skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The paper you tried to link to didn't draw any connection between immigration and rape. The increased number of reported rapes in Sweden in the late nineties could be explained in a number of ways. One is that reporting increased thanks to increased awareness, another is legislative change, a third is revision of statistical routines. The two latter are mentioned in the paper.

Another thing that complicates a comparison:

"The Swedish data tend to lie at a higher level than that of the other countries (von Hofer, 2000). This is due to several factors: 1) in Sweden, a criminal offence is registered at the point that it is reported; 2) reported acts that later prove to be non-offences are not removed from the statistics; and, 3)
all offences listed on the same police report or committed on the same occasion (or in a series) appear as separate offences in Swedish statistics. Thus, the number of offences counted in Sweden is more comprehensive than in the other Nordic countries." (p. 7)
In the industrial revolution we mostly automated blunt physical labor. In the AI revolution we will automate intellectual labor. Robots are also becoming more dexterous. I don't think history can guide us here.

Objectively valuable human endeavors could shrink to nothing, though we will probably at least buy ourselves time with genetic tampering and brain prostheses.

Perhaps humanity's salvation will come from selling hand-crafted goods? Maybe the AIs will keep us around like pets (see The Culture novels https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iain_Banks#The_Culture_novels)?

No sense in not charging ahead though. The potential upside is too awesome to leave on the table. We face existential risk regardless.
Yes, you are right. It is a better R. I haven't thought of R because I consider it as being nothing special in terms of design of programming languages.
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Hey, I'm just some random dickhead, but I enjoyed the talk, and past ones you've done. Hope to get to see one in person at defcon or something sometime.

Keep rubbing people and systems the wrong way.
Hallelujah that people are trying to call stuff like this out, I've really been trying to encourage people in this direction. We need clear explanations of things, not jargon (I don't care how it can be precise, it can also be vague). Randall of XKCD has also done some interesting work in this area. Props.
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Right! The two major parties in the USA are quite flexible. We saw this when Bill Clinton broke from 70s era liberalism (i.e. "Third Way"), we saw it with the Hillary-Sanders struggle, and we're seeing it now with Trump, who has quite a different platform from Bush or even Romney.

What would be a minority party run elsewhere can be accommodated by the major parties in the USA. This is a strength of American politics, not a weakness.
Phone layouts automatically blowing up to a 10 inch screen and allowing developers to be lazy is not an advantage. The tablet apps on Android are still garbage after all these years.
I wonder if you could write parallelization routines that make this slightly faster with a few more atmels...
What a PhD in CS teaches you is how to do research in CS. This skill may or may not be valuable for a specific company and may or may not intersect with raw dev chops. Production Dev is a distinct skill from CS research.
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> They are indeed bloat ware, horrendous privacy invader, outright money seeking in their features, etc. Those cannot be taken granted as evidence of their overall horribleness.

Really?

> Chinese game players are such a huge population that a large number of them quite closely follow western trends. They play ps4 and xbox1, they know all the memes about trending western games

Ugh, no, unless they live abroad. First and foremost, it's because Chinese players usually can only play on Chinese servers which are cut off from the rest of the world (examples - League of Legends, all Blizzard games). Xbox Live is segregated from the outside world too.

> There is no strong culture of "foreign barbarians can't possibly understand our culture". Foreigners are routinely treated with better-than-normal-Chinese standards. Foreign cultures are always described as superior to status-quo of Chinese society. etc.

This isn't true. Foreigners are often taken advantage of, and the Chinese are outright racist to non-whites.

> LoL, the most popular Moba in China, is not rubbish...

It's also not Chinese-produced.

> as long as you do not touch politics (for which most countries exercise similar policies) you can do whatever you want

No. https://www.techinasia.com/china-releases-censorship-rules-f...
In order to address (at least partially) the "statistics says otherwise" response to your comment, here are some interesting links:

They are a result of duckduckgoing for "<country> coverup immigrant sex assaults"

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jan/13/sex-as...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/germany/120...
If users care about freedom why are they choosing software that violate their freedom? Probably because the software does what they need and I'd rather see proprietary software where some parts are MIT licensed than software that is entirely proprietary.
Author here. It's correct that apps like this can be put in the App Store. However I've not chosen to do so because my developer license is not active at the moment. Though I do feel like the installation is quite cumbersome at the moment.
I imagine that this stuff will be great for prototyping algorithms and figuring out good applications/requirements, but eventually (like when stuff has to be mass-produced) you'll see physical structures coming back in.

Either gearwork or biologically-inspired designs, replacing some flexible electric rules and brawn with structures that have rules and brawn "baked in".

Sort of like how your knees aren't "soft-coded" for a particular set of angles, it's an emergent property of a system shaped by a particular use.
We don't have a two-party system. The DNC and GOP just want us to believe that we do.

The more we keep believing that we do, the more this same crap will keep happening every four to eight years.
Your comment was after mine above. Never? I wouldn't rush judgement. Here is an incident of a lithium battery in a camera bag in an overhead bin causing a fire and subsequent return to departure airport [1], and another of an air-purifier exploding in the cabin causing burns to one passenger and hospitalization of some others due to smoke inhalation [2].

And here's one where the crew of a UPS cargo plane lost their lives due to a fire with rigin located near a pallet containing some lithium batteries in the main deck cargo area. Granted fire suppression was not there I think, but you get the picture [3].

I have not worked in the airline industry, but the above incidents were reported, and were highly-visible, occurring in the passenger cabin. I wonder if there are any unreported incidents of the fire suppression system going off in the cargo/baggage hold? I'll have to read through the source material more.

I know it's speculative, but I say it having worked in a high-risk job where minor incidents like paper cuts and stapler accidents were reported by the front office, but much more serious incidents occurred in the underwater work we did, and did not get duly reported. Safety is a diligence game, and we tend to get jaded by daily 'minor' incidents until a big one occurs and rattles everyone to muster, or it sees the light of the press & public.

[1] http://www.skybrary.aero/index.php/A320,_vicinity_New_York_J...

[2] http://www.skybrary.aero/index.php/B738,_en-route,_Colorado_...

[3] http://www.skybrary.aero/index.php/B744,_vicinity_Dubai_UAE,...
I think you might have a point about the "post-exit career of the average great founder" in that it's usually not that impressive.

Larry and Sergey certainly would qualify as "great founders", given their level of success, and, while they continue to run Google competently, they really haven't done anything else (Google still really only has one line of business, after all).

Whereas on the other hand, we have someone like Bezos who, with AWS, has created not one, but two ten billion dollar plus businesses and whose ambition seems to be boundless. Or, of course, Elon.
I like how Project Euler is perceived very differently by people of varying backgrounds: programmers always say it's heavy on math, math folks tend to say it's mostly about programming!
It's not an oxymoron - it's the sad reality of today. It's pretty much like most PETA fans who'd gladly kill a hunter to save their prey - only with Gypsies it's the reverse situation as the prey, in this case, is the victims of the Gypsies - in Bulgaria, at least.
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>What kicked it off in 2007 I don't know.

The internet meme of "creepypasta," probably. See /r/nosleep for the sanitized version. This is the meme cluster that yielded Slenderman, BEKs, and the SCP project.
Exponential cumulative distribution. Mostly because wealth of the few on the top I'd made by accumulation of wealth of the ones below. A mathematical description of exploitation.
True, but where they paid fair wages? Did they pay taxes? If not there is also a negative impact from all that work they did. Don't get me wrong the taxes argument is crap when you look at the tax dodge most large companies are doing via Ireland, but still.
> you know that as long as you do not touch politics (for which most countries exercise similar policies) you can do whatever you want.

This sound like you are an apologist for the book burners, metaphorically

> The brutality and amount of hard work you need to put in to survive in Chinese market is beyond imagination. For example, most companies have policy like 996, working 6 days, 9am to 9pm.

Spending more time producing junk doesn't make it not junk. In fact working 72 hours continuously sounds like a great way to burn out and produce poor results.
They're actually good games.
I agree that changing tax law would be the best remedy but I'm not entirely sure if tax "avoidance" on a massive scale doesn't have some ethical considerations. When the people engaging in said avoidance have an outsized influence on the way tax laws are set up and interpreted relative to working/middle class citizens, I can certainly understand why some might attach an ethical consideration to such schemes. Just to be clear, this is an issue that I myself still haven't come to a conclusion on, but at the very least I can see both sides of the argument. I don't necessarily think it's "silly", perhaps naive or ignorant on my part though.

With regards to your second point, I'm not sure if I agree with your statement that "people with loads of money tend to be pretty prudent when ensuring what they are doing with their taxes is legal". I mean, I'm sure this is the case for many people but it seems that illegal tax evasion is a pretty serious global problem so clearly there are plenty of people who's main concern seems to be not getting caught rather than following the law. I also don't have a tremendous amount of faith that the US or other governments can adequately tackle the problem of enforcement at this time. Again, I could very well be wrong on all counts.

Mr. Soros in particular is problematic to me since he has a prior conviction for insider trading and there have been allegations surrounding his Quantum funds for many years. The secrecy and opaqueness with which he runs his investment vehicles certainly seems somewhat antithetical to an "open society", I wonder if the irony is lost on Mr. Soros.
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That's the backlash you have since media didn't report any problems with asylum seekers in the beginning. How long did it took the german state TV to report about the events on last sylvester? IIRC about 4 days in today's world with Facebook, Twitter, E-Mail and Smartphones... They even had to apologize for that.

BTW in Austria statistics show that non-citizens and asylum seekers are way over-represented in most criminal statistics, e.g. drug selling and violence.
Good thing here in America we don't have a two-party system!
There was a guy prosecuted this year for similar security lapses. He went to jail.

Snowden wrote in wired, though the article doesn't cover the latest news https://www.wired.com/2015/09/snowden-people-get-fired-prose...
How were you handling sales, relationships building, market/MVP feedback, lead nurturing, and marketing in your business?

And what happened with your business? Were you left with no connections, relationships, and reputation of results to leverage to your next "thing" (I.e. new career path, consulting gigs, resume material)?

Even if your startup / bootstrapped / micro-enterprise failed, you got tired of it, or the market shifted, you don't get to a few hundred K in revenue in a solo/micro operation without having some results, reputation, and relationships to stand on when you walk away. At least not in any situation I can think of.

I don't know you, but I'm wondering if this is more about your perception being off about what's making this next step (i.e. interviews and selling yourself) challenging for you. If it is off, maybe you're overlooking something else that is really the root cause of it, preventing you from addressing it or even asking the right questions of yourself or the community.
Android vs. Web Apps is exactly where I was sitting on the fence, but then I just looked at the sheer number of Android devices out there, and it doesn't seem to be stopping!
I work with a Syrian immigrant and he's quite nice and has never raped anyone and enjoys fishing and watching football. So, like, are we tied now or something?
I suspect learning. Loneliness is ultimately not the signal we think it is. It's conditioned from other more fundamental signals. One such signal is the desire to learn. To become a better version of yourself. Sustained loneliness is eventually disintegrated and mediated more fundamentally. Empathizing with the intellectual giants of history can yield wonderful quasi-imaginary friends. Notably many such people lived very similarly and have wonderful things to say about it; Almost as if they intended to be your temporally long-distance friend. If you love them as they were then you will come to see that they loved you too. Truly to the depth that they could know you. It both humbles and inspires.
> And if they want more, they can always get a search warrant for them.

How would that help? She deleted them.

> The public needs to be forceful in telling the House to stop wasting government money on Hillary emails.

No, they need to tell the House that Hillary should be indited, that she is not above the rules.
Why are you so intent on telling everyone off for criticising what, at the very least, is a unimaginative, cliched, and clumsy way of describing a cash grab.
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If something is too offensive or creepy it must be written by a man. There's no way a woman wrote something people found displeasing.
Sarcasm. Wording aside, I've heard plenty of women frame men that same way, including the 'lower than human' vibe.
A world without work could be utopia or it could be hell
This is a lot of it. You need people who have a good eye for UX and a solid understanding of what's possible in a browser. Developers =/= Designers and most Designers =/= UX. The sooner more devs understand this (and more importantly the owners of companies who pay the devs and don't think they need a UXer because money understand this) the smoother things will be.
> I have never heard of African Americans emptying a house while the elderly occupants are still in, tearing apart the pipes to re-sell for tin, throwing the occupants down the stairs to die in agony, with a broken hip, for hours, all that for 50c worth of copper.

Copper theft is a big thing in the US: http://www.cnbc.com/id/100917758 - I'm sure there's someone in the US who did something close enough and we could find a sensationalised headline if we did enough research. You probably just have that one case embedded in your brain because it matches a preexisting narrative, a trivially common form of cognitive bias.

> I have never heard Rev. Jesse Jackson explain that forcing the public rape of an 11 y.o. by her 13 y.-o. cousin is also a cultural thing.

It's true, Jackson is more about defending people shooting the police with cries of "black lives matter!" while gang shootings continue to take about 13 black lives a day (and there's a lot more tragedies like Tyshawn Lee's than Laquan McDonald's out there.) If that's not practically an endorsement of having different values for what goes on inside the borders of a different culture, I'm not quite sure what is. And even if not, that's one man's specific political views versus an unsourced assertion and it fails to satisfy.

> When a African American drug lord is arrested, his gang might challenge the authorities and defend him, but the vast majority of his victims, generally also African American, rejoice -- they do not spit racist slurs.

Well, the police force is multiracial in a lot of cities, so racist slurs aren't always appropriate. There are plenty of places they'd just cry "Fuck the police!" etc. Inclusion on the police force may be a key difference, actually, though it's hard to be itinerant and hold that kind of a position at once.

> African American don’t see White Americans as cattle to prey upon.

Guarantee you there are some thugs out there who do. I wouldn't generalise, but I'm not yet confident that you should generalise either.
Ask HN: Donate to Republican/Democratic party via Stripe
Hey everyone!

I tried searching teh interwebs for this, but couldn't find anything useful. Is there a way I can add a Stripe integration to my site that would donate money to a bank account I do not own?

I would like to build a site that would punish its users by donating to the party they do not support.

Thanks!
Essential reading on this topic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discipline_and_Punish

The opening I will never forget. It is a detailed historical description of one of the last public executions in France for Regicide. A powerful opening to a very thought provoking book. It details the decline of capital punishment as the public began to see the punishment as worse than the crime, and the moving from the taking of life by the state (execution), to the taking of bodily freedom (imprisonment). From punishing the soul of the man, to merely punishing his body.

After reading the book I became sure that this trend in the reform of punishment will continue and that it is inevitable that eventually capital punishment will disappear completely from the world.
> Guanxi is how things get done when you don't have strong institutions.

Totally agree.

I am saying that from a point on, guanxi is the reason you don't have strong institutions, precisely because they tend to form close-knit circles of power that prevent the forming of strong institutions. It's a vicious circle.
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I think there is a bit of a difference between buying a car and buying a jet.

I bought a car last year and just paid for it using my chip-and-pin debit card, my bank told me that they can identify accounts for car dealers and don't question large payments to them.
I'd say one of the more exciting possibilities is helium-free NMR & MRI.
You need super conductors for the containment of the plasma, but they don't have to be high temperature super conductors.
There are also less obvious ways to unlock cash, instead of just selling (you might not want to do that, because you believe your stock is undervalued or you want to retain control of your company, etc).

For example: let's say you own $500m worth of Google stock. Google stock compounds pretty well at the moment. Interest rates are low, around 1-2% per year.

You can borrow $200m quite easily by using your existing stock as collateral. That money could then be reinvested again in a low fee S&P fund and in some individual stocks, generating you a 10% yield per annum. 10% - 2% = 8% of annual gains, or $16m per year.
> Maybe try reading my original post again?

Ok, sure

> But you are ignoring that people who are proudly racist are openly admitting to using pepe specifically to broaden and popularize explicitly racist ideas

Yes. I am ignoring such people, because such tactics don't merit anything more. I would also ignore them if they claimed to be using Mickey Mouse or any other broadly popular icon to promote their ideas.

Because it deserves nothing more than a rolling of my eyes.

What I will call out is people (like the Clinton campaign) accepting or validating the idea that Pepe is somehow a racist, nazi frog.

> If you cannot handle that a meme is ALSO (which means NOT ENTIRELY ie they dont own it) by people with a racist agenda then I frankly don't know what to say

I can handle it fine. It's the Clinton campaign (and surrogates) that are trying to actively associate Pepe as a symbol of racism and that's what I object to.

I think this conversation has reached the point where it is only going to go round in circles, so I'm bowing out now. Please enjoy the rest of your day.
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Lets also not forget he pays Spanish/EU taxes.
Funding: http://i.imgur.com/sjH5r.jpg

Wendelstein 7X is impressive, but it doesn't have the facilities for actual fusion. The best they can do is "theoretical breakeven", which has already been achieved with tokamaks (JT-60 in Japan).

As for "micro-fusion" devices: if you're thinking of Lockheed, as far as I can tell they're full of shit. It's an approach that was tried 50 years ago and failed.
>Combetta is just trying to hide email addresses from spammers.

I honestly can't tell if you're being serious or not.
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My feeling is that guanxi/relationships is how you deal with a low-trust environment. If you can't trust strangers to keep their word, because of lack of shared morals and/or lack of impartial laws and their enforcement, then the rational thing to do is to get to know someone before trusting them. Also, get recommendations from people you trust. Work with family, because you know them best of all.
This statistic from the article strikes as amazing. Not 100% sure if I believe it.

"In 2015, 22 percent of lower-skilled men [those without a college degree] aged 21 to 30 had not worked at all during the prior twelve months,”

"Three quarters of their additional leisure time is spent with video games, Hurst’s research has shown"

Doing some quick maths put 15% of lower skilled men are playing video games all day during their idle time. Is this really happening on the ground?