skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not so. Those are a portion of the institutions I mean.

Food for thought. Banking is not strictly legal under Islam.

Oh, there is a thing they call banking. The broad strokes are that religious leaders must approve (read as siphon, redistribute or otherwise fiddle with) transactions for them to be halal. Interest is called riba, and riba is illegal. Instead they complicate matters with superfluous nonsense which is basically cargo cult banking to pretend interest rates don't exist and then it has to pass the imprimatur of a theologian.

Rule of law is definitely not legal under Islam either.

There is Sharia. Again with the religious imprimatur.

Basically all institutions are subordinate to the rule of the religious authorities and their police.

There are words they use in the Middle East but they do not contain our meanings of them.

You can have a shiny sign and a web address, fancy lighting and polite staff offering mortgages and loans on a high street, but if it does not contain the correct algorithm then it is not actually a bank. It is a simulation. It is propped up by oil money and a subservient population. Not an organic self sustaining creation, it cannot truly self replicate.

I don't think this kind of thing is a case of 'fake it until you make it'. It is more a case of copying everything about the thing except the very thing itself, a negation.
The example about active users was more about KPIs, and not connected users. You can't perform a map/reduce operation.
I'd just like to echo what tominous said. I'll be honest, and say that your post set off what I'd call my "Crank/Crackpot Detector". By no means is that detector anything approaching perfect, but if I had to describe why it went off, tomimous' post gets right to the heart of it.

To be clear, I don't disagree with your characterization of antipsychotics as being potentially (often) devastating in the long term. When you meet people with drastic manifestations of tardive dyskinesia from their medications for example, that fact becomes exceedingly clear.

The problem is that it becomes equally clear upon careful examination, that the only worse outcome than a lifetime of antipsychotic therapy, is psychosis. Each psychotic break is correlated with increasingly grim outcomes, such as a homelessness, permanent care, and suicide.

I see your argument as very impassioned, but fundamentally in the same vein as people who tell you to avoid chemotherapy because it's bad for you. It's true, chemotherapy is poison, but oftentimes it's the best we have to work with. The problem then, is that recognizing the limitations of current therapies doesn't imply that a better "natural" alternative exists right now.
I was thinking of a profit distribution once we hit that point - say 24 months in. 20% of last year's EBITDA quarterly to employees this year or some such. Of course if I've taken on any outside money by that time, those investors are certain to have opinions about that...

That way we don't have to worry about options needing to be exercised, or the cash-out-of-pocket tax hit of RSUs (until some legislation to fix that problem makes it through someday...)

I'm happy to share success with the team that made the enterprise successful, but most of the stock based bonus instruments have some 'gotchas' that end up hurting the wrong people...

Does that (the profit sharing) sound as if it might be a reasonable incentive structure? Or would you as an exemplary candidate want stock even though the company had no hard-and-fast plans for an exit. (Of course, these days, who does?)
For all 'skilled' immigrants, but /particularly/ the high end, you should encourage the following.

* The immigrant must be employed with no gap exceeding 1 year, but they are free to seek out work with another company at at least the median (50th percentile) market rate of compensation for a job.

* Their sponsor employer must pay them at least the 75th percentile market rate of compensation for that type of job.

* STRONG worker protections for all workers, even salaried, about working longer than 8 hours in a day and more than 35 in a week.

* The sponsor pays the bill for vetting/background checking an immigrant on such a fast path.

* The immigrant is also on a fast track for actual citizenship, maybe 5 years?

* Also strong assurances that they //will// see citizenship at the end of that, barring any active failure on their part (mostly major crimes).
> most buildings are built by people that don't use them

Having rented for the past 6 years in 4 different houses, I've become convinced that this is one of the most significant factors for why so many house aren't enjoyable to live in.

Even if the overall design and layout of the house is good (I'm talking about the Christopher Alexander sense of good design), there are always small and not-so-small features that would never have been built that way had the person designing or building the house been intending to occupy it. Or had they moved in, said problems would be remedied in short order.
I don't think the brain is powerful enough to maintain and project state for all the things we can observe these days.
From what I understand 'civil forfeiture' is basically a legalised shakedown, the police can stop anyone and take whatever money they have. Canada actually issued a travel advisory over it ( https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140915/09500928521/canad... )

So is it really surprising there's zero records kept? In other news, the dog ate my homework!
Font size was never supposed to control characters-per-line. You can set the line width instead (I suppose the best approach is to use rem as unit. I've tried em in the past but it breaks for headings).

It should be assumed that the default size configured in the browser is a comfortable size. Overriding to twice that is idiotic.

Text reading on modern systems has gotten really uncomfortable. I constantly have to switch between text sizes in a range of factor three or more (still use xterm with default bitmap fonts), and most web and UI fonts are way too large and have too much spacing. It's a strain on the eyes and a waste of screen estate.
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You are correct, I was being snide.

Morse code is highly translatable to other senses assuming that the audience had a reason to learn it. I can't think of a single disability with lack of temporal awareness, and only a few with impediments to temporal perception (as you noted).

That said, I don't know ANY blind sea captains. This will be a problem for adoption.
Probably to accommodate people who just want the like system, and people who want a more complex system.
Efficiency.

The black box surface and vanes maximize the conversion of light into heat. The construction with the airflow traps and chimney effect maximize the transfer of the heat into the building while minimizing the heat transfer out of the building when the sun isn't shining.

Windows are not nearly as efficient because the material behind the windows is not optimized to convert light into heat (see his section on the design of the black vanes) and the airflow spreading the heat throughout the building will be poor compared to the design in the article.
That has nothing to do with the font size. It just means you have a big (wide) browser window or monitor.

The problem here is some sites having such large text in relation to the web generally, or your OS, that it's ridiculous. The solution is:

- Stick to normal font sizes

- Set a max-width for the text to fit the right number of characters per line

- If users want bigger text, let them change their OS resolution settings or browser default zoom settings
Glad you mentioned 'emergent' and the turbulence example because it is going in the direction of the phrase I was thinking of in response to the Leibniz thing -- 'metasystem transition'.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergentism

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metasystem_transition
Of course you have every right to fight for the fruits of your own labor. Good for you for publicly standing up against a thief, we'll see if Al Jazeera has any journalistic integrity - wouldn't bet on it. Scummy organization run by amateurs.
That is fat with a hint of food attached to it. The very idea of streaky bacon turns my stomach now, it's just fat and the idea is disgusting.
Or they could make it easier for me to manage my music without iTunes? I wouldn't even need it then.
second sneaky thing I have heard about them recently, there was also a big thing about them disabling the printers when you unsubscribe from the instant ink package.
> the state of perfection that precedes actualization.

i.e. "pre-revenue" :)
What's wrong with Google Maps? I've just been watching a non-technical friend use it and the only thing that wasn't intuitive was adding an extra stop to her trip (and even then, she discovered it without needing to search for help).
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After I subscribed to iTunes Match, it "helpfully" reworked all of my ~4300 song iTunes library so that most of the songs where I ripped a whole CD into iTunes were now spread across various "Greatest Hits" albums from the same (or sometimes different) artist, with random cover art. And after reading Jim Dalrymple's horror stories of upgrading to Apple Music, I am fearful both of ever discontinuing my iTunes Match subscription or upgrading to Apple Music.

My solution thus far has been to stop even trying to listen to music on iTunes and switch to podcasts instead (on Overcast, not Apple's horrible Podcasts app). #ThanksiTunes
But not discoverable. There is no visual indicator telling you about the feature. Only trial and error.
"metacomputation" -- that reminded me of this from Wikipedia on metasystem transition:

"Turchin has applied the concept of metasystem transition in the domain of computing, via the notion of metacompilation or supercompilation. A supercompiler is a compiler program that compiles its own code, thus increasing its own efficiency, producing a remarkable speedup in its execution."
I'm having a hard time understanding these tweets.

Playing a song and adding songs to 'up next' are two different things. That dialog box has saved me multiple times. What's wrong with it? It only occurs when you are telling iTunes to do conflicting things that it cannot resolve by itself. It's a better outcome than clearing a playlist someone may have spent a lot of time working on.

Software update and login dialogs? Yes those are a thing many apps include. What makes these unique or interesting?

The podcasts menu seems super straight forward to me. Am I missing something here? It says exactly what it does.

Contacting the iPhone update server dialog? Once upon a time Apple's servers would go down under a heavy load of people activating new iOS devices. Presumably the dialog is there to inform you there is a problem contacting the iPhone update servers. Either way I think it's long since been changed.
"We're not just corrupt, we're also incompetent."
> Perhaps because of said company's well-deserved reputation for overall OS and UI quality?

Why would I go off reputation and not my own experience with apple software?
I feel like you're arguing against something else. It should be obvious that I'm not saying "ALWAYS USE 1-LINE FUNCTIONS". My point is that a phobia against small functions is both extremely common and typically harmful to code quality, for all the reasons I described.

If it were easy enough to give someone a simple checklist of guidelines and have them produce high quality code, coding would be a lot easier, but it doesn't work that way. Coding well requires years of experience that produces the wisdom and perspective to know when and to use different techniques. It's what tells you "it's unnecessary to comment an i++ line", it's what tells you when and how to use one data structure over another, and so on.

And no, I'm not "refactoring ahead of the refactoring", I'm refactoring where it makes sense, even down to a single line. That's the point. To properly compose things, and to avoid the bias against small functions. Not to atomize a program into infinite function calls, of course.

Most of the code I've come across that is below the quality I'd like tends to have excessively large function definitions, precisely because there is such a widespread antipathy against splitting things up "for no reason" and against small functions. When it improves readability, when it improves the composition and modularity of the system, when it makes it easier to update, modify, improve logging and error handling, etc. those are all good reasons for extracting methods. The rare times I've seen code that required excessive jumping around to figure out what anything did it wasn't because of too many small methods, it was because of overzealous application of bad design patterns (e.g. call a factor method to produce a configuration object then instatiate some other factory and pass the configuration object to it to get a factory that produces what you want, that kind of nonsense). That's indicative of a failure of judgment.

My point is, don't be afraid of small functions when they make sense. There are too many people who are afraid of small functions because, like you, they have these strong biases against them based on prejudice. How do you know when a small function is a good idea? Judgment and experience, of course, same as always.
That's the most well-planned person I've ever seen. Thanks for the link, it'll definitely help me to put my stuff together.
More reasonable would be not taking anyone's property or cash until they are found guilty of a crime and the asset is shown to be profit of the crime.

Anything else is theft by taking
For OSX VLC is a surprisingly good player for music and it supports FLAC.

However I'm quite interested in building a dedicated OSS music player node/electron for OSX (and windows eventually).
Why is that regulated by federal government at all?

Shouldn’t there be different immigration regulations in the Silicon Valley and in e.g. rural Ohio?
> They're almost certainly from completely separate teams, I've always heard that Apple operates like a bunch of disconnected groups that rarely ever interact with each other, perhaps that has changed recently.

Every company of non-trivial size operates like that.
In a way I suppose that gives such a claim from the NYPD the only shred of credibility it could have had in the first place.
When I heard the myth I thought of the Bible story where a demon was cast out of a man and sent into "vermin" which then ran into a lake and drowned.
iTunes circa 2008 was amazing. Like so many things, once they unified the bIOs and desktop OS code bases and technologies everything went to shit.
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After reading all of the interesting comments and debates, I think that as far as having fun wasting time with amateur philosophy, consciousness can be quite a fun topic.

But beyond that I think I just want to echo what paulsutter said in his comment -- consciousness is a suitcase word with too many different meanings. To have a 'real' discussion you would need to unpack all of the different meanings at the beginning, but no one is going to do that.

Also, the word consciousness is directly tied into belief systems, so if you want to understand someone's belief system, you can ask them about it, but the nature of beliefs is that you are not going to have a constructive conversation.

If anyone is curious about my own beliefs, I think that we can generally answer the Leibniz machine question with 'emergence' so perhaps I am an emergentist https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergentism

I like the general explanation of how something like consciousness arises from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metasystem_transition
In Australia, we had a High Court case in the 1970s[1] in which a university library was declared to have authorised copyright infringement by providing coin-operated photocopiers and taking no steps to prevent infringements.

To have a university openly producing and selling photocopies is (pardon the pun) a completely foreign idea to me. Does the university merely cover its costs (education motive) or make a profit on the copies (commercial motive)?

I'd be willing to make an uninformed bet that most of the photocopied books have non-Indian authors, and that pressure to change the laws will start when Indian authors start having their works copied – the same way that America routinely ignored piracy of foreign authors until the likes of Mark Twain began complaining about Canadian piracies of their own works.[2]

[1]http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/cases/cth/HCA/1975/26.html
[2]http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/dickens/pva/pva74.html
> "My experience has been just the opposite. Low/average skill tends to mean less asserts, less static analysis, ignored warnings instead of warnings-as-errors, no unit tests, no thread safety annotations... forget my coworkers - I add these things to code defensively against future-me, and I've found it super effective on larger codebases."

Bingo.

And this is another great reason to have more, smaller methods: it's far better for unit testing. When you have big, chunky function defs it can be a chore to figure out how to reach into the method and test one particular aspect of it. When your code is well composed into functions that are logically consistent, you can write unit tests that target each piece individually.
I think the heart is new while the star-ratings have always been there.
Immigration is a form of population growth, so the question is in part what happens when a population gets larger. The new members of the population are increasing the supply of labor and also increasing the demand for goods and services. Overall, that means more economic activity and more total employment. (As the original article points out, that doesn't necessarily mean more employment of people who were in the population before.)

You can envision a scenario where this doesn't happen because the new workers earn so little that the new demand they create is tiny, and their employers don't spend their savings on things that ultimately create more employment. (Like if 100 people showed up and started doing work for $0.01 apiece that the previous employees did for $1,000 apiece, and the employer decided to spend the whole $99,999 savings on some good that has very little labor input and that somehow also fails to have a significant multiplier effect that generates employment. In that case, while there has been an increase in total economic activity, there hasn't actually been an increase in employment.)

This latter scenario seems pretty unrealistic to me, but I don't know exactly how to describe the conditions under which it would or wouldn't occur.
When Daniel Ellsberg leaked the Pentagon Papers, the United States wasn't quite so much in the habit of, among other things, legally justifying torture to extract information as it is apparently today.

The legal and political ecosystem has fundamentally shifted post-9/11, and I don't know it's fair to hold a modern whistleblower to a standard that existed in the '70s.

(That's a long-winded way of saying "I wouldn't trust the government either." ;) )
Don't worry, you'll get used to it. I think they're probably optimizing the UX for TouchID.
...what? You are proud of the fact that you left a whole bunch of money on the table for Google?
Writing a program for Win32 in assembly is easy, instructive, and fun. It is easy because most of the heavy lifting is done using the API, instructive - because it removes the shroud of mystery from the way your code actually interacts with the OS. And it is simply a lot of fun. Highly recommended!
That must-connect-to-server-before-I-show-you-your-LOCAL!-files has really pushed me over the edge. Infuriating! I've been trying out some replacment music apps, but haven't really found any great alternatives at this point. I guess the whole thing will sort itself out when I switch to android in the next few months.

Someone around here put it best a few wks ago in an iPhone7 discussion: Steve Jobs is dead.
Extensive discussion of this topic a few days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12487307
This article needs to be shown to all upcoming architects, senior developers, and design minded engineers. Too often the balance between abstraction and specialization isn't thought about explicitly but rather dogmatic rules kick in.
> all of their stuff is terrible.

As a PC-only user since the days of DOS up till Windows 8, and having used Windows 10 after jumping ship to Macs a few hours ago, macOS has demonstrably more discoverability than Windows.

One example: Just click on the Help menu, in any app, and type something like "show" or "find" or any other operation, and it will show you all the menu items which have that word in their name.

That feature is a part of the Cocoa subsystem and comes for free with every app, and very handy when you know an app has a certain feature but you're not sure which menu it's buried in (like standard operations and filters in different image editing apps.)

Also, all the shortcuts and standard menus are the same in every macOS app, and can be discovered/modified from System Preferences -> Keyboard, again for any app.

Take "Preferences", which in Windows is sometimes under Edit, Tools, or the app name menu (which imitates macOS.)

I could go on and on, but "zero discoverability" is an undeserved hyperbole.
One could flip it - There's no matter, only awareness. All awareness, when devoid of the body, the thoughts, emotions, memories, are identical.

Now, make that leap, where `identical == expressing an identity`, where it is all one universal awareness, and that is reality.

You now have a pass to:

Hindu (Brahman):

"Brahman (/brəhmən/; ब्रह्मन्) connotes the highest Universal Principle, the Ultimate Reality in the universe."[1]

Islam (Allah):

"He is Allah, the one and only. God, The Eternal, the Absolute. He begot not, nor was He begotten, and there is none comparable to. Him."

Reality created nothing, nor was reality created.[2]

Taoism (Tao)

"The unnamable is the eternally real...
Free from desire, you realize the mystery.
Caught in desire, you see only the manifestations....
mystery and manifestations arise from the same source....." [3]

Mystery = presence & essence, manifestation = matter, stuff, things, objects.

Christianity (Holy Spirit)

If you must, think of Adam and Eve as the first two self-aware beings, and "fruit of the tree of knowledge" as using their special ability for the benefit of their own ego, at the expense of being one with the universe, like all other plants and "lesser" animals. A.k.a "The original sin". In Taoist terms, Adam and Eve stopped seeing the mystery, and full of desire, saw the manifestations, and that's when they were 'cast out of the garden'. One moment perfectly content, next moment cannot ever stop wanting 'more'.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahman

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Haqq

[3] http://acc6.its.brooklyn.cuny.edu/~phalsall/texts/taote-v3.h...

Religion is about shattering the idea that one is separate from the rest of reality.
I signed up for the course in question - I think it was my first interaction with a MOOC - and lost interest very quickly. Realistically, I need the abbreviated version rather than the intro videos and the opportunity to meet classmates and so on.

Does a MOOC have an interest in creating longer courses that seem like they're worthy of certification, rather than just teaching people quickly and effectively?