than 2 locations where I live, they have expanded). Vinmonopolet has short hours: 10am to 6pm during the week and 10-3 on Saturday. Grocery stores can sell until 8pm during the week, 6pm on Saturday, and no Sunday sales. In addition, alcohol is really expensive.
The republicans earned their way to obscurity with Reagan and the likes of Pete Wilson. It goes without saying that the governor can do a lot of damage in California.
The capacity to abstract thought and the decision to classify it are two different concepts, but easy to conflate. As we form classifications our mylenic sheaths form around our neurons and abstracting concepts - even if apparent to others - becomes more challenging.
>Imagine sharing a glass of wine with your romantic partner, and she effortlessly lets you know that your dinner table reservation is ready. As though the maitre’d just whispered it in her ear.

'Imagine sharing a glass of wine with your romantic partner, and she still has a bright white AirPod in her ear. Her eyes flick slightly to the left every now and then as her attention wanders from you, as you try to discuss how you might not be able to take all the leave you'd hoped in summer, jeopardizing the plans you two had made to try to get some much-needed time alone together out of the city. You excuse yourself, step away from the table, and say "Hey Siri, text my girlfriend, Jennifer comma if you want to take this conversation seriously you'll find me sleeping in the spare room full stop enjoy your fucking wine full stop."'

I get the point the OP is trying to make, but he seems to have confused AirPods with bone induction.
Well, there is a middle ground: when you haven't written that big framework/engine, but could have, delving into the source code in an as-needed basis may sound like a decent option.

Of course, you're hoping your framework is fit enough for your purpose, so that you rarely have to inspect it —if at all.
Yes, as long as I am okay with how such social network treats its user and its data.

I am still quite saddened hat Snake, the cryptographic social network, didn't get the appropriate funding when proposed on indiegogo. https://snake.li/
No, that's extracted from the DOM using Firefox's DOM inspector.
Use Adyen as your next Growth Hack focused in Global expansion
> Islamic extremism...

Wrong emphasis I think. Extremism of any form seems to be part of the human condition. Religious zealotry is just one form and is not restricted to any one specific religion.
It's kind of true, though. Compared to other developed nations, the US is a country that doesn't care if you get sick or die. It's about as social-Darwinist as it gets. SF is even much more liberal than the rest of the country, so it's a best-case.

Don't mean to be inflammatory, just how I see it having traveled a lot. It's wonderful to be rich in the US, you can get anything you want, but there's no sympathy for the poor or unfortunate or social underclasses (immigrant labor, etc) at all.
It will become worse to work in BABA. When the real estate market hits down hill, online purchase will start to turn. Be prepared.
I completely agree. I recently moved to San Francisco from Iowa. The city itself is truly shocking. I find myself looking back on life in Iowa quite frequently, and I think of it very similarly to this Nabokov quote: a kind of private universe,
a whitewashed cosmos within the blue greater one that blazed outside

The smells, the noise, the mental deterioration. The shear amount of people that just resign to the world in big cities---and San Francisco in particular---is more than an order of magnitude greater than anything you'll find east of the Rockies and west of Chicago.
I have been poor (I'm also a migrant) but I'm not greedy like the op and yourself.
I'm sure that's true of Houston, Indianapolis, Detroit, Tulsa, etc. However, I think there's some unique elements in SF beyond just being an expensive city.
Was the restaurant itself unconventional in some meaningful way? Did it not have table service? Was it in an outdoor pop-up space?

I guess I'm wondering:

The comment at the root of the thread suggests restaurant aspirants can address the risks of opening a new place by adopting the "MVP" ethos of startups.

Some discussion ensues suggesting that's unlikely to be the case.

Someone suggests that diners are likely to accept "MVP" restaurants, without the dominant expenses (notably: commercial real estate, staff expenses), if the dishes are original enough.

I'm wondering, outside of food trucks, does that ever happen?