skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I keep a huge bottle of fish sauce around . . . for reasons. My parents lived in Thailand for several years and learned of its magic.
True - although I feel like every other job that deals with high stress situations finds other ways to give people that training. Also you can always drop out.
Yep, and Assad was against the Qatar turkey natural gas pipe line. Which would hurt Russia, so on the one hand we want Assad out so the pipeline could be built but on the other hand we don't want stability in the region so we hem and haw and refuse to take decisive action in the conflict. iSIS is very helpful in this aim. Russia gets screwed. Middle East gets screwed, we get a new reason for tons of defense/anti-terrorism funding. This whole thing seems to be working out pretty well!
Seriously it's all out there clear as day. They don't even bother trying to hide.
I'm an ex-heroin addict. No addict enjoys having a chemical noose tighten around their life, every single day. Go look at my country for proof that those programs help; Australia has some weird issues, but if it wasn't for Biala and buprenorphine, I'd be dead 10 times over.
Sweet! Imagine Udacity later licensing K1 Attack kit car with electric drive from PLA, and open sourcing it for everyone! One can dream ;-)
Hm, true. Thanks :D
Uh oh, it looks like the cult of shareholder value is about to claim another victim. I wonder how long it will take for Google to IBM itself.
>The classical problem is more or less designed to be a utilitarian thought experiment. Are you willing to be actively unethical for a greater ethical action?

That may be what it is designed to do. But maybe the design is flawed, and it doesn't actually test that? Maybe when you ask random people on the street (or undergrads or whatever) this question, all those details that you don't want to matter, turn out to have a big effect.
Uber has a good maps division that has been working for a while in their data. You should also consider that guey have data from their users and drivers about traffic, routes, etc. You don't need to have SDCs in every city at once. They can perfect it in bigger ones and move along. Plus they can also frt and go into the delivery market.
Code.org Disses Wolfram Language, Touts Apple's Swift Playgrounds
typical nerd, taking statistics and not real life. "forest/woodland" is not same thing everywhere - http://www.borealforest.org/world/images/norway_wilderness_l...

wolf relevant forest is tiny tiny tiny
Any chance you were successful at building it from source in the Ubuntu subsystem? I got some weird errors related to maybe shared memory or something and gave up.
The article presents the following experimental premise:

“Linda is 31 years old, single, outspoken
and very bright. She majored in philosophy.
As a student, she was deeply concerned with
issues of discrimination and social justice,
and also participated in antinuclear
demonstrations.”

Then they asked the subjects which was more
probable:

(A) Linda is a bank teller

or

(B) Linda is a bank teller and
is active in the feminist
movement.

This example is bullshit, for several reasons.

We have several known personality attributes provided in the example, and all of them relate to the subjective opinions of an individual and are designed to provide belief in the potential for associations with similar political alignments.

Then we're provided with 2 choices, and each choice couples a previously unknown detail to the individual described, regarding occupation, with no opportunity to exclude the occupation.

We are asked to make an assumption about the individual, based on previously provided information, and guide the formation of our assumption with intuition.

According to The Letter Of The Law, the example asks the respondent to parse probability ONLY, and then penalizes according to the transitive property of equality, because technical interpretations of probability state that, when information has not been previously presented, an individual trait in isolation, is more probable, than a coupling of rare traits.

Which one is more probable? Oh wait, you're
wrong because you misinterpreted our
context-sensitive definition of the word
"probable." You lose.

According to The Spirit Of The Law, the example appears to present the respondent with a set of details, and prompt the respondent with a request to parse the details and demonstrate a display of reading comprehension, such that they show they've observed the relevant details, and drawn a conclusion by associating multiple cultural norms of common political alignment.

With the presentation of choice B, and
based on other personal details about
Linda, do you feel it likely that Linda
could be a feminist? Keep in mind that
we've offered clues to her political
alignment, and these may play a role
in the correct answer.

The example reads as:

Given: [0, A, 2, C, 4]

Is [E] likely?

or

Does [E, 6] make more sense?

But claims to present:

Given: [0, A, 2, C, 4]

Which is most probable?

> [$]

or

> [$, 99]

So, the example is an experiment in providing a loaded question, and then changing the context of expected interpretation, and then declaring proof that people are prone to misinterpretation.

The example is like asking someone if they were happy about who won The World Series, and then telling them you're not inviting them to a soccer game, because of their opinions on baseball.

The example the authors have provided is designed to promote assumptions, without providing adequate context for expectations, and that is fucking stupid.
On the other hand, if you repeat a lie often enough it becomes fact.
Late Night Programming
Twitter in retweet
> From the point of view of a buyer who spent $100M and got 10 engineers out of the deal, the cost was $10M/engineer

That's not even so: he didn't buy the engineers, they are not his property and they are free to walk away the day after, so he hardly got them. For a day, OK :-)
"I’m confounded how to explain to my two children why a wealthy society allows its most vulnerable citizens to languish on the streets."

Well, here is part of the problem. You are asking what your society can do, not what YOU can do. Meanwhile you are busy racking up your credit card on consumer goods you don't really need (yes, he does admit this - read the article).

Nothing would prevent people from pooling their money for a cause. And this does indeed exist - it is called a charity. Many charities exist to aid the homeless, and if none of them suit your needs you can start a new one with a new goal.

The good thing about charities is that they compete with each other. If a charity is corrupt (like the Red Cross? [1]) you do not have to donate to it. Tax dollars, on the other hand - you realistically have little choice where they are going in spite of whatever guise of democracy you think you are operating under.

[1] https://www.propublica.org/article/how-the-red-cross-raised-...
Maybe SF spends its money more smartly. People complain about the homeless problem in SF but never seem to stop to think that perhaps we have more homeless because there is less incentive to not be homeless in SF. NYC has lower homelessness because the winters are shit and the police are hostile. In SF, the weather is great and police let you shit in the street without much of a confrontation. Is there seriously any question why the rate is higher here? The homeless are treated pretty decently. SF has more homeless because it generally treats them better than the rest of the US, not worse.
It depends on how you define "a bunch"
Looks good! I've done a similar thing hand-coding super tiny HTML+CSS pages for my resume. I have one responsive version online for viewing at http://tomhodgins.com/resume.html and another that I use for printing or generating PDF at http://staticresource.com/printresume.html

Before this I was trying to maintain my resume in .txt format as well as Adobe inDesign and generating PDFs based on that. I'm glad I have something I can version control better!
I don't actually mind using any method to fight ISIS or other terror groups, but the part that gets me is fighting them in one place and using them to further our goals in another place.

I don't understand that.
That last paragraph implies you're less interested in finding out and more interested in insisting those requirements don't exist because you worked on a project that overlaps with the incredibly broad term "financial reporting". The term is so broad I'd almost say your anecdotal experience is more likely to be irrelevant than not.
Very interesting proposition. I've only read the Abstract and the part about Testosterone, and would like HN's take on this.

Pmarca re-tweeted about this, that's how I found out about it, and was somewhat surprised to note that HN hadn't already had a go at it.
I'll put you down as a reference next time I apply to Microsoft! :)

If you're working on a social network, can you share more about what you're thinking about building and what stage you're at?
7 / 2.5 is still under 3w for the total prone draw.

All of which suggests in a laptop with active cooling and higher energy budget say 20W you could sustain 2+ ghz x6 cores or 20,000 to 24,000 with minor adjustments. Which is in the ballpark of Intel's high end desktop performance and faster than their mobile chips.

The real issue is Intel is dealing with a well funded competitor who does not care about x86. And the computer history has a long line of companies who where eaten from below as people where happy to pay a lot less for fewer features.
Read your own sources more carefully. The $40k figure was for homeless people with mental illnesses in NYC (a more expensive subset of homeless, and a more expensive city than most). The figures given by Mangano later in the article have no citation.

More importantly, you are comparing all the services consumed by mentally ill homeless people in NYC with the homeless budget of the city of SF alone. Look at table 17 in the study [1]. Here is where those $40k came from:

$12,520 NY State Office of Mental Health
$11,596 Medicaid (inpatient)
$2,613 Medicaid (outpatient)
$6,229 NYC Health and Hospitals Corporation
$4,658 NYC Department of Homeless Services
$1,822 US Department of Veteran Affairs
$645 Department of corrections (city)
$368 Department of corrections (state)

Of these, only $11,532 came from the city.

[1] http://repository.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1067...
This Nintendo 'Game Counselor' Manual Helped Players Beat 'Zelda' Over the Phone
I used to use Xcode for all my work. Then I had to write Clojure for a couple years, and only used Emacs. When I got back to writing native code, I went back to Xcode and ironically felt like I had slipped into the distant past. So I switched to CLion, the latest bells-and-whistles IDE for C++. But all my custom Emacs code was too powerful an adversary for even CLion and I am back to using Emacs full-time for C and C++.

One caveat: I now use vim-mode in Emacs ("evil") which really has taken my Emacs experience to a new level.
Use Bitcoin or Venmo. Sounds like they've been great stewards.
Is there a longer version that isn't cut up? If this is all they are showing it's a clear sign their self-driving tech is a very far ways off from not needing a driver.
He's not even hired a lawyer, his filings are Pro Se, which is why they are full of mistakes that even a novice lawyer wouldn't make.
Couldn't they also be equal to each other? If equality was defined only in terms of the value and not the vtable (to borrow pcwalton's terms), they would be equal. Are there any problems which would arise from this?
The Jazzband is a Python-focused group based around similar ideas: People can transfer their projects to the group, and anyone in the group can commit stuff and make releases.

https://jazzband.co/
Videos are pre-rendered and compressed which massively reduces filesize
ISIS is anything but an ephemeral problem.

If you'll read "A Peace to End All Peace" it should become obvious that it was a near-inevitability. Most or many of the nations of the former Ottoman Empire were made up out of whole cloth by colonial powers in the region. These were often fronted by a "he might be a bastard but he's our bastard" strongman.

Now that those regimes have been either bombed out of existence, by invasion or have collapsed under their own weight ( or both ), there's a power vacuum.

There is a documentary I can't quite place now about the case of Abu Mansoor Al-Amriki. It involves someone who who lives in ... Canada? who does deprogramming of foreign-born Jihadis. This is analogous to deprogramming cult members.

IMO, this is a worthy effort.
I certainly can complain about the software. Obviously everyone else is free to ignore me.

Even though I use all of their software, I honestly don't care about the Linux, Java, Node, Emacs, or Python "communities" and it is frankly silly for open source developers to expect me to. I have real communities and responsibilities to devote unpaid labor to.
No I'm bored of social networks. My email and phone number really are sufficient
> Lego's customer service department should run the world.

This isn't customer service; this is guerilla marketing in the Twitter age.
The emacs ecosystem has really changed how I work.

I manage all of my email now in `mu4e`. I manage all of my notes, writing, TODOs, time tracking, invoicing in `org-mode`. For interacting with git, `magit` is simply amazing.

The most important thing is how everything works together. There is the obvious window, frame and buffer management, the kill ring, the searching across all open buffers. Less obvious is that while looking at email I can hit a few keys to create a TODO, schedule it for a particular date that will show up in my agenda, and will link back to that same email (which I can now move out of my inbox). Or, in my programming notes file, I can link to a specific commit for a project I'd like to come back to later.

And, the best part, which I've only barely scratched the surface of: everything is programmable. I can write an emacs lisp function to automate almost any part of my workflow.
It's a pity this article didn't but I assume it'll be interesting to compare Twitter with its copy cat Weibo in China, who went public Q2 2014, 6 months after Twitter, and started to see profit quarters since Q4 of the same year.
Well, sure - you're right. They outlawed slavery; that's why they have lockup provisions.

In acquihire-land, that's the short-hand terminology that is often used. I'm sure there are more precise (and lengthy) ways to say the same thing.
The long arm of the Fed
> I don't want to see a Trump White House, but I am also sad that if Clinton wins, Google's influence in the White House will continue, or expand.

It doesn't matter who the next president will be. Google will still have it's role to play in the govt. Isn't their guy responsible for search part of a Pentagon? initiative or something?
I think you misunderstood what I was going for. My argument wasn't that $241MM is spent on incarceration, it's that it could go for much better services than currently being offered.
The mechanism is analogous to the problem with cults and violent radicals in the 19[67]0s. There is working psychology for treating it, but it doesn't work 100%. It was
called "deprogramming" back then. We had in school warnings about cults as a preventative measure.
The child proof cap would double as a reminder to the adult that they are on the hard stuff! :-)
I did this for a (not very popular) Eclipse IDE autocomplete set for a certain Lua-based game engine.

I updated to 0.9.2d and forgot about it (stopped using the engine), and someone came in with a PR for 0.10.0. I made a couple of notes on the PR, and gave the guy commit access.

He cleaned it up, and has been rebuilding occasionally when new minor versions of the API definitions come in.

The vast majority of people are pretty nice. They aren't assholes. They're just people who have the same issues you had to build the project in the first place, and want to help.
Hi. Simple question, what's the tech stack that will be used for the opensource software that will run the self-driving? (I imagine static and safe programming language?)
Charity is a nice idea, but when people are paying their taxes, and seeing trillions wasted in Afghanistan and Iraq, boondoggles like the F-35 and the LCS, and even to an extent the Zumwalt, they might have a right to speculate that their charity or lack thereof is not the primary issue.

Then they might look at the state of healthcare in this country, and how a combination of bought politicians, insurance, and some particularly greedy pharmaceutical companies cough albuterol cough Mylan cough and realize that the problem is bigger than a spirit of pooling resources.

We already pool our resources, then those resources are wasted. That's the problem.
ISIS makes pretty sophisticated use of media now. So I would not be surprised. The whole thing is threaded together by fancy cell phones in the same way that the printing press was used in the European Protestant Reformation.
Speaking of the prestige issue that WhitneyLand brought up, it seems that both of the featured engineers who are working at a "Big 4" software company attended top schools. One seems to have gone to Harvard and the other attended Rice University.
I wonder how soon Apple will have custom GPUs in their Macs? Or maybe a standalone display driven by an Ax chip?
> but if I opened up a resturant/bar, I would load it up with pretty women.

This hits home. There are plenty of bars that have absolutely atrocious service but still get repeat patrons because the bartenders are smoking hot. Sex sells.
I had submitted several PRs to a Zip streaming library. The author gave me direct commit access after this. I've helped maintain it ever since. I think it can really work out in some cases.
ah, fair enough.

I remember these guys from way back, when they originally didn't take Jim Sterling's criticism of Slaughtering Grounds very well. I forgot about them until they sued him, then forgot about them again until just now.

It's a fitting end to the story of Digital Homicide.

Completely deserved. Also, ironically enough, done by their own hand.
Thank you for sharing this is awesome!
I haven't read the ruling, so I'm talking a bit out of my ass here; however, that's rather nonsensical approach considering that many areas of the country have multi-jurisdictional systems in place for services. As an example, arguably the largest and most well known being the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, but is just one of many many examples[1].

Further, these type of multi-jurisdictional systems are becoming ever more important as cities continue to grow and encompass other counties (never mind other states), and the creation of (as well determining who pays for) infrastructure becomes an ever more important issue.

There could be an argument to be made that telecommunications infrastructure is a different beast than traditional mass transportation, highways, etc. However, I reject that notion out of hand as this has not been even been the first type of new infrastructure that the US has dealt with in it's history (electricity, original telecommunications (telegram/telephone) being the most obvious.)

But let's not beat around the bush, the law and the ruling are nothing more than typical bought and paid for members of a different level of government (NC is not a home rule state, and the current Republican run legislature already has a long history of gross overreach into municipal matters) creating less competition so that oligopolistic entities can make a large amount of money on the backs of the public. Time Warner Cable (Spectrum now I guess) owns the NC legislature, lock stock and barrel.

[1] See links for more data: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_district_(United_State...
and: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_powers_authority
How do you use it? I couldn't imagine using Emacs with a software keyboard.
That and Sunni Muslims being driven out of Iraq.

The story from "Charlie Wilson's War" keeps on permanent repeat...
How would you go about showing that emotions, feelings and intuition produce good results without proving that very idea rationally?

While intuition may be useful to get good results (perhaps it is the subconscious quickly applying some pattern that has worked in the past) there's no way to know a particular use of intuition worked unless you go back later and rationally analyze the results.

And more importantly, there's no reason to believe intuition works at all unless we either 1) understand it on something like a neurological psychological level (I would not hold my breath waiting for this) or 2) do some statistical modeling of it's reliably.
Penn Jillette is an amazing person. What makes America such a great country is the existence of large number of libertarian business men, leaders and public figures.

In other countries it is uneconomical for most public figures to be critical of their government.
No, i just did sudo apt-get install emacs24-nox. I haven't had great luck with build tools. I broke the whole thing two or three times trying to install ghci.
Well, I switched to Lua because Snabb apps are built in Lua, and because the Snabb toolkit will ideally provide a lot of functionality for the runtime that I won't have to build myself. And Snabb is really quite impressive in itself.

That said, Elixir is an awesome language, and lovely to write lexer/parsers in. I took me only a few hours to build a functioning parser in Elixir, compared to several days to build one in Lua.

The p4 parser/lexer in Lua is here: https://github.com/esbullington/snabbp4

Next step would be to generate the parse graph.
The experiment was designed by people who earned a Noble prize. Maybe it's not as stupid as you think.
How do you know they would make better decisions? By all means, if you can figure this out there is a nobel laurate waiting for you.
I don't think you understand what a "duty" is. A duty is an ethical and moral requirement. Creating the conditions for someone else to help me most easily is not a duty; it's just common sense.
good points :)
A core banking system captures and stores all the transactions and business a bank performs. Without this a bank would not be able to function let alone produce a meaningful financial report.
I shared mod privileges with somebody on reddit and my subreddit was closed for excessive spam within days -- I learned my lesson!
All talks have been uploaded - again, PRs welcome. Thanks in advance :)

https://github.com/charlesfeng/startup-school-notes/tree/mas...
Just from general knowledge. You can verify it by googling "$AIRLINERMODEL passenger miles per gallon" for various aircraft types. Or Wikipedia has a good roundup:

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

Typical values are 70+ PMPG, and 100+ isn't uncommon. (I just made up the PMPG acronym, so don't go trying to search with it.) The most efficient gasoline car you can buy today will do about 56MPG.

Flying isn't more efficient than rolling, but big is more efficient than small, and high is more efficient than low. Cars and airliners are massively different in ways beyond just rolling versus flying. Note that small aircraft definitely do not have this efficiency advantage. A 737 gets to carry 180 or so people at a time and travel at 35,000 feet, and that's a big win over a car carrying one person near sea level. Busses and trains win big over airliners, because they get the same scaling advantages without the disadvantage of having to use aerodynamic lift.
Intuition and the ability to reason are components of intelligence. But they are distinct. Intuition is certainly not reason (though it could be reasonable) and reason is not intuition (though to some people it comes intuitively).
If that interests you, ask for a chart of the real-world successes of LessWrong readers compared to non-LW readers.

Also about the mosquito nets versus AI dialectic in Effective Altruism.