skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
OK, I actually do agree with the art history errors he points out–Graham's comment that "The paintings made between 1430 and 1500 are still unsurpassed," for example, is completely ridiculous. And I also totally agree that Developer Exceptionalism is a very irritating thing that Graham is guilty of.

I just don't agree that painting and programming are completely different, and I don't find any of the author's arguments very compelling. I've spent many hours both painting and programming (working towards a BFA in painting and a BA in CS)–the mental states that happen during the creative process, the types of thinking strategies employed, and the problem-solving techniques are actually very similar. They're just abstractly similar–which is why it doesn't really matter that painting takes place through materials and programming doesn't, or that you could substitute painting for any creative discipline that involves dealing with constraints. His arguments are bad, and I hope nobody walks away from that post agreeing that "hackers are nothing like painters."
Those are (well trod) arguments against Voter ID, which I took care to specify I was not making.

They are not arguments against e.g. voter cards, requiring the person to know their address in addition to their name, etc.

Are you okay with them giving me your ballot simply because I claimed to be you? (It will be too late to take it back once I've cast.) If not, you agree with me, and "we're just haggling over the price" as the saying goes.

Btw, you need to authenticate yourself to open a bank account in the US.
Well, I stand corrected. Yes, there definitely is a performance penalty for promises.

Performance may be a tradeoff for the current engines, but I'm optimistic that it will be optimized away as it doesn't add too much semantics over the callbacks. Maybe error handling is tricky.

I would say they are superior to callbacks as object-oriented code is to procedural code - that also has some performance cost in many engines.

But, you are saying tradeoffs - plural. I, as an experienced web developer, am sincerely curious what any other can be?
tl;dr transactions are encrypted so proof of funds work with zero-knowledge proofs
Before feels better. But that's just my opinion
What if machines randomly gave 50% of voters receipts?

You could still use those for auditing with simple statistics. But any particular voter could simply say they didn't get one.
In your model, is there "almost certainly zero reward" to the first (legit) vote?
That is not up-to-date information that you have. You can find plenty of batteries keeping 80% of the original charge after 1000 cycles or more.
It's still a long way off, but we are working on building quieter supersonic planes [1]. I think we will almost certainly see the return of international supersonics first, but never is a very long time.

[1]: http://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-begins-work-to-build-...
If I get you correctly another re-phrasing could be: If we put a human soldier into a situation that is dicey, like a mix of civilians and terrorists we didn't expect, we are obligated to get that human out even if it risks more soldiers and local civilians. But if we put a drone in the same dicey situation we can just accept the loss of that drone and self destruct it without harming any soldiers or civilians.
Thanks! I use Cloudberry Backup [1] to backup to Google Drive and it works very well but rclone looks far more lightweight.

[1] http://www.cloudberrylab.com/
I don't believe so, though I guess some do. The purpose of (well-written) "thick clients" is to provide real-time interactivity and reduce bandwidth. Beyond this, if something can be done on the server without degrading the app experience, it probably should be.

Added bonus if the site works fine without client-side JS at all (which Next.js does)
That drove me crazy too - cap-sense buttons have been largely a customer experience fail, so not sure why it's gone on this long. I'm a big fan of the tactile "bump" feedback, and it's way too easy to do something by accident for even the most careful user.

It's funny how Apple did the "no buttons thing" because they were responding to a tech ecosystem that had a button for everything at the cost of the user getting overwhelmed. However, now there's no sanity in the other direction - with people avoiding buttons and making things so streamlined that they're harder to use.

In every age there's an innovate response to a cliche, but ultimately this becomes a cliche in of itself :)
Your question was how do you defeat the 5$ wrench, not how do you tell them tax-man to f himself.

If state actors use the 5$ wrench, that's illegal and consequently you have the defense of the courts to counter that behavior. Civil forfeiture is dependent on being able to "prosecute" your stuff, rather than you. So if they can't seize it, they have to go after you directly, which puts the burden of proof on the prosecution to demonstrate that the money is unlawfully possessed. The fundamental principle of the US court system is "innocent until proven guilty", so you don't have to prove what your income is, they have to prove it. You only need to counter their claims.
It's weird that he devotes all of this time to not being tracked online and then shares this one bit of info:

> "I have a Twitter account called rmspostcomments, which I use to log in on other sites to post comments on articles."
Neoliberalism is creating loneliness. That’s what’s wrenching society apart
a kickstarer project which have observed se same issue with cashless society
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/187482891/ernittm-the-s...
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This is why I quite admire initiatives like Hypothesis[1] where we can annotate the web by overlaying an abstraction on top of it which can give a page more depth and context.

Similar projects like the Genius web annotator[2] tries to achieve the same.

It doesn't mean the commenters (or annotators) will be any less mean, but it certainly is preferable to a Disqus widget dangling on the end of a page, or the default Wordpress commenting engine which allows seemingly anyone to comment regardless of whether they signed up or not.

[1]: http://hypothes.is/

[2]: https://genius.com/web-annotator
Since I wasn't advocating lower AA vote or voter ID in that post, I'm not sure what you're responding to.
Do you really need full homomorphic encryption? I expect there must exist a more specialized method for this sort of thing.
Never thought I'd see WP talk pages held up as an example of civility. They certainly weren't when I was there. AN/I, ArbCom, flame wars a plenty.
That's an interesting idea. I like it. Will have to see how that could fit in. Thanks sharemywin.
Yep. Sorry--my original point is getting derailed. I was responding to someone suggesting that it's ridiculous to take into account things like backups and security because those things are necessary on any platform.

The comparison was to illustrate that although those concepts exist on any platform, comparing the maintenance / backup / security of a database server you maintain yourself versus a managed instance shows significant differences.
Tangential, but I'm curious if people have any staycation ideas?

For peeps who aren't laid off but just want to chillax at home. Isn't traveling to some exotic location after all about switching your scenery, breaking out of your routine to give yourself permission for the unconscious mind free to wander, reflect and renew?

For instance, instead of going to Bangkok, for cuisine, the beach, nightlife and Buddhist temples, why not order something that you normally don't get at a Thai takeout menu and eat it at a place you normally wouldn't eat at, book a day-spa appointment at a local 5-star hotel instead of your local gym, go to a concert at a music venue you have been before (or other nightlife establishment you'd otherwise go to in SE Asia) and go to a local meditation/wellness center for sitting meditation or some other random place that induces meditation, reflection and all that "wanderlust" feeling evoked in traveling brochures. Try to schedule all of your appointments in a span of 3-4 days, give yourself permission to spend liberally as you'd at a normal vacation and resist the urges to do any of your usual routine you'd normally and take the following Monday or Friday off.

Anyways would love to hear other people's staycation ideas or Sunday routines, similar to this: http://topics.nytimes.com/top/features/timestopics/series/su...
http://gawker.com/a-statistical-analysis-of-the-new-york-tim...

More specially, not necessarily as a Sunday routine to prepare and get in gear for the upcoming week; but what do you guys do after a major stress event, burn-out, in midst of existential crisis, post-breakup, the hangover cure morning after going on an alcoholic, drug-induced or emotionally-induced bender; is it as simple as getting a latte espresso fix at your Starbucks or does it have to be flying out to Bangkok for a 6-month recovery getaway?
Electing a new official should be about policy and not about going crazy on things like this.
I meant between the actual institutions of government, but you raise a good point.

I think that proportional representation is worse. Let's say you have the following election split: 45% Conservative, 45% Socialist, 10% Green. In such a scenario, the Green Party becomes king-maker and wields enormous power nearly equal to whoever it chooses as coalition partner and highly disproportionate to its tiny share of the vote.
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Also, if the JS fails to run on the client (which you have no control over, and which is pretty common), the page still loads.
Not really sure which part of the skulduggery I find the most amazing. Is it changing the "7" to a "9" and thus giving LBJ 200 more votes? Or that people only talked about it after nearly everyone else was dead?
As a counterpoint, here Wikipedia's discussion on why NPOV is hard or maybe unattainable:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Why_Wikipedia_is_not...

I think the NPOV policy has been great for Wikipedia and contributes to many positive outcomes, but I often think Wikipedians are too sanguine that they can recognize and/or achieve it, and about the scope of the "neutrality" they're actually working towards. One reason for that is the other policies on reliable sources and undue weight, which means Wikipedia will usually appear to be NPOV when it reflects the attention and approaches given to something by media and academic scholarship that are readily accessible to Wikipedia editors.

While that might be more neutral than any available alternative, it's still going to reflect tons of biases found in the underlying sources and in the editors' ability to select and access them. I've been thinking of trying to describe some examples, maybe deliberately including points of view that I don't hold or agree with instead of those that I do. :-)

I think one highlight is that if a point of view is now a minority view or extremely unfamiliar in middle-class English-speaking communities, paying a lot of attention to it on enwiki will be considered undue weight because editors can correctly describe the status of the view as marginal. But that point of view might be more correct or extremely important from some other perspective, even though reading an encyclopedia that gave more weight to it would be jarring for many readers and they might find it less useful overall. (It might also be a majority view in some other social classes, cultures, or language communities whose views aren't expressed in reliable sources that many Wikipedians can access, understand, or defend as reliable sources.)
better,

#ifdef NULL
#undef NULL
#endif
#define NULL (void*)((size_t)!rand())

* Doesn't trigger errors
* Will almost always return 0 (every time rand() returns a non-0 value), so code will almost never crash.
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What do people who failed to get into med school do next?
Suppose you did everything you were supposed to do to become a doctor. You studied hard in high school, and went to a good college. You again studied hard, and majored in something life-sciency. You took the MCAT, and did fine. You applied to a bunch of med schools. But then, for whatever reason, none of them admitted you.

Now what?

EDIT: Let me just add that I myself didn't fail to get into med school. I'm just asking.
[There are] standards-compliant ECMAScript runtimes everywhere and we all dream that it had been scheme instead.

Fixed that for you.
Well, I think it depends. Accepting capital and selling a fraction is how banks make most of their money. Making that process as frictionless as possible would make sense but if all of them are doing that, then there's probably some cost associated that I can't estimate properly.
Zooko's mentioned interest from banks/finance because they need privacy, too. I haven't asked about this because I'm not really into business.
I actually think using your promise library's promisify methods are best practice. Reason: there are multiple promise implementations with different methods available (e.g. the Bluebird library extends the promise/A standard significantly), and thus if libraries included promises, a conversion from whichever promise library the library was using to the promise library which you are using would be necessary, and this would be considerably less efficient.
ZCash is one of a few options for anonymity. Cryptonote-based ring-signature coins like Monero have been around for a while.

See also https://news.bitcoin.com/meet-top-3-coins-cryptocurrency-ano...
In most political topics on Wikipedia, you have a consensus because those who do not agree with it are quickly booted.

It works like this. Most of the time most editors are polite, but sometimes you get frustrated and are not. You might not write "fuck you fucking nazi-lover!" or something extreme, but something like "your opinion is idiotic!" or "you don't know what you're talking about here..." It happens everyone. However, if you don't agree with the "consensus" every little outburst will cost you much more. A newbie will be banned for much smaller infractions than a regular.

So, if you are having an argument with someone who is a "respectable editor" or "valuable contributor" in the community, they can and will be quite rude to you but you must not pay back in kind because you will be banned.

There are also intricate rules governing "reverting". Reverting means you are undoing someones changes and I can say from experience that having your edits reverted can be frustrating. I don't know exactly what the rules are but they seem to be effectively that the more "respectable" you are, the more you can revert your opponents edits.

This power imbalance can be seen all over Wikipedia if you look for it. Many articles have editors that consider themselves the "owner" of that article. The way they have written the article is the best way and they don't see their own NPOV violations (Wikipedia term for writing biased texts). Sometimes the talk pages and their archives contain dozens of comments from anonymous ip users raising issues with the article and they are all refuted by the owner. They don't have the endurance or enough standing in the Wikipedia community to fight so they give up and find more constructive things to spend their time on.
No mention of multicore, threads, or asynchrony. I would hope that is part of this.
The current system allows people to inspect the equipment and observe the vote. The parties typically make an effort to train people that do this in districts with close votes. There's no need to make it 50% likely that you can get a reward for voting a certain way.
Seconded. Sadly, our tech stack at work still includes some webforms cruft and I have a few friends at other companies that also still have to deal with them. Could be worse I guess...I know someone that still has to put up with classic ASP.

Thankfully I work with backend stuff at my job currently or I'd probably go crazy dealing with a mishmash of mvc and web forms. Webforms are not super easy to get rid of if you weren't careful on how you coupled to them, so I think some code is still being added to ours.
Yup, it's a clever idea, but wait for someone to be the Litecoin to their Tenebrix.
ES2015 is standard JS. Maybe not widely deployed, but it's standard.

JSX is not.
So there's an idea: a wallet format that lets you decrypt with any of one or more passphrases, with each passphrase giving a different set of addresses.
I agree. A site I run:

Server status at 2016-10-25 12:07:41
System status: Database up for 419.94 days.

It's Python and MariaDB.
I'm convinced that reputation based economics are a natural successor to currency with enough automated means of coordinating transactions.

Disclaimer: I may be extremely biased from spending the majority of my time trying to figure out how to put that into practice.
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Agreed. Although "stolen identity" is in the title, the author totally fails to explain the situation and just starts listing the attacks against her. It took me a while to figure out that she did not have an Upwork account.

And I'm still not 100% sure if that's the correct interpretation, whether she was attacked by someone that impersonated her, or an Upwork customer that was really scammed by the impersonator.
Those aren't 'options for styling Github', that's just a framework/lib they provide for your own projects.
I wouldn't say that's the case for most songs, but rather only for simple melodies. But yeah, a graver voice would sound better in most cases.

Consider the beggining of Bach's "Little" Fugue in G Minor (BWV 578), where the subject of the fugue is first introduced by a soprano voice and then repeated by an alto voice, while the soprano voice does the coutersubject. I'd say that, played in isolation, the melody sounds better when sung by the alto voice. But lowering the whole Fugue by a half-step wouldn't make it much better.
This story is very hard to believe.

The criminal justice system seems very lenient towards certain kinds of individual when it comes to minor quantities of drug possession. If the pedigree that the OP mentions is even half true, this guy should have had the charges dropped with a half decent lawyer.

And the worst case scenario should have been a pre-trial intervention program, which is basically a lenient probation for a year or two, after which the charges go away and during which no criminal record exists.

On the other hand, driving a car and not knowing it's your grandmother's is likely I make any cop think you're a lying sack of shit and or high on said drugs.
I just read it as both groups have a similar mindset. Each thinks they can get short term gains, so they will.

I disagree with the assertion that either is fundamentally bad though.

Cars are the most lethal thing in the western world (unless you count natural causes like cancer or heart failure), even if the first generation of self driving cars kills a hug number of people it will be a platform for building safer cars in the future.

Autonomous weapons there is room for debate there, even I think it reduce overall human suffering and death.
Github isn't just for code. It took me a while to get around that fact, and I genuinely thought I would be banned for uploading a bunch of meme GIFs to it, but they're still there.
>In a draft paper published last week, Shane Greenstein and his colleagues Feng Zhu and Yuan Gu found that over the years, individuals who edit political articles on Wikipedia seem to grow less biased — their contributions start to contain noticeably fewer ideologically-charged statements.

This seems obvious: as you are exposed to more points of view, you start to develop your own nuanced view of the world. At a certain point you feel okay with reading FOX News because you would like to see how other people think and it trains you to see the logical fallacies and biases.
In the first case: why not just the paper?
ZCash requires a trusted setup, takes a 20% fee from miners, and active mixing requires 8GB of RAM.

https://blog.okturtles.com/2016/03/the-zcash-catch/

http://weuse.cash/2016/06/09/btc-xmr-zcash/

If you are interested in anonymous blockchains, I highly encourage you to look into Monero. It meets or exceeds that of ZCash. And Monero's RingCT is currently implemented and in use on TestNet with a target "go-live" this January.
Do you like animals? How about teeth?
How do you recall and apply insights from non-fiction books?
I really enjoy books about human behaviour and how the mind works. For instance, I'm currently reading Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman.

As is often the case with these types of books, I get the feeling I'm not absorbing the content as well as I could or should be. I struggle to see when or how I can apply many of the insights in my day to day life. This seems like a missed opportunity.

I'm curious if anybody has any advice to get more out of these types of books?

Maybe I need to should be taking notes, writing summaries, creating flash cards / cheetsheets, or something along those lines. What has worked well for you?
It all depends on how you define "boring":

• If you mean "familiar" then you're right: something you know is better than something you don't. (But it's not the way to learn or expand your horizons.)

• If you mean "stable" then the whole thesis is a bit of a tautology—crucially, there's no fundamental contradiction between "new and shiny" and "stable", and "boring" stuff is often also unstable/insecure/bug-prone (think PHP or C).

• If you mean "popular" or "mainstream" then you're putting way too much stock in the judgement of crowds. Crowds and fashion are fickle and the popularity of a product is a poor indicator of any intrinsic qualities.

I've seen people using all three of these definitions—and linear combinations thereof—when talking about these things. More too, probably.

I think it's important to separate them out exactly what you mean by words like "boring" or "practical" when talking about software tools and abstractions to understand exactly what's going on and to communicate clearly.
Ok, but how does that protect ME from that $5 wrench?
Until proven otherwise, Satoshi still didn't touch his original mined coins…
That's not what I meant. Universally meaning, not on an individual basis, but categorical basis, of whether each person is humble or not. It's along the lines of the phrase "there's two types of people" where everyone belongs to either one group or another. Why is semantically correct communication so inherently difficult? Why was this comment of mine necessary? I once heard this is why Latin became the universal language: because it had much more nuance and complexity than other languages, which as it turned out was necessary when managing an empire that spanned the known world, so no other language would do.
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A few months? Man, that's fast.

Literally one of the things on my bucket list is to 'catch-up' on SCP. But I read so damn slowly and new entries are added all the time, so, it's likely never gonna happen.

Still enjoy the hell out of scaring myself at night by reading them, though.
You seem a resentful, agitated and vengeful as some of your statements border on the insane. ("UK openly promotes xenophobia" -> ????)

I doubt it makes sense for me to engage in a discussion with you.
Or Ethereum where the founders reserved 12.5% of the presale to themselves. I had no problem with that, and the Zcash incentives seem better than the Ethereum ones because they're effectively vesting over years.
Do some "experience" that would appear good on a application (The most racist person I know did volunteer work in Africa and was admitted to a top university). Then try against next year. Unless you are unsure you want to be a doctor.