skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The main point I was trying to get across is that most software is indeed Hacky, not because Computer Science is terrible, but because the people who made it don't have a solid understanding of many fundamentals. They've taught themselves to "program in 21 days" and later have a hard time understanding why things break.

Peter Norvig said it better than I can, becoming a great programmer takes 10+ years. http://norvig.com/21-days.html

Data structures, design patterns, software & hardware architecture and, distributed computing are subjects that all engineers should be familiar with.

For example, the question whether to use NoSQL or SQL is another way of asking if you need to use a Hash or a Binary Tree.

Bad engineers pick one or the other based on Marketing or White Papers, Great Engineers pick the right one based on understanding how their algorithms will use that data and why there are no silver bullets.
Do you mean it's possible to contribute more than the contribution limit in a given tax year?
My issue with it is that it takes certain stances on those questions and then tries to answer them. I would prefer for the audience to be a bit more critical of those answers.

The Hedonic Treadmill for me gets about the same treatment as Maslov's Hierarchy of Needs - it's too simplistic and the conclusions it makes are biased by the beliefs of the culture it originated in. It's fairly easy to find many questions to ask and many holes to poke. A lot of "happiness" studies sadly tend to tap directly into cultural norms and expectations and are very difficult to untangle. Including the cultural norm of giving "happiness" a high value, higher than the painful knowledge you mention, for instance. One objective I would have for a utopia is that knowledge would cease to be painful. Until then, it's a lie either way, and a true utopia is not a lie.

Not to mention, if the Hedonic Treadmill is true, it's highly likely to be genetic, which is should not be an obstacle give or take a few centuries.

I would recommend against throwing out the utopian idea based on social science theories. The Hedonic Treadmill is maybe 40 years old, utopias are probably many k years in the future.
Believing that no matter how bad your life is you're still better than someone else by virtue of race becomes more tempting the closer you are to rock bottom.
I don't think those are planned to ship until 2018.
But I don't want to change the culture to one where we can't say anything for fear of hurt some special snowflakes feelings. In fact I'll fight against it.
"No one becomes a footballer to make the world a better place."

Maybe not, but Messi increases the happiness delta a lot for many, many people. I think the world is a much better place with him as a footballer than an accountant or something.
Nah bro, as a billionaire, I make all of my money to help the world.
This is a fantastic response and perspective. Thanks
Could you do something clever like mix this isn't regular toothpaste? Perhaps by having a special dual tube, toothpaste holder?
My experience with Kubernetes is limited, so take all this with a grain of salt. I've been using the integrated swarm since beta.

The new integrated swarm is a real game-changer in that it is much simpler to use compared to other solutions. With swarm, it's simply:

docker swarm init
docker swarm join --token <blah> <blah:2377>

That being said, I found that Kubernetes offers more granularity in the level of control over the cluster. That's not something that __I__ need necessarily, though obviously YMMV.
He's gained weight, look at his gut. Also, does he sleep? Look at his eyes. I would bet money he works 60+ hours a week.
Yes, and I believe Sam brought that up later in the conversation.
If you think someone asking you to smile is a hardship then you don't have a hard life at all.
Regardless of who was in on it before the leak, the fact that Congress is willing to own a widely unpopular and (likely) illegal program after the leak does not engender much confidence that this branch of government would have responded productively to a less publicized whistleblower who worked through the legal system. In short, they're complacent to domestic snooping.
There are any number of people who are far more toxic to those around them without having accomplished any significant progress in the process, so Elon Musk is a poor choice of target for that criticism.
Todd Gloria is a little bitch and always caves to businesses and developers. Case in point: Jack in the Box debacle in North Park.
You're spot on. This doesn't seem like something built to actually build games. The reasoning here seems almost backwards.

This seems like shoehorning technology where it needn't be. Instead of approaching the problem from the perspective of, "I'd like to build games," it was approached from, "I'd like to use React," followed by, "... and build a game." Canvas / WebGL are far, far better suited.

As somebody who started with game development in Visual Basic, it reminds me of the first game I made on a VB form, moving pictures around over the default grey background. My eyes were opened to the DirectX APIs shortly thereafter, realizing I should scrap pretty much everything I'd built.

That said --- all innovation and experimentation is great. I'm sure the author worked very hard and I'd be interested to see what games they've built with it (that would certainly be more convincing than a README)!

Edit: Found a demo in the other comments. Neat-o. :)
People talk about Elon because he has interesting ideas, does interesting things, and inspires a lot of other people. If many young people (or even old people), watch this interview, it seriously has the potential to make the world a slightly better place, if at least some of them try to put his ideas into practice.
I have also mapped the capslock key to super, but FWIW I've had a lot less trouble hitting the actual super key ever since I started using my ring finger for it (I used to use, and see most people using either pinky or palm, both of which require moving the hand quite a bit).
Don't forget Colorado. Texas is taking longer but obviously a larger area will take longer to pollute if you do it at a fixed rate.
Maybe he's just pandering to what he thinks is a 'base' he can mobilize. But that counts against him as far as I'm concerned.
I don't know what happened, because I wasn't there, but I do know that it's perfectly possible to communicate an unspoken insult in a perfectly neutral sentence.

I am not convinced that your assumption about his negativity is any more valid than his interpretation of his experience.
Not sure who you're thinking of. Maybe it was a weird childhood memory. But based on Alcoa's history page, nobody with that name was the CEO during the 80's.

Alcoa CEO's during the 1980s [1]

W.H. Krome George 1975 - 1983

Charlie Parry 1983 - 1987

Paul O’Neill 1987 - 1999

[1] https://www.alcoa.com/usa/en/alcoa_usa/history.asp
From a quick check, it appears that every member of the committee signed it. I don't know who the 23rd signature is from.
I mean, if you want to get historical, the position currently occupied by the Caps Lock was Shift Lock on typewriters, which did the same thing as Caps lock currently does except it affected all keys, not just letters.
There's a difference between saying ones assumptions are wrong and stating that the units of measure are completely meaningless.
(For the sister posts - it's called a backdoor Roth. Make nondeductible contributions to a "vanilla" IRA, and immediately convert.)

https://www.bogleheads.org/wiki/Backdoor_Roth_IRA
Hypothetically, this is unnecessary.

Assuming that a 10% increase in productivity causes a 10% increase in the impact on people (either in quality or quantity), 10% of Mr. Musk's impact may be greater in absolute terms than 10% of Mr. Smith's.

One may debate whether 10% productivity = 10% impact, but if that increase is attributed back to you, there's no need to artificially manipulate the equation.
> Is patently false. He did attempt to use those channels and was ignored [1] - at least once as confirmed by the NSA itself, and many other times according to him, which the NSA disputes.

The same article you link says Snowden "tried to go through channels". It's not "patently false". It's "he claimed he tried". Meanwhile, investigations show only one email he sent regarding general clarification on NSA authorities but zero raising any concern or complaints: https://news.vice.com/article/nsa-finds-new-snowden-emails-b...
But why is it a one way street? One don't they have to be respectful of me and the human inability to know everything?
AirPods are fashion accessories?
It's the House Intelligence committee. Peter King didn't start it, nor does he chair it. Every minority member of the committee appears to have signed it as well.
Free markets are an optimal pachinko machine for distributing capital, that needs no oversight or central direction.

It doesn't generate its own pachinko balls, that's utterly orthogonal. Free market capitalism is what you DO with a population that has disposable income. You can't feed the bottom of it into the top, it doesn't even work that way.

It's not even optimal for reaching the highest developments of ideas and inventions, because local maximums will starve out the newer ideas that need to grow and become competitive. It does nothing about network effects and tends towards monopoly.

But it's a fantastic distribution mechanism for the wealth of existing populations: no overseer required! Within some known limitations it works very nicely.

NO wealth is ever created.
I used caps lock as backspace for a long time, I quite enjoyed it.
I think you may be mistaken here. Looking at the other comments, I don't believe they're trying to be inflammatory or just trying to get a rise out of people. The user could be say, intersex, physically disabled or both.

Some people don't identify with a particular gender. I don't have any issue with my gender identity, but we just have to take the word of people who say they do.

These can be legitimately sensitive things to some people and I'm of the opinion that a sincere adult response is not to silence their voices.
In the 1933 election the party had 43.9% of the vote. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_federal_election,_March...

> This would be the last contested election held in Germany before World War II. Two weeks after the election, Hitler was able to pass an Enabling Act on 23 March with the support of all non-socialist parties, which effectively gave Hitler dictatorial powers. Within months, the Nazis banned all other parties, dissolved the Reichstag and replaced it with a rubberstamp legislature comprising only Nazis and pro-Nazi "guests."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler%27s_rise_to_power :

> Non-Nazi parties were formally outlawed on 14 July, and the Reichstag abdicated its democratic responsibilities.

> The Act did not infringe upon the powers of the President, and Hitler would not fully achieve full dictatorial power until after the death of Hindenburg in August 1934.[62] Hindenburg remained commander-in-chief of the military and retained the power to negotiate foreign treaties.

The 1934 referendum (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_referendum,_1934 ):

> was associated with widespread intimidation of voters, and Hitler used the resultant large "yes" vote to claim public support for his activities as the de facto head of state of Germany. In fact, he had assumed these offices and powers immediately (and illegally) upon von Hindenburg's death and used the referendum to legitimize this move, taking the title Führer und Reichskanzler (Führer and Chancellor). ...

> The government used widespread intimidation and electoral fraud to secure a large "yes" vote. This included stationing brownshirts at polling stations and forcing clubs and societies to march to polling stations escorted by Nazi storm troopers and then vote in public. In some place polling booths were removed or banners reading "only traitors enter here" hung over the entrances to discourage secret voting. In addition, many ballot papers were pre-marked with "yes" votes, spoiled ballot papers were frequently counted as having been "yes" votes, and many "no" votes were recorded to have been in favour of the referendum question. The extent of this forgery meant that in some areas the number of votes recorded to have been cast was greater than the number of people able to vote.

In other words, very rigged.
> An hour spent watching a football game is an hour less committing crime or doing other unsavory acts.

Not for the vast, vast majority of people watching football. Most people aren't engaging in crime or "unsavory acts" whenever they have to entertain themselves.

I think mass entertainment is definitely for the greater good, but not because it reduces crime in any appreciable fashion.
Are you sure the net happiness from football was really raised by Messi or did he simply shift it to his county and teams he plays for? If you take away his great play doesn't it just make other players stick out more, and fans would derive happiness from other players?
Antitrust enforcement was greatly weakened by Reagan and has never been restored to its previous level, even during Democratic Administrations [0].

Superficially, that appears to be a decrease in regulatory activity. But it's one that obviously favors consolidation, and probably has the support of a lot of big-company lobbyists.

So the reality is more complex, I think, than either you or BurningFrog are suggesting.

[0] http://washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/marchapril-2010/who-br...
Julian Assange: I'll turn myself in if Chelsea Manning walks
I don't even have a caps lock key programmed on my ErgoDox keyboard.
> without reduction in American worker's wages.

Those jobs would need to be replaced with something paying a similar wage for this to be true. Otherwise you'd move along the demand curve for labor to a point with the same number of total jobs and lower wages paid for each.
Count me in too! Who knew we were so many?
Keep it up Sam. People who comment negatively are usually those who have not put themselves out there and tried to actually create or build something in the real world. This was a great interview and I really enjoyed it.
Yeah, advice I heard from parents and teachers countless times growing up.

"Memorize this."
"Don't quit."
"Keep trying."

Then I had to repeat verbatim whatever it was I was supposed to memorize, whether a reading selection, scales on an instrument, or multiplication tables. I didn't get to move forward till I got it. And I didn't get to choose what I studied.

Seems like we need more of this today.
"... We made Power Toothpaste so that when you wake up, you can make your dreams a reality" - This text is placed right next to a blurry photo of the founders.

It's very 90s... Cheesy. Our generation is far too cynical for that kind of message.

This toothpaste won't make your dreams come true. If anything, it will keep you up all night long and prevent you from dreaming altogether.

I do like the tagline "Get a rush while you brush." though.
You can put forward the argument that Snowden tried to escalate through channels, but you cannot reasonably say that it's patently true that he did, because the evidence doesn't support that claim. The simplest thing to say about this as that there is a dispute over whether Snowden tried to escalate through channels.
Snowden's leaks were damaging to the members of this committee, because they showed the American public that the American intelligence apparatus is not subject to any meaningful oversight. So it is entirely predictable that the members of this committee would try to protect themselves by shifting focus to Snowden, away from their criminality.

Three years have elapsed since Snowden's revelations, and the intelligence community has not been able to show how the leaks have compromised national security. This is why the signatories of this letter have to avail themselves to gauzy arguments about Snowden's character and insinuations of collusion with Russia or China.
This is problematic for Emacs users: You can't put Switch Lang there, you need Control there!

However, you could bind this to lcontrol, and get the capslock light to turn on when it goes.

Also, am I the only one who at some point rebound ralt to rshift? I've stopped doing it now. I don't know what I was thinking.
This is a great tip for chromebooks users, as these machine dont have such key!
I love Caps Lock. It's just a free key on the home row to reprogram to whatever you want. I change mine to ESC for easier Vim interaction.
Some people way happiness at a job more importantly than quality of life outside of it.
Check out this Intelligence Squared debate between Daniel Ellsberg (pentagon papers) vs. a former CIA director - it provides a deeper insight into the perspective behind this letter, and the vacuous arguments made by the anti-Snowden cohort: http://www.intelligencesquaredus.org/debates/snowden-was-jus...

The letter reminds me of how the DEA is consistently hyperbolic regarding the public health dangers of marijuana. To concede that weed is essentially harmless and medically useful would invalidate much of the drug war the DEA has waged for the past 40 years.

Similarly - to acknowledge Snowden in any positive light would invalidate the spying regime instituted by the U.S. government. And force the to acknowledge that their powerful spy tools require equally powerful oversight.

The lesson the NSA, the House committee, and others should take from Snowden is not that he's a villain. Rather, that one way or the other substantial oversight is going to occur, even if it requires the largest leak in history. Create truly transparent and accountable systems and there will be no more Snowdens. Throw the book at him, become more insular and secretive, and the problem will only get worse.
If a balanced way is the key to everything those not trying at all to move humanity on its way are wasting their lives too.
Volvo's stated goal is improved safety on the road, both for the car's occupants and for other road users. Volvo are not adding sensors to make driving more convenient, they are adding sensors to make driving safer. The whole Volvo brand is built around feeling safe.
People share in an effort to communicate to the world something about themselves. The feel better part will come from their friends and family knowing about what makes them tick and strangers the might be able to recognize a kindred spirit and in turn extend their network of people they enjoy hanging out with.

let me know if you need me to break down other basic human instincts for you :-)
First, Drake's life was hardly "destroyed". He was investigated, charged, and then then allowed to plea out to a misdemeanor.

Second, Drake didn't simply escalate his concerns through channels; he also spoke directly to the media. His media contact occurred contemporaneously with the largest NSA leak story to have occurred prior to Snowden, the investigation of which was ordered directly by George Bush.
Mozilla Open Software Patent Initiative
The argument isn't about soul-sucking jobs, but about jobs that don't contribute to society. I'm sure there are people out there who enjoy cold-calling and scamming people.

But to address your argument: you missed the "opportunity" bit. If you're a well-off, well educated person you can choose to do whatever you feel like and I'm sure some people do without worrying about money (perhaps they have lots already). Most people will chose the best paying job that is available to them. Sorry, but reality is on my side on this one. Go visit a factory if you want to see if people want self-realisation or money to survive. Again: please remember the "opportunity" part. If you tell a factory worker he can earn 4$ an hour assembling landmines or 2$ an hour assembling asthma inhalers I will eat my hat if they don't go with the money (and I wouldn't blame them for this).
>Pixel art is really treble, I just hurt looking at it in some cases.

Umm... You can find massive amounts of shockingly ugly non-pixel art too. Perhaps you are confusing bad art for pixel art.
Holistic change specifications in the next iPhone 8 to 2017
A short history of the O'Reilly animals
I highly doubt that movie was anywhere near accurate, it's a Hollywood fantasy of the intelligence community.
The games made with this library will mostly suck or be very basic. That's said i dont't know anything about react otherwise it being some js that will run like ass and wastes most of the cycles where it's important. To make games, learn C. Otherwise we will just have more and more crap to wade through. Another option is to use this is to quietly learn general game concepts while never publishing anything made with this, then to move on to learning C to properly apply the knowledge.
Depends on the placement and size of the standard super key on your keyboard. Some keyboards make it quite small.
Oh, you mean hitting j and k in sequence, not an actual chord.

Is there a way to make it trigger when pressing both keys at the same time? I'd rather not have a letter sequence that can kick me out of insert mode, especially when I'm pasting into my terminal.
The only "Bayes" I can see is the author starts with a uniform prior and applies Bayes rule in one of the examples, and in fact the whole thing is kind of all over the place.

His approach of dragging a cut point across the data and asking "is it significant here? how about here?" is going to be prone to all sorts of false positives: if you set your threshold to 0.05, you'll expect one positive every 20 looks at the data. (He's looking for overlaps of credible intervals; this is going to work out to be the same thing).

Here are a couple useful links for doing this kind of problem: https://qualityandinnovation.com/2015/07/14/a-simple-intro-t... http://arxiv.org/abs/0710.3742
You realise I know because I am one of those people? And trust me, I am over 5 years old (immigrant).
Human languages tend to use the same sounds for common objects and ideas
I look forward to the inevitable postmortems/analysis of this process after the election is over. Some interesting research and writing came out of both of Obama's campaigns.

It's interesting to me that this article focuses on how they might be using data to understand who can be persuaded. I recently read a book by Eitan Hersh called Hacking the Electorate about how campaigns use data to perceive voters (and how they primarily focus on public data). Hersh suggests that persuadability isn't a focus of campaign initiatives because it's too hard to do in a way that is cost-effective. He suggests this is the main reason campaigns focus on mobilizing people who are likely to vote for their candidate. It will be interesting to see if campaigns are able to build better models for persuasion this year.
Why would the House Intelligence committee be opposed to oversight of the NSA? That's their job.
What do you mean exactly? :)
Just because there's only one email doesn't mean there were not substantial efforts made in other ways. Phones exist. Talking to people in person is a thing.
"Trusting all the existing CAs" is literally the status quo, though, right? So whatever it is you are proposing as a replacement needs to be strictly better than that. I've made my case for how DANE is better, but what exactly are you proposing as an alternative? Is it just "trusting all the existing CAs, and distrusting them a few months after they have been caught (using CT) breaking the rules"?

You earlier argued that the strength of the CA system is that they "can be --- and have been --- and will probably within a few weeks be again --- untrusted by browsers", but that just sounds like you're saying "the good thing about the CA system is that it keeps failing, and our repeated belated steps to punish malfeasance do not work as a deterrent".

Again, I look forward to reading what you propose instead of the CA system and DANE.
I mapped caps lock to left click and then used eviacam to control the mouse pointer with my face. No more keyboard<->mouse back and forth. Works great!